Newsletter: The Green Shoots

[Alexandranow]

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Please listen to my recording and respond with a voice message too. Many thanks.

[Shanthisethuraman]

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Hello Alexandara,

I listened your voice, it was so nice, if it had been typed as text message,
we would have understood very well I feel. When you recording voice message
please try to type the message always, it will be easily understood by all.

Thank you

S.Shanthi

[KrishnaKumar]

Hello All

I want to post the blog but don't know how it will be possible. Where I need to register myself, please suggest

[Kati Svaby]

Dear Alan,

You has written a very beautiful tale for us from the factual reality. As you used present tenses , everything became real as if we have been sitting in a cinema and we watched a film.

It was a very interesting period in English history. We can learn lot of new and we can brush up what we learned in the grammar school. "Live and learn"-than the proverb says.

When Geoffry Chaucer /interesting his name is of French growth (Fr:chausser= shod)/ decided to wrtie the Canterburry Tales in English, his contemporaries thought him a crazy . Why didn’t you write in Latin or French? - they asked him.
A famous Hungarian poem said whose genuin translation isn’t ont he Google so I tried to translate:
„ Only where great matters had been born where they were brave who dared.”

Chaucer (1343 -1400) was brave so he could become ’the father of English poetry. In the literature, his name the English Bocaccio,(1313-1375) because his Decameron was written also in Italian and not in Latin and their theme is very similar. I have to mention also Dante who wrote his Divine Comedy in the Italian language.

I never thought that this problem used to exist in England. Incredible in nowadays when in every country of the world can speak English.

In this time our Hungarian poets wrote in Latin or in German. Our first poet -who dared to write in Hungarian – lived int he beginning of XVI century. His poems were about the Hungarian history, very objectively and not about referring to sex in humorous way or his private sentiment. He left only one short poem which is very personel and shows his talent. It is very sad. And characteristic of our history.

About French. I don’t look on its bright side. I have to reveal that for a Hungarian to learn the same word with two kinds of pronunciation,- is a hard nut to crack.At any rate I had to sacrifice my French speaking (not reading) for English speakind and reading. What to do if my daughter chose an American and not a French man. But today I prefer English to French. My distress that I began to learn sooner French than English. If I have begun my learning with English today I could speak fluently.

Late regret is in vain. -Hungarian proverb.
(Meaning: There are things ( words said, events happened etc) one cannot undo/change/make it better,one just has to live with the consequences and move on.)

You asked about my method of learning. I read more and more. Everyday I listen voice records. I never resigned myself to not to decipher anything. This is sometimes takes long time. If I look up an English word in the Hungarian-English dictionary after I control in the Oxford Dictionary, where I can see in which context I find the good word. Conversely it is easier as I know rather well my mother tongue.

Best regards:
Kati Svaby
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[Cristina.ro]

[Kati Svaby]

Dear Christina,

First, many thanks.

Secondly, I never mind if somebody corrects me. Many,many thanks for it. You can do it any time.

Thirdly, I was pleased with your letter. You told me in your last letter not to say Good-bye because we would meet soon.

Take care:
Kati
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[Kati Svaby]

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Dear Alan

It isn’t a piece of cake to answer this newsletter. We would like to write about the spring and Easter, about The Resurrection, a new beginning, the romanticism and William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and at last about the eggs idioms.

You egged us on to ask questions about these eggs idioms and even tell us to write similar ones, we may have in our language.
To cut a long story short I try to translate some Hungarian sayings:

HUNGARIAN SAYINGS IN ENGLISH

He/she always hatches his/her eggs. = She/He is always at home.
It carries eggs. = we say about a cart which goes very slowly.
He handles/ treats her as he would handle an Ester Egg = he treats her with kid gloves.
An egg can break only once. = One discredit himself/herself only once.
They are like two eggs. = they are like two peas in a pod.
Even the smith could solder a broken egg together. = A deadly ill persone couldn’t be restored.
From the cooked egg a chicken couldn’t hatch. = What broked down for good and all it can be restored again..

Here is a video about the English egg idioms. It's very good !



Here is William Wordsworth (1770-1850) poem about the daffodils.
-it 's beautiful.



Best regards:
Kati Svaby
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[Cristina.ro]

Hello Alan,

Thank you for yet another essay which not only I enjoyed reading but also made it easier for me to remember quite a few English idioms.

Some of our idioms are the same with the English ones (word by word) and also have the same meaning -- for example:

- You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs. -- In order to get something good or useful, you must give up something else.
- It's not a good idea 'to put all your eggs in one basket' -- You have to consider different possibilities in life and not just put all your energy (hard work) in one area only.
(Romanians might also use this idiom to tell a friend who is dating someone they really don't think much of that they should keep their options open, for example. I am not sure if it is used that way in English as well or not.)

For others there is an equivalent idiom in my language -- for example:

- There's a saying that advises you to put some money to one side for a rainy day. This money is what we call a 'nest egg'. The Romanian equivalent would be ''White money for black/dark/cloudy days.''
- 'Teach your grandmother to suck eggs' -- This is something you shouldn't do because it means you are trying to tell someone how to do something that they know much better than you do.
The Romanian equivalent would sound something like this: ''Look at the egg teaching the hen.''
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Just remember... if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off!

[Kati Svaby]

Dear Cristina,

It would be interesting to know which proverbs are similar or same in Romanian and Hungarian language.
In #37 I wrote to Alan this: ( because I received accidentally twice this newsletter.)
teach your grandmother to suck eggs= in Hungarian we say: The egg want to teach the hen.

But there is two other variations of this proverb what you wrote:
1.''Look at the egg teaching the hen."
2.- 'Teach your grandmother to suck eggs' = The egg wants to be cleverer than the hen.

- It's not a good idea 'to put all your eggs in one basket' = we say word by word:
It isn't a good idea to put everything onto one single card.

I think as we live in neighbour country it could be some similarities in our proverbs, don' you think?

Regards:
Kati
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[Cristina.ro]

Hello Kati,

[Shanthisethuraman]

Why the net is always crticizing about Indian's Women.(Indian Women's Dates)
why don't you give other countries like this? Indian women will not question you
whatever you do whereas other countries will fire you left and right if you do like
this. Since I am Indian women/like so many people in the net, I counldn't digust
your advertisement. That is why I don't like thiss net.

S.Shanthi

[Kati Svaby]

Hello Cristina,

He/she always hatches his/her eggs. = She/He is always at home.

Yes, you are right because we also think about the person who isn't very willing to get out of the house and don't socialize a lot -that's why he/she wants to be always at home. My sister used to be this type

Bye:
Kati
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