Welcome to 'Bridging The Linguistic Gap'

This blog will follow my attempts to teach myself and my children Hungarian. I am half English, half Hungarian and have longed to speak the language. Now is the time.

Maybe I've gone a bit crazy or got a bit over enthusiastic one day -when I decided to do this, but I really do think I can ... teach myself and also teach my children to speak Hungarian and connect with a part of our identities that is usually hidden.

keep your language alive... Speak it, Read it, Keep it - this is the slogan for my online bookstore - Mother Tongue Books. My store sells bilingual children's books, you can visit at the link below.

So now it's time to stop telling everyone else with a foreign connection to develop their mother tongues and start doing it myself.

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Monday, 21 December 2009

Money where your mouth is

Welcome to my blog.

I am the founder of Mother Tongue Books; an online book store selling bilingual books for children.

I'm half English and Half Hungarian and with this bit of personal info your next question may well be, "Do you speak Hungarian"? to which sadly for all of my 40 years my answer has been a very disappointing "No".

What an opportunity missed. Oh how I wish it were different and I was fluently bilingual. Oh how I wish I could totally connect with my Hungarian family without the need for translation. Hence the passion behind my book business and my blog. "So why don't you learn Hungarian"? I hear you cry. Well, I'm trying and have done on many an occasion and maybe, just maybe, I'm going to get somewhere with this minority language, very unlike any other in Europe, this time.

My father is 70 now and I hope I get a chance to have a really good Hungarian conversation with him.












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