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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Friday, 15 January 2010

Meeting new Hungarians

Tomorrow my family, husband included, will join a Hungarian group. I'm really excited about this and can't wait to start the language classes. (d) is really interested in the folk dancing on offer and (s) just wants to play superheros (well he is only 4).

It's going to be tough though. (s) is going to find it all the easiest, being the youngest. (d) will probably have a difficult time at first as their is no stuctured language class for her age, she will have to learn by joining in with the other kids and that will not be easy for her. I hope it doesn't put her off.

Hopefully the almost promise of a trip to Hungary with her nagypapa(grandfather) this year will keep her spirit up if communication becomes hard.

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