Hungarian and the Language Family Next Door
Prior to our arrival in Budapest, we had only been dealing with Romance languages. We know a fair amount of Spanish (far from fluent, but enough), and so figuring out what to buy in Spanish, Roman, and Parisian grocery stores was relatively easy. However, I was wayyy out of my depth in Budapest language-wise, so much so that I never really picked up anything in the twelve days we were there before we moved on to Prague.
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