Ausztrál Nylevlecke 21

Hello again everyone! What a pleasure to start the new year with you. 

If you're game, let's go through the latest video which I uploaded this week. It's a classic nyelvlecke, which is always requested. I'm not 100% clear why an ausztral nyelvlecke is of interest. Isn't it perhaps the least relatable video you could ask for?? But what do I know.

I do have to note that there is a SATURATION of content on Australian slang on the internet now, and it's full of these cringe expressions no one ever says. I really want to tell you things that you might actually hear or notice, or touch on things that symbolise an Australian mentality, because I think that kind of stuff is even better! So here we go.

We start by mentioning how everything has been a little topsy turvy here (Mivel itt a dolgok a szokásosnál is jobban a feje tetejére álltak). A lot of foreigners make this 'upside down' joke and to be honest it always catches me off guard because it's not really front of mind thanks to old mate gravity.

I didn't belabour it but this video was late for a few reasons. We had a strong lockdown here for months where we weren't allowed to be outside for non-essential reasons for a while, and even when things opened up slightly that pandemic atmosphere really saps the spirit. Second, I started a new job and that's always a busy time, third this video was intended to be outside and the 'La Nina' weather event (lots of rain) meant it was bad weather all the time. The weather was a bit ordinary on this day, but was remarkable in comparison. And then lastly, it was Christmas and who has free time then. 

While in lockdown, one of the most common activities was cooking Hello Fresh. Hello Fresh is a subscription services that delivers meals you cook, and I wanted to make the joke as if I had been requesting Porkolt in a Carte-D'or tub. Because I can't think of a better way to store porkolt.

Getting to English computerised voice to pronounce a Hungarian sentence is always a bizarre exercise, you have it type it in like 'rend-deh-lay-shay-val'. 

In introducing the video I say, "fejezd be a csavros kiflid". You try coming up with an English translation for that one! I did the below. Up and Go is a breakfast milkshake thing and I bet about 0.01% of people got that one. 

I only know about the csavaros kifli and komuves actimel from you guys writing it to me.

I was also delighted to be able to say 'nincs kecmec' (a greatly underrated expression) before the 'Beszeljunk ausztralul', at which point Land Downunder plays. The last time I used Land Downunder briefly (on the Ausztral Nyelvlecke #20) I got a copyright strike and the video was blocked. Didn't happen this time! I noticed that one person in the comments caught the subtitle here when the song plays:

An uninteresting fact about this video is that I filmed most of it in the wrong quality. But quite frankly the lower quality adds to the nostalgia. It happened to be an extremely windy day as well, so I used this wind buffer thing on the microphone which proved to be pretty effective. It's that big fluffy thing in my pocket. It looks like this below and hazisarkany is obsessed with it! She'll steal it off the table then I'll find again strewn about the house.

A lot of people shared this image with me so it felt like a great way to bring up our Ausztral-Hungarian Birodalom. This is not my map! It was shared to me about a dozen times and they all had different sources. I'll give the owner credit if they ever come forward.  Otherwise, I've been talking about the Australian-Hungarian empire since a video in 2020 and I just love how it has taken off. You guys are so funny with your ideas and how you join in on the joke. Massive champs the lot of you.

The sequence that follows of the cool things in the birodalom is my favourite part oft] the video. They were:

• Tengerparti barbeque-k a trópusi Hegyeshalmon
• Weekends away in Vombathely
• MÁV expressz Kiskunfélegyházáról Wagga Wagga-ra
• Flat-white tejbegríz
• Puli kutya-tasmán ördög keresztezési program
• Há kettő Ó x Mézga Család crossover újraindítás

I left one out of editing, maybe I'll use it again later, it was "Trans Danubian/Indian Pacific vasút". Based on your comments the clear favourite was: Weekends away in Vombathely.

I also like the idea of Flat white tejbegriz. Flat white is an Australian invention whose global popularity astounds me. I remember my parents opting for a 'Flat White' at some suburban bevasarlokozpont cafe in the '90s, and now it's served in overpriced hipster cafes everywhere. And it's not particularly special and distinctive, but why not! 

I love how this H20 x Mezga Csalad reboot worked out. Also, I was really surprised that the H20 show was so popular in Hungary (everywhere really). There are lots of Australian kids' series like that which air at like 4pm on a weekday, and when you're a kid you like them but you don't think much about them. You certainly don't expect people around the world to have a special connection to them.

 

I love the narrative of the mermaids attacking Geza at the beach. The sound of 'OH NAUR" is from a famous Tik Tok of someone exaggerating the Australian way of saying "Oh no".

The first segment is all about 'mate'. It's charming when foreigners use 'mate' but they tend to overuse it  when in reality you're meant to slip it in there to punctuate a sentence, or maybe say 'mate' instead of an understated way in place of 'friend'. But there are so many exceptions that it's dangerous territory that one. 

Wow how "Kecske, mate!" took off! I especially love the couple of people from Kecskemet who wrote to me about it.    

In the part where I outline how the intonation of mate changes the sentence, i did indeed test this on the locals and they were surprised to realise how powerful it is for modifying the meaning. So you're in safe hands. The song in the background was Mit Sem Erdekel by Carson Coma, and the voice was Ili of course. 

Then was the joke that I got confused between mate and Máté, with an obvious reference to Csák Máté. This is a joke based in reality as my phone always autocorrects mate as 'Máté'. Honestly, I can't help but smile when I see the name Máté.

The latest guest star got a rousing reaction from everyone! This is an Australian sea lion. I took the footage at Taronga Zoo and can't believe how it ran over to me. I was going to call him Bodri at first but then I was informed that's just for curly-haired dogs. Is that true??

For context, we talk about some ways not to use mate. (there's no such thing as mateball if that wasn't known)

Now in the next segment we start with a parody of influencers promoting a product they probably don't care about, but at the same time I also wanted to share my gratitude for all the cool comments on the previous video. It's also the chance to bring up Elk*rtuk.

When i first saw the word 'elk*rtuk', it took me a hot minute to figure out what the word was because of its styling and because I'm an angel as pure as the driven snow. So I wanted to make a joke that it's called Elk Star Retweet UK (plus i would watch such a loopy-sounding movie). Then instead I give up an instead enter everyone in the draw to win tickets to El Nacho Libre instead. This is a movie from the early 2000s with Jack Black. It's actually called Nacho Libre, but oops.

I wanted to make some kind of joke that it's "the #1 movie Elk*rtuk" and put up their IMDB score of 1.0 out of 10." but it wasn't working. Even though it should be clear that I'm ridiculing Elk*rtuk, I am waiting for that commenter to scold me for promoting blatant propaganda. There's always one and you just never know how to respond. But either way, time to learn about farm calming. I think this is an expression that says a lot in a few words.

We give the example of:

- Hallottad, hogy bezárják az Euro Centert?

- Calm your farm, there’s always Duna Plaza.

Eurocentre is a shopping centre in Budapest's third district, and when I worked briefly in Budapest I would go there all the time to Fornetti, Spar and Fozelek Falo. So of course my heart aches for its demise.

Duna Plaza looks really strange, and my main memory of it is struggling in its blocky carpark. 

Then I wanted to give the example using the topic of Hunglish. Every eight weeks or something it happens on Twitter that someone comments on how Hunglish is a burden on humanity. Then a bit of a online rabble breaks out before it simmers down and the world keeps turning. I'd be curious what your view of Hunglish is. In my dealings with it, it's usually used in a playful context with the speaker being fully conscious that they're using it. But you'd know better than me, I speak Hungralian after all and sometimes those commenters may need to calm their farms. 

Calm your farm is a suitable sentence to practice your sing-song English long vowels. As i said in the video, I have trouble not using diphthongs and long vowels in Hungarian, it takes conscious effort to clip them but even slightly improved usage of these vowels will make English sound more natural. Otherwise you risk sounding like a Szijjarto 6000.

His English is obviously very good but he just has quite a robotic delivery, which was a great chance to mash up him speaking with the song Intergalactic by the Beastie Boys.

When I was filming that part of the video there was a gentleman who walked behind me (it's at the end of the video). I can only imagine what he thought of me filming that video there but he seemed like a good sport and a top-notch bloke. 

Now lastly, in the third segment we are talking about Australian upwards intonation .And we start by talking about how hardcore Hungarians are because your mice feed off human tears (nem itatja az egereket) and your ice creams lick back (a fagyi visszanyal).

Then it's time to bring up that Hungarian question intonation where you emphasise the second-last syllable. I had to practice this intonation but it's a lot of fun when you get the hang of it. I love the little rollercoaster graph at the end. Oh before I forget, at the title card for this video the footage of the rollercoaster is from Final Destination 3. 

When talking about the Australian upwards intonation, I feel like I'm giving away all my secrets. I use it all the time naturally when speaking to you all in Hungarian so I probably need to work on it. But if you want to make fun of me, I definitely recommend using it. 

Fun fact: Here I'm reading Nok Lapja Cafe, and this is actually the edition that I was in! Good reading. I put quite a few Australianisms in the subtitles for that section if interested. Honestly the upwards intonation can be a little bit annoying so it should be used in small doses! And I'd say it's advance so have fun with it before taking it out into the field.

At the beginning of this little conversation I say Azt a fuzfan futyulo rezangyalat, which I also said in Nyelvlecke #20. Several people have brought this one up to me! I didn't expect that to gain traction. 

And then we conclude the video! You're all good Aussie blighters and I couldn't be prouder of you all.

I hope you enjoy this vid. January videos hit different because there's a sense of newness and frivolity. Last year's January video was the mango tutorial, which is just a frothy goofy video with good vibes. 

Hope you're looking forward to the year ahead. No matter what I'll certainly be deepening my understanding of Hungarian language and culture, and I imagine that includes pushing out some vids along the way :)

Ausztral Tom - Allatok Kereses and Zoom Hatterek

Hello! Welcome back to the latest video. I didn't get this blog up on time because I only finished the video at about 1am and didn't want to delay putting that one up. As per usual, here are some of the references and moments from the latest video. 

Let's go! The last two videos had quite long intros and this one was really quick with the corporate merger of the decade between Netpincér and Netflix, with Netpincérflix. Immediately after posting this logo someone asked me if they can use it (and of course!) so who knows where it will pop up next. Also, in the future, we really don't know what kinds of sectors will blend with each other so stay tuned. 

I know whenever I'm off my game it shows in the types of errors I make, I liked the awkwardness of accidently calling your mum 'mamlasz' by accident. Also, I feel like there's nothing more heart sinking than when the SMS gets sent and you see it sitting there all exposed.

I love this word Fityisz and love even more that I found a symbol for the gesture that looks like a scratch ticket thing. 

Ok look I couldn't help but mildly parody clickbait/Buzzfeed stuff that tries to boil down mental health management into a hacks and an aesthetic. I think that type of content has a net positive because it gives mental health some airplay but I do hope people who make those videos keep themselves in check :)

I had to reference that "No vakcina, No party" slogan that the government put out there. As an outsider, I didn't quite understand why they'd go for this Hunglish approach. I can only assume it was a cringe tactic because they knew the meme industry would circulate it like wildfire, which they did. So maybe it can be considered very successful as the message got out there. Whether it can be attributed to increasing vaccinations is hard to say. I can imagine more people heard the message and acted than thought it was so uncool that they decided not to get vaccinated at all. Honestly worthy of a case study. 

  

We mention that a kivulallo perspective can help when the mood is low, and who's more kivulallo than me? That's when we zoom into the kiwi bird with Arva Fiu by Cserhati Zsusza playing since New Zealand is at least 2,200km further from Hungary than me. This bird has become quite the sleeper hit by the way, several people have written to me about it.

Then I say that in this video we're going to talk about mood lifters, or how to go from zero to hero, and we see the nulla statue and Heroes Square.

We're gonna go from mood :/ to mudi :D. It only occurred to me after I could've said "from moody to mudi" but oh well, more was lost at Mohacs.

And we'll go from EESZT to best! I saw so many complaints about the EESZT website having downtime and issues, and so referenced that. And when I say 'to best', we see the opening theme song to Delta from 1984. That theme song is so nu-wave and high art, it's brilliant. I put an illuminati triangle in the middle of the logo because it really fits.

Lights... camera... action! And that little pisis Bendeguz didn't roll the tape. For the newcomers, this was a reference to my own video. In one of the first videos over a decade ago, I said to Bendeguz "a hasadra sut a nap". I had to bring that up again after getting this footage of a kangaroo rolling onto its back. 

Alright the first section is on time outdoors. I'm sure we've all become a little dependent on walks around the block since the lockdown measures came in. I actually don't enjoy just aimlessly walking, so I prefer to factor a walk into getting groceries or doing errands or even to find video content to film. But since that's not so interesting for a video, I talked about an animal spotting game. I think that could be fun, you'd just need to have a mission like "i need to find five pigeons with a white spot" because then you'd think creatively about good places to spy lots of pigeons. 

The man on the rocking horse is from the video for Emese by Kispal es a borz, and the expression bolyongani, mint golyafos a levegoben was suggested in the comments. Some people share some other variations on this too, but it's perfect.

We run through the points system and we must surely bring up the gyongyoru gyongytyuk and its new friend the lagy-agyu gyurgyalag.

So let's get prepared to go outside. It's crazy how many foreigners (not just Hungarians, every country's people) talk about how dangerous Australia is and how everything wants to kill you. It's fine when people are clearly joking but it's disappointing to me when people sincerely write to me that they wouldn't come here because they're too scared of snakes and sharks haha etc. There hasn't been a shark related death in Sydney in 60+ years and I've never even seen a snake outside of in a zoo. Be cautious, like you would be anywhere, but it's true what I say that the only thing I need to worry about before going on a bushwalk in my Sydney suburb is the sun. Thanks for listening to my Ted talk.

I did include this footage of Nicole Kidman at an award ceremony where the angle and her way of clapping to avoid hitting herself against her rings, makes her look a little freaky.

Who remembers the Langoskepu reference from the second video? I remembered to capture some footage of me lathering my face in sunscreen earlier that day.

Then we say goodbye to hazisarkany before heading off. I couldn't help but notice how many Hungarian compliments were related to eating someone, so made sure to mention those in succession (egyem a szivedet, teged meg kell zabalni). I would never eat Hazisarkany though, way too gristly and furry.

I mention it's a hives, borongo, oszi nap, which is the opening line from the poem Osszel by Arany Janos. It's also sarcastic because this was a jolly, warm day. Timing is everything because as I write this it's relatively bad weather (14 degrees, overcast, cold wind). 

I was so so lucky to find this kookaburra on a low branch where I could film next to it but it's so blended into the background in this shot. Fortunately got some close ups as well. It stayed there for like 10 minutes as well, so there's footage of me telling that same Szajko joke about 11 times.

Probably the best joke in existence this Psycho/Szajko wordplay btw. The background for the Szajko movie poster is the background from the movie Psycho, and birds can just look really menacing so i think it came out pretty well. 

And then the celebrated return of Brit Tom and Amcsi Tom, but now with Ir Tom and Japan Janos. This is a reference to my old video where I had the three toms talking about the pronunciation of 'water'. And then here we do it again but for 'waterdragon'.

I had to watch a tutorial on how to do an Irish accent. I hope someone enjoyed hearing an Australian saying something in Hungarian like how it is pronounced in Japanese. You know me, always following the hot trends.

The joke was that the machine (who is me) is malfunctioning. I was inspired by a commenter who asked once if there's a Tom for every country and language. We got a great clip from the Mezga Csalad and then this technical difficulties screen I made. Small detail: The outlet is an Australian outlet. 

I really like waterdragons. I don't think they're dangerous but they'll kind of blindly eat anything small enough to fit in their mouths. One of them stole my mango once.

Then on the edge of the water I say how kikotobe kottunk ki, which is a reference to the Mezga Csalad reaction video where I was so fond of something Kriszta said. I mention how I call the harbour 'hol szeret a capa' and play this amazing clip, but edit it with him having the correct answer.  

It's true that you can see whales in the harbour during winter because they migrate. Please remove any dramatic images in your mind of them looking like cinematic masterpieces. They're always really far away and come up to breathe for about 1 second every every 20 minutes. However one time I was on a ferry and baby whale had its little fin in the air hanging out of the water for a full five minutes. Lifechanging.

But we zoom in on the boat, and see mr Szijjarto having a well-earned break.

Beautiful photogenic cockatoo. 

We head home after being wildly successful, and talk about making the most of this spirit of nature that now resides inside us. This footage here is from the Australian entry for Eurovision in 2019. Kate Miller Heidke performing Zero Gravity, but she kindly offered up her time to play as mother nature for me.

Then we figure out what type of affirmation to write to feel inspired for the rest of the day. I'm a partial believer in affirmations, I do believe in figuring out ways to stay focused on what's important. I was trying to think of a kind of weak affirmation and came up with "I am (w)hole" this was the least-inspiring inspiring font I could find.

And we rewrite the affirmation! 

Time to make some Zoom backgrounds. I've never been to Gogo Hami but it sounds like a riot.

Thinking of a few different Hungarians to have around. Also, let it be known that I am NOT a graphic designer or an artist (or a video editor btw). I just figure it out as I go, so I'm sure I had the worst form possible putting these together but hey as long as people knew what was happening.

The finished product. The song that plays in the background was Tul Szep by Hien.

Honestly, try to do that wrist clicking thing at home as fast as Bango Margit, it's really hard.

But she must be great a Wii Tennis.

Small easter egg with my search history.

Then me next to Fluor Tomi, with the Ma Van a Szulinapom song by Alma Egyuttes (Remek a hangulatom-tom-tom-to-to-to-tom). It's also true that I've never been on a trolley bus, I bet it's sensational.

Then with the mock conversation between all the Gogo Hami guests, I included that quite bizarre quote from Norbert about how the vagdiszno starts at 100kg. What a strange thing to say. 

Barbi wasn't impressed. Also, not sure whose hand that is on Zoran.

And that's the end of the video with a small final scene referencing the Crocodile Dundee quote "That's not a knife... that's a knife", except it's a hajo (and what a dramatic hajo)

Hope you enjoyed this video! I like this video because it's really faithful to my sense of humour, so if you liked any part of it we'd probably be good mates in real life :) 

Thanks so much for watching. This video in particular took a lot of time but you all have been paying me back 1000x fold with the good vibes, and it's honestly touching. Ok, happy animal spotting and see you all later.