Vocabulary of my poem

Here you can see some expressions from my poem, The life what we live.

pouring rain: very hard rain. 'zuhogó/szakadó eső'

to reside in: to be present. 'jelen van'

to be hung up: to be frustrated, long faced. 'csalódott'

to chirp: (bird song), to chatter. 'csiripel'

appearance: illusory, pseudo. 'látszat'

consequence: attendant. 'konzekvencia, következmény'

to redeem: to save, to buy off. 'megvált vmit/vkit'

evil: bad, atrocious. 'rossz, gonosz'

Thankful expressions from my blog entry "A so-wished award"

We usually say thanks on the simple way of "Thanks!", but as I wanted my blog entry, "A so-wished award" to be based on "acknowledgements", I had to look for synonyms of saying thanks.

• to be grateful to sy for sg: hálásnak lenni (vkinek vmiért), nagyon köszönni vmit
• to be obliged to sy for sg: lekötelezettje vkinek, igen hálásnak lenni. I'm much obliged: nagyon köszönöm
• to greatly appreciate sg: nagyra becsülni vmit
  
• to express one's gratitude to sy (for sg): kifejezi a háláját vkinek (vmiért).
• to recognize sy (e.g. a company) for sg: elismer, méltányol, értékel

"Theatre or whatever"

Hi everyone!
I would like to give you some useful expressions from my latest blog entry, Theatre or whatever. I think I managed to put more unknown words in it than needed, but actually I wrote it in Hungarian first.

• to dull: 'eltompul'. jaded, blunt, numb: 'tompa', 'eltompult'
• to stand to lose: to be about to lose. 'vesztésre áll'
• shackle: a cramp, a hobble. 'béklyó'
• to quell: to oppress, to keep down 'elnyom'
  

Five Learning Tips

• Learn five one-syllable verbs every day.
• Smell a flower every day and learn its name.
• Learn a new meaning of a word you know.
• Every week, make an anagram of a word.
• Every week, learn the name of a color.

The Take Off & Google SMS service will go on holiday next week. It will return to a phone near you in 2008.

Expressions from my writing "Pride but prejudice"

I would like to share some expressions I used in my blog entry "Pride but prejudice".

• geek (not in the meaning of 'computer enthusiast'): an excessive studier, an eager beaver, a bookworm, a wonk. 'stréber, buzgómócsing'
• Rom (or rom): a gipsy man (Roma in plural). 'roma (férfi)'
• abusive: insulting, rude. 'sértő, sértegető'
• superficially: externally, not thoroughly. 'felszínesen, felületesen'

According to Google's define operator, stereotype means:
"An exaggerated image of the characteristics of a particular group."
"[A] negative or limiting preconceived belief about a certain type of person that is applied to everyone in that group."

Expressions from my writing "Now or never -- a fish that tries to fly"

Hi Everyone!
In case you are reading my blog entry "Now or never -- a fish that tries to fly", you might need to know the following sport -- mainly chess ;) -- expressions:

• to tie for (a place): to share the place, having the same points. 'holtversenyben végezni'
• to throw in the towel (or spounge): to admit defeat, stop fighting. 'bedobja a törülközőt, feladja a küzdelmet'
  
• draw: the result when nobody wins, the point is shared: 0.5-0.5. 'döntetlen'

And the explanation of the chess-connected but known words:

• opening-middlegame-endgame: the 3 parts of a chess game
• handshaking: chessplayers shake hands at the beginning and at the end of the game

Beware: pronouncing pronunciation

The verb is to pronounce and we can practise pronouncing, but the noun form is pronunciation.

I didn't know it by myself so I checked it and thought to share it with you.;)
Thanks for the lecture, Joe!

Pronunciation Practice

We only truly possess knowledge of a word or phrase if we can utter it nice and smooth, too. So, how about some pronunciation & intonation practice now?

The Google & Albatross & Take Off SMS service features a simple task this week. You can practice pronouncing the title of the films you could vote for this week.

• American Beauty
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• The Streetcar Named Desire
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Enjoy the winning movie, Breakfast at Tiffany's, next Wednesday at 6 in the American Corner. See you there!

News Headlines

This week on the Take Off & Google SMS service, subscribers have read news headlines.

The last one is from today, Friday: according to Hungarian radio MR1 Kossuth, the early Roman Christian sight of Cella Septichora, which the Wednesday and the Thursday groups visited this week, has suffered wanton destruction: its glass has been broken.

The five headlines:

• Queen Celebrates Wedding Anniversary
• Hollywood Writers Still On Strike
• Pecs Students Stroll Downtown
• Students Sip Hot Wine At Dante
• Early Christian Sight in Pecs Vandalized

(Addition of the editor -- wanton: 1. indokolatlan, ok nélküli, 2. kegyetlen, embertelen)

And an additional sentence of anagram-words ;)

For the missing but found-by-Vera anagram ;)
A hot jar is just impossible to be heaved -- you burn your fingers if you try to do so.

jar: agyagedény, korsó
to heave: (fel)emel

Anagrams in sentences

According to Joe's statement -- and my own experience ;) -- learning new expressions can be easier by memorizing them in an 'environment': next to words we already know, in a fragment or in a whole sentence. I created some sentences from the Word Anagrams -- not much sense they have but perhaps it's easier to memorize those expressions on this way.

The annual contest of ambulancemen included the task of fording through a pool of water to get to the wounded.

to ford: átgázol (vízen)

Finding your way out from a maze is nearly as difficult as it would have been for Noah to build his ark from roses.

maze: útvesztő
ark: bárka (Noah's ark)

Police got a hint where the bravo was staying, so he had to get away from there as fast and as far as possible -- not giving himself a single halt.

bravo (2nd meaning): orgyilkos, bérgyilkos, vakmerő gonosztevő
halt: megállás

The rover found a huge oak-tree to sleep at -- it would have defended him even from falling pink piggies.

rover: csavargó, kóborgó, országutak vándora
oak: tölgy

The tads of Paul street had to overbid each other when playing cards.

tad: kis kölyök, srác, poronty
to overbid: túllicitál

An Additional Anagram

Dear Joe!
Anna is right, so here is the missing anagram of the main contributor. :)

• Horvath Joe: Jar Hove Hot
  

"Run!" - some useful expressions

Hi guys,
I thought to share with you some of the expressions I find useful in my new blog entry, "Run! - for your life". (As you can see, I have no savvy for cars)

• game: a collective noun for wild animals. 'vad(állat)'
• reverse (in the aspect of cars): backing the car. 'tolatás'.
• creaking: a sharp, unpleasant noise. 'csikorgás'
• to honk: to hoot, to toot the horn. 'dudálni'
• hop to it: to set/go about doing sg. 'nekiugrik, nekivág'

Albatross Vocabulary Contributor Anagrams

An anagram for the name of each of the five Albatross Vocabulary contributors:

• Rudolf Anna: Annual Ford
• Mészáros Réka: Ark maze roses
• Horváth Bálint: Bravo halt hint
• Prok Veronika: Pink oak rover
• Óbert Dávid: Tad overbid

"Without savvy"

Hi everyone!

I find writing a blog very useful, because in order to express myself I have to search for the expressions which really fit. So here are some useful ones:

• savvy: well informed and perspective, practical understanding, 'hozzáértés'
• turn in: to make an entrance, 'betér'. Can also mean: to hand in, to go to bed
• scenic: spectacular, 'látványos'. Or relating to stage scenery: scenic design
• feigned name: pseudonym, 'álnév'

Featured: Five Questions

The Take Off & Google SMS service, brought to a cell phone near you, is now brought to this blog, too.

This week, I have chosen five questions published on an excellent Xanga blog. If you like, you can also listen to answers to some of these questions in the Take Off podcast this week.

And of course, it would be cool to see your answers, too.

• Does technology breed isolation?
• What inspires you?
• Why do people follow trends?
• What is your biggest regret?
• What is a good featured question?

Useful words, expressions from my latest story

Hi everyone!

It was high time to write for our common blog, I guess! :-S Hopefully I am not too late. :-P Well, I would share some expressions from my new writing. Here we are:

to tiff: when you drink sg slowly, calmly. 'kortyol, kortyolgat'

to saunter: to walk in a slow and relaxed way. 'ballagni, battyogni'

to be sober-minded: not drunk, smart, have an adult way of thinking. 'józan ésszel gondolkodó, komoly, megkomolyodott'

to blaze: now, in our case: the same as to flame, to flicker. 'lobogni' ('bámulni': to gaze, by the way)

staggering: very shocking and surprising, terrible ( in our case). 'megrázó, szörnyű'

Cheers and enjoy your holiday left! Balint

REM-inders

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The 5-expression rule

One thing I forgot to mention: the restriction for the number of expressions. I would like every co-editor to pick maximum 5 expressions at a time.
/Our memory is limited, so I think it will be totally enough for everybody.;)/

Enjoy our flying together! ;)

It won't split your ears

I love short, snappy verbs and nouns, especially those that have multiple meanings. This way, I can learn the pronunciation easy -- it's just one syllable. Plus, because they have more than one meaning, when I have learned one such word, I really have learned many.

Here's an example: split.

This week, people on my Take Off SMS list get the following messages. You, too, can learn these words now because Anna has let me contribute to this great Albatross Vocabulary blog.

• lickety-split: quickly, very fast
• banana split: yummy ice-cream with banana
• a split second: a very short time
• Split: a resort in Croatia
• split infinitive: a special verb form like "to boldly go", "to highly value"

Some more info on flying together ;)

For becoming my co-editor, I think I only need to send an invitation to your e-mail address (the one you created your own blog with). To Bálint, hopefully, I've already sent one. ;) The rest of the addresses I didn't see at the profiles, so please please, drop me a line. Only if you wish to join, of course.;)

Useful expressions from my blog entry 'Why?!'

to be as sound as a bell: to be very healthy. 'olyan egészséges, mint a makk'

shooting pain: an acute, sharp pain. 'nyilalló fájdalom'

malignant: descructive, fatal, mortal, poisonous. 'rosszindulatú, gonosz' --> malignant tumour 'rosszindulatú daganat'

to take up the gauntlet: to meet/take up the challenge (of a fight). 'fölveszi a(z odadobott) kesztyűt'

a glimmer of hope: a small amount of hope (a ray/gleam of hope). 'halvány reménysugár'

Welcome!

Hi Everybody!

I created this blog to help us learning new words and expressions. From now on, I will post a short vocabulary list on each and every blog entry of mine (anchuk.blogspot.com). I would like to invite all blogger students from Joe's Reading & Writing class to join me in editing this blog. So all of us could share the most important expressions of his/her writings.

Let's take off together ;)