Can Someone Help with a Hungarian Lullaby that Sounds Like, “Boulah boulah…”?

Nicole wrote: I have been trying to find an old Hungarian lullaby that my grandmother sang to me and I sing to my kids. I do not know what it means and I do not know all the words. The verse is something like: Boulah boulah, boulah, boulah boopin do ya. I am sure I am misspelling [...]

Can Someone Help with Some Hungarian Children's Songs?

Gabrielle wrote to me: Can someone please help me find some Hungarian children songs? My grandmother was Hungarian, she use to sing me many children songs. I do not speak Hungarian so I will write it as it sounds to me. 1) Gimbelem  mogulbulum momeliyam 2) -Sárga csikó, csengő rajta 3) meyogudus, meyogudus conisraro Konisraro, konisraro fogisbayo El le lila, [...]

Mama Lisa Now Has a Facebook Group

We'd love it if you'd join the Mama Lisa Facebook Group. You can post anything you'd like about your culture. You can post your own musical recordings or YouTube videos… Links to culture and musical sites… Photos of your country… Questions about songs or cultural issues… Anything related to World Culture and [...]

Can Anyone Help with Some Hungarian Rhymes?

Christine Winegar wrote me… I am not sure where to begin. I am not looking for songs exactly. I really don't know what to call them. If you know what I am talking about, I would love the English and Hungarian translation like you have on your web site. Here it goes! My [...]

Symbolic Foods Eaten Around the World for New Years

In many parts of the world, the foods eaten on New Years Eve and New Years Day have important symbolic meanings. These symbols seem to fall into several major categories. The first class symbolizes financial prosperity. This type of food is round like coins. Often, the dish will be round beans, like lentils, [...]

How to Find Sheet Music, Tunes and MP3's on Mama Lisa's World

In addition to this blog, I also host Mama Lisa's World. Mama Lisa's World is a large collection of children's songs and rhymes from countries all around the globe. Matt, a music teacher from Rhode Island, wrote a question to me, the other day, about Mama Lisa's World: Hey Mama, I love the concept of your site. [...]

Free Online Language Dictionaries

While I have this link at hand, I'd like to recommend www.freedict.com. It's a site devoted to free online language dictionaries. You can translate between English and the following languages: Afrikaans Danish Dutch Finnish French Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Latin Norwegian Portuguese Russian Spanish Swahili Swedish I find that it can usually succeed at translating the words I need. Feel free to recommend other language dictionaries that you like in the [...]

Mama Lisa's World News and Multimedia Features

A significant part of the Mama Lisa sites is a large collection of songs and nursery rhymes from around the world. We currently have about 750 songs from around 90 countries and cultures. When you consider how many languages there are in those cultures – that's a lot of information! In order to make [...]

Is Fathers Day Celebrated in Hungary?

I recently recieved this email… Is Fathers Day celebrated in Hungary? If so, on what day? Thank you for your help. Tracy Bondi So far I've checked some books and I haven't been able to find any evidence that Father's Day is celebrated in Hungary. If anyone can answer this question, please comment below. Thanks! Lisa P.S. I also welcome [...]

National Day in Hungary called “NEMZETI UNNEP” (March 15th)

Zsuzsa wrote me about an important holiday celebrating freedom, that takes place in Hungary on March 15th. It's National Day and it's called Nemzeti ünnep in Hungarian. Here in Hungary we have a national holiday on the 15th of March. On the 15th of March in 1848 our revolution and war of independence began. [...]