Mike wrote asking about a Hungarian song.  Here’s his email: My Hungarian mother would sing a song to us as children …. The first line of the song started “PeePee Madar …” I know the first line is pronounced: Peepee Madar; (wee bird) … ‘jetta ega’ ‘hosa’, ‘volta moldra’ ‘kesh kasemba’ ‘hosa’, …. , ‘aba kolba, aba kolba’...

Deb wrote asking for help with a childhood song from Hungary.  Here’s what she wrote: Hi Lisa, I was hoping you can please help me. My grandmother used to sing me a Hungarian song when i was little. From what i remember it was about a truck of chickens, that were falling from the truck LOL...

Judi wrote asking for help with a song: My grandmother used to sing this (song below) to us, I  think the translation had to do with a beautiful baby with blue eyes.  She would also hold up her arms and rotate them back and forth, I do not know any Hungarian, but the words sound like...

Andrew Gaspar wrote to me asking for help with the lyrics to a lullaby from Hungary: Dear Lisa I too am looking for a Hungarian Lullaby. I have written the words as well as I remember them in Hungarian and English below. Can you please help me find the correct version? Thank you very much Andrew Gaspar (Gáspár...

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...

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, ...

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...

I’ve been asked twice in the past week for free multilingual books. Here’s a link I found called Books in Multiple Languages. They have English children’s books with translations in Spanish, French, Polish, Italian, Romanian, German, Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, Maori, Greek, Dutch, Farsi (Persian), Afrikaans, Croatian, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Arabic, Hebrew,...

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...

Kathy wrote me… Dear Mamalisa, I was delighted to find your website and will be using it in the future. I am researching translations for the word “grandma” in various languages. I am most interested in the familiar, sweet terms children might call this individual. I am aware that in some cultures this would...