A mother from Barcelona spoke to me the other day about her 8-year-old daughter’s recent conversation with a friend. They had several languages in common, and the suggested that they stopped speaking Hungarian together. She said it wasn’t important as they only went to Hungary in the summer anyway. How should we determine the value…
When we think of music, we automatically assume that it conveys universal emotions. However, this perception is wrong since our ear has a certain taste, just like we prefer different foods. Everyone has a preference for the music they heard in their childhood, in the same way, as, for example, an octopus salad evokes the…
Flavours are hard for the tongue to forget. Traditional dishes survive a long time even in a diaspora, or even in scattered families, for centuries or more. However, unfortunately, the spoken language does not have this quality and is much, much more fragile than family recipes that get passed down through generations. So much so…
