Some of the most popular actors and singers of the world have already tried speaking Hungarian – let us show you the result.
Selena Gomez knows two really important sentences. “I love you is ‘szeretlek’ and ‘csendet, felvétel lesz’ is shut up we are shooting” – she said in an interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=qRiqvQHpBGk
One of the founding members of the iconic band KISS, Gene Simmons was born in a Hungarian Jewish family. His father Ferenc Witz and his mother, Flóra Kovács taught him to speak Hungarian. This video is a proof for this: Gene speaks Hungarian in the first seconds of it and from 3:16.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpdk43m2IH8
He even sings in Hungarian with his mother, for example in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=k6ZVi4GR5jg
Jennifer Garner learned a sentence as well. She says: ‘ez nem lesz probléma, beszélek magyarul’ which means ‘that won’t be a problem, I can speak Hungarian’. Then she adds that her grandparents taught her. We suppose that it is true only for her role. Anyway, her accent is really cute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnnHJ2r9rWQ
Robert Pattinson said ‘köszönöm, hogy csendben voltatok’ to his fans when he was leaving a shooting location in Budapest. His sentence means ‘thank you for being quiet’ and the fans really appreciated it, as you can hear in the following short video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=zvhR-089-4Y
Anthony Hopkins spoke some words in Hungarian in The Rite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK1KQlrQA3k
Sylvester Stallone changes for Hungarian in his 1978 film F. I. S. T. by asking his partner if he speaks Hungarian (‘beszélsz magyarul?’), and the answer is: yes I do, better than English (‘jobban, mint angolul’). In the last seconds of the video, he also says ‘ahogy akarod’ which means ‘as you wish’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=17&v=uckaJSXj-SY
Mariska Hargitay, the Golden Globe winning actress known for example from the series Tequila and Bonetti, Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU) can introduce herself in Hungarian and speaks with the Hungarian reporter Tamás Frei by using some Hungarian words in their English dialogue. She must be a really nice lady!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=tDQTj9WEZsE
Tony Curtis remembers a few words from his childhood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjvV1GuZrlE
And our favourite: Freddie Mercury sings a Hungarian folk song, Tavaszi szél vizet áraszt with the crowd at Queen’s concert in Budapest, 1986. You can read the English subtitle, but the feeling is more important... you will have goosebumps, as we did, for sure.
