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Hungarians
Working in a global organisation you meet and talk to all sorts of people from many different countries.
Being English means you can be lazy and just accept the fact that everyone will speak the same language that you do; sometimes they speak it better.
Today I got a mail about The Project and some order we placed on it. Our purchasing is all done from Hungary and mostly it’s done online via one of our systems but occasionally you get a mail. The one I got today had a non-commital comment on money spent and reading the rest of the mail seemed the easiest way to put it into context.
Only the rest of the mail was in Hungarian. I was left scrolling past words like ‘endusernek’ (end user ?), ‘csoportnak’ (an East European fotball team ?) and ‘hibazenetet’ (a good score in Monopoly).
It’s time to pick up the phone and try the other English communication method : shouting and waving my arms about.
