The Angel’s Son: Why I Learned Hungarian Late in Life – excerpt
The Angel’s Son: Why I Learned Hungarian Late in Life – excerpt

Summary/Abstract: Many persons are fluent in more than one language, but my setting out some years ago at the age of fifty-six to teach myself Hungarian provokes comments and questions from those who get to hear of it. Like much else seen in hindsight, my enterprise seems to me now to have been inevitable. In my early years I envied various persons for various reasons, but my strongest envy was always directed at those who could read and write and speak and sing in more than one language.

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