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The joys of bilingualism

By Andris Heks - posted Thursday, 28 July 2022


(Csárdás is Hungary's national folk dance.)

I learnt to sing every song in it subsequently.

I have also been singing and playing one of these songs in an Aussie pub during the last ten years.

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I sing it bilingually, first in its authentic Hungarian and then in my English translation.

I decided to sing its evergreen lyrics in English too, because I wanted to share its pearl of wisdom from 1914, with my fellow Aussies.

The song warns womanising men, who believe that the grass is always greener on the other side:

'Why run after pleasure, why do you chase a rainbow,

When it's here, just one step away and still you don't know?

Seek it within your heart, not in an outside power,

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There is sweet happiness in every single flower.

For there is love everywhere that is spreading sweet bliss,

The fate of man is the woman he's chosen as his.'

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Andris Heks worked as a Production Assistant and Reporter on 'This Day Tonight', ABC TV's top rating pioneering Current Affairs Program and on 'Four Corners' from 1970 till 1972. His is the author of the play 'Ai Weiwei's Tightrope Act' and many of his articles can be viewed here: https://startsat60.com/author/andris-heks.

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