We've started planning our trip round Eastern Europe this summer and
I've just learned about Hungarian. Well that's us done for.

So most Hungarians today are Magyar - and the language isn't Indo-
European , I believe, but Finno- Ugric, distantly related to Finnish
and Estonian.

Go to a bar and make a stab at ordering a wine by asking for a 'vino'
and you'll get a blank look. The Hungarian for 'wine' is 'bor', I
believe.

I once worked with an Indian guy who knew some Sanscrit and I
discovered that counting 1 to 10 in that ancient language wasn't too
dissimilar to couting 1 to 10 in Welsh. Don't know how much I can rely
on a vague familiarity with rudimentary Welsh to help me through the
strange languages of the East...