Monday, August 5, 2013

Chalupa

To most American English speakers a "chalupa" looks like this:




But in Slovak, it looks like this:


I did a quick Google search for ľudová slovenská chalupa (Slovak folk cottage) and this is one of the better images that came up, even if the sign is in Hungarian. Also note that the letters "ch" in Slovak are pronounced like the "ch" in the Scottish pronunciation of "loch," so the two words are homographs but not homophones. Still, it should help you remember the word.

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