"A híres sportolók a házak között futnak."
Translation:The famous athletes are running among the houses.
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Wow. I don't know if it's something wrong with the recording, but I really cannot catch the híres here -- for all the world, it sounds like héda, which isn't a word. Has anyone else struggled with this?
The audio is good, no problem there. But the ending "s" in "híres" blends together with the starting "s" of "sportolók".
Part of the problem, I assume, is that English speakers aren't initially used to the sound of rolled r's. As I'm not Erik, I can't really answer for him, but it seems like a possible issue.
I'm used to rolled Rs, but for Japanese, which tend to have a slightly different phonetic shape. What really threw me was 1) the missing final "s", as vvsey notes, and 2) what really sounds to me like a difference in vowel values. The first vowel in híres, rather than /iː/, sounds like /eː/ instead, and the second vowel doesn't sound like /ɛ/ to me either. If I'd heard the vowels as /iː/ and /ɛ/, I would have likely guessed at híres as the only Hungarian word I've learned so far that matches that sound shape.
