"A híres sportolók a házak között futnak."

Translation: The famous athletes are running among the houses.

[NadiaClark1]

Why not sportsmen? Thanks.

[smauG566]

Doesn't "running among the houses" mean that the houses are also running?

[Raphi_K]

No... but the word used could be better.

between would be a better choice than among. The current word choice is ambiguous. It could mean that there are running in amongst the houses rather than running from house to house.

[ErikAnderson3]

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?

[vvsey]

The audio is good, no problem there. But the ending "s" in "híres" blends together with the starting "s" of "sportolók".

[Arcaeca]

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.

[ErikAnderson3]

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.

[ain15412]

Shall we assume that at the same time the houses are running among the athletes? Between is more appropriate