Driving Course in English

Aries25au wrote:

...An example in first aid " wound fertilise"........come on now do you **** in the wound or should you STERILISE it ?
Really now..and what is an " Ankle rick?".........................

Optimistically, I'd think it was some kind of Kafkaesque mind game. But the weird way things are going here recently,  it's probably equally likely to be a Fidesz or Jobbik or Christian Democrat conspiracy.

I've had whole documents sent to me that have been put through Google Translate.  That's 1000s of pages of absolute drivel. Their language skills are getting worse and worse as nationalism continues to rise. It'll just get worse as the population dumbs down. 

I've heard of people doing an intensive driving course properly elsewhere in English (Malta, Ireland, Cyprus, UK etc), then trading the issued EU style license for a local EU HU version. I've heard it could be done in 2-3 weeks from scratch.

tmt0685 wrote:

How about take a class in First Aid in Medical University (English program at Sammelweis)
Real knowledge - Real Document - Real certificate. I got over that first aid with certificate from the school.
or just pm me and I will give you contact of mine instructor. maybe he can sort something out for you!

Cheers!

Are there any links to this course?  I am interested for general knowledge.  Does anyone know if they can do a one for kids (like aged 12 and above)?  (That might sound odd, but they do in the UK)

Aries25au wrote:

Didnt realise that there were so many ill mannered and impatient drivers here, and I have driven many places in the world, but this beats them all.

The drivers here disturb me, and I grew up driving in LA traffic, so am not exactly inexperienced with bad drivers.

All those little "shrines" you may see by the road in Hungary, often at blind curves or cross roads, are where someone got a little too impatient or inattentive, resulting in a death.

My wife recently forgot her phone at a restaurant, and I turned our car around to go back and get it. On the drive back, not even 2 minutes had passed, and we came across a 4 car accident, two cars rolled over in the ditch, at a blind curve (of course) that we just went by before I turned around. Just by a few minutes we avoided possible death. And just last week, while waiting for a bus I saw a car pass a slow tractor with a trailer on a hill, on a blind curve (again -- of course) and the driver doing the passing was also talking on his phone while driving.

I was waiting for a bus because I find myself driving less and less in Hungary. We are even considering selling our car. For a cross boarder journey I take a train. And I frequent buses in Hungary which have been modernized since we moved here, and are now very comfortable, convenient, and go almost everywhere. I even feel safer on my bike than in a car. The rule in Hungary, you surely just learned in your course, is to give over a meter of space when passing a cyclist -- a rule that drivers here usually follow ...... even if means them not slowing down and driving into oncoming traffic. Crazy.

But of course, for those that drive for a living, or simply like motoring around on weekends for pleasure of hobby, then getting a driving license is a necessity.

Aries25au wrote:

why do I have to give up my "other" license from my other country?

Because that is Hungarian law.

No, it does not make sense. But a lot of laws here do not seem to make sense to me, but they are the law. When I asked I also got a lot of different and sometimes silly answers. Don't expect to get a "correct" answer, or be able to weed out the correct answer amongst a cavalcade of incorrect ones. The desire here to always have an answer (even if that "answer" is nothing but conjecture or opinion) does seem to be a local peculiarity.

For what it is worth, when I got my driving license in Switzerland, the Swiss did not ask for my US license. In fact, I still have it (even it is now long expired).

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

Don't know about the laws in OZ, in the US just about anyone that isn't legally blind or mentally ill can get papers! Makes for fun days out driving, almost forgot about the crazies who carry guns and run after you if you cut them off or they think you cut them off by mistake.
Once on a busy S. Calif. freeway I had to stop on a dime because some mental man was running back and forth across the freeway lanes, one of the scary moments ever of driving. Hit the brakes until they smoked then gun the engine to go before getting hit from behind.So far nothing that insane has happened here in Hungary.

I won't get onto US gun laws here (much as I would like to) but it is certainly not that easy to pass the driving test in UK these days. I passed my motorcycle test there in 1979 and the car one in 1981 but it is a much more complicated process these days. Sadly these changes do not seem to be reflected in a corresponding improvement in the standard of driving but that is mostly down to ignoring what was taught rather than not knowing the correct thing to do. In Hungary they do at least have regular eye tests for drivers, something that does not happen in UK. My father still held a valid UK driving licence after he was registered blind!