HARTFORD, Conn. — The notes app on Azzi Fudd’s iPhone is a Rosetta Stone of sorts. Fascinated with how kids grow up learning multiple languages overseas, the UConn women’s basketball guard started picking up Hungarian from Pecs native Dorka Juhász last season and is now trying her hand at French with the help of graduate transfer Lou Lopez Sénéchal.
Fudd eagerly peppers the pair with questions about how to say certain things in their native languages. She’ll then jot down the word, what it means and how to pronounce it. She’s thrown Juhász off a few times by pulling out Hungarian terms in practice. And though it’s newer to her repertoire, Fudd is getting better at French, too.
“French is harder because of like the R sound, but Lou says I’m actually pretty good,” Fudd said. “Hungarian is honestly a little bit easier in the accent aspect. I’m not even trying Croatian and Portuguese. I gotta stick with two.”
