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| turorudi Triglot Newbie Philippines Joined 3356 days ago 24 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English, Tagalog*, Japanese Studies: Hungarian, French | Message 1 of 9 16 March 2015 at 10:31am | IP Logged |
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Sziasztok! Hello everyone!
A bit about me A nevem Cat. I just joined the forum and I would like to track my progress in my 2015 language challenge. I want to learn Hungarian after being exposed to it last year. I love the sound even if I could not understand any of it. Then I began to love the country, its culture and history. The people are very warm too. My boyfriend is Hungarian and I hope to visit him and his family in August of this year. Now I have more motivation to learn this beautiful language. I would love to connect with native Hungarian speakers and learners through this forum. Mission B1 level (minimum) in Hungarian by end of 2015 Materials and Resources Assimil Complete Hungarian (Pontifex) Colloquial Hungarian HungarianPod101.com Pimsleur FSI Memrise italki tutoring with professional and informal tutors chats with native speakers via italki and gospeaky Duolingo - as soon as the Hungarian course is finished (delayed for April) Edited by turorudi on 16 March 2015 at 10:32am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 3834 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes  Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 2 of 9 16 March 2015 at 11:40am | IP Logged |
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Good luck!
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| jmagyar Triglot Newbie SlovakiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5164 days ago 16 posts - 21 votes Speaks: Slovak, Hungarian*, English Studies: German | Message 3 of 9 16 March 2015 at 11:44am | IP Logged |
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Hello and good luck to your Hungarian studies. I haven't yet read anyone's opinion who's
learning Hungarian so I'm sure I will read your log. I hope you will have a lot of fun and you will reach your goal this year. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 3931 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 4 of 9 16 March 2015 at 4:35pm | IP Logged |
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Hello Cat! Kumusta ka na? Nice to "see" you in another part of the interwebs! I look forward to following along with
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| turorudi Triglot Newbie Philippines Joined 3356 days ago 24 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English, Tagalog*, Japanese Studies: Hungarian, French | Message 5 of 9 17 March 2015 at 5:49am | IP Logged |
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@tristano: Thank you! :)
@Stelle: Nice to see you too! @jmagyar: köszönöm szépen! yes, I am having fun. I am in the early stages yet so I don't know a lot -- but one thing is for sure: my Hungarian circle of friends has grown a lot bigger. I have over 10 now. I mean, wow -- how's that for learning partners and support? :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| turorudi Triglot Newbie Philippines Joined 3356 days ago 24 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English, Tagalog*, Japanese Studies: Hungarian, French | Message 6 of 9 19 March 2015 at 3:25am | IP Logged |
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I haven't written down a summary of my 3rd week on my blog. Here is what I have so
far. It may not look a lot but what I did not mention in the first post of this log is that I am also studying for a proficiency exam in Japanese. I track my Japanese progress too but just on my blog. Anyway...I've been dabbling in Hungarian since last year but it was only in February of this year that I've started to study seriously - with a battle plan and all ;) SUMMARY: Week 1: 1 March I had good progress with reinforcing material from FSI and Assimil because of the Memrise streak challenge. But the bulk of work is an hour's study using my main materials. This week, I focused on Hungarian Pod (still on the Absolute Beginner level) and Pimsleur. I also had 2 italki sessions. One is a one hour session with a professional tutor who really explains grammar very well. The other one is a 30-minute session with an informal tutor who helps me practice conversation. The first session was really tough. I did not expect to talk about the plot of the 3rd Taken movie :P I mean, at my level, I didn't think I needed to learn the Hungarian equivalents for "die", "suspect", "arrest" and others. But it was fun :D The second session was a bit more chill as we talked about hobbies and interests like sports and music. The kinds of things that my language/chat partners always ask me. Now I know how to say "I don't like Twilight". Week 2: 8 March I have problems with verbs. Well, actually Hungarian words in general. While there are loan words from English like tévé and rádio, these are very few. It takes me a while to memorize things like számítógép. But on the positive side, I don't feel like I needed to memorize conjugation tables and rules. In my lessons, we keep on repeating the same stuff and things like the definite and indefinite conjugations, the plural and accusative forms seem to come naturally now. It is still not 100% correct but it's progress. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jmagyar Triglot Newbie SlovakiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5164 days ago 16 posts - 21 votes Speaks: Slovak, Hungarian*, English Studies: German | Message 7 of 9 19 March 2015 at 10:02am | IP Logged |
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It's good to see that you are making progress! :-) As I've mentioned, I can't even
imagine how hard it must be to learn Hungarian as a second language so I'm rooting for you. I guess you are right about not memorizing conjugation tables because there are so many variables in conjugating verbs that even if you memorized a table, you couldn't use it effectively. Just think about the two numbers, three persons in each, the three tenses, the moods, definite and indefinite conjugations and there you have over two hundred forms of a single verb. Okay, some are the same, but conjugation tables don't care about that. The only way to go in my opinion is to do drills and kind of get a feel for what sounds right. You obviously need to know some grammar rules, but I wouldn't concentrate on them that much. And don't worry, sometimes even native speakers don't get all the forms right. :-) And I feel with you about the vocabulary. It must be a struggle to learn some of our words, because you can't relate to them. Actually, Hungarian has a lot of loan words from different languages (Slavic, German, Turkish), but we tell them our way and it is hard to find the similarities with other languages. P.S.: In most cases, it is enough to say 'gép' instead of 'számítógép', people will know what you mean. :-) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6943 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 8 of 9 20 March 2015 at 6:31pm | IP Logged |
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At some point, you may also want to check out e-magyarul1 and e-magyarul2. It's a flash-based set of lessons that correspond more or less to CEFR A1 and A2 respectively, and that make a handy supplement because of the variety of exercises offered (especially so if you have a Hungarian tutor or can understand just enough Hungarian to make sense of the instructions)
I used e-magyarul2 a couple of years ago to complement the drier process of wading through "FSI Hungarian Graded Reader" but the site went offline for a while. It's good that they've been restored. If you're a little more visually oriented and want to see simple Hungarian in use, there's also Hungarian in Hungary which is a set of videos made by an American university. There are transcripts with translations for each set of dialogues. The Finnish national broadcaster (YLE) also offers something similar. Even though the explanations and translations are in Finnish, the actors speak quite clearly and there are subtitles in Hungarian so that you can also read along. The vocabulary lists and explanatory notes in Finnish are interspersed with the videos. Greetings Sightseeing and timetables Shopping In a restaurant Directions and travelling Signs and important words Sok sikert! 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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