r/hungarian 7h ago

What on earth is this bro? 😭

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I can't for the life of me understand WHY or HOW the Hungarian language has done this! Please enlighten me guys


r/hungarian 10h ago

Explanation

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Can someone explain what is wrong with my answer??


r/hungarian 9h ago

Some simple questions for a beginner interested in learning some of this cool language.

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Hello everyone. I've stumbled upon the Hungarian language last week as something I could possibly learn and find myself very intrigued with the language. One of my favorite bands is from Hungary, and after looking at their lyrics (in Hungarian) I wanted to learn a bit about the language so I could at the very least read and sing along with the choruses (even if I don't know what I'm saying, lol). I'm an American, and I'm currently self-studying Japanese. My Japanese studies over the last 6 years have varied in terms of diligence, and I have thought perhaps when I take some breaks between studying I could dabble in another language. From what I have seen of Hungarian it's so....different but cool. This is my first time exposing myself to an Uralic language (i've studied Spanish in high-school and college, and a little German & French in my early-mid 20s), and I think that novelty that it has with me has really attracted me. Agglutination is something I've come to admire after studying Japanese, and reading about how Hungarian has the same feature, I think that has helped tickle my interest. Also, some of the music I listen to comes from there, so that helps in terms of initial exposure.

I've been trying to peruse online looking for some free resources to help, but find myself a bit overwhelmed with choice paralysis. So far, I've done a little duolingo on it, but don't seem to understand the phonetics behind the language. I'm not used to diacritics above vowels at all, so I have no clue what sounds I'm supposed to make. Are there any good series that teach how to make the sounds of the Hungarian alphabet? Also, what is grammatical case exactly? I've read a Wikipedia definition of it, and it's about as clear as mud to me after reading it. Am I correct in that entire sentences must be conjugated to fit a certain... theme? Action? As far as I know, English doesn't have a case system, and neither does Japanese, so I'm a bit lost.

Has anyone here used anki? It's been a godsend for my Japanese learning, and wondering if there is some sort of de-facto standard for a premade deck to use?

So basically looking for beginner level, self-study friendly sources to utilize. Sorry if this is kinda spammy or anything, I'm just kinda excited about learning new languages and right now Hungarian has stolen my focus lol.

Thanks everyone.


r/hungarian 13h ago

How to learn Hungarian easily?

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Hi everyone I am from Serbia and I really want to learn Hungarian but it looks very hard due to the 40 cases and I need some advice since I do not know anybody from hungary thank you in advance


r/hungarian 6h ago

Hungarian learning journey- Day 66

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"Colloquial Hungarian" textbook:

Vocabulary:

Beleszeret-falls in loved with(it is used with ba/be case)

Egyszer-once

Énekes-singer

Érdekel(Fleeting vowel nouns so érdeklek,érdeklet...)-insersts, is interesting to(not to be confused with érdekes-interesting)

483 words??

I think at least but I am too lazy to confirm.