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Language guides
Aaron Rubin's Hungarian language course
http://www.personal.psu.edu/adr10/hungarian.html
A great, albeit unfinished, course.
It contains six lessons, with grammar and vocabulary sections in each.
Matt Garrett's Hungarian studies 103
http://www2.ku.edu/~magyar/courses/103/index.shtml
Another great, albeit unfinished, course, this time with lots of sound files.
It contains nine lessons, and has great coverage of possessions and the past tense. It
also has review chapters, and self-test quizzes. Very good.
MagyarOra.com
MagyarOra.com
This is a comprehensive site that tailors to teachers, not students.
It provides resources for teachers to use with their students. The resources are not
suitable for the solo student because they are too difficult.
If one cannot even understand the objectives of a lesson then one has no hope of understanding the
content.
It does contain a few useful pages regarding pronouncation, includind sounds files.
It's helpful to see the side-by-side comparison of different vowels, for example.
Tamás Turányi's page on verbs
http://garfield.chem.elte.hu/Turanyi/mige.html
A single page that explains how each verb can have thousands of different versions,
because of the conjugation and verbal particals.
HungaroTips
www.hungarotips.com
An awful looking site with some good content, split int beginner, intermediate and advanced sections.
Very helpful is a set of congugation tables and some sound files.
Hungarian dictionaries and translators
A word about using online dictionaries and translators. These are helpful to remind you of a word that you already know.
However, I strongly warn against trying to learn a new word using an online dictionary.
This is for two reasons.
- You don't know the context.
A word might have several translations and you might pick the wrong one.
- Dictionaries that are publically-editable are often full of mistakes.
Regarding translators, these can be helpful for checking you work (run it though the translators and it will
bring to your attention spelling mistakes or missing accents), but are
limited in the ability to translate accuraltely. Sometimes they translate too literally.
Daniel recommends WebForditas.hu......
WebForditas.hu
WebForditas.hu
An excellent translator and dictionary. At the time of writing, the
website if suffering some bugs with the interface, but the translation engine itself is wonderful.
If you click their dictonary tab, and the page doesn't work (an example of their bug),
try using this direct link:
Webforditas.hu online dictionary.
Unlike some other dictionaries, it's unforgiving with accents, but does have a useful "did you mean...?" feature.
Startlap.dicfor.com
startlap.dicfor.com
Great dictionary, shame there is no English verion so that the novice can
see what he's typing.
It's forgiving of accents and will find several words that match what youve typed.
Sztaki Szótár
dict.sztaki.hu
It's forgiving of accents and will find several words that match what youve typed, and even has the ability
to specify what kind of match it shoudl make (partial, word prefix, any, etc).
It contains expressions and idioms too.
However, the dictionary is full of crap that the general public have "helpfully"
entered as a new translation (a feature that they have since disabled).
Do not use this dictionary to learn a new word because it's so full of crap thar you might learn the wrong word.
Other online Hungarian resources
Meetup.com groups
Meetup
is a website to bring together like minded people, whatever thier interest: chess,
Hungarian, football, music, knitting, drinking....
There may be a Hungarian language group in your city, or
a group for ex-Pats.
In Atlanta
there is the
The Atlanta Hungarian Language Meetup Group
is comprised of young ex-Pats and families, and is a great place to practise
your skills.
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