I think the question is very relative if we define difficulty by the amount of time required to learn a language. It all depends on your native language and previous languages you studied. If we objectively tried to find the most difficult language it would still be incredibly difficult. Are we focusing on grammar, then Hungarian is undoubtedly difficult although it does have it's own logic, Slavic languages are similarly difficult, probably a bit less though since Hungarian is agglutinating and it really has a lot of suffixes (trust me, I'm Hungarian). If we look at vocabulary used then it could even be a language whose grammar is easy. If we look at writing system, from major languages, I think China tops the list.
@@thebesthungary560 nem őket védve, de ez rohadtul nem így van...rengeteg magyar képtelen helyesen írni és beszélni. Csak egy egyszerű teszt...írasd le pár ismerősöddel a Himnusz első sorát. Lesz meglepetés..legtöbb magyar ember ebben az egyetlen egy sorban 2-3 hibát vét...
Francia vagyok, de szeretem a magyart ! Ez egy gyönyörű nyelv és magyarországon kívül kevesen tudják ! Egyedül tanulok, és elmondhatom, hogy nagyon nehéz de ez nem akadályoz meg abban, hogy szeressem ezt a gyönyörű nyelvet 🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺 !!
@@cyt3992Ügyes vagy gratulálok! Ezt kevés francia mondhatja el magáról. Főleg mivel sokan nem is akarnak új nyelvet tanulni és azt várják hogy mindenki majd tud franciául, pedig nem
Szép teljesítmény! 👍Majdnem hibátlanul írtál, annak ellenére, hogy komplex a szóhasználatod, és összetett mondatokban írsz! ☝️Sajnos sok magyar ember nem tud ennyire helyesen írni.
Gyógyszertár is a tricky combined word... where GYÓGY means healing, SZER means stuff or material maybe and there's TÁR witch is kind of a storage...so the mirror-translation is HEALT STUFF STORAGE :)
A szer szavunk azert ennel sokkal tagabb fogalom. Szer-etet, szer-tartás, szer-vezet. Szerintem inkabb valami magasabb dologra utal, mint valami konkretat jelolne ki.
@@benjaminszentpaly-j.619 A szer valamire alkalmas dolgot jelent (vö.: szertelen, szerszám) . Abban egyetértek, hogy nagyon tág fogalom, vagy inkább fogalomkör.
My mother is Hungarian; she tried to teach my sisters and me the language from the moment we could comprehend speech. I remember family members in Hungary sending Hungarian books and DVDs to help me and my sisters learn; the thing was, WE HATED it. Her constant persistence in making sure we were on top of all the word meanings and phrases drove my sisters and I NUTS. It got to the point where we would all hide under the bed and stay there whenever she called us in for a lesson. Eventually, she gave up and stopped teaching us, and to this day, it's one of my BIGGEST regrets not pushing through her lessons because, HOLY SHIT, the POWER I would've wielded as a child. Looking back, they weren't that bad at all. I just didn't see the value in learning, and my patience was cut short by that. I'm trying to learn the language properly now, I know it'll take years, but hopefully, I'll get to the point where I can have fluent conversations with my mom :)
We Finns have been calling the Hungarians as "heimoveljet" (tribe brothers). because languistically Finnish is related to Hungarian, which is probably the hardest Uralian language. it is also clearly the biggest language in that group (13 million speakers) , Finnish being the second biggest (6 million speakers).
Love only exists for me the only lovable / love being, and love emojis / love related terms cannot be in comments etc, and only the word like should be used when referring to pretty languages! By the way... Hungarian and Icelandic aren’t as hard as ppl think (not even close to the hardest languages such as Arabic languages and Indian languages and Chinese / Japanese / Korean etc) and most Hungarian words aren’t long at all, they’re just a bit harder to read / spell than the words in most Germanic languages, but the words themselves are easy to remember / learn and the pronunciation is also very easy, so the words and the spoken language can be learned quite fast with the right methods like spaced repetition (memorizing as many thousands of words as possible as fast as possible by watching all sorts of vocab videos multiple times, but over a period of time, not on the same day, but one should watch them at least twice or thrice on the first day and a few days later, and then they can be watched on maximum speed to save time at least once or twice a week or every other week etc, but one must be very focused on each word and on the English translation and visualize each words and each letter of each word in one’s mind, otherwise one won’t learn anything) and then observing how others use them in sentences and using them the same way, and also watching all sorts of videos on grammar / prepositions / verbs / pronunciation / conjunctions etc and videos with sub in the target language + English sub and videos about idioms and expressions etc, and one should try learning as many song lyrics (in the target language) as possible, and after learning at least 5.000 words, one should start watching more videos with both subs hardcoded, so that both subs are shown at the same time, because that’s how one can easily pick up new words in context and get used to the sentence structure etc, and it’s also a good idea to watch most videos at least twice or thrice, and revise them after a while, and always revise the words that have already been learned until all words can be remembered automatically, and even though it’s good to learn all the pronunciation rules at the beginning because it gives an inkling of what the words words sound like, one should always learn each word with its pronunciation and spelling, in the target languages, and once one gets to a really advanced level where one understands almost every word, one should start watching mostly videos with Dutch sub (or sub in another target language) and reading eBooks in the target language etc, as that’s how an automatic mode in a new language is developed - only the spelling may take a bit longer to get used to and to memorize the exact spelling for each word, which is similar to the spelling of many French words, which also use a lot of accents on vowels!
For example, I can easily say in Hungarian... Èn szeretem a Magyar nyelvet! And other things like that, and I know over 200 new words after only studying it for 2 or 3 days! Hungarian words are usually easy to remember, especially the super pretty words like nyelv / zöld / szia / tüzet / kés / elem / nyár / alma / mindig / okos / minden / igen / lenni / sötet / ezt / szeretem / rejtett / aranyát / lesz / egy / víz / zene etc, which are almost as easy to remember as most Dutch words and most Welsh / Breton / Norwegian words etc, after only seeing them once or twice or thrice, so most words in these languages can be learned super fast, especially if one is very focused on the words and gets to see them well in the video! I also knew a lot of words from the songs Nem Lesz Több Tánc and Szeretem by Nox, but I didn’t know what they meant before I started (seriously) learning Hungarian, including watching videos on grammar and pronunciation and verb conjugations and things like that! Hungarian is easier than I thought, especially the pronunciation and the aspect of about half of the words are those of a category 1 language, while the spelling in general is like that of a category 3 language, so it will take a while to memorize the exact spelling for each word with the right accent / umlaut etc, but it isn’t a lot harder than the spelling of many French words, for example, so one will naturally get used to the spelling if one is exposed to a lot of Hungarian, like, videos with subs in Hungarian and English and especially videos with subs in Hungarian on a regular basis, and gets to see the words spelled out many times, and I think it could be learned to a very advanced level (or to a native speaker level even) in about 2 or 3 years, or even in one year if one is a full-time language learner!
About the language: Closer to martian or Venusian , me thinks....A Hungarian scientist (Leo Szilard) was asked 1949 if as a scientist he believes in aliens from outer space. To which he answered, "Of course! In fact, there 10 million of them on Earth, they are called Hungarians " LOL
Gyimóthy Gábor: Nyelvlecke Egyik olaszóra során, Ím a kérdés felmerült: Hogy milyen nyelv ez a magyar, Európába hogy került? Elmeséltem, ahogy tudtam, Mire képes a magyar. Elmondtam, hogy sok-sok rag van, S hogy némelyik mit takar, És a szókincsben mi rejlik, A rengeteg árnyalat, Példaként vegyük csak itt: Ember, állat hogy halad? Elmondtam, hogy mikor járunk, Mikor mondom, hogy megyek. Részeg, hogy dülöngél nálunk, S milyen, ha csak lépdelek. Miért mondom, hogy botorkál Gyalogol, vagy kódorog, S a sétáló szerelmes pár, Miért éppen andalog? A vaddisznó, hogy ha rohan, Nem üget, de csörtet - és Bár alakra majdnem olyan Miért más a törtetés? Mondtam volna még azt is hát, Aki fut, mért nem lohol? Mért nem vág, ki mezőn átvág, De tán vágtat valahol. Aki tipeg, miért nem libeg, S ez épp úgy nem lebegés - Minthogy nem csak sánta biceg, S hebegés nem rebegés! Mit tesz a ló, ha poroszkál, Vagy pedig, ha vágtázik? És a kuvasz, ha somfordál, Avagy akár bóklászik. Lábát szedi, aki kitér, A riadt őz elszökell. Nem ront be az, aki betér . . . Más nyelven hogy mondjam el? Jó lett volna szemléltetni, Botladozó, mint halad, Avagy milyen őgyelegni? Egy szó - egy kép - egy zamat! Aki "slattyog", miért nem "lófrál"? Száguldó hová szalad? Ki vánszorog, miért nem kószál? S aki kullog, hol marad? Bandukoló miért nem baktat? És ha motyog, mit kotyog, Aki koslat, avagy kaptat, Avagy császkál és totyog? Nem csak árnyék, aki suhan, S nem csak a jármű robog, Nem csak az áradat rohan, S nem csak a kocsi kocog. Aki cselleng, nem csatangol, Ki "beslisszol", elinal, Nem "battyog" az, ki bitangol, Ha mégis: a mese csal! Hogy a kutya lopakodik, Sompolyog, majd meglapul, S ha ráförmedsz, elkotródik. Hogy mondjam ezt olaszul? Másik, erre settenkedik, Sündörög, majd elterül. Ráripakodsz, eloldalog - Hogy mondjam ezt németül? Egy csavargó itt kóborol, Lézeng, ődöng, csavarog, Lődörög, majd elvándorol, S többé már nem zavarog. Ám egy másik itt tekereg, - Elárulja kósza nesz - Itt kóvályog, itt ténfereg. . . Franciául hogy van ez? S hogy a tömeg mért özönlik, Mikor tódul vagy vonul, Vagy hömpölyög - s mégsem ömlik, Hogy mondjam ezt angolul? Aki surran, mért nem oson, Vagy miért nem lépeget? Mindezt csak magyarul tudom, S tán csak magyarul lehet. . .! (Firenze 1984. X. 12.)"
I’m an American and became fluent in Hungarian after living there for 2 years. It took 3 months to become fluent. I dedicated myself to avoid all Americans, lived with a Hungarian, and only spoke Hungarian. It’s actually not very difficult. I tried to learn French in high school and thought it was harder. Hungarian language is beautiful and I love the country, the food, the history, and all things Magyar.
Úgy gondolom, három hónap alatt elég valószínűtlen gördülékenyen és helyesen beszélni magyarul (vagy más egyéb nyelven). Szerintem arra gondolsz, hogy ennyi idő után már megértettél másokat, illetve te is képes voltál megértetni magadat. :) Viszont mindig öröm azt látni, hogy valaki ennyire elkötelezett és elszánt!
@@evelinszabo6562 helyesen mondod. Legalább a saját eszemben folyókon beszéltem 3 hónap alatt 😉. Ha jól emlékszem sokan volt a hibák de keményen harcoltam vele és rájöttem a nyelvre végül is. Imádom minden ami Magyar. 😊
Same for me as a german! Even when I started to learn Hungarian by co workers and learning simple words and phrases first, I completely fell in love with the language ! the biggest benefit as being a german while learning Hungarian, is to be able to properly pronounce the letters an the rest of the alphabet, cause it’s very similar to ours… For example: Hungarian „áéíóú“ and the German „aeiou“ is pronounced exact the same way :) so you can easily learn to properly read sth. out loud an Hungarian people can unterstand it- even when you don’t understand what you are talking 😂👌🏼 but I agree with the difficulty on the grammar side- forget or add an apostrophe, change the ending of the basic word and your ending up with changing the complete meaning cause you may have been changed the time, place, aspect/reference or quite a completely different word
Actually, ,,megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért" is although a real and a really long word, it doesn't really mean anything😂. ,,Megszentségtelenít" in literal translation means "to unholyficate something", the affix ,,-hetetlen" makes it un-something-able, so it is "un unholyficateable". Than ,,-ség" makes it into a degraded concept, ,,-eskedés" makes it a repetative action of somebody, ,,-eitek" shows that those somebodies whose action this is are you, and finally ,,-ért" means "for". Overall, now you can see what an unnecesary abomination of an excuse of a word this really is😂. Basically cheating to make the longest word of a language, that partially has meaning. If you learn Hungarian, you'll never-ever use this word in any sentence or situation XD. (im hungarian btw)
megszentségtelenít is actually desecrating, and if you continue from there, the rest remains perfectly sensibly for a bit longer, megszentségtelethetetlen is just we add the impossiblity of the act to it, so undesecrateable. Add the -ség, making it undesecrateabality. Beyond this it gets truly into stupidity, where you would need several sentence to make any sense, but heck, that is the fun of an agglutinating language, we can add many parts, and in most case, the monster we create has still meaning and also easily understandable. Going from holy to undesecrateability without changing the base word is a nice trick.
Well, I'm really interested to learn some Hungarian, just cuz when it's the most difficult language, it's getting more interesting) Greetings from Ukraine 🇺🇦🇭🇺
It isn't as hard as it is told here. Every language is difficult to learn. Hungarian uses a lot of Slavic words, for eaxmple "sapka", "kaposzta"... I am sure you understand those. 🙂
Hungarian and Icelandic aren’t as hard as ppl think (not even close to the hardest languages such as Arabic languages and Indian languages and Chinese / Japanese / Korean etc) and most Hungarian words aren’t long at all, they’re just a bit harder to read / spell than most words in Germanic languages, but the words themselves are easy to remember / learn and the pronunciation is also very easy, so the words and the spoken language can be learned quite fast with the right methods like spaced repetition (memorizing as many thousands of words as possible as fast as possible by watching all sorts of vocab videos multiple times, but over a period of time, not on the same day, but one should watch them at least twice or thrice on the first day and a few days later, and then they can be watched on maximum speed to save time at least once or twice a week or every other week etc, but one must be very focused on each word and on the English translation and visualize each words and each letter of each word in one’s mind, otherwise one won’t learn anything) and then observing how others use them in sentences and using them the same way, and also watching all sorts of videos on grammar / prepositions / verbs / pronunciation / conjunctions etc and videos with sub in the target language + English sub and videos about idioms and expressions etc, and one should try learning as many song lyrics (in the target language) as possible, and after learning at least 5.000 words, one should start watching more videos with both subs hardcoded, so that both subs are shown at the same time, because that’s how one can easily pick up new words in context and get used to the sentence structure etc, and it’s also a good idea to watch most videos at least twice or thrice, and revise them after a while, and always revise the words that have already been learned until all words can be remembered automatically, and even though it’s good to learn all the pronunciation rules at the beginning because it gives an inkling of what the words words sound like, one should always learn each word with its pronunciation and spelling, in the target languages, and once one gets to a really advanced level where one understands almost every word, one should start watching mostly videos with Dutch sub (or sub in another target language) and reading eBooks in the target language etc, as that’s how an automatic mode in a new language is developed - only the spelling may take a bit longer to get used to and to memorize the exact spelling for each word, which is similar to the spelling of many French words, which also use a lot of accents on vowels!
For example, I can easily say in Hungarian... Èn szeretem a Magyar nyelvet! And other things like that, and I know over 200 new words after only studying it for 2 or 3 days! Hungarian words are usually easy to remember, especially the super pretty words like nyelv / zöld / szia / tüzet / kés / elem / nyár / alma / mindig / okos / minden / igen / lenni / sötet / ezt / szeretem / rejtett / aranyát / lesz / egy / víz / zene etc, which are almost as easy to remember as most Dutch words and most Welsh / Breton / Norwegian words etc, after only seeing them once or twice or thrice, so most words in these languages can be learned super fast, especially if one is very focused on the words and gets to see them well in the video! I also knew a lot of words from the songs Nem Lesz Több Tánc and Szeretem by Nox, but I didn’t know what they meant before I started (seriously) learning Hungarian, including watching videos on grammar and pronunciation and verb conjugations and things like that! Hungarian is easier than I thought, especially the pronunciation and the aspect of about half of the words are those of a category 1 language, while the spelling in general is like that of a category 3 language, so it will take a while to memorize the exact spelling for each word with the right accent / umlaut etc, but it isn’t a lot harder than the spelling of many French words, for example, so one will naturally get used to the spelling if one is exposed to a lot of Hungarian, like, videos with subs in Hungarian and English and especially videos with subs in Hungarian on a regular basis, and gets to see the words spelled out many times, and I think it could be learned to a very advanced level (or to a native speaker level even) in about 2 or 3 years, or even in one year if one is a full-time language learner! I haven’t heard throaty sounds in Hungarian - the DZS letter combination is considered a letter in Hungarian and it is the same sound as the DG in the English word bridge and the J in the English word jungle, so it is an approximant of G, while the DZ or DS is the same sound as the DZ / DS in the English words ads and adze / adzing / adzed and the Z in the Italian word zio which means uncle, and I think the ZS is a J sound like in the French word je, and SZ is a S sound, but the letter S is pronounced like a soft SH sound as in the English word shell, and CS is a CH sound as the CH in the English word chips! Hungarian pronunciation is very easy, and the extra vowels with accents are usually the longer versions of the normal vowels and the longer versions of the two umlauts Ö and Ü that are also used in German, while the É is usually pronounced more like a I or YE sound in most words, kinda like in Icelandic, while the Á is a normal open A sound like the AA in Dutch, but the A is usually pronounced closer to a soft O sound in most Hungarian words, and the only letter I didn’t understand yet is the GY because I didn’t understand if it’s supposed to be a G + short I / Y sound or a D + short I / Y sound, but I will watch more videos on pronunciation, because maybe it will be clearly explained in a video!
In the beginning, one may find any new language difficult, but that’s because one doesn’t know any word yet and doesn’t know how the language works - so it’s just a feeling that every beginner has. But one will soon realize that Hungarian isn’t as hard as ppl think... Once one learns the basics and starts learning a lot of vocab and the verb endings etc and the prepositions / adverbs / conjunctions etc, one will see that it isn’t a very hard language, and it also helps a lot if one knows languages such as Dutch / German / Spanish / Slovene / English etc, because there are a few similarities in the aspect of certain words and some similarities in pronunciation, for example, German also has the umlauts Ö and Ü and they are pronounced the same way as they are in Hungarian, and the C in Hungarian is pronounced like the C in Slovene and like the Z in German and like the ZZ in pizza, so C is a TS sound, while the CS in Hungarian is pronounced like the CH in English & Spanish, so the pronunciation is very easy, and most Hungarian words can be memorized fast because they are very pretty, so they don’t require a lot of repetition, and prettier words naturally stick to one’s hern faster!
Love only exists for me the only lovable / love being, and love emojis / love related terms cannot be in comments etc, and only the word like should be used when referring to pretty languages! By the way... Hungarian and Icelandic aren’t as hard as ppl think (not even close to the hardest languages such as Arabic languages and Indian languages and Chinese / Japanese / Korean etc) and most Hungarian words aren’t long at all, they’re just a bit harder to read / spell than most words in Germanic languages, but the words themselves are easy to remember / learn and the pronunciation is also very easy, so the words and the spoken language can be learned quite fast with the right methods like spaced repetition (memorizing as many thousands of words as possible as fast as possible by watching all sorts of vocab videos multiple times, but over a period of time, not on the same day, but one should watch them at least twice or thrice on the first day and a few days later, and then they can be watched on maximum speed to save time at least once or twice a week or every other week etc, but one must be very focused on each word and on the English translation and visualize each words and each letter of each word in one’s mind, otherwise one won’t learn anything) and then observing how others use them in sentences and using them the same way, and also watching all sorts of videos on grammar / prepositions / verbs / pronunciation / conjunctions etc and videos with sub in the target language + English sub and videos about idioms and expressions etc, and one should try learning as many song lyrics (in the target language) as possible, and after learning at least 5.000 words, one should start watching more videos with both subs hardcoded, so that both subs are shown at the same time, because that’s how one can easily pick up new words in context and get used to the sentence structure etc, and it’s also a good idea to watch most videos at least twice or thrice, and revise them after a while, and always revise the words that have already been learned until all words can be remembered automatically, and even though it’s good to learn all the pronunciation rules at the beginning because it gives an inkling of what the words words sound like, one should always learn each word with its pronunciation and spelling, in the target languages, and once one gets to a really advanced level where one understands almost every word, one should start watching mostly videos with Dutch sub (or sub in another target language) and reading eBooks in the target language etc, as that’s how an automatic mode in a new language is developed - only the spelling may take a bit longer to get used to and to memorize the exact spelling for each word, which is similar to the spelling of many French words, which also use a lot of accents on vowels!
Not even joking Hungarian is the hardest language i've tried learning, but man, it's also one of my favorites and the most rewarding. I love Magyarorszag
@@yousifwaleed6566 salam alaykum I am Hungarian but to me most of the Arabic words I have read seem to roll off the tongue more then Hungarian. In Hungarian u really have to articulate or else the word will have a different meaning
....hungarian-scytian....genetics not lie....newsbeezer.com/hungaryeng/miklos-kasler-the-arpad-dynasty-was-founded-4500-years-ago-in-the-northern-part-of-what-is-now-afghanistan/ bactria part of scytia....upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Scythia-Parthia_100_BC.png
Hungarian is so fascinating! As an italian i could listen hours and hours to someone speaking hungarian. Its so melodic and beautiful! I would love to learn it but i'm affraid of the grammar and pronounciation😵😅
The pronounciation is super easy. Hungarian is spoken exactly as it is written(99% of the time), so if you learn to pronounce the letters (they are similar to how a german would pronounce them), then you can speak with a "perfect accent".
@@Donknowww you can find youtube videos where the alphabet is pronounced by a native speaker. Watch it and shadow the speaker, while you are doing it record yourself and compare your version and the native. If you ise this method you can aquire near perfect pronounciation within a week.
Spasiba. Ja ne gavarju pa russki, but at elementary school I had to learn it. It was many years ago. At that time I didn't like learning russian, but now I listen to many pop songs. I think Russian is a nice, pleasant, soft language. I wish I had more time to learn it.
Hungarian is definitely one of the World's hardest languages to learn, learning that language is really tricky and unbearable for many foreigners although there are some people who like it and learn it regardless of its tremendous complexity. To get an idea of what it really means: Learning English, Spanish, French, Italian, German or Russian is like stealing a baby's toy, whereas learning Hungarian is like climbing to the top of Everest yourself, completely alone at your own risk.
Hungarian and Icelandic aren’t as hard as ppl think (not even close to the hardest languages such as Arabic languages and Indian languages and Chinese / Japanese / Korean etc) and most Hungarian words aren’t long at all, they’re just a bit harder to read / spell than most words in Germanic languages, but the words themselves are easy to remember / learn and the pronunciation is also very easy, so the words and the spoken language can be learned quite fast with the right methods like spaced repetition (memorizing as many thousands of words as possible as fast as possible by watching all sorts of vocab videos multiple times, but over a period of time, not on the same day, but one should watch them at least twice or thrice on the first day and a few days later, and then they can be watched on maximum speed to save time at least once or twice a week or every other week etc, but one must be very focused on each word and on the English translation and visualize each words and each letter of each word in one’s mind, otherwise one won’t learn anything) and then observing how others use them in sentences and using them the same way, and also watching all sorts of videos on grammar / prepositions / verbs / pronunciation / conjunctions etc and videos with sub in the target language + English sub and videos about idioms and expressions etc, and one should try learning as many song lyrics (in the target language) as possible, and after learning at least 5.000 words, one should start watching more videos with both subs hardcoded, so that both subs are shown at the same time, because that’s how one can easily pick up new words in context and get used to the sentence structure etc, and it’s also a good idea to watch most videos at least twice or thrice, and revise them after a while, and always revise the words that have already been learned until all words can be remembered automatically, and even though it’s good to learn all the pronunciation rules at the beginning because it gives an inkling of what the words words sound like, one should always learn each word with its pronunciation and spelling, in the target languages, and once one gets to a really advanced level where one understands almost every word, one should start watching mostly videos with Dutch sub (or sub in another target language) and reading eBooks in the target language etc, as that’s how an automatic mode in a new language is developed - only the spelling may take a bit longer to get used to and to memorize the exact spelling for each word, which is similar to the spelling of many French words, which also use a lot of accents on vowels!
For example, I can easily say in Hungarian... Èn szeretem a Magyar nyelvet! And other things like that, and I know over 200 new words after only studying it for 2 or 3 days! Hungarian words are usually easy to remember, especially the super pretty words like nyelv / zöld / szia / tüzet / kés / elem / nyár / alma / mindig / okos / minden / igen / lenni / sötet / ezt / szeretem / rejtett / aranyát / lesz / egy / víz / zene etc, which are almost as easy to remember as most Dutch words and most Welsh / Breton / Norwegian words etc, after only seeing them once or twice or thrice, so most words in these languages can be learned super fast, especially if one is very focused on the words and gets to see them well in the video! I also knew a lot of words from the songs Nem Lesz Több Tánc and Szeretem by Nox, but I didn’t know what they meant before I started (seriously) learning Hungarian, including watching videos on grammar and pronunciation and verb conjugations and things like that! Hungarian is easier than I thought, especially the pronunciation and the aspect of about half of the words are those of a category 1 language, while the spelling in general is like that of a category 3 language, so it will take a while to memorize the exact spelling for each word with the right accent / umlaut etc, but it isn’t a lot harder than the spelling of many French words, for example, so one will naturally get used to the spelling if one is exposed to a lot of Hungarian, like, videos with subs in Hungarian and English and especially videos with subs in Hungarian on a regular basis, and gets to see the words spelled out many times, and I think it could be learned to a very advanced level (or to a native speaker level even) in about 2 or 3 years, or even in one year if one is a full-time language learner!
By the way, it actually helps a lot if one knows languages such as Dutch / German / Spanish / Slovene / English etc, because there are a few similarities in the aspect of certain words and some similarities in pronunciation, for example, German also has the umlauts Ö and Ü and they are pronounced the same way as they are in Hungarian, and the C in Hungarian is pronounced like the C in Slovene and like the Z in German and like the ZZ in pizza, so C is a TS sound, while the CS in Hungarian is pronounced like the CH in English & Spanish, so the pronunciation is very easy, and most Hungarian words can be memorized fast because they are very pretty, so they don’t require a lot of repetition, and prettier words naturally stick to one’s hern faster - in the beginning, one may find any new language difficult, but that’s because one doesn’t know any word yet and doesn’t know how the language works, so it’s just a feeling that every beginner has, but one will soon realize that Hungarian isn’t as hard as ppl think!
As a native French speaker, pronunciation wise, I find it easy as we share many common sounds. And also the orthography of Hungarian is so much more intuitive than in French, because you pronounce everything as written and vice versa. The grammar part might be a different story, but as long as you learn to rewire your brain, I believe one can get around it. I love the sound of Hungarian!
At 1:52 when the man says "Kiina", it is 100% exactly the same pronunciation as a native Finnish speaker would say. It is completely indistinguishable without any differences. As a Finnish person this really popped my ears open.
A többi magyar társam nevében is köszönöm ezt a csodálatos videót. Örülök, hogy élvezted az ittlétet! Remélem máskor is jössz majd, valamint, hogy így mások is kedvet kapnak, hogy meglátogassák szerény országunkat. Üdv Magyarországról. ( On behalf of the other Hungarians, I thank you for this amazing video. I'm glad you enjoyed the time you spent here! I hope you'll come again, and I also hope that some of the viewers will feel inspired to visit our humble country as well. Greetings from Hungary! )
Én itt élek és imádom bár nyelvtan órákon még nekem is oda kell figyelnem😅 nagyon jó látni/hallani hogy egy külföldi ilyen szépeket mond Magyarországról és hogy ennyire jól érzi magát! Remélem ízlett a LÁNGOS és a GULYÁS is. 🇭🇺Üdvözlettel Magyarországból 🇭🇺
I usually speak 4 languages and know about 30-50 words in Hungarian. For me the most fascinating and intriguing part is how important it is inserting the correct accent because if you don't, the word becomes completely different. For example: aranyérem meaning golden medal vs. aranyerem meaning my haemorrhoids! Another example is: szar meaning stem or leg vs. szár meaning sh*t! Definitely one of the most interesting languages, on my opinion.
yes, indeed, it's the other way around: szár (the long thin part of a plant from which the leaves and flower grow). szar means shit. Indeed, I just looked at google translator, it is mixed up about the difference: on one hand it gives us the translation for "szár" as "shit", but below in the suggestion field it also gives the correct one as "stem". Indeed, sometimes you have to add the accent with the suffixes, so that may complicate things ;-)
You can also get a completely different meaning if you mix up the order of words in a sentence. It will probably make sense but will mean something totally different.
As a hungarian girl i have to admit that our language is very-very difficult. Sometimes even we have to stop and think for a second if the inflection of a word is correct. But to be honest, I have so many moments when I realise how beautiful our language is. It just impossible to explain, but i swear you can't find a more expressive language.
I started learning it because I had a girlfriend there, but I don't want to stop learning now because it's a great language. I like how it sounds and I want to go back to Hungary to see more of it when it's safe to travel.
That's bullshit! First of all, a native speaker do not have to think of how to use the language. It is instinctive. Second, scientifically, there is no such thing as most difficult language. As all languages are arbitrary, they are equally difficult/easy. Obviously, there may be personal differences regarding how hard a given language is for a specific person, mostly based on the similarities/differences to their mother tongue. But this has nothing to do with the - non-existent - overall difficulty of languages.
@@peterkornis5377 szerintem igenis vannak fáradtabb pillanatok, amikor meg kell állni egy pillanatra egy szó ragozása miatt. Meg ugye az ultimate kártya: ne csukolj(ál). Viszont statisztikák vannak a nyelvek nehézségéről, utána lehet nézni. But thanks for calling my opinion and experiences stupid.
@@miertnezemezeket1369 Ha meg kell állnod azért hogy gondolkozz egy szó ragozásán, akkor ott elég nagy problémák vannak. Nekem inkább írásban nehezebb, az összetett szavak hogy külön kell-e írni, vagy egyben.
As a hungarian, who learned a few languages, but always had difficulties with that, my best advice for learning hungarian is this: learn the basics by school or books, then continue with talking with someone hungarian. Thats the best way to learn it correctly, otherwise, you always just translate the sentences of your own language, and with this, so many times will not have any sense of them in hungarian.
We just don't plan to rule the world We're not really into fights now We was in our past, but that was way far from now And also Hungary is a small country, how can we take over the place of Russia or other countries? Maybe the smaller ones But why would we do that? We almost live in peace I mean I might want to change everything because some families can't have enough money for everything they really need, but still, it's better than a war And also there's beautiful girls (I mean they're everywhere in tge world, but in Hungary they're more) And handsome teachers And it's weird But we don't have Disney+ and we need to do illegal hunting to get some serues, videos, games, and books Like the Disney+ version of Hamilton that I got with pirating it So yeah Also anime is not much popular yet, but it starts and you can see fans everywhere Mostly Boku no Hero Academia fans, but in the second place there's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Attack on Titan fans
Hungary would certainly rule (maybe not the world) but europe if they hadn't enemies on both sides. Not only their nobel prices, but history how they fought (battle of pressburg for example) show how extremly intelligent hungarians are. A shame they had very bad luck with allies each time they fought a war.
Maybe, but I'd say Arabic and Mandarin is more difficult. There is a beautiful, intrinsic logic in the Hungarian language, and once you understand it, it all falls in place. It is however an absolutely stunning language, the playfulness and expressiveness is simply mind-blowing. "A fecske átsuhan az árnyas lombok között"... how much more beautiful and expressive it is than "the swallow glides between the shady tree branches".
Yes! I’m half Hungarian and didn’t learn it as a kid, so I have struggled for years off and on trying to learn it. But even I have seen glimpses of what you mean about the logic of the language. It’s brilliant. I always appreciated the spelling, too. The words are spelled exactly as they sound and sound exactly how they’re spelled. I can actually read pretty much anything out loud in Hungarian and everyone tells me how great I sound. LOL If I could only understand it!
I think arabic ist so easy. Definitely a lot easier than hungarian. I speak Englisch,German,arabic(egyptian and lebanese),Greek,hungarian and a little korean. I think hungarian is the hardest, followed by korean.
only hungarians can understand the true value of the melodiness of the language. once you can speak, you understand how many ways there actually are, to even say a phrase. love my mother tongue!
Agreed! I think it is hard for a non-native speaker to produce some of the sounds in Arabic and especially in Mandarin, although if you try to teach the letters "ny, gy, ty" to anyone new to Hungarian.....well, you're in for a good laugh. Also, if I understand correctly, in Mandarin the same word at a different pitch has a different meaning. "The swallow glides between the shady tree branches" sounds pretty even in English, eh? One misconception I often hear from Hungarians is how rich Hungarian vocabulary is compared to English. Perhaps at the "konyhanyelv" level, but if you listen to some posh Brits like Stephen Fry, (coincidentally he is half Hungarian) an absolute virtuoso of the language, I bet you'll be reaching for your dictionary every second sentence. My writing in multiple compound sentences, as I just noticed, should be a giveaway that my first language is Hungarian and I absolutely love it. We just love those page-long sentences, don't we?
Hungarian and Icelandic aren’t as hard as ppl think (not even close to the hardest languages such as Arabic languages and Indian languages and Chinese / Japanese / Korean etc) and most Hungarian words aren’t long at all, they’re just a bit harder to read / spell than most words in languages, but the words themselves are easy to remember / learn and the pronunciation is also very easy, so the words and the spoken language can be learned quite fast with the right methods like spaced repetition (memorizing as many thousands of words as possible as fast as possible by watching all sorts of vocab videos multiple times, but over a period of time, not on the same day, but one should watch them at least twice or thrice on the first day and a few days later, and then they can be watched on maximum speed to save time at least once or twice a week or every other week etc, but one must be very focused on each word and on the English translation and visualize each words and each letter of each word in one’s mind, otherwise one won’t learn anything) and then observing how others use them in sentences and using them the same way, and also watching all sorts of videos on grammar / prepositions / verbs / pronunciation / conjunctions etc and videos with sub in the target language + English sub and videos about idioms and expressions etc, and one should try learning as many song lyrics (in the target language) as possible, and after learning at least 5.000 words, one should start watching more videos with both subs hardcoded, so that both subs are shown at the same time, because that’s how one can easily pick up new words in context and get used to the sentence structure etc, and it’s also a good idea to watch most videos at least twice or thrice, and revise them after a while, and always revise the words that have already been learned until all words can be remembered automatically, and even though it’s good to learn all the pronunciation rules at the beginning because it gives an inkling of what the words words sound like, one should always learn each word with its pronunciation and spelling, in the target languages, and once one gets to a really advanced level where one understands almost every word, one should start watching mostly videos with Dutch sub (or sub in another target language) and reading eBooks in the target language etc, as that’s how an automatic mode in a new language is developed - only the spelling may take a bit longer to get used to and to memorize the exact spelling for each word, which is similar to the spelling of many French words, which also use a lot of accents on vowels!
I learned Dutch to an advanced level (over 8.000 base words) after only focusing on it for about 3 months, and am beginner level in Hungarian and Welsh and Slovene and many other languages - I even noticed certain similarities between Dutch & Hungarian and between Dutch & Welsh words and patterns / letter combinations etc, for example, the Hungarian word kés is kinda similar to the Dutch word mes and it means the same thing, so I could immediately remember it, even though I only saw it once!
Some of the prettiest Welsh words are derwen / nest / afon / talar / adeilad / helygen / afal / hyd / lolfa / enaid / bedwen / neithiwr / ynys / nos / sydd / noswaith / ers / mynd / rhosyn / eistedd / gwych / tân / fawr / telyn or delyn / ynddyn / llaw or dwylo / doeth / fewn or mewn / gwar / bys / ffynnon / swrn / tew / blin / mynydd / braich etc, and Welsh reminds of Dutch (Dutch / English / Norwegian are the prettiest and most refined languages ever with the most pretty words) because they have a similar intonation / vibe and they both have the CH sound and many of the words have similar types of letter combinations!
For example, I can easily say in Hungarian... Èn szeretem a Magyar nyelvet! And other things like that, and I know over 200 new words after only studying it for 2 or 3 days! Hungarian words are usually easy to remember, especially the super pretty words like nyelv / zöld / szia / tüzet / kés / elem / nyár / alma / mindig / okos / minden / igen / lenni / sötet / ezt / szeretem / rejtett / aranyát / lesz / egy / víz / zene etc, which are almost as easy to remember as most Dutch words and most Welsh / Breton / Norwegian words etc, after only seeing them once or twice or thrice, so most words in these languages can be learned super fast, especially if one is very focused on the words and gets to see them well in the video! I also knew a lot of words from the songs Nem Lesz Több Tánc and Szeretem by Nox, but I didn’t know what they meant before I started (seriously) learning Hungarian, including watching videos on grammar and pronunciation and verb conjugations and things like that! Hungarian is easier than I thought, especially the pronunciation and the aspect of about half of the words are those of a category 1 language, while the spelling in general is like that of a category 3 language, so it will take a while to memorize the exact spelling for each word with the right accent / umlaut etc, but it isn’t a lot harder than the spelling of many French words, for example, so one will naturally get used to the spelling if one is exposed to a lot of Hungarian, like, videos with subs in Hungarian and English and especially videos with subs in Hungarian on a regular basis, and gets to see the words spelled out many times, and I think it could be learned to a very advanced level (or to a native speaker level even) in about 2 or 3 years, or even in one year if one is a full-time language learner!
" Vörös " and " Piros " are not the same ..just we have a word for dark red..does matter a lot ..not only for red..the other colors also have different names..just like ocean blue or something like that..BTW nice video 😉
@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 Yeah, the problem is that there's a word for crimson as well well Vörös is somewhere between bright red and crimson actually.
....hungarian-scytian....genetics not lie....newsbeezer.com/hungaryeng/miklos-kasler-the-arpad-dynasty-was-founded-4500-years-ago-in-the-northern-part-of-what-is-now-afghanistan/ bactria part of scytia....upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Scythia-Parthia_100_BC.png
Ja, megtanultam mint felnőtt ember. Hosszú volt, irtó nehéz. De a magyar nyelvet nagyon szeretem. Nagyon érdekes. Valahogyan csípős. Én láttam az országa nyolc éve, és a feleségem magyar. Szerintem most könnyebb megtanulni mert jobban tudnak tanítani mint a múltban
Those two very long words in the video are never used in real life and their meaning is stupid, they are just demonstration toys on how this agglutinating language could create extremely long words, but typical Hungarian words are in fact way shorter. Also, the 44 letter long alphabet doesn't make the language harder, it's just different logic, but once you get it, it will actually makes things easier, at least regarding to pronunciation. What actually makes Hungarian hard is the complex inflection system sprinkled with a good amount of exceptions. But apart from that, Hungarian has only 3 tenses, there's no gender, not even a he / she distinction, so some aspects are super easy.
....hungarian-scytian....genetics not lie....newsbeezer.com/hungaryeng/miklos-kasler-the-arpad-dynasty-was-founded-4500-years-ago-in-the-northern-part-of-what-is-now-afghanistan/ bactria part of scytia....upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Scythia-Parthia_100_BC.png
And there are the Csángó people that even I a native hungarian speaker can hardly understand. They are the Székely people who left Transylvania and moved to the Moldova region of Romania in the 18th century and their language has remained unchanged ever since exept for a few romanian loan words.
Yes, and in fact their language is much more older. Some of them are people whose ancestors never crossed the Carpathian mountains (with the tribes lead by Árpád).
@@BİLGEREİSRTE I'm not a specialist in linguistics, but I'm just saying that I'm from Romania and I have a friend who speaks CSANGO ... I have no problem understanding him, my mother tongue being Hungarian. Sometimes I am amused by certain words and I find that they have a ... Moldovan accent, Moldova being the region in Romania where they are located, beyond s sthe eastern Carpathian mountain. PS. it was very difficult to answer you because you have probably the program adapted for the Hebrew language.
@@LaszloVondracsek I know these. Already, Szekelys and Gagauz Turks live in Moldova. Magyars and Turks come from the same race, my friend. Our languages are quite similar even today, for example; MG: "Zsebemben sok kicsi alma van" TR: Cebimde çok küçük alma var" EN: "I have a very small apple in my pocket" By the way, my name is written in the old Turkic alphabet, not the Hebrew alphabet. :)
you saying Budapest is a magical city really made me happy because we don't get a lot of recognition and it feels nice to hear good about our country :)
Despite hungarian being an extremely hard language it is very simple to learn how to read in hungarian just by learning the alphabet. The letters are always pronounced the same so piecing a word together is just a combination of the letters but they are never pronounced differently. so learning hungarian that way is much more simple as you can always pronounce the words you read as long as you know the alphabet. using the proper word ending in a respective manner is the only difficult thing. Hungary has 42 different word ending and sometime the whole word changes to meet the best meaning eg( neked nektek mindenkinek)
Actually. I heard that Basque is the hardest language in the world to learn. I learned Hungarian because I think it sounds so fantastic, though I'm NOT fluent. Eljen Magyarorszag!
I'm Japanese 🇯🇵🥰 I'm gonna study at Hungary next year as a High school exchange student!!!!!❤️❤️ Japanese is more difficult than Hungarian!!!!!!!😭😭😭😭 Thank you so much for sharing this video!!!!!!!! I cannot wait to go Hungary😆😆😆😆😆 I hope that the pandemic will over!
Im a hungarian, who learned Japanese a few years ago. I think, Japanese is easy to learn speak, but very hard to learn write and read. Hungarian is different: its moderate hard to learn write, but very hard to learn speak, because there is so many rules, and much much more exceptions, and special terms.
Im Braziliam but my grandfather that use to live with me is from Hungary , i started to learn a little bit of hungarian and when i started to speek with him i gave up cause is too hard to understand 😢 Miss my grandfather , and my second name is from Hungary, Szalo :)
*szent = saint, holy, sacred *szentség = sacrament, holyness, sanctity, sacredness (-ség = -ment/-ness/-ty) *szentségtelen = sacrilegious, unholy, profane (-telen = un-) *szentségtelenít = desacralize something, make something/someone sacrilegious/profane (-ít = -ize) *megszentségtelenít = desecrate/humiliate someone (meg- is a verb conjuction) *megszentségteleníthető = someone, who is desecratable/who can be humiliated easily (-hető = -able) *megszentségteleníthetetlen = someone, who is NOT desecratable/who CANNOT be humuliated easily (-tlen = un-...-able) *megszentségteleníthetetlenség = desecratability/unhumiliatability (-ség = -ty/-ment/-ness) *megszentségteleníthetetlenséges = someone, who bears the attribution of desecratability/unhumiliatability (-es = -like/-ous/-ish) *megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedés = acting or being like someone, who bears the attribution of desecratability/unhumiliatability (-kedés = continuously doing an activity) *megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitek = your (plural) activities in order to act or be like someone, who bears the attribution of desecratability/unhumiliatability (-eitek = Pl/2 genitive case) *megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért = [doing something] for/in favour to your (plural) activities in order to act or be like someone, who bears the attribution of desecratability/unhumiliatability (-ért = for) --------------------- You are very welcome. This cost me half an hour, I literally have no life.
As someone who has been learning Hungarian for eleven years (on and off) and is hardly able to order a pizza in that language ... YES ... it's extremely difficult. There's the unfamiliar vocabulary, the vowel harmony, the mutiple word endings, the very long words, the complex grammar and even the word order. On the positive side, the spelling is regular, each letter has a single pronunciation, there's hardly any silent letters, there's only three tenses and there are less synonyms. Magyar, egy nehez hanem jo nyelv.
@@csabapajer9544 Did I mention the other major problem with learning Hungarian? It is that there's always some native Hungarian speaker there at your elbow ready to correct your grammar. That's one thing we don't do much of in English. Thanks, it's really encouraging. Not.
@@maddyg3208 Ok, feel be hurted, if you want. If you cant see the difference between the correcting and correcting, then I wish you a beutiful life on the side of snowflakeism. Btw, I did this only for help, and yes, english people are do too, trust me, I live in an english-speaking country from 4 years now. And I never felt they want to look down me with the correcting. Have good day...
@@csabapajer9544 No worries and thanks Csaba, sorry, it was a complete overreaction on my part. I did have an idea that you were trying to be helpful but it was overridden by my own frustration. I get corrected by my wife a lot (not in a mean way, but also in a helpful way) It's hard enough to remember the words and then the word endings and the word order, and it's like no matter what I do I'm always wrong. I'm also in Australia, so I can't really practice my Hungarian anywhere.I do think it's a bit of a cultural difference though, in English we're more used to people from countries all over the world butchering our language ... I mean making their own unique contribution to its rich diversity. 😎
@@maddyg3208 As rethinking, I was not really nice as well. Sorry about that. And, because I like, when the born english-speakers correct me, I forget so often, somebody else is dont like it, or they have bad experience. And I have to admit, my people is very proud, and always try to proof their cultural-superiority, so sometimes their so called "help" is just come from the same desire - and its all becuse our minority-feelings. Actualy, you made only one wrong word in that sentence, but because they have the same meanings basicly, its a mistake what very hard to avoid. The only help with that, if you are live in Hungary or a hungarian community, because there is no rules in the grammar for this problem, only just the living talk. The one of the most important lesson, what I learned about my english is this: doesnt matter, what small mistakes you do, if they understand, what you want to say.. If they dont, but they want to understand, they will help to you. But if they dont want, its doesnt matter how perfect you are. So its meaningless to frustrated yourself because of that. And always remember for that: even with any mistakes, you are still better in hungarian, than anyone else, who dont know any hungarian word. :)
Oh, this is very tricky and complex. On one hand, splitting JUST because of language sounds like a right argument for being wrong thing to do. BUT: Thin communication is surely a big handicap for a relationship, and EVERY contact, even purely sexual, is between PERSONS (not to mention that solely great sex is not enough for stable and happy relation, though is needed and it's a sign of it). Of course, poor communication in itself doesn't have to be some insuperable handicap. It could be overcome, but NOT if it's just the top of an iceberg and iceberg being very different personalities (which in such case is a cause, reason and excuse WHY this poor communication and language barrier REMAINS, instead of getting overcome). And one more thing: Different language by default is NOT just different language, but the whole different cultural "galaxy"! That certain tribe lived FOR CENTURIES apart YOUR tribe(nation) and different language is exactly RESULT of it and a SIGN for it. Different, even OPPOSITE approach on famous historical events, EVERYTHING might be different, not just food culture. All this of course, i.e. another "culture galaxy", is still something which not necessarily has to be negative, but sure is a challenge, at least if it's a strong case. So, language and cultural barriers IN ITSELF (per se) should not be a insuperable handicap, but it sure is something which asks for extra strengh and thus is a test if that extra good chemistry is there or not (-being a potential power to overcome those handicaps). And now to something (")very different("), i.e. my motivation for spending more than an hour trying to comment and tell this message, on a for me foreign language: It really iritates me how easy is to plant a very suggestive yet wrong argument, which use to mislead people. Such things, not necessarily meant to have such an effect, make our lives worse, so that's why, while I very probably have not manage avoiding this sounding strange, but I don't mind.
Ups sry dudes we didn't split because of the language, we could communicate in German. There are plenty of reasons that can lead to a break-up you surely know....
As an Argentinian, I say that Hungarian grammar is easy to understand, but it's very difficult to learn due to the large number of rules, declensions, accents and its double verb conjugation. Hungarian is the most difficult language in the world of those that are written with the Latin alphabet.
I find Spanish difficult with all those verb tenses and "exceptions". Not that Hungarian verbs do not have exceptions when it comes to conjugation. 🙂 The other issue - which is prevalent in all languages - is the prefixes and suffixes, prepositions, which just don't make sense as you learn them. For example in English you do not "shop in Walmart", but "shop at Walmart". In Hungary you shop in(side) the store. 🙂 You go into the store in Hungary, instead of go in... and many others. The other thing about Hungarian is that the linguists do not recognize certain verb tenses in Hungarian, which are actually different verb tenses. In Hungarian - they say - there are only three verb tenses, past, present and future, and that's it. But it is not quite true. For example the diff between "megcsinaltam" and "csinaltam" is that the first one means I have done it, the second means sort of "I was on it, but it is not ready yet". By the way it is kind of cute that the Hungarian uses an ancient type of auxiliary verb for the future tense, something (but different) that ancient Hebrew used as well.
Yes, being a Hungarian I can confirm that our language is one of the most difficult ones in Europe. But Danish might also be quite close. At least for me Danish pronunciation seems to be harder than Chinese :-) But I like challenges so I started to learn Norwegian (Bokmål) :-)
My girlfriend is Hungarian, we have been together for quite a while. Im a Canadian and English is my primary language, ive learned a few others including russian, but Hungarian is super difficult for me. So many slight differences in a single letter can change everything on how im understood by her family.
Hungarian is very different from most other European languages, which adds to the difficulty because at first the vocabulary and sentence structures seem odd. BUT - it has very straightforward and phonetic spelling - the pronunciation is no harder than most other European languages and easier than many as stress is regular and predictable and vowel sounds never lose their full quality - grammar rules are different but very regular with few irregularities compared to most other European languages - adjectives have only two forms (easier than Spanish) - the case endings are mostly equivalents to prepositions in other languages and prepositions are always tricky so it balances out - vocabulary is hard in the early stages because of the lack of cognates but by the intermediate stage the frequent use of compound nouns makes it easier to work out what new words mean. So Hungarian is a challenge but it's not impossible. I found Finnish much harder because it seems to have more irregularities and everything nouns do, adjectives do too, which is not the case in Hungarian.
@@fzpe856 Some people take exaggerated pride in telling people how impossibly difficult their languages are for foreigners to learn. I think it makes them feel special in some way. The Hungarians and the Poles are top of the list. Some languages definitely present big challenges to learners but it depends a lot on what your own native language is. Hungarian is very different but also very regular and in some ways actually quite easy. And for the record, Polish isn't any harder than any other Slavonic language and probably a lot easier than for example Slovene. Maybe they're just not so used to many foreigners actually learning their language so they think they couldn't actually do it even if they wanted to. Patrick Ney is an Englishman who makes videos in Polish. He's married to a Pole and lives there so has learned the language. Difficult but not impossible. Russians are totally used to hearing foreigners speaking Russian so it doesn't occur to us to say it's impossible because we know it isn't.
@@barrysteven5964 Mostly people coming from small countries. They brag about how difficult their language is without having any idea about languages in general. Nobody wants to learn Slovene or Slovakian, if it is not about staying there. They are not useful languages. So, not many foreigners are interested in learning these languages. And this is why people like Polish and Hungarians do believe that their languages are “tough”. The other day I had a conversation with a Lithuanian guy and he told me “ YOU ARE NOT GONNA LEARN MY MOTHER LANGUAGE, IT IS TOO DIFFICULT… NO CHNACE!” And I was like … mmm totally clueless. 😝 The Lithuanian grammar is the typical grammar of the Indo-European languages. I have studied Latin at school ( pretty good at it actually ) and Lithuanian reminds of Latin somehow. The endings of the words look so familiar. Nothing new. Also, I HATE ALL THE LISTS …”the ten most difficult languages in the world” … And I am like “Do they really believe that such a thing can be true?” If you speak Spanish, then Romanian, italian , Portuguese etc easier than Russian , Polish etc Then, if you speak Russian, then Polish, Bulgarian etc easier Then , if you speak Chinese, … If you speak Navajo … etc
@@fzpe856 Maybe it's the vocabulary that makes it seem so difficult. If you've learnt English for example, you'll be able to understand basic sentences or a few words in other similar languages like German. With Hungarian, you have no clue what the words could even mean, plus we don't really have a strict order of words in a sentence so you really have to know the vocabulary to understand what's being said. Not to mention synonyms that are regularly mixed up and basically everyone can choose which word they'll use, so lots of strange words to learn with the same meaning. But the phonetic spelling is not hard at all, in fact I think it makes a lot more sense to use the same pronunciation to each letter, not like in English for example. So even if you're not familiar with a new word, you can rely on the rules of spelling.
I'm from Slovakia, who's living right at the borders of Hungary and speaks the language as mother toungue, is easy but i know it's a hard language :) I must say English is by far the easiest language on the world :) Hungarian maybe not the hardest, but definetely in the top 5. I've tried learn Japanese, failed and rather give up. Then later began to study Korean which is way easier, but if i'll be on that level to understand almost everything, i'm sure i'll try to go back to Japanese too :)
ohhhh I'm Slovak learning Korean actively and lately I've tried learning Japanese too, but yes, Japanese seems harder for me 😅 I've never spoken Hungarian though my grandpa spoke it
@@ta_ly indeed ;) how are you on learning Korean ? I've been studying on and off for about 3 years. I've went even for a language school in Hungary for about half year. I must say in the spam of half year i learnt more than learning myself. I've made a mistake, by learning a lot of grammar which I'm on intermediate level. The only problem is, my vocabulary is on the begginer level so I can do nothing with the learnt grammar. Are you learning it byself ?
@@K-PopGamesWithSoulMirae I'm similar as you in Korean - I know a lot of grammar already, but my vocabulary is nothing much yet, so I can only understand simple sentences (in songs, comments, etc.) And yes, I'm learning by myself (for about a year) - I would try attending a school if having an opportunity, but I'm not sure if there's anything like that here in KE
@@ta_ly yeah it's hard here in Slovakia, that's why I had to travel every Saturday to Budapest early in the morning and came back home aroun 5pm so it was tiring. So technically I had only one day free from work. Current work don't even allow me to not work on weekends xD that's why I left. 4 years ago I've visited Seoul, and since then my dream became to go back and live there a bit so I cant fail. If you want we can help each other learning faster :) I'm down for it, because I've never found someone whom I can study :)
@@K-PopGamesWithSoulMirae wow, that's impressing, I can't imagine working and still travelling hours away every weekend I've never been to Korea or Asia, but it's fine - I'm still young, there will surely be opportunities in the future (maybe university? who knows haha)
It is absolutely the hardest language to learn! The grammar is the hard part! I speak just enough to get my way through a simple conversation and I lived there over a year and have Hungarian family! I think what makes it so hard is it is completely and totally unique! And the way your sentance should be structured changes all the time too! In English we have a set order of operations. For instance you say "thats a big fluffy red couch" not "that couch is fluffy, also red, and big too" hungarian is all bits and pieces that fit together, not single words. Also, it can be insanely confusing because there is not a word for he/she...everyone ia gender neutral...until you talk about family members! Those are not only sexed, but also go by age ...so there's a word for older sister and younger sister...no word for just sister. Every single word gets a suffix or prefix, which makes it a whole new word...or it doesnt. It's literally the most confusing language I've ever encountered and still my favourite!
I just realised that, Gustav's talking style completely same with Uthred son of Uthred from Last Kingdom!! So is it a Dannish accent and talking style? but his voice is very similar too..
Im Hungarian living in Denmark and I just wanna tell u that I so much appreciate you trying to speak and asking questions in hungarian! 🙌🏻✨ Keep up the good work! :)
I think Hungarian isnt the hardest language in the world, but definitely the hardest language in Europe. I think Chinese is the hardest language in the world. Anyways love from India 🇭🇺❤🇮🇳
@@bitterexperience7115 its not really hard but its still harder than Chinese grammatically speaking. i wouldn't say its harder in pronunciation but maybe spelling yes
Hungarian language is mostly logical. There is a logical layout in the grammar. But some letters make no sence, like, you pronounce "j" and "ly" as "y", but we still have rules about which one we use. I give you an example: "Tojás" "Gulyás", the first one contains a "j", the second one contains a "ly", but you pronounce both as "y" (in english these words can be pronounced as "toyash" "kouyash") And there is no logical explanation when you need to use "j" or "ly". English is an easy language to learn for hungarians, but the pronunciation is strange for the first time. Because in english, they use "s", but in hungary "s" is pronounced as "sh", and we write "s" as "sz".
Man it has historical reason, ly and j were different letters, in the countryside sometimes it's still different mostly by the elder generation. Ly was pronounced differently. A bit similar like ll in some Spanish accent
....hungarian-scytian....genetics not lie....newsbeezer.com/hungaryeng/miklos-kasler-the-arpad-dynasty-was-founded-4500-years-ago-in-the-northern-part-of-what-is-now-afghanistan/ bactria part of scytia....upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Scythia-Parthia_100_BC.png
@@benceczifrik2822 Oh man, I didn't know that! (Family is Hungarian; learning the language.) Could you describe how ly is (or used to be) pronounced differently from j? Are you saying ly is like the spanish ll, like it has more "substance" (I don't know how to describe it...) than the Latin American ll or Hungarian j?
My grandparents are from Hungary, and my mum tried to pass it on and teach my brother and me. I really hated it when I was young. I love the country and all my relatives down there, but the language is way too hard, even now, almost 15 years later. I really regret not taking it seriously when I obviously would have, because I feel extremely uncomfortable and insecure when I have to talk to someone, be it the cashier in the store or my relative. Right now, I am taking Duolingo lessons to improve, but I know it will be a long way until I get to the level my mother is. Speaking itself is alright, if I know the vocabulary, but writing is just a mess If you are wondering: My (twin) brother is a bit better at speaking and writing in Hungarian. My mother says that he knows a lot of vocabulary, but I pronounce the words better and not with such a strong accent.
It the same with any language really case and point slang. Always remember that in case of language it's always the rules that have to catch up with the natural evolution
@@MapsCharts látom is the definitive form if you see SOMETHING. You need to use "látok" if you speak only in general. Otherwise congratulations, you are pretty cool, keep learning! Ügyes vagy, örülök, hogy tanulsz magyarul!
It may be difficult for speakers of Indo-European languages but I'm still in love with it. I only started learning it this summer so I'm a noob (hence why I'm too shy to comment in bad Hungarian and inadvertently testing the input hypothesis) but it's been a great experience so far. Also, as a native German and Bulgarian speaker, I come across cognates way more often than I thought I would.
Yes, because German was wide-spread due to the geographical closeness and the history of Austria-Hungary, while having so many slavic people around Hungary, the influence cannot be avoided.
I liked to learn german it is such a very logical language. It was a lot of fun.😀Please feel free to write with as many misspelling as you can. A language is for using and you can be very proud of your great effort to learning it.😀
The ending lol 😂 Goodbye everybody= Viszont látásra mindenki. Viszlát is a terribly lazy shortened version, and we usually say hello to greet just like everyone else in the world, not to say goodbye. Great video tho 🤗
My family is Hungarian and I've tried multiple times through the year to learn it. My grandpa didnt teach my dad when he was a kid because it was sort of a useless language in Canada and grandma didnt speak anything but English. When I go to Hungary and see family they love to laugh at us trying to pronounce their words. My mouth cant even make half the sounds, could sit there all day repeating a single word back to a native Hungarian and never get it right lol.
I have the same situation. Now when Im almost 40, I make a final attempt to learn it. I suggest you do the same it will be worth it! Every language has its hard and easy part! Hungarian is highly regular and structured, and it spells exactly as its pronounced. Go for it!
@@alexanderbogardi545 I've yet to see the "easy" part of Hungarian lol. Even just the cadence and tone they use is different from English. English has a lot of "ups and downs" in the speech pattern to draw emphasis to certain words, Hungarian is more monotone with little fluxation in tone. So when I say a Hungarian sentence, even if pronounced properly, still sounds weird to the Hungarian people because my tone changes- if that makes any sense.
@@joeltoth7073 Yes intonation is crucial for getting understood. It can for example be the difference between a statement and a question (in english too actually). I can tell you how I do: Even though I already knew a lot of words, I started with buying a real text book (magyar-ok). This forms the base of my training. I complement the text-book studies with hungarian101 pod, youtube, and children books. Its so much fun! :)
....hungarian-scytian....genetics not lie....newsbeezer.com/hungaryeng/miklos-kasler-the-arpad-dynasty-was-founded-4500-years-ago-in-the-northern-part-of-what-is-now-afghanistan/ bactria part of scytia....upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Scythia-Parthia_100_BC.png
I just love the fact that I speak one of the world's hardest languages as my nativel language :) Some fun facts from the language: forgive me, but we can swear the most complicatedly, search for it, I don't want to be rude. ANYAKÖNYVVEZETŐ means REGISTRAR, but ANYA means MOTHER, KÖNYV means BOOK, VEZETŐ means DRIVER, so the mirror-translation is MOTHERBOOKDRIVER. Funny...
@MrLaci0110 Not only words, the grammar of languages are actually very similar.Also when u said alma, I remembered the sentence which is almost the same in both languages. Cebimde çok küçük elma var. (Turkish) Zsebemben sok kicsi alma van. (Hungarian)
@@Richard-gm8bd Both nations are from central Asia and they lived together for centuries , Ottoman influenced yes but it cannot change their language's grammar but our languages have very similar grammar, for example i wrote a sentence my previous comment, i found words that same in two languages and when u make them sentence position of words were literally same because grammars are so similar
@@almakaktusz4905 Ofc mate i know Hungarians are Finno-Ugric but you can look at the immigration of Hungarians,Magyars to Europe from Asia in maps,they came from Central Asia.We Turks and you Hungarians are descendants of the Huns. Don't you know that the Huns migrated from Central Asia to Europe ?
This chat is making me feel very welcomed because Hungary as you know not many people know and they make fun of the name but thank to everyone so supportive
As a language learner and teacher, Hungarian sounds the most difficult so far! It’s been only 2 weeks since I started getting in touch with the language, but I feel like it will take much more time and effort than all the languages I have studied so far. One of the reasons why I think this is because we (Latinos) don’t consume content in many languages other than English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian… and it just gets more and more difficult once you’ve never heard anything like it.
hungarian is not difficult. but... we have way more strict rules and way more words then other language. so when u start leaning u have to learn way more rules to speak on basic level but after that, becuase the language is logical and have a strong wovel harmony u will feel the rules. so just the begining is hard.
I love this language and I'm so proud to can speak it. And the country is also remarkable! And the horse is so important in our history i guess. This is so good because I'm obsessed with horses. Come to Hungary everyone! Beautiful country and beautiful language! That will be very nice to meet every people from other countries of the whole world! 🇭🇺🤗
I was born and raised in France with a Hungarian mother, and Hungarian was actually the first language I ever spoke as a kid (way before French). Despite speaking it my entire life, I still find it pretty tricky to convey complex meaning sometimes. It's pretty much impossible to perfectly master unless you live there and talk to tons of native speakers. It's what we call an agglutinative language, where extra prefixes and suffixes are slapped onto the words, instead of prepositions. Its structure and vocabulary make it a truly fascinating and fundamentally unique language, there's nothing quite like it (its "closest" relatives are Finnish and Estonian, but I can't understand a single word of either). It's a great source of pride because it's just so unique and daunting for non-speakers lmao
I'm so happy you did this video! It felt so good to watch a video of our country and see that people like it and say nice things about it in the comments. Thank you! From Hungary❤️🥰 Love Hungary❤️❤️❤️
@@nemanja3888 Yes you are right, I'm starting to believe these "warriors" are just kids on the internet, I've been to Budapest and when people found out we are Romanian they were very friendly, one random couple on the street offered to buy us drinks, so people are actually great in Hungary. Unlike these kids on comments section.
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This is HUNGARIAN! What do you think is the hardest language in the world? 🙏
Among us sussy language
I think the question is very relative if we define difficulty by the amount of time required to learn a language. It all depends on your native language and previous languages you studied. If we objectively tried to find the most difficult language it would still be incredibly difficult. Are we focusing on grammar, then Hungarian is undoubtedly difficult although it does have it's own logic, Slavic languages are similarly difficult, probably a bit less though since Hungarian is agglutinating and it really has a lot of suffixes (trust me, I'm Hungarian). If we look at vocabulary used then it could even be a language whose grammar is easy. If we look at writing system, from major languages, I think China tops the list.
I like how you don't pin your own comment
khoisan languages like !Xóõ
I'm from hungary, and everyone saying "magyar a legnehezebb nyelv a világon" . In english "the hungarian the most difficult language in the world".
A magyar nyelv annyira nehéz, hogy még pár magyar sem tudja helyesen használni XD
Sőt ha felvidéki vagy székely vagy akkor még nehezebb rendesen írni magyarul mert nem is hagynak minket tanulni magyarul rendesen 😐
Főleg a cigányok👀
@@thebesthungary560 nem őket védve, de ez rohadtul nem így van...rengeteg magyar képtelen helyesen írni és beszélni. Csak egy egyszerű teszt...írasd le pár ismerősöddel a Himnusz első sorát. Lesz meglepetés..legtöbb magyar ember ebben az egyetlen egy sorban 2-3 hibát vét...
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@@rizsa75 alapból poén, de igen, igazad van. Múltkor például én is elfelejtettem a ,,vajon” szót, hogy ,,j” vagy ,,ly”
Hello to my Hungarian brothers and sisters from Poland. Amazing people, amazing food, great wine, unique culture and unique speech.
God bless you all!
Aw thank you 💛 we love Poland
Lengyel magyar két jó barát, együtt issza egymás borát. :)
we love you too greetings from budapest
Magyarok :D
@@xanji. Köszönjük! :)
Francia vagyok, de szeretem a magyart ! Ez egy gyönyörű nyelv és magyarországon kívül kevesen tudják ! Egyedül tanulok, és elmondhatom, hogy nagyon nehéz de ez nem akadályoz meg abban, hogy szeressem ezt a gyönyörű nyelvet 🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺 !!
Nagyon ügyes vagy! Láthatóan már elég sokat foglalkoztál a magyar nyelvvel. További sok sikert kívánok! :)
@@janosvarga4401 Köszönöm szépen, remélem lesz lehetőségem visszatérni Budapestre és gyakorolni a nyelvet.
Vesszen Trianon, ki kell rúgni az összes franciát az országunkból!
@@cyt3992Ügyes vagy gratulálok! Ezt kevés francia mondhatja el magáról. Főleg mivel sokan nem is akarnak új nyelvet tanulni és azt várják hogy mindenki majd tud franciául, pedig nem
Szép teljesítmény! 👍Majdnem hibátlanul írtál, annak ellenére, hogy komplex a szóhasználatod, és összetett mondatokban írsz! ☝️Sajnos sok magyar ember nem tud ennyire helyesen írni.
Gyógyszertár is a tricky combined word... where GYÓGY means healing, SZER means stuff or material maybe and there's TÁR witch is kind of a storage...so the mirror-translation is HEALT STUFF STORAGE :)
Vasútvonal-végállomás? Ironroadline-endstation.
@@Flatlinehun szarvas 😔
A szer szavunk azert ennel sokkal tagabb fogalom. Szer-etet, szer-tartás, szer-vezet. Szerintem inkabb valami magasabb dologra utal, mint valami konkretat jelolne ki.
@@benjaminszentpaly-j.619 A szer valamire alkalmas dolgot jelent (vö.: szertelen, szerszám) . Abban egyetértek, hogy nagyon tág fogalom, vagy inkább fogalomkör.
a szer az inkább substance szerintem
My mother is Hungarian; she tried to teach my sisters and me the language from the moment we could comprehend speech. I remember family members in Hungary sending Hungarian books and DVDs to help me and my sisters learn; the thing was, WE HATED it. Her constant persistence in making sure we were on top of all the word meanings and phrases drove my sisters and I NUTS. It got to the point where we would all hide under the bed and stay there whenever she called us in for a lesson. Eventually, she gave up and stopped teaching us, and to this day, it's one of my BIGGEST regrets not pushing through her lessons because, HOLY SHIT, the POWER I would've wielded as a child. Looking back, they weren't that bad at all. I just didn't see the value in learning, and my patience was cut short by that. I'm trying to learn the language properly now, I know it'll take years, but hopefully, I'll get to the point where I can have fluent conversations with my mom :)
Sok sikert a tanuláshoz Emily ❤️🤍💚
It worth it Emily 🇭🇺
@@janesmith5607 Kösönöm Szepen!
Wish you good luck! Sikerülni fog. :)
Keep it up guy! I wish you good luck.
I am Simple Polish, I see Hungary and click 😍 Magyar and Lengyel always brothers 💜 Greetings from Poland ❤️
Always brothers, as you said, brother :)
We Finns have been calling the Hungarians as "heimoveljet" (tribe brothers). because languistically Finnish is related to Hungarian, which is probably the hardest Uralian language. it is also clearly the biggest language in that group (13 million speakers) , Finnish being the second biggest (6 million speakers).
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Love only exists for me the only lovable / love being, and love emojis / love related terms cannot be in comments etc, and only the word like should be used when referring to pretty languages! By the way... Hungarian and Icelandic aren’t as hard as ppl think (not even close to the hardest languages such as Arabic languages and Indian languages and Chinese / Japanese / Korean etc) and most Hungarian words aren’t long at all, they’re just a bit harder to read / spell than the words in most Germanic languages, but the words themselves are easy to remember / learn and the pronunciation is also very easy, so the words and the spoken language can be learned quite fast with the right methods like spaced repetition (memorizing as many thousands of words as possible as fast as possible by watching all sorts of vocab videos multiple times, but over a period of time, not on the same day, but one should watch them at least twice or thrice on the first day and a few days later, and then they can be watched on maximum speed to save time at least once or twice a week or every other week etc, but one must be very focused on each word and on the English translation and visualize each words and each letter of each word in one’s mind, otherwise one won’t learn anything) and then observing how others use them in sentences and using them the same way, and also watching all sorts of videos on grammar / prepositions / verbs / pronunciation / conjunctions etc and videos with sub in the target language + English sub and videos about idioms and expressions etc, and one should try learning as many song lyrics (in the target language) as possible, and after learning at least 5.000 words, one should start watching more videos with both subs hardcoded, so that both subs are shown at the same time, because that’s how one can easily pick up new words in context and get used to the sentence structure etc, and it’s also a good idea to watch most videos at least twice or thrice, and revise them after a while, and always revise the words that have already been learned until all words can be remembered automatically, and even though it’s good to learn all the pronunciation rules at the beginning because it gives an inkling of what the words words sound like, one should always learn each word with its pronunciation and spelling, in the target languages, and once one gets to a really advanced level where one understands almost every word, one should start watching mostly videos with Dutch sub (or sub in another target language) and reading eBooks in the target language etc, as that’s how an automatic mode in a new language is developed - only the spelling may take a bit longer to get used to and to memorize the exact spelling for each word, which is similar to the spelling of many French words, which also use a lot of accents on vowels!
For example, I can easily say in Hungarian... Èn szeretem a Magyar nyelvet! And other things like that, and I know over 200 new words after only studying it for 2 or 3 days! Hungarian words are usually easy to remember, especially the super pretty words like nyelv / zöld / szia / tüzet / kés / elem / nyár / alma / mindig / okos / minden / igen / lenni / sötet / ezt / szeretem / rejtett / aranyát / lesz / egy / víz / zene etc, which are almost as easy to remember as most Dutch words and most Welsh / Breton / Norwegian words etc, after only seeing them once or twice or thrice, so most words in these languages can be learned super fast, especially if one is very focused on the words and gets to see them well in the video! I also knew a lot of words from the songs Nem Lesz Több Tánc and Szeretem by Nox, but I didn’t know what they meant before I started (seriously) learning Hungarian, including watching videos on grammar and pronunciation and verb conjugations and things like that! Hungarian is easier than I thought, especially the pronunciation and the aspect of about half of the words are those of a category 1 language, while the spelling in general is like that of a category 3 language, so it will take a while to memorize the exact spelling for each word with the right accent / umlaut etc, but it isn’t a lot harder than the spelling of many French words, for example, so one will naturally get used to the spelling if one is exposed to a lot of Hungarian, like, videos with subs in Hungarian and English and especially videos with subs in Hungarian on a regular basis, and gets to see the words spelled out many times, and I think it could be learned to a very advanced level (or to a native speaker level even) in about 2 or 3 years, or even in one year if one is a full-time language learner!
Pozdrav susjedima Mađarima iz Hrvatske
Greetings to Hungarian neighbors from Croatia 🇭🇷 ❤ 🇭🇺
Bro come back to Hungary we need a second sea, BALATON FOREVER!
Where are you from dude? Croatia? what is that? xDDD
@@patrikistok7140 ? Croatia=Horvátország
Love Croatia from Hungary
Love Croatia from Hungary!
About the language: Closer to martian or Venusian , me thinks....A Hungarian scientist (Leo Szilard) was asked 1949 if as a scientist he believes in aliens from outer space. To which he answered, "Of course! In fact, there 10 million of them on Earth, they are called Hungarians " LOL
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Thats how the term "martians" emerged. It describes the hungarians of the 20th century who were famous in the STEM- subjects.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)
Na csá!
Did J'ews in Hungary speak Yiddish or Magyar?
Gyimóthy Gábor: Nyelvlecke
Egyik olaszóra során,
Ím a kérdés felmerült:
Hogy milyen nyelv ez a magyar,
Európába hogy került?
Elmeséltem, ahogy tudtam,
Mire képes a magyar.
Elmondtam, hogy sok-sok rag van,
S hogy némelyik mit takar,
És a szókincsben mi rejlik,
A rengeteg árnyalat,
Példaként vegyük csak itt:
Ember, állat hogy halad?
Elmondtam, hogy mikor járunk,
Mikor mondom, hogy megyek.
Részeg, hogy dülöngél nálunk,
S milyen, ha csak lépdelek.
Miért mondom, hogy botorkál
Gyalogol, vagy kódorog,
S a sétáló szerelmes pár,
Miért éppen andalog?
A vaddisznó, hogy ha rohan,
Nem üget, de csörtet - és
Bár alakra majdnem olyan
Miért más a törtetés?
Mondtam volna még azt is hát,
Aki fut, mért nem lohol?
Mért nem vág, ki mezőn átvág,
De tán vágtat valahol.
Aki tipeg, miért nem libeg,
S ez épp úgy nem lebegés -
Minthogy nem csak sánta biceg,
S hebegés nem rebegés!
Mit tesz a ló, ha poroszkál,
Vagy pedig, ha vágtázik?
És a kuvasz, ha somfordál,
Avagy akár bóklászik.
Lábát szedi, aki kitér,
A riadt őz elszökell.
Nem ront be az, aki betér . . .
Más nyelven hogy mondjam el?
Jó lett volna szemléltetni,
Botladozó, mint halad,
Avagy milyen őgyelegni?
Egy szó - egy kép - egy zamat!
Aki "slattyog", miért nem "lófrál"?
Száguldó hová szalad?
Ki vánszorog, miért nem kószál?
S aki kullog, hol marad?
Bandukoló miért nem baktat?
És ha motyog, mit kotyog,
Aki koslat, avagy kaptat,
Avagy császkál és totyog?
Nem csak árnyék, aki suhan,
S nem csak a jármű robog,
Nem csak az áradat rohan,
S nem csak a kocsi kocog.
Aki cselleng, nem csatangol,
Ki "beslisszol", elinal,
Nem "battyog" az, ki bitangol,
Ha mégis: a mese csal!
Hogy a kutya lopakodik,
Sompolyog, majd meglapul,
S ha ráförmedsz, elkotródik.
Hogy mondjam ezt olaszul?
Másik, erre settenkedik,
Sündörög, majd elterül.
Ráripakodsz, eloldalog -
Hogy mondjam ezt németül?
Egy csavargó itt kóborol,
Lézeng, ődöng, csavarog,
Lődörög, majd elvándorol,
S többé már nem zavarog.
Ám egy másik itt tekereg,
- Elárulja kósza nesz -
Itt kóvályog, itt ténfereg. . .
Franciául hogy van ez?
S hogy a tömeg mért özönlik,
Mikor tódul vagy vonul,
Vagy hömpölyög - s mégsem ömlik,
Hogy mondjam ezt angolul?
Aki surran, mért nem oson,
Vagy miért nem lépeget?
Mindezt csak magyarul tudom,
S tán csak magyarul lehet. . .!
(Firenze 1984. X. 12.)"
❤❤❤❤
Ezt a gyönyörű nyelvet már majdnem 2 éve tanulom és még annyira tetszik 😁
már*:D
@@hradszkizsiga Szerintem jó írta. Még mindig tetszik neki. Nem pedig már tetszik neki. Miért tanulnia valaki egy nyelvet, ha nem kedveli?
@@Dr.Jegesmedve Hát nyelvtanilag helyes csak elég fura hogyha 2 évig tanulja akkor csak még tetszik neki:D
Ne figyelj másokra, gratulálok és hajrá!
A még nem szükséges ebbe a mondatba. Egyébként, ha nem mondod, hogy 2 éve tanulod, nem jöttem volna rá. Hibátlan nyelvtan, gratulálok!
Speaking Hungarian is like playing LEGO all the time.
For me it is
Why do I feel like you're a grammar teacher...?
@@KockakecskeAMVs Lebuktam?
Yeah, but a LEGO that's made of playdough.
@@deductivevariance3497 for us is a game, for foreigners like walking barefoot on Lego pieces
Greetings from Udmurtia to our finno-ugrian friends!!! Long live to Uralic languages and people ❤
I love Hungary 🇭🇺❤️
Slava Russia!
Гажаса ӧтиськом! 🖤🤍❤
Hungarian is a difficult but in my opinion an interesting language, from Italy 🇮🇹
I learn Italian in this year and I love it. :)) Greetings from Budapest!
Yeeees!
@@Miszter Oh! I am also learning Italian further after 3 years in school. 😊🇦🇹
ITALY IS something Else on Hungaryan !
I don't speak Italian but I'm learning Spanish. Brotherhoods right?
I love you Hungarian brothers!! As a Romanian, it seems to me the hardest language, but also the most beautiful!
Dude Romanians and Hungarians are not brothers and never gonna be! We are brothers with noone but Polish ppl. God bless Poland!
@@FistOfCha0S Chill out for fucks sake
Love ya from here bro
I'm from Hungary but I truly believe Hungary and Romania can be friends :)
@@FistOfCha0S +
I’m an American and became fluent in Hungarian after living there for 2 years. It took 3 months to become fluent. I dedicated myself to avoid all Americans, lived with a Hungarian, and only spoke Hungarian. It’s actually not very difficult. I tried to learn French in high school and thought it was harder. Hungarian language is beautiful and I love the country, the food, the history, and all things Magyar.
Úgy gondolom, három hónap alatt elég valószínűtlen gördülékenyen és helyesen beszélni magyarul (vagy más egyéb nyelven). Szerintem arra gondolsz, hogy ennyi idő után már megértettél másokat, illetve te is képes voltál megértetni magadat. :) Viszont mindig öröm azt látni, hogy valaki ennyire elkötelezett és elszánt!
@@evelinszabo6562 helyesen mondod. Legalább a saját eszemben folyókon beszéltem 3 hónap alatt 😉. Ha jól emlékszem sokan volt a hibák de keményen harcoltam vele és rájöttem a nyelvre végül is. Imádom minden ami Magyar. 😊
@@tword7 Örülök neked 😊 Így tovább!
Same for me as a german!
Even when I started to learn Hungarian by co workers and learning simple words and phrases first, I completely fell in love with the language ! the biggest benefit as being a german while learning Hungarian, is to be able to properly pronounce the letters an the rest of the alphabet, cause it’s very similar to ours…
For example: Hungarian „áéíóú“ and the German „aeiou“ is pronounced exact the same way :) so you can easily learn to properly read sth. out loud an Hungarian people can unterstand it- even when you don’t understand what you are talking 😂👌🏼 but I agree with the difficulty on the grammar side- forget or add an apostrophe, change the ending of the basic word and your ending up with changing the complete meaning cause you may have been changed the time, place, aspect/reference or quite a completely different word
Köszönöm szépen ☺️
Actually, ,,megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért" is although a real and a really long word, it doesn't really mean anything😂. ,,Megszentségtelenít" in literal translation means "to unholyficate something", the affix ,,-hetetlen" makes it un-something-able, so it is "un unholyficateable". Than ,,-ség" makes it into a degraded concept, ,,-eskedés" makes it a repetative action of somebody, ,,-eitek" shows that those somebodies whose action this is are you, and finally ,,-ért" means "for". Overall, now you can see what an unnecesary abomination of an excuse of a word this really is😂. Basically cheating to make the longest word of a language, that partially has meaning. If you learn Hungarian, you'll never-ever use this word in any sentence or situation XD. (im hungarian btw)
Wow milyen szépen elemezted! Ez nekem is érdekes volt😄
megszentségtelenít is actually desecrating, and if you continue from there, the rest remains perfectly sensibly for a bit longer, megszentségtelethetetlen is just we add the impossiblity of the act to it, so undesecrateable. Add the -ség, making it undesecrateabality. Beyond this it gets truly into stupidity, where you would need several sentence to make any sense, but heck, that is the fun of an agglutinating language, we can add many parts, and in most case, the monster we create has still meaning and also easily understandable. Going from holy to undesecrateability without changing the base word is a nice trick.
A kutya nem használja ezt a szót... ennek ellenére mindenkivel ezt próbálja kimondatni....ez alapján a fél videó kamu.
@@sajtamur hát, mondasz valamit..😌
A második leghosszabb pedig:
Hátszázkilencszázkétszáztizlóerővel
És ezt nap mint nap használják 🤷🏻😅
I'm in love with Hungarian culture.
Understandable.
Why?
@@sajtamur I assume it's our food, our festivals/special days, buildings and other things like that.
There's a lot to love and hate about the country.
Thankyou ♥️
Love to Portugal and to you :-)
Well, I'm really interested to learn some Hungarian, just cuz when it's the most difficult language, it's getting more interesting) Greetings from Ukraine 🇺🇦🇭🇺
It isn't as hard as it is told here. Every language is difficult to learn. Hungarian uses a lot of Slavic words, for eaxmple "sapka", "kaposzta"... I am sure you understand those. 🙂
@@miklosbrauner I do 😌
Hungarian and Icelandic aren’t as hard as ppl think (not even close to the hardest languages such as Arabic languages and Indian languages and Chinese / Japanese / Korean etc) and most Hungarian words aren’t long at all, they’re just a bit harder to read / spell than most words in Germanic languages, but the words themselves are easy to remember / learn and the pronunciation is also very easy, so the words and the spoken language can be learned quite fast with the right methods like spaced repetition (memorizing as many thousands of words as possible as fast as possible by watching all sorts of vocab videos multiple times, but over a period of time, not on the same day, but one should watch them at least twice or thrice on the first day and a few days later, and then they can be watched on maximum speed to save time at least once or twice a week or every other week etc, but one must be very focused on each word and on the English translation and visualize each words and each letter of each word in one’s mind, otherwise one won’t learn anything) and then observing how others use them in sentences and using them the same way, and also watching all sorts of videos on grammar / prepositions / verbs / pronunciation / conjunctions etc and videos with sub in the target language + English sub and videos about idioms and expressions etc, and one should try learning as many song lyrics (in the target language) as possible, and after learning at least 5.000 words, one should start watching more videos with both subs hardcoded, so that both subs are shown at the same time, because that’s how one can easily pick up new words in context and get used to the sentence structure etc, and it’s also a good idea to watch most videos at least twice or thrice, and revise them after a while, and always revise the words that have already been learned until all words can be remembered automatically, and even though it’s good to learn all the pronunciation rules at the beginning because it gives an inkling of what the words words sound like, one should always learn each word with its pronunciation and spelling, in the target languages, and once one gets to a really advanced level where one understands almost every word, one should start watching mostly videos with Dutch sub (or sub in another target language) and reading eBooks in the target language etc, as that’s how an automatic mode in a new language is developed - only the spelling may take a bit longer to get used to and to memorize the exact spelling for each word, which is similar to the spelling of many French words, which also use a lot of accents on vowels!
For example, I can easily say in Hungarian... Èn szeretem a Magyar nyelvet! And other things like that, and I know over 200 new words after only studying it for 2 or 3 days! Hungarian words are usually easy to remember, especially the super pretty words like nyelv / zöld / szia / tüzet / kés / elem / nyár / alma / mindig / okos / minden / igen / lenni / sötet / ezt / szeretem / rejtett / aranyát / lesz / egy / víz / zene etc, which are almost as easy to remember as most Dutch words and most Welsh / Breton / Norwegian words etc, after only seeing them once or twice or thrice, so most words in these languages can be learned super fast, especially if one is very focused on the words and gets to see them well in the video! I also knew a lot of words from the songs Nem Lesz Több Tánc and Szeretem by Nox, but I didn’t know what they meant before I started (seriously) learning Hungarian, including watching videos on grammar and pronunciation and verb conjugations and things like that! Hungarian is easier than I thought, especially the pronunciation and the aspect of about half of the words are those of a category 1 language, while the spelling in general is like that of a category 3 language, so it will take a while to memorize the exact spelling for each word with the right accent / umlaut etc, but it isn’t a lot harder than the spelling of many French words, for example, so one will naturally get used to the spelling if one is exposed to a lot of Hungarian, like, videos with subs in Hungarian and English and especially videos with subs in Hungarian on a regular basis, and gets to see the words spelled out many times, and I think it could be learned to a very advanced level (or to a native speaker level even) in about 2 or 3 years, or even in one year if one is a full-time language learner! I haven’t heard throaty sounds in Hungarian - the DZS letter combination is considered a letter in Hungarian and it is the same sound as the DG in the English word bridge and the J in the English word jungle, so it is an approximant of G, while the DZ or DS is the same sound as the DZ / DS in the English words ads and adze / adzing / adzed and the Z in the Italian word zio which means uncle, and I think the ZS is a J sound like in the French word je, and SZ is a S sound, but the letter S is pronounced like a soft SH sound as in the English word shell, and CS is a CH sound as the CH in the English word chips! Hungarian pronunciation is very easy, and the extra vowels with accents are usually the longer versions of the normal vowels and the longer versions of the two umlauts Ö and Ü that are also used in German, while the É is usually pronounced more like a I or YE sound in most words, kinda like in Icelandic, while the Á is a normal open A sound like the AA in Dutch, but the A is usually pronounced closer to a soft O sound in most Hungarian words, and the only letter I didn’t understand yet is the GY because I didn’t understand if it’s supposed to be a G + short I / Y sound or a D + short I / Y sound, but I will watch more videos on pronunciation, because maybe it will be clearly explained in a video!
In the beginning, one may find any new language difficult, but that’s because one doesn’t know any word yet and doesn’t know how the language works - so it’s just a feeling that every beginner has. But one will soon realize that Hungarian isn’t as hard as ppl think... Once one learns the basics and starts learning a lot of vocab and the verb endings etc and the prepositions / adverbs / conjunctions etc, one will see that it isn’t a very hard language, and it also helps a lot if one knows languages such as Dutch / German / Spanish / Slovene / English etc, because there are a few similarities in the aspect of certain words and some similarities in pronunciation, for example, German also has the umlauts Ö and Ü and they are pronounced the same way as they are in Hungarian, and the C in Hungarian is pronounced like the C in Slovene and like the Z in German and like the ZZ in pizza, so C is a TS sound, while the CS in Hungarian is pronounced like the CH in English & Spanish, so the pronunciation is very easy, and most Hungarian words can be memorized fast because they are very pretty, so they don’t require a lot of repetition, and prettier words naturally stick to one’s hern faster!
Seeing so much people love our language is such a honor. Love y'all from hungary. 🇭🇺
Ugye? Sosem hittem hogy ennyi ember szereti ezt a nyelvet
:D
Én se goldoltam, de meg értem mert eléggé nehéz megtanulni magyarul.
@@pannapasztor2507 igaz-e 😂
Love only exists for me the only lovable / love being, and love emojis / love related terms cannot be in comments etc, and only the word like should be used when referring to pretty languages! By the way... Hungarian and Icelandic aren’t as hard as ppl think (not even close to the hardest languages such as Arabic languages and Indian languages and Chinese / Japanese / Korean etc) and most Hungarian words aren’t long at all, they’re just a bit harder to read / spell than most words in Germanic languages, but the words themselves are easy to remember / learn and the pronunciation is also very easy, so the words and the spoken language can be learned quite fast with the right methods like spaced repetition (memorizing as many thousands of words as possible as fast as possible by watching all sorts of vocab videos multiple times, but over a period of time, not on the same day, but one should watch them at least twice or thrice on the first day and a few days later, and then they can be watched on maximum speed to save time at least once or twice a week or every other week etc, but one must be very focused on each word and on the English translation and visualize each words and each letter of each word in one’s mind, otherwise one won’t learn anything) and then observing how others use them in sentences and using them the same way, and also watching all sorts of videos on grammar / prepositions / verbs / pronunciation / conjunctions etc and videos with sub in the target language + English sub and videos about idioms and expressions etc, and one should try learning as many song lyrics (in the target language) as possible, and after learning at least 5.000 words, one should start watching more videos with both subs hardcoded, so that both subs are shown at the same time, because that’s how one can easily pick up new words in context and get used to the sentence structure etc, and it’s also a good idea to watch most videos at least twice or thrice, and revise them after a while, and always revise the words that have already been learned until all words can be remembered automatically, and even though it’s good to learn all the pronunciation rules at the beginning because it gives an inkling of what the words words sound like, one should always learn each word with its pronunciation and spelling, in the target languages, and once one gets to a really advanced level where one understands almost every word, one should start watching mostly videos with Dutch sub (or sub in another target language) and reading eBooks in the target language etc, as that’s how an automatic mode in a new language is developed - only the spelling may take a bit longer to get used to and to memorize the exact spelling for each word, which is similar to the spelling of many French words, which also use a lot of accents on vowels!
Not even joking Hungarian is the hardest language i've tried learning, but man, it's also one of my favorites and the most rewarding.
I love Magyarorszag
😂 You should try standerd Arabic and then tell me what the hardest language in the world 🤣🤣
@@yousifwaleed6566 Arabic is easy for me because I already speak Persian
@@brianbeepboop Arabic grammar is very different from Persian's though.
@@yousifwaleed6566 salam alaykum I am Hungarian but to me most of the Arabic words I have read seem to roll off the tongue more then Hungarian. In Hungarian u really have to articulate or else the word will have a different meaning
We thank you Brian :)
Coming from an italian, the most beautiful language in the world hands down, I loved Budapest and Hungarian people.
....hungarian-scytian....genetics not lie....newsbeezer.com/hungaryeng/miklos-kasler-the-arpad-dynasty-was-founded-4500-years-ago-in-the-northern-part-of-what-is-now-afghanistan/
bactria part of scytia....upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Scythia-Parthia_100_BC.png
Hungarian is so fascinating! As an italian i could listen hours and hours to someone speaking hungarian. Its so melodic and beautiful! I would love to learn it but i'm affraid of the grammar and pronounciation😵😅
it’s an epic language 🇭🇺
@@gus1thego Yes it is!
By the way, i grew up in switzerland. Will you come to switzerland in the future to ask us grumpy, shy weirdos?😅
The pronounciation is super easy.
Hungarian is spoken exactly as it is written(99% of the time), so if you learn to pronounce the letters (they are similar to how a german would pronounce them), then you can speak with a "perfect accent".
@@roberth4395 nice to know! Thank you for the informations :) Maybe that will take a bit of the fear :D
@@Donknowww you can find youtube videos where the alphabet is pronounced by a native speaker.
Watch it and shadow the speaker, while you are doing it record yourself and compare your version and the native.
If you ise this method you can aquire near perfect pronounciation within a week.
One of the most beautiful sounding languages in the world to me. Love from Moscow
Большое спасибо!
спасибо! любовь из венгрии♥
Spasiba. Ja ne gavarju pa russki, but at elementary school I had to learn it. It was many years ago. At that time I didn't like learning russian, but now I listen to many pop songs. I think Russian is a nice, pleasant, soft language. I wish I had more time to learn it.
@@dndfszk22 Spasibo!
Hungarian is definitely one of the World's hardest languages to learn, learning that language is really tricky and unbearable for many foreigners although there are some people who like it and learn it regardless of its tremendous complexity. To get an idea of what it really means: Learning English, Spanish, French, Italian, German or Russian is like stealing a baby's toy, whereas learning Hungarian is like climbing to the top of Everest yourself, completely alone at your own risk.
I find learning russian much harder than hungarian
I think Hungarian is easier than it looks. There are many languages that are more difficult than hungarian
Hungarian and Icelandic aren’t as hard as ppl think (not even close to the hardest languages such as Arabic languages and Indian languages and Chinese / Japanese / Korean etc) and most Hungarian words aren’t long at all, they’re just a bit harder to read / spell than most words in Germanic languages, but the words themselves are easy to remember / learn and the pronunciation is also very easy, so the words and the spoken language can be learned quite fast with the right methods like spaced repetition (memorizing as many thousands of words as possible as fast as possible by watching all sorts of vocab videos multiple times, but over a period of time, not on the same day, but one should watch them at least twice or thrice on the first day and a few days later, and then they can be watched on maximum speed to save time at least once or twice a week or every other week etc, but one must be very focused on each word and on the English translation and visualize each words and each letter of each word in one’s mind, otherwise one won’t learn anything) and then observing how others use them in sentences and using them the same way, and also watching all sorts of videos on grammar / prepositions / verbs / pronunciation / conjunctions etc and videos with sub in the target language + English sub and videos about idioms and expressions etc, and one should try learning as many song lyrics (in the target language) as possible, and after learning at least 5.000 words, one should start watching more videos with both subs hardcoded, so that both subs are shown at the same time, because that’s how one can easily pick up new words in context and get used to the sentence structure etc, and it’s also a good idea to watch most videos at least twice or thrice, and revise them after a while, and always revise the words that have already been learned until all words can be remembered automatically, and even though it’s good to learn all the pronunciation rules at the beginning because it gives an inkling of what the words words sound like, one should always learn each word with its pronunciation and spelling, in the target languages, and once one gets to a really advanced level where one understands almost every word, one should start watching mostly videos with Dutch sub (or sub in another target language) and reading eBooks in the target language etc, as that’s how an automatic mode in a new language is developed - only the spelling may take a bit longer to get used to and to memorize the exact spelling for each word, which is similar to the spelling of many French words, which also use a lot of accents on vowels!
For example, I can easily say in Hungarian... Èn szeretem a Magyar nyelvet! And other things like that, and I know over 200 new words after only studying it for 2 or 3 days! Hungarian words are usually easy to remember, especially the super pretty words like nyelv / zöld / szia / tüzet / kés / elem / nyár / alma / mindig / okos / minden / igen / lenni / sötet / ezt / szeretem / rejtett / aranyát / lesz / egy / víz / zene etc, which are almost as easy to remember as most Dutch words and most Welsh / Breton / Norwegian words etc, after only seeing them once or twice or thrice, so most words in these languages can be learned super fast, especially if one is very focused on the words and gets to see them well in the video! I also knew a lot of words from the songs Nem Lesz Több Tánc and Szeretem by Nox, but I didn’t know what they meant before I started (seriously) learning Hungarian, including watching videos on grammar and pronunciation and verb conjugations and things like that! Hungarian is easier than I thought, especially the pronunciation and the aspect of about half of the words are those of a category 1 language, while the spelling in general is like that of a category 3 language, so it will take a while to memorize the exact spelling for each word with the right accent / umlaut etc, but it isn’t a lot harder than the spelling of many French words, for example, so one will naturally get used to the spelling if one is exposed to a lot of Hungarian, like, videos with subs in Hungarian and English and especially videos with subs in Hungarian on a regular basis, and gets to see the words spelled out many times, and I think it could be learned to a very advanced level (or to a native speaker level even) in about 2 or 3 years, or even in one year if one is a full-time language learner!
By the way, it actually helps a lot if one knows languages such as Dutch / German / Spanish / Slovene / English etc, because there are a few similarities in the aspect of certain words and some similarities in pronunciation, for example, German also has the umlauts Ö and Ü and they are pronounced the same way as they are in Hungarian, and the C in Hungarian is pronounced like the C in Slovene and like the Z in German and like the ZZ in pizza, so C is a TS sound, while the CS in Hungarian is pronounced like the CH in English & Spanish, so the pronunciation is very easy, and most Hungarian words can be memorized fast because they are very pretty, so they don’t require a lot of repetition, and prettier words naturally stick to one’s hern faster - in the beginning, one may find any new language difficult, but that’s because one doesn’t know any word yet and doesn’t know how the language works, so it’s just a feeling that every beginner has, but one will soon realize that Hungarian isn’t as hard as ppl think!
I am a Hungarian citizen and I say that the hungarian language is basically subject + verb + baszd meg
and maybe ... jaaaj, anyámmmm
I can approve
😂 No, we use "bazdmeg" just rarely. It has two new variants, they are "ba@meg and bammeg". 😂
Yeah lmao
The word 'bazd-meg' in hungarian, is the clear indication that you finished some kind of work for somenone, for the day! :D
I like to hear that you think the Hungarian language is beautiful🇭🇺❤️
Love from Hungary💪🇭🇺
As a native French speaker, pronunciation wise, I find it easy as we share many common sounds. And also the orthography of Hungarian is so much more intuitive than in French, because you pronounce everything as written and vice versa. The grammar part might be a different story, but as long as you learn to rewire your brain, I believe one can get around it.
I love the sound of Hungarian!
At 1:52 when the man says "Kiina", it is 100% exactly the same pronunciation as a native Finnish speaker would say. It is completely indistinguishable without any differences. As a Finnish person this really popped my ears open.
yes as it says finnugor so finnish and hungarian are relatives in language family
@@g_siegl3707 True, but there are not many common words. The most primal one is vér, in Finnish veri, blood.
@@yorkaturr kéz, keszi, hal, etc. the ancient, basic words when the two tribes were together
@@g_siegl3707 Hungarian-Estonian: méz-mesi, víz-vesi, szarv-sarv, csont-kont, kéz-käsi, só-sool, élet-elu etc. :)
Well, we are in the same language family, the Finno-Ugrian language family.
A többi magyar társam nevében is köszönöm ezt a csodálatos videót. Örülök, hogy élvezted az ittlétet!
Remélem máskor is jössz majd, valamint, hogy így mások is kedvet kapnak, hogy meglátogassák szerény országunkat.
Üdv Magyarországról.
( On behalf of the other Hungarians, I thank you for this amazing video. I'm glad you enjoyed the time you spent here!
I hope you'll come again, and I also hope that some of the viewers will feel inspired to visit our humble country as well.
Greetings from Hungary! )
Én itt élek és imádom bár nyelvtan órákon még nekem is oda kell figyelnem😅 nagyon jó látni/hallani hogy egy külföldi ilyen szépeket mond Magyarországról és hogy ennyire jól érzi magát! Remélem ízlett a LÁNGOS és a GULYÁS is.
🇭🇺Üdvözlettel Magyarországból 🇭🇺
I usually speak 4 languages and know about 30-50 words in Hungarian. For me the most fascinating and intriguing part is how important it is inserting the correct accent because if you don't, the word becomes completely different. For example: aranyérem meaning golden medal vs. aranyerem meaning my haemorrhoids!
Another example is: szar meaning stem or leg vs. szár meaning sh*t!
Definitely one of the most interesting languages, on my opinion.
You mixed up szar and szár, it's the other way around xD
yes, indeed, it's the other way around: szár (the long thin part of a plant from which the leaves and flower grow). szar means shit. Indeed, I just looked at google translator, it is mixed up about the difference: on one hand it gives us the translation for "szár" as "shit", but below in the suggestion field it also gives the correct one as "stem". Indeed, sometimes you have to add the accent with the suffixes, so that may complicate things ;-)
And you have to be careful when toasting to say "egészségedre!" and not "egész seggedre!"
You can also get a completely different meaning if you mix up the order of words in a sentence. It will probably make sense but will mean something totally different.
I'll have to remember that next time I win a gold medal in Hungary. Ouch!!!
As a hungarian girl i have to admit that our language is very-very difficult. Sometimes even we have to stop and think for a second if the inflection of a word is correct. But to be honest, I have so many moments when I realise how beautiful our language is. It just impossible to explain, but i swear you can't find a more expressive language.
I started learning it because I had a girlfriend there, but I don't want to stop learning now because it's a great language. I like how it sounds and I want to go back to Hungary to see more of it when it's safe to travel.
That's bullshit! First of all, a native speaker do not have to think of how to use the language. It is instinctive. Second, scientifically, there is no such thing as most difficult language. As all languages are arbitrary, they are equally difficult/easy. Obviously, there may be personal differences regarding how hard a given language is for a specific person, mostly based on the similarities/differences to their mother tongue. But this has nothing to do with the - non-existent - overall difficulty of languages.
@@peterkornis5377 szerintem igenis vannak fáradtabb pillanatok, amikor meg kell állni egy pillanatra egy szó ragozása miatt. Meg ugye az ultimate kártya: ne csukolj(ál). Viszont statisztikák vannak a nyelvek nehézségéről, utána lehet nézni. But thanks for calling my opinion and experiences stupid.
@@miertnezemezeket1369 ne csuklodj
@@miertnezemezeket1369 Ha meg kell állnod azért hogy gondolkozz egy szó ragozásán, akkor ott elég nagy problémák vannak.
Nekem inkább írásban nehezebb, az összetett szavak hogy külön kell-e írni, vagy egyben.
Greetings from Slovakia! 🇸🇰 I'm currently learning your gyönyörű nyelv.
As a hungarian, who learned a few languages, but always had difficulties with that, my best advice for learning hungarian is this: learn the basics by school or books, then continue with talking with someone hungarian. Thats the best way to learn it correctly, otherwise, you always just translate the sentences of your own language, and with this, so many times will not have any sense of them in hungarian.
Two people speak Hungarian: God and Hungarians!
I spent a year in language school studying Hungarian and only scratched the surface. But it is amazing, I'm surprised they don't rule the world..
The president
We just don't plan to rule the world
We're not really into fights now
We was in our past, but that was way far from now
And also
Hungary is a small country, how can we take over the place of Russia or other countries?
Maybe the smaller ones
But why would we do that?
We almost live in peace
I mean
I might want to change everything because some families can't have enough money for everything they really need, but still, it's better than a war
And also there's beautiful girls (I mean they're everywhere in tge world, but in Hungary they're more)
And handsome teachers
And it's weird
But we don't have Disney+ and we need to do illegal hunting to get some serues, videos, games, and books
Like the Disney+ version of Hamilton that I got with pirating it
So yeah
Also anime is not much popular yet, but it starts and you can see fans everywhere
Mostly Boku no Hero Academia fans, but in the second place there's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Attack on Titan fans
Hungary would certainly rule (maybe not the world) but europe if they hadn't enemies on both sides. Not only their nobel prices, but history how they fought (battle of pressburg for example) show how extremly intelligent hungarians are. A shame they had very bad luck with allies each time they fought a war.
The location sucks lol Europe is absolutely horrible
One who scratches the surface, knows that the rock can be cracked. Ancient Chinese proverb.... I think.
Maybe, but I'd say Arabic and Mandarin is more difficult. There is a beautiful, intrinsic logic in the Hungarian language, and once you understand it, it all falls in place. It is however an absolutely stunning language, the playfulness and expressiveness is simply mind-blowing. "A fecske átsuhan az árnyas lombok között"... how much more beautiful and expressive it is than "the swallow glides between the shady tree branches".
Yes! I’m half Hungarian and didn’t learn it as a kid, so I have struggled for years off and on trying to learn it. But even I have seen glimpses of what you mean about the logic of the language. It’s brilliant.
I always appreciated the spelling, too. The words are spelled exactly as they sound and sound exactly how they’re spelled. I can actually read pretty much anything out loud in Hungarian and everyone tells me how great I sound. LOL If I could only understand it!
I think arabic ist so easy. Definitely a lot easier than hungarian. I speak Englisch,German,arabic(egyptian and lebanese),Greek,hungarian and a little korean. I think hungarian is the hardest, followed by korean.
only hungarians can understand the true value of the melodiness of the language. once you can speak, you understand how many ways there actually are, to even say a phrase. love my mother tongue!
Agreed! I think it is hard for a non-native speaker to produce some of the sounds in Arabic and especially in Mandarin, although if you try to teach the letters "ny, gy, ty" to anyone new to Hungarian.....well, you're in for a good laugh. Also, if I understand correctly, in Mandarin the same word at a different pitch has a different meaning. "The swallow glides between the shady tree branches" sounds pretty even in English, eh? One misconception I often hear from Hungarians is how rich Hungarian vocabulary is compared to English. Perhaps at the "konyhanyelv" level, but if you listen to some posh Brits like Stephen Fry, (coincidentally he is half Hungarian) an absolute virtuoso of the language, I bet you'll be reaching for your dictionary every second sentence. My writing in multiple compound sentences, as I just noticed, should be a giveaway that my first language is Hungarian and I absolutely love it. We just love those page-long sentences, don't we?
As a hungarian, I must say I like your sentence with the fecske. I think you got it!🤘
I'm planning on moving to Hungary (I'm from the Netherlands)and I'm starting to study Hungarian right now and it is so incredibly hard 😂😭
Hungarian and Icelandic aren’t as hard as ppl think (not even close to the hardest languages such as Arabic languages and Indian languages and Chinese / Japanese / Korean etc) and most Hungarian words aren’t long at all, they’re just a bit harder to read / spell than most words in languages, but the words themselves are easy to remember / learn and the pronunciation is also very easy, so the words and the spoken language can be learned quite fast with the right methods like spaced repetition (memorizing as many thousands of words as possible as fast as possible by watching all sorts of vocab videos multiple times, but over a period of time, not on the same day, but one should watch them at least twice or thrice on the first day and a few days later, and then they can be watched on maximum speed to save time at least once or twice a week or every other week etc, but one must be very focused on each word and on the English translation and visualize each words and each letter of each word in one’s mind, otherwise one won’t learn anything) and then observing how others use them in sentences and using them the same way, and also watching all sorts of videos on grammar / prepositions / verbs / pronunciation / conjunctions etc and videos with sub in the target language + English sub and videos about idioms and expressions etc, and one should try learning as many song lyrics (in the target language) as possible, and after learning at least 5.000 words, one should start watching more videos with both subs hardcoded, so that both subs are shown at the same time, because that’s how one can easily pick up new words in context and get used to the sentence structure etc, and it’s also a good idea to watch most videos at least twice or thrice, and revise them after a while, and always revise the words that have already been learned until all words can be remembered automatically, and even though it’s good to learn all the pronunciation rules at the beginning because it gives an inkling of what the words words sound like, one should always learn each word with its pronunciation and spelling, in the target languages, and once one gets to a really advanced level where one understands almost every word, one should start watching mostly videos with Dutch sub (or sub in another target language) and reading eBooks in the target language etc, as that’s how an automatic mode in a new language is developed - only the spelling may take a bit longer to get used to and to memorize the exact spelling for each word, which is similar to the spelling of many French words, which also use a lot of accents on vowels!
I learned Dutch to an advanced level (over 8.000 base words) after only focusing on it for about 3 months, and am beginner level in Hungarian and Welsh and Slovene and many other languages - I even noticed certain similarities between Dutch & Hungarian and between Dutch & Welsh words and patterns / letter combinations etc, for example, the Hungarian word kés is kinda similar to the Dutch word mes and it means the same thing, so I could immediately remember it, even though I only saw it once!
Dutch words are just too pretty not to know, and 83 of the prettiest words in Dutch are - ver, vlinder, verloren, feest, adem, vaste, veel, verdween, heel, het, heen, voorbij, vandaan, verven, domein, verwaald, drijfzand, lief, leegte, liefde, heerst, einde, zonder, weet, avond, vult, gekomen, centrum, moment, pad, loop, overheerst, vallen, twijfel, vinden, kelde, wald, ter, geweest, vrees, grenzen, verleg, rein, van, stellen, wilde, steeds, verstreken, evenbeeld, bleef, steile, vrede, stem, wens, net, tijd, stille, verwenst, zalig, ochtend, zilverreiger, weer, overwint, heerlijk, zin, hart, beweert, vanaf, kwijt, wolken, mes, verliezen, dwaling, verlaten, rede, trek, tuinhek, brand, verdien, blikje, vertellen, verder, vertrek...
Some of the prettiest Welsh words are derwen / nest / afon / talar / adeilad / helygen / afal / hyd / lolfa / enaid / bedwen / neithiwr / ynys / nos / sydd / noswaith / ers / mynd / rhosyn / eistedd / gwych / tân / fawr / telyn or delyn / ynddyn / llaw or dwylo / doeth / fewn or mewn / gwar / bys / ffynnon / swrn / tew / blin / mynydd / braich etc, and Welsh reminds of Dutch (Dutch / English / Norwegian are the prettiest and most refined languages ever with the most pretty words) because they have a similar intonation / vibe and they both have the CH sound and many of the words have similar types of letter combinations!
For example, I can easily say in Hungarian... Èn szeretem a Magyar nyelvet! And other things like that, and I know over 200 new words after only studying it for 2 or 3 days! Hungarian words are usually easy to remember, especially the super pretty words like nyelv / zöld / szia / tüzet / kés / elem / nyár / alma / mindig / okos / minden / igen / lenni / sötet / ezt / szeretem / rejtett / aranyát / lesz / egy / víz / zene etc, which are almost as easy to remember as most Dutch words and most Welsh / Breton / Norwegian words etc, after only seeing them once or twice or thrice, so most words in these languages can be learned super fast, especially if one is very focused on the words and gets to see them well in the video! I also knew a lot of words from the songs Nem Lesz Több Tánc and Szeretem by Nox, but I didn’t know what they meant before I started (seriously) learning Hungarian, including watching videos on grammar and pronunciation and verb conjugations and things like that! Hungarian is easier than I thought, especially the pronunciation and the aspect of about half of the words are those of a category 1 language, while the spelling in general is like that of a category 3 language, so it will take a while to memorize the exact spelling for each word with the right accent / umlaut etc, but it isn’t a lot harder than the spelling of many French words, for example, so one will naturally get used to the spelling if one is exposed to a lot of Hungarian, like, videos with subs in Hungarian and English and especially videos with subs in Hungarian on a regular basis, and gets to see the words spelled out many times, and I think it could be learned to a very advanced level (or to a native speaker level even) in about 2 or 3 years, or even in one year if one is a full-time language learner!
This was pretty entertaining to watch as a Hungarian.
Love you from Hungary ❤️ 🇭🇺
🇦🇿❤️🇭🇺
hi
As a Hungarian myself, I was very proud to be able to understand this and excited to see this!
" Vörös " and " Piros " are not the same ..just we have a word for dark red..does matter a lot ..not only for red..the other colors also have different names..just like ocean blue or something like that..BTW nice video 😉
I mean, english alao has red and crimson.
I eould wager most languages have a word for red an 'blood red', with agressive connotations.
Vörös is the color of the blood őr dark red
Piros is just red
@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 Yeah, the problem is that there's a word for crimson as well well Vörös is somewhere between bright red and crimson actually.
If you are familiar with paints you find not one or two, but many name for every colour in every language. @@ineednochannelyoutube5384
Meg még van a bordó is. Bordeaux 😂
Hungarian language is quite interesting and Hungarians seem to be very kind 🌷 Love from Egypt 🇪🇬 ❤ 🇭🇺
Thanks so much! :) Greetings from Budapest!
....hungarian-scytian....genetics not lie....newsbeezer.com/hungaryeng/miklos-kasler-the-arpad-dynasty-was-founded-4500-years-ago-in-the-northern-part-of-what-is-now-afghanistan/
bactria part of scytia....upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Scythia-Parthia_100_BC.png
Thanks! - SOmeone from pécs
Ja, megtanultam mint felnőtt ember. Hosszú volt, irtó nehéz. De a magyar nyelvet nagyon szeretem. Nagyon érdekes. Valahogyan csípős. Én láttam az országa nyolc éve, és a feleségem magyar. Szerintem most könnyebb megtanulni mert jobban tudnak tanítani mint a múltban
Laktam (auto correct screwing up my Magyar)
Those two very long words in the video are never used in real life and their meaning is stupid, they are just demonstration toys on how this agglutinating language could create extremely long words, but typical Hungarian words are in fact way shorter.
Also, the 44 letter long alphabet doesn't make the language harder, it's just different logic, but once you get it, it will actually makes things easier, at least regarding to pronunciation.
What actually makes Hungarian hard is the complex inflection system sprinkled with a good amount of exceptions. But apart from that, Hungarian has only 3 tenses, there's no gender, not even a he / she distinction, so some aspects are super easy.
....hungarian-scytian....genetics not lie....newsbeezer.com/hungaryeng/miklos-kasler-the-arpad-dynasty-was-founded-4500-years-ago-in-the-northern-part-of-what-is-now-afghanistan/
bactria part of scytia....upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Scythia-Parthia_100_BC.png
And there are the Csángó people that even I a native hungarian speaker can hardly understand. They are the Székely people who left Transylvania and moved to the Moldova region of Romania in the 18th century and their language has remained unchanged ever since exept for a few romanian loan words.
Yes, and in fact their language is much more older. Some of them are people whose ancestors never crossed the Carpathian mountains (with the tribes lead by Árpád).
I don't think so... at first it seems a little strange, but try to listen carefully, it is very understandable and sometimes it can even amuse you!
My friend, they speak a mixture of Kipchak Turkish and Hungarian.
@@BİLGEREİSRTE I'm not a specialist in linguistics, but I'm just saying that I'm from Romania and I have a friend who speaks CSANGO ... I have no problem understanding him, my mother tongue being Hungarian. Sometimes I am amused by certain words and I find that they have a ... Moldovan accent, Moldova being the region in Romania where they are located, beyond s
sthe eastern Carpathian mountain.
PS. it was very difficult to answer you because you have probably the program adapted for the Hebrew language.
@@LaszloVondracsek I know these. Already, Szekelys and Gagauz Turks live in Moldova. Magyars and Turks come from the same race, my friend. Our languages are quite similar even today, for example; MG: "Zsebemben sok kicsi alma van" TR: Cebimde çok küçük alma var" EN: "I have a very small apple in my pocket" By the way, my name is written in the old Turkic alphabet, not the Hebrew alphabet. :)
According to many international friends it's one of the most difficult. Even some asians said it worse than Mandarin :O
I'm happy to hear you like our language and culture. 😊 Thanks for the nice video. Sending much love from Budapest! 💖
Americans be like, I thought they spoke European in Europe?
you saying Budapest is a magical city really made me happy because we don't get a lot of recognition and it feels nice to hear good about our country :)
Grettings from hungary! 😊
I've been watching you for a while and I'm happy that u visited my country ☺
Despite hungarian being an extremely hard language it is very simple to learn how to read in hungarian just by learning the alphabet. The letters are always pronounced the same so piecing a word together is just a combination of the letters but they are never pronounced differently. so learning hungarian that way is much more simple as you can always pronounce the words you read as long as you know the alphabet.
using the proper word ending in a respective manner is the only difficult thing. Hungary has 42 different word ending and sometime the whole word changes to meet the best meaning eg( neked nektek mindenkinek)
I can always pick a Hungarian who learnt English that way, for the same reason.
Actually. I heard that Basque is the hardest language in the world to learn. I learned Hungarian because I think it sounds so fantastic, though I'm NOT fluent. Eljen Magyarorszag!
I'm Japanese 🇯🇵🥰
I'm gonna study at Hungary next year as a High school exchange student!!!!!❤️❤️
Japanese is more difficult than Hungarian!!!!!!!😭😭😭😭
Thank you so much for sharing this video!!!!!!!!
I cannot wait to go Hungary😆😆😆😆😆
I hope that the pandemic will over!
ハンガリー語も難しいって聞くけど日本語の方が難しいと思うに同意
If you interested in looking for how Japanese people live in Hungary as students or exchange student I can show u channel for this purpose.
@@第四回十字軍 やっぱり、カタカナひらがな漢字があるのは難しいですよね！！
こんなとこで日本人に会えるとは！
リプレイありがとうございます！
Akita Inu
Im a hungarian, who learned Japanese a few years ago. I think, Japanese is easy to learn speak, but very hard to learn write and read. Hungarian is different: its moderate hard to learn write, but very hard to learn speak, because there is so many rules, and much much more exceptions, and special terms.
Good stuff, I thought it's our Finnish, but happy to pass on the the throne. Gratulálunk!
As a romanian learning Hungarian, I agree
They have a lot of of f*cked up words
Im Braziliam but my grandfather that use to live with me is from Hungary , i started to learn a little bit of hungarian and when i started to speek with him i gave up cause is too hard to understand 😢 Miss my grandfather , and my second name is from Hungary, Szalo :)
Love from Hungary! 🇭🇺🇧🇷
@@balinthonvari7723 Apreciate ,we love Hungary , and the food is fantastic , like Paprikás Csirke and Somlói Galuska *-*
Yes it is! Unfortunatelly I don't know any Brazilian dishes, though I'm sure they are good :)
Obrigado amigo.Saudacoes da Hungria.
@@attilaproszenyak8838 Obrigado amigo ! All my family loves Hungary , one day i will go there for my loved grandfather !
Love Hungary from Armenia.
🇭🇺❤🇦🇲
Hajasztán!
*szent = saint, holy, sacred
*szentség = sacrament, holyness, sanctity, sacredness (-ség = -ment/-ness/-ty)
*szentségtelen = sacrilegious, unholy, profane (-telen = un-)
*szentségtelenít = desacralize something, make something/someone sacrilegious/profane (-ít = -ize)
*megszentségtelenít = desecrate/humiliate someone (meg- is a verb conjuction)
*megszentségteleníthető = someone, who is desecratable/who can be humiliated easily (-hető = -able)
*megszentségteleníthetetlen = someone, who is NOT desecratable/who CANNOT be humuliated easily (-tlen = un-...-able)
*megszentségteleníthetetlenség = desecratability/unhumiliatability (-ség = -ty/-ment/-ness)
*megszentségteleníthetetlenséges = someone, who bears the attribution of desecratability/unhumiliatability (-es = -like/-ous/-ish)
*megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedés = acting or being like someone, who bears the attribution of desecratability/unhumiliatability (-kedés = continuously doing an activity)
*megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitek = your (plural) activities in order to act or be like someone, who bears the attribution of desecratability/unhumiliatability (-eitek = Pl/2 genitive case)
*megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért = [doing something] for/in favour to your (plural) activities in order to act or be like someone, who bears the attribution of desecratability/unhumiliatability (-ért = for)
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You are very welcome. This cost me half an hour, I literally have no life.
My girlfriend is from Hungary. It is so hard to learn even a bit hungarian. But its good to have someone to translate when we visit 😅
It's nice to hear that you like our country and language. Greetings from Hungary
I love how in english you say: what did you say? I didn't hear it.
And in Hungarian you say: HE?! MI BAJOD VAN?!!
As someone who has been learning Hungarian for eleven years (on and off) and is hardly able to order a pizza in that language ... YES ... it's extremely difficult. There's the unfamiliar vocabulary, the vowel harmony, the mutiple word endings, the very long words, the complex grammar and even the word order. On the positive side, the spelling is regular, each letter has a single pronunciation, there's hardly any silent letters, there's only three tenses and there are less synonyms. Magyar, egy nehez hanem jo nyelv.
*A magyar egy nehéz, de jó nyelv. 😀😘
@@csabapajer9544 Did I mention the other major problem with learning Hungarian? It is that there's always some native Hungarian speaker there at your elbow ready to correct your grammar. That's one thing we don't do much of in English. Thanks, it's really encouraging. Not.
@@maddyg3208 Ok, feel be hurted, if you want. If you cant see the difference between the correcting and correcting, then I wish you a beutiful life on the side of snowflakeism.
Btw, I did this only for help, and yes, english people are do too, trust me, I live in an english-speaking country from 4 years now. And I never felt they want to look down me with the correcting.
Have good day...
@@csabapajer9544 No worries and thanks Csaba, sorry, it was a complete overreaction on my part. I did have an idea that you were trying to be helpful but it was overridden by my own frustration. I get corrected by my wife a lot (not in a mean way, but also in a helpful way) It's hard enough to remember the words and then the word endings and the word order, and it's like no matter what I do I'm always wrong. I'm also in Australia, so I can't really practice my Hungarian anywhere.I do think it's a bit of a cultural difference though, in English we're more used to people from countries all over the world butchering our language ... I mean making their own unique contribution to its rich diversity. 😎
@@maddyg3208 As rethinking, I was not really nice as well. Sorry about that. And, because I like, when the born english-speakers correct me, I forget so often, somebody else is dont like it, or they have bad experience. And I have to admit, my people is very proud, and always try to proof their cultural-superiority, so sometimes their so called "help" is just come from the same desire - and its all becuse our minority-feelings. Actualy, you made only one wrong word in that sentence, but because they have the same meanings basicly, its a mistake what very hard to avoid. The only help with that, if you are live in Hungary or a hungarian community, because there is no rules in the grammar for this problem, only just the living talk. The one of the most important lesson, what I learned about my english is this: doesnt matter, what small mistakes you do, if they understand, what you want to say.. If they dont, but they want to understand, they will help to you. But if they dont want, its doesnt matter how perfect you are. So its meaningless to frustrated yourself because of that. And always remember for that: even with any mistakes, you are still better in hungarian, than anyone else, who dont know any hungarian word. :)
Had a girlfriend from Hungary for 2 years. Went there several times. Could only say "hello" and "happy birthday".
We split.
If you split because of the language, that is pretty stupid.
Oh, this is very tricky and complex.
On one hand, splitting JUST because of language sounds like a right argument for being wrong thing to do. BUT: Thin communication is surely a big handicap for a relationship, and EVERY contact, even purely sexual, is between PERSONS (not to mention that solely great sex is not enough for stable and happy relation, though is needed and it's a sign of it).
Of course, poor communication in itself doesn't have to be some insuperable handicap. It could be overcome, but NOT if it's just the top of an iceberg and iceberg being very different personalities (which in such case is a cause, reason and excuse WHY this poor communication and language barrier REMAINS, instead of getting overcome).
And one more thing: Different language by default is NOT just different language, but the whole different cultural "galaxy"! That certain tribe lived FOR CENTURIES apart YOUR tribe(nation) and different language is exactly RESULT of it and a SIGN for it. Different, even OPPOSITE approach on famous historical events, EVERYTHING might be different, not just food culture. All this of course, i.e. another "culture galaxy", is still something which not necessarily has to be negative, but sure is a challenge, at least if it's a strong case.
So, language and cultural barriers IN ITSELF (per se) should not be a insuperable handicap, but it sure is something which asks for extra strengh and thus is a test if that extra good chemistry is there or not (-being a potential power to overcome those handicaps).
And now to something (")very different("), i.e. my motivation for spending more than an hour trying to comment and tell this message, on a for me foreign language: It really iritates me how easy is to plant a very suggestive yet wrong argument, which use to mislead people. Such things, not necessarily meant to have such an effect, make our lives worse, so that's why, while I very probably have not manage avoiding this sounding strange, but I don't mind.
Ups sry dudes we didn't split because of the language, we could communicate in German. There are plenty of reasons that can lead to a break-up you surely know....
@@pepe4rock Yes, we do know :) the way you wrote the sentence led us to believe that, no worries though :)
you were maybe just not very smart enough if you learned only few words and not very interested on her culture probably, things like this happend
It really sounds very beautiful, I've been to Hungary, I can still remember the sound of it so clearly. Too bad it's impossible to learn.
Nem lehetetlen, csak kurvára nehéz! It's not impossible, it's just fucki#g hard!
Hi! I am Hungarian but i live in Norway! Its so good that you visited Hungary!
Hol élsz Norvégiában? Én töltöttem egy nyarat Fagernes közelében és Norvégia a kedvenc országom :)
@@nuckingfuts4721 Nagyon tök jó én Bergenhez kábe másfél óráre lakunk egy kitcsi faluba és úgy hívják hogy Eivindvik
Watching this as a Hungarian is amazing and kinda funny at the same time.
As an Argentinian, I say that Hungarian grammar is easy to understand, but it's very difficult to learn due to the large number of rules, declensions, accents and its double verb conjugation. Hungarian is the most difficult language in the world of those that are written with the Latin alphabet.
I find Spanish difficult with all those verb tenses and "exceptions". Not that Hungarian verbs do not have exceptions when it comes to conjugation. 🙂 The other issue - which is prevalent in all languages - is the prefixes and suffixes, prepositions, which just don't make sense as you learn them. For example in English you do not "shop in Walmart", but "shop at Walmart". In Hungary you shop in(side) the store. 🙂 You go into the store in Hungary, instead of go in... and many others.
The other thing about Hungarian is that the linguists do not recognize certain verb tenses in Hungarian, which are actually different verb tenses. In Hungarian - they say - there are only three verb tenses, past, present and future, and that's it. But it is not quite true. For example the diff between "megcsinaltam" and "csinaltam" is that the first one means I have done it, the second means sort of "I was on it, but it is not ready yet".
By the way it is kind of cute that the Hungarian uses an ancient type of auxiliary verb for the future tense, something (but different) that ancient Hebrew used as well.
Yes, being a Hungarian I can confirm that our language is one of the most difficult ones in Europe.
But Danish might also be quite close. At least for me Danish pronunciation seems to be harder than Chinese :-)
But I like challenges so I started to learn Norwegian (Bokmål) :-)
Jó kis dán kiejtés. :) Hajrá!
At 4:11I was sura we truly are in Hungary- all the mesmerising architecture and sweet girls!
My girlfriend is Hungarian, we have been together for quite a while. Im a Canadian and English is my primary language, ive learned a few others including russian, but Hungarian is super difficult for me. So many slight differences in a single letter can change everything on how im understood by her family.
Hungarian is very different from most other European languages, which adds to the difficulty because at first the vocabulary and sentence structures seem odd. BUT
- it has very straightforward and phonetic spelling
- the pronunciation is no harder than most other European languages and easier than many as stress is regular and predictable and vowel sounds never lose their full quality
- grammar rules are different but very regular with few irregularities compared to most other European languages
- adjectives have only two forms (easier than Spanish)
- the case endings are mostly equivalents to prepositions in other languages and prepositions are always tricky so it balances out
- vocabulary is hard in the early stages because of the lack of cognates but by the intermediate stage the frequent use of compound nouns makes it easier to work out what new words mean.
So Hungarian is a challenge but it's not impossible. I found Finnish much harder because it seems to have more irregularities and everything nouns do, adjectives do too, which is not the case in Hungarian.
Hungarian in many ways is easier than other European languages. I don’t know why people exaggerate that much about it!
@@fzpe856 Some people take exaggerated pride in telling people how impossibly difficult their languages are for foreigners to learn. I think it makes them feel special in some way. The Hungarians and the Poles are top of the list. Some languages definitely present big challenges to learners but it depends a lot on what your own native language is. Hungarian is very different but also very regular and in some ways actually quite easy. And for the record, Polish isn't any harder than any other Slavonic language and probably a lot easier than for example Slovene. Maybe they're just not so used to many foreigners actually learning their language so they think they couldn't actually do it even if they wanted to. Patrick Ney is an Englishman who makes videos in Polish. He's married to a Pole and lives there so has learned the language. Difficult but not impossible. Russians are totally used to hearing foreigners speaking Russian so it doesn't occur to us to say it's impossible because we know it isn't.
Agreed
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Mostly people coming from small countries. They brag about how difficult their language is without having any idea about languages in general.
Nobody wants to learn Slovene or Slovakian, if it is not about staying there. They are not useful languages. So, not many foreigners are interested in learning these languages. And this is why people like Polish and Hungarians do believe that their languages are “tough”.
The other day I had a conversation with a Lithuanian guy and he told me “ YOU ARE NOT GONNA LEARN MY MOTHER LANGUAGE, IT IS TOO DIFFICULT… NO CHNACE!” And I was like … mmm totally clueless. 😝
The Lithuanian grammar is the typical grammar of the Indo-European languages.
I have studied Latin at school ( pretty good at it actually ) and Lithuanian reminds of Latin somehow. The endings of the words look so familiar. Nothing new.
Also, I HATE ALL THE LISTS …”the ten most difficult languages in the world” …
And I am like “Do they really believe that such a thing can be true?”
If you speak Spanish, then Romanian, italian , Portuguese etc easier than Russian , Polish etc
Then, if you speak Russian, then Polish, Bulgarian etc easier
Then , if you speak Chinese, …
If you speak Navajo … etc
@@fzpe856 Maybe it's the vocabulary that makes it seem so difficult. If you've learnt English for example, you'll be able to understand basic sentences or a few words in other similar languages like German. With Hungarian, you have no clue what the words could even mean, plus we don't really have a strict order of words in a sentence so you really have to know the vocabulary to understand what's being said. Not to mention synonyms that are regularly mixed up and basically everyone can choose which word they'll use, so lots of strange words to learn with the same meaning.
But the phonetic spelling is not hard at all, in fact I think it makes a lot more sense to use the same pronunciation to each letter, not like in English for example. So even if you're not familiar with a new word, you can rely on the rules of spelling.
I'm from Slovakia, who's living right at the borders of Hungary and speaks the language as mother toungue, is easy but i know it's a hard language :) I must say English is by far the easiest language on the world :) Hungarian maybe not the hardest, but definetely in the top 5. I've tried learn Japanese, failed and rather give up. Then later began to study Korean which is way easier, but if i'll be on that level to understand almost everything, i'm sure i'll try to go back to Japanese too :)
ohhhh I'm Slovak learning Korean actively and lately I've tried learning Japanese too, but yes, Japanese seems harder for me 😅 I've never spoken Hungarian though my grandpa spoke it
@@ta_ly indeed ;) how are you on learning Korean ? I've been studying on and off for about 3 years. I've went even for a language school in Hungary for about half year. I must say in the spam of half year i learnt more than learning myself.
I've made a mistake, by learning a lot of grammar which I'm on intermediate level. The only problem is, my vocabulary is on the begginer level so I can do nothing with the learnt grammar.
Are you learning it byself ?
@@K-PopGamesWithSoulMirae I'm similar as you in Korean - I know a lot of grammar already, but my vocabulary is nothing much yet, so I can only understand simple sentences (in songs, comments, etc.)
And yes, I'm learning by myself (for about a year) - I would try attending a school if having an opportunity, but I'm not sure if there's anything like that here in KE
@@ta_ly yeah it's hard here in Slovakia, that's why I had to travel every Saturday to Budapest early in the morning and came back home aroun 5pm so it was tiring. So technically I had only one day free from work. Current work don't even allow me to not work on weekends xD that's why I left. 4 years ago I've visited Seoul, and since then my dream became to go back and live there a bit so I cant fail.
If you want we can help each other learning faster :) I'm down for it, because I've never found someone whom I can study :)
@@K-PopGamesWithSoulMirae wow, that's impressing, I can't imagine working and still travelling hours away every weekend
I've never been to Korea or Asia, but it's fine - I'm still young, there will surely be opportunities in the future (maybe university? who knows haha)
It is absolutely the hardest language to learn! The grammar is the hard part! I speak just enough to get my way through a simple conversation and I lived there over a year and have Hungarian family! I think what makes it so hard is it is completely and totally unique! And the way your sentance should be structured changes all the time too! In English we have a set order of operations. For instance you say "thats a big fluffy red couch" not "that couch is fluffy, also red, and big too" hungarian is all bits and pieces that fit together, not single words. Also, it can be insanely confusing because there is not a word for he/she...everyone ia gender neutral...until you talk about family members! Those are not only sexed, but also go by age
...so there's a word for older sister and younger sister...no word for just sister. Every single word gets a suffix or prefix, which makes it a whole new word...or it doesnt. It's literally the most confusing language I've ever encountered and still my favourite!
Please repeat some city names: Nyíregyháza, Sátoraljaújhely, Székesfehérvár,Hódmezővásárhely,Nagykanizsa😊
Or add _ben, on, or ott_ as appropriate
Nyíregyháza, Sátoraljaújhely, Székesfehérvár,Hódmezővásárhely,Nagykanizsa
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I just realised that, Gustav's talking style completely same with Uthred son of Uthred from Last Kingdom!! So is it a Dannish accent and talking style? but his voice is very similar too..
Im Hungarian living in Denmark and I just wanna tell u that I so much appreciate you trying to speak and asking questions in hungarian! 🙌🏻✨ Keep up the good work! :)
I think Hungarian isnt the hardest language in the world, but definitely the hardest language in Europe. I think Chinese is the hardest language in the world. Anyways love from India 🇭🇺❤🇮🇳
Yep, I think Chinese is the hardest. Thanks so much! :) Greetings from Hungary!
Chinese is NOT harder than Hungarian, I have tried both.
chinese just looks hard but grammatically its easy. hungarian is hard both ways
@@Uralixium Hungarian is not really hard grammatically. On the other hand, Chinese is harder when it comes to pronunciation and spelling
@@bitterexperience7115 its not really hard but its still harder than Chinese grammatically speaking. i wouldn't say its harder in pronunciation but maybe spelling yes
Hungarian language is mostly logical. There is a logical layout in the grammar. But some letters make no sence, like, you pronounce "j" and "ly" as "y", but we still have rules about which one we use. I give you an example: "Tojás" "Gulyás", the first one contains a "j", the second one contains a "ly", but you pronounce both as "y" (in english these words can be pronounced as "toyash" "kouyash") And there is no logical explanation when you need to use "j" or "ly". English is an easy language to learn for hungarians, but the pronunciation is strange for the first time. Because in english, they use "s", but in hungary "s" is pronounced as "sh", and we write "s" as "sz".
That is correct! And your profile is amazing!💜(hungarian army)
Man it has historical reason, ly and j were different letters, in the countryside sometimes it's still different mostly by the elder generation. Ly was pronounced differently. A bit similar like ll in some Spanish accent
....hungarian-scytian....genetics not lie....newsbeezer.com/hungaryeng/miklos-kasler-the-arpad-dynasty-was-founded-4500-years-ago-in-the-northern-part-of-what-is-now-afghanistan/
bactria part of scytia....upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Scythia-Parthia_100_BC.png
@@benceczifrik2822 Oh man, I didn't know that! (Family is Hungarian; learning the language.) Could you describe how ly is (or used to be) pronounced differently from j? Are you saying ly is like the spanish ll, like it has more "substance" (I don't know how to describe it...) than the Latin American ll or Hungarian j?
My grandparents are from Hungary, and my mum tried to pass it on and teach my brother and me. I really hated it when I was young. I love the country and all my relatives down there, but the language is way too hard, even now, almost 15 years later. I really regret not taking it seriously when I obviously would have, because I feel extremely uncomfortable and insecure when I have to talk to someone, be it the cashier in the store or my relative. Right now, I am taking Duolingo lessons to improve, but I know it will be a long way until I get to the level my mother is. Speaking itself is alright, if I know the vocabulary, but writing is just a mess
If you are wondering: My (twin) brother is a bit better at speaking and writing in Hungarian. My mother says that he knows a lot of vocabulary, but I pronounce the words better and not with such a strong accent.
Just be easy on yourself. The people definitly will prize you just for trying, and the practice will make you succeed with time. 😀
Only intellectualy talented people among Hungarians can speak it perfectly, so if you learn it, feel free to make mistakes 😄
The same with portuguese. That is always changing anyway.
Mindig is látom magyar anyanyelvűeket akik hibáznak amúgy mindenképp gyönyörű nyelv
It the same with any language really case and point slang. Always remember that in case of language it's always the rules that have to catch up with the natural evolution
@@grandscratch5717 ha feljebb olvasol láthatod, hogy 2 éve tanul magyarul. Kurva gaz ez a mentalitás...
@@MapsCharts látom is the definitive form if you see SOMETHING. You need to use "látok" if you speak only in general. Otherwise congratulations, you are pretty cool, keep learning! Ügyes vagy, örülök, hogy tanulsz magyarul!
I am currently learning Hungarian
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that is so nice of you! Sok sikert hozzá lengyel barátom! :)
Respect! :)
Poland is my Favorit country 🇭🇺♥️🇵🇱
I love poland
It may be difficult for speakers of Indo-European languages but I'm still in love with it. I only started learning it this summer so I'm a noob (hence why I'm too shy to comment in bad Hungarian and inadvertently testing the input hypothesis) but it's been a great experience so far. Also, as a native German and Bulgarian speaker, I come across cognates way more often than I thought I would.
Yes, because German was wide-spread due to the geographical closeness and the history of Austria-Hungary, while having so many slavic people around Hungary, the influence cannot be avoided.
I liked to learn german it is such a very logical language. It was a lot of fun.😀Please feel free to write with as many misspelling as you can. A language is for using and you can be very proud of your great effort to learning it.😀
The ending lol 😂
Goodbye everybody= Viszont látásra mindenki.
Viszlát is a terribly lazy shortened version, and we usually say hello to greet just like everyone else in the world, not to say goodbye.
Great video tho 🤗
Ultimate HUNGARIAN lesson in three seconds: ,,Lófasz" means everything
sajtos lófasz: frozen chicken nuggets filled with cheese :DD
@@nutella_drifter Nem. Az a "valami lófasszal töltött csirke". :-D
ahogy a blade runner-be is mondva vagyon..)
Köszönöm hogy ennyire értékeled az otthonomat!Szép reggelt/estét/délutánt attól függ mikor olvasod😉na Henlo!❤🍄
For me as a Hungarian person, it's so heartwarming ❤❤
Nekem is.
My family is Hungarian and I've tried multiple times through the year to learn it. My grandpa didnt teach my dad when he was a kid because it was sort of a useless language in Canada and grandma didnt speak anything but English. When I go to Hungary and see family they love to laugh at us trying to pronounce their words. My mouth cant even make half the sounds, could sit there all day repeating a single word back to a native Hungarian and never get it right lol.
I have the same situation. Now when Im almost 40, I make a final attempt to learn it. I suggest you do the same it will be worth it! Every language has its hard and easy part! Hungarian is highly regular and structured, and it spells exactly as its pronounced. Go for it!
@@alexanderbogardi545 I've yet to see the "easy" part of Hungarian lol. Even just the cadence and tone they use is different from English. English has a lot of "ups and downs" in the speech pattern to draw emphasis to certain words, Hungarian is more monotone with little fluxation in tone. So when I say a Hungarian sentence, even if pronounced properly, still sounds weird to the Hungarian people because my tone changes- if that makes any sense.
@@joeltoth7073 Yes intonation is crucial for getting understood. It can for example be the difference between a statement and a question (in english too actually). I can tell you how I do: Even though I already knew a lot of words, I started with buying a real text book (magyar-ok). This forms the base of my training. I complement the text-book studies with hungarian101 pod, youtube, and children books. Its so much fun! :)
....hungarian-scytian....genetics not lie....newsbeezer.com/hungaryeng/miklos-kasler-the-arpad-dynasty-was-founded-4500-years-ago-in-the-northern-part-of-what-is-now-afghanistan/
bactria part of scytia....upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Scythia-Parthia_100_BC.png
I just love the fact that I speak one of the world's hardest languages as my nativel language :)
Some fun facts from the language: forgive me, but we can swear the most complicatedly, search for it, I don't want to be rude.
ANYAKÖNYVVEZETŐ means REGISTRAR, but ANYA means MOTHER, KÖNYV means BOOK, VEZETŐ means DRIVER, so the mirror-translation is MOTHERBOOKDRIVER. Funny...
I just moved to Budapest and it's funny how many of these scenes were filmed like 50-200 meters from my apartment
As a Turkish i guess learning Hungarian is easier for me than European people
@MrLaci0110 Not only words, the grammar of languages are actually very similar.Also when u said alma, I remembered the sentence which is almost the same in both languages.
Cebimde çok küçük elma var. (Turkish)
Zsebemben sok kicsi alma van. (Hungarian)
@@AtakanBerkBrant I think because Hungary has Turkish and Ottoman influence. I love both countries!
@@Richard-gm8bd Both nations are from central Asia and they lived together for centuries , Ottoman influenced yes but it cannot change their language's grammar but our languages have very similar grammar, for example i wrote a sentence my previous comment, i found words that same in two languages and when u make them sentence position of words were literally same because grammars are so similar
Not central asia, that's turkish people. Hungarian is finnugor, uralic.
@@almakaktusz4905 Ofc mate i know Hungarians are Finno-Ugric but you can look at the immigration of Hungarians,Magyars to Europe from Asia in maps,they came from Central Asia.We Turks and you Hungarians are descendants of the Huns. Don't you know that the Huns migrated from Central Asia to Europe ?
This chat is making me feel very welcomed because Hungary as you know not many people know and they make fun of the name but thank to everyone so supportive
As a native Hungarian, I approve of this
Köszi!
The girl at 3:42 is beautiful, unique eyes i only see in Hungarian woman :)
As a language learner and teacher, Hungarian sounds the most difficult so far! It’s been only 2 weeks since I started getting in touch with the language, but I feel like it will take much more time and effort than all the languages I have studied so far. One of the reasons why I think this is because we (Latinos) don’t consume content in many languages other than English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian… and it just gets more and more difficult once you’ve never heard anything like it.
hungarian is not difficult. but... we have way more strict rules and way more words then other language. so when u start leaning u have to learn way more rules to speak on basic level but after that, becuase the language is logical and have a strong wovel harmony u will feel the rules.
so just the begining is hard.
Good luck with your language learning. Greetings from Hungary! :)
I love this language and I'm so proud to can speak it. And the country is also remarkable! And the horse is so important in our history i guess. This is so good because I'm obsessed with horses. Come to Hungary everyone! Beautiful country and beautiful language! That will be very nice to meet every people from other countries of the whole world! 🇭🇺🤗
I was born and raised in France with a Hungarian mother, and Hungarian was actually the first language I ever spoke as a kid (way before French). Despite speaking it my entire life, I still find it pretty tricky to convey complex meaning sometimes. It's pretty much impossible to perfectly master unless you live there and talk to tons of native speakers. It's what we call an agglutinative language, where extra prefixes and suffixes are slapped onto the words, instead of prepositions. Its structure and vocabulary make it a truly fascinating and fundamentally unique language, there's nothing quite like it (its "closest" relatives are Finnish and Estonian, but I can't understand a single word of either). It's a great source of pride because it's just so unique and daunting for non-speakers lmao
Finn és az Észt hhhhaaahhh hhhhaaahhhh hát sajnos te sem kaptál elég észt csórikám.
Segítek,hülyegyerek. th-cam.com/video/zIpzknyUFbE/w-d-xo.html
@@FIDEESZ ???
I'm so happy you did this video! It felt so good to watch a video of our country and see that people like it and say nice things about it in the comments. Thank you! From Hungary❤️🥰 Love Hungary❤️❤️❤️
Our northern neighbours. No-one can fucking understand them hahaha. Love from Serbia 🇭🇺❤️🇷🇸
Btw. 4:11
I hate serbgay
@xDestro象 So you fought Nemanja1122 in ww1. Good to know.
@@molnarov serbgay, ROMAnia, and the you wonder why your neighbors can't stand you. You are pathetic.
@@RaduRadonys I can understand these guys there are also people like this in Serbia but the majority wants good relations with others
@@nemanja3888 Yes you are right, I'm starting to believe these "warriors" are just kids on the internet, I've been to Budapest and when people found out we are Romanian they were very friendly, one random couple on the street offered to buy us drinks, so people are actually great in Hungary. Unlike these kids on comments section.