The sounds of the Hungarian alphabet
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- This video will help you master all the sounds of Hungarian.
Note: these are not the names of the letters but how they are actually pronounced.
Also check out this one on pronunciation:
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It's 10 pm and I'm watching a Hungarian alphabet pronunciation video even though I'm hungarian
you're lucky that you were born there and acquire this such a difficult and cool language without struggle. 😁😂 kisses from pl, from hungarian first grade student ☺️🙄
@@ananecka6682 aww youre so nice thanks
I'm from Hungary too its just l don't know how to say the o ò ő ö and u ù ü ű or read hungariqn because l live in England for 7 years
Same
That does not put a complete newcomer's mind at ease. 😁 Hopefully, you agree with all of the pronunciations.
I have Hungarian roots and having reached certain age I decided to give Hungarian a try. So far, this language is not like any other language that I have ever studied. Thank you for this video! It is very helpful! And congrats on being promoted by Duolingo!
Nice comment. i moved to hungary, and im hungarianizing, or magyarizing if you prefer. The language learning is nothing at all as i expected for many reasons, but very satisfactory.
Congrats you're promoted by Duolingo!
So.... it's pronounced BudapeSHt?
Exactly. S in HUngarian is always pronounced SH.
Yes, and our S is like this sz.
@Tommy Hopps
The Hungarian a is almost identical to the (American) English o in rock, so he's sorta correct.
@Tommy Hopps
That's not how you spell "correct".
@Tommy Hopps
When did I say a and o were the same in Hungarian?
Thank you very much for this first lesson in Hungarian. I came to America in the seventies, having been born in Arad, Romania. I regret that I did not learn Hungarian as a child, but I am familiar with the sounds of Hungarian As a retiree from the Voice of America, with plenty of time on my hands, I decided to relearn this beautiful language (about half of Arad's inhabitants speak Hungarian as their mother tongue. So, here I go about learning this exiting language!
am learning Hungarian prior to a trip to Budapest in March. Really useful and what a fascinating language!
Fascinating indeed ;) Thanks.
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fascinating... *W H E E Z E*
this ö and ü sounds are really beautiful
they are also in German and Turkish with the same pronunciations!
OMG! U re not going to believe 80% of pronunciation of Hungarian Letters is similar to Hindi alphabets. The moment I realize this I could actually guess the pronunciation. I'm so surprised! Love from India 😍
Yeah, it's pretty easy to pronounce, except for a couple of weird letters, but Hindi has some also, i was out of breath when trying to pronounce chh and jh for example😂😂
@@ihavenoidea2736 I think retroflex consonants might be most problematic for you, than these.
@@infinite5795 yeah a bit hard
Good old proto-indo-european
No need to be surprised. The Hungarian language has a lot to do with the Dravidian languages. Although Hindi is not Dravidian, there is obviously an overlap.
Thank You for the lesson. I grew up hearing the Hungarian language all my life and now i am finally putting some effort into learning to speak it, even if not comfortably fluent
Thanks. Good luck with your studies. And tune in for more videos.
I will... köszönöm!
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Learning from pakistan🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰.. Dont know why I love this language ❤😘😊
Probably that's why you love this language lol keep up the good work!
Surely a stipendium hungaricum scholarship applicant 😅
I want to learn Hungarian quite simply because it doesn’t come from Proto-Indo-European and that immediately fascinates me.
Wait’ll you try Basque!
Sok sikert hozzá , hogy megtanuld a magyar nyelvet. Én magyar vagyok.szurkolok!
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Thanks for the comment. Really appreciate it. Any wishes for next video? ;)
You are right but
B bé
C cé
Cs csé
D dé
Dz dzé
Dzs dzsé
F ef
G gé
Gy gy
H há
J jé
K ká
L el
M em
N en
Ny eny
P pé
R er
S es
Szesz
T té
Ty tyé
V vé
Z zé
Zs zsé
But if they are in a word......your version is right
Thanks, I know, these are the names of the letters. I wanted to focus on the sounds themselves.
hungariantutor Oké, igaz :D
so do we pronounce "hogy vagy" like this "hotdji vatdji"
But, pronounced as you did, sounds very strange for a Hungarian, and I don’t see the necessity of doing so. Pronouncing what you call the “names” of the letters they will sound exactly equal as used in speech, because, as you stated, Hungarian is a phonetic language and their letters sounds equal in any word, including in their “names”.
In English there are differences between the pronunciation of the “names” of the letters and their pronunciation in different words, because English is not a phonetic language, and the same letter could sound differently depending of the word. This is the reason for the necessity of “names” for the letters in English, but this is not the case in Hungarian.
You can immediately spot the native Hungarian accent, not because you do anything wrong, but because you do not instinctively try to add that extra multi-vowel open mouth roundness that many native English speakers do.
Polish to hungarian
Á = a
Gy = dż
Sz = s
S = sz
Actually this is an interesting fact: if you pair all the letters with their 'y counterparts', you can see how they are connected. For example you have to change the pronunciation of t to get ty in the exact same way as you have to alter n's to get ny. The only exception is gy, because it's pair isn't g, as the alphabet suggests, but d. So the fact that you use d as part of a combination to indicate gy makes much more sense 😄
@@KitaKiyonori much more sense if they use dy 😄 ż is like a soft Z and this letter is formed much further in the mouth than G.
gy (or dy 😄) is instant follow from G or vice versa.
Very simple: Y here is the softener formative and same rule on ny, ty.
LY vs J is an interesting "animal". Now these two word has same pronunciation. Before XVI century people used L and a bit softer version L. This was the original LY (nobody use nowadays) . That time LY wasn't same as J but around XVI century the original LY pronunciation slowly died out and changed to J. That's why there are two same pronunciation latter in Hungarian language. This is always debate among linguistics about to delete LY from the alphabet. 😄
@@KugleeKugleeSo, the Treaty of Trianon should have removed *Ly* instead of *Erdély* ( Transylvania )! 😄
I am trying to learn Hungarian as much as possible. I admit, the language is very demanding. Thank you for your video!
What country are you from? There are more Hungarian classes being taught at TAFE and open university if you are interested.
@@Kat_ko_02, thank you Katerina for your suggestions. I am currently in Bosnia where I am living. A few weeks ago I visited Budapest, it was actually my first time in Hungary. Spontaneously I decided to learn Hungarian although I didn't know any word. I spent almost a month to learn some Hungarian by using internet (You Tube, Duolingo...) and I will continue.
I don't know if this will be seen, but thank you for this video. My great grandpa has Dementia, and is estimated to revert back to Hungarian within the next two years. And, A few of my family members (including myself) just said that we have to learn for his sake. So this video helped a lot! Thank you!
I am from Serbia and my grandparents are hungarians so i can say part of me is Hungarian also so i was rly happy that your letters are pronounced same as ours . Some of them are written different but pronounce exactly the same . I just started learning and so far im so optimistic about this :)))
It is a funny coincidence that in the abc display above, the ..y consonents all group themselves one above the other, which makes an easy visual association.
It's not a coincidence! They are all palatal consonants, which don't have ways to be written in the roman alphabet so they are written with y in Hungarian
This was very helpful thank you! For some words I wasnt sure how to pronounce them correctly. Reading the words normally helps me a lot but with some I was still not 100% sure. Knowing the letters and sounds of the individual letters helped me a lot. Please keep making videos with the lessons. I tried a language course 10 years ago and again 8 years ago and 7 years ago and 4 years ago and last year and I always get stuck. I used to have a few Hungarian people around me, it helped me so much to hear them talk amongst each other, but we lost contact and I always get stuck again. Your videos are exactly what I need to get to the next words and phrases
Watching this the night before my flute performance so I don't butcher Pál Járdányi's name
So I’m learning Hungarian so I can apply for citizenship. This video is helping me out so much! Thank you!!
Hi Peter :) i am happy to see u again after more than 15 years ... i was ur student at alight house in szeged .... that time i was learning english :)
Finally figured them out thanks to you! Great video. Now I can start to pronounce the historical great Hungarians' names as I am reading my 600 page Hungarian history.
I find your video not just useful but also very wonderful! Can't believe that there is only one sound for each letter in your language. Really love it. Sounds great! :)
Dear Hungarian Tutor,
Thank you very much for your helpful videos!
Thanks again!
I love Hungarian. It’s so unique. For those that don’t know, the only (big) languages that exist in the language family are Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish (and Saami). And I like that it’s like Japanese and Finnish in that if you know the letters you’ll (pretty much) know how to say words that you read without having heard them before. But I find it so strange that an alphabet has more than one letter as one letter, but that’s like Japanese except Japanese has one sign while Hungarian uses the latin letters still.
E and é isn’t the same sound, just short and long like a and á? I didn’t know, that’s difficult. And dzs and gy sounds almost exactly the same. A lot of the letters sounds the same it seems.
Gy and dzs (the latter only found in loan words) sound very different. Gy is in fact a palatalized D. Pronouncing it like Dzs is a huge giveaway sign that you're a foreigner, and I personally hate hearing it like that :D
@@nuckingfuts4721 Interesting.
a, á, e, é are 4 different sounds. They are not short/long pairs. Short/long pairs are i/í, o/ó, ö/ő, u/ú, and ü/ű
Thank you. I’m American but have been craving to know how to say my patriarchal last name “Presinger” the right way for years. I want to say it right in honor of my ancestors. You have helped greatly. Thank you.
Thank you for making this video. Not only very detailed, but extremely helpful!
Glad you found it useful. Can you test your Hungarian skills anywhere?
Extremely helpful video! I'm glad that Hungarian is phonetic.
Thanks. Yeah, that's one of the few relatively straightforward aspects of Hungarian :)
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I swear, if Hungarian wasn't phonetic, I would probably give up on learning it!
@@astercadence5845 I used to live in Hungary. Living there helped a lot. Hungarian is a difficult language, but it's learnable. I later lived in Taiwan, Mandarin is impossible!
@@hungariantutor A real blessing, especially when one compares it to the insanity which goes in the spellings of Irish and Scottish languages, such beautiful languages but with utterly unfeasible spelligns, oh my. And people still try to argue it´s even better than the English system. That may be true in theory but in practice I don´t see that happen at all.
I find it very useful thank you, I am hungarian and mexican decent and know my Mexican side but not one thing of my Hungarian. So I will learn to speak, learn traditions and hand down to my kids and grands here :)
That's very noble of you, good luck!
Thank you. I am trying to teach myself via Duolingo, so I really appreciate hearing the pronunciation. Koszonom, size.
Got to visit Budapest last year and loved it. Hope to get back for a longer visit this year and will see if I can pick up some of the language before then.
Hi there. I m from amazon Brazil. You re the most covenient tutor i found to begin this language. Thank you!
Well I found that s-added alphabets mean to be post-alveolar sound. C [ts] to cs [tʃ], dz [dz] to dzs [dʒ], z [z] to zs [ʒ], and add z to s to make [s] sound, since single s sounds [ʃ]... It's not so confusing writing system! I heard that recently ancient (traditional) Hungarian alphabets, rovásírás are revived. Which system will survive in the future? Interesting!
Glad you found the logic in it :) Yes rovásírás has been revived although it's only a reconstructed version of the ancient writing. as far as I know.
Mindkettő. Both.
dont call a letter an "alphabet"...
Thank you for uploading this video. I'm also trying to learn Hungarian, and I appreciate any help I can get. It also is very helpful to me (and I'm sure to others who are also learning) that I can see how my mouth is supposed to be shaped when pronouncing the letters.
I'm glad you found it useful. Thanks for watching.
"My Hungarian's pretty tight." brilliant.
I am learning Hungarian because I am planning to study in Budapest. Although the programme is taught in English, I am keen to learn Hungarian.
Thank you so much for this video. Hearing spoken Hungarian as a child from my Grandparents and trying to prounounce properly as an adult, now they're are gone is two different things and my ears as a child was not correct! 😂 ~~~Tanya Berki Banks
I have just begin my journey to learn Hungarian. This was a very useful introduction to the sounds made by each letter of the alphabet. Thank you very much.
Good luck!
Thank you very much for having the dedication of doing this video, it's really helpful. I'll continue to learn Hungarian with the material you have. Thank you so much again. Szia!
Never thought people would find it so useful. Glad I can help. Good luck!
My native language is Brasilian Portuguese. I am astonished how many sounds we have in Portuguese spoken by people in Central Brazil with their typical accent which are similiar to those in Hungarian ( we don't have the ' o" ' and the ' u" ' ).
I didn't know that. thanks for sharing.
Very very useful, thanks! I have a question: is there any difference between de V sound and the W sound? I couldn't hear any...
Thanks, szia.
I have the same problem!! Also the j and y sound alike!
there's no difference between them in pronounciation, we don't really use the 'w' actually, but if we do, it sounds like 'v' :)
"j" and "y" are also the same, and also there's the letter "ly", which also sounds the same
Yes.. There's no difference in pronounciation between "j" and "ly". It depends on the word that what we use.. For example: hely, ajak. In the both words the pronounciation is the same, but we write it anyways..
FabulousDorka. My Hungarian dictionary states there is no "w" in the Hungarian alphabet. I am 3rd generation In US (100% Magyar on both sides of the family) and am trying to relearn the language I have forgotten due to lack of use. Quite a chore as I am 72 1/2! Wish me luck. I need it. English is my worse nightmare. AAArrrgh! Especially the grammar. Have 6 college credits in English, and still no grammar - the only way I passed was on creative skills alone. That is genetic so does not count either. ha ha
Thank you for this great and fun video! Awesome ukulele-intro.
Thanks for the kind comment. I'm thinking of doing a Hungarian songs on the ukulele.
Very helpful! Thanks. I watched this over and over and took notes, and now I have it memorized!
I wanna say thank you so much you are awesome you pronounce very clearly my Dad is hungarian as well & he has the same name as yours I really want to learn our language so I may speak to him in Hungarian again thank you .
Glad I could help, talking to your dad yet?
Thank you so much! I'm spending some time in Budapest this summer and I wanted at least to pronounce places right. I'm from Italy, so I have similar sounds, but you guys have a lot of sounds!
In 1982, under the patronage of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, a linguistics book called "A Magyar Szokeszlet Roman Elemeinek Tortenete" was printed, proving that 2,333 words from the basic lexicon of the Hungarian language are borrowed from the Romanian language.
Thank you Peter! You always make me smile, the best Hungarian teacher on youtube! :) Koszi !
Thanks so much :)
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Péter, köszönöm szépen for the video. It was actually the reason why I finally made my mind up to learn Hungarian. Wish you would come back with more videos!
Super video for pronouncing of Hungarian words, for the beginning it is the best lesson!
I lived in Hungary for two years when I was a baby but now I'm a senior in high school and I want to go back! Thanks for these videos because I want to learn enough Hungarian to speak to everyone I once knew. Any tips would be great!
You're welcome. Thanks for watching.
I will work in hungary for a few months ahead, nice vid for my preparation ☺️
Thank you so much for this video. I married into a Hungarian family and went to Hungary this summer. I had so much trouble reading the signs and getting the right pronunciation. I 'm sure if I watch this on a daily basis, I'll get it right, the next time. Koszonom szepen.
Thanks. This really helped me to master the alphabets. It seemed so hard and impossible before
This is the most useful vid I have watched yet. Will be practising reading in Budapest tomorrow. Thank you :)
Thanks. How did the practise go?
Really well thank you. Apparently I have been speaking Hungarian in my sleep!
+Janna Rogers wow! Well done.
Thanks a lot for this great video man. The sounds are so clear !! OK it's challenging to imitate some of them and memorise them but it's much easier to do so with a video like that. Köszönöm !
if somebody need any help, i will be glad to help you guys!
Szia! Could you, please, help me with my Hungarian? I am a total newbie, so I thought that you could help me (your comment encouraged me to write to you!), I'd be incredibly grateful! Please, let me know on my e-mail: aleksandra.boguszewska@gmail.com. Thank you and greetings from Poland! :)
Aleksandra Boguszewska szia! I'll send you a invitation on hangouts, is that okay?
Sure! Thank you so much! I will be incredibly grateful. :)
olyan jo latni hogy mindenki erdeklodik utanunk :)
Elnezest, are you still meeting in hangouts? Would love to practice and learn.
That was useful for me. Tanks a lot
Video very usefull. Thanks for sharing it...Can´t wait to see the next one.
Thanks man, just uploaded a new one. Check it out.
hungariantutor I am so in love with this hard language, and as I said before, can´t wait for the next video. Thanks for did it for us!
Kösz zsép for this! Crystal clear pronunciation! Greetings from Brazil
thanks for a tutorial that's bare bones and right to the point!
It's a very useful video. Thank you a lot. Hope to see the next one. Good job!
Thanks. New video up.
That was very helpful, interesting too 💐
It is very useful, thank you very much 😊
Szia! I am in Budapest and completely immersed in the language so this is really really helpful..... I have a long way to go but this is definitely a great start .... Would love to see any other tutorials that you have!
very useful thx
Glad you find it useful. Thanks.
Wonderful job Peter, outstanding! Wishing you much success, thank you.
Thanks John!
Thank you so much for your video. It’s really helpful
Really clear and helpful, thank you!
Grahame Wilson
I am going on holiday soon to Budapest and have looked at several videos to learn a little of the language before i go your presentation is great and easier than the others to get a grip of the basic language i know i will not be anywhere close to being fluent but i like to try
My wife and I will be in Hungary in September 2022. My opinion is that immersion into any culture begins with communication. I've been attempting to learn for the past 9 months with a focus on the alphabet basic greetings and numbers. Like you, there isn't an expectation of fluency. All the best with your efforts and above all else, have confidence in that effort!
@@collierladdie i thought spanish was hard but hungarian is a whole new level vislat Grahame
If the Dutch would adopt this style in their alphabet it would be much easier since some combination make unique sounds
For example g and ch make the same sound and some other combinations with unique sound include oe, eu, uu, ee, aa, oo
Köszönöm szépen! I needed this to help further my understanding my knowledge of Hungarian! The letters e and é along with ü and ű were really making my progression in the language really difficult, but this made things more clearer!
thank you a lot i am trying to learn Hungarian as it is my family's origin. :)
After watching this dozens of times, and hearing more Hungarians speak English, I’ve come to appreciate how good his English pronunciation is.
A very big 'koszonom' for helping me understand the particulars of the Magyar alphabet (I work with some Hungarians, and they have been trying to teach me Magyar for the last year, but it has been very hard.) This was shared by one of them to help me understand your alphabet a lot better. Ps, the music wasn't so bad either!
this is my first step to Hungarian...you are very useful thank you
Hi Peter
Where are you… we all miss your music & strange humour…
We need you back our friend and professor in Hungarian 🇭🇺
Thanks for this! My company has an office in Budapest; all the employees there speak good English, but I like learning a little bit of Hungarian (jó reggelt, hogy vagy, etc) to show solidarity with my colleagues. And this way we can laugh about my terrible pronunciation!
Thank you , i am learning well!
Many words pronounced like Hindi I love Hungary
But its Uralic
No, we actually an eastern nation, but we aren't sure about that because of the bigger nations, who ensalved us. They always deleted a moment from our history... Sad story.
Greetings from Hungary!
Another great video.I would love to buy the little mouth instrument you played in your other video!
Usefull! Thanks, starded my learning yesterday. This is the first lesson :D
I am starting to learn, so this was very helpful. Ty so much!
so the letters with the longated dots above are letters that are stretched?
+Srbskiiinat Yes, exactly.
+Sándor Takács are they in alot of words?
For about half of the language. Because the half of the vowels has got longated dots.
Yes, these are all the long vowels: á, é, í, ó, ő, ú, ű and their short versions a, e, i, o, ö, u, ü. Although á and é are actually different from a and e.
no
That was extremely useful, thank you very much!
richness of sounds specially of consonants; very sensual alphabet:)
Köszönöm szépen! Your videos help me to prepare for my studies - in October I will start studies at the Hugarian language and culture department at the Univesity of Warsaw, Poland. Lengyel, magyar - két jó barát ;-)
Lengyel testvér! Mindig együtt:))
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Thank you. This tutorial is s blessing
Thank you very much for this video, it is very useful! :)
my grandparents on my dad's side came from hungary in the early 1900's..... but i don't know anything..... :-(
very useful. Thanks a lot.
Educational and Enjoyable -- Many thanks!
I sent this to my Australian friend who I cannot be bothered with repeating myself for the 100th time (she want to learn Hungarian letters.)
10:30 PM, datum : 12/30/2022, I am learning the Hungarian to get ready for the test on 2023
Thank you, I just started to learn Hungarian. I got scared with the look of these letters. It was a pleasant surprise to know how similar Serbian and Hungarian letters sound.
+vukpetkovic2702
Yeah, the sounds are similar. The rest? :) But give it a try, it's a beautiful language.
Thanks for watching.
+hungariantutor I agree, it's really interesting and challenging. But one thing I might never adjust to is pronunciation. When I listen to some people from Hungary it sounds to me like they slow down in the middle of word or sentence. It's hard to repeat that. Btw great video.
thank you, very helpful
Hey Tutor (sorry, its my first video of yours, haven't figured out your name), I liked both your little ukulele concert and your lessons. Thank you!
very useful for me. Thank you so much
thanks, it actualy helps a lot. greetings from Romania
Thank you, keep on rocking!