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Hello from Transilvania , as a Romanian who grew up among ethnic Hungarians ,I can tell you straight that Hungarian is one of the hardest languages to learn .It's a beautiful and very complex language backed by a vast culture and tradition , but good luck trying to master it.
This channel is simply amazing. As a language lover, and Hungarian I think this video is the best linguistic video regarding our language. These videos bring people closer to each other. To your Comment, Cristian: thank you for your approach :) For me, Romanian is one of the most exciting language, I do learn Italian, and this is why I've just started to read/learn more about Romanian. It is so cool, that your language is so close to Latin and Italian, so far in the mountains. Multumesc :)
Én tanulok magyarul más fél évet és nagyon szeretem a magyar nyelvet. Nehéz de szép és nagyon szép halgatni. Most lakom a Budapesten és én nagyon szeretek ez város. Sajnos töbnyire sok külfoldi emberek nem szereti tanulni magyarul.
You're good, especially when you said that you learn it since 1,5 years. Respect! Nem tudom ezt mennyire érted, de nagyon tisztelem azokat, akik tanulják a magyart úgy, hogy nem anyanyelvük. Mindenki tudja, hogy ez egy nehéz nyelv, de szép is, bár sokan nem látják (ahogy én sem fogom úgy látni, mint bármelyik ember, aki nem itt született, és nem szokásos, hogy szinonimákból bizony sok van, vagy csak, hogy sokféleképpen lehet mondatot képezni). Szóval csak így tovább a magyar nyelv tanulásával! :D
Hát sajnos a magyar nyelv elég nehéz de nem lehetetlen megtanulni (szerencsére) :) Ne add fel könnyen :)) Ha van barátod aki magyarul beszél és még magyar is tud akkor tud mesélni egyet s mást. Sok sikert! :)
Watching this as a native Mongolian speaker, the Hungarian language seems really familiar and intuitively makes a lot of sense to me. A majority of the grammatical rules are essentially the same rules with just different sounds and even how the language sounds are familiar, too.
@@patrikszilins7845 That is not an argument Your Honor. Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic languages (is Japanese related?) share structural, morphemic similarities. T h i s is only one (1) of many linguistic controversies.
my history teacher is Hungarian and one tie one of my classmates to ask him to speak Hungarian, and he turned that entire lesson into a Hungarian lesson lol
Thank you Paul. I am a 70 year old Hungarion who emigrated to Canada with my parents in 1957. This evening I learned a lot about my people and my language.
I am sorry to say that I have lost most of my Hungarian speach skills. I live in a small city with only a very small number of Hungarian speakers, wno I do not know. I have not spoken the language for almost 40 years. I think in Hungarian sometimes to practice and remember many words, but I can no longer put together a proper sentence. However I could read most of your comment and do understand Hungarian when it is spoken slowly. @@-kattya-
@@laszlosoltesz3772 thank you for your answer Laszlo! You wrote that sometimes you think in Hungarian. Could you please explain it a little more? I find this really interesting.
Translation: The language you dream in is your mother tongue!!!! László! Are you used to dreaming in Hungarian? Sometimes? Never... which one is true? Thank you very much!
@@GholaTleilaxu To make his life easier. It is much easier to integrate into a society with a local name than with a stranger. That's why my Hungarian friends who have a child in the UK, giving them local British names. For example Takács Craig, or Kovács Brian. Later it is more accepted by society. With a foreign name, you are at a disadvantage in every aspect of life, even if you speak the language at your native language.
I am Austrian, I speak some languages fluently and really like foreign languages. Hungarian is my favourite foreign language. It's the most elegant and creative foreign language for me. Also the Hungarian Culture is very rich and special. Én osztrák és magyarul az én kedvenc idegen nyelvem. :-) Különösen szép nyelv és nagyon érdekes a Magyar Kultúra is.
Du sprichst schon cool! Meine Lieblingsfremdsprache ist ja Deutsch. Viele sagen, dass es zu schwer ist, aber für mich ist es ganz logisch. Viele Grüße aus Ungarn!:))
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My grandpa knows Russian perfectly and Hungarian at an intermediate level ! And he said that if he was able to learn Hungarian, he will certainly be able to learn English and he started learning English 2 months ago and he is really making progress! He is 85 years old and said that it is never too late! and honestly he is right! (We are from Romania)!
Agreed! I learned finnish for 2 semesters at university, and these things are really similar. If i didn't pay attention to the teacher (happened dometimes :) ), i totally thought, she is speaking hungarian.
Yeah I'm a Hungarian and we are conflicted because there's a theory that we might be in relation with the turk nations rather then the finns... But our teacher sad that she learnt that on the university... You know the similarities between the two languages and it's just the grammar but if I would hear you speak I wouldn't understand a word... I speak Slovak too but with that I understand quite a lot in other Slavic languages too... But with Hungarian it's not nearly the same
@Kiss-Horváth Ferenc Ööö....fogalmazzunk úgy, hogy nem a finn nyelv szeretete vett rá, hogy felvegyem a tárgyat. Kellett a kredit, mint egy falat kenyér :D
@@adamn7125 Did you say ? "None is like it/There is no. Hungarian is unique/One is Hungarian." (from Serbian perspective it could be understood like that) Im a Serb who has absolutely no knowledge of your language. Ohh and why the fuckk do we always have problems passing your border...you are always very mean you make us leave car or buses..ALWAYS ???????? 😂
and we think the same for abouth you! :) btw, exsuce me, no hurting, but i know a polis words " hugyinka " idk what meaning, but very funny word :'D we jave awe have a similar word, what synonymous with squirting xdddd
There's a historical friendship between the two countries, and a saying that goes: "Hungarians and Poles are two friends, both in the sword and in the drinking glass".
In the early 1900s, my Burgenland grandfather, attended school, where is his lessons were given in the morning in German, and the exact same lessons were given in Hungarian in the afternoon. Thus was bilingual education in the Austro- Hungarian Empire. He loved the Hungarian language, even though he was Austrian, because he found it more romantic, and saw that Hungarian men had an easier charm with the women, than the stiff Germanic people. He always attempted to emulate their charming ways with women. As children, we would try to get him to say something in Hungarian, even though we didn’t understand it, because it sounded so wonderful. My dad said, he realized later in life that my grandfather’s swear words were actual Hungarian and not German.
That's a very cool, heart-warming story. It could have happened to your grandfather that you watch a football match, your grandfather asks who plays, you say _Austria, Hungary,_ he asks _against whom?_
I have a similar story. My paternal grandfather was Serbian from Bacska, born during the Kingdom of SHS in the early 1920s. However, growing up in his ethnically mixed town (Србобран-Srbobran/Szenttamás), he spoke Hungarian as fluently as his native Serbian. Many years later he moved to Canada, and whenever he heard someone speaking Hungarian, he would approach them and start singing "elindultam szép hazámból, híres kis Magyarországból....", which, after the initial surprise, unavoidably brings tears, making fiends that instant.
"digging into Hungarian a little bit" -> proceeds to explain like 90% of the grammar more in-depth than Hungarian schools do, leaving me feel uneducated about my own language (respect though, great video)
Don't worry, most native speakers feel like that about their language! I'm English, and I've learnt more about English grammar from conversations I've had with foreign friends than I ever did at school.
Well, he is a huge channel, so because of that, he needs to do a big research, in order to avoid hatred & gossip about making a mistake, I know it myself! When someone does a terrific job, people barely say thank you, but when one mistake exists, most of the people are ready to write about it.
This has little to do with schooling but with that neurologically speaking as a kid or infant you don't have the same abstract thinking and mental-strategies / higher faculties like an adult has. And later on in life most adults don't care about learning the logic of their own language, just like most don't care about exploring the beauty and diversity of their own country and rather associate travel with going abroad.
Bruh I'm hungarian, currently in school and that isn't even 5%, it's the very basics, we have to learn so many rules! But it does look super complicaited, so I can't exactly blame you.
I studied Hungarian for a few months. BAZAAR! Definitely NOT indo-european. I would place it somewhere between Klingon and old Southern Hemishere Martian.
I was dissuaded by my MENSA member 1st cousin once removed to not bother learning it, as it's almost impossible.....but she speaks it, so it makes me really really wanna learn to show her the smarts didn't end with her generation
Well, I have to say that my mother and my (late) grandmother were both Hungarian by origin, but I still think that Hungarian belongs (along with Chinese and Japanese) to the most difficult languages in the world:-)).In fact, Hungarian is surely the most difficult language which is written in Latin alphabet:-) I have to express my respect and admiration to anyone who can speak and read Hungarian fluently:-))
@@trepimero5530 Oh look! An outraged schoolteacher... or a loser who try to roast people on the internet 'cus he doesn't have the balls to do it in person.
One can't be a true Polish without unconditional respect and love for Hungarians. We have no idea what you are talking about, but we love you anyway. Here's to the next thousand years together!
Well arent i lucky to have one parent from hungary and one from poland then... Half/half of two very cool and beautiful countries... Btw i live was born in Australia
Of course, you have, we like kapuszta as well, like most of the mid-Europeans we are using the word kurqa, and don't forget the lecsó. There you go. :)
Thank you for this! My mother's side of the family is Hungarian and I plan on becoming a Hungarian citizen and currently tackling the language! Wish me luck :)
I learned hungarian for years, as I was married to a hungarian. It was frustrating, because, even as my vocabulary and grammar imrpoved in class, the hungarian habit of speaking in idioms and of making word games in the idioms makes it much harder. Apart from that, I find hungarian a beautifully colorful and immaginative language. It's a convenient secret language to use when abroad with hungarians
The only Hungarian I need to know: Szeretnék egy sört. I took a Hungarian class when I was as Taszar Air Base in 1999-2000 with the US Army. The people are awesome. My favorite food was Gulyas and deep fried cheese triangles, not sure what they were called.
Greetings from Kaposvár. At that time, I served there... (HuAF) I had many American friends. I learned English from them, they learned Hungarian from me.
@@Oborzin66 I was there with the Colorado National Guard. One of the guys I talked to a lot, his name is Tomas i think. He drove a BMW 320i and was a Corporal in the Hungarian Army. We worked the front gate, near the cantina quit a bit. I still remember some words in Hungarian but for some reason Paradicsom has always remained with me. That is awesome that you were there are the same time.
@@tereziatheobald5772 Thank you for letting me know what they are called. I will have to say, Magyarország (Hungary) was the most pleasant country I ever visited. I keep telling people they need to go there at least once just to see how great it is.
As a Turkish speaker the similarities between Hungarian and Turkish was very suprising. First of all both have aglutination and vowel harmony. The possesive suffix in Turkish is basicly the same with Hungarian. And in the examples he gave varoş is a Hungarian loan word in Turkish and zseb is a Turkish loan word in Hungarian (it actually originates in Arabic). So "varosom" in Hungarian would be "varoşum" in Turkish, "varosomban" ="varoşumda" "zsebem"="cebim" (c is pronounced the same way as zs) "zsebemben" ="cebimde"
I am not surprised. Turkish, Hungarian and FInnish and Estonian are all related. In fact the joke is that the Finns are the stupidest of the four because, when they entered Europe, they went too far north and live in the cold.
Verdade , estimado ! Eu sou brasileira também . Minha avó é hungara , e a Hungria está no meu coração ! True, dear! I'm Brazilian too. My grandmother is Hungarian, and Hungary is in my heart! Igaz, drágám! Én is brazil vagyok. A nagymamám magyar, és Magyarország a szívemben van!
Sorry, for not many Polish comments, but we are studying closely this video. Of course we all know one, but the very important sentence in Hungarian already: "Lengyel, magyar - két jó barát, együtt harcol, s issza borát" - "Pole, Hungarian - two good friends, together they battle and drink their wine" and now the Polish version: "Polak, Węgier - dwa bratanki, i do szabli, i do szklanki" - "Pole and Hungarian - two brothers, good for saber and for glass". Polish footbal fans also know "Ria! Ria! Hungaria!" and don't hasitate to scand it.
@@theblancmange1265 On Polish-Romanian maches this behavour was mainly recorded, but I think that many Poles came also when Hungary plays, supporting our "bratanki" - brothers.
The version I know: Lengyel, Magyar, két jó barát, együtt issza egymás borát - meaning: Polish, Hungarians, two good friends, drinking together each other's wine XD
I’m learning hungarian for the second year now (being an Estonian) and I was literally squealing with happiness while watching this video because I understood everything grammar-wise and it’s such an amazing feeling! Aaaaaaahhh. The most difficult thing has been the rections as they differ a lot from Estonian.
i am a hunagrians and was watching an estonian youtuber arthur rehi. And in one of his videos he said pizike i was so shocked like wtf i understand this. Is this what i am thinking about ? And he said pizike means small or tiny i was like wtf we hungarians say picike and its mean tiny or small also :D. I am currently learning finnish and funny to see the similarities with estonian. But nothing with us so far except the grammar and some words. Lke torony-torn.
just some1 Pisike, is the word, yea. So cool! I mean the cases kinda work the same way, the logic behind them. Some words are similar: szem-silm, száj-suu, víz-vesi, vér-veri, könyök-küünarnukk etc. :D But it’s also funny how Estonian and Finnish sound really similar, but I don’t really understand Finnish when I’m listenig to it. :)
My paternal namesake ancestor immigrated from Hungary to the USA in the 19th century. This year my son is traveling back there to study at university. It will be the first time in over 150 years since one of our family members has lived in Hungary. I’m so very proud. Came here to learn more about Hungarian language but learned much more than expected. Very well done video and worthy of a graduate class in linguistics.
I am Hungarian and seeing all these rules makes my language seem so convoluted. I guess you don't feel how complicated your language is until you try to explain it to someone.
It's said that J.R.R. Tolkien modeled his "Black Speech" (language of the Nazgul and other evil characters) after Hungarian. Which is a problem for those who translate _The Lord of The Rings_ into Hungarian, because he intended the Black Speech to sound menacing, but to Hungarians it sounds perfectly normal.
It's mainly due to the vowels imo. In Hungarian phonology, vowels are almost exclusively monophthongs, while English is littered with diphthong or even triphthong vowels. This makes English sound floaty and fluid, whereas Hungarian and the Black Speech sound sharp and segmented.
@@UnstopablePatrik Some consonants also, correct? For example, 'zg' in your name is also present in "Nazgul". But I'm sure it's only sounds, as you point out. Tolkien was into the Old Germanic languages, he probably knew little of real Hungarian.
Well, that's interesting because it's also written in a similar script to the Orkhon, right? And Orkhon has the the word "orc" in it. o_o ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED! Jokes aside, this might be true. I also heard that the directions on the map of Middle Earth kinda align with Europe's, so orcs coming from the East matches up with Hungary being in Eastern Europe and nomad Hungarians coming from the Middle-East. Also, the word "orc" may come from "ogre" which is said to have originated from the French word "hongrie" for nomad Hungarians who would go killing and looting all over the place back in the day. On the other hand, when I listen to LoTR in English, black speech sounds like Turkish to me. If someone tried to say all the phrases in a totally everyday voice without evil background music it would legit 10/10 perfectly sound Turkish, it even looks a little like written Turkish to me. I have to admit though that there is a little bit of Old Hungarian in there, stuff from the 12-14. century which is almost unrecognazible for a modern Hungarian.
I'm Dutch and have been to Hungary for about 17 times. Love the country, climate, nature, people, drinks and cuisine. Feels like my second homeland. Even though I'm good at languages and speak about 4, Hungarian is still my biggest challenge yet. Mainly because its so totally unrelated. Self learning through books and websites only got me so far and there is still a very big gap between being able to have a decent conversation. Even after such a long time I'm still at a level that I can place orders in a bar or restaurant, ask for directions or trade. I'm thinking about taking classes with a real Hungarian person some day to get past my current level.
It would be in your best interest to start thinking in Hungarian everyday in every though and also by immersing yourself into a Hungarian enviromment...
My take on this that the problem is the fundamentally different logic which is difficult to switch to if you're so used to the "indo-european" logic (especially Western European languages that use no cases anymore). When you create an English, French or Dutch sentence you have a relatively fixed word order and can chain words together based on a template and just switch out words according to your intentions. In Hungarian when you start making a sentence you already have to account for emphasis, the object (definite/indefinite conjugation) and cases while at the same time maintaining vowel harmony and proper affixation. I can perfectly imagine how hard it can be. But you can do it! Keep it up!
@@gf1917 I will keep trying as I will certainly be visiting Hungary many more times in my life. Each time after 2 years not visiting me and my parents start missing Hungary like something calls us there and we just HAVE to go back :)
I am Hungarian and I am so glad you made this video! You have the best UA-cam channel ever! Edit: Thank you all for the likes, my comments have never gotten this many likes from random people :D
Well just like Paul said, it is almost like the prepositions in English. While English speakers would say " with the car" , Hungarian speakers would say "autóval" where "val" means "with". It's quite strange but it is not that difficult ;)
@@zsomborsuto5574 I think your cases work a bit differently. You just use a postposition to indicate the function of the noun and its relation to other parts of the sentence, right? Because in the video it is mentioned that the adjectives aren't declined, only the nouns. But in Slavic languages, you have to decline both the adjective and the noun, often preceded by a preposition so you have to know which case you should use. It's quite hard because there are some prepositions that can be used with multiple cases. :)
Oh my God I didn't know that! Yes in Hungarian the adjective is only conjugated for number so they have a singular and a plural form. But I also think that the suffixes can be difficult to learn, because you can create basically any word. Beautiful-Beauty = szép-szépség "to become beautiful" = szépül and you can make this "game" with any word you want. So I think it can be difficult to learn all these different suffixes, know their place in the word and know how to create new ones.
@@TommyJapanBrony Recently I started to learn Turkish. There are about 6 cases I think, but even as a Hungarian I found the cases difficult to learn compared to prepositions.
I love in my language the amount of expressions. What a rain can be like with verbs? Esik: it rains. Szemerkél: a very light rain. Szitál: dense, but almost invisible rain. Csepeg: some drops of rain. Ömlik: quite heavy rain. Szakad: very heavy rain. Zuhog: dense rain with big raindrops. Etc etc etc 😂😂 Maybe that is why we love poetry.
@@Alina-kj2zw Yes. It is not the language in itself which is beautiful but the talent of its user is what makes it beautiful. (Egy nyelv nem önmagában szép, hanem a használója tehetsége teszi azzá.) Anyway, it would be an interesting game to collect words and expressions in different topics (like that of rain, for example) to compare the possiblities of different languages. And not only of English and Hungarian - as there are several words which only exist in this or that language or ones that do not exist in some languages.
Ive been to Greece twice and i loved the place :) The only place I've been to in my life where the food was good 'outside Hungary and trust me that's high praise from a Hungarian :)
We Poles like to speak about our traditional friendship with Hungarians, how we are like brothers, despite not being technically related. However even we hardly ever bother to actually learn any Hungarian, instead joking about how "weird" it is. :) Usually, we communicate with each other in some third language. Nowadays it's obviously most often English.
I'm hungarian, and English is difficult for me. Because there aren't any similarity(vocabulary similarity is very minimal, and all of them are modern english loanwords, like 'telefon' or 'rádió', grammar is very different) with Hungarian. Though I can understand some elements of the English logic, but it is very different, example the word order. English has a strict word order, while Hungarian can have various word orders. Sometimes I feel I use wrong word order :D
As Czech, I would say that English is quite easy. Definitely easier than German. English grammar is quite straightforward and simple, words rarely change suffixes and if so, it's just adding -s to nouns or -ing to verbs. When to use he/she/it is pretty obvious, unlike der/die/das in German. I would say that Hungarian might be easier than Slavic languages. It seems that it adds suffixes to word root for noun cases, while Czech changes last letter or two. Also we have 4 "patterns" of suffixes for neutral nouns, 4 for feminine and 6 for masculine and with noun. We change suffix of every word that is related to noun (number, adjective, pronoun) to match case. I can't imagine it's possible to learn in other way than being exposed to the language. On the other hand, word order is not strict, and changing it may slightly change the importance of different words and this nuances can't be expressed in English. Difficult parts of English: written&spoken form is different (guessing pronounciation is impossible) , conditionals (they have different logic), present/past/future perfect (disappeared from Czech roughly 150 years ago), (in)definite articles (non-existent in Czech) and prepositions. I agree with Renáta, that sometimes it's problematic to translate something in the way which is perfectly natural in English and even vice versa. Actually I would say that Hungarian language does not seem that hard, just using postfixes instead of prefixes and prepositions is pretty weird and words are completely different. Maybe there are small evil things (irregularities) in the language that are not mentioned in the video.
@@pavelperina7629 Yeah, I see what you mean. Me, my native language is German. I learned English as a foreign language and, upon migrating to Spain at 22, added Spanish to my languages. I've taught both English (I'm an English teacher) and German, and the difference in ease of access is huge.
@@sectorgovernor English is very easy for me, I'm hungarian too. I think it probably depends on what you're into. When I was a kid I had to learn German, it wasn't as easy for me as English was.
Thank you for this post (Magyar Nyelv) that is extremely well done ! I was born in Paris from Hungarian parents (political refugees ,1956) and my first language up until I was 7 years old, was Hungarian. Very early on, I became fascinated with different cultures and languages (Marco Polo's fault). So much so, that nowadays, I am a French, English, Latin teacher . When I hear Hungarian (Magyar) I have chills in my spine even though the journey of my life has brought me from France to the U.S and back to France. I can't help being proud of my origins , my culture, my language. Büske vagyok ara hogy magyar szàrmazas vagyok.
i am studying at hungary, budapest now. i found out that hungarian language like asian language. such as the way hungarian writing name. and the last i want to say is that hungarian language is the most difficult one in europe but when compare to chinese language, is nothing.
I'm Ukrainian our countries don't have the best relations right now but I have a great respect for Hungarians, you guys have a great country. Hopefully Ukraine and Hungary will leave all the misunderstandings behind (also your language seems to be crazy hard)
I've been the Ukraine twice and really enjoyed it. The "misunderstanding" is between idiot politicians who want to stay in power through divide and rule.
+1 to what Phas Low said, Most Hungarian intellectuals have no bad feelings about Ukrainians in general, we just hope that Hungarian speakers of the country don't get mistreated. Also, I think most of us respect you a lot for Maidan and wish you strength to get proper reforms done.
Hi Nakatoh, if you want to practice Hungarian with a native speaker I can help you, just let me know.... In return I will ask the meanings of Japanese SUMO wrestlers name .. :)
I was raised by my grandparents who only spoke Hungarian to me as a child. Later I moved away with my parents, I may have been three years old, and since my mother couldn’t understand Hungarian, we didn’t speak it and I would slowly forget. To this day, I am in my 50s, it has a special sound to me. Sometimes when I’m riding a train and I overhear a Hungarian conversation (it maybe happens once a year) I stay seated and listen. Although I don’t understand anything, listening to the speech melody is very soothing… like watching a campfire. It’s literally music to my ears and I find it to be the most beautiful language by far. I have tried visiting Hungarian learning courses, but most students give up after the first year and the classes cease to exist.
Thanks. I wonder how it sounds? Many people say it sounds very strange, like a UFO language. I think because of the variety, the superior grammar, and some good sounds (like ny, gy, ty) it sounds well. For me English is by far the best, almost all the other languages sound a little bit ugly. Maybe Italian, Japanese, German, and some other Asian languages sound well.
This is the best presentation of my language to foreigners from all the videos I have seen until now. The Hungarians language is not difficult in that meaning that it's logical. But it's difficult in that meaning that the Hungarian language differs from all European languages (and almost) from every other language in the world. So it's a unique language. As you could realize from the presentation it's also very old, it's an ancient language. It did not change much in the past thousands of years because it's vocabulary is so rich. And because it's not similar to other languages. It's the language of the literature. Not only because almost every foreign writing is translated to Hungarian (sometimes faster than into English). But because it can express so much more than other languages, that George Bernard Shaw said in one of his interviews: "After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, my works would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions."
It’s like teaching a Samoyed to guard your supper dish, though .... I suppose it’s technically possible, but ... unless your supper’s a soup of sour cherries, that Samoyed will be off with it, rotting teeth and all.... it’s called ‘caries’.
Great quote. If I remember correctly. Teller Ede (Edward Teller) also concluded that, If his native tongue was English, he could only be a physics teacher in middle school. Many scientists claim that language is important. I do also believe that we think as we speak, meaning how we can express ourselves is the way we think. That's why so many Hungarian inventors and discoverers have been or are, I think. Because of the different way of thinking. But it can be a curse sometimes, because we overthink problems. That's why I suggest to study English at least on a basic level like I do, because many times the solution is the simplest. English is great because it gets to the point, although you can use fancy words too. My father also has an example to present the two languages. -Put a ketchup bottle in front of a Hungarian and an English speaking lad. Then ask them simply "What is this". The Hungarian will explain: "This is a red Ketchup bottle with added spice, made in Europe with a green cap to visualise a tomato." Also mentioning the brand. While the English: "Ketchup." Both are right, neither wrong. But different. Greetings to you all. Bojler eladó.
I learned hungarian when i was 6 . It was easy for me becouse i was so young and curios and i learned it in half year . Since then I live in Hungary so im basically a native speaker. But when I was a child I had the ability to switching between Hungarian and my first language Romanian. It was funny to listen both sides like a foreigner. This language is so beautiful and sophisticated. Most of native Hungarians dont even recognize the power and beauty of it. Its astonishing how easily and accurately can you express yourself with its infinite possibilitys. Im a lucky one that I had the opportunity to learn it perfectly. But I can't imagine that someone could do it from books or with help of teachers. Its no real understandable logic in it and at the same time is so simlpe and fundamental. If languages are cars . Hungarian is a spaceship :D
thank you for your comment. I fully agree with you. "Most of native Hungarians dont even recognize the power and beauty of it" - because most people don't care about it (not only here, worldwide I think), and, what is more important, they don't have an "outer viewpoint" to realize this (=don't speak other language). I only realized that it is accurate and sophisticated _after_ I learnt English. English sounds nice but it's not accurate to express yourself. (However, I can't deny that it has some advantages over Hungarian.) I've never known as native if my opinion is impartial or driven by national pride, so it is interesting to see that someone who is not native came to the same conclusion as me. Thank you. :) You have this same "listen as foreigner" viewpoint about Romanian. What is it like? I don't know a single word, I'm just curious how you would describe it. What things are worh mentioning? Of course, magyarul is írhatod, ha már egy nyelvet beszélünk. :)
Hi. I am American I learned Hungarian at about age of 6 and it took about 1/2 year. My father Attila was from Hungary and he sent for my grandma from hungary . when she 1st came I couldn't understand nothing then one day I noticed I was talking with her my grand ma. A Nagymamam. In Hungarian.
Amazingly enough the word for pocket : zseb is the exact same word as in arabic ....but it could have come from turkish , as turkish itself took a lot of arabic words
Yes in Azerbaijan also say "ceb"/zseb/, Ceb -pocket Cebim -my pocket Cebimde -in my pocket Cebimden -from my pocket Cebin -you pocket Cebinde -in you pocket Cebinden -from you pocket
The official answer is that we borrowed it from Turkish in about the 16th century, who borrowed it from Persian, who borrowed it from Arabic :) However do not forget that 9th century Byzantine sources call us Turk, and half of the world calls us onogur, which is Turk as well 😃 Zsebemben sok kicsi alma van. There are many small apples in my pocket. This sentence is nearly the same in Turkish :)
This language is so different in Europe and foreigners rarely learn it that when I went to Budapest and said "koszonom" (thank you) everyone was blown away. I mean in other European countries locals will be pleased if you can say "thank you" but in Hungary it's another level
Seguindo o seu raciocínio, como não tem muitas pessoas que falam a língua fora do país, é pela mesma razão que a gente da Inglaterra e dos Estados Unidos não sabem falar nenhuma outra língua, pois pela falta de utilidade. Não dá para formar preconceitos irrazoáveis.
As a kid, Hungarian grammar classes were an absolute nightmare for me. As a native speaker all these intricate rules are quite obvious and ingrained, but damn, my hat’s off to anyone who succeeds in making sense of Hungarian as a second language.
Tamas Kovacs: Well Hungarian is the richest language in the planet. The most expressive one. As it was the first. Proto Hungarian / Ancient Hungarian is 68% same as Old Persian But more delicate. One day, all the origin and purpose of the Hungarians ( Huns) will be exposed so will be the Evil Judeo-Christianity, that was created by a Talmudist Rabbi. ( Rabbbi Saul) approx. 60 AD. The world will change once Hungary and their heritage will be exposed.
As a native Hungarian speaker living in the US, I've had a few instances where I hear people speaking in Finnish near me. It's quite strange since to me it sounds as if they were speaking Hungarian but I can't understand anything they're saying. Some Finns have also said the same when they hear me speaking Hungarian with my family.
I was born in Canada and learned English at age 4. Parents sent me to hungarian school too so Im good at both.worked with a finnish chic for 15 years and everything sounds same but not meanings . We joked about it all the time. Also many hindi words similar like takaro is blanket in hungarian but in hindi the word Pakaro with a p start sounds like takaro but in hindi means hold it.
its because even if words havent stayed like they have in finn, we put emphasis the same way finns do, so like that we think its hungarian but we cant understand a thing😂 i experienced it too, it was a bit frustrating🤔😂😂
This is grammar. But George Bernard Shaw said: “After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.”
Hello, I’m Uyghur and my language is very similar to Hungarian language. Now, i learning Hungarian, when you talk about the history of the scrip, i sawed the new conception.
Egy külföldi ember esküszöm, hogy egy sokkal összeszedettebb és szebb videót vagy egyéb munkát tud készíteni, mint egy magyar. Gyönyörű az egész összefoglalása, szépen van kifejezve és minden kisebb részlet is ki van dolgozva! Illetve nem úgy hangzik a hangja az embernek, ( bocsánat, nem tudom a nevét ) mintha egy kicsi, jelenktéktelen ország lenne. Sőt, érdekesen mondja/meséli el. A külföldiek számára szerintem fontos információkat tartalmaz. Látszik, hogy sok munka van a videóban, minden Gratulációm!
Very Interesting and informative video!Hungarians you have a very hard to studying language but very beautiful! Protect your language! Love from Ukraine!!!🇺🇦🇭🇺
@@gabor6259 we need to protect our language, at first from russian occupation. nobody in Ukraine do not disallow to speak Hungarians in their language, as well as in other languages
I have traveled to Budapest a couple of times recently, fell in love (with it), and now I am trying to learn Hungarian. As a language teacher for decades already, I must admit that it is - by far - the most difficult language I have encountered. I am not giving up yet, though.
As a learner of Hungarian: the vocabulary is absolutely completely alien to me with very few exceptions (I'm a native Finnish speaker, but also fluent in Swedish and English, somewhat fluent in Norwegian and familiar with German), and the fact that it works like Finnish (cases, agglutination, etc.) actually makes things much worse than I thought. Now I think I know what people mean when they feel lost when learning Finnish... :D honestly the easiest thing I find about Hungarian is pronunciation, since it's rather accurate in terms of writing and I'm used to long words and vowel harmony in Finnish.
That's right!. I have once read that Finnish is one of the closest languages to Hungarian. I think Finnish has nothing to do with neighbouring languages, such as Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, or even English.
@@nicolas1248 Finnish is related to Hungarian since they're both Uralic languages but it's not one of the closest languages to Hungarian. The relationship between Hungarian and Finnish is just like the relationship between Persian and Italian or between Greek and Lithuanian. The Ugric base of Hungarian is closest to Mansi language spoken in Yugra, Western Siberia and the Turkic adstratum of Hungarian is closest to Chuvash language spoken in Idel-Ural, Eastern Europe.
Hello from the USA! Watching this to learn more about Hungarian culture! My great grandfather (my nanas father) was born in Hungary, and emigrated to the USA with his parents when he was a child. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!!
@@cueiyo6906 Yes, Cantonese is (very) hard when it comes to speaking and reading, but grammar is relatively easy: no genders, regular verbs, regular tenses and cases. In other words: it's a piece of cake compared to agglutinative languages like Hungarian and Finnish.
@@demnotmem ye but the reason it's the hardest (also Mandarin) is because of characters, Japanese ppl only need to know like 2K Kanjis while we literally need 3K characters just to be able to read a encyclopedia or even a Newspaper
Why do you have slovak word in your yt handle tho? Whats the background there if I may ask? I am not aware that there is "šikmooký" in any other language (well, Czechs say it the same I guess, so there's that).
I guess it seems confusing because he's talking about so many different things in such a short time. I can hardly follow the explanations myself, and it's my native tongue that he's talking about! LOL... Complex, yes, but it's pretty straight forward if you get into it step by step. :-)
@Charlie K Although Hungarian is considered to be part of the same linguistic family with Finnish, there is nothing to approach them, so it has nothing to do with Finnish language. We do not understand each other, nothing is in common. Complicated in Hungarian is primarily pronunciation, some vowels have no equivalent in Germanic or Latin languages. I'm thinking that here is the biggest difficulty. Anyway, specific to this language is the phonetics and vowels harmony,
As a Pole, I’ve been attempting to start learning Hungarian. I’m already learning Korean, Japanese and Finnish and I’m doing pretty well and I love how unique Finnish is and how… expressive it is? I like learning languages with rich vocabulary because one of my main passions is songwriting so I appreciate languages that let you express your thoughts very precisely. Korean, Japanese and Finnish are wonderful when it comes to means of expressing yourself, you can even express very specific nuances in countless ways! I thought Hungarian would be good for that as well because supposedly Hungarian poetry is really interesting. The pronunciation is a little hard though, like it’s confusing. 😅 For example, s is pronounced more like our Polish sz and sz is pronounced like our Polish s. So confusing lol
Im also learning japanese. been doing it for over a year but cant seem to progress :/ . Good luck on your hungarian tho! Sikerülni fog! Also love from Hungary
@@ellevehaler1758yeah i like to learn languages . Especially slavic languages, now im on serbian croatian bt for an italian romanian its hard bt ill do my best. Bt i swear that u polish people are so nice and kind, everywhere i see poles being kind ❤🇵🇱
I’m so glad I stumbled on this video! I grew up mostly in Hungary, and I miss it dearly. It’s getting harder and harder to remember words when speaking… now that I’ve been removed 16 years, but I still understand enough to get by. The village of Sülysáp is where I learned Hungarian. But the town of Tata is where I learned to love Hungarian. ❤️🤍💚 Much love from the US
It is shame to forget your mother’s language. I’m living in the U. S. 25 years,still speaking Hungarian,my daughter who born in the U.S. speaking fluently,very proud of her.She can read,but cannot write Hungarian.
@@edinacamden4346 I should clarify that I’m American. 🙂 My parents moved to Hungary as missionaries when I was six. I left permanently when I was 18 to attend college in the States. I hope to take my husband there one day, and I wish my daughters could experience it also!
@@edinacamden4346 That’s ok! My mother, sister, and I still have conversations in Hungarian, especially when we don’t want the other to know what we are talking about. 🤣 My sister is the most fluent and keeps it fresh for us. She has two grown daughters who are half Hungarian and live there, and she did not move back to America until about two years ago.
@@brobro5932 well actually people with white skin and colored-eyes exist in some middle eastern countries too so he might have european roots but not necessarily.
As a Hungarian who has travelled to Nordic countries, the most surreal moment for me was coming across a Sami poem in North Norway and understanding a couple of words after re-translating it from the English translation to Hungarian in my head. It was like walking on the street and seeing someone who looks exactly like an old friend, just for a moment before you never see each other again. And of course, as other people have pointed out, Finnish and Estonian have a similar feel but are still almost completely different.
@@zsiroslangos Haha, it was supposed to mean this: Polish Hungarian two good friends, fight together and drink wine. (bor-át => as sharing a drink because wine = bor)
How beautiful is that?? :D Eléggé elégedett-e? [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡedetː e] - (Whether) Is he/she/are you (sir/miss) satisfied/pleased enough? Eléggé elégedett? [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡedetː] - Is he/she/are you (sir/miss) satisfied/pleased enough? Eléggé elégette-e? [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡɛtːe e] - (Whether) Has he/she (completely) burnt it sufficiently? Eléggé elégette. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡɛtːe] - He/she has (completely) burnt it sufficiently. Eléggé elégett-e? [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡetː e] - Has it been (completely) burnt sufficiently? Eléggé elégett. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡetː] - It has been (completely) burnt sufficiently. Eléggé eléget. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡɛt] - He/she is (completely) burning you sufficiently. Eléggé eléget (valamit). [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡɛt] - He/she is (completely) burning something sufficiently. Eléggé elég-e? [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡ e] - (Whether) Is it going to (completely) burn sufficiently? Eléggé elég. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡ] - It is going to (completely) burn sufficiently. Eléggé elég. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡ] - It is being (completely) burnt sufficiently. [also as “Eléggé elégőben van.”] Eléggé elég. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡ] - It is sufficiently enough. Eléggé égett. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈeːɡetː] - It is burnt a lot. Eléggé éget. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈeːɡɛt] - It is burning me a lot. Eléggé ég-e? [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈeːɡ e] - Is it burning sufficiently? Eléggé ég. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈeːɡ] - It is burning sufficiently. Eléggé. [ˈɛleːɡːeː] - Sufficiently. | Quite. | Pretty much. | Very. | A lot. Elég. [ˈɛleːɡ] - Sufficient. | Enough. Elég. [ˈɛleːɡ] - It is being (completely) burnt. [also as “Elégőben van.”] Elég. [ˈɛleːɡ] - It will burn (completely). Elég-e? [ˈɛleːɡ e] - Will it burn (completely)? Elég-e? [ˈɛleːɡ e] - Is it enough? Ég-e? [ˈeːɡ e] - Is it burning? Ég. [ˈeːɡ] - It is burning. Ég. [ˈeːɡ] - Sky. Éget. [ˈeːɡɛt] - He/she is burning something. Éget. [ˈeːɡɛt] - It is burning me. Éget-e? [ˈeːɡɛt e] - Is it burning you? Éget-e? [ˈeːɡɛt e] - Is he/she burning something? Égett. [ˈeːɡetː] - It is burnt. | It was burning. Égett-e? [ˈeːɡetː e] - (Whether) Is it burnt? Égett-e? [ˈeːɡetː e] - (Whether) Was it burning? égni [ˈeːɡni] - to burn
Hey guys! I'm twelve years old and I'm live in Hungary, I learning English since I was six years old and now I can speak English very well. I hope you all want to learn Hungarian because It's a complex and pretty language, but a little bit hard to learn it. I really love every language because each has its own specialty, and when I was a child I always dreamed of traveling around the world once I hope that my and everyone else's dreams will come true. Love you guys❤️ Bye
@@JeanDuPays Hi, to be honest I totally forget about this video and that I wrote a comment. The grammar isn't perfect in my text, but I improved a lot since then. It's been 3 years and now I'm 15. I have a level B2 complex language exam and in the next few years I'm going to go for the level C1. Thank you for the reminder and your comment, it was really sweet.
It also surprised me how Finnish sounded a bit similar to Hungarian. I was in a queue in Helsinki when I heard people talking behind me and for a moment I thought it was Hungarian. Obviously there are some similarities in how the languages sound. But then when I carefully listen people talking in Finnish I don't understand a single word they say. It is probably the same when foreigners when they hear Hungarian, they don't understand anything (we barely use any words from Latin and also don't mix English words into Hungarian unlike many other languages).
@@szeretemahansant226 is it because you learned it young? I do think most people around the world have access to the English language now with so much global travel, I was in some remote parts of Asia in the early 80’s & almost everyone had some English & were enthusiastic about speaking/ practicing it (except Japan-they didn’t really want to speak English). I do think it would be much harder to learn Hungarian as there isn’t much similarities to other info European languages. -Finnish maybe, but who speaks that🙂
I've lived in budapest for three years, between 2001 and 2004. At the end I was fluent in .... english as my parents had put me in an english speaking kindergarten. Today I love hearing hungarian, even though I understand nothing. I find it one of the most beautiful languages. I'd like to learn it but I think I'll never do that, as it is so difficult
Thanks for doing this, Paul. I've asked you a couple of times to do Hungarian and now here it is. I've been studying Hungarian for many years now----I started by singing along to lyrics printed on the jacket of an LP of Bartok folk songs back in around 1976 or so. Spoken Hungarian itself is very musical to my ear and the staccato beat of the syllables with the Finno-Ugric feature of the first syllable of words being accented and the rest of the word trails off from that initial punch making me think speaking Hungarian is a good exercise for increasing one's breathing capacity. They just go on and on and on before taking a breath, which would leave me gasping. I've been to Hungary 9 times, mostly in the 1980's, just once since the change from communism. I have no one to speak Hungarian with so learning it is just a fun and entertaining thing for me. Hungarians tell me that I have very good pronunciation, which gets me into trouble because when I say my first sentence they think I'm fluent and they take off with their rat-tat-tat-tat but I'm completely lost. There are even long pieces written in which the only vowel used is 'e', which really displays the swift tumbling of clipped syllables that to me, along with the initial syllable of words being accented, is a distinguishing factor of Hungarian speech.
There is actually a game we call "eszperente", when you speak or write using words that only have the "e" and "é" vowels. Some can write several paragraphs of perfectly intelligible text without using any other vowel, although you have to get pretty creative with your choice of words. :)
That moment when you speak Serbian as a native language and you immediately recognise the words varos and zseb which are used in Serbian as well as we absorbed Hungarian vocabulary during history. Thank you so much for the informative video as usual! :)
German native speaker here, trying to learn Hungarian since several years now. The by far most horrific task for me learning the gyönyörü magyar nelvet is the syntax. You learned Latin? You struggled in school with sentences of Cicero going over five or more pages? Forget that, it was sooooooo easy. Stuff for little children indeed. There is nothing a weird and hard to fight with in Hungarian, as the hungarian syntax. Like in Latin, sentences can go over pages and pages without a dot. Like Latin the structure of the words in the sentence is solely defined by the relationship of the words toward each other. But other then in Latin this can easily be expended into the infinite. I fear, I will never be able to understand those pages-long sentences and surely will never be able to formulate sentences like those. Nontheless I deeply love Hungarian, it is one of the by for not IF THE most beautiful languages makind ever developed. I hope very much you all like this beautiful language and will try learning it, too It is in anyway much worth the struggle.
I have to admit I am myself shocked sometimes when I realize the structure behind my native language. But don't worry too much, just like any other languages, listen to it and use it if you can. You won't be able to learn it (neither could have I) from books and videos. Spend some time here in Hungary and memorize typical sentences, sooner or later there will be a pattern visible.
That bought tears to my eyes. Hungarian native speaker here. I've been learning German for a few years now and it is not easy either. Don't you find it funny how you can mirror translate expressions and composite words between the 2 languages? German influence is huge on Hungarian. What I love about German how you can spice a sentence with litte words: doch, mal, ganz...
im hungaryian and im learning german in school.. man, its fkin hard. learning wich word has wich prefix is just a huge grind. i learned english from videos, games, juts online etc. and it was so much easyer then german. been learning german for 8 years and i dont think i can say a single conclusive sentence. :(
Same problem for me here in Australia. I studied Latin at school including translating the rantings of Cicero. Was quite good at it. Later in life, after I married a Hungarian, I decided to learn her language, which I have managed to do where to the point where Hungarians start speaking English as soon as I try to converse with them.
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Hungarian be like: Stadion
Orbán Viktor's favourite place: Stadion
Football players love it: Stadion
Hungarian Hospital: Stadion
@@mrnandotheoneandonly Paks megújul, lesz benne egy stadion is.
@@ormenyziv0916 😂
I am hungarian lmao
@@serverbp0001 and you like stadijon?
Only Hungarians and God can speak hungarian language
Na akkor magyarázd el nekem ,nem vagyok magyar mégis jól tudok beszélni ,lehet hogy Isten vagyok vagy mi?
@@Neoxiik ez egy idézet volt. Fogalmam sincs kitől.
@@mixedemotiona yess :-)
Ez tetszik
Good, then I'm God.
Azt mondják a *hatalmasok*
Hogy akinek *hat alma sok*
Az már egy *hatalmas ok*
Hogy ne legyen *hatalma sok*
Ez nagyon jó.
So say the powerful;
For whosoever six apples are too many;
It is a great enough reason;
That he not have much power.
@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 Yes
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
@@alap00100 ? XD
Hungarian grammar is quite simple: Subject + Predicate + Bazdmeg
baszd meg*
XDD
bazd what?
"Bazdmeg" is "fuck you"
Lol
Hello from Transilvania , as a Romanian who grew up among ethnic Hungarians ,I can tell you straight that Hungarian is one of the hardest languages to learn .It's a beautiful and very complex language backed by a vast culture and tradition , but good luck trying to master it.
Köszönjük :)
This channel is simply amazing. As a language lover, and Hungarian I think this video is the best linguistic video regarding our language. These videos bring people closer to each other. To your Comment, Cristian: thank you for your approach :) For me, Romanian is one of the most exciting language, I do learn Italian, and this is why I've just started to read/learn more about Romanian. It is so cool, that your language is so close to Latin and Italian, so far in the mountains. Multumesc :)
@@CalebBerman Why are you spamming the comment section?
Muie ungaria, patria porciilor.
Hi from Budapest, as a half Romanian-Szekler, Hungarian Mother - maiden name Olariu
Én tanulok magyarul más fél évet és nagyon szeretem a magyar nyelvet. Nehéz de szép és nagyon szép halgatni. Most lakom a Budapesten és én nagyon szeretek ez város. Sajnos töbnyire sok külfoldi emberek nem szereti tanulni magyarul.
@@lukapopsimon5543 You are absolutely right, BUT! Dusan was more than understandable! Really big respect for him!!
@@lukapopsimon5543 Köszönjük Emese...Másfél éve tanul magyarul te okostojás , mit játszod itt az eszed ?
You're good, especially when you said that you learn it since 1,5 years. Respect!
Nem tudom ezt mennyire érted, de nagyon tisztelem azokat, akik tanulják a magyart úgy, hogy nem anyanyelvük. Mindenki tudja, hogy ez egy nehéz nyelv, de szép is, bár sokan nem látják (ahogy én sem fogom úgy látni, mint bármelyik ember, aki nem itt született, és nem szokásos, hogy szinonimákból bizony sok van, vagy csak, hogy sokféleképpen lehet mondatot képezni). Szóval csak így tovább a magyar nyelv tanulásával! :D
Hát sajnos a magyar nyelv elég nehéz de nem lehetetlen megtanulni (szerencsére) :)
Ne add fel könnyen :))
Ha van barátod aki magyarul beszél és még magyar is tud akkor tud mesélni egyet s mást.
Sok sikert! :)
@@zitatoth9458 te magyar vagy? Én igen.
greetings from Poland friends!
Lengyel, magyar - két jó barát,
Együtt harcol s issza borát!
Pozdrowienia z Węgier, friend! :) We love you Poles forever. :)
Ez jó xD
❤
😍😍👍
és kiveri egymás fogát :DD
I am a simply man. When I see something about Hungary - I like it and watch. :)
Greetings from Poland !
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Love u from 🇭🇺
Same
@@barnijasz925 Üdvozlem Lengyelországból!
A Magyarország a szivemben van!
Hello guy from polland!
Greetings!
Watching this as a native Mongolian speaker, the Hungarian language seems really familiar and intuitively makes a lot of sense to me. A majority of the grammatical rules are essentially the same rules with just different sounds and even how the language sounds are familiar, too.
That's very intriguing.
Both languages are ALTAÏC,
@@marcwinkler the altaic language family really does not exist
@@patrikszilins7845 That is not an argument Your Honor.
Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic languages (is Japanese related?) share
structural, morphemic similarities. T h i s is only one (1) of many
linguistic controversies.
Let's look at Altai Mountains map.
I learned Hungarian as a kid from Omega's song "Gyöngyhajú lány" which was very popular in the 70s in Russia.
Igen, élt egy gyöngyhajú lány
Álmodtam vagy igaz talán?
I still love that song
For those who don't know that song - they do. As White Dove from Scorpions (mid 90s)
and now it's getting famous in the US (kanye west stole it, then Jonah Hill used in Mid90s trailer)
Same here. And damn, this song still plays on our radio stations and always on New Year.
Greetings.🇵🇱🤝🇭🇺
Nem is tudtam hogy ilyen népszerű volt
Just wanted to say "Hi" to our Hungarian bros from Poland
Lengyel, magyar két jó barát
Bffs
Love you ;)
Polak Wegier, dwa bratanki, i do szabli, i do szklanki
My name is Lengyel Lili ;-;
Együtt harcol, s issza borát
my history teacher is Hungarian and one tie one of my classmates to ask him to speak Hungarian, and he turned that entire lesson into a Hungarian lesson lol
where are you from?
@@andro_system I'm chinese but I was born in America
@@Rxdygoldfox Nice to meet you!
How are you?
@@Cybernaut551 Good i think I THINK
@@Rxdygoldfox Szevasztok!Nem késtem el?
Thank you Paul. I am a 70 year old Hungarion who emigrated to Canada with my parents in 1957. This evening I learned a lot about my people and my language.
Kedves László, mennyire emlékszik még a magyarra? Volt alkalma kint is beszélni a nyelvet, szinten tartani?
I am sorry to say that I have lost most of my Hungarian speach skills. I live in a small city with only a very small number of Hungarian speakers, wno I do not know. I have not spoken the language for almost 40 years. I think in Hungarian sometimes to practice and remember many words, but I can no longer put together a proper sentence. However I could read most of your comment and do understand Hungarian when it is spoken slowly.
@@-kattya-
@@laszlosoltesz3772 thank you for your answer Laszlo! You wrote that sometimes you think in Hungarian. Could you please explain it a little more? I find this really interesting.
Kedves László! Amilyen nyelven álmodsz, az az anyanyelved!!!! László! Szoktál magyarul álmodni? Néha? Sohasem..., melyik igaz? Köszönöm szépen!
Translation: The language you dream in is your mother tongue!!!! László! Are you used to dreaming in Hungarian? Sometimes? Never... which one is true? Thank you very much!
My parents were both true Hungarians immigrated in 1970 in Canada I want to learn the language to honor them and our heritage
that is really nice of you, sok sikert! (Sok sikert means good luck haha)
Thank you
And they named you Curt?
@@GholaTleilaxu To make his life easier. It is much easier to integrate into a society with a local name than with a stranger. That's why my Hungarian friends who have a child in the UK, giving them local British names. For example Takács Craig, or Kovács Brian. Later it is more accepted by society. With a foreign name, you are at a disadvantage in every aspect of life, even if you speak the language at your native language.
Curt H Good
I am Austrian, I speak some languages fluently and really like foreign languages.
Hungarian is my favourite foreign language. It's the most elegant and creative foreign language for me. Also the Hungarian Culture is very rich and special.
Én osztrák és magyarul az én kedvenc idegen nyelvem. :-) Különösen szép nyelv és nagyon érdekes a Magyar Kultúra is.
"Osztrák vagyok és magyarul tanulok..." a többi jó! :)
Du sprichst schon cool! Meine Lieblingsfremdsprache ist ja Deutsch. Viele sagen, dass es zu schwer ist, aber für mich ist es ganz logisch. Viele Grüße aus Ungarn!:))
S nyögte Mátyás bús hadát, Bécsnek büszke vára
Du host a poa fehla kopt
ezt a nyelvet élni kell mert az eggyik legkifejezőbb nyelv a világon
🇪🇸 Italia
🇬🇧 Italy
🇫🇷 Italie
🇮🇹 Italia
🇵🇹 Itália
🇩🇪 Italien
🇷🇺 Италия (italiya)
🇳🇱 Italië
🇮🇱 איטליה (italia)
🇸🇪 Italien
🇯🇵 イタリア (itaria)
🇩🇰 Italien
🇳🇴 Italia
🇨🇳 意大利 (yidali)
🇪🇪 Itaalia
🇺🇦 Італія (italiya)
🇬🇷 Ιταλία (italía)
🇹🇷 İtalya
🇮🇳 इटली (italee)
🇫🇮 Italia
🇸🇦 إيطاليا (iitalia)
🇭🇺 Olaszország
Enough said!
We also say Itália, but rather when we are referring to the region.
PL - Wlochy [ vlóhi ] for Italia )))
in the old hungarian they called the italians to "talján"
🇵🇱 - Włochy
Go see what is the translation of italy in vietnamise and thank me later
My grandpa knows Russian perfectly and Hungarian at an intermediate level ! And he said that if he was able to learn Hungarian, he will certainly be able to learn English and he started learning English 2 months ago and he is really making progress! He is 85 years old and said that it is never too late! and honestly he is right! (We are from Romania)!
Cefaci bro!
@@just_one_opinionLMAO at the google translated version of "What's up" in your comment
Buna! (My keyboard doesn't have the symbol over a like romanian😢)
Probably took the 80 years to learn the Hungarian(joke)
Your grandpa is great.❤
As a Finn it's funny to listen to Hungarian as it sounds like Finnish with it's intonation, pacing etc. only you can't understand anything.
same experience. Finnish sounds me like a melodic "lorem ipsum" for me with trtrt. :)
Agreed! I learned finnish for 2 semesters at university, and these things are really similar. If i didn't pay attention to the teacher (happened dometimes :) ), i totally thought, she is speaking hungarian.
Yeah I'm a Hungarian and we are conflicted because there's a theory that we might be in relation with the turk nations rather then the finns... But our teacher sad that she learnt that on the university... You know the similarities between the two languages and it's just the grammar but if I would hear you speak I wouldn't understand a word... I speak Slovak too but with that I understand quite a lot in other Slavic languages too... But with Hungarian it's not nearly the same
@Kiss-Horváth Ferenc Nyugat-Magyarországi Egyetem Savaria Egyetemi Központ (lánykori nevén Berzsenyi Dániel Főiskola)
@Kiss-Horváth Ferenc Ööö....fogalmazzunk úgy, hogy nem a finn nyelv szeretete vett rá, hogy felvegyem a tárgyat. Kellett a kredit, mint egy falat kenyér :D
I'm watching this as a hungarian, and I've just realized how difficult our language is hahaha
Csak most vetted észre? LOL hol voltán nyt (nyelvten) órákon? (csak viccelek)
Né' má' !!! Egy magyar...
@@adamn7125 Did you say ? "None is like it/There is no. Hungarian is unique/One is Hungarian." (from Serbian perspective it could be understood like that)
Im a Serb who has absolutely no knowledge of your language.
Ohh and why the fuckk do we always have problems passing your border...you are always very mean you make us leave car or buses..ALWAYS ???????? 😂
The most difficult thing is -meg
@@Neversa YES i cannot explain how that works but i can use it easy as im native
Poles really like and respect Hungarians. These are our brothers and friends since the Middle Ages. Greetings from Krakow
and we think the same for abouth you! :)
btw, exsuce me, no hurting, but i know a polis words " hugyinka " idk what meaning, but very funny word :'D we jave awe have a similar word, what synonymous with squirting xdddd
* have
Well fuck of from Switzerland
love you guys greetings from budapest
There's a historical friendship between the two countries, and a saying that goes: "Hungarians and Poles are two friends, both in the sword and in the drinking glass".
As an albanian. I give this language 11/10. Hungarian language is certainly the language to writte ancient texts
I think the same about your language :D cheers from Hungary
Albanian is still easier to me than Hungarian, Russian, and Greek and I Stand by that lol.
Don't you have like two very different variants?
In the early 1900s, my Burgenland grandfather, attended school, where is his lessons were given in the morning in German, and the exact same lessons were given in Hungarian in the afternoon. Thus was bilingual education in the Austro- Hungarian Empire. He loved the Hungarian language, even though he was Austrian, because he found it more romantic, and saw that Hungarian men had an easier charm with the women, than the stiff Germanic people. He always attempted to emulate their charming ways with women. As children, we would try to get him to say something in Hungarian, even though we didn’t understand it, because it sounded so wonderful. My dad said, he realized later in life that my grandfather’s swear words were actual Hungarian and not German.
😂😂😂
This story is a beautiful one, it for sure warmed my heart. Best wishes to you from Hungary, osztrák barátom!
That's a very cool, heart-warming story. It could have happened to your grandfather that you watch a football match, your grandfather asks who plays, you say _Austria, Hungary,_ he asks _against whom?_
I have a similar story. My paternal grandfather was Serbian from Bacska, born during the Kingdom of SHS in the early 1920s. However, growing up in his ethnically mixed town (Србобран-Srbobran/Szenttamás), he spoke Hungarian as fluently as his native Serbian. Many years later he moved to Canada, and whenever he heard someone speaking Hungarian, he would approach them and start singing "elindultam szép hazámból,
híres kis Magyarországból....", which, after the initial surprise, unavoidably brings tears, making fiends that instant.
Kein Wunder, in der deutschen Sprache könnt ihr kaum fluchen. Arschloch.... Da lachen wir drüber :D
"digging into Hungarian a little bit"
-> proceeds to explain like 90% of the grammar more in-depth than Hungarian schools do, leaving me feel uneducated about my own language
(respect though, great video)
Don't worry, most native speakers feel like that about their language!
I'm English, and I've learnt more about English grammar from conversations I've had with foreign friends than I ever did at school.
Same
Well, he is a huge channel, so because of that, he needs to do a big research, in order to avoid hatred & gossip about making a mistake, I know it myself!
When someone does a terrific job, people barely say thank you, but when one mistake exists, most of the people are ready to write about it.
This has little to do with schooling but with that neurologically speaking as a kid or infant you don't have the same abstract thinking and mental-strategies / higher faculties like an adult has. And later on in life most adults don't care about learning the logic of their own language, just like most don't care about exploring the beauty and diversity of their own country and rather associate travel with going abroad.
Bruh I'm hungarian, currently in school and that isn't even 5%, it's the very basics, we have to learn so many rules! But it does look super complicaited, so I can't exactly blame you.
I studied Hungarian for a few months. BAZAAR! Definitely NOT indo-european. I would place it somewhere between Klingon and old Southern Hemishere Martian.
lol
I was dissuaded by my MENSA member 1st cousin once removed to not bother learning it, as it's almost impossible.....but she speaks it, so it makes me really really wanna learn to show her the smarts didn't end with her generation
Did you mean 'bizarre'? (Where's that word from anyway?)
The Hungarian language is uralic
@@jasmincooper7146 if she's your cousin then aren't you both of the same generation?
I’m simple polish man I see Hungarian flag I’m clicking video 🇵🇱♥️🇭🇺
Greetings from Poland
Hello, and know that we are all simple men and women in any evaluation...no matter our social standing.
@@evakovacs5340 i dont care about your sex if you are hungarian i love you
Yes, doesn't matter what do our stupid politicians do, we have to stay friends !
thats really sweet, man !!
Welcome: a Hungarian from Bydgoszcz!
Germans: We made our grammar über complicated
Hungarians: Hold my palinka
HahahahahahahaahahahahakgksoabfiwkabfiekanforkabUfieanIfhrjwkadbfeke (a hungarian laugh).
@@marinalexanduradu7384 German is easy, too ... basically the same as english, even half the words are the same.
Not even making the effort to put out the á in Pálinka? I'm almost disappointed. Good one tho. False-ish, but good one.
German grammar is one of the simplest there are, come on. Unless you only know English, lol.
Well, I have to say that my mother and my (late) grandmother were both Hungarian by origin, but I still think that Hungarian belongs (along with Chinese and Japanese) to the most difficult languages in the world:-)).In fact, Hungarian is surely the most difficult language which is written in Latin alphabet:-) I have to express my respect and admiration to anyone who can speak and read Hungarian fluently:-))
When Paul makes you understand your own grammar better in 22:29 than any primary or secondary school teacher in 12 miserable years.
Lolololol
well said :D
Milyen igaz xD
You should have payed attention and try by yourself to learn your own grammar. You're the pathetic one here lol
@@trepimero5530 Oh look! An outraged schoolteacher... or a loser who try to roast people on the internet 'cus he doesn't have the balls to do it in person.
One can't be a true Polish without unconditional respect and love for Hungarians. We have no idea what you are talking about, but we love you anyway. Here's to the next thousand years together!
Well arent i lucky to have one parent from hungary and one from poland then... Half/half of two very cool and beautiful countries... Btw i live was born in Australia
Umm okay @siwuz84 thats an odd response... Lucky i live in Australia then ay.
Of course, you have, we like kapuszta as well, like most of the mid-Europeans we are using the word kurqa, and don't forget the lecsó.
There you go. :)
@@rocko44444444 Kapusta is actually a slavic word (shame on me, I don't know where does it come from, perhaps Russian?)
@@B2BWide en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kapusta
Thank you for this! My mother's side of the family is Hungarian and I plan on becoming a Hungarian citizen and currently tackling the language! Wish me luck :)
how is it going?
We need an update on your language thing. I refuse to believe that someone could learn this stuff
Jó Szerencsét! :)
I learned hungarian for years, as I was married to a hungarian. It was frustrating, because, even as my vocabulary and grammar imrpoved in class, the hungarian habit of speaking in idioms and of making word games in the idioms makes it much harder.
Apart from that, I find hungarian a beautifully colorful and immaginative language.
It's a convenient secret language to use when abroad with hungarians
"the hungarian habit of speaking in idioms and of making word games in the idioms.....". Do you know why?
Mert a 'szóragozás' szórakozás ;)
@@desjeux1 hat ezt cringey modban irtad lol
Én felnevettem.
@@히요리日和 nem
@@desjeux1 Magyar tanárunk az osztályfőnökünk és megállás nélkül ilyen fájdalmas szóviccekkel jön.
I'm hungarian, and this is the best Hungarian language video ever
Renáta Béres
The Hungarian language
Anyone say it is hard to learn
But I’m kurdish and I see it is easy
Cső Rákóczi
@Balint Szczyt skopinczev Igaz, hát
@@ajtonynadas9878 szia
@Milan Vagyok basszalammeg ?
The only Hungarian I need to know: Szeretnék egy sört. I took a Hungarian class when I was as Taszar Air Base in 1999-2000 with the US Army. The people are awesome. My favorite food was Gulyas and deep fried cheese triangles, not sure what they were called.
Warlock 06 the cheese thing called ràntottsajt means crumbed chees love it
Greetings from Kaposvár. At that time, I served there... (HuAF) I had many
American friends. I learned English from them, they learned Hungarian from me.
@@Oborzin66 I was there with the Colorado National Guard. One of the guys I talked to a lot, his name is Tomas i think. He drove a BMW 320i and was a Corporal in the Hungarian Army. We worked the front gate, near the cantina quit a bit. I still remember some words in Hungarian but for some reason Paradicsom has always remained with me. That is awesome that you were there are the same time.
@@tereziatheobald5772 Thank you for letting me know what they are called. I will have to say, Magyarország (Hungary) was the most pleasant country I ever visited. I keep telling people they need to go there at least once just to see how great it is.
Warlock 06 I am glad that you had a great time there!
Thanks for spreading the good words about our country
As a Turkish speaker the similarities between Hungarian and Turkish was very suprising. First of all both have aglutination and vowel harmony. The possesive suffix in Turkish is basicly the same with Hungarian. And in the examples he gave varoş is a Hungarian loan word in Turkish and zseb is a Turkish loan word in Hungarian (it actually originates in Arabic).
So "varosom" in Hungarian would be "varoşum" in Turkish,
"varosomban" ="varoşumda"
"zsebem"="cebim" (c is pronounced the same way as zs)
"zsebemben" ="cebimde"
Hungarian should also be part of Turkic languages and also historical facts are there
You wrote "cseb" but this word does not exist in Hungarian. Correctly it is "zseb".
@@szp771 Fixed. Thanks for the correction.
I am not surprised. Turkish, Hungarian and FInnish and Estonian are all related. In fact the joke is that the Finns are the stupidest of the four because, when they entered Europe, they went too far north and live in the cold.
ben de fark ettim. kurallar ayni, ama sesler farkli.
(don't have turkish keyboard)
I'm Brazilian and to me, Hungarian is pretty much like Calculus, but harder, despite this, you Hungarians are pretty cool
Shoutout to Hungary
Verdade , estimado ! Eu sou brasileira também .
Minha avó é hungara , e a Hungria está no meu coração !
True, dear! I'm Brazilian too.
My grandmother is Hungarian, and Hungary is in my heart!
Igaz, drágám! Én is brazil vagyok.
A nagymamám magyar, és Magyarország a szívemben van!
Sorry, for not many Polish comments, but we are studying closely this video. Of course we all know one, but the very important sentence in Hungarian already:
"Lengyel, magyar - két jó barát, együtt harcol, s issza borát" - "Pole, Hungarian - two good friends, together they battle and drink their wine" and now the Polish version: "Polak, Węgier - dwa bratanki, i do szabli, i do szklanki" - "Pole and Hungarian - two brothers, good for saber and for glass".
Polish footbal fans also know "Ria! Ria! Hungaria!" and don't hasitate to scand it.
Yesterday was a big day in Budapest too! :) Happy 100th!
Even at hungarian-romanian football matches I hope.
@@theblancmange1265 On Polish-Romanian maches this behavour was mainly recorded, but I think that many Poles came also when Hungary plays, supporting our "bratanki" - brothers.
The version I know: Lengyel, Magyar, két jó barát, együtt issza egymás borát - meaning: Polish, Hungarians, two good friends, drinking together each other's wine XD
Vitéz, bátor mindkettője,áldás szálljon mindkettőre! Polska Weigr Dwa Bratanki! From Hungary! 🇭🇺❤️🇵🇱
I’m learning hungarian for the second year now (being an Estonian) and I was literally squealing with happiness while watching this video because I understood everything grammar-wise and it’s such an amazing feeling! Aaaaaaahhh.
The most difficult thing has been the rections as they differ a lot from Estonian.
Got ya'! :D
Zsolt Bánhalmi Stalker :D
Ma alles alustasin õppimist ja hetkel on ikka üsna keeruline :D
i am a hunagrians and was watching an estonian youtuber arthur rehi. And in one of his videos he said pizike i was so shocked like wtf i understand this. Is this what i am thinking about ? And he said pizike means small or tiny i was like wtf we hungarians say picike and its mean tiny or small also :D. I am currently learning finnish and funny to see the similarities with estonian. But nothing with us so far except the grammar and some words. Lke torony-torn.
just some1 Pisike, is the word, yea. So cool! I mean the cases kinda work the same way, the logic behind them. Some words are similar: szem-silm, száj-suu, víz-vesi, vér-veri, könyök-küünarnukk etc. :D
But it’s also funny how Estonian and Finnish sound really similar, but I don’t really understand Finnish when I’m listenig to it. :)
My paternal namesake ancestor immigrated from Hungary to the USA in the 19th century. This year my son is traveling back there to study at university. It will be the first time in over 150 years since one of our family members has lived in Hungary. I’m so very proud. Came here to learn more about Hungarian language but learned much more than expected. Very well done video and worthy of a graduate class in linguistics.
I am Hungarian and seeing all these rules makes my language seem so convoluted. I guess you don't feel how complicated your language is until you try to explain it to someone.
You are right. You say something in hungarian, and someone asks why did you say it in that way? now that is challenging part of it!
True that haver :D
It's said that J.R.R. Tolkien modeled his "Black Speech" (language of the Nazgul and other evil characters) after Hungarian. Which is a problem for those who translate _The Lord of The Rings_ into Hungarian, because he intended the Black Speech to sound menacing, but to Hungarians it sounds perfectly normal.
It's mainly due to the vowels imo. In Hungarian phonology, vowels are almost exclusively monophthongs, while English is littered with diphthong or even triphthong vowels.
This makes English sound floaty and fluid, whereas Hungarian and the Black Speech sound sharp and segmented.
@@UnstopablePatrik Some consonants also, correct? For example, 'zg' in your name is also present in "Nazgul". But I'm sure it's only sounds, as you point out. Tolkien was into the Old Germanic languages, he probably knew little of real Hungarian.
Well, that's interesting because it's also written in a similar script to the Orkhon, right? And Orkhon has the the word "orc" in it. o_o ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED!
Jokes aside, this might be true. I also heard that the directions on the map of Middle Earth kinda align with Europe's, so orcs coming from the East matches up with Hungary being in Eastern Europe and nomad Hungarians coming from the Middle-East. Also, the word "orc" may come from "ogre" which is said to have originated from the French word "hongrie" for nomad Hungarians who would go killing and looting all over the place back in the day.
On the other hand, when I listen to LoTR in English, black speech sounds like Turkish to me. If someone tried to say all the phrases in a totally everyday voice without evil background music it would legit 10/10 perfectly sound Turkish, it even looks a little like written Turkish to me. I have to admit though that there is a little bit of Old Hungarian in there, stuff from the 12-14. century which is almost unrecognazible for a modern Hungarian.
ash-nazg durbatuluk :D és a többi
@@jcarty123 Lol, Mozgus is just a fantasy name, it has nothing to do with Hungarian :D
'zg' is not that common a combination.
I'm Dutch and have been to Hungary for about 17 times. Love the country, climate, nature, people, drinks and cuisine. Feels like my second homeland. Even though I'm good at languages and speak about 4, Hungarian is still my biggest challenge yet. Mainly because its so totally unrelated. Self learning through books and websites only got me so far and there is still a very big gap between being able to have a decent conversation. Even after such a long time I'm still at a level that I can place orders in a bar or restaurant, ask for directions or trade. I'm thinking about taking classes with a real Hungarian person some day to get past my current level.
It would be in your best interest to start thinking in Hungarian everyday in every though and also by immersing yourself into a Hungarian enviromment...
My take on this that the problem is the fundamentally different logic which is difficult to switch to if you're so used to the "indo-european" logic (especially Western European languages that use no cases anymore). When you create an English, French or Dutch sentence you have a relatively fixed word order and can chain words together based on a template and just switch out words according to your intentions. In Hungarian when you start making a sentence you already have to account for emphasis, the object (definite/indefinite conjugation) and cases while at the same time maintaining vowel harmony and proper affixation. I can perfectly imagine how hard it can be. But you can do it! Keep it up!
@@NavyCook08 I totally agree but easier said than done :)
@@gf1917 I will keep trying as I will certainly be visiting Hungary many more times in my life. Each time after 2 years not visiting me and my parents start missing Hungary like something calls us there and we just HAVE to go back :)
Get a Hungarian girlfriend. That will do the trick.
I am Hungarian and I am so glad you made this video! You have the best UA-cam channel ever!
Edit: Thank you all for the likes, my comments have never gotten this many likes from random people :D
Zsombor Sütő how do you use and extinguish the 18 cases? Too difficult for me! Even Slavic languages have 5 or 6 cases.
Well just like Paul said, it is almost like the prepositions in English. While English speakers would say " with the car" , Hungarian speakers would say "autóval" where "val" means "with". It's quite strange but it is not that difficult ;)
@@zsomborsuto5574 I think your cases work a bit differently. You just use a postposition to indicate the function of the noun and its relation to other parts of the sentence, right? Because in the video it is mentioned that the adjectives aren't declined, only the nouns. But in Slavic languages, you have to decline both the adjective and the noun, often preceded by a preposition so you have to know which case you should use. It's quite hard because there are some prepositions that can be used with multiple cases. :)
Oh my God I didn't know that! Yes in Hungarian the adjective is only conjugated for number so they have a singular and a plural form. But I also think that the suffixes can be difficult to learn, because you can create basically any word. Beautiful-Beauty = szép-szépség
"to become beautiful" = szépül
and you can make this "game" with any word you want. So I think it can be difficult to learn all these different suffixes, know their place in the word and know how to create new ones.
@@TommyJapanBrony Recently I started to learn Turkish. There are about 6 cases I think, but even as a Hungarian I found the cases difficult to learn compared to prepositions.
Me: What's your superpower
someoine: i speak hungarian
Konstantin Kodjabashev I actually have a T-shirt saying exactly that!
I speak Álbanian
Nobody cares
XD very funny. Nagyon vicces
@@q_xw_r branch isolate in the indoeuropean language family 🙂
😂😂😂😂 So funny
I am a simple Pole. I see Hungary, I press like and send love to our Brothers
Same thing as we see Polish also
Im hungarian and i neither understand the grammar 😂😂
Nothing simple about you. Poles are some of the very best people. They stand for what is right.
I love in my language the amount of expressions. What a rain can be like with verbs? Esik: it rains. Szemerkél: a very light rain. Szitál: dense, but almost invisible rain. Csepeg: some drops of rain. Ömlik: quite heavy rain. Szakad: very heavy rain. Zuhog: dense rain with big raindrops. Etc etc etc 😂😂 Maybe that is why we love poetry.
Könnyű neked, hogy magyarnak születtél! Ja, meg nekem is... :-)
@@Alina-kj2zw yes, I agree absolutely!!
Nagyon szép
@@Alina-kj2zw Yes. It is not the language in itself which is beautiful but the talent of its user is what makes it beautiful. (Egy nyelv nem önmagában szép, hanem a használója tehetsége teszi azzá.) Anyway, it would be an interesting game to collect words and expressions in different topics (like that of rain, for example) to compare the possiblities of different languages. And not only of English and Hungarian - as there are several words which only exist in this or that language or ones that do not exist in some languages.
extend your english vocabulary
I like Hungarian language and I find it very interesting. Greetings from Greece (Görögország).
@cornpotato tomato Zeus⚡
@Be Smarter me too :)
ooo but you do know it will be hard or i hear our language is hard to learn
Ive been to Greece twice and i loved the place :) The only place I've been to in my life where the food was good 'outside Hungary and trust me that's high praise from a Hungarian :)
Thank you, Happy to hear that good luck with it and greetings to you and your people hope all is well !
We Poles like to speak about our traditional friendship with Hungarians, how we are like brothers, despite not being technically related. However even we hardly ever bother to actually learn any Hungarian, instead joking about how "weird" it is. :)
Usually, we communicate with each other in some third language. Nowadays it's obviously most often English.
I do szabli, i do szklanki!
Polak, wegry dwa bratanki, right? ;)
Simple: add enough wódka or pálinka to the mix, and the two languages are mutually intelligible immediately! :D
poles have the weirdest slavic language and they joke about hungarian?
Two useless languages trying to communicate with each other. Lol
And my students here in Spain keep complaining about how "difficult" English is...
I'm hungarian, and English is difficult for me. Because there aren't any similarity(vocabulary similarity is very minimal, and all of them are modern english loanwords, like 'telefon' or 'rádió', grammar is very different) with Hungarian. Though I can understand some elements of the English logic, but it is very different, example the word order. English has a strict word order, while Hungarian can have various word orders. Sometimes I feel I use wrong word order :D
As Czech, I would say that English is quite easy. Definitely easier than German. English grammar is quite straightforward and simple, words rarely change suffixes and if so, it's just adding -s to nouns or -ing to verbs. When to use he/she/it is pretty obvious, unlike der/die/das in German.
I would say that Hungarian might be easier than Slavic languages. It seems that it adds suffixes to word root for noun cases, while Czech changes last letter or two. Also we have 4 "patterns" of suffixes for neutral nouns, 4 for feminine and 6 for masculine and with noun. We change suffix of every word that is related to noun (number, adjective, pronoun) to match case. I can't imagine it's possible to learn in other way than being exposed to the language. On the other hand, word order is not strict, and changing it may slightly change the importance of different words and this nuances can't be expressed in English.
Difficult parts of English: written&spoken form is different (guessing pronounciation is impossible) , conditionals (they have different logic), present/past/future perfect (disappeared from Czech roughly 150 years ago), (in)definite articles (non-existent in Czech) and prepositions. I agree with Renáta, that sometimes it's problematic to translate something in the way which is perfectly natural in English and even vice versa.
Actually I would say that Hungarian language does not seem that hard, just using postfixes instead of prefixes and prepositions is pretty weird and words are completely different. Maybe there are small evil things (irregularities) in the language that are not mentioned in the video.
@@pavelperina7629 Yeah, I see what you mean. Me, my native language is German. I learned English as a foreign language and, upon migrating to Spain at 22, added Spanish to my languages. I've taught both English (I'm an English teacher) and German, and the difference in ease of access is huge.
@@sectorgovernor English is very easy for me, I'm hungarian too. I think it probably depends on what you're into. When I was a kid I had to learn German, it wasn't as easy for me as English was.
@@auroraborealis4650 Because you already were introduced to German when you were a child....
Thank you for this post (Magyar Nyelv) that is extremely well done ! I was born in Paris from Hungarian parents (political refugees ,1956) and my first language up until I was 7 years old, was Hungarian. Very early on, I became fascinated with different cultures and languages (Marco Polo's fault). So much so, that nowadays, I am a French, English, Latin teacher . When I hear Hungarian (Magyar) I have chills in my spine even though the journey of my life has brought me from France to the U.S and back to France. I can't help being proud of my origins , my culture, my language. Büske vagyok ara hogy magyar szàrmazas vagyok.
Akkor te pont az ellentétem vagy, én egyetlen idegennyelvet se beszélek :D
Szia!
Büszkék vagyunk rád és a szüleidre!
❤
Well... I'm a Hungarian, and I had the pleasure to live in Finland for several months. I was also studying Finnish (and loved it!
Hungarian, Finnish, Turkic languages used to be classified in a Ural-Altaic super language family.
I defenetly agree with you brother.
i am studying at hungary, budapest now. i found out that hungarian language like asian language. such as the way hungarian writing name. and the last i want to say is that hungarian language is the most difficult one in europe but when compare to chinese language, is nothing.
I am also hungarian and learned a lot from this presentation!
Why, why always this dirty talk, when it is about the hungarian language?
I'm Ukrainian our countries don't have the best relations right now but I have a great respect for Hungarians, you guys have a great country. Hopefully Ukraine and Hungary will leave all the misunderstandings behind (also your language seems to be crazy hard)
Thanks, so good to see a lot of positive comments from our neighboring countries. Greetings to Ukraine!
I've been the Ukraine twice and really enjoyed it. The "misunderstanding" is between idiot politicians who want to stay in power through divide and rule.
+1 to what Phas Low said, Most Hungarian intellectuals have no bad feelings about Ukrainians in general, we just hope that Hungarian speakers of the country don't get mistreated. Also, I think most of us respect you a lot for Maidan and wish you strength to get proper reforms done.
Your common enemy is Russia
The cigarettes may be improving the situation, or just killing the idiots faster who buy them.
I'm Japanese speaker and I'm learning Hungarian language with a book...
and your speak English is very clear, helpful
Thank you Langfocus!
日本語がちょっとだけできるハンガリー人です。もし質問がありましたら遠慮なくどうぞ。
Sok sikert! Miért tanulod? :)
Hi Nakatoh, if you want to practice Hungarian with a native speaker I can help you, just let me know....
In return I will ask the meanings of Japanese SUMO wrestlers name .. :)
Profile pic checks out
Hey Nakatoh, I really wanna learn japanese soon, I’m in love with your language
I was raised by my grandparents who only spoke Hungarian to me as a child. Later I moved away with my parents, I may have been three years old, and since my mother couldn’t understand Hungarian, we didn’t speak it and I would slowly forget. To this day, I am in my 50s, it has a special sound to me. Sometimes when I’m riding a train and I overhear a Hungarian conversation (it maybe happens once a year) I stay seated and listen. Although I don’t understand anything, listening to the speech melody is very soothing… like watching a campfire. It’s literally music to my ears and I find it to be the most beautiful language by far.
I have tried visiting Hungarian learning courses, but most students give up after the first year and the classes cease to exist.
Thanks. I wonder how it sounds? Many people say it sounds very strange, like a UFO language. I think because of the variety, the superior grammar, and some good sounds (like ny, gy, ty) it sounds well. For me English is by far the best, almost all the other languages sound a little bit ugly. Maybe Italian, Japanese, German, and some other Asian languages sound well.
This is the best presentation of my language to foreigners from all the videos I have seen until now. The Hungarians language is not difficult in that meaning that it's logical. But it's difficult in that meaning that the Hungarian language differs from all European languages (and almost) from every other language in the world.
So it's a unique language.
As you could realize from the presentation it's also very old, it's an ancient language.
It did not change much in the past thousands of years because it's vocabulary is so rich. And because it's not similar to other languages.
It's the language of the literature. Not only because almost every foreign writing is translated to Hungarian (sometimes faster than into English). But because it can express so much more than other languages, that George Bernard Shaw said in one of his interviews:
"After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, my works would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions."
And that's why its hella hard to teach it. I cant make parallels with other languages so its really hard to explain it to others.
It’s like teaching a Samoyed to guard your supper dish, though .... I suppose it’s technically possible, but ... unless your supper’s a soup of sour cherries, that Samoyed will be off with it, rotting teeth and all.... it’s called ‘caries’.
i'm Attila Tóth-Péter (Tóth-Péter Attila
Great quote. If I remember correctly. Teller Ede (Edward Teller) also concluded that, If his native tongue was English, he could only be a physics teacher in middle school. Many scientists claim that language is important. I do also believe that we think as we speak, meaning how we can express ourselves is the way we think. That's why so many Hungarian inventors and discoverers have been or are, I think. Because of the different way of thinking. But it can be a curse sometimes, because we overthink problems. That's why I suggest to study English at least on a basic level like I do, because many times the solution is the simplest. English is great because it gets to the point, although you can use fancy words too. My father also has an example to present the two languages. -Put a ketchup bottle in front of a Hungarian and an English speaking lad. Then ask them simply "What is this". The Hungarian will explain: "This is a red Ketchup bottle with added spice, made in Europe with a green cap to visualise a tomato." Also mentioning the brand. While the English: "Ketchup." Both are right, neither wrong. But different. Greetings to you all. Bojler eladó.
espranto has same quality than hungarian and esperanto is more easy than hungarian (because is more regular)
I learned hungarian when i was 6 . It was easy for me becouse i was so young and curios and i learned it in half year . Since then I live in Hungary so im basically a native speaker. But when I was a child I had the ability to switching between Hungarian and my first language Romanian. It was funny to listen both sides like a foreigner.
This language is so beautiful and sophisticated. Most of native Hungarians dont even recognize the power and beauty of it. Its astonishing how easily and accurately can you express yourself with its infinite possibilitys. Im a lucky one that I had the opportunity to learn it perfectly. But I can't imagine that someone could do it from books or with help of teachers. Its no real understandable logic in it and at the same time is so simlpe and fundamental.
If languages are cars . Hungarian is a spaceship :D
thank you for your comment. I fully agree with you.
"Most of native Hungarians dont even recognize the power and beauty of it" - because most people don't care about it (not only here, worldwide I think), and, what is more important, they don't have an "outer viewpoint" to realize this (=don't speak other language).
I only realized that it is accurate and sophisticated _after_ I learnt English. English sounds nice but it's not accurate to express yourself. (However, I can't deny that it has some advantages over Hungarian.)
I've never known as native if my opinion is impartial or driven by national pride, so it is interesting to see that someone who is not native came to the same conclusion as me. Thank you. :)
You have this same "listen as foreigner" viewpoint about Romanian. What is it like? I don't know a single word, I'm just curious how you would describe it. What things are worh mentioning? Of course, magyarul is írhatod, ha már egy nyelvet beszélünk. :)
Majdnem megkönnyeztem olyan szépen szóltál! Ebből még idézni fogok!
Nagypacsi!
Szeretlek! :)
Hi. I am American I learned Hungarian at about age of 6 and it took about 1/2 year. My father Attila was from Hungary and he sent for my grandma from hungary . when she 1st came I couldn't understand nothing then one day I noticed I was talking with her my grand ma. A Nagymamam. In Hungarian.
Do you still speak any Romanian?
Love hungarians and hungarian language from your brothers of Finland/Suomi 💪
Kiitos :) Love you back finnbro! Hei rakas
@@Kormos17 Hahaha Egeszegedre ;)
@Béla Bá Ah ok well, Köszönöm szepen hol van a nö😂
@Béla Bá I studied some hungarian on duolingo like 6 months ago😂
@Béla Bá i know😂😂
Amazingly enough the word for pocket : zseb is the exact same word as in arabic ....but it could have come from turkish , as turkish itself took a lot of arabic words
Yes, I believe it came from Turkish. 👍🏻
Yes in Azerbaijan also say "ceb"/zseb/,
Ceb -pocket
Cebim -my pocket
Cebimde -in my pocket
Cebimden -from my pocket
Cebin -you pocket
Cebinde -in you pocket
Cebinden -from you pocket
the Turkish word is from Arabic
It comes from arabic. In Persian we also say Jeeb جیب for pocket.
The official answer is that we borrowed it from Turkish in about the 16th century, who borrowed it from Persian, who borrowed it from Arabic :)
However do not forget that 9th century Byzantine sources call us Turk, and half of the world calls us onogur, which is Turk as well 😃
Zsebemben sok kicsi alma van.
There are many small apples in my pocket.
This sentence is nearly the same in Turkish :)
This language is so different in Europe and foreigners rarely learn it that when I went to Budapest and said "koszonom" (thank you) everyone was blown away. I mean in other European countries locals will be pleased if you can say "thank you" but in Hungary it's another level
It's true, because the rarity of hearing a foreigner speaking a single word in hungarian.
next level is egészségedre
Seguindo o seu raciocínio, como não tem muitas pessoas que falam a língua fora do país, é pela mesma razão que a gente da Inglaterra e dos Estados Unidos não sabem falar nenhuma outra língua, pois pela falta de utilidade. Não dá para formar preconceitos irrazoáveis.
Now I'll be sure to learn a bit of Hungarian if i ever visit :)
@@flightmode87 is the szs pronounced s+zs or sz+s?
As a kid, Hungarian grammar classes were an absolute nightmare for me. As a native speaker all these intricate rules are quite obvious and ingrained, but damn, my hat’s off to anyone who succeeds in making sense of Hungarian as a second language.
I've been learning Hungarian for 2 months now...it's hard as hell, but incredibly satisfying when you finally can make a sentence!
Tamas Kovacs: Well Hungarian is the richest language in the planet. The most expressive one. As it was the first. Proto Hungarian / Ancient Hungarian is 68% same as Old Persian But more delicate. One day, all the origin and purpose of the Hungarians ( Huns) will be exposed so will be the Evil Judeo-Christianity, that was created by a Talmudist Rabbi. ( Rabbbi Saul) approx. 60 AD. The world will change once Hungary and their heritage will be exposed.
@@jonasmarecky4187 how much does the Orban propaganda pay for a post? Is it worth your time?
@@CataVlad21 not sure why you would mention Orbán here, but Roman Newland was right
@@ogfaraday Orban party is noob
As a native Hungarian speaker living in the US, I've had a few instances where I hear people speaking in Finnish near me. It's quite strange since to me it sounds as if they were speaking Hungarian but I can't understand anything they're saying. Some Finns have also said the same when they hear me speaking Hungarian with my family.
I was born in Canada and learned English at age 4. Parents sent me to hungarian school too so Im good at both.worked with a finnish chic for 15 years and everything sounds same but not meanings
. We joked about it all the time. Also many hindi words similar like takaro is blanket in hungarian but in hindi the word Pakaro with a p start sounds like takaro but in hindi means hold it.
Such confrontations are very cool. Mongols and Turks may see such a thing too.
Same
its because even if words havent stayed like they have in finn, we put emphasis the same way finns do, so like that we think its hungarian but we cant understand a thing😂 i experienced it too, it was a bit frustrating🤔😂😂
True. I get that too every time I hear Finnish, Estonian or other Urali language spoken. (I'm Hungarian too.)
This is grammar.
But George Bernard Shaw said: “After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.”
Hello, I’m Uyghur and my language is very similar to Hungarian language. Now, i learning Hungarian, when you talk about the history of the scrip, i sawed the new conception.
Sok sikert, ujgur testvérem :D
25 napos magyar tanulmany.szretelem
A kutyát nem érdekli...
@@turitamasnyirbator azért csak megmutatkozott a magyar mentalitás...
@@merrychristmas152 Sajna a nyelvtan mellé a negativitást is tanítani kellene hogy teljes legyen a kép...
Few things make me as happy as seeing a new LangFocus video uploaded.
Drachen i know right i came right when i saw the notification right after school
I am a simple polish human, I see hungary, I give a like
Im a simple hungarian, i see polak brother i give a like
@@kirat666
Polak, Węgier, dwa bratanki, i do szabli, i do szklanki
Normie
oh you are very kind and i am hungarian
I'm Romanian, and I still can't believe I've never visited that beautiful country. I 100% need to go to Budapest one day.
10/10 frate, sunt Român și ador să merg în Ungaria
"The capital of Romania...... Budapest" mai zice câte un politician din străinătate 😆😃☹️🥴🤸
@@romulusbuta9318 Joe Biden?
@@VargaZoo547 mulți alții......
We need intelligent romanian people as you visit us !
As a Hungarian i am convinced, that we have the nicest sounding poetry in the world. Too bad only we can understand it.
I feel the exact opposite way. I think Hungarian poetry is major cringe. I just do not like to read those syrupy, pretentious poems.
Try Farsi (aka Persian) poetry too it's nice. There are rules there to make the poem sound musical.
@@Ryu-on1jq Still better than csingcsang csung cseng.... :)
@@aleyzeeo-aleyzee2101 😎👍
@@WhatDoYouWant92 yikes
Egy külföldi ember esküszöm, hogy egy sokkal összeszedettebb és szebb videót vagy egyéb munkát tud készíteni, mint egy magyar. Gyönyörű az egész összefoglalása, szépen van kifejezve és minden kisebb részlet is ki van dolgozva!
Illetve nem úgy hangzik a hangja az embernek, ( bocsánat, nem tudom a nevét ) mintha egy kicsi, jelenktéktelen ország lenne. Sőt, érdekesen mondja/meséli el. A külföldiek számára szerintem fontos információkat tartalmaz.
Látszik, hogy sok munka van a videóban, minden Gratulációm!
Kívülről gyakran jobban látszanak a dolgok, mint belülről :)
Imádom halgatni ahogy ábrándoznak az Angolok (/Külföldiek) a Magyar nyelvről!
@@Lenardx Ez velem is így van
Meg nem rakta bele a "turánikiválasztottnépvagyunkmegUFÓKis" agyfingást.
I love Hungarian, it's really an underrated treasure! Köszönöm szépen Paul!
I went to Hungary in 1997 and became fascinated by the language. I still am.
I'am a simple Polish I see Hungary I like it
"Polak, Węgier dwa bratanki oba zuchy oba żwawi niech im pan Bóg błogosławi"
będę szczera, pierwsze słyszę, zawsze słyszałam "Polak, Węgier dwa bratanki i do szabli i do szklanki"
l l cavalli sforza madari no exist hungary speak spievak slovakian rusin dialect
Brilliant video on a very intriguing language. Keep up the great work Paul.
Very Interesting and informative video!Hungarians you have a very hard to studying language but very beautiful! Protect your language!
Love from Ukraine!!!🇺🇦🇭🇺
Лове Украине
As long as the world exists, the Hungarian will never be the brother of the Ukrainian.
@@gabor6259 we need to protect our language, at first from russian occupation. nobody in Ukraine do not disallow to speak Hungarians in their language, as well as in other languages
Дякую❤️
@@japannaplo2281 köszönöm(yes,I don't forgot it)
I have traveled to Budapest a couple of times recently, fell in love (with it), and now I am trying to learn Hungarian. As a language teacher for decades already, I must admit that it is - by far - the most difficult language I have encountered. I am not giving up yet, though.
It would take a lifetime to learn it but you still wouldn't master it.
Try Japaneese it is much harder plus you have to learn the writing which is drawing like little houses etc. But so rich culture. Love it.
I have been learning Hungarian for a few years and it is my favourite language. You can learn it!
Love Hungary from Croatia 🇭🇷♥️🇭🇺
Long Dong? 😂
@@bsbsuwaskwejj8174 😉
@@bsbsuwaskwejj8174 long what? 👀
🇭🇺❤️🇭🇷
Fordítva ez többnyire máshogy van nálunk
Én Magyar vagyok és olyan jó látni, hogy hányan szeretik Magyarországot és a nyelvet!!😄
@
What kind of music? Show me an example.
@ lol. And the world is laughing on you mate :D
Így van tesa egyetértek
@ you are so butt hurt, calm your toxic ass lmao
egy dolgot utálok : random külföldi: where are you from ?
én:From Hungary
random külföldi: are you hungry?
As a learner of Hungarian: the vocabulary is absolutely completely alien to me with very few exceptions (I'm a native Finnish speaker, but also fluent in Swedish and English, somewhat fluent in Norwegian and familiar with German), and the fact that it works like Finnish (cases, agglutination, etc.) actually makes things much worse than I thought. Now I think I know what people mean when they feel lost when learning Finnish... :D honestly the easiest thing I find about Hungarian is pronunciation, since it's rather accurate in terms of writing and I'm used to long words and vowel harmony in Finnish.
You would learn basic estonian in month :)
Only if I had the time though!
Yes I think Estonian will be easier to you
That's right!. I have once read that Finnish is one of the closest languages to Hungarian. I think Finnish has nothing to do with neighbouring languages, such as Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, or even English.
@@nicolas1248 Finnish is related to Hungarian since they're both Uralic languages but it's not one of the closest languages to Hungarian. The relationship between Hungarian and Finnish is just like the relationship between Persian and Italian or between Greek and Lithuanian. The Ugric base of Hungarian is closest to Mansi language spoken in Yugra, Western Siberia and the Turkic adstratum of Hungarian is closest to Chuvash language spoken in Idel-Ural, Eastern Europe.
Hello from the USA! Watching this to learn more about Hungarian culture!
My great grandfather (my nanas father) was born in Hungary, and emigrated to the USA with his parents when he was a child.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!!
probably most of the world languages: Italia (etc.)
Polish: Włochy
Hungarian: Olaszország
And in Vietnamese "Y"
Most languages: Poland
Polish: Polska
Hungarian: Lengyelország
Bruh how'd that happen lol
@@raestera Polish people sometimes called themselves "Łędzian", and we derived the name from there.
"Olasz" too comes from "Vlach", that is, Włoch. So, "Country of Włoch" ~ Olaszország
@@hunpenki164 in croatian: talijan = italian man
I am Georgian and Hungarian grammatical structure is so much similar to my language.
your language is even much more complex than hungarian tho...
@ have u heard spoken georgian? It has some alien shit in it.
A man is able to pronounce hungarian, but no georgian
When I thought Finnish was the hardest one... here comes Hungarian.....
Google the veps language like 23 cases
_looks at comment as Cantonese native_ 👀
I think Finnish can be equally hard
@@cueiyo6906 Yes, Cantonese is (very) hard when it comes to speaking and reading, but grammar is relatively easy: no genders, regular verbs, regular tenses and cases. In other words: it's a piece of cake compared to agglutinative languages like Hungarian and Finnish.
@@demnotmem ye but the reason it's the hardest (also Mandarin) is because of characters, Japanese ppl only need to know like 2K Kanjis while we literally need 3K characters just to be able to read a encyclopedia or even a Newspaper
Greetings from Poland, all Hungarian brothers!
That's easy, I'm from Poland, I saw my brothers and I watched it
Polak, Węgier, dwa bratanki 🇵🇱❤🇭🇺
Do kilisko i do skilanki! (Sorry, my Polish spelling is bad). I had a Polish newspaper reporter friend who told me that.
szia
hello
Hogy is van?
Lengyel s magyar két jó barát
Együtt harcol s issza borát
Asszem így van de javítsátok ki ha nem
@@botondpongracz9851 ez a kedvencem
@Wxkii no nie, ale jestem Węgierski szia
In Kazakhland we have Magyar tribes, old magyars who migrated to Central and Western Kazakhstan. Now they are part of Middle zhüz.
What language do they speak?
Of course Kazakh and Russian.
@@Vestergaard11 torkish language
Ana Baba Ata
@@Makechannel17 Baba is not Turkish. Ana and Ata are Turkish.
Why do you have slovak word in your yt handle tho? Whats the background there if I may ask? I am not aware that there is "šikmooký" in any other language (well, Czechs say it the same I guess, so there's that).
Me before the video: Hungarian's meant to have confusing grammar, right?
Me after the video: Yep
Hungarian's meant to express nuances with ease! :P
What do you mean by "confusing grammar"? Maybe, someone could explain you what do you not understand and then you'll see that is not so "confusing".
I guess it seems confusing because he's talking about so many different things in such a short time. I can hardly follow the explanations myself, and it's my native tongue that he's talking about! LOL... Complex, yes, but it's pretty straight forward if you get into it step by step. :-)
@Charlie K Although Hungarian is considered to be part of the same linguistic family with Finnish, there is nothing to approach them, so it has nothing to do with Finnish language. We do not understand each other, nothing is in common. Complicated in Hungarian is primarily pronunciation, some vowels have no equivalent in Germanic or Latin languages. I'm thinking that here is the biggest difficulty. Anyway, specific to this language is the phonetics and vowels harmony,
:D
As a Pole, I’ve been attempting to start learning Hungarian. I’m already learning Korean, Japanese and Finnish and I’m doing pretty well and I love how unique Finnish is and how… expressive it is? I like learning languages with rich vocabulary because one of my main passions is songwriting so I appreciate languages that let you express your thoughts very precisely. Korean, Japanese and Finnish are wonderful when it comes to means of expressing yourself, you can even express very specific nuances in countless ways! I thought Hungarian would be good for that as well because supposedly Hungarian poetry is really interesting.
The pronunciation is a little hard though, like it’s confusing. 😅 For example, s is pronounced more like our Polish sz and sz is pronounced like our Polish s. So confusing lol
Im also learning japanese. been doing it for over a year but cant seem to progress :/ . Good luck on your hungarian tho! Sikerülni fog!
Also love from Hungary
Are you North or South Pole?
@@lapislazuli2644 South I think? I live in Lublin Voivodeship which makes it southeast (next to Poland-Ukraine border).
@@fritzier5475 Thank you so much! 💜 Let’s both work hard!
@@ellevehaler1758yeah i like to learn languages .
Especially slavic languages, now im on serbian croatian bt for an italian romanian its hard bt ill do my best.
Bt i swear that u polish people are so nice and kind, everywhere i see poles being kind ❤🇵🇱
I’m so glad I stumbled on this video! I grew up mostly in Hungary, and I miss it dearly. It’s getting harder and harder to remember words when speaking… now that I’ve been removed 16 years, but I still understand enough to get by. The village of Sülysáp is where I learned Hungarian. But the town of Tata is where I learned to love Hungarian. ❤️🤍💚 Much love from the US
❤️❤️❤️
It is shame to forget your mother’s language. I’m living in the U. S. 25 years,still speaking Hungarian,my daughter who born in the U.S. speaking fluently,very proud of her.She can read,but cannot write Hungarian.
@@edinacamden4346 I should clarify that I’m American. 🙂 My parents moved to Hungary as missionaries when I was six. I left permanently when I was 18 to attend college in the States. I hope to take my husband there one day, and I wish my daughters could experience it also!
Oh sorry ,that is totally different. I thought you are Hungarian.@@candicehuggins
@@edinacamden4346 That’s ok! My mother, sister, and I still have conversations in Hungarian, especially when we don’t want the other to know what we are talking about. 🤣 My sister is the most fluent and keeps it fresh for us. She has two grown daughters who are half Hungarian and live there, and she did not move back to America until about two years ago.
Greetings from Turkey!
Beautiful language :)
but you are not turkish,, are you? you look too european.
@@brobro5932 lol how many turks have you met
@@burakataseven2595 enough! im turkish by myself. probably he has european heritage...
@@brobro5932 well actually people with white skin and colored-eyes exist in some middle eastern countries too so he might have european roots but not necessarily.
Bro Bro It doesn't matter by look turkish brother
I'm from Albania I see Hungary and I like the video.Respect from Albania🇦🇱🇭🇺
Same here
Poland and Germany often hold grudges against each but whenever we see the cute little Hungary our hearts melt together
❤️ 🇭🇺
That's why the Krauts shutdown their nuclear power stations, too much core melting going on.
As a Hungarian who has travelled to Nordic countries, the most surreal moment for me was coming across a Sami poem in North Norway and understanding a couple of words after re-translating it from the English translation to Hungarian in my head. It was like walking on the street and seeing someone who looks exactly like an old friend, just for a moment before you never see each other again. And of course, as other people have pointed out, Finnish and Estonian have a similar feel but are still almost completely different.
As i see people from Poland i just get very happy!
"Polak, Węgier, dwa bratanki, i do szabli, i do szklanki!"
-Cheers from Hungary, brothers! 🙋
Hungarian: Lengyel magyar két jó barát, együtt harcol s issza borát.
"Pólus, magyar, két unokahúga, egy szablya és egy pohár!
" Now that's why i don't use Google Transalate.
@@zsiroslangos Haha, it was supposed to mean this:
Polish Hungarian two good friends, fight together and drink wine. (bor-át => as sharing a drink because wine = bor)
@@zsiroslangos ja.
@@zsiroslangos bizony
I am a simple Pole. I see Hungary, I press like and send love to our Brothers
@@Sega22245 Pole
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I'm doing the same with the Poles, Brother, because I'm a simple Hungarian. ;)
Ayyy we may not be related in language but Hungary and Poland are the real brothers.
How beautiful is that?? :D
Eléggé elégedett-e? [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡedetː e] - (Whether) Is he/she/are you (sir/miss) satisfied/pleased enough?
Eléggé elégedett? [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡedetː] - Is he/she/are you (sir/miss) satisfied/pleased enough?
Eléggé elégette-e? [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡɛtːe e] - (Whether) Has he/she (completely) burnt it sufficiently?
Eléggé elégette. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡɛtːe] - He/she has (completely) burnt it sufficiently.
Eléggé elégett-e? [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡetː e] - Has it been (completely) burnt sufficiently?
Eléggé elégett. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡetː] - It has been (completely) burnt sufficiently.
Eléggé eléget. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡɛt] - He/she is (completely) burning you sufficiently.
Eléggé eléget (valamit). [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡɛt] - He/she is (completely) burning something sufficiently.
Eléggé elég-e? [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡ e] - (Whether) Is it going to (completely) burn sufficiently?
Eléggé elég. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡ] - It is going to (completely) burn sufficiently.
Eléggé elég. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡ] - It is being (completely) burnt sufficiently. [also as “Eléggé elégőben van.”]
Eléggé elég. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈɛleːɡ] - It is sufficiently enough.
Eléggé égett. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈeːɡetː] - It is burnt a lot.
Eléggé éget. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈeːɡɛt] - It is burning me a lot.
Eléggé ég-e? [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈeːɡ e] - Is it burning sufficiently?
Eléggé ég. [ˈɛleːɡːeː ˈeːɡ] - It is burning sufficiently.
Eléggé. [ˈɛleːɡːeː] - Sufficiently. | Quite. | Pretty much. | Very. | A lot.
Elég. [ˈɛleːɡ] - Sufficient. | Enough.
Elég. [ˈɛleːɡ] - It is being (completely) burnt. [also as “Elégőben van.”]
Elég. [ˈɛleːɡ] - It will burn (completely).
Elég-e? [ˈɛleːɡ e] - Will it burn (completely)?
Elég-e? [ˈɛleːɡ e] - Is it enough?
Ég-e? [ˈeːɡ e] - Is it burning?
Ég. [ˈeːɡ] - It is burning.
Ég. [ˈeːɡ] - Sky.
Éget. [ˈeːɡɛt] - He/she is burning something.
Éget. [ˈeːɡɛt] - It is burning me.
Éget-e? [ˈeːɡɛt e] - Is it burning you?
Éget-e? [ˈeːɡɛt e] - Is he/she burning something?
Égett. [ˈeːɡetː] - It is burnt. | It was burning.
Égett-e? [ˈeːɡetː e] - (Whether) Is it burnt?
Égett-e? [ˈeːɡetː e] - (Whether) Was it burning?
égni [ˈeːɡni] - to burn
Wow ez elő volt készítve vagy most dobtad össze?
ez elég szép
Verra wait what?
Égette, égettette, égette-e, égettette-e stb. miért maradt le? :D
@@2deep5u
*TÖKFŐZELÉKBŐL SOSEM ELÉG!*
Hey guys!
I'm twelve years old and I'm live in Hungary, I learning English since I was six years old and now I can speak English very well. I hope you all want to learn Hungarian because It's a complex and pretty language, but a little bit hard to learn it. I really love every language because each has its own specialty, and when I was a child I always dreamed of traveling around the world once I hope that my and everyone else's dreams will come true.
Love you guys❤️
Bye
You are amazing
I'm a native English speaker in Canada, and what you wrote there made perfect sense to me. Good luck with your future language studies!
@@JeanDuPays Hi, to be honest I totally forget about this video and that I wrote a comment. The grammar isn't perfect in my text, but I improved a lot since then. It's been 3 years and now I'm 15. I have a level B2 complex language exam and in the next few years I'm going to go for the level C1. Thank you for the reminder and your comment, it was really sweet.
@@V_Andika143 You're welcome!
Greetings to Hungary from Ireland 🇮🇪🇭🇺
Greetings to you and everyone from Ireland
Whatsup man, greetings to you from Hungary🙌🏾
greetings from a hungarian in ireland (:
hello my man
szép napot
Greetings my deer ire friend
When I was in Finland, it was shocking how even thou, I did not understand them, the way the words sounded and were used were so familiar.
It also surprised me how Finnish sounded a bit similar to Hungarian. I was in a queue in Helsinki when I heard people talking behind me and for a moment I thought it was Hungarian. Obviously there are some similarities in how the languages sound. But then when I carefully listen people talking in Finnish I don't understand a single word they say. It is probably the same when foreigners when they hear Hungarian, they don't understand anything (we barely use any words from Latin and also don't mix English words into Hungarian unlike many other languages).
I experienced the same thing among estonians. So cool!😊
The finno-ugric language family is bulshit, this was a tendency in communist era. NO WORD EQUAL IN THIS TWO LANGUAGE!
In Finnish language víz=number 5 😊
Native Hungarian, English teacher here, bit of a linguist nerd. This video is amazing, great work. Well done.
I would think (American) English is a difficult language, having borrowed words from so many different languages. Is it?
@@CalebBerman ohh bro fuck off. Nobody cares.
@@siberiangirl1941 english is so easy for us hungarians like everybody can speak it😭😭😭
@@szeretemahansant226 is it because you learned it young?
I do think most people around the world have access to the English language now with so much global travel, I was in some remote parts of Asia in the early 80’s & almost everyone had some English & were enthusiastic about speaking/ practicing it (except Japan-they didn’t really want to speak English). I do think it would be much harder to learn Hungarian as there isn’t much similarities to other info European languages. -Finnish maybe, but who speaks that🙂
I've lived in budapest for three years, between 2001 and 2004. At the end I was fluent in .... english as my parents had put me in an english speaking kindergarten.
Today I love hearing hungarian, even though I understand nothing. I find it one of the most beautiful languages. I'd like to learn it but I think I'll never do that, as it is so difficult
Don’t give up. It is difficult, when you want to do it perfectly, but with some confidence and some mistakes you can absolve it good enough.
Thanks for doing this, Paul. I've asked you a couple of times to do Hungarian and now here it is. I've been studying Hungarian for many years now----I started by singing along to lyrics printed on the jacket of an LP of Bartok folk songs back in around 1976 or so.
Spoken Hungarian itself is very musical to my ear and the staccato beat of the syllables with the Finno-Ugric feature of the first syllable of words being accented and the rest of the word trails off from that initial punch making me think speaking Hungarian is a good exercise for increasing one's breathing capacity. They just go on and on and on before taking a breath, which would leave me gasping.
I've been to Hungary 9 times, mostly in the 1980's, just once since the change from communism. I have no one to speak Hungarian with so learning it is just a fun and entertaining thing for me. Hungarians tell me that I have very good pronunciation, which gets me into trouble because when I say my first sentence they think I'm fluent and they take off with their rat-tat-tat-tat but I'm completely lost.
There are even long pieces written in which the only vowel used is 'e', which really displays the swift tumbling of clipped syllables that to me, along with the initial syllable of words being accented, is a distinguishing factor of Hungarian speech.
There is actually a game we call "eszperente", when you speak or write using words that only have the "e" and "é" vowels. Some can write several paragraphs of perfectly intelligible text without using any other vowel, although you have to get pretty creative with your choice of words. :)
That moment when you speak Serbian as a native language and you immediately recognise the words varos and zseb which are used in Serbian as well as we absorbed Hungarian vocabulary during history. Thank you so much for the informative video as usual! :)
Zseb is Turkish, we both got it from them. :)
@@zsoltbanhalmi2231 that's interesting, but varos must be 100% Hungarian:)
@@zsoltbanhalmi2231 Zseb (=pocket) must be a Persian word. In Persian and Urdu written as جیب . It also used in Hindi जेब / jeb.
@@damjan2681 vár means castle/fort, város literally means "with a fort". Interestingly vár also means to wait.
@@damjan2681 "Vár" means "Grad". "Város" would mean: Has a castle/stronghold.
German native speaker here, trying to learn Hungarian since several years now. The by far most horrific task for me learning the gyönyörü magyar nelvet is the syntax. You learned Latin? You struggled in school with sentences of Cicero going over five or more pages? Forget that, it was sooooooo easy. Stuff for little children indeed. There is nothing a weird and hard to fight with in Hungarian, as the hungarian syntax. Like in Latin, sentences can go over pages and pages without a dot. Like Latin the structure of the words in the sentence is solely defined by the relationship of the words toward each other. But other then in Latin this can easily be expended into the infinite. I fear, I will never be able to understand those pages-long sentences and surely will never be able to formulate sentences like those. Nontheless I deeply love Hungarian, it is one of the by for not IF THE most beautiful languages makind ever developed. I hope very much you all like this beautiful language and will try learning it, too It is in anyway much worth the struggle.
I have to admit I am myself shocked sometimes when I realize the structure behind my native language. But don't worry too much, just like any other languages, listen to it and use it if you can. You won't be able to learn it (neither could have I) from books and videos. Spend some time here in Hungary and memorize typical sentences, sooner or later there will be a pattern visible.
That bought tears to my eyes. Hungarian native speaker here. I've been learning German for a few years now and it is not easy either. Don't you find it funny how you can mirror translate expressions and composite words between the 2 languages? German influence is huge on Hungarian. What I love about German how you can spice a sentence with litte words: doch, mal, ganz...
swensandor, thank you for your kind words. Vielen Dank!
im hungaryian and im learning german in school.. man, its fkin hard. learning wich word has wich prefix is just a huge grind. i learned english from videos, games, juts online etc. and it was so much easyer then german. been learning german for 8 years and i dont think i can say a single conclusive sentence. :(
Same problem for me here in Australia. I studied Latin at school including translating the rantings of Cicero. Was quite good at it. Later in life, after I married a Hungarian, I decided to learn her language, which I have managed to do where to the point where Hungarians start speaking English as soon as I try to converse with them.