It's very funny to see my mother language in a textbook, and listen how hard is it to foreign people to pronounce Hungarian words. I feel myself very lucky to already know Hungarian cause i think i never could have learnt it. Besides I am glad to see somebody trying to learn my language and culture, it's very pleasing :) And by the way your Hungarian is very nice ;-)

Én tanulom a magyar nyelvet 6 honap, nehéz de szeretem azt, vágyom megtanulni azt jól, mert majd megpróbálok :)) Szomszédnő Szerbiából

Cool, good to see a video like this. I lived in Hungary for 4 years and really only managed to pick up the basics, which took forever as I had no tutoring, and as you said, the language is very different from anything else you will come across. And I understood most of the dialogue that was shown. I actually met my girlfriend while I was over in Budapest, she couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak any Hungarian, but we got through it with Google Translate and a few books! Now we both live in the Uk and her English is a lot better now, Google Translate is only needed for obscure words. But we both do tend to speak 'Hunglish' (A mixture of Hungarian and English), which at times sounds funny.

This is so cute! I'm so happy to hear somebody speak in my language from abroad :)

"jobbra" actually means "to the right", "jobb" would mean only "right", adding that little "ra" tot the end makes it mean "to the right", it's same with "balra" and "bal" "to the left" and "left"

Your pronounce is amazingly perfect! The "h" and "r" sounds (unusual for English speaking) are better than perfect. Go ahead and lot of success for you!

Your pronunciation is really good. .. :) I am Hungarian. This is a very difficult language.

De édes, egyem meg! :3 Sok szerencsét a nyelvtanuláshoz, ha ezt megérted, akkor jól haladsz! ;) :DDD

Thank you for sharing your tips with us, Alex! They're very useful.

It's so nice to see that other people take the time and effort to learn our language! Good Luck!

Dear Alex, thank you for this video, i' v never imagined that any onen would like to speak in hungarian, thanks very much,

Thanks for your effort, Alex. You would make a brilliant lecturer, so calm and patient while explaining.

I've seen so many videos of hungarian tutorials, some funny, some plain silly and some quiet good, but you are the best.

Thank you for making this video im from Mexico and there's no way to find and Hungarian teacher, so you really helped me 😊

Thanks for your tips, Alex. It's crazy: just a few minutes before seeing this, I had been studying the pages that you talked about! I lalso ove the way a dialogue can go from a bunch of crazy sounds to something meaningful after a few readings.

Olá. Sou do Brasil e te conheci através de um curso de inglês que pratico. Fiquei encantada por você conseguir falar onze línguas fluentemente e pesquisei um pouco sobre você. Estou feliz por ter descoberto seu canal no youtube, pois, desde já, virei uma fã sua. Espero um dia conhecer você pois tu és uma grande inspiração. :)

Everybody have super power. My super power: I can speak Hungarian. :D (I'm from Hungary.)

Awesome video and good techniques. Thanks for the share.

Always a good watch Alex 👍 Happy New Year 2020

Well done mate! Your pronunciation is really good! Very understandable and clear. I am glad to hear a British man learning and speaking in Hungarian language. I very much appreciate it! Warm Regards.

Hello Alex Rawlings . I am originally from Hungary, Budapest. In my opinion the hungarian is the most difficult language in the world. I really appreciate how You would like to learn that language. If you have Skype then it could be amazing to change accents with each other. All the best, Steve

Alex nagyon örülök, hogy a magyar nyelvet választottad 14. nyelvnek. Nehéz dolgod lesz, ahogy egy magyar közmondás mondja: " Nagy fába vágtad a fejszéd". Sok sikert és kitartást kívánok hozzá !!! Szurkolok neked. Ha gondolod a beszéd gyakorlásában szívesen segítek, hiszen én is nyelveket tanulok.

Ja mi beszéljük a világ legnehezebb nyelvét.(nem érdekel ki mit mond ez az igazság).És gratula,hogy ilyen jól tudsz beszélni magyarul.

Köszönöm Szépen á video! I am Indonesian and have been learning Hungarian for one week now. I might need a text book like you have as I am learning the language by online only. Szia, Alex!

Very good advice.

I enjoyed your presentation. You make it seem so easy. I am very nervous about learning Hungarian. My Father was American-Hungarian, but he only spoke the language as a child. He forgot it as he got older.

I have to state that your Hungarian is pretty good and developing quite nicely, good job! I like the pronunciation as well. Our language is very diverse and different from other languages (as you mentioned) but you're on the right track. mindent bele! ;d

Found it really helpful. Keep it up

Nice work!

πολύ ωραίο βίντεο Αλέξη. Συνέχισε να μαθαίνεις!!

Olyan jó érzés tudni hogy vannak emberek akik ezt a szép és csodás nyelvet tanulják

Depending on the use they are given, flashcards are very useful. As Alex himself has said, by understanding context any language can be easily learnt.

Nagyon jó! :) a kiejtés majdnem tökéletes

További sok sikert kívánok a tanulmányaidnak !! :D

This video gives me life I love it. Your accent is so cute, but it make me feel so blessed because this is my mother tongue and it's really fucking easy for me

Γειά σου Αλέξη, εξαιρετικό το βιντεάκι σου. Χαιρετίσματα από την Ελλάδα.

Your hungarian is nice, and the last technique is something that I don't see very often, it's a good idea. Hungarian isn't a lang that easy to study. When you can't really say something in a word, like balra- lr, you can simply just leave the l out, and say it with 2 r, like "barra", just to make it easier. The video is very nice, I think it's helpful. Good job :) *just a random hungarian girl*

Fascinating. I know a very few words in Hungarian thanks to my beloved Hungarian friend who likes Spanish.

I think in our language not the vocabulary is the hardest but the grammar. The word order, and the affixes. And there are some verbs which mean the same, and there are some verbs which have more than one meaning. For example, megver means to hit somebody, or to win in a game. And the formal version of the language. When you talk to a person, who is older than you you must use the formal language, or you will be impolite. And the synonimes are also hard, because we have a lot of words to one thing.

you're Hungarian is developing pretty nicely, but just a quick tip: when you pronounce the "h" it came out very strong (almost like in French or somethin'); when you said, "hol van a pohár", the "h" should be very soft like in English :)

I'm in the early stages of learning...that book looks like a good idea!

Great video ! :)

Nagyon aranyos a kiejtésed ^^

Actually right is jobb and left is bal. Jobbra means on the right(to the right) and the same for left too. :) In the hungarian language there are no prepositions. You put them as sufixes in the words. ;)

If I were a lenguage teacher, i would teach first some basic core words, and all suffixes that modify the meaning of the words, creating a kind of wordbush..... for example through the "tan" core adding suffixes we create some other words that are in logic relation with their parents...this can be followed by other cores.... One suffix can be followed an other one. But not all suffix can be used always. There are ca 100 suffixes in the hungarian legnague. tan-ul , lean tan-ul-hat, he may learn tan-ul-ni , to learn tan-ul-ó , student tan-ul-mány, study tan-ul-mány-(o)-z , he is studying. tan-ul-mány-oz-ni , to study tan-ul-gat , learn frequently, or meny times. tan-ul-ás , learning.. tan-ít , teach tan-ít-hat .he may teach.. tan-ít-(a)-ni , to teach,,, from the two samples of "ni" suffix" youcan see the rule, how to make infinitive... tan-ít-gat ,,, he teach many times. or frequently. tan-ít-ó ,teacher tan-ít-ás , teaching tan-oda . school.... a kind of school... tan-a-kodik tan-ács tan-ács-ol tan-ács-ol-hat tan-ács-ol-gat tan-ács-ol-ni tan-ít-tat. we can continue...... you can see, I used the "-ít", "-ás", "-ó", "-ni" , "-mány", "-gat", "-z" suffixes and I created some words. In these words are not in logic connection. you can find many "cores" and you can create new words, like the small children. And in time you will understand ho to use the suffixes... there are ca 2400 ancient meaning core in the hungarian lenguage. Using suffixes we create millions.

(Hungarian words --->)Szia! Sok szerencsét a nyelvtanuláshoz!!! Nagyon szeretem a videóidat!!! (English words --->)Hy! Good luck for the language learning!!! I love your videos!!!

And keep it up, of course!

Nagyon szeretem ezt a nyelvet és érdekes volt nekem nézni ezt a videót! Köszönöm szépen. It was also very interesting to listen to you speak some other languages, в том числе и на русском.

Nagyon cuki akcentusa van :)

I'm hungarian and i must tell you that you are really good! :D

شكرا اخى جزاك الله خيرا

As a native hungarian living in the UK for 5 years and learning polish at the moment gotta say your advice is really useful. I think the visual technique you recommended is very similar to what I us to remember new words. Normally I try to find words that are similar sounding and meaning or getting me close to meaning of the words, mostly using hungarian. One thing I would have left out of this video is the unfortunately well know "fact" that hungarian being a finno-ugric language, it is scientifically discredited by many linguist, it is more due to politics and history. If you interested in the language I would recommend the books of Csaba Varga (you can find it on Amazon in english). Kindest regards and good luck with hungarian, Zsolt

I've been learning Hungarian as my 3rd language and am now putting a lot of energy learning Russian as my fourth. Interestingly enough, my observations were the same regarding the word pairs "стол" and "asztal" and "облако" and "ablak". Feel free to check out the Hungarian resources on my blog (linked from my channel.)

It's weird to watch as a Hungarian :D You speak it pretty well though, nice video! Fura ezt magyarként nézni :D Habár elég jól beszéled a nyelvet, jó kis videó!

your accent is really cute

/Hu/ A felétől a végéig vigyorogtam, de nem azért mert vicces, ahogy próbálkozik (semmi vicces nincs benne), hanem a szívemet melegíti, hogy legalább próbálkozik. :) /En/ I smiled from the middle to the end, not because its funny as he trying (nothing funny in it), it's because warming my hearth as he at least trying. :)

OMG You speak hungarian very GOOD you are a HERO ! OMG Te nagyon JÓL tudsz beszélni magyarul egy hős vagy ! Our language is very HARD so you are a CHAMPION ! A mi nyelvünk nagyon nehéz szóval te egy BAJNOK vagy !

Pretty good pronunciation! Gartulálok!

Thanks for sharing this! I find it hard to agree with people who claim to speak several languages; in my opinion one has to live in a country for quite some time in order to really be able to speak a language very well. I am German and I personally prefer to stick to "only" English and Spanish, trying to speak them as well as I can, however (even though one can still hear a slight accent sometimes when you speak other languages) in your case I would really say that you are able to speak a lot of languages :) Keep up the good work!!

Nagyon jó volt!:D - It was very good! :D Ügyes vagy - Well done :)

哇，非常棒的建议！！！

Very nice! What do you think of the Hungarian case system? I look forward to more videos!

I think the associative method is very useful when learning a new language or new languages. Personally this was the way I'd used when learning Italian and Portuguese, just by associating the words within their Spanish counterparts...

You are truly a polyglot Alex! Your pronunciation is almost perfect:) BUT! The H sounds really like Russian, its a normal H like in the English word "Who?" :)

Great video Alex, thanks for your advice. Can I ask how you balance this extra study of other languages with your uni work?

Thank you. I speak many languages ( 4 or 5 ) and I use all of these techniques. I have never ever used flashcards. And yes, i'm quite lazy learner.

Köszönöm szépen.

Thanks Alex. That is helpful. How many languages do you speak ?

This is indeed a helpful way to learn the Hungarian language. Just recently (since december 2014) I am starting to learn hungarian. How far did you get in learning the language? Do you have any new tips?

This 3rd technique is very interesting, have you ever heard that "the most weird is the picture you can build in your mind, the most you'll memorize"?

Jó videó/good video.

good accent! well done!!

Király vagy!

Alex Rawlings, tetszett a videó! Brazília vagyok, magyar ősektől. Alex Rawlings, gostei do video! Sou brasileira, descendente de hungaros. Alex Rawlings, I liked the video! I'm Brazilian, from Hungarian ancestors.

The second technique reminds me of the Saussure's semiotic triangle. The object, the idea and the word. Object : (A book) (I am pointing it with my finger so it is understood what I mean) Idea: What I have in mind Word: B - O - O - K

You're very good!! :D (I'm hungarian)

ez a párbeszéd a buszról :D :D úristen ..mint két robot :D your video is so cool :) this language is very hard :/

keep it up it'll be hard but you're on the way ;)

Your hungarian accent is very good ! :) I'm hungarian, so if anyone knows, it's me ;)

Jujj de muris ahogyan beszél!!! :D Good!!!!

Your Hungarian is very good. It's good that other people are interesting about our language. If somebody needs help that we Hungarians are gonna help! :) Remekül beszélsz magyarul. Jó dolog, hogy mások is érdeklődnek nyelvünk iránt! Ha valakinek segítség kell, mi magyarok szivesen segítünk a tanulásban! :)

Great video. By the way, are you gonna be speaking at the conference Hungarian?

interesting video, Alex!:) I don't use flashcards either, but I like the associative technique. I also try to create sentences with new words since it helps me to remember them. see you in Budapest:-) btw, do you have any special technique to learn to speak in a language?

Do you also write down vocabulary? I love writting down things and nevr looking at them agian ;))

Hey Alex, thanks for the video. Can you write that which book is it?

I just started learning Hungarian (my 4th language) and I hate flashcards so I'll definitely try these techniques. How do you keep the language separate in your brain? I find that when I try to speak Russian, German words will slip in and vice versa.

Great ideas, let's see now if I can chat with someone in Hungarian at the conference : )

ur pronounce is quite good! congrats!

Congratualation your accent is really good. Don't give up, Hungarian isn't so hard if you find the logic ;).

The Hunagrian words "asztal" and "ablak" are actually from the Russian (Slavic) words "стол" and "облоко". (The second one has a different meaning, but there is a connection: both cover something.)

Hey Alex. Your video is cool. Are you still learning the language, or how is your progress? I wanted to ask if you could give the author and title of the book you used. Thank you very much, and good luck with Hungarian!!

Hello. Are you still learning Hungarian? I have to say that (if you want to know my opinion) your Hungarian pronunciation is much better than my English, so don't give up. A többi baromarcú trollnak meg üzenem, hogy nem kell leszólni a nyelvi hibákért, természetes, hogy vannak, hiszen NEM EZ AZ ANYANYELVE... De hányan vannak abban az országban, akik a saját nyelvüket sem tudják normálisan!? Lásd a "de viszont", "nem bírok", és "muszály" eseteket. Próbálj meg épkézláb módon megtanulni angolul, az sem olyan hű de egyszerű... Hogy is mondjuk: "vowel", "answer" and so on... These are daily problems here.

Aw,your accent is so cute!

good luck=sok szerencsét ;)

You are pretty good. =) - Ügyes vagy!

One thing to work on: 'a' and 'e' sounds. But still GOOD JOB. Your speach sounds quite good /with a few minor glitches/. :)

Where can we get the book you showed in this video from

your Hungarian pronunciation is suprisingly good :O

The book's exact ISBN number is what, please?

I personally have become more familiar with the associative technique, sometimes you can make up some really interesting and hilarious associations.