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Get Started in Hungarian Absolute Beginner Course: The essential introduction to reading, writing, speaking and understanding a new language
Do you want a solid foundation to your Hungarian studies?
If you are looking for a solid foundation to your language studies for school, work or travel, this engaging course will get you speaking, writing, reading and understanding Hungarian in no time. Through authentic conversations, clear language presentations, and extensive practice and review, you will learn the Hungarian you need to communicate naturally in everyday situations - from booking a hotel room to talking about friends and family.
What will I learn?
Basic Hungarian is slowly and carefully introduced to ensure you progress confidently through the course and build up a foundation to allow you to feel confident in everyday situations and move to the next level of your learning. It teaches grammar, vocabulary and listening, reading, writing, speaking and pronunciation skills. By the end of the course you will reach a solid Novice High proficiency level of ACTFL (The American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages) and A2 Beginner level of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) guidelines.
Is this course for me?
Get Started in Hungarian is for absolute and false beginners of Hungarian. Clear and simple explanations make the course appropriate and accessible to anyone learning Hungarian. There are extensive illustrations to support the learner working on his or her own. This course is also ideal to use with one-to-one tutoring and as a classroom course.
What do I get?
This book has a learner-centred approach that incorporates the following
- 10 units of learning content - covering everyday topics from booking a hotel room to talking about friends and family
- Discovery Method - figure out rules and patterns yourself to make the language stick
- Outcomes-based learning - focus your studies with clear aims
- Vocabulary building - thematic lists and activities to help you learn vocabulary quickly
- Test yourself - see and track your own progress
- Native speaker audio - available as a digital download
- Free, downloadable audio transcripts and vocabulary and language reference lists
Where do I go next?
If you want to advance your Hungarian, our Complete Hungarian course (9781444104103) will take you to an intermediate level of Hungarian.
Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 75 years
If you are looking for a solid foundation to your language studies for school, work or travel, this engaging course will get you speaking, writing, reading and understanding Hungarian in no time. Through authentic conversations, clear language presentations, and extensive practice and review, you will learn the Hungarian you need to communicate naturally in everyday situations - from booking a hotel room to talking about friends and family.
What will I learn?
Basic Hungarian is slowly and carefully introduced to ensure you progress confidently through the course and build up a foundation to allow you to feel confident in everyday situations and move to the next level of your learning. It teaches grammar, vocabulary and listening, reading, writing, speaking and pronunciation skills. By the end of the course you will reach a solid Novice High proficiency level of ACTFL (The American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages) and A2 Beginner level of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) guidelines.
Is this course for me?
Get Started in Hungarian is for absolute and false beginners of Hungarian. Clear and simple explanations make the course appropriate and accessible to anyone learning Hungarian. There are extensive illustrations to support the learner working on his or her own. This course is also ideal to use with one-to-one tutoring and as a classroom course.
What do I get?
This book has a learner-centred approach that incorporates the following
- 10 units of learning content - covering everyday topics from booking a hotel room to talking about friends and family
- Discovery Method - figure out rules and patterns yourself to make the language stick
- Outcomes-based learning - focus your studies with clear aims
- Vocabulary building - thematic lists and activities to help you learn vocabulary quickly
- Test yourself - see and track your own progress
- Native speaker audio - available as a digital download
- Free, downloadable audio transcripts and vocabulary and language reference lists
Where do I go next?
If you want to advance your Hungarian, our Complete Hungarian course (9781444104103) will take you to an intermediate level of Hungarian.
Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 75 years
208 pages, Paperback
First published November 28, 2014
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June 21, 2023
Thorough Introductory Textbook
The only complaint I have about this book is that halfway through the course, things are quickly ramped up in terms of grammar (namely verbs) which would have driven me crazy if I were a complete beginner; nor are explanations or subsequent exercises as detailed or as explicit as I would have preferred them to be (especially when the instructions weren’t all that clear and an example or two to begin with was sorely needed). However, this is probably due to length restrictions which I completely understand.
All that said, what I really loved about this course was just how much essential vocabulary and expressions it packs in. The dialogues are for the most part natural-sounding and useful for the often nicely thrown-in conversational phrases. The order of units and their topics seem logical and build up nicely in terms of what a tourist is most likely to need but fortunately, what clearly took precedence for the author (and I agree as a teacher myself) was what the learner can likely handle first thus determining the topic order (for example, a tourist would probably need to understand directions and get around with public transport first; however, the grammar concepts and structured needed for that is quite complex and therefore that unit comes towards the end).
Overall a very good course. Highly recommend.
The only complaint I have about this book is that halfway through the course, things are quickly ramped up in terms of grammar (namely verbs) which would have driven me crazy if I were a complete beginner; nor are explanations or subsequent exercises as detailed or as explicit as I would have preferred them to be (especially when the instructions weren’t all that clear and an example or two to begin with was sorely needed). However, this is probably due to length restrictions which I completely understand.
All that said, what I really loved about this course was just how much essential vocabulary and expressions it packs in. The dialogues are for the most part natural-sounding and useful for the often nicely thrown-in conversational phrases. The order of units and their topics seem logical and build up nicely in terms of what a tourist is most likely to need but fortunately, what clearly took precedence for the author (and I agree as a teacher myself) was what the learner can likely handle first thus determining the topic order (for example, a tourist would probably need to understand directions and get around with public transport first; however, the grammar concepts and structured needed for that is quite complex and therefore that unit comes towards the end).
Overall a very good course. Highly recommend.
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