Get Started in Hungarian: Teach Yourself

by Zsuzsa Pontifex

If you are an absolute beginner or simply looking for a solid foundation to your Hungarian language studies for school, work or travel, this engaging course will help get you on your way to speaking, writing, reading and understanding Hungarian in no time.

Get Started in Beginner's Hungarian maps from A1 to A2 of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for Languages.

Through culture notes, clear language presentations, and extensive practice and review, you will pick up the Hungarian you need to communicate naturally in everyday situations - from shopping and travelling to food and daily life.

Engaging with our interactive Discovery Method, you'll absorb language rules faster, remember what you learn easily, and put your Hungarian into use with confidence.

Get Started in Beginner's Hungarian has a learner-centered approach that incorporates the following features:

-Outcomes-based approach - focus your learning with clear goals

-Learn to learn - tips and skills on how to be a better language learner

-Discovery method - figure out rules and patterns for yourself to make the language stick

-Self-check and test yourself - see and assess your own progress

-Personalization - use the language in real situations

Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 70 years.

321 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 28, 2014

Reviews

[Michael Liddle · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.