What is the Hungarian language like? Is it difficult?
Hungarian is an agglutinative language in the Finno-Ugric family. This means that (a) Hungarian is of Asian origin; it is not an Indo-European language, (b) its grammar is alien to most of Europe and the Americas, and (c) if you didn’t learn it from the cradle up, it’s obvious to any Hungarian within earshot. Here are some details…. Hungarian has two vowel sounds that Americans normally do not make unless the food is particularly bad. Hungarians roll their R’s. Grammar is determined not by word order but by a complicated system of suffixes (like Latin, but much worse). Word order is relatively free and is used for emphasizing the important parts of the sentence. There are only two regular tenses of verbs: past and present (which might be of cultural significance). There are different verb forms depending on whether the verb takes a indefinite or definite object: “I want an apple” and “I want that apple” require different forms of the verb “want”. Almost everything that we use preposi
