summer 2003

[aphera]

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[aerodrome1]

Hungarian and Arabic? I do admire that! I've butted my head on Magyar for a while...

[aphera]

i took classes in both in college and loved them. i could never learn a language on my own, though.

[aerodrome1]

I did two classes in Magyar, but that was some years ago. I do have materials for trying to re-learn it, though. It's a favorite language of mine. What made you choose it?

[aphera]

it's an agglutinative language! it's unrelated to practically every other language out there! it has a million cases that make the structure of a sentence beautifully clear! it has long words that are really fun to say! it's full of the letter z!

i have a friend living in hungary and i spent a weekend with her a couple years ago when i was studying abroad. she gave me a crash course on the language, and i spent the rest of my week in budapest practicing "szensavmentes" and "koszonyuk" (i was with my boyfriend at the time, hence the plural conjugation).

[aerodrome1]

What I loved, my first time in Buda, was that when spoken by natives, the language sounded so liquid and intriguing...