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Title: Learn Hungarian by Zoltan Banhidi ISBN: 9-6302582-4-2 Publisher: I.B.D. Limited Pub. Date: 01 June, 1965 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Traditional classroom textbook
Comment: This book provides a traditional introduction to Hungarian for students in a classroom setting. Each chapter begins with extensive texts, then Hungarian-English word lists ordered chronologically according to when each new word was introduced in the texts. Following this comes the grammar points for the lesson, usually 3-5 points, and finally exercises, mostly of the translation or mechanical substitution type.

In general, the grammatical explanations are relatively clear. However, they don't do as good a job at helping students master overall sentence structure as Erdo"s et al's Hungarian in Words and Pictures. The reading texts for each chapter tend to be quite long, and the vocabulary lists are impossibly long for beginning students. The choice of vocabulary is not well thought out- -instead of introducing words essential for daily life and conversation in the very beginning chapters, we find words such as stork, peasant, and sour.

I purchased this book with the intention of using it for self-study and tried to use it earnestly. I tried and tried, made little progress, and gave up twice. After taking formal classroom lessons where we used the Erdo"s textbook with much success, I found that I could come back to this book for supplemental readings or grammatical explanations. But I wouldn't recommend it as a main text either for self-study or classroom purposes.

Rating: 5
Summary: The best
Comment: This is a real textbook. Basically, you read passages that start out very simple then become more complicated. There is a lot of information presented gradually. There is a ton of grammar. There are a few mistakes in the english or grammar points that are unclear, but it is not a big problem.

It is definitely possible to learn Hungarian from this book. I would not say that about any other book I've seen. This book
in particular is much better than a 'grammar guide' or the short 'Beginner's Hungarian' by Boros. The authors of this book or
their estate should revise and reprint it. You would do well to
acquire a copy, at any cost.

Rating: 5
Summary: By far the best Hungarian language learning tool published
Comment: Thirty chapters of Hungarian learnings - from the basics, to the intermediate, to the advanced - it's all in this book! Outdated only in that it is a Communist-era book {see pg. 43 - 'Ki ez? - Nagy János.....Nagy János úr.....Nagy János elvtárs (comrade!!!)}. Looking back, some of the Communist words are downright hilarious, but if you can bypass those part of the textbook - it is an invaluable resource for anyone wishing to learn 'magyar'.

This textbook includes an English-Hungarian...Hungarian-English dictionary, easy-to-follow lesson plans, useful vocabulary, Hungarian songs and cartoon strips from the period, and invaluable grammatical rules (as Hungarian is completely opposite from English grammatically). The key to using this book is to stick with it! If you manage to complete the 30 chapters, you will be able to converse (with relative ease) with any of the 15 million Hungarian speakers worldwide.