DESIGNATED LEARNING MATERIAL
Courses
- “Assimil – Le hongrois” [for those who know French]
- “Colloquial Hungarian”
- “Teach Yourself Get Started in Hungarian”
- “Teach Yourself Complete Hungarian”
- “Halló, itt Magyarország!” series (CEFR A1-B1):
- “Hungarian the Easy Way” series
- “Hungarolingua” series (CEFR A1-B2)
- “Lépésenként magyarul” series (CEFR A1-B1)
- “MagyarOK” series (CEFR A1-B2)
- “PONS Power-Sprachkurs Ungarisch für Anfänger” (CEFR A1-A2) [for those who know German]
- “Szia! Neu. Ungarisch für Anfänger” (CEFR A1-A2) [for those who know German]
- “Lehrbuch der ungarischen Sprache” (Molnár) CEFR A1-B1) [for those who know German]
- “Lehrbuch der ungarischen Sprache” (Graetz) (CEFR A1-B1?) [for those who know German]
- “Taalcursus Hongaars” (CEFR A1-A2?) [for those who know Dutch]
- “Uitgesproken Hongaars” (CEFR A1-A2?) [pronunciation tutorials for those who know Dutch]
- “Jó szórakozást magyarul! - Fun Reading Exercises / Olvasókönyv magyarul tanulóknak” (CEFR B1-B2)
- “Miről van szó” (CEFR B2 - vocabulary development course)
- “Variációk négy témára” (CEFR C1 - vocabulary development course)
- “Variációk újabb négy témára” (CEFR C1 - vocabulary development course)
- Basic Hungarian Course by Aaron Rubin
- Hungarotips
- Le hongrois avec András (course for French-speakers)
- Let's Learn Hungarian!
- Curs online de limba maghiară (basic online course for Romanian-speakers)
- FSI Hungarian Basic Course vols. 1-2 & Graded Reader
- DLI Hungarian Basic Course vols. 1-10
- Downloadable textbook “Felsőfokon magyarul” (CEFR B2-C1)
- Online lessons from the series “Szóról szóra magyarul”
- Online lessons at the YouTube channel “Do you speak Hungarian?”
- Online lessons at the YouTube channel “Easy Hungarian with Petra”
- Online lessons at the YouTube channel “Hungarian Lesson with Zsuzsi”
- Online lessons at the YouTube channel “Hungarize”
- Online lessons at the YouTube channel “Learn Hungarian with HungarianPod101
Grammar
- Gyakorló magyar nyelvtan szójegyekkel – A Practical Hungarian Grammar with Glossary
- Hungarian: An Essential Grammar
- Hungarian Verbs & Essentials of Grammar
- A magyar mint idegen nyelv grammatikája — A Grammar of Hungarian as a Foreign Language
- A magyar mint idegen nyelv grammatikája. Elémlet és gyakorlat — A Grammar of Hungarian as a Foreign Language. Theory and Practice
- Sok kicsi sokra megy [workbook of grammar and vocabulary in Hungarian and English]
- Grammaire fondamentale du hongrois [for those who know French]
- Der ungarische Sprachbau [for those who know German]
- Ungarische Grammatik [for those who know German]
- Igék — Nyelvtani gyakorlókönyv [workbook of verbs in Hungarian only]
- Igéző — Igekötös igék gyakorlókönyve [workbook of prefixed verbs in Hungarian only]
- Sets of exercises in grammar for beginning and intermediate students at Magyar nyelvi gyakorlatok kezdőknek és haladóknak (in Hungarian only)
- Worksheets and grammar exercises from Magyaróra
- Tanulj magyarul! (Lerne Ungarisch!) (notes on Hungarian grammar for German-speakers)
- Downloadable guides for Hungarian conjugation and grammar in general by László Ragoncsa
- The Magyar-Tanulás Repository
Reference material
- Bilingual dictionaries published by Akadémiai Kiadó
- “Angol-magyar/Magyar-angol tanulószótár” published by Grimm Könyvkiadó
- “Hungarian-English/English-Hungarian Practical Dictionary” published by Hippocrene Books
- “Dirty Hungarian” (phrasebook of Hungarian slang for speakers of English)
- “Wörterbuch der ungarischen Umgangssprache” (Hungarian-German dictionary of slang)
- “Vigyázz, angol!” (guide to English slang for Hungarians)
- Online bilingual dictionaries issued by Lingea
- Online bilingual dictionaries issued by SZTAKI (Institute for Computer Science and Control)
- Online explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language (monolingual)
- English-Hungarian phrasebook from ERIC
- Hogymondom - szleng szótár (Online monolingual dictionary of slang)
Corpora
- Hungarian National Corpus
Testing
- Practice tests for Hungarian as a foreign language ("Magyar mint idegen nyelv") – ELTE Origó
- Practice tests for Hungarian as a foreign language ("Magyar") - ECL
AUDIO-VISUALS
Video
- MTV (national public broadcaster)
- RTL Klub (private TV channel)
- TV2 (private TV channel)
- Viasat3 (private TV channel)
- Hír TV (private news channel)
- “Hungarian in Hungary” from Langmedia at Five Colleges Center for the Study of World Languages
- Interviews with Hungarians from YouTube channel “Easy Languages”
- Playlists of “Magyar népmesék” (Hungarian folk tales) with optional English subtitles
- List of online videos on YouTube in Hungarian organized by genre (e.g. TEDx talks, shows, movies, tutorials) and availability of subtitles
Cinema
- Playlist of Hungarian movies on YouTube
N.B. Other Hungarian movies can be found for purchase or online viewing on YouTube either by typing a specific movie’s name, “magyar film” or similar through a Google-search.
Podcasts
- Podkaszt.hu
N.B. Other podcasts in Hungarian can be found by running a search in Google using a specific podcast’s name, “magyar podcast” or similar
Radio
- List of Hungarian radio stations
Audiobooks
- Hangoskönyv.net
N.B. Other audiobooks in Hungarian can be found by running a search in Google using a specific audiobook’s name, “magyar hangoskönyv” or similar.
Pronunciation/Listening
Tutorials from YouTube channel “Learn Hungarian with HungarianPod101.com”:
- • Hungarian Listening Practice for Beginners
• Hungarian Listening Practice for Intermediate Learners
• Hungarian Listening Practice for Advanced Learners
READING
Newspapers and tabloids
- Blikk
- Bors
- Index
- Magyar Hírlap
- Magyar Nemzet
- Nemzeti Sport
- Népszava
- Portfolio
- Világgazdaság
Literature
- Hungarian electronic library
- Collection of texts sorted by author at Digital Literary Academy from the Petőfi Museum of Literature
- Collection of texts (mainly reference works and academic-related texts) at Digital Textbook Library (Digitális Tankönyvtár)
- Online collection of Children's literature from the International Children's Digital Library - includes texts in Hungarian
N.B. Examples of Hungarian prose and poetry can be found online for reading or purchase by running a search in Google using a specific writer’s name, a title, “magyar irodalom” or similar.
Forums
- r/hungarian
N.B. Forums in Hungarian on various topics/interests can be found online by running a search in Google using “magyar nyelvű fórum” or the Hungarian term of the topic combined with “fórum”. In a few instances, a search on Google of “magyar fórum” may, among other results, yield hits for “Magyar Fórum” which is the weekly newspaper of the Hungarian nationalistic political party, MIÉP (“Party of Hungarian Justice and Life”).
Comics and humor
- Adri képregényei
- Bogi a pulikutya
- Butlers netképregénye
- Dilbert magyarul (“Dilbert” in Hungarian)
- Flix napihős
- Garfield (“Garfield” in Hungarian)
- Gogi’s Comics
- Hagar, a tulok (“Hägar the Horrible” in Hungarian)
- Heathcliff (“Heathcliff” in Hungarian)
- Hé, Dodó!
- Kázmér és Huba (“Calvin and Hobbes” in Hungarian)
- Legofield
- Ludas Matyi Online
- Napirajz
- Nyúl meg a többiek
- Original Comix
- Ötéves öcskös
- Párkocka
- Sziluett
- Szuperbirka
- A Z’aggressziv Nyúl Kalandjai
N.B. Comic books in Hungarian are available for purchase through Hungarian bookstores. Run a search on Google using “magyar képregény” or similar.
OTHER
- Dual-language (English-Hungarian) articles from “Reader’s Digest”
- Static profile for Hungarian at www.language-learners.org
- Suggestions for prospective learners of Hungarian
LISTS OF LINKS
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