Instructor: Scott Kensell
e-mail: skensell "a t" gmail "d o t" com
Prerequisites: Having attended the Babilon Language School would be ideal,
but a desire to learn the language is the important thing.
Texts: Hungarian an Essential Grammar by Carol Rounds,
For a dictionary I
recommend either Hungarian Practical Dictionary by Eva Szabo or the
dictionaries given out by the language school:
"Akadémiai Kiadó: magyar-angol szótár"
Course description:
We will develop all major skills of Hungarian (reading, listening, speaking, and some writing) while learning all of the rules behind Hungarian grammar. In class we will practice real-life scenarios, listen to many popular songs (some rock, folk, even hip-hop), and discuss grammar at a fast pace. Outside of class, I can recommend and provide readings from which daily vocabulary can be pulled. We will also cover some more "alternative" topics like slang. I will give tips on accelerating the language-learning process as well as tips on speaking baby-Hungarian a little more fluently, all drawing from experience.Rough schedule:
- Week: Pronunciation tips, Review of Language school stuff, Developing a plan for learning and sticking to it. How to find a Hungarian to talk to.
- Week: Basic situations and conversations you should have memorized
- Week: Everything there is to know about Hungarian verbs
- Week: Cases of nouns and pronouns, categories of nouns
- Week: Impersonal constructions and helpful constructions
- Week: Questions, demonstrative and relative pronouns, adjectives
- Week: Tools for simplifying speech
- Week: Postpositions and Time
- Week: Slang and what people are actually saying
- Week: Word formation
- Week: Word order