Colloquial Hungarian is the ideal introduction to the Hungarian Language.
Specially written by experienced teachers, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Hungarian and covers a variety of modern everyday situations.
What makes Colloquial Hungarian your best choice in personal language learning?
* emphasis on up-to-date, conversational language
*comprehensive vocabulary lists (Hungarian-English and English-Hungarian)
*useful reference grammar notes
*Dialogues and cultural notes provide an introduction to Hungarian culture.
By the end of this rewarding course you will be able to communicate confidently and effectively in Hungarian in a braoad range of everyday situations, both formal and informal.
Two 60-minute cassettes or CDs are available to accompany Colloquial Hungarian. Recorded by native Hungarian speakers, these complement the book and will help you develop your pronunciation and listening skills.
Contents. Preface. Introduction.
1. Acquaintances
2. The Flight
3.
Crossing the Border
4. Shopping
5. Taxi!
6. Do you like Budapest?
7. Do you
have a room reservation?
8. In the restaurant
9. Can you tell me where the
post office is?
10. What did Mr Newman do at the weekend?
11. We are
interested in music too! 12 Get Well soon! 13.I love you!
14. If only I had
more free time!
15. The most unbelievable story. Appendix I Conjugations of
irregular verbs. Appendix II Sample nominal declensions. Hungarian-English
glossary. English-Hungarian glossary. Grammar index. Topic index
Carol H Rounds is lecturer in Hungarian and has been teaching at Columbia University since 1988. Previous titles include Hungarian:An Essential Grammar, another in the Routledge language series. Erika S^'olyom is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at New York University. She has received a number of fellowships, including a Fulbright Grant and a Soros Foundation Fellowship.
