Views : 370,894
Genre: Education
Date of upload: Nov 20, 2023 ^^
Rating : 4.819 (494/10,429 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2024-05-22T08:26:07.960791Z
See in json
Top Comments of this video!! :3
I learned Finnish. I lived in Finland for eight years. It definitely required effort as there were no classes. But I had the advantage of coworkers (other language teachers) who had permission to correct my Finnish with explanations for 7+ years. 40 years later my wife and I still use it as a secret language in public.
93 |
I learned Hungarian from zero when I was 28. I'm 60 now and haven't used it since I was about 33. I really haven't had much opportunity since leaving Budapest after Art Studies. I'm now reviewing it and it isn't totally gone. I guess I loved it and I still do. I think that was the key for me learning it and remembering it. It lives in my soul. But it is damned hard. No question about it.
43 |
As a native Hungarian, English was hard for me for the beginning. The Hungarians language and thinking is complicated sometimes overcomplicated and had a lot of synonym just for the word "walk" we use minimum 5 different words in the daily life (or more). If you interesting I left here some meaning of walk in hungarian: jár, megy, járkál, mászkál, slattyog, kullog, ballag, mendegél, bandukol, lépeget, lépdegél, lépdel, cammog, sétál, kutyagol, tipeg, baktat, battyog, poroszkál, gyalogol, totyog, kolbászol, andalog, cselleng, kódorog, lépked, caplat, kóvályog, gyüszmékel, sétálgat, csoszog, lépdes, cirkál, kóricál, talpal, császkál, korzózik, botorkál, jár-kel, lézeng, kószál, lődörög, bóklászik, flangál, kóborog, csatangol, lófrál, ténfereg, csavarog, tekereg, tébolyog, tévelyeg, bolyong, őgyeleg, kujtorog, barangol, kóborol, tántorog, csámborog, sétafikál, vándorol, szédeleg, téblábol, csalinkázik, kóringyál, lébecol, karistol, bódorog, ődöng :)
360 |
I'm English and learn languages as my job but also as a hobby. I have learned, to varying levels, three of these 'impossible' languages: Finnish, Polish and Hungarian. Finnish took the longest to learn but once you have got beyond the beginner phase it goes quite quickly because more advanced vocabulary is easy to work out.
Polish was OK because I'd already studied Russian and Czech at university so the hard parts of Polish grammar were not new to me.
Hungarian is very different but it is regular compared to for example Russian so it's a case of getting used to the sentence structures and vocabulary but it's not too bad really.
No language is impossible to learn. It takes determination, motivation and time. You don't have to be a genius either. Just hard working.
P.S. The hardest Slavonic language I ever tried a bit of was Slovene. I only got up to about A2 level but the grammar is hard.
335 |
My South African friend, who speaks Sesotho, told me that one of the coolest things in the world is to stand near a group of people speaking Xhosa....all of that clicking is just fantastic!
I was once talking with a woman of Polish descent who lived in Chicago and she told me that she loved living in that city because, among other things, everyone there could pronounce her Polish surname!
My grandma's first name was a palindrome: Reber!
28 |
@storylearning
6 months ago
Don’t miss the StoryLearning Black Friday Mega Sale! 👉🏼bit.ly/slbf2023
85 |