Colloquial Hungarian

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.

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 Sólyom, an NYU graduate, is a sociolinguist and she has been teaching Hungarian as a Foreign Language at Eotvos Lorand University and Corvinus University of Budapest. She is also the director of the American Corner Budapest at Corvinus.

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