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Scheduling is a really good advice. I am an avid list maker and post-it user. I have numerous little piece of papers and schedules all over the house in connection with chores. When it comes to language learning, making a bigger or colorful schedule really can help you to motivate. It's of course not so strict you can always have some rest days, especially if you are learning language in an intensive way. Don't forget about the ways sleeping and resting can really help you learn. The knowledge still working in your mind, once you stopped physically studying.

“Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath My all time favourite quote!

I dreamed in english numerous times, but in all my dreams I was a situation where I had to speak english. So, essentially I did not lived through my dream in english but was in situations where I had to speak it. Before my language exam in my teenager years I would only dream about english speaking situation. I was so stressed that I even dreamed about it.

No, I don't think so that age could be in consideration when learning new things, even languages. Many pensioners starts to learn new things and get hobbies simply because they have time for it. Also when you are start to learn a new language after school or while you have a family or working, multitasking really can help your brain and finding something that keeps you sane from every day chores is useful. Also bilingual children. They will thank you later.

My first motivation is usage. In english I always read books and was really happy to understand more and more, my first english book to read from beginning to end was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I was so happy to finish it at last. At another languages I need then because every day stuff. It really motivates me that I can speak with taxi drivers and shop assistants, and not just smile and not all the time.

My favorite method is first writing down the word or sentence, then saying out loud a few times. The technics we used in middle school to learn english really stayed with me. Essentially I need to write down things to remember them, even in every day life I think. So, I get a vocabulary ruled notebook and I write down the word and the meaning next to each other. After the page is full I say out loud all of them a few times. I know that it may sound childish or a little bit slow work, but I like to write it down because it stays easier.

I learned some russian after high school graduation.I though that English and Russian would be the perfect combination in middle Europe. But sadly all I learned just wore off. All I can remember is "begemot / Бегемот" that means hippopotamus. :))

I had several friends with mixed background who wanted to raise polyglot children. It turned out that like in every step of bringing up a child, strictness is important. I had friends where the mother only spoke english with the children and the father only hungarian. So there wasn't any laziness in practicing

Maybe a few things, because I really enjoy this. I will write down a few compliments today, because everyone need some positive vibes, especially in this rainy autumn afternoon. Nagyon cuki vagy! Nagyon aranyos vagy! - You are really cute. Nagyon szép vagy! - You are so beautiful. Tetszik a hajad! - I like your hair- Szép a mosolyod! - You have a beautiful smile. Olyan jól érzem magam veled. - I feel so great when I am with you. Ez nagyon érdekes! - This is really interesting. Tetszik ahogy gondolkodsz! - I like the way you are thinking. Annyira jó barát vagy. - You are such a good friend. Mesélj magadról. - Tell me about yourself Hogy érzed magad? - How are you? / How do you feel? Ugye milyen szép napunk van? - We have such a nice day, right? Örülök, hogy megismerhetlek. - I am so glad that I met you. Now go and find a boy or girl and say nice things to them in hungarian!

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Thank you for your question, and yes. We have several accented characters, here are the ones we use in hungarian, á - just like in father é - café í - leek ó - go ö - heard ő - long ö just like in boeing ú - fool ü - maybe in turkish ű - i really have no idea (?) a longer, more statemented ü And about the jo sound it means Good. On the other hand Hungarian doesn't have any common with Spanish or French, it's more like a Balcanic and German influenced language. Academics say that it has a lot of common with Finnish and that's what we are being taught in school, but as a native speaker I don't see much resemblance just a few words.

In hungary the people from southern regions talk like different, in other dialect. It's really funny and we keep joking with my grandma, that whenever she visits her hometown and even just passes the county border she starts to talk different. How did they called this on How I Met Your Mother? revertigo I think

Well as a translator, maybe first you get to know the culture a little bit, and also have some literature in you. But I totally understand what you mean, I read numerous books that had so bad translated things (etc. food, tv show names, famous people) because they were afraid that the stupid reader won't get them if they are using the original version. On the other hand it's a little bit down on the reader itself, you don't need your own cultural version of a definite tv shows, to understand the subtext. As a translator you have to find the middle way, between two. Cool story: The Hungarian translator of the harry potter books translated the world "locket" as "lock" in hungarian, but it means 'pendant' too. So, when the 6th or 7th book came and it turned out to be a horcrux, he was kind of thoughtful and even had an interview that he had to change the whole dynamic of the chapter.

Yes! I just read any article about reading books, before you even understand or know most of the words. It really helps your brain to be comfortable in a new space. In the summer I read "Micul Prinț" and to tell you truth I only knew whats going on, because I knew the story already. It was like an 'empty reading', just looking at words and watching them. But really helped my brain, later on I recognized sentences in another text and went: oh, okay so that's what it means. Try it with a children's book, or comic, or your international bestseller.

Hi! It's good to find a topic about memrise, I tried it over the summer, but my thoughts are the same as yours. It's a nice memory developing app, maybe the speaking out loud function is missing, but not a language learning one. Like you can learn a few things as you said, but they are just not staying in my memory. I like apps better that makes me do exercises to learn a new language. I got it on mobile too, but somehow it's just not working for me.

Hi everyone, I thought that I will teach you a few greetings in Hungarian. If you would like to learn hungarian or any language at all I recommend language.ws, you just have to register, it's free and you can find pages and pages full of audio and coursebooks. And now for something completely different (Monthy Python anyone? No? ok) Hi! - Szia (see-ya) Good morning - Jó reggelt. (yo reh-gelt) Good day - Jó napot (yo na-pot) Good afternoon (? not really in use, maybe 'have a nice afternoon) - Szép délutánt Good evening - Jó estét (yo esh-tet) Good night - Jó éjszakát (you ay-sa-kat) Thank you - Köszönöm (kur-sur-nurm) You're welcome - Szívesen (see-vesh-en) Bless you /Cheers - Egészségedre (aa-guess-shage-add-ra) See you later - Viszontlátásra (vee-sont-laa-taash-ra) and I love you - Szeretlek (seh-ret-lek) p.s.: when you try to pronunce egészségedre you should also feel my pain that I have to learn how to pronunce "dumneavoastră" in romanian, siiighh

The Dangling particle one really good! I think many people do this by mistake, but it's only because your native language's sentence order is not the same than english sentence's word order. You try to speak a foreign language sentence with english words. for example: "Már megint kifutott a kávé pedig ma takarítottam le a tűzhelyet" (The coffe's run out again, but I just cleaned the oven today.) word-to-word translation Again run out the coffee, but today just I cleaned the oven. It's sounds and looks weird, right?

I really like to learn German, because I learned it in high school for four years but I don't remember much. Also Czech and some Nordic language.

It depends on the learning way you choose, and what's good for you. I mean if you can remember easier by writing some things down, than of course get a vocabulary book, but if you like to listen to native speakers instead then you can concentrate on writing later on.

Well native tongue of course does not matter here sooo, maybe: english - c1 german - a2 romanian -a1

Well, learning a language for fun can be really well, a good choice. But you just get tired after a while, and If you do not use it in a day-to-day basis you can easily forget a lot. Learning a language because of work or life reasons in the other hand is really demanding, because you have to get understand yourself with the taxi driver, shop, pharmacy, etc. In my experience the latter is easier.

I totally understand but 5 can be a little bit more though. Also if you already know and speak a few, it is relatively easier to start learning new ones.

Hungarian is one of the most difficult languages ever! There are so many things to consider before you start to speak that If you looking for an adventure try learning hungarian. And don't give up!

I totally recommend subs first, but after a while you could just forget about them. Sometimes try without them because even if you don't understand everything you can learn new ways and sayings. While you concentrate on reading the subtitles they can easily pass of you.

I taught English for several years for children under 10, and it was mostly about games and bringing language down to their level. Of you could teach the body parts on a batman action figure you won the child for yourself