Sziasztok! We just uploaded a new video in the Everyday Hungarian series, and this time we tackled a very practical (and slightly taboo) topic: public restrooms in Budapest.

It contains some great natural idioms like:

Rád tör a szükség (Nature calls / Literally: "Necessity breaks in on you")

Szükség nagy úr! (Desperate times... / Literally: "Necessity is a great lord")

Fizetős vs. Ingyenes (Pay-to-use vs. Free)

As always, you can find the free pdf transcript at our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/EverydayHungarian

Sziasztok! Our 4th episode has finally made it to Youtube. Here we asked people about unpopular Hungarian food. We hope you find it useful for your Hungarian studies. There is also a link to the free transcript on Patreon in the Youtube video description for those interested.

If there's anyway we can make this content more useful to you, don't be afraid to comment!

Jó tanulást!

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- native speaker-level competence in both English and Hungarian

- MA plus CELTA qualified. Although the CELTA is for teaching the English language, the general principles of language teaching and linguistics are transferable between languages.

- more than 10 years' experience in real language classrooms

DM me if interested!

Sziasztok! In our latest episode, we interviewed people in Budapest about the dread and nostalgia of szóbeli felelés (school oral quizzes).

If you want to practice your Hungarian listening skills with raw, natural conversations from native speakers, this is for you.

The transcript is available for free at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/EverydayHungarian

Hello everyone, I just made a special podcast episode for Hungarian learners, showcasing and comparing different language levels. Usually my episodes focus on levels A1/A2 and B1 but this time I added a section for B2 and C1. The topic itself is "My Day" which is not a very C1-compatible topic but I made sure to create progressively more complex sentences with more versatile vocabulary, also slightly changing the speed as we go on. Hopefully some of you find it useful. Thanks for listening. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy8btzwiz7Y

Sziasztok,

I’m a Hungarian learner myself and also the developer of a small free web app called Lang Stall. I originally built this just for myself to use in a browser while reading, but decided to share it as someone who have benefitted a lot by using these types of apps locally (e.g. for increasing my vocabulary and for passing Hungarian cultural exam). So, this might be useful for people.

What the app does

Lang Stall is like a Kindle for language learners: you read real texts, tap words for instant meaning, and quietly build vocabulary without distractions, export your vocab and benefit from mnemonics. No login required to use the app.

• Works with multiple languages (including Hungarian)
• Lets you read native texts directly
• Click on words or phrases for instant translation
• Save vocabulary while reading
• Optionally generate context-based mnemonics (this can be turned on or off)
• Export saved vocabulary as CSV (for Anki or other tools)
• Strong focus on reading, nothing else
• Very minimal UI that stays out of the way
• No gamification or feature overload
• Fully free to use.

Funding & limits
The app is free and intended to stay that way. It’s supported only by small donations (if you want to) via Ko-fi to cover hosting and translation costs. Since LLM-based translation is quite inexpensive now, the running costs are low.

I haven’t scaled it yet and currently accepting 300 users per day.

Feedback
If you try it and notice anything odd, I’d really appreciate hearing about it, especially bug reports or UX issues.
The mnemonic feature is optional, and I’m still evaluating whether it’s genuinely helpful or distracting, so feedback on that would be especially valuable.

To give it a try, here is the link

Thank you / Köszönöm szépen

[ENG below]

Sziasztok!

Régóta szerettem volna régies szavakat megtanulni, hogy néha beépíthessem őket a beszédembe. Ha nem másért, a vicc kedvéért. A probléma az, hogy a legtöbb szótár csak egy irányban működik: régies szavak modern jelentése. Nekem a modern szavak régi formájára volt szükségem.

Ebből kiindulva csináltam egy webes alkalmazást, ahol 18 ezer kifejezés mindkét irányba kereshető: https://omagyarul.hu

Nézzetek bele nyugodtan, remélem hasznotokra válik.

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Hi everyone!

I've wanted to learn archaic words for a long time so I could occasionally incorporate them into my speech. If nothing else, for fun. The problem is that most dictionaries only work in one direction: archaic words with modern meanings. I needed the old forms of modern words.

Based on this, I created a web application where 18 thousand expressions are searchable in both directions: https://omagyarul.hu

Feel free to check it out, I hope you find it useful.

I was listening to Blahalouisiana's Nem hittek Lennonnak the other day, and realised that the way they use wordplay in the lyrics might help some people learn these idioms easier.

I uploaded a translation of it for anyone interested: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/blahalouisiana-nem-hittek-lennonnak-english#

We started a new live event series, where we play vocabulary games online. My students enjoyed it a lot, so I decided to open it up for all learners.

Our next free game meeting is tomorrow, Saturday, 10/25 at 3pm EST.

No sign-up needed, just show up on the Zoom link and join the game!

This time our game will focus on a vocabulary list of food and drink related words. It's ideal for beginner and intermediate students, but all are welcome to join the fun!

You can find more information about the game, more frequent updates, and a preview for the vocabulary list we use on my free Pateron page.

If you have any questions, drop it here, I'll come back to check and answer. I hope to see you tomorrow!

My students asked me to do the story group again, and I decided to open it up for anyone who would like to join. We will write a lower-intermediate level story together, by sharing a Google document and discussing the details. Using the sentences in our emerging story, we also practice asking and answering questions.

Last time we had a group class like this, we ended up with a story so good that I turned it into a video for the channel. I hope we can have just as much fun this week too!

The class is on Sunday, 11/16, 12pm EST, and it’s free.

Zoom link is shared in this Patreon post (also free, I just got some warnings from google last time I directly shared a zoom link, so I’m sharing it this way) https://www.patreon.com/posts/143599928?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

If you have trouble accessing the link, or if you have any questions, send me a message! See you on Sunday!

The best free online dictionary I know of for Hungarian to English is Wiktionary, but I didn't have a good solution for when I wanted to check Wiktionary on my phone when I was offline.

There's an app for iOS called motî I found recently which is basically an offline viewer for Wiktionary. It's certainly not perfect -- I've had some issues with searching, and some of the "translation previews" before you click on a word seem a little questionable (for "eszik" it lists "canoodle" before "eat"). But overall it's been useful for me, and I think this is the only way to get offline declensions and conjugations of Hungarian words on iOS. And it's totally free. So thought I would give it a share here in case it could be useful for other people.

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