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title: Hungarian
description: Hungarian is a Uralic language noted for its agglutinative structure and vowel harmony. Learners will master basic noun cases, build essential vocabulary, and develop the skills needed to understand spoken Hungarian and hold simple everyday conversations.
category: languages
subcategory: other-languages
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/hungarian
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# Hungarian

Hungarian is a Uralic language noted for its agglutinative structure and vowel harmony. Learners will master basic noun cases, build essential vocabulary, and develop the skills needed to understand spoken Hungarian and hold simple everyday conversations.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 1 Courses • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. 50 LANGUAGES Hungarian

Free set of 100 short phrasebook lessons from Goethe Verlag, each pairing English sentences with native-speaker Hungarian audio. Working through them builds a practical everyday vocabulary for travel, small talk, and basic transactions.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.50languages.com/hungarian-for-free

**Tags:** hungarian, vocabulary, audio-lessons, phrasebook, beginner-language

### 2. Omniglot Hungarian Phrases

Reference page on Omniglot listing everyday expressions with formal and informal variants, alongside notes on the alphabet and pronunciation. Useful for checking how a greeting, courtesy, or travel expression is actually said in Hungarian.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://omniglot.com/language/phrases/hungarian.php

**Tags:** hungarian, phrasebook, pronunciation, alphabet, reference

### 3. LingQ

**Author:** Steve Kaufmann

Reading and listening platform where learners import or choose texts with audio, look up unknown words inline and track vocabulary as it moves from new to known. It supports daily comprehensible-input practice and steady vocabulary growth across dozens of languages.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.lingq.com/

**Tags:** comprehensible-input, extensive-reading, vocabulary-acquisition, listening-practice

## Courses

### 1. Hungarian

Learn Hungarian free with Duolingo! This course covers essential vocabulary and grammar to get you speaking Magyar.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.duolingo.com/course/hu/en/Learn-Hungarian

**Tags:** hungarian, vocabulary, grammar, gamified-learning

## Podcasts

### 1. HungarianPod101

**Author:** HungarianPod101.com

HungarianPod101.com is an innovative and fun way of learning the Hungarian language and culture at your own convenience and pace. Our language training system consists of free daily podcast audio lessons, video lessons, Hungarian Word of the Day, a premium learning center, and a vibrant user community. Stop by HungarianPod101.com today for a Premium 7-Day Free Trial and Lifetime Account!

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-us | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.hungarianpod101.com

**Tags:** hungarian, audio-lessons, podcast, conversation, hungarian-culture

## Books

### 1. Colloquial Hungarian

**Author:** Carol Rounds, Erika Solyom

Routledge beginner course in written and spoken Hungarian, built from dialogues, grammar notes, and graded exercises with audio. Working through it gives a foundation in case endings, verb conjugation, and everyday conversational situations.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1138949868?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, languages, other-languages

### 2. Hungarian: An Essential Grammar

**Author:** Carol H. Rounds

Reference grammar of modern Hungarian covering verbal prefixes, aspect and tense, linking vowels, the case system, word formation, and word order, with appendices of irregular verbs and full noun declensions for looking up forms.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0415226120?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, languages, other-languages

### 3. Teach Yourself Hungarian

**Author:** Zsuzsa Pontifex

Absolute-beginner print-and-audio course structured around everyday situations, pronunciation drills, and staged grammar. Completing it leaves you able to handle introductions, shopping, travel, and simple present-tense conversation in Hungarian.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1444183176?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, languages, other-languages

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