I'm learning Hungarian myself and got tired of words not sticking. Reading them in a notebook does nothing - I needed to meet the same word in several different ways. So I built the thing I wanted, and it is now out on iPhone as well as Android and in the browser.

It is free: no ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases, and no account needed - it works anonymously from the first launch, and signing in (Google or Apple) only syncs progress between devices. To be exact about data, since my first wording was too flattering: there are no third-party analytics or ad SDKs and no tracking across apps, but the app does store your progress and one event per answered question - the word, the game, right or wrong, the time - on my own backend, which is how I find bad questions; plus crash reports on Android. Nothing is sold or shared with anyone. The privacy policy lists all of its.

What's in it:

• 3,893 words across A1, A2 and B1, organised topic -> subtopic
• audio for every word, in two voices (female and male, your choice)
• pictures for 2,602 of them, the concrete ones. Abstract words don't get an illustration, because a stock photo for "however" teaches nothing
• ten exercises over the same vocabulary: pick the word, listen and pick, find the picture, match pairs, type it, type from audio, unscramble the letters, true/false, and a mixed mode
• a separate conjugation tab: 674 verbs, present tense, indefinite and definite, plus the -lak/-lek form. You fill the table and each cell is marked as you go, not at the end
• a review queue that collects the words it is time to see again

Where it is weak, honestly:

• the interface is English or Russian only, there is no Hungarian UI yet
• picture coverage on A2 and B1 is thinner than on A1, I am still filling it in
• conjugation is present tense only so far
• the current iOS build asks for iOS 18.2, which was a project template default I did not catch before submitting. It is already lowered to 16 and ships with the next update
• translations and example sentences are mine, so the mistakes are mine too. Every exercise screen has a "Something off?" button and it comes straight to me

Links:

• iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6807709146
• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.szokincs
• Browser, nothing to install: https://app.tessek.app

I am the developer and this is a solo project. I would genuinely rather hear what is wrong with it than what is nice about it - a wrong translation, a bad picture, clumsy wording in an exercise. Tell me and I will fix it, usually the same day.

Hey everyone, I'm new to hungarian. My goal is to pass the interview for Hungarian simplified naturalization. I had a free trial of duolingo for like a month so I made it to level 3 but I've gotten bored (mostly because of the ads) and moved to Memrise (community courses) which is a resource I had totally forgotten about. There isn't a "5000 word frequency list" on there like there is for French and Spanish so I'm using several word lists. I also just finished the present tense indefinite and starting definite as well as a course on suffixes and prefixes. What else would you recommend to add? I just found an 10 minute podcast on spotify with automated captions (Apa, meselj!).

Any recommendations? Any free short story resources you know of? I don't want to pay for anything tbh. I've tried language partners in the past with other languages but don't find them very useful.

There are two songs I remember my mother singing to me when I was a child. One started with “Piros Papucs” (red slippers). The other one started with something like “Hup hup hup hup riding…” Does anyone know where I can find the words to these songs, and what the name of the second song is? My mom passed away 8 years ago, so I am unable to ask her now.

Is there anyone who wants to learn or improve their hungarian knowledge?

I’m 25 years old girl from Hungary and I just realized since I graduated I didn’t speak english I only wrote in english. And i wanna change that!

I’m not a certified teacher, i just want to share hungarian and practice english again!😃

We can speak in person too, if you are in Budapest or if you will be anytime soon.

Text me if you are interested!

My grandma knew Hungarian and she would always say a few different phrases to me and I can't remember what one of them meant. It sounded like, "yo-in-sick-cot" and I'd appreciate any help trying to figure out what it was. Thank you.

Bonjour, je souhaite apprendre le hongrois en prévision de rencontrer la famille de ma copine. Je voudrais juste apprendre à parler, étant français cette langue est très différente. J'aimerai si possible avoir des aides et conseils pour pouvoir lui faire la surprise. Merci d'avance

I’m taking an exam in hungarian for exception for language classes and for nynorsk (second official written language), but i’m not 100% fluent in the language so I was wondering if anyone has any tips for what I could do and what I should study.

edit: the exam is level 1. I mostly struggle with writing and grammar and there will be a seperate exam for oral. Also i’m not very familiar with formal hungarian.

Hi everyone

I'm learning Hungarian and I find it difficult to distinguish between the ő and ö pronunciation . I've searched up the pronunciation from Google and they both sound the same. What's the difference?

Thanks!

New episodes on Spotify and on Apple Podcasts!

Check out the latests:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5wvFzbWiKanVhqGTDFObyV?si=09b7badb3a55498c

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2GbAn3AlP3BUuXsBkpW0Zy?si=f641dbee0a234d91

Or on Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep8-hol-volt-hol-nem-volt/id6796426108?i=1000785572995

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep9-kir%C3%A1ndul%C3%A1s-a-t%C3%A1tr%C3%A1ban/id6796426108?i=1000787394770

I'm glad, that you're listening and enjoying the podcast, I hope you find it useful:)

Jó napot!
Tanulom a magyar nyelvet 2 éve.
Szeretnék keresni barátokat nyelvgyakorláshoz. Sokféle témám van: IT, utazások, kultúra.
Anyanyelvem orosz, tudok segíteni benne. Írhatunk egymásnak, vagy beszélhetünk telefonon is – bármilyen kapcsolattartásnak örülök.

Szia. I can't really understand how this type of sentences works. I don't understand either the function of "e" or the duplication of "között". I'm struggling to find the explanation, so I would really appreciate your help. Köszönöm!

ello! i would like to brush up on my hungarian grammar

i wanted to purchase A Practical Hungarian Grammar with Glossary by S. Szita and T. Gorbe but its out of stock on amazon. anyone know where else i can purchase this book in murica?? thx

I have a crush on a Hungarian. I like him a lot. Will tell him of this feeling persists :) Maybe in English, but saying it in Hungarian is a bit appealing because I speak poorly, so it would allow a degree of ambiguity/maybe I don’t know what I’m saying (I’m a chicken).

Nekem tetszel? Kedvellek? Something else? Is there a Hungarian equivalent for saying you have a crush?

I just released the latest episode of my free shadowing podcast. It’s a beginner friendly collection of sentences, based on an existing story video, so if the full stories are a bit too much for you, this is a great stepping stone.

https://youtu.be/XNvwILhSDTs?is=lSlM7TBWb3Ic1Pv2

When you work with this podcast, don’t try to repeat the sentences. Instead, listen for a few repetitions, and then try to say the sentence together with the recording, matching the pace, the pronunciation and the intonation. Each sentence is repeated ten times, so you have time to adjust your speaking.

I renamed the podcast from Mondd utánam, as the original title was somewhat misleading. It means “repeat after me”, when that’s not what you do in shadowing practice. So when a student of mine accidentally called the podcast “shadowbox”, I decided that it was actually the perfect name for it. Nothing else changed, but the new name is a better fit for the purpose of the podcast.

I posted the transcript and vocabulary list on my free Patreon page. The full story I used for the sentences is this one: https://youtu.be/dDqGKud_0mU?is=nQfauG1zCWv_TIfW

I hope you enjoy the new podcast episode! As always, if you have any questions, or if you are interested in private or group lessons, feel free to message me!

Szótárban láttam "évadját" a helyes formáként, de gyakran "évadáként" látom. Melyik forma helyes? Van egy különbség?

I always wondered, because German Wikipedia often shows Hungarian names for Eisenstadt, Oberwart, and other places, but do Hungarians actually use them?

Hello, I just got the role of Hunyak in Chicago and want to do her justice in being as accurate in my pronunciation as possible, has anyone got any tips? And can anyone help me with this line of dialogue: Uncle Sam jo es igazsagos, o nem fog bortonbe csukni, mert artatlan vagyok. Fogok tetszeni Uncle Sam-nek?
Thank you!

Hi all! I’ve been looking into some Hungarian records from the early 1900s, and there is one marriage certificate that is tripping me up (the record on the right of the attached image). I was able to piece together most of what the form itself says (using basic google translate), but am having a much harder time on the handwritten stuff. I currently have conflicting documentation on what the bride’s mother’s name was, so I’m especially interested to see if this can point me in the right direction, and to also confirm that this document matches to the couple I am interested in researching.

Any help with deciphering information about the families listed would be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance!

Igazán nem akartam senkit sem izélgetni ezzel a dologgal, de nagyon felpaprikázott és nem hagy nyugodni. Ma reggel ez a mondat jött szembe: "mégis milyen nehéz lehet, egy vödröt megteliszteni vízzel"... én igazán elküldtem volna az illetőt a ... könyvtárba, de a nyelvtannáci szerepét most nem kívántam magamra ölteni... kérlek mondjátok, hogy ilyen szó nincs még a tájnyelvben sem. Köszi...