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Living in Transylvania as I do, there are sure times when I had your language abilities here.  I think Magyar is one of those languages you just need to be born into, whew it just blows my mind! :)

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by soj on Mon Aug 15th, 2005 at 08:27:55 AM EST
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Well, that may be because Hungarian is not Indo-European.

Or, maybe there is more to it? At least anecdotically, I know that Chinese immigrants (my hometown Budapest is their European center; this will be a theme of an upcoming post of mine) find learning Hungarian is a lot harder than English or German - and for them, both Indo-European and Finno-Ugrian is totally alien.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Mon Aug 15th, 2005 at 08:35:14 AM EST
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Is definitely because it's not Indo-European.  Its syntax and grammar and roots are just so different than it makes it extremely difficult to assimilate.  So I just memorize a few phrases like "thank you" and leave it at that ;)

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by soj on Mon Aug 15th, 2005 at 11:27:35 AM EST
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