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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By bambina_p
Format:Audio Cassette
I'm using this course to get familiar with hungarian language before actually coming to Hungary - and as such don't have native speakers around. While book is very good structured, I have enormous difficulties to understand the dialogs on Audio-CD. Each dialog is recorded only once, and even from the beginning on the "full-speed" - as it will be spoken in the real live. I thougth the book is for beginners!
Langenscheidt in their "30 days"-series records first 10 lessons twice - in "slow" version and then the real spoken. I think that is something the publishers of this book should think about.
Langenscheidt in their "30 days"-series records first 10 lessons twice - in "slow" version and then the real spoken. I think that is something the publishers of this book should think about.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By jazz convert
Format:Paperback
I ahve been learning Hungarian as a challenge for a few years now. I started with the previous Colloquial Hungarian course (by Szuzsa Pontifex?) which was in my opinion a lot more fun, relevant and had much better audio materials - quite fast, but not as fast as the recordings on this newer course. The new course is still probably the best out there, but I don't think it represents any improvement on the previous one!
2.0 out of 5 stars
What definitely makes it NOT your best choice in personal language learning
7 May 2012
By vonMoltke
Format:Audio CD
After having studied half a dozen foreign languages from different courses, I will not recommend Routledge for a beginner in Hungarian language, and this for many a reason.
Lessons are overcharged with material, especially new words, that one should take time to digest before getting to the next unit. Shorter lessons (40 instead of the actual 15) would work better.
After Unit 7, texts and dialogues are no longer translated in full, but the reader has to rely on words provided in the vocabulary at the end of the dialogues or, worse, in the glossary at the end of the book. This makes the student waste a considerable amount of time just to understand what he or she is reading, a time that could be better used in studying the grammar. In addition to that, there are words not included neither in the former nor in the latter listing, making necessary a good dictionary at hand.
The material in the cd's is recorded at full-speed, a speed that would challenge, in my opinion, many a native speaker in catching all the words, not to mention a beginner. On top of that, in a handful of cases the written text is not consistent with the recorded one.
Hungarian grammar is characterized by extensive use of cases (at least 17, but likely more). So I was struck in waiting until Unit 4 to be introduced to the Accusative and to Unit 6 (in a course of 15) before getting to other cases. One should be introduced earlier to those features, in order to familiarize with them.
As already noted by another reviewer, there is no excuse for the many misspellings in a course intended for first-time learners.
Lessons are overcharged with material, especially new words, that one should take time to digest before getting to the next unit. Shorter lessons (40 instead of the actual 15) would work better.
After Unit 7, texts and dialogues are no longer translated in full, but the reader has to rely on words provided in the vocabulary at the end of the dialogues or, worse, in the glossary at the end of the book. This makes the student waste a considerable amount of time just to understand what he or she is reading, a time that could be better used in studying the grammar. In addition to that, there are words not included neither in the former nor in the latter listing, making necessary a good dictionary at hand.
The material in the cd's is recorded at full-speed, a speed that would challenge, in my opinion, many a native speaker in catching all the words, not to mention a beginner. On top of that, in a handful of cases the written text is not consistent with the recorded one.
Hungarian grammar is characterized by extensive use of cases (at least 17, but likely more). So I was struck in waiting until Unit 4 to be introduced to the Accusative and to Unit 6 (in a course of 15) before getting to other cases. One should be introduced earlier to those features, in order to familiarize with them.
As already noted by another reviewer, there is no excuse for the many misspellings in a course intended for first-time learners.
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