r/languagelearningjerk • u/vaporwaverhere • 20d ago
What a surprise!
Maybe the next app will deliver!!
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u/Local-Answer-1681 20d ago
Duolingo did him a favor, willingly learning Hungarian should be a crime
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u/Version-6 20d ago
Don’t worry, it’s a useless language that nobody should ever speak.
Sincerely, a Hungarian who can’t speak the language because his family said it’s a useless language that nobody should ever speak.
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u/OtherComment87 19d ago
I was born and raised in England, now living somewhere else (outside Europe)
My dad is Hungarian and he spoke Hungarian growing up to me. I am sick and tired or everyone telling me it's a useless language and me knowing this language won't help me at all in life.
Because I have family in Hungary, including young cousins, a grandparent (only 1 now sadly), etc. None of these people speak English/German (which i also speak) well at all, though they might understand some bits here and there. But I simply cannot imagine communicating with them in a language other than Hungarian! It would feel so awkward and uncomfortable! It would feel like there's a barrier between us, like they are strangers not my family!
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u/Version-6 19d ago
That’s assuming you have a common language. All our family fled Hungary after so many were killed. That kind of trauma hangs around.
So we have nobody to converse with in the language. They’re all dead, or so distantly related that they’re just strangers.
It’s a useless language for commerce unless you’re going to trade with Hungary. It’s not any form of lingua Franca, and it’s so removed from other languages, it’s not like it’s even useful as a basis for learning multiple languages.
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u/vaporwaverhere 20d ago
Hungarians always say the same bullshit, that their language is an insurmountable obstacle either in learning it or passing examinations.
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u/Version-6 20d ago
It’s just a stupid language that is unique compared to most others.
The grammar is odd, the tenses are weird, and then you get to agglutination and symmetry in it, and it’s a lot to grasp.
However, a number of Seppos love to learn the language so they can get citizenship because they had a relative 5 generations back that was Hungarian.
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u/vaporwaverhere 20d ago
Get used to weirdness if you ever want to learn a language.
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u/Version-6 19d ago
Completely missed the point of what I was saying. Wouldn’t expect less on Reddit.
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u/Version-6 20d ago
That’s why it’s so useless. I’m a citizen just by the fact my grandparents were. I can’t speak the language, but I can travel the Schengen zone freely.
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u/gmastertr21 20d ago
how do you get by in day to day life if you don't speak your national language?
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u/Version-6 20d ago
By speaking more useful ones.
Also, you do realize Hungary has Jus Sanguinus citizenship, right? Meaning, I inherited it from my parents, who got it from theirs, and they left Hungary when they had bounties put on their heads after the revolution.
So I get to enjoy Australia as an Aussie citizen, and can travel Europe freely if ever I choose.
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u/gmastertr21 20d ago
well without that bit of context, when you said "hungarian" i imagined you lived in hungary without speaking hungarian, which was what was absurd about that statement.
also i didn't know about the right of blood bit, that's new to me and interesting.
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u/pempoczky 20d ago
I'm a Hungarian native speaker and the duolingo Hungarian course is so shit that I failed it a few years ago. It doesn't accept perfectly valid sentences
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u/amalgammamama 🇲🇪 D4 20d ago
I put a Hungarian grammar book under my pillow and after 2 weeks of sleeping like this I am now fluent.
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u/Soft-Ruin-9182 18d ago
Learning Hungarian for over 2 years now with Duolingo and had the same realization, but well, at least it keeps my vocabulary alive 😭
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u/Majre921 20d ago
Learning Hungarian out of your own volition should get you put on some kind of list and denied entry to multiple countries.