According to foreign linguists and researchers, this is why the Hungarian language is a very unique language!
According to foreign linguists and researchers, this is why the Hungarian language is a very unique language!
Those who have studied it in depth agree that Hungarian is one of the most expressive languages in the world.
It's a famously difficult language for English speakers with complex grammar and pronunciation. In the Hungarian language, there are 14 vowels with slight differences in pronunciation. Hungarian consonant clusters also have unexpected pronunciations when compared to English.
Despite the fact that it is a difficult language, representatives of the scientific world and the arts also spoke highly of the Hungarian language, especially because it is very easy to describe even small differences. It is definitely a poetic language.
Read our selection from some famous, incredibly talented people who were able to learn Hungarian language – and they didn’t regret it!
"After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.” - Playwright George Bernard Shaw in an interview with the American CBC.
"Do you know which language, due to its constructive ability and the harmony of its rhythm, was placed before all the others, on a par with Greek and Latin? Hungarian! I know the poems of the new Hungarian poets, whose melodiousness completely captivated me. Follow me closely they will witness the history of the future and the sudden upsurge of poetic genius, which completely confirms my prediction. It seems as if the Hungarians themselves do not know what a treasure their language contains..." - Italian Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, who himself spoke 58 languages
"The Hungarian language goes far back. It developed in a very peculiar manner, and its structure reaches back to times most of the spoken European languages did not even exist. It is a language in which there is a logic and mathematics with the adaptability and malleability of strength and chords. The Englishman should be proud that his language indicates an epic of human history. One can show forth his origin, and alien layers can be distinguished in it, which gathered together during the contacts with different nations. Whereas the Hungarian language is like a rubble stone, consisting of only one piece on which the storm of time left not a scratch. It is not a calendar that adjusts to the changes of ages. This language is the oldest and most glorious monument of national sovereignty and mental independence.l" - wrote Sir Bowring John (1792-1872), an English linguist, writer and thinker who spoke more than a hundred languages, including Hungarian.
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