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I study languages as a hobby so I have some background there. Lived in a few different countries and am moving to Europe soon. Right now I'm in the same boat as you. I am 30, have a lot of Hungarian ancestry, and am now just learning Hungarian to apply for citizenship.

I have to say that Pimsleur is great for practicing speaking and pronunciation. I have used it for both Hungarian and Russian. Pimsleur alone isn't enough to learn a language though. You also need lessons with Hungarian language teachers, some way to study vocabulary, and some way to immerse yourself in the language.

For lessons, I started on https://preply.com/en/lessons and found some tutors that I like. They are marginally expensive, but worth every penny in terms of amount of learning crammed into one hour. DM me for my recommendations on specific tutors. You need these interactions to practice speaking and to have someone "work out" your brain.

For learning vocabulary, I suggest looking into making anki flashcards, and how to do it properly with cloze deletions, et cetera. There are a ton of resources out there for how to study vocab effectively with anki.

For listening, watch as many youtube videos in Hungarian as you can. Subscribe to r/hungary and try to figure out people's conversations. Watch Hungarian movies.

Take classes at a local community college. Find local hungarian language partners on craigslist. et cetera.

There is no single solution to learning a language - you need to approach listening, reading, writing, and speaking from multiple angles consistently over time to improve. Good luck!

If you're allowing for Hungarian translations, Starcraft: Brood War has a mod called Huncraft. It not only provides translations for the whole game - voices included! - but entirely new campaigns as well.

In the linguistics biz, you are what is known as a "heritage speaker." I have the same situation with Russian. The tricky thing with heritage speakers is that they tend to have the exact *opposite* set of strengths and weaknesses as compared to true beginners. Pronunciation and comprehension tend to be strong, formal knowledge and grammar tend to be weak.

Are you fairly comfortable with grammar concepts more broadly? Not specifically Hungarian grammar, but grammar in general? If so, you may want to start with a grammar book, rather than a beginner's course. The only one that I know is: https://www.amazon.com/Hungarian-Essential-Grammar-Routledge-Grammars/dp/0415777372

nagyon szívesen!
The book is called 'Gyakorló magyar nyelvtan - A practical Hungarian grammer'
I grabbed a copy at a book store in Pécs, so it wasn't too expensive. Looks pretty pricey online however.
Honestly - I haven't gotten too far in the book yet, but the first few chapters are pretty good. I think it would be better utilized within a classroom environment, but certainly helpful for self studies as well. Each chapter has the lesson in both Hungarian and English.

nagyon szívesen!

The book is called 'Gyakorló magyar nyelvtan - A practical Hungarian grammer'

I grabbed a copy at a book store in Pécs, so it wasn't too expensive. Looks pretty pricey online however.

Honestly - I haven't gotten too far in the book yet, but the first few chapters are pretty good. I think it would be better utilized within a classroom environment, but certainly helpful for self studies as well. Each chapter has the lesson in both Hungarian and English.

Hi there! Are you looking for a professional teacher who's specialized in teaching Hungarian? Unfortunately I can't help you with that but I got another idea if you'd like to find friends and hang out with Hungarians.

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I really appreciate your enthusiasm to learn this deep language. I'm not living in Budapest but I've heard of an event called International Meeting Point Budapest or something. It's basically just a bunch of internationals drinking and talking but you can also find Hungarians! Some of them are only there for hookups! So be careful. Search for "International Meeting Point Budapest" on Google or meetup.com.

If you really want to go deep into grammar, you might want to look for a professional who has the skills necessary to teach Hungarian and explain Hungarian in English or your native language.

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I wish you good luck! :)

a - á http://www.forvo.com/word/ak%C3%A1r/#hu the word "akár" has both sounds, you can clearly hear the difference here. é - much more like say or may, day, lay, etc.... "ee" is í basically.

hope it helps!

https://www.opensubtitles.org/hu/search/imdbid-3496334/sublanguageid-hun,eng/moviename-van%20valami%20furcsa

Subtitles in Hungarian are available here https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/7461025/casablanca-hu. You might need to play around with the character encoding of the file to get the Hungarian characters to display properly.

What others have you tried besides Duolingo? There's a Drops app for vocab and an InnovationApps one for simple stuff.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.languagedrops.drops.learn.learning.speak.language.hungarian.words

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.language.learnhungarian

Not exactly what you are seeking for, but if you like the memory game and you have an android phone, WordMemory is there to improve your vocab and your mind.

I use this method by ISH Nyelviskola and it's excellent. I have it in hard copy with mp3 audios but see if you can get the kindle version, it's inexpensive:

https://www.amazon.com/Hungarian-English-Hungarian-Dialogues-Summaries-Upper-Elementary-ebook/dp/B00MZIMA4Y/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=

This book series. It may not be as immediately satisfying as say Duolingo, but in my language learning experiences, these books and grammar (especially conjugations, explicitly) are the way to really efficiently learn a language.

These coursebook style things force you to really work through the language. And the less you translate directly the better you typically learn the language.