I am quite new to this homepage so first of all I would like to say Hello to all of you!
Besides being curious about learning languages such as Japanese, Italian, Swedish, Chinese and so forth I also would like to teach here!
I was raised in Germany, so my mothertounge is German (which I would happily teach as well), but I moved to Hungary around 14 years ago. I got fluent in Hungarian in around 5-6 years.
Hungarian is one of the oldest languages in Europe and it is nothing like the languages around here. It is really different, beautiful, and it started to disappear. There are less and less people on Earth who can speak Hungarian, which is really sad.
I would like to turn this thing around as much as I can.
So I would like to ask you: Is there anyone who would be interested in learning a beautiful and special language like Hungarian?
If so, could you assist me how I can upload lessons here?
Welcome Sandy,
it’s great that you’d like to help learners of Hungarian by creating Hungarian lessons.
Unfortunately, you cannot do this on LingQ now, and probably not in a foreseeable feature. Read Alex’s latest posts on this page: http://www.lingq.com/forum/2/22305/?page=1#post-157734.
You will need to create or gather a lot of material in Hungarian if you’d like Hungarian to become available at LingQ, as explained here: New Languages on LingQ.
I definitely want to study Hungarian, although I am too busy with other languages now.
Good luck and enjoy LingQ,
Michele
I wish we could add more languages for other people. After I learn Finnish and Icalandic, I’ll try to spread the knowledge of those language to other learners.
@nekomimikan: Sandy, it’s nice to hear that you like and speak our language. That’s even nicer that you would like to bring it into the LingQ system. I was thinking about it too, but currently I have no time to do that in a really professional way. (I am a keen graduate (since last Thursday :-))) in Hungarian literature and linguistic. I am also considering getting started a graduate course in Hungarian as a second language.)
You are right. This is unique and ancient (about 3000 years old), but how do you mean that Hungarian started to disappear? This was the prophecy of Herder the philosopher 250 years ago. It was based on the fact that all of the surrounding nations’ languages had Indo-European origin (Indo-German, Slavic, Neo-Latin) while Hungarian had a Finno-Ugric one. But for my and other 15 million native Hungarians’ fortune, it hasn’t happened. Our country is quite small, a little bit bigger than Austria, but it’s still 100 times less than the USA or Canada. So, we can not expect much more Hungarian speaker, I think. That is true that most Finno-Ugric languages have a very few speakers, there are dying ones as well. But Hungarian (15M), Finnish (5 M) and Estonian (1 M) are widely spread enough not only to survive but to prosper. (The Finns were to lose their native language under the Swedish Empire, but they could respread it with amazing efforts.) Anyway, Hungarian is not in danger; I’m sorry for the long comment, perhaps it can be interesting for someone.
