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Title: In-Flight Hungarian
Subtitle: Learn Before You Land
Author: Living Language
Narrator: Living Language
Format: Original Recording
Length: 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-30-04
Publisher: Living Language
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 16 votes
Genres: Language Instruction, Other Languages
Publisher's Summary:
Wondering how to make use of all that spare time on the plane while you're flying to Budapest? Between your in-flight meal and your in-flight movie, try some In-Flight Hungarian! This 60-minute program is the simplest way to learn just enough Hungarian to get through anything you'll run into, whether you're traveling for business or for pleasure. Short lessons make In-Flight Hungarian easy to use.
©, (P)2001 Living Language, a Random House Company
Members Reviews:
Not the place to start.
As some of the other reviewers noted, Hungarian is a unique language. It is not related to the other Central European languages, it is not derived from Latin. Heck, it isn't Indo-European.
This is important when considering what to buy when trying to learn the language in that it means: 1. you are not going to recognize individual words because they are not similar to the same word in French, Italian, Spanish, German or English and 2. you are not going to be familiar with the vowel or the consonants. There are sounds unknown to English in Hungarian.
So why am I babbling on about this? One of the first phrase this ill-thought teaching method tries to teach you is " I don't speak Hungarian very well". Or Nem nagyam beszelek magyarul. They say it once (at normal speaking rate!), give you time to register just how completely unprepared you are to repeat what you just heard and then they move on to the next phrase. I kid thee not. I would bet that sometimes as they were recording this stuff they found it hard not to laugh.
The third section does cover numbers and is probably the most useful section of the CD. One word at a time when learning this unique language is about right. I have a Hungarian neighbor and when she (w/ infinite patience) tries to teach me words, I usually require three or four attempts to get them right.
They are no sections devoted to individual pronouns, verbs, etc. There are sections (like the one on restaurants) where they give you individual words like plate, etc. Those are useful. The book is a necessity the first few times you listen to each section. The phonetic pronunciations are essential and help you to pick up on things like the Hungarian tendency to stress the first syllable. And the book helps you to pick up on individual words.
I guess that what I am saying is that this is not necessarily a bad product. It is certainly not what I would recommend to anyone that needs a quick intro to this language. When I find that product, I will review it.
Love the In Flight series
I absolutely love the In Flight series and have used it to get a tourist level mastery of 7 different languages for our travels. I suggest getting it 3-4 months in advance and just listen at first without trying to say anything. Eventually you will pick up on where the words begin and end. It can be overwhelming at first if you try to repeat the phrases right away. This series does not do the annoying thing of breaking the words down into syllables, and it doesn't waste time on the alphabet either. Basic phrases you will need for traveling - food, airport, hotel issues, etc. Fabulous!!!
Worth every Forint
I wouldn't wait for the flight, but I listened to these tapes for a couple of months on my commute before going to Hungary and it was very helpful. Some suggestions.
