NZer here. In 1996, after already camping and driving 9643 km through France, Spain, Italy and Austria, I entered Hungary. At my first camp at Lake Balaton, I realised this was the first time I had no clues to guess anything linguistic, after being able to use my French, Spanish and Latin smatterings, and Anglo-Saxon English roots to get along pretty well previously. Now I felt what it was like to be completely illiterate!

Small correction: the subject doesn't always have to be at the beginning of the phrase. "Budapesten él Anna." It is also a correct sentence, with emphasis on the place. And a fun fact: The word "ogre" comes from "hongrois", which means Hungarian in French. Medieval French parents told frightening tales to their misbehaving children about the Hungarians who will take them away if they are not good. So basically Shrek is Hungarian.

I love Hungary, especially Budapest. Greetings from Poland.

I believe it was Wolfgang Pauli who came up with this formulation. he had been asked about the Fermi paradox and why aliens had not yet manifested themselves on Earth... "well. perhaps they have. it would make sense that they would be well represented in the arts and sciences, wouldn't it? they would be able to fit into any place that they ended up in, be gregarious and charming, and probably be proficient in any number of languages. they would seem a little odd to most people but not too odd... and they would speak a language amongst themselves that would be incomprehensible to anyone who wasn't one of them. right? in short, they are here already. they're Hungarians."

Greet from Serbia as a hungarian speaker

I am Csango from western Moldova(Romania), we speak a dialect of old Hungarian, but unfortunately is fading away since people got more and more romanised by choice, our parents and grandparents still speak a lot of it, but the younger generation not at all, I found Hungarian to be a unique and beautiful language after I grew up, because until recent for me it was a familiar language, 2nd mother tongue after Romanian, now I learn Hungarian so I could speak it like a native, like my ancestors did, it is a very hard language indeed, actually the 4th for english speakers, after Mandarin, Arabic and Japanese, and still written in latin alphabet :))

I just came back home from Hungary last month. The language sounds absolutely unique and intriguing. I taught myself the first Hungarian word on the bus by guessing: Utca 😂

I would love to visit Hungary someday. I’ve been told that Budapest is amongst the most wonderful cities in all of Europe. 🇨🇦❤️🇭🇺

Tök jó! Nagyon tetszik a videód. Én is kicsi magyarul beszélek, a volt munkám miatt tanultam meg. De évek óta nem beszéltem. Köszi az emlékezésre!

The sound of Hungarian is beautiful. As is it’s music. The influence of Hungarian musicians in the history of music is huge.

Hungarian grammar is a very logical but complex system, which also brings with it a certain, useful redundancy. Another important characteristic is that the meaning of Hungarian words is generally more specific than in most European languages. In English, e.g. one word can often have many meanings (e.g. to get sg.). This is rare in Hungarian. In Hungarian, you can express yourself very accurately and nuancedly. There are hardly any dialects, they do not cause comprehension problems. Hungarians understand foreigners well, no matter how badly they speak the language. Also, Hungarian can be understood quite well even when in loud noise, from a long distance, etc. someone say something Hungarians say that if the language of aviation was Hungarian, there would be fewer plane accidents. Because some of them happen due to misunderstandings.

Thank you for the video. One of my favorite languages ❤

When I first visited Hungary, back in the 90s, I was told by the natives that I looked like a "Szekel", which are mountain dwelling Magyars from the Carpathians (today in Romania). I did not know then that it was meant as a compliment, but go figure, I'm just a regular American with no genetic ties to that area of the world. Fast forward to today and I have made 3 attempts to learn Hungarian, but every time it's given me a headache and I haven't made much progress. But I keep going back to visiting Hungary because I find these people to be very nice, never mind their language, and since I look like a Szekel, it's a big plus because they treat me like family 🙂

As a Hungarian native speaker I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the table at 14:45 contains some accent errors. Past would be correct: I sg: vártam - vártam II sg: vártál - vártad Otherwise great video, Tanks.

Mindig az a perc a legszebb perc, Mit meg nem ád az élet, Az a legszebb csók, Mit el nem csókolunk. Mindig az az álom volt a szép, Mely gyorsan semmivé lett, Amit soha többé meg nem álmodunk. (Karády Katalin)❤

This is an excellent overview of the Magyar nation. I smiled often when you explained the nuances of the Hungarian language. As a second generation American, who desires to better understand his roots, I highly recommend this video. To this day, I practice the art of cooking Hungarian foods which actually helps me practice the language. Lord knows I need to practice...a lot!

Uralic languages, including Hungarian and Finnish, have always played a magical influence on my mind... currently learning Finnish by my own...

I LOVE YOU for talking about my mothers and my hearts language! It's for sure one of the most beautiful languages! Not esspecialy soundwise, but in the same way a spiderweb, a sunflower's head or a galaxy are stunningly beautiful in their complexity 😍

By the time you reached 'ismerős" you forgot that S is SH 😂😂

I love Hungarian language and Hungarian people! How couldn’t I? It is the native language of my wife and her nationality!

The time has come! I always was thinking about when would you pick Hungarian :) Very nice job! Bravo from Budapest!

Jacob Grimm: "The logical and perfect structure of the Hungarian language surpasses all other languages." George Bernard Shaw: "I can boldly say that after studying the Hungarian language for years, I became convinced that if Hungarian had been my mother tongue, my life's work would have been much more valuable." Giuseppe Mezzofanti: "Do you know which is the language that I place before all others, with Greek and Latin, because of its constructive ability and the harmony of its rhythm? The Hungarian."

Hungarian is an excellent language, with a gigantic vocabulary and a grammar of mathematical precision. E.g. the verb "walk" has more than 100 synonyms in Hungarian. For example, there is a special word for when someone "goes somewhere worriedly, slowly, deep in his thoughts, without a specific destination" and so on. And these synonyms have a very precise meaning. In contrast to English, a Hungarian word usually does not have too many meanings, but rather has another word for similar things. Foreign words are relatively rare, Hungarians have their own words for everything. For example, the word "international" is an international word, but the Hungarians use this word translated into their own language: "nemzetközi". What is also interesting about Hungarian is that you can create new words yourself, which is not in the dictionary, it is not an official word, but every Hungarian understands what it is. They have the grammatical possibility and means for this. This opens up a lot of room for humor, literatur and innuendo. It is also interesting that e.g. Chinese people learn Hungarian more easily than Europeans.

Great video! While the origin of the name magyar is not entirely clear, it is thought to be a cognate with 'mansi'. The most common hypothesis states that magyar is a compound word of the proto-Uralic elements mans and eri where eri means "son of". The 'mans/mansi" element is speculated to mean either something like people, the people who speak, or possibly it's the name of a common semi-mythical tribal leader or god lost to time. Regarding the trip of Friar Julian, the latest research indicates that he found the Eastern Hungarians just to the west of the Volga Bulgarians. The roughly rectangular area bordered by Ryazan, Nizhni Novgorod, Kazan, Samara, Saratov and Voronezh and even reaching almost as far in a North-East corridoor as Ufa, seems to correspond with the area described not only by Friar Julian, but also by various Muslim sources writing about the Hungarians in the 10th and 11th centuries. Apparently the area has an abundance of historical placesnames referring to Hungarians: Mozharovski hutor, Mozharovo, Mozharovka, Mozhar-kasi, Mozharki Bolsije, Mozharskaya, Verhnyije Mozhari, Madjar, Mozharova etc. Furthermore, both genetic and archaeological evidence show clear parallels with Hungarian finds from the Carpathian Basin. There's even a small area near where the Volga and Kama rivers meet where the local folk music of BOTH the Uralic-speaking Mari people and the Turkic-speaking Chuvash people show eerie parallels with Hungarian folk music, whereas Mari folk music and Chuvash folk music elsewhere and in general are markedly different from Hungarian folk music, which has a pretty unique pentatonic quintal downshifting melody. So it's very exciting to see so many different branches of science and the histiography leading towards the same conclusion. As for the articles, it's fairly well documented that they indeed appeared in Hungarian in the 15th and 16th centuries, either due to German or Latin influence.

I think Hungarian is an amazing language and would love to try to learn it one day

As a half Hungarian from Transylvania this is epic

Thanks so much for covering this! Love your videos!

Hearing Hungarian spoken for the first time for me, is quite interesting! It honestly sounds a lot like a mix of German, French, Russian, and Japanese with hints of Arabic in there. I’ve heard Finnish before, so it’s quite interesting that even though the two languages are in the same family, they sound almost nothing alike! Very interesting indeed!

Along with Basque, for me, Hungarian is the weirdest linguistic case considering Europe.

"Lengyel, magyar - két jó barát, Együtt harcol s issza borát"

native Hungarian here. nice vid, there are a few errors: 1) Anna él Budapesten does not mean what you explain it means: Anna is alive, and she is in Budapest. (also it's not something you would ever say it sounds super weird.) 2) there is an error in the conugation table at 14:46. Past tense 1st singular form is vártam, not vártám. 3) future tense is used very often. what you said is also true (like in many other languages): you can use present tense in some cases to refer to the future.

The Hungarian language has no relatives. A unique ancient language

Great video, nice one! Greetings from the guy who speaks on Paul's (Langfocus) video :)

We call it Conquest of the Homeland because it was believed that a part of the nation was 'away' and the Homeland was occupied by the enemy so it had to be taken again by the help of this part of the nation that was away at the time. This means that it was a reconquista of sorts and this is how it connects back to the Huns (most likely through the Avars as well.) The past is murky and anything is possible though and its opposite as well.

Very nice and funny video about my mother tongue. Once I red an article by an English writer named Sir John Bowring. He wrote: "The Magyar language stands afar off and alone. The study of other tongues will be found of exceedingly little use towards its right understanding. It is moulded in a form essentially its own, and its construction and composition may be safely referred to an epoch when most of the living tongues of Europe either had no existence, or no influence on the Hungarian region."

Thanks for making this video to get people to know at least something about our language. And also I really appreciate the effort you put into all investigation has been done. Well done!

OKAY BUT WHAT’S WITH THESE MORE FREQUENT UPLOADS I’M LOVING IT

Your videos is one of the best resources about history I ever saw! Keep going!

Very interesting. I've watched many of your language presentations; your research seems excellent and your passion and intellect evident. Muchos gracias, xie xie, takk, diolch.

It was a pleasure to watch your presentation about my native language. :) Thank you for the huge work you put in these videos! Anyway, you're every time more natural and confident in front of the camera. I love to see that. Your contents are so funny and educational at the same time. I really loved that "Why?" when you spoke about the "s" and "sh" sounds. It was so deep. :)

As a Hungarian I find you video excellent. It's rich in detail, well-designed and interesting. Plus your eyes are so mesmerising! ^^

great video.🔥 Anna Budapesten él = Anna lives in Budapest Anna él Budapesten = The one who lives in Budapest is Anna. Budapesten él Anna = Where Anna lives is Budapest. All of them is correct, and if you aren’t native speaker, it does not matter which one you use. may be it will sound a little strange, but we’ll understand it and be happy if you try to speak hungarian. ❤

Thank you for the video, great summary!

I like the emphasis on language as a byproduct of history. Super interesting and well researched.

Ive studied a bit of Finnish in the past and it's always a bit weird hearing Hungarian words I can almost recognize but can't

For us Finns it has a familiar note. Like a Finn speaking some slavic language with a heavy Finnish accent. But we don't understand any words.

I love what you do! I am on my fourteenth language (I wish I could count Navajo, but I couldn’t get them to agree about how words were pronounced!), and am just delighted whenever I see your face pop up on UKposts! 😊

Thank you very much, Julie! A comprehensive and nice summary of my mother tongue!

Haha! Just as I'm staying in Hungary for 4 days, you released this

My father came form Hungary. Spend every summer in Hungary when I was young. I still love the country. I remember a newspaper article from the seventies/eightees that said they found tribes in Northwest China who still speak a form of Hungarian. They are able to communicate with Hungarians and they understand each other.

Köszönöm!

honfoglalás is only an oximoron if "housebuilding" is - they both describe the act. honfoglalás is the act of occupying/seizing the land that will be your your homeland. since the hungarians were a wandering group of people and noone (not eveny they) knew where they came from. sounds pretty straightforward to me. :)

Proud to be a Hungarian! Köszönöm ezt a videót!

Nice job, I really enjoyed! Sometimes you pronounced the "sh" ( ʃ ) as "s", but almost perfect pronouncation! :)

I loved this episode!! Sziasztok!

Love your channel

The thing is that, as strange as it may seem, the basics of Hungarian are quite straightforward and logical once your brain "switches to it's system". My Hungarian teacher described it as a sort of an upside-down pyramid. Now the rest of it, namely the vocabulary, is a whole new ordeal. It is immense. And if you do not use the language regularly, it just fades away. Yes, that happens with any other languages but Hungarian, being really different and unique, takes it to a whole new level. At least in my case. I haven't used Spanish and German for about the same amount of time but once I got my memory jogged a bit, a lot of it just came back. Hungarian? Not even remotely! It almost felt like I was back at the beginning. Anyway, it's one of a kind, interesting and melodic language. And the rune script a.k.a. rovásírás (written right-to-left btw) is really cool too.

Csodálatos nyelv, nagyon tetszik nekem (Görögországból)

13:28 the cases. The famous *So many cases* story. One can explain it this way, one can also explain it in another way, which will me much more helpful for western language speakers (Germanic/Romance) If you look at the list, then starting from "ismerösben" through Isermöstöl" the different explanation would be: Western languages use prepositions (word? "Voorzetsel") To the school In the school Into the school Next to the school See it as hungarian using postpostions (Achtervoegsels) but then deleting the space The schoolto -> Az Iskolához The schoolin -> Az iskolában The schoolinto -> Az Iskolába The schoolnexto -> Az Iskolánál It will make learning these "cases" a lot more easy without having to learn all those weird names like "illative" , "allative", "elative". Those terms may be fine and dandy for language researchers, but are only obstacles for normal people wanting to learn the language.

As a Turkish native speaker Hungarian sounds very familiar to me… I recognize many words & even some idiomatic expressions and entire phrases

Tisztetletre méltónak gondolom, hogy ha valaki tanulja és be akarja mutatni a mi nyelvünket másoknak, hogy megismerhessék. Mert vannak olyan helyek is az EU-ban ahol nem szabad megszólani a mi nyelvünkön, többek között zelenskilandban sem. I think it is worthy of respect that someone learns and wants to introduce our language to others so that they can get to know it too. Because there are places in the EU where it is not allowed to speak our language, including in Zelenskiland too.

I am Turkish, it sounds Persian to me. Music and atonation.

@JuLingo, i really enjoy your language history lessons - thank you

"If I didn't start speakig in Ady's creative language, I could have been utmost a physic teatcher" Eduard Teller, scientist of the Manhatten project, inventor of the H-bomb, nuclear physicist

Hungarian and Farsi (Persian) sounds similar to my Turkish ears

Excellent Hungarian video Julie ❤.... please do irish next.....the oldest extant language literature in all of Europe. And roots back to at least the Bronze age.

Anyone else learning for the first time that Hide-the-pain Harold is Hungarian?

Juli, One of the Folklore tells us that there are Seven tribes who were united meaning they are all become one single family. Magyar was one of the tribe among them. Language: Throughout the centuries the language became richer, more flavourful and colourful. Today, the best of my knowledge, there are many dialects of the language in each region. But only one that became the main spoken language or dialect that is originally spoken in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg megye (the county to the East). I don't know why that one was chosen, but it is what it is. Most of the words that came from outside like the Latin ones are mainly used as synonyms. Have a harmonious day!

Here is a Hungarian tongue twister for you: Te tetted e tettetett tettet! Te tettetett tettek tettese, te! - You did this feigned deed! You culprit of feigned deeds, you!

Finally a video stating facts and not acting as if there would be still any doubt or mystery to solve. Hungarians nowadays tend to think that the Uralic connection is merely an Austrian hoax because back in that century, we lived in a quite hated personal union. So now, some think we are either Turkic or Etruscan or even goddam' Sumerian :D Huh... anyway. I luv'd this video. It had so many details and Hide the pain Harold ^w^

M. Swadish 100 kadim kelimede Macar A ve Türkçe arasında 25 üzerinde ortak kadim kelime tespit etti. Bu durumda Türkçenin akraba dildir. Macarlar ın yoğun olarak Kıpçak Türklerin den olduğunu biliyoruz.

This was interesting, thank you. Seems quite straightforward in some aspects 😉 so I guess, for someone who knows an other Finnougric language, the hardest thing to learn will be the vocabulary.

Well done, really good summary. Your spoken Hungarian was spot on. Only one minor detail: after you explained that "s" is pronounced "sh" you still mispronounced all the words with "s". :)

To me it sounds vaguely like Finnish but with a different cadence. I doubt I'd be able to peg it as Hungarian, although I'm usually not bad at guessing languages I don't understand. Definitely in a class of its own.

In the Carpathian basin before our time, the IV. century, according to archaeological findings, it was a Celtic culture. Many Hungarians have a very high proportion of Celtic DNA. If you come from abroad and come across the Celtic name, Celtic street, Celtic promenade, etc. this is his explanation.

Just a small note. What comes before the verb doesn't neccessarily form the focus. Hungarian (like other languages) distinguishes "Focus" vs "Topic". That is a difference distinguished by word order and sentence stress.

Hungarian sounds exactly how you described it: unusual and without clear patterns!

According to one of my Romanian ex coworkers, our conversation with my brother sounded like "tokktaraktaktakktokk" to her. But most likely it was just a very particular sentence (or two). Like, if you want to ask a group of people whether they cleaned the house, it would go like "Kitakarítottatok?". Also, people in the UK often ask if I'm French. Which is rather interesting, because to me they don't sound anything alike. I wonder if they do, according to the samples provided around 9:52. Speaking of the samples, thanks a lot for starting with a politically significant, quite recent case! While this is not the right channel for the subject, it deserves its own video.

Hey Julie! I love your videos so much! Especially the Eastern European languages. Do you think you could make one on the Berber culture? Love you so much!😘

superb video for non-Hungarian speakers, especially those who spend time or live in Hungary!

Hello from Estonia. (Finland next door) Kosonom.

As a Hungarian, I greatly appreciate the effort you put in this video. And your pronunciation was spot on! About the s/sz sounds: allied with our Polish brothers, we concocted this elaborate plan to confuse the whole world. Also, one remnant of the future tense can be found in the ending of the future adjectival participle: -andó/-endő.

It'd be interesting to see your take on one of the modern conlangs, like the Na'vi from Avatar, Dothraki or High Valyrian from Game of Thrones or even klingon from Star Trek

Hodvoyt!!!🎉 (half Hungarian).... awesome one! Thanks

Harold is Hungarian??? 🤯 Great video btw. Please do Malay next.

"Who are these people?" made me laugh out loud 😄 Made my day, Juli 🌺 And we keep on being tolerant with each other 🙋🏻‍♀️

I am Hungarian ✌ Thank you so mutch for this video ..for some reason europeans don't want to listen to a Hungarian explaining Hungarian history so a foreigner must do it. I explained the "are you Turkic?" question many times = our connection with Chuvash and Bashkirs to foreigners ....but🙄 ~ other europeans just like to bully Hungarians (I believe based on experiance) we are just interested in our history ! that's it here are some Chuvash borrow words still in Hungarian. Brave = in Hun : bátor in Chu : pattar bravely = bátran in Chuvash : pattran (verb) to write = ír from Chuvash çir in Hun : past tense *írtam* and in Chuvash is *çirattam* + t = past tense Chuvash also has borrowings from Uralic languages ! in Chuvash "towards" is by adding + (a) lla / (e) lle varman = forest to the forest = varmanalla kil = house towards home = kilelle *this is simmilar with Finnic languages* we know how we look like ! we are not pretending to be something we are not ! just like europeans study Roman empire and Latin language ...we Hungarians are also allowed to be interested in our History ! God!.....

"..Made Europeans think that Hungarians were just another Turkic tribe.." True! But they weren't Turkic, their core were Finno-Ugric (Uralic) Magyar people, though Turkic tribes were among the Hunns tribes union.

Very interesting 🤔 I understand a little Hungarian. Kosonem 🇨🇦

The country is referred to " Majarestan" in Iran and Armenia

The Finns and Hungarians were still one tribe back in the days moving West, when they came to a crossroads. There were two signs. Pointing South a sign had a text: good farming, warm, easy life. Pointing North it said: bad farming, cold, misery. Those who could read turned South.

Nice video! My great uncle was a Hungarian American.

Hide the pain Harold is the perfect reaction to those two politicians.. :) Regarding cases. There are no "cases" in Hungarian. The claim that Hungarian has 18 (or 22 or 1359) cases arises when a construction invented to describe indo-european languages is forcibly used to describe a phenomenon in Hungarian. Those endings are called "rag" in Hungarian and work like prepositions in English. Great video btw. Cute how you can't force youself to say "sh" when you see an s :))

1:40 Well, most of the "wreaking havoc" was the result of myriad of small European states hiring the Magyar tribes for "private military contractor" work and then some of them not paying, thus the "adventuring" nomads performing "debt collection". Or straight up punishing action whem former allies massacred the invited Magyars instead of payment . After a while this also took divide and conquer shade too, when the Magyars took control of the Carpathian Basin. Any similarities to contemporary politics is a mere coincidence :)))

I love your videos because I am curious about the origin of things especially language. Being half Hungarian and half Polish, I am curious about my ancestry and try to find out as much as I can. That is why I find your approach via language very interesting. There is some, but not strong, evidence that the Huns were the remnants of the Xiongnu who were later dispersed and one group of which migrated west into Europe. Also, did the Romani, also spelled Romany and colloquially known as the Roma, and who are also referred to as gypsies and who migrated into Hungary have any influence of the Hungarian language? I am curious to what you know and believe about origin of the Polish via your understanding of the language. From what I understand the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths came out of the area in the vicinity of what is now Poland. BTW, I know only 2 Hungarian words.

Big respect that you are able to dig into different languages on this scientific level!!! You must be a niece of dr. Daniel Jackson's, from Stargate.🤘🏼😊 💙 Not that anyone would want to learn Hungarian from this particular video, yet, to prevent any confusion: at 14:49, in the sheet, in the 'past' column: • I sg → "vártám vártám" is "vártam vártam" (indef. and def. cases are the same) • II sg → "vártád" is "vártad". • (No "vártám" or "vártád" is correct, language-wide.)

Hungarian sounds like Finnish and Estonian to me. And as I have been in contact with those languages, I can even recognize some words and structures. Eg. új (new) is uus in Estonian and uusi in Finnish.

I'm learning it, for holidays. I live close to the border. What puzzles me most is 1) the definite conjugation, and 2) the fact that 'what' has an accusative ending. E.g. Mi ez = what is this, but Mi-t csinálsz = what are you doing? In every other language I know, 'what' is the same in both cases, including Turkish, Arabic, and Kannada (a Dravidian language of South India). What about Finnish? I don't know it. (But comparing Hungarian to Finnish is like comparing English to Russian.) Turkish: Bu ne / ne yapıyorsun. Arabic: mâ hâdhâ / mâ tafȝal, Kannada: adu enu / enu maduttiye

Honfoglalás was the process in which this nomadic people occupied an area that became their own land, their home.

4:40 no, the word Hungarian (Ungerorum) comes from the word Onogur. The last settlement of the Avars was the Onogur Avars. Predateing the settlement of Magyars just a 100 years. Onogur means: the alliance of the ten arrows (tribes really). Magyar is came from the word Megyer which is one of the 7 (probably 8) Hungarian tribenames that we know.