Hiiiii!
I talk to myself all the time, so I figured I’d do it in front of a camera for a change. I guess the year and a half of being a teacher has rubbed off on me bc of course my first Budapest blog would be about grammar and language. Dive into some Hungarian with me and let’s pronounce impossible things together!
Vlog 1: Hungarian is Hard
1 COMMENT
rblst
6 years agoDenae,
nice to see you are doing language education videos. Very nice explanation too! 🙂
Keep up the good work!
Two minor, technical points:
1) “-ség” is an adjective-to-noun suffix, which is analogous to the English “-ness” suffix. So “egész” + “-ség” = “whole” + “-ness”.
2) When the “sz” sound is followed by the “s” sound, the “sz” sound will kind of melt into the “s” sound, and the “s” sound may become slightly longer as a result. (You pronounced it correctly.)
In general, when two consonants, let’s call them X and Y, come together, sometimes they become very good friends, so good that one may completely assimilate the other. Thus XY will become XX or YY. (Something like the chromosomes. Well, not quite. : ) Sad thing though: this assimilation is not indicated in writing. You just need to know…
See some more examples here: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasonul%C3%A1s#Teljes_hasonul%C3%A1s
rblst