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Course Books
Hungarolingua Basic is designed for foreigners who have never learned Hungarian before. This bilingual work makes use of English as a mediating language to explain the most basic vocabulary and grammatical rules. Its simple situations enable the learner to put the material into practice in real-life communication.
Debrecen Summer School published the first installments of its own Hungarolingua teaching series in 1991. The structure of our courses is based on these up-to-date, monolingual books. Each set of Hungarolingua 1 and 2 - designed for beginners and intermediate students, respectively - includes a course book, a workbook, DVDs and accompanying workbooks, audio CDs for students to master pronunciation and to help improve listening skills, a glossary in four languages, as well as tests and answer keys. Recommended for advanced learners, the Hungarolingua 3 set consists of a book, audio CDs, and a grammar workbook.
Since our teaching material is monolingual, Hungarolingua Grammatica, which covers Hungarian grammar in different languages, was primarily aimed at providing a summary of rules of Hungarian phonetics and phonology, morphology, and syntax. This reference book on grammar should make it easier for our students to understand a system which is quite different from Indo-European languages. Hungarolingua Grammatica has been published in seven languages - Hungarian, English, German, French, Italian, Japanese, and Estonian. The correct Hungarian pronunciation, intonation, and rhythm can be mastered through practice with our Hungarolingua Fonetika series, which is designed for native English, German, Italian, and Finnish students. The books in these series focus specifically on potential difficulties experienced by the speakers of these languages.
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Supplementary Material to the Course Books
Practice Books
Language classes - especially at advanced levels - cannot be restricted to text reading and memorizing grammar rules. Our Hungarolingua Gyakorlókönyvek series brings variety to the classroom. Nem csak novellák covers twenty short stories by contemporary Hungarian writers to help improve students' vocabulary, reading, and grammatical skills. Fülelő provides students with an opportunity to develop their listening skills for everyday conversations. It also serves as an aid to the preparation for oral exams. Igéző sets out to help upper-intermediate and advanced students by providing exercises for practicing Hungarian verbs with prefixes. In order to facilitate its use, the dictionary called Igéző-szótár (Hungarian-English and Hungarian-German) has been published. By giving the foreign equivalents of each verb and phrase, it also enables students at lower levels to use Igéző. Szemezgető contains reading comprehension exercises at various levels. Igék: Through short and clear descriptions and practical notes, the volume sets out to systematize the grammatical rules concerning verbs. The book titled Ragozó comprises 66 verb conjugation charts, systematically containing the entire paradigm of over 600 Hungarian verbs. Magyar üzleti nyelvkönyv (Business Hungarian course book) and Munkafüzet a Magyar üzleti nyelvkönyvhöz (Business Hungarian Workbook) have been created for advanced learners. Their primary objective is to help learners to acquire and refine the vocabulary (lexis) as well as written and oral Hungarian usage in business activities. The test bank titled Tudáspróba helps students to enhance and refine their lexical knowledge.
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Original Masterpieces of Hungarian Literature
Hungarian Classics
Reading original Hungarian literature may be challenging even at advanced levels. That is where Hungarolingua Klasszikusok can help with adaptations of well-known works by excellent Hungarian authors like Zsigmond Móricz, Ferenc Molnár, István Örkény and Kálmán Mikszáth.
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Complete the order form that you can download from our website and send it to us by e-mail, fax, or snail mail. Upon receiving your form, we will contact you to confirm your order and to inform you about the shipping options available. The cost for shipping depends on the weight of the books and/or other material you have ordered and on the speed and type of shipping service you wish to choose. Information concerning payment options is included in the order form. Your order will be shipped to you upon receipt of the full balance of payment.
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