Hungarian: An Essential Grammar (Routledge Grammars)
by Carol H. Rounds
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 494.51182421
EAN: 9780415226127
ISBN: 0415226120
Label: Routledge
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2001-08-08
Publisher: Routledge
Studio: Routledge
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Summary: Masterly work (ki Ugric, as they say)
Comment: I have a bookcase full of language books: French, Italian, Hebrew, German and even several English grammar books. I read them regularly. This book is one of the best language books I have ever read. The clarity with which the almost impossibly difficult Hungarian grammar is explained is astonishing. At the price, this has to be the best buy you can get.
A quick word to the prospective reader: You belong to one of four groups. You are a scholar - get the book for sure. You are a native speaker who wants to formalize their knowledge of the language - get the book. You are an interested amateur linguist who wants to find out what makes the language tick - highly recommended.
You are someone who want's to learn the language. Possibly you have already picked up some other languages like French or Spanish and you feel adventurous or you want to travel to the banks of the Danube - forget it! Hungarian is one of the most difficult languages to learn. As I said, the grammar is impossible, the pronunciation is even worse and the language resembles nothing that a Western speaker has ever come across.
I am warning you with some sadness. Spending a few hours with this book has convinced me that after fifty plus years of speaking and reading the language I still know less than nothing about it. A great book does that to you sometimes.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Hungarian: An Essential Grammar (Routledge Grammars)
Comment: Excellent! Perfect for the Hungarian speaker who wants to learn, or refresh their language skills, especially while using the Hungarian TV shows online. This book is great for easy quick reference.
Customer Rating:
Summary: An essential buy
Comment: You need all the help you can get when trying to learn Hungarian and it is hard to imagine a better grammar than this one. It is very complete yet all explanations are perfectly clear - no jargon - and accompanied by straightforward examples. The general layout is first-rate: answers to the many problems of learning are easy to find thanks to good chapter layout and a comprehensive index.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The best for Hungarian grammar
Comment: I found this book to be amazingly useful after I had mastered the basics. It clears up a lot of rules and exceptions that other books tend to glaze over. I've heard people complain that it uses too much linguistic jargon, but guess what: you don't need to know what a linguist calls something to know how to use it. It would be difficult to use starting out, in that it does assume you know quite a bit off the bat.
Also, what's all this confusion about cases in other reviews? Anyone who's studied the language would know that most of the so-called 24 "cases" in Hungarian aren't like the cases you'd find in German, Russian, or even English. Case, in a traditional sense, is required by the grammar but doesn't affect meaning. In German the only difference between "Ich liebe du" and "Ich liebe dich" is that the grammar demands you say "dich." The locative cases in Hungarian aren't cases in this traditional sense. There's a difference in meaning between "Megyek a boltBA" and "Megyek a boltBÓL, máshova...", but the grammar doesn't require you use one not the other to make the sentence sound right. If anything, I find Hungarian cases to be easier than German or English, because I don't have to memorize gender variants and they're not there solely for the grammar.
Cases more so differ from postpositions in that they're attached to the word and follow vowel harmony. Every textbook teaches the two separately. I think the book is excellently organized, in that I could easily find whatever topic I was looking for by chapter heading.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: magellan may be a little misguided but the book is excellent
Comment: this book is a fairly decent descriptive grammar of the hungarian language. as a person who has studied the finnish language at length and now dabbles in some of the other uralic languages like sami and hungarian, this book is easy to use if you already have a rather clear picture of the linguistics of this language family. turkish, although in possession of vowel harmony, is not a member of the uralic language family, as magellan suggests - it is an altaic language family member. research has been done to show that these two language families are in fact one, but so far the evidence has been inconclusive.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Masterly work (ki Ugric, as they say)
Comment: I have a bookcase full of language books: French, Italian, Hebrew, German and even several English grammar books. I read them regularly. This book is one of the best language books I have ever read. The clarity with which the almost impossibly difficult Hungarian grammar is explained is astonishing. At the price, this has to be the best buy you can get.
A quick word to the prospective reader: You belong to one of four groups. You are a scholar - get the book for sure. You are a native speaker who wants to formalize their knowledge of the language - get the book. You are an interested amateur linguist who wants to find out what makes the language tick - highly recommended.
You are someone who want's to learn the language. Possibly you have already picked up some other languages like French or Spanish and you feel adventurous or you want to travel to the banks of the Danube - forget it! Hungarian is one of the most difficult languages to learn. As I said, the grammar is impossible, the pronunciation is even worse and the language resembles nothing that a Western speaker has ever come across.
I am warning you with some sadness. Spending a few hours with this book has convinced me that after fifty plus years of speaking and reading the language I still know less than nothing about it. A great book does that to you sometimes.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Hungarian: An Essential Grammar (Routledge Grammars)
Comment: Excellent! Perfect for the Hungarian speaker who wants to learn, or refresh their language skills, especially while using the Hungarian TV shows online. This book is great for easy quick reference.
Customer Rating:
Summary: An essential buy
Comment: You need all the help you can get when trying to learn Hungarian and it is hard to imagine a better grammar than this one. It is very complete yet all explanations are perfectly clear - no jargon - and accompanied by straightforward examples. The general layout is first-rate: answers to the many problems of learning are easy to find thanks to good chapter layout and a comprehensive index.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The best for Hungarian grammar
Comment: I found this book to be amazingly useful after I had mastered the basics. It clears up a lot of rules and exceptions that other books tend to glaze over. I've heard people complain that it uses too much linguistic jargon, but guess what: you don't need to know what a linguist calls something to know how to use it. It would be difficult to use starting out, in that it does assume you know quite a bit off the bat.
Also, what's all this confusion about cases in other reviews? Anyone who's studied the language would know that most of the so-called 24 "cases" in Hungarian aren't like the cases you'd find in German, Russian, or even English. Case, in a traditional sense, is required by the grammar but doesn't affect meaning. In German the only difference between "Ich liebe du" and "Ich liebe dich" is that the grammar demands you say "dich." The locative cases in Hungarian aren't cases in this traditional sense. There's a difference in meaning between "Megyek a boltBA" and "Megyek a boltBÓL, máshova...", but the grammar doesn't require you use one not the other to make the sentence sound right. If anything, I find Hungarian cases to be easier than German or English, because I don't have to memorize gender variants and they're not there solely for the grammar.
Cases more so differ from postpositions in that they're attached to the word and follow vowel harmony. Every textbook teaches the two separately. I think the book is excellently organized, in that I could easily find whatever topic I was looking for by chapter heading.
Customer Rating:
Summary: magellan may be a little misguided but the book is excellent
Comment: this book is a fairly decent descriptive grammar of the hungarian language. as a person who has studied the finnish language at length and now dabbles in some of the other uralic languages like sami and hungarian, this book is easy to use if you already have a rather clear picture of the linguistics of this language family. turkish, although in possession of vowel harmony, is not a member of the uralic language family, as magellan suggests - it is an altaic language family member. research has been done to show that these two language families are in fact one, but so far the evidence has been inconclusive.
Hungarian: An Essential Grammar is a concise, user-friendly guide to the most important structures of this fascinating language.
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