Table of Contents

Preface Introduction 1. Acquaintances 2. The Flight 3. Crossing the Border 4. Shopping 5. Taxi! 6. Do you Like Budapest? 7. Do You Have a Room Reservation? 8. In the Restaurant 9. Can You Tell Me Where the Post Office Is? 10. What Did Mr Newman Do at the weekend? 11. We are Interested in Music Too! 12. Get Well Soon! 13. I Love You! 14. If Only I Had More Free Time! 15. The Most Unbelievable Story Appendix I: Conjugations of Irregular Verbs Appendix II: Sample Nominal Declensions Hungarian-English Glossary English-Hungarian Glossary Grammar Index Topic Index

About the Author

Carol H Rounds is lecturer in Hungarian and has been teaching at Columbia University since 1988. Previous titles include Hungarian:An Essential Grammar, another in the Routledge language series.

Erika Sólyom, an NYU graduate, is a sociolinguist and she has been teaching Hungarian as a Foreign Language at Eotvos Lorand University and Corvinus University of Budapest. She is also the director of the American Corner Budapest at Corvinus.

Reviews

Praise for the first edition:

An infectious love for the Hungarian language and culture, coupled with a sense of humour, suffuses the book.' – Times Higher Education Supplement