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Hi everyone! I come from Canada, my mother tongue is English and I also speak French, Spanish and German at a good level. I work pretty regularly at maintaining these languages so that I'm ready and able to jump right into speaking them fluently when the occasion arises. I also worked for a while on learning Hungarian, as I have Hungarian ancestry and some Hungarian relatives, but stopped about 3 years ago. My Hungarian is at what would probably be B1 level. My ability to actively formulate sentences is much weaker than my comprehension, but my accent isn’t bad. I'm thinking of getting back into working on my Hungarian for a while for a specific purpose - a trip later this summer where I'll be able to use it . And I'd like to specifically work on my speaking ability... ¡Adios amigos! Bis demnächst et à la prochaine!!! Viszlát!! Nora
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Balázs
Hungarian
Apr 30, 2024
Nagyon jó óra volt! Sok szót ismersz, és gyorsan felfogod az új n nyelvtani szabályokat. Ma az étkezési szokásokról és a különböző hozzávalókról beszélgettünk. Várom a következő órát!
Hans Kuhlmann
German
Oct 20, 2022
Lovely tour and conversation. Impressive language skills. Good times. Many thanks and best, Hans 🤠
Fruzsina
Hungarian
Feb 3, 2022
Remek óra volt megint, örülök, hogy idén is folytatod a magyartanulást! Egyre folyékonyabban beszélsz és ügyesen írsz magyarul.
Fruzsina
Hungarian
Jan 16, 2022
Csodás tájakon jártál, nagyon érdekes volt beszélni róla. Szépen bővül a magyar szókincsed, csak így tovább!
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    While this is wildly stale, but I figured I might as well include a comment in case anyone else has an interest in this subject, since I actually do have knowledge of the Lingq website/app. I use it and I like it for my purposes. It's basically a website and an app (it comes in both flavours) that you can use to import text and sound files and that facilitates understanding by giving you easy access to online dictionaries and translations. You can display the text in various modes. One example is sentence mode, which allows you to view one sentence at a time, and listen to the sentence, looking up anything you don't understand and taking notes on the items you look up (either one word or parts of a sentence). Each note is called a "lingq". Later you can review the lingqs as flashcards if you do desire. Lingq makes it much easier to read and understand text that would otherwise be too hard to read enjoyably. I personally use it only for languages at which I'm at or below the B2 level - above that I don't require reading help. :) The interface is so-so, but it can be figured out and there is pretty good help available on the forum if you have questions. In summary, I think this is a very useful supplementary resource along with whatever you're using as your primary learning method. Or if you just want to dabble and don't want to invest too much in a particular language, then reading a simple book you're interested in -- with Lingq's help -- can be as enjoyable a method as any, and it's certainly more helpful and useful than most apps (Duolingo, Pimsleur ....)
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    October 20, 2022
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    Hi! I’m a native English speaker from Canada. In my opinion, both of these sentences are correct and both sound natural but they would be used in different contexts. I am confident a solution can be found. …This is what you would say if you were trying to reassure someone. The other person is actively looking and you’re telling them that you are sure that it’s possible to find a solution to their problem, and so, by implication, they’re going to find it! Don’t worry! I am confident a solution could be found. …In saying this the speaker is saying that they are sure that it is possible to find a solution, but something is getting in the way of finding the solution. For example, it would be possible to find a solution if enough time or money or energy would be spent looking. Or it would be possible if those responsible were really motivated to find a solution. In other words, the speaker is confident that it would be possible to find a solution, but in the circumstances, it doesn’t sound like one will be found!
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    April 30, 2021
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    “....didn’t eat your lunch” is describing an action that is definitely in the past. For example, it is now afternoon or evening and you’re telling the person that if they didn’t have lunch back at noon, they needn’t call you..... This frankly doesn’t make much sense. I can’t think of too many situations where there would be a relationship between the person calling you and whether you had lunch earlier in the day. “....haven’t had your lunch” implies that you’re still in the lunch period. Maybe you want to tell them that you don’t want to interrupt. You want them to go ahead and eat their lunch if they haven’t done so yet, rather than calling you back immediately. This is more likely what you’re trying to say! “You don’t have to call me back if....” says basically “forget it, if you haven’t yet eaten your lunch, go and do it and don’t worry about calling me back at all” (i.e. maybe I need an answer right away, so if you’re not available, I’ll call someone else). If you would like them to call you after they’ve finished eating, the clearest wording would be: “You can call me after lunch if you haven’t finished eating yet”.
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    January 31, 2021
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    I learned another easy and helpful trick for pronouncing "ie" and "ei" very early on in studying German: I look at the second letter in the combination and pronounce the combination as an English-speaker would say that letter in the alphabet. Let's take for example, the word "Leib". The second letter in this case is "i", and the sound to pronounce for the "ei" combination is how we English speakers say "i" in the alphabet. For the word "schrieb", the second letter is "e" and the sound to pronounce is how an English-speaker would say "e" in the alphabet.

    This works every time, it's super easy to remember and 10 years later, I still use it all the time mentally both for both reading and writing.
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    June 19, 2020
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    "mit Riemchen frühstücken"??? Hallo alle! Eine Freundin habe mir das Folgende in einer informellen Mail geschrieben: Morgen werde ich mit Riemchen erst frühstücken und dann ins Fitnesstudio gehen. Das haben wir uns schon Monate vorgenommen. ??? Was bedeutet "ich werde mit Riemchen frühstücken"'? Das Wort Riemschen erscheint im Wörterbuch und bedeutet "schmales Bauelement, z. B. halbierter Ziegel". Es kann auch einen Schuhanteil bedeuten....Weder einen noch der anderen hat einen Sinn!
    January 21, 2020
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    The term "manufactured goods" is a relatively common one and it means any kind of produce that has gone through a manufacturing process. "Engineered goods" is a technical term and it is not used in common speech -- it would only be understood by someone in the engineering/manufacturing field. I had to look it up. Apparently it means a ‘designed product with specific or custom requirements’ produced by a contract manufacturer.
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    November 16, 2019
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    Die Bedeutung von einem informelen Satz aus einer E-Mail Eine Freundin hat mir das Folgende in einer E-Mail geschrieben: "Hatte ich Dir schon geschrieben, 3 Kollegen haben gekündigt. Bin bedient, meine Kollegen mit denen ich mich gut verstehe". Das ist alles, was in diesem Absatz steht. Ich verstehe nicht genau, was den letzten Satz bedeutet. Könnte jemand erklären? Danke im Voraus!
    July 16, 2019
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    E-Mail an den Besitzern eines kleinen ländlichen Hotels Grüß Gott Frau Ehart, Danke für Ihre Nachricht! Ich habe doch noch einige weitere Fragen. Ist es empfehlenswert mit den E-Bikes bis Salzburg, Hallstatt, Bad Ischl, Sankt Wolfgang, Eisriesenwelt und Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden zu fahren? (wir wissen noch nicht welche wir besuchen). Wenn das geht, können wir vielleicht das Auto auslassen und anstatt dessen E-Bikes mieten! Stehen zwei E-Bikes am 14. und 15. September zur Verfügung? Wie können wir ohne Wagen bis zu Ihnen am 13. September zwischen 18 und 19 Uhr ankommen? Ich weiß, dass es einen Bus zwischen Salzburg und Sankt Gilgen gibt, aber Sie sind mehr als 3 Kilometer vom Dorf entfernt... Gibt es ein Taxi im Dorf oder ein anderes Transportmittel? Danke im Voraus für Ihre Hilfe! Nora Balogh Ottawa, Kanada
    July 11, 2019
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    June 25, 2019
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    Bedeutung von einem Satz aus einem Kurzgeschichte "Dreißig, vierzig, sechsig Sekunden schafft es Kauter Fredi, dass sich Dr. A Kauter, Vorsitzender der Geschäftsleitung und Delegierter des Verwaltungsrats -- eines nun ja, die Rezession geht niergends ganz spurlos worüber --, aber immerhin eines Unternehmens, schafft es also, dass sich Dr. Alfred Kauter dem deissen Strahl hingibt, ehe es diesem gelingt, da Steuer herumzuseissen"....aus Business Class von Martin Suter Ich verstehe: - that Fredi Krauter manages to get Dr. A Krauter to surrender to the hot stream of water for 60 seconds(!) before the later can change course (i.e. change the tap to cold water). - that Dr. A Kauter is the CEO of the company and member of the Board - however this part is a bit mysterious to me: "...eines nun ja, die Rezession geht niergends ganz spurlos worüber --, aber immerhin eines Unternehmens,..." Hilfe!....und Danke im Voraus!!!
    February 24, 2019
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