Colloquial Hungarian

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 S^'olyom is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at New York University. She has received a number of fellowships, including a Fulbright Grant and a Soros Foundation Fellowship.

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