Beginner's Hungarian Dictionary

BEGINNER'S HUNGARIAN DICTIONARY is one of Usborne's pictorial dictionaries. These exist in many countries for many languages, and show pictorial scenes such as "In the countryside" or "In the kitchen" with relevant objects marked with in the target language with the translations into the reader's original language in a box at the bottom of the page. The Usborne dictionaries provide a very effective way of learning vocabulary at the beginner's level. When I first began studying Hungarian, I felt aware that I knew little of the lexicon regarding the weather. I merely had to open to the chapter "Weather and seasons" and write up a set of flascards of all the words in this sphere, helpfully compiled in one single place. By working through each of the chapters, one can eventually attain a command of around 2,000 words, which is a solid basis for using the language indeed. The dictionary also tries to provide a short grammar, with phonology, morphology, and syntax sketched in only nine pages. This adds little to the dictionary, because most students will already be using a superior grammar. If you are embarking on the study of Hungarian, the Usborne BEGINNER'S HUNGARIAN DICTIONARY is a powerful tool and worth getting (it's sold in most of the bookstores in Budapest's tourist zone). If only I could find this same system for all the languages I have studied.