A guide to Hungarian in the strangest of places

Of all the sites to find a guide to Hungarian language and culture, the last one I would have expected was the LinuxFormat blog. Yet there one is.

Hungarian looks like a fun language, with all those joined up words and suffices for additional meaning: German on steroids, really, although Hungarian is one of the few members of the Finno-Ugric group of languages, and is not an Indo-European language like German.

I’m tempted to add it to my list of languages to learn: after all, if JRR Tolkien was moved by the beauty of Finnish to learn it, I’m sure it’s sister language must be mighty nice, too.

I suspect it’ll be going on the bottom of my list, though, unless that trip to Budapest that we keep threatening to do ever happens. Somehow, I think the likes of Italian and Welsh are going to come in more useful.