When I did my TESOL five years ago, we had four classes in another language

The idea being to see what it's like for students when teachers can't speak a word of their native language. The L2 we were taught? Hungarian.

The teacher did not say one word of English throughout the four classes. At various times, we were baffled, confuddled, overwhelmed, losing the will to live... yet by class 3, let alone class 4, we'd all started understanding her. It was incredible: she was a brilliant teacher.

Absolute nightmare of a language. None of the pronunciation seems to make any sense at all at first. So many long words and weird sounds. Big big respect to anyone who's learnt it or can speak it.

Posted By: thebigfeller on February 10th 2015 at 01:26:58

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I love Hungarians. (n/m) (NCFC) - ghost of hucks, Feb 10, 00:00:06
- Incidentally, my grandmother is Hungarian. She HATES Hungarians, despises them (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 10, 01:30:03
  - Too much Goulash . (n/m) (NCFC) - CROYDONCANARY, Feb 10, 08:29:13
  - Weird how badly holocaust survivors were treated (NCFC) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 01:50:13
    - the locals in eastern Europe often enthusiast (NCFC) - Joe Strimmer, Feb 10, 07:37:30
    - You know thousands ended up stuck in the camps for years afterwards? (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 10, 01:53:39
      - Yeah a quarter of a million (NCFC) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 02:00:21
        
        And how the survivors were treated explains, of course, their furious desire to establish (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 10, 02:04:46
        
        Yep (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 02:12:53
  - Did she despise them on November 25th 1953? (n/m) (NCFC) - Brandonio, Feb 10, 01:33:11
    - Not a football fan, sadly. In fact, there's no background of football fandom in my family (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 10, 01:34:51
      - Same here (NCFC) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 01:51:36
        
        VMT. Props to Ceefax, Oracle and the Rothmans Football Yearbook :) (n/m) (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 10, 01:54:52
        
        Props? (n/m) (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Feb 10, 08:32:10
        
        The internet suggests it's possibly from "proper respect" and/or "proper recognition" (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, Feb 10, 09:39:48
- When I did my TESOL five years ago, we had four classes in another language (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 10, 01:26:58
  - "Egan" - always struck me as odd that the word for "yes" has 2 syllables. (n/m) (NCFC) - Muzzi, Feb 10, 08:18:12
  - Mine was Turkish, we got quite a lot after just a couple of days (NCFC) - Brandonio, Feb 10, 01:31:35
    - Yes for sure. We had one class in Finnish at school. My God! (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 10, 01:34:12
      - Yeah, all the time. English teachers are the worst (NCFC) - Brandonio, Feb 10, 01:45:05
        
        Ha - yes. I've got students here who taught themselves English just by listening to music (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 10, 01:49:09
- Nagyon szepen kosonom (n/m) (NCFC) - Old Man, Feb 10, 00:00:22
  - s?rga hadsereg (n/m) (NCFC) - ghost of hucks, Feb 10, 00:05:59
    - Jo! (n/m) (NCFC) - Old Man, Feb 10, 00:12:09
  - Dont bother with Google translate, it will always be wrong. (n/m) (NCFC) - ghost of hucks, Feb 10, 00:03:57
    - Wasn't Google translate. I actually do speak (a little) Hungarian (NCFC) - Old Man, Feb 10, 00:11:18
      - You should meet my I (n/m) (NCFC) - ghost of hucks, Feb 10, 00:19:52
        
        You should meet my Immy, she is Hungarian. Very hard language to learn. (n/m) (NCFC) - ghost of hucks, Feb 10, 00:20:30
        
        Well done for learning some Hungarian, big Kudos. (n/m) (NCFC) - ghost of hucks, Feb 10, 08:24:29
        
        You're not kidding. Grammar totally unlike any other language I know (NCFC) - Old Man, Feb 10, 00:27:12
        
        Dunno if you two have twitter but George Szirtes is on there (NCFC) - Brandonio, Feb 10, 01:47:43

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