The course is coordinated by Matt Dunford.
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The Teach Yourself Hungarian Course is a very informal, online course.
It is hosted by the hungarian group on
yahoo.
We do a chapter each month. There are two assignments per chapter.
They are due every two weeks. The textbook is Teach Yourself
Hungarian Complete Course by Zsuzsa Ponifex. It can be ordered
from amazon
here.
UPDATE: A version of the book with audio tapes can also be ordered here.
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Assignments are due every other Thursday at about
midnight Eastern Time.
Send them to me at
zoot@zotikos.com; do NOT
post them to the Hungarian list.
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| 1. | First, pick a 3-letter set of initials, preferably your own, but you can make them up too. Mine are MAD. Once you've done so, let me know what you've chosen so I can put you in the database and check for duplicates. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. | Next, please make sure that you join the mailing list where the list is hosted (the "Hungarian" list). That's where assignments and collations will be posted, and where discussion about the assignments (if any) takes place. To sign up, follow the instructions here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. | Send in your assignment to my email address, zoot@zotikos.com. Assignments are due each Wednesday night at midnight Pacific Time. The assignments are not cumulative in any way (other than the same way any story or letter would be), so you can start at any time. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The format of your assignment is VERY important.
Please make sure you read this to get it right. Our assignments must follow a special format because they're collated by means of a very
useful Perl script created by Kirk Lougheed.
Each assignment is collated one paragraph at a time. Put your initials, followed by a space, at the start of your translation of each paragraph. Please don't include the Hungarian you're translating in your assignment! The collation script can't tell the difference between Hungarian and English, so it gets very confused. You may be as literal or as smooth in your English translations as you wish. I find that, in a given group, it is often useful to have people who do both - both fairly literal translations, and looser, more colloquial English translations. It takes all kinds to make a world. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Make sure to use a subject line on your email that
looks something like this:
Self-Study Jul 13th assignment (XYZ)where "XYZ" are the 3 initials you picked in step 1. This makes it easier for me to pick out the emails of people taking part in the group (and is used by my email program to automatically sort mails into folders). Other emails about the assignments should also have the word "Self-Study" in the subject line. This is good list citizenry, and allows other people on the list (of whom there are many!) to easily read or ignore our group's mailings. You'll appreciate other people doing this after you've been on the list for awhile! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||