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jiggawatts on Oct 2, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Martians of Budapest

I learned to read and write Hungarian in a matter of weeks. It is spelled phonetically, with only a handful of special cases. It's hilariously easy.

English is a random mish-mash of at least four languages, making it seem very random and ad-hoc. However, it mercifully uses the latin alphabet. Chinese is just a nightmare, with students spending most of their schooling just to become literate...

tigerlily on Oct 2, 2021 [–]

Which resources did you use to learn to rw Hungarian so fast?

jiggawatts on Oct 2, 2021 | [–]

I learned in the first few weeks of primary school. Most students achieved literacy in the same time frame, a few months at most for the slower kids.

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