Welcome to the Hungarian Citizenship Center. Learn how the course works, meet Huba tanár úr, join your Quizlet class, and begin your journey toward understanding and speaking real Hungarian.

Listen to your first Hungarian expressions, recognize their meaning, and repeat them aloud. The goal is not perfect pronunciation yet, but becoming familiar with the sound and rhythm of Hungarian.

Learn how to use the course effectively: what to study first, how to work with audio and vocabulary, when to speak, and how to build your Hungarian step by step without trying to memorize everything at once.

Listen to simple Hungarian questions, answer during the pauses, and compare your response with the model answer.

Discover the basic logic of Hungarian grammar before studying individual rules. Learn why word endings are so important, how Hungarian builds meaning, and why you should focus on patterns rather than translating word by word.

See how your Hungarian will develop from your first words to confident everyday and citizenship-related communication. This roadmap shows what you will gradually learn, practice, and become able to do throughout the course.

Train your ear with essential Hungarian vowels, consonants, and letter combinations. Listen first, then compare short and long vowels, practice characteristic Hungarian sounds, and repeat useful words from the course.

Meet Paulo Puskás and begin the main course story. Learn why family history, Hungarian language and active communication come together in this course.

Listen to your first formal Hungarian conversation and repeat each line aloud.

Learn the Hungarian indefinite article egy, meaning “a/an” and also “one”.

Learn the two forms of the Hungarian definite article: a and az.

Learn the basic Hungarian demonstratives for “this” and “that”.

Learn one of the most important Hungarian sentence patterns: why Hungarian normally does not use van when describing a person or thing in the third person.

Learn how Hungarian expresses “I am” and how formal Ön follows the third-person grammatical pattern.

Learn three essential Hungarian question words: Ki?, Mi? and Milyen?

Listen to basic Hungarian questions and answer during the pauses using formal communication only.

Learn the essential vocabulary from your first Hungarian introduction and first formal contact.

Recognize your first expressions from official Hungarian.

Begin the Hungarian autobiography that you will develop throughout the course.

Practice your first complete personal answers in a formal Hungarian speaking drill.

Learn the main personal questions you may hear in a formal Hungarian conversation and begin answering them in complete sentences.

Listen to common formal personal questions and model answers in Hungarian.

Learn the four active person positions used throughout the citizenship course.

Learn the present-tense forms of lenni — to be that are actively used in this course.

Learn how to ask and answer age in formal Hungarian.

Practice recognizing and answering Hány éves?

Learn how to say whether you are married.

Learn to ask and answer questions about profession in natural formal Hungarian.

Learn essential vocabulary for forms and personal interviews.

Learn how Hungarian forms expressions such as “in Hungarian”, “in English” and “in German”.

Learn your first regular Hungarian present-tense verb using the formal-course person system.

Learn the present-tense conjugation of beszélni — to speak using formal communication.

Practice tanulni, beszélni, and language names with -ul/-ül using formal communication only.

Meet Hol?, itt, ott, and the location forms of lenni.

Learn basic Hungarian position words and your first postpositions.

Answer a complete beginner personal interview using your real information.

Learn to recognize common personal-data fields in Hungarian forms.

Begin talking about your family and discover the key formal questions used to identify your Hungarian ancestor.

Learn essential family vocabulary for citizenship interviews and personal history.

Listen to essential family vocabulary in Hungarian and repeat each word during the pauses.

Learn how Hungarian expresses “my” by adding a possessive ending to the noun.

Learn to recognize basic third-person/formal possessive forms used in interview questions.

Learn useful plural possessive forms such as felmenőim — “my ancestors”.

Learn one of the most important Hungarian possession patterns: van / vannak + possessed noun.

Listen to basic family-possession structures and formal ancestry questions.

Learn to identify which member of your family was Hungarian.

Learn volt, the essential past form used to say that someone “was” Hungarian.

Learn the essential ancestry expression született — “was born”.

Practice the core formal questions about Hungarian ancestry.

Learn how Hungarian asks “how many?” and discover an important rule about nouns after hány.

Learn the difference between quantity, order and identifying numbers.

Learn how Hungarian expresses “in” or “inside” with the suffixes -ban / -ben.

Learn another major Hungarian location pattern used for surfaces and many place names.

Learn how Hungarian marks the direct object with -t and related endings.

Use the direct object in your first simple sentences with látni, kérni and olvasni.

Practice a complete formal beginner interview about your Hungarian ancestry.

Begin recognizing the Hungarian names of documents connected with family history.

Learn the central formal document questions and answers used in this stage of the citizenship process.

Learn the essential Hungarian document vocabulary from Chapter 4.

Listen to essential document terms and repeat them aloud.

Review the direct-object ending and apply it to document vocabulary.

Learn how to say that a document is missing and how to distinguish available and missing items.

Learn how to distinguish originals, copies and certified translations.

Practice document status and formal document questions.

Learn the crucial difference between location and direction.

Learn how Hungarian expresses movement into a place with -ba / -be.

Learn movement onto a surface or toward certain places with -ra / -re.

Compare the four major location and movement suffix groups learned so far.

Learn the complete present-tense conjugation of the irregular verb menni.

Practice Hova?, movement suffixes and the formal-course forms of menni.

Learn basic Hungarian colors and how adjectives behave before and after nouns.

Learn how hány becomes hányat when “how many?” functions as a direct object.

Learn the object form milyet — “what kind / which one” as a direct object.

Learn how Hungarian combines what you move with where you move it.

Practice answering formal questions about your citizenship documents.

Learn the first core words that appear on Hungarian forms.

Learn the central formal residence question and give a complete answer with city and country.

Practice the main formal residence questions with a Hungarian-only MP3.

Learn the essential Hungarian vocabulary used on address and residence forms.

Listen to essential address vocabulary and repeat it aloud.

Learn the present forms of lakni — to live / reside used actively in the formal citizenship course.

Learn to recognize common Hungarian verbs whose third-person singular form ends in -ik.

Practice the residence questions relevant to official and consular communication.

Practice the formal-course forms of lakik and common residence answers.

Learn the most important location forms used when saying where you live.

Learn to give a stronger formal answer by stating both city and country.

Learn how van means “there is / there exists / is available”.

Learn nincs, the negative counterpart of van for existence and location.

Learn one of the most important Hungarian negative distinctions.

Learn how to say where you do not live using formal interview questions.

Practice affirmative and negative residence statements through formal questions.

Review how van and nincs can also express possession.

Build the vocabulary needed for clear formal residence answers.

Learn to recognize the most important residence fields on Hungarian forms.

Review color questions and the distinction between quality and location.

Practice a complete formal residence mini-interview.

Add your current place of residence to your Hungarian autobiography.

Learn the central formal questions used to talk about routine, work and free time.

Learn essential vocabulary for everyday routine, work and free time.

Learn why complete personal answers require conjugated verbs.

Learn the present-tense forms of dolgozik — to work used in the formal citizenship course.

Learn basic time expressions used to organize your daily routine.

Listen to simple daily-routine sentences and answer formal questions.

Learn useful first-person verbs for describing your normal day.

Learn how Hungarian forms plurals with -k and its common variants.

Practice the major plural patterns used after consonant-final nouns.

Learn the important Hungarian rule that the noun normally remains singular after a number.

Complete the basic Hungarian place-question system with Honnan? — Where from?

Learn how Hungarian expresses movement from inside a place.

Learn how Hungarian expresses movement from a surface or from certain places.

Bring together the six major location, direction and origin suffix groups.

Learn the present forms of jönni — to come used actively in the formal citizenship course.

Practice Honnan?, jön, -ból/-ből and -ról/-ről using formal communication.

Compare useful first-person and formal third-person forms of common -ik verbs.

Learn the formal-course present system of reggelizni.

Learn the formal-course present system of vacsorázni.

Learn how routine questions work in formal Hungarian.

Practice a complete formal mini-interview about daily routine and free time.

Recognize common formal questions about everyday life and free time.

Learn the main formal questions used to describe your home.

Learn essential Hungarian words for houses, apartments and rented homes.

Learn the main rooms and spaces in a home.

Listen to essential home vocabulary and repeat each word.

Use van and vannak to say what exists in your home.

Practice Hány...? with home vocabulary.

Learn simple adjectives for a natural home description.

Listen to complete home descriptions and repeat them.

Answer formal questions about your real home.

Learn respectful title + úr forms used in formal Hungarian.

Learn the formal question used for movement toward a person.

Learn the formal question for being with someone or at someone's place.

Learn the formal question expressing origin from a person.

Compare movement to, location with and movement from a person.

Learn the formal recipient question Kinek?

Master the four major person-related question types.

Practice the four person-related question systems using formal Hungarian.

Learn the basic Hungarian clock-time question.

Learn how Hungarian expresses quarter past, half past and quarter to the hour using negyed, fél and háromnegyed.

Practice understanding and saying non-complete hours in Hungarian with negyed, fél and háromnegyed.

You will also practice the official 24-hour form with óra and perc.

Learn how Hungarian prefixes express direction with movement verbs.

Learn the contrast between inward and outward movement.

Learn movement upward, downward and across.

Practice movement prefixes using formal questions and first-person answers.

Learn three important Hungarian verbs ending in -ít using the formal-course person system.

Practice short formal dialogues combining home vocabulary, people and movement.

Recognize housing-related expressions that may appear in forms or formal conversations.

Learn the essential Hungarian question Mikor? — When?

Learn to understand and answer Mikor született?

Learn the standard Hungarian order for writing dates.

Learn the Hungarian names of the twelve months.

Listen to the Hungarian months and repeat them aloud.

Learn why Hungarian uses ordinal numbers when speaking dates.

Learn how Hungarian expresses “on” a calendar date.

Practice recognizing and answering date questions.

Learn the four seasons in Hungarian.

Learn the Hungarian suffix used for a specific time.

Learn how to ask “At what time?”

Master the important difference between asking the current time and asking when an action happens.

Learn the main Hungarian expressions for parts of the day.

Learn the difference between four Hungarian expressions related to night.

Practice Mikor?, Hánykor?, -kor and periods of the day.

Learn Hungarian equivalents of “to me”, “to you”, “to him/her” and related forms.

Practice the three most frequent basic dative pronouns.

Listen to and repeat the main dative pronouns in complete sentences.

Learn elmegy — to leave / go away.

Learn visszamegy — to go back / return.

Learn the very common Hungarian verb hazamegy.

Learn odamegy — to go there / go over to a known place or person.

Learn when the verbal prefix normally stays attached to the verb.

Learn why bemegyek becomes nem megyek be in a negative sentence.

Learn the basic word order of verbal prefixes in neutral questions and questions with interrogative words.

Practice affirmative, negative and interrogative verbal-prefix patterns.

Learn three national dates highlighted in the citizenship source.

Recognize date-related expressions that appear on official forms.

🎧 Complete Interview Practice

Start by listening to the audio once from beginning to end.

Do not answer yet. Just listen carefully and try to recognize the questions and their order.

There are no model answers in the recording.

After the first listening, review the questions below and prepare your own answers.

Questions and Your Answers

Mikor született?

When were you born?

Your answer

__________. __________ __________ születtem.

Use your real date of birth.

Mikor dolgozik?

When do you work?

This question asks for a general time.

Possible answers

Reggel dolgozom.

Délelőtt dolgozom.

Délután dolgozom.

Use the answer that is true for you.

Hánykor dolgozik?

At what time do you work?

This question asks for a specific clock time.

Your answer

__________kor dolgozom.

For example:

Nyolckor dolgozom.

Mikor megy haza?

When do you go home?

Possible answers

Délután megyek haza.

Este megyek haza.

Use your real information.

Hánykor megy haza?

At what time do you go home?

Your answer

__________kor megyek haza.

For example:

Hatkor megyek haza.

Mikor volt az interjú?

When was the interview?

Your answer

__________. __________ __________ volt az interjú.

Use the real date if you have one.

If this question does not apply to your situation yet, practice a simple answer with your teacher.

Listen Again and Respond

Now play the audio again.

This time, answer every question during the long pause.

There is no model answer after the questions.

Try to:

• use your real information;

• answer in complete sentences;

• distinguish general time from exact clock time;

• answer before the pause ends;

• avoid translating every question into English first.

Interview Sequence

You will hear:

Jó napot kívánok!

Respond:

Jó napot kívánok!

Mikor született?

Your answer:

________________________________________

Mikor dolgozik?

Your answer:

________________________________________

Hánykor dolgozik?

Your answer:

________________________________________

Mikor megy haza?

Your answer:

________________________________________

Hánykor megy haza?

Your answer:

________________________________________

Mikor volt az interjú?

Your answer:

________________________________________

Köszönöm.

You can respond:

Köszönöm.

Important Pattern: Mikor? or Hánykor?

These questions are similar, but they ask for different information.

Mikor?

When?

The answer can be general:

reggel

délelőtt

délután

este

or it can be a date:

2026. szeptember kilencedikén

Hánykor?

At what time?

The answer gives an exact hour:

nyolckor

háromkor

hatkor

tízkor

Remember:

-kor = at a specific time

Compare

Mikor dolgozik?

Délelőtt dolgozom.

Hánykor dolgozik?

Nyolckor dolgozom.

Mikor megy haza?

Este megyek haza.

Hánykor megy haza?

Tízkor megyek haza.

Personal Interview Practice

Before the final listening, prepare one answer for each question.

Date of birth

________________________________________

When you work

________________________________________

What time you work

________________________________________

When you go home

________________________________________

What time you go home

________________________________________

Interview date

________________________________________

Keep your answers simple and natural.

Final Listening

Play the complete audio one more time.

This time, try to:

• recognize Mikor? immediately;

• recognize Hánykor? immediately;

• know whether the question asks for a date, general time, or exact hour;

• answer every question during the long pause;

• use your own information;

• complete the interview without looking at the English meanings.

Treat the recording like a real formal interview.

After Listening

Can you answer all of these questions without looking?

1. Mikor született?

2. Mikor dolgozik?

3. Hánykor dolgozik?

4. Mikor megy haza?

5. Hánykor megy haza?

6. Mikor volt az interjú?

If one question is still difficult, practice that question and your answer separately before repeating the complete interview.

🗣️ Extra Speaking Practice

Practice these question pairs:

Mikor dolgozik?

____________________________

Hánykor dolgozik?

____________________________

Mikor megy haza?

____________________________

Hánykor megy haza?

____________________________

Then add:

Mikor született?

____________________________

Mikor volt az interjú?

____________________________

On your final attempt, play the audio again and complete the entire interview immediately and without looking at the text.

Learn the central formal questions used to discuss your studies, qualifications and current profession in an official conversation.

Listen to the core study and profession questions and model answers.

Learn the essential vocabulary for studies and qualifications used in formal conversations about education.

Learn useful vocabulary for professions, workplaces and current employment in formal Hungarian communication.

Learn the first past-tense forms needed to talk about completed studies and recognize the corresponding formal questions used in official communication.

Learn how Hungarian expresses professional roles such as “as a teacher” or “as an engineer”, and use -ként in formal communication about work.

Practice talking about your education, graduation, qualifications, and current profession, then answer formal interview questions using your own information.

Learn to connect your education, qualification and current profession in a clear and logical sequence suitable for a formal conversation.

Learn the main Hungarian body-part vocabulary from Grammar Lesson 9 and prepare to use these words in first-person answers and formal questions.

Listen to essential Hungarian body-part vocabulary and repeat each word clearly during the pauses.

Learn how Hungarian uses possessive endings with body parts and recognize the forms needed for first-person answers and formal communication.

Use first-person possessive body-part forms with Ez... and recognize the corresponding forms used in formal communication.

Learn the Hungarian structure used to say that a body part hurts and recognize the corresponding formal questions.

Learn what the Hungarian infinitive is, recognize common infinitive forms and understand how infinitives are used after another conjugated verb.

Learn how to say that you like doing something and how to recognize the corresponding forms used in formal questions.

Learn how tud + infinitive expresses ability or possibility and recognize the corresponding forms used in formal questions.

Learn how Hungarian expresses wanting to do something and understand why akar must be used carefully in formal communication.

Compare preference, ability and intention using three important verb + infinitive structures.

Learn where nem goes in structures such as “I cannot go”, “I do not like travelling” and “I do not want to come”.

Learn the possessive forms needed to talk about your own car and recognize possession in formal communication.

Learn how to ask who owns something and answer using formal or first-person possessive forms.

Learn how to ask “Why?” using formal Hungarian question forms.

Learn how to answer formal Miért? questions using Azért, mert...

Practice formal Miért? questions and first-person answers with Azért, mert...

Learn important Hungarian infinitives that cannot always be predicted from the conjugated form.

Learn how the infinitive lenni functions after another verb and recognize it in formal questions.

Practice three important irregular infinitives in first-person statements and formal questions.

Practice three further infinitives in first-person sentences and formal question patterns.

Practice a complete formal interview about education, qualifications, work and Hungarian language learning.

Recognize common Hungarian education and employment fields used on official forms.

Learn the communication principle emphasized in Chapter 9: your profession is part of your biography, but it is not your entire identity.

In this chapter, you will learn how to talk naturally and respectfully about food, drinks, preferences and Hungarian culinary culture.

You will learn to:

• answer formal questions such as Mit szeret enni? and Mit szeret inni?;
• say which food is your favorite;
• use food and drink nouns as direct objects;
• review and strengthen the accusative -t;
• use szeret with a definite object;
• distinguish Szeretek enni from Szeretem a gulyást;
• use the practical forms eszem / eszik / eszünk / esznek;
• use the practical forms iszom / iszik / iszunk / isznak;
• name important Hungarian foods and drinks;
• recognize important hungarikumok;
• discuss food in complete Hungarian sentences;
• use possession with van / nincs;
• ask Kinek van...?;
• say what another person has;
• use possessive forms with autó, könyv, pénz, idő;
• recognize formal possession questions such as Van autója? and Van ideje?;
• learn all seven days of the week;
• use hétfőn, kedden, szerdán, csütörtökön, pénteken, szombaton, vasárnap;
• combine days with parts of the day;
• use Van időm / Nincs időm;
• recognize the formal contrast Van ideje? → Van időm.;
• expand your Hungarian autobiography with your real food preferences and cultural experience.

By the end of this section, you will be able to answer simple formal questions about Hungarian food and culture while also controlling an important layer of possession and weekly time expressions.

Throughout this section, direct communication follows the formal register used in official, consular and administrative situations.

Learn the core formal food-preference questions from Chapter 10 and answer them using your own real preferences.

Learn common Hungarian drink vocabulary and the object forms needed in complete sentences.

Listen to essential Hungarian food and drink vocabulary and repeat each item.

Review the Hungarian accusative and apply it systematically to food and drinks.

Learn the forms of enni — to eat needed for first-person communication and formal address.

Learn the forms of inni — to drink needed for first-person communication and formal questions.

Practice first-person sentences with eszem / iszom and respond to formal questions.

Learn the essential difference between liking an activity and liking a specific thing.

Learn how to talk about your favorite Hungarian food in a formal conversation.

Learn the cultural term hungarikum and recognize several examples introduced in Chapter 10.

Listen to key cultural words and practice a formal question-and-answer pattern.

Practice a complete formal conversation about food, drinks and Hungarian culture.

Return to Hungarian possession and learn the basic logic of van / nincs.

Learn how to ask “Who has...?” and how Hungarian identifies the possessor.

Learn affirmative and negative possession with names.

Learn the neutral and emphatic ways to say “I have” and “I don't have”.

Learn the possession forms needed for first-person communication, formal address and third-person reference.

Learn useful first-person, formal and third-person possessive forms with autó, könyv and pénz.

Learn how to ask formally whether someone has something and answer in the first person.

Practice Kinek van...?, formal possession questions and first-person answers.

Learn all seven Hungarian days of the week.

Learn the temporal forms of the Hungarian days of the week.

Learn expressions such as “Monday morning” and “Tuesday afternoon”.

Practice days of the week, parts of the day and formal questions about a weekly schedule.

Use possession to talk about your availability and respond to formal questions about time.

Combine food vocabulary with weekly time expressions from Grammar Lesson 10.

Practice formal cultural questions about Hungarian food and drinks.

Recognize more formal ways of talking about food and Hungarian cuisine.

Practice the complete Section 10 formal interview with no English in the audio.

Learn the main formal interview questions used to talk about travel and transportation.

Learn the main country and destination vocabulary used in Chapter 11.

Learn the most important means of transportation.

Listen to the main means of transport and repeat each word.

Learn how Hungarian expresses “by car”, “by bus”, “by train” and similar transport phrases.

Learn the difference between asking “how?” and asking “by what means?”

Practice answering formal questions about how you arrived and how you normally travel.

Review the important movement verbs used throughout Chapter 11.

Learn a highly useful formal question about travel experience.

Practice formal questions about whether you have visited Hungary and important Hungarian destinations.

Learn how to ask formally about the final limit of time or distance.

Learn the suffix meaning “until / up to”.

Learn the difference between formal questions meaning “at what time?” and “until what time?”

Learn how to ask formally “from when until when?”

Practice time ranges with -tól/-től ... -ig.

Practice formal Meddig?, Mettől meddig?, -ig and time-range questions.

Learn how Hungarian expresses “can / may / be allowed to”.

Learn the -hat/-het forms needed for first-person communication and formal address.

Practice first-person permission questions and formal responses.

Learn one of the most useful Hungarian expressions for availability using formal communication.

Learn why ráérek becomes nem érek rá in the negative and recognize the formal equivalent.

Practice arranging a time using formal availability questions and first-person answers.

Review drinking vocabulary and the direct object using the formal question Mit iszik?

Review the formal profession question in a real conversational context.

Learn practical polite Hungarian used in cafés, shops and service situations.

Practice a polite service dialogue from Grammar Lesson 11.

Learn how to say “we have...”

Learn the possessive construction meaning “our car”.

Learn how to express “you have...” when addressing more than one person formally.

Learn possession with nekik — they and compare it with formal plural Önöknek.

Learn how Hungarian expresses possession when the possessor is a plural noun.

Review the plural possession structures used in this formal course.

Combine transport vocabulary with time limits, availability and permission.

Practice the core Chapter 11 formal interview in Hungarian only.

Learn the cultural point emphasized by Chapter 11: punctuality and organized travel.

Recognize formal questions about travel and entry into Hungary.

Practice travel, availability and practical formal communication in one Hungarian-only interview.

Understand the main communication message of Chapter 12: your presentation begins before you start speaking.

Learn the main clothing words from Chapter 12.

Listen to formal clothing vocabulary and repeat each word.

Learn the formal question Mit viselt az interjún? and answer in the first person.

Practice accusative forms with clothing nouns.