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44. "other Slavic languages?"

Sat Jun 15, 2019, 01:28 AM

Jun 2019

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If you think Hungarian is a Slavic language, then you definitely lost contact with it!

These days, many people in Budapest have learned English (not so much outside the city). When I first visited Hungary in 1982, they were still part of the Soviet Empire, and forced to learn Russian in school (which they hated). Their first foreign language of preference back then was German (still strong links to the Hapsburg Empire).

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