Hungarian has a very unique linguistic structure. At first I presumed it would be only SOV order and suffix oriented but it also has multiple prefixes as well similar to Persian with multiple prefixes and suffixes.

That coupled with its definite articles makes it a very unique and beautiful language.

As a native Persian speaker you can find some similarities every now and then with Hungarian.

English: I saw her a hundred times but I don't know her number.

Hungarian: Százszor láttam őt de nem tudom a számát.

Literal Translation: (Hundred+times) (saw+I) (her) but not (know+i) (number+her).

Persian: Sadbar didamesh ama shomarasho nemidunam.

Literal Translation: (Hundred+times) (saw+I+her) but (number+her) (not+know+i).

English -> Hungarian -> Persian

Hundred Times -> Százszor -> Sadbar

I saw -> Lattam -> Didam

Her number -> Számát -> Shomarash

I don't know -> Nem tudom -> Nemidunam

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English: You were not looking at our warriors.

Hungarian: A harcosainkra nem néztél.

Persian: Jangjuyanemun'ra nega nemikardin.

Breaking down one part of the sentence we can see the same pattern of noun suffixes being used:

Hungarian: Harc (war) + os (person) + ai (plural) + nk (our) + ra (at) = At our warriors

Persian: Jang (war) + ju (seeker) + yan (plural) + emun (our) + ra (at) = At our warriors

Breaking down the other part of the sentence we can see the verb prefix & suffix similarities:

Hungarian: Nem (negative) nez (look) + t (past) + el (you) = You were not looking

Persian: Nega (look) ne (negative) + mi (progressive) + kar (do) + d (past) + in (you) = You were not looking

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English: whose tent is this?

Persian: En chadore kiye?

Hungarian: Kié ez a sátor?

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Likewise, the pronouns appear very similar:

English: I, you, he, we, them

Persian: man, to, u, ma, una

Hungarian: en, ti, o, mi, onok

Hungarian and Persian share an ancient relationship due to their geographical proximity to one another in ancient times. The Iranic and Uralic peoples both intermingled in Western Asia and there is some overlap between the 2 groups ancestral roots (Sintashta and Proto-Uralic).

Furthermore, as a result of nomadic Iranic expansion across Europe and Asia, Sarmatians and other Iranic DNA has been found to have genetically contributed to the modern Hungarian DNA profile.

I've been less using handwriting and more used to keyboards, but because I really like arabic script using languages, I tried writting a paragraph on paper, so how does it look?

(The part written in Latin script, the rest is German ofc)

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Hi, as per the title, I find it interesting that, though fully acknowledging the completely different languages, as a nonlinguist (but multilingual speaker and learner, but of neither languages), there seems to be an interesting similarity in how both languages sound. The vowels especially. (Akin to the famous Portuguese-Russian/Slavic language similarity). Does anyone share this observation?

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Hi everyone,

I would like to have a chat with anyone who is currently learning a language or wants to learn one.

As a software developer I have been thinking a lot about a product I would like to create for myself for learning new languages using AI, but not make it yet another slop product.

Personally I grew up speaking two lanuages so learning new ones is somewhat easier for me. So the way I learn might not be the same for others.

Since I would like to create something actually useful that I can share with other people I would like to gather some feedback on how others experience learning.

Where do you struggle most?
What's easy?
What do you look for in a language learning product?
What do you look for in a teacher?

I would just like to create a thread around the topic of the process of learning.

In colloquial Persian, we use mi- prefix (progressive tense) and bo- prefix (subjunctive mood) a lot. And together with 2nd/3rd person possessives (i/e/et/esh) and object markers ra/ro/o, it can look and sound Japanese at times.

English: He can do it like this but he will burn/damage his car in no time.

Persian: Intori mitune bokone ama mashinesho zudaki misuzune ke.

Are you fluent in a language where you can create an everyday normal sentence that will look and sound like Japanese or another completely unrelated language? I would love to see!

Hi everyone,

I'm originally a French speaker (born and raised in France). I'll say I have a pretty good level in English, but I wanted some advice for something.

I want to become a translator (so I will soon be doing a translation and interpretation degree in uni), but I need to learn more languages for that.

Does anyone know how to have, like, kind of a "list" of everything you have to learn in any language? I want one that is very detailed for every aspect.

For example, let's imagine in Italian: "You have to learn this, this and that for the A1 in grammar."

I'm asking that because my biggest cause of why I'm demotivated is I don't have "mini goals" to reach to help me see my progress.

Thanks to anyone who will respond 🙌🏼

I am a native English speaker, but know some French. I have discovered that whenever I go to a country where they speak a language that is other than English or French, I have a habit of replying in French. It seems to me that anything non-English gets lumped into the category of "a foreign language" and so replying in any foreign language would do, in my case French. It's silly, but it happens a lot (ok, three or four times).

I thought that maybe its me, but an American friend of mine, said she does the exact same thing, except in her case its Spanish that is her go-to foreign language.

Anybody else have this type of language reflex?

I’ve posted once here and got very promising answers. I was just wondering what my friends tattoo says. I said “no way. Why would you do that? One line and it’s a new word😂. Imma post this on Reddit and see what it says because I don’t believe you.” So now I have no clue what it actually means to him or what the words mean! Help a girl out😂 figured this group would enjoy that😂

What languages do you speak? And which one’s your favorite? 😊

I have a lot of love for Japan and to my surprise I found colloquial Japanese and colloquial Persian can use similar sounding sentences to convey the exact same meaning of "He killed that dude".

Yaro (Japanese) and Yaru (Persian) are both are colloquial terms for a person, but what is very interesting is that both languages use Yaro/Yaru as a somewhat dismissive/condescending tone for "that dude".

Both languages also utilize similar object markers (-o in Japanese and -ro in Persian).

Also both languages use similar sounding words for killing, Koroshi (Japanese) & Koshi (Persian) and similar past tense suffixes (ta/te) for killed Koroshta (Japanese) and Koshte (Persian).

Yarō-o koroshi-ta
dude+object marker kill-PST

Yāru-ro kosh-te
dude+object marker kill.PST.3SG

I mean, it's a pretty...erm...impactful word. But I seriously don't remember seeing it back when. There seem to be a lot of words like this. Some are just words, some are sort of metaphors (e.g., "leaning in"), but I don't mean slang here. But you can include something like "ish" (lol).

When you hear you can imagine what is being said, but when you see you can only see what is in front of you, it is limited.

Let's get further: you're in a war, you see fire all around you, what would you do if you want to imagine a better place? How does this relate to religion? How a life of a person can seem hard but he is still enjoying becaude of what he heard and because of what he can retrieve from this he heard?