A magyar mint idegen nyelv oktatásának problémái szláv környezetben

Current problems of teaching Hungarian as a foreign language in the Slavic environment. Today, the approach to Hungarian as a foreign language has become relevant due to a number of certain factors. Firstly, interest in the Hungarian language has grown worldwide due to the tourism boom; secondly, foreigners studying in Hungary must master the Hungarian language to the necessary extent; thirdly, the Hungarian language provides valuable scientific data for linguists in the field of general linguistics. However, there is a fourth reason for a thorough study of the chosen topic, because there has been a revival of interest in our language and among those Hungarians living abroad. Therefore, the needs of both Hungarian-speaking Hungarians living in neighboring countries and Hungarians or people of Hungarian origin living in different parts of the world require the inclusion of issues on the agenda at the scientific level.For ten years now, I have been teaching Hungarian to Ukrainian-speaking students who face a considerable number of problems in learning Hungarian (especially at the initial stages). After all, at the initial stage, almost all students find it very difficult to use, and in general, to get used to the structure of the Hungarian language, which is not surprising at all. Hungarian belongs to the group of agglutinative languages, which means that grammatical and syntactic relations, unlike Ukrainian language, are expressed using endings. Endings can be at the end of a word (suffix), at the beginning of a word (prefix) or inside a word (infixum). When learning the language, there are also serious difficulties with mastering Hungarian nouns in the possessive case. Another common mistake is the incorrect use (or non-use) of possessive endings. In my opinion, for native speakers of Slavic languages, the most difficult task is to learn and correctly use Hungarian conjugations.The difficulties listed in the article are the most problematic ones faced by first-year students of Hungarian at Uzhhorod National University and Kyiv National Linguistic University. This is evidence that there are many grammatical phenomena that require increased attention when teaching Hungarian as a foreign language in a Slavic environment.