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A2 Elementary

Everyday life in full: routines, work, health, feelings, verb prefixes, and the past and future tenses.

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By the end of A2 you can

  • describe your daily routine, your home, and the weather
  • talk about your job, studies, hobbies, and how you spend free time
  • talk about the past and about simple future plans, in the right sequence
  • handle a doctor's visit, a job interview, and a shopping trip

Unit 1: Daily life

Routines, the home, the weather, how you look, and reflexive verbs.

  1. 24Daily routineWake up, get ready, go to work or school, and talk about how often you do things.
  2. 25House and homeRooms, furniture, and saying what is where with van and the -ban/-ben ending.
  3. 26Weather and seasonsThe four seasons, describing the weather, and simple weather forecasts.
  4. 27Clothing and appearanceEveryday clothing, saying what you're wearing, and describing how someone looks.
  5. 28Reflexive verbsThe -kodik/-kedik/-ködik pattern for actions you do to yourself.
  6. 29Quickly, well, in Hungarian: adverbsTurning adjectives into 'how' words with -an/-en, plus jól, rosszul, and -ul/-ül for languages.

Unit 2: Grammar toolkit

With and for, pronouns with endings, can and may, postpositions, indefinite pronouns, and ordinals.

  1. 30With and for-val/-vel ('with') and its v-assimilation rule, and -nak/-nek's job as an indirect object.
  2. 31To me, with you, about him: pronouns with endingsnekem, velem, nálam, tőled, rólad and friends — how case endings attach to 'me', 'you', 'him'.
  3. 32Can I? May I? The -hat/-het endingAsking permission and saying what's possible with -hat/-het, and how it differs from tud ('be able to').
  4. 33Under, above, beside, behind, in front ofThe postposition system: alatt, fölött, mellett, mögött, and előtt, plus their personal-ending forms.
  5. 34Someone, something, nobodyvalaki/valami, senki/semmi, and mindenki/minden, plus Hungarian's mandatory double negative.
  6. 35Ordinals and fractionselső/második and the -dik pattern, plus fél/harmad/negyed for fractions and percentages.

Unit 3: Work, learning, and free time

Jobs, school, hobbies, getting online, and verb prefixes.

  1. 36Jobs and workCommon professions, asking what someone does, and talking about your job.
  2. 37School and educationSchool subjects, the school day, and talking about what you're studying.
  3. 38Hobbies and free timeSports, music, and saying what you like to do with szeretek + infinitive.
  4. 39Technology and the internetPhones, computers, and the phrases you need online and on a video call.
  5. 40Verb prefixes: meg-, el-, ki-, be-, fel-, le-The six most common verb prefixes — how they add direction, and how meg-/el- often mark a completed action.

Unit 4: Health, feelings, and people

The body, moods and character, the people in your life, a doctor's visit, and comparing friends.

  1. 41Health and the bodyBody parts, saying what hurts, and the phrases you need at a pharmacy or doctor's.
  2. 42Feelings and personalityEmotions, personality traits, and saying how you feel.
  3. 43Friends and relationshipsFriends, relationship status, and talking about the people you know.
  4. 44Making plans and invitationsSuggesting to meet up, and accepting or declining an invitation.
  5. 45At the doctorDescribing symptoms in more depth, and understanding a doctor's questions and instructions.
  6. 46Comparing peopleUsing comparatives and superlatives to compare personalities and appearance.

Unit 5: Grammar milestones

Possessives, the past tense, the future, and narrating a sequence.

  1. 47My, your, his: possessivesThe full possessive suffix system, building on the previews from earlier lessons.
  2. 48The past tenseThe -t/-tt past tense ending, and the handful of irregular verbs you'll use constantly.
  3. 49The future and plansThe fog + infinitive future, and talking about tomorrow, next week, and next year.
  4. 50Sequencing a storyelőbb, aztán, utána, végül, közben — narrating a sequence of events in the past.

Unit 6: Practical dialogues

A job interview, weekend plans, and a shopping trip, start to finish.

  1. 51A job interviewTalking about experience and qualifications, and handling a formal interview.
  2. 52Weekend plansNegotiating a time to meet, recycling future tense and days of the week.
  3. 53A shopping tripTrying on clothes, comparing prices, and deciding what to buy.