Course description

Stipendium Hungariacum scholarship holders (participating in bachelor, master or one tier master programme) are required to take part in Hungarian as a foreign language and culture course in the first year of their studies, and as a compulsory obligation they have to pass the final exam after the two-semester course. The course and exam requirements have been defined centrally by the Tempus Public Foundation. The 2-semester subject is designed to help our students prepare for the final exam requirements regarding both the language and the culture aspects.

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Practical lessons theme

week 1	Body parts. Time expressions (past tense). The possessive endings. The verb fáj(t). Lenni (past tense). Clinical departments.
week 2	Word formation with the endings -s, -as, -es, -os, -ös. Past tense (Sg/1, indefinite conjugation). Time endings: -tól/-től, -ig, -kor.
week 3	The house. Rooms. Furniture. Question words. Ordinal numbers.Some Hungarian poets.
week 4	Postpositions of place and time. Indefinite conjugation in past tense. Geography of Hungary.
week 5	Revision and consolidation 1. Midterm 1.
week 6	Family. Jobs. Endings: -nál/nél, hoz/-hez/-höz, -tól/-től. Hungarian history.
week 7	Clothing. Colours. What does s/he look like? Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives. The possessive stucture.
week 8	More verbs. Definite conjugation (present tense). The plural -k ending. Music, some Hungarian composers.
week 9	Verbal prefixes and their usage. Famous Hungarian painters and architects.
week 10	Revision and consolidation 2. Midterm 2.
week 11	Accusative case of personal pronouns. Definite conjugation (past tense). Famous Hungarians in science. Famous Hungarian veterinarians.
week 12	The weather. The academic year. Going on summer holiday. Telling the date. Lenni (future tense).
week 13	Student presentations
week 14	Revision, preparation for the oral exam

Evaluation description

 

Form of assessment:Weekly word tests, 2 midterm tests + written and oral exam

Type of grading:Exam grade

The final course mark is calculated as follows: 20%: active participation in class + homework + presentation, 20% word tests, 20% midterm tests, 20% written exam, 20% oral exam.