Which language is easier to learn, Swedish or Hungarian?

Answer 1

I found Hungarian to be easy since I knew the Native American language called Shoshoni. They have similar structures (even though they are NOT related). But generally speaking, Swedish will be easier to learn because you know English. And Hungarian would NOT be "extremely difficult", just more difficult for you than Swedish.

ALSO: Hungarian is NOT a Romance language like another answer asserts. Hungarian is related to Finnish and Estonian in the Uralic language family (it does NOT "stand on its own"), but is unrelated to any other language of Europe.

EDIT: Hungarian is related to about TWENTY other languages, including Finnish, Estonian and Lappish in non-Russian Europe.

Answer 2

Hungarian is considered one of the most difficult languages to learn to speak in the world. With that said, from a person experience... I am Hungarian, but was born here in the States. My parents spoke Hungarian only in the home, but it wasn't until I was totally immersed in Hungary and in a Hungarian school did I actually really learn to speak it.
I have no experience with Swedish, but can tell you that most Swedes in Sweden command an incredibly good fluent English. I would imagine that it is so because of the roots of the English and Swedish languages.

Answer 3

To help YOU decide which is easier to learn for YOU, I can tell you about learning Hungarian. I do not have any knowledge regarding learning Swedish.

Hungarian is agglutinative, that is, sentences are created by the addition of prefixes but mainly suffixes to words. It is of the Finno-Ugric Language family that only contains one other language: Finnish.

To learn Hungarian is to learn a completely new way of thinking. It's not a boring memorization of words.

For the most part, Hungarian is phonetic, that is, it's pronounced the way it's written.

Once you learn the alphabet sounds, you can get into learning the grammatical rules. This is enough to achieve success in learning Hungarian.

The really cool thing about Hungarian is that if you were to translate a paragraph from English to Hungarian or vice versa literally, you'd usually come up with something that didn't make much sense. That is why the new way of thinking makes it an extremely cool exercise.

Examples:

Go ahead; take a seat; help yourself = nyugodtan (peacefully)
you're welcome = szìvesen (szìv means "heart")

That accent on the "i" is supposed to go the other way but I can't find the right combination of ALT on right now :)

Answer 4

Swedish is definitely easier for an English speaker, English having its roots in the Anglo Saxon language which was once common to both countries. Hungarian is a language standing on its own, not part of any linguistic family, and you would have to learn it from scratch, with no helpful props in the form of words which you recognise from other languages.

Answer 5

As a rule, Swedish is easier for English speakers. It's a germanic language just like English or German but the grammar is far easier than in German. Many words in Swedish are more or less similar to English words (for instance, "shoe" is "sko" and "book" is "bok").
Still, there are less easy points : the pronounciation is difficult even for a German or an English speaker. The spelling is not easy either nor very logical.
Do not forget that virtualy everyone speak English in Sweden and that a large number of Swedes are fluent in English and easily switch to it. It can make it harder to learn the language if Swedes speak to you in English rather than in their own languge.


Hungarian is more difficult because it's not related at all to any other European language. Nearly all the words are very different ("book" is "könyv" and "shoe" is "cipö"...). The grammar is very different but it's very logical and regular as well. It takes some time before you can build your own sentences because there are many rules to learn at the begining. But , even if it's quite difficult at the begining, it makes the language interresting to learn.
The spelling is very regular too and the pronounciation is, in my point of view, easier.

Answer 6

Swedish, because Hungarian is extremely difficult. Swedish is a bit like German or Dutch.

Hungarian is a bit like Finnish, very complicated.

Answer 7

It depends on you.

Swedish is a germanic language, so is English.

Hungarian is a Romanic language, so is Spanish and Italian.

For English-only speakers, Swedish will be easier because there are similarities to English.

If you are fluent in Spanish, then Hungarian won't be to hard for you.

Answer 8

neither, cause no language is easy to learn and you have to pay hard effort to master it