Hungarian is easy

Hungarian is said to be one of the most difficult languages to learn in the world. Linguists now claim the contrary, insisting that Hungarian is actually easier to learn than other languages: "The grammar makes no distinction between genders. Most words are spelt as they are pronounced, and there are hardly any baffling combinations of letters, such as the French 'eau' or the English 'enough'. Moreover, it's always the first syllable that's stressed." Hungarian is perceived as difficult because it's only related to the Finnish and the Estonian languages, "and over the course of time has become so different from even these two languages that there is barely a language whose speakers can recognise anything familiar in the Hungarian tongue."

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