József Attila Tudományegyetem (JATE)

I would have loved to learn more Hungarian, but I had many other things to study and many social activities to do, so I ended up learning just the basics. I improved my English skills, which were already ok, and for the first time I attended classes taught in Russian, my second language of instruction, which was an experience I really needed and though it wasn't easy, it helped improve - for the first time I was communicating in Russian out of the textbook.

A broad variety of "Lern Hungarian"-courses were offered. The teachers were mainly young, motivated and excellent in their jobs. To communicate with the locals was 50/50. The younger generation could speak appropriate english, the ones who grew up in the communist area could only understand Hungarian (sometimes German) - but in almost ever everyday situations the "hand-and-feet"language worked pretty good.

The danger here is that you end up speaking English with other foreign students but luckily I have had the opportunity to practise also my Hungarian. Not everybody here speaks English so it is good to know some basics for example when dealing with officials like post offices, shops etc...People are very friendly to help...at least in most places..:-)

Well, in Szeged you MUST learn some Hungarian in order to cope in the everyday situations. The students at the university speak good English, but when you go shopping, eating out, to library/post office etc., they don't speak English. But I thik it's also a good thing, because you really learn to use Hungarian!

English spoken by many young people. But difficulties to really understand the local culture without speaking Hungarian.

I had some courses in Hungarian as well. That was hard. But very useful.