Hi everyone,

I'm just being curious here. While everyone would agree that Hungarian is quite a unique language, the challenges associated with the study of Hungarian must be different depending on your native language. I started learning more intensively a few weeks ago only. It has been challenging and I love learning it. But I have found that there is some "unusual" things about Hungarian for a French native speaker:

1) Vocabulary. While I can "guess" the meaning of some words in other latin languages that I don't know (like Italian or Spanish), I can barely recognize any Hungarian word.

2) The lack of prepositions. French speakers absolutely need prepositions and use them a lot. Give me back my prepositions! :) 

3) Lack of the verb "to have" (correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems we need to always use possessive forms to represent the action of "having"). I feel that in "sok a munkám", for example, something is missing. ;-)

4) Most importantly: the order of words. I know I'm still learning the very basics, but I feel helpless when I try to put the words in the "right" order. 

Those very differences are what makes language learning fascinating.

What about you? What have you found to be the most "unusual" in Hungarian considering your native language?