Hungarian-English Linguistic Contrasts

There is no denying that linguistic contrasts between languages can have an
impact on the learning of foreign languages, and there is no doubt that an
awareness of the differences between the mother tongue (L1) and the foreign or
second language being learnt (L2) can help learners to acquire the L2. The aim
of this book is to acquaint Hungarian students of English with some of the
linguistic contrasts between English and Hungarian that may affect their own
and their future students' learning of English. The author, Pál Heltai,
provides a summary of the most important principles and concepts proposed by
classical contrastive analysis, highlighting those that have retained their
relevance for foreign language teaching over the years and presents an
overview of the most important contrasts between English and Hungarian at the
level of– phonetics, syntax, lexicology, pragmatics and translation. Most
chapters consist of a theoretical introduction complemented by illustrative
texts with example sentences and translations. The book provides a good
opportunity for students to recapitulate or supplement some of the material
covered earlier in their linguistics courses at university and shows the
relevance of these disciplines to foreign language learning, teaching and
translation. This is the revised version of the previous book, supplemented by
suggested solutions to the exercises. This edition is also available online.