Recently I’ve started learning Hungarian. I love learning languages, but it’s been a long time since I learnt a new language from scratch, particularly a non-Indo-European one. After I'd been learning it for a few weeks into my new project, I happened to teach a small class of beginners for a week, and found that I could relate to their experience much more than usual. I thought I would share some of my reflections here. Firstly, I was struck by the total reliance on a dictionary (or a...