I learned Hungarian as a Mormon missionary, and by far this agglutination (I'd never seen that term before) is my favorite part of the language. It's like being given a set of word legos and told "go nuts!" And it always seemed really regular to me; I was never as frustrated learning Hungarian as I was with German in high school.
We taught English classes there, which helped me realize just how capricious the language can seem to an ESL student.
We taught English classes there, which helped me realize just how capricious the language can seem to an ESL student.