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This would make a really good movie ;) Hungarian language complexity and propensity for 3D thinking are world renown.

The Atomic bomb Considered as Hungarian High School Science Fair Project

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-conside...

Denis Gabor's Nobel Lecture On Holography, 1971

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/19...

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>Hungarian language complexity and propensity for 3D thinking are world renown

Could you elaborate on this or provide a link? I've never heard about it before.

The language is probably in the top 3 for hardest to learn. Not sure of the 3D stuff.

Isn't this because it's so different from anything else?

You can sort of divine some German if you're an English speaker and some Italian if you also understand Spanish, etc. But hey, Japanese is highly regular and also very hard to learn.

(I did play with Duolingo Hungarian for a while, and it seems interestingly regular, although not in ways you might expect)

Only partly...it has lots of suffixes and prefixes for pretty much everything too. They says it's nearly impossible for a foreigner to learn (of course not true).

Mostly because it's extremely agglutinative.

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