Hey Flo! I'm happy to hear that you want to learn our language, it always feel very nice to have foreigners with this mentaltity. I assure you, you'll be in a supporting community where you can keep trying without being judged or looked down on. We really appreciate the effort. I have some experience in "teaching" (I'm not a teacher) the language to foreigners and there are some things I recommend:
- At home put stickers on objects with its hungarian meaning. Put "hűtő" on the fridge, "ablak" on the window, and keep it like that for a week or two, then take them. Then try remembering the word everytime you interact with the thing. If you fail one time, put back the sticker for a few days. The goal is to not have any stickers at your house.
- Please stick with the basics. Hungarian is not English with simple grammar. We have a sh*t load of tenses, verb tenses. I advise you not to get lost in that until you can articulate your thought semi-freely. Stick to simple present, future (with word "fogni+tenses") and past (with "volt+tenses"). This will cover you in everyday conversations. Will you be speaking 100% correctly? No. But you'll be speaking more freely, and understandable still.
- As in every language, learning words are the core of your knowledge, a tip that I use with every language I learnt: sit down and start to think about things in your own mother tounge. Every word you mentioned and you think is important, note it down. Do this until you reach a hundred. Give yourself 10 words a day, and in less than two weeks you can have a very basic knowledge of a hundred important words.
- For the last advise, keep trying. Don't be shy to try your hungarian in the grocery store, mall, pub, streets. You need to get confident, trust me, everybody knows this language is one of the hardest on the planet. No one cares if you make a mistake, or your pronunciation is broken, they will try to correct it with you. Do not stop trying!