Interview with a Moldavian-Hungarian

Abstract

This is an interview I conducted with my mother, who – as a native speaker of Moldavian – started learning Hungarian in 1993-94, at the age of 21-22, after she married my father (a native speaker of Hungarian) in Moldavia, and they moved to Hungary. Today, she is a highly proficient speaker of Hungarian. In the interview, I asked my mother about her attitude towards and her opinion about the Hungarian language, as well as about her language learning experience in general. The interview provides insight into some interesting individual learner perspectives which make each case of language learning unique and interesting in their own rights. The paper was originally prepared as an assignment for a university course I attended as an MA student of Hungarian Studies at the University of Pécs.