Unique free language learning opportunity for foreigners in Budapest

Mira Ház (Mira Intercultural Community) is an outstanding organisation in Budapest. It is one of the few places in the country where refugees and immigrants can learn Hungarian for free. Children can attend various tutoring sessions, and they can participate in a variety of integration programmes. These programmes include origami workshops, concerts and special community evenings that aim to bring people together and make them learn about each other’s culture.

Mira Ház

24.hu wrote that refugees arriving in Hungary are entitled to one hundred Hungarian language lessons due to their protection status. However, no government body organises these lessons. Mira Ház, or Mira Intercultural Community, helps refugees and immigrants with integration and finding a community. On top of that, they provide access to Hungarian language learning. Eszter Kisgyura, the coordinator of Mira Ház, has first-hand experience of the challenges of living abroad, which gives her the inspiration to help people overcome the initial difficulties when arriving in a new country. She lived in various countries herself including Uganda, Rwanda, India and the Netherlands, which helped her gain a high level of multicultural awareness that she puts into practise every day at work.

Mira Ház holds intercultural nights for its members, but there are plenty of other fun activities too. Eszter says:

Officially, there are five of us working here, but we don’t rely only on our own effort, we are a community that equally involves all of its members. If someone wants to practise Chinese meditation, or a Ukrainian member wants to try glass painting, or perhaps an Indian person wants to start a knitting workshop, we all try to make it happen together as a team.