Is Hungarian Europe’s least romantic language?

A new study conducted by language learning app Preply reveals the personality profile of 16 European languages:

● Hungarians might be left tongue-tied when it comes to love, and Hungarians google the least about the romantic topics in Europe
● The Hungarian language is the 5th most expressive about sports in Europe. It boasts the second best google searches for the topic after Czech.
● Wanderlust daydreams: Though Hungarians do not greatly speak about travel as it ranks 10th, they sure do tweet about it more with their second best ranking tweets.
● Love, nature, art and history were the least expressed topics within Hungarian.

By analyzing various dictionaries and thesauruses, tweets and google search trends, Preply has analyzed how expressive different European languages are about 13 different topics, ranging from everything from health, to fashion and technology.

By combining all the factors in the study, the only topic which Hungarian ranked top for in the study was for sports, while most topics ranked lowly. True to their active way of life, Hungarians google about sport mostly, followed by searches on fashion (to no surprise) and then health. Education, nature and history were the least searched topics. By using media monitoring software and comparing all tweets per topic for the past month, proportionally to the number of Hungarian-speaking twitter users, Hungarians tweet most about travel but less so about love and family.

Overall findings Portuguese is Europe’s language of love, and has more than 277 ways to express affection… only German has more (with 289 words!) although they tweet and google the topic of love less frequently

The most foody language isn’t French or Italian… but German! German’s tweet about Food the 2nd most, have the 2nd largest variety of food related words and Google the topic of food more than anyone else Other findings include that Danish is the sportiest language, French the most nature inclined, and that English is the most expressive language around topics of health, education, travel and history. You can find out more information by checking out the interactive tool and blog page or getting in touch for country specific statistics.

Source: Preply

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