Asylum-seekers face great difficulty in learning Hungarian

TO GO AFP STORY BY PETER MURPHY - Foreign refugee students learn in their class room of the Than Karoly school in Budapest on November 6, 2014. Here, along with 80 other asylum-seekers aged between 14 and 18 they take 18 hours of Hungarian lessons per week as part of an integration year organised by the government. AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK

Hard lessons in Hungarian for asylum-seekers.

When Theophilus, a 17-year-old from Nigeria, sought asylum in Hungary after a two-week trek across sea and land, he encountered a fresh ordeal: Learning one of Europe’s toughest languages.