 With his friends in the circle he went about learning Zamenhof's language (Esperanto), but without a teacher that was not very successful.He became a speaker of the language starting in 1935, when he participated in the a workers' culture course in Budapest, taught by the famous Esperantist poet Emeriko Baranyai, who helped Szathmári find his way to SAT, of which he remained a member until died at Budapest in 1974.Szathmári became acquainted with Christian-socialist ideas in 1918.