July 24, 2022

Wow! The vowels are missing!

Complete the Hungarian words with the missing letters.


The letter "a" is missing 18 times,

the letter "á" 11 times,

the letter "e" 42 times (!),

the letter "é" 15 times,

the letter "i" 13 times,

the letter "í" 2 times

the letter "o" 9 times,

the letter "ö" 4 times,

the letter "ő" 4 times,

the letter "ü" 3 times.

July 23, 2022

French Missing Letters

You can find ten pictures with captions below. However, the captions have missing letters. Your task is to fill them in.

French Missing Letters Exercise

July 21, 2022

Find the Pinyin in the Grid! A Wordsearch Puzzle with Chinese Words

 Find the Pinyin for the following Chinese characters in the grid below!

出租车, 电脑, 电视, 电影, 东西, 对不起

汉语, 叫, 老师, 四, 他, 写, 再见

吃, 多, 多少, 后面, 回, 会, 

Word Search Puzzle with Pinyin



July 19, 2022

Frutas : A crossword for Spanish learners

Below you can find a crossword about fruit names. 

I hope you or your students can solve it quickly. 

July 17, 2022

Word Cloud with the first lines of a Hungarian poem

Here is a word cloud with Hungarian words, but this time it hides not simple, detached words but something more complicated. 

From the words you can assemble the first four lines of a long epic poem written in the 19th century. 

The solution is the name of the (Hungarian) poet and the title of his work.


First four lines of a Hungarian epic poem


July 16, 2022

Missing letters in French Words -- An exercise with audio

There are a few sentences with lots of blank spaces below. Your task is to fill in the blanks. 

If you are having trouble understanding the text on your own, don't panic. A list of all the letters that are missing and a brief audio file are your two options for assistance. Just play the audio if you get lost. I'm sure, you will benefit from it.


J_    v__s    d_nn_    tr__s    fr_ncs.

M.    _t    Mm_    L__r_nt    v__l_nt    s_rt_r    c_    s__r.

V__l_z-v__s    m'__d_r,    M_ns___r.

P__r    q__    _ch_t_z-v__s    d_s    c_d___x?

J_    n_    v__s    __    p_s   v_    d_p__s    tr__s    _ns.

_t_s-v__s    c_nt_nt    d_    v_tr_    tr_v__l?

J_    m_ng_    _   l_    m__s_n.

J_    v__x    _cr_r_    _n_    l_ttr_    _    m_n    _m_.

L_    ch__ff__r    _rr_t_    l_    c_r.

J_    m_    r_v__ll_    t_t.

July 13, 2022

Wortsuche für Kinder

There is a simple word search puzzle for young children below. The words can be found horizontally (from left to right) and vertically (from top to bottom).

This time I do not list the 15 words which are hidden in the puzzle. Because of the German orthography it should be a piece of cake to solve it anyway. :-)

WORD SEARCH PUZZLE FOR CHILDREN


Wortsuchrätsel, Die Erde

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