Dear Students,
Welcome to your AFS Online Classroom where you can find videos and tasks that you can spend your time with during the period of digital education and curfew. You can visit this page anytime you feel stranded at home without anything to do.
Enjoy,
AFS Hungary Team
Watch this video and discover some unknown secrets of the Hungarian language. While watching, find out how our extremely long words shape and evolve.
Being for few months in Hungary, it is nearly impossible not to be part at least one conversation in which we proudly talk about our famous inventions. Check out this video and count the ones you already knew they had a connection to Hungarians.
Are you also into music? Here is another version of the song that you can hear during the video, with English translations in the description.
Have you ever heard the flower motives of Kalocsa? Not yet? Then it is time for this video and to learn more about it. If you feel talented in drawing, just Google “Kalocsai hímzés” for pictures, and try to recreate one of them on paper.
Test your language skills by watching the Hungarian Folk Tale below about ‘Green Peter’. Watch it first without subtitles and try to understand as much as possible. Then add English subtitles in the settings and check out how close you were in getting the story.
You may have heard of a Hungarian invention called Rubik’s cube, which is the number one best selling individual toy in History, selling over 350 million worldwide. Check the video below to learn more about it’s background and history, then try to solve the online version of Rubik’s cube available here.
Did you know that a shadow theater group called Attraction won Britains Got Talent in 2013. Check out the video below to see how the surprised the jury was with their first performance. If you have the time, check Youtube for their performances later in the show.
It might have been some time since you were challenged with numbers. Try your skills with this online Sudoku so that your brain could stay sharp. If you are a beginner in Sudoku, here is a video to help you.
Read the poem of Miklós Radnóti – Nem tudhatom in Hungarian and create of list of words that you already understand. Once completed, watch this the English version of the poem in the video below.
Also, take the time to do some research on the life of Miklós Radnóti. Feel free to ask your classmates about it.
Watch the Oscar Award winning Hungarian Movie ‘Sing’ about social injustice. Discuss the movie with your friends or host family. (The movie is in Hungarian with English subtitles. Additional subtitles can be added via Youtube settings)
Recently there is a lot of discussion about vaccines due to COVID-19. Time for your to discover how the human body deals with vaccination. Check out this illustrative cartoon on the topic with Hungarian dubbing. Try to understand as much as possible.
Try to be the first who solves the Pentominoes puzzle available here. Measure the time it took for you to complete.
Did you know that in 1963 a group of AFSers, lead by our Director General Stephen Galatti visited J. F. Kennedy in the White House? Listen to what President Kennedy had to say to AFSers around the world at that time.
