Telling the time in German and Slovenian. Drag the hands: they are geared like a real clock.
Both languages say half three
when English says half past two. The coloured slice on the dial shows why.
The clock says
English counts from the hour that has passed: half past two. German and Slovenian count toward the coming hour:
halb drei
, pol treh
, literally half (of the) three. In Austria the quarters work the same way,
viertel drei
and dreiviertel drei
, matching Slovenian četrt na tri
and tri četrt na tri
,
while standard German says Viertel nach zwei
and Viertel vor drei
. Kids growing up between two of these systems
meet all of them at once.
Four short levels, each adding one idea: full hours, halves, quarters, five-minute steps. Read tasks and set tasks alternate,
so a child both decodes and produces. Wrong answers are cheap and visible: pick the wrong sentence and its clock appears as red ghost hands
next to the real ones; set the wrong time and the game reads your clock back to you. The coloured slice only appears as a hint after two tries.
Every level ends with a why
question to talk about together before revealing an answer.
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