🎉 Special Day: Happy Teachers Day!

▶️ I don’t know how they do it, but inspiring videos from 🇹🇭Thailand always move people to tears (=touch people emotionally). For today’s occasion (=reason to celebrate) watch this story of a medical professor and his students.

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #must_watch

#32 Self-study: Language learning with ChatGPT

▶️ Here’s a little demo of how you could be using ChatGPT to learn English. See how it works and share your opinion below.

👉@afandi_english👈 #self_study #future #talking_point

YouTube Channel Recommendation #56: Scishow

📊 English Level: Upper & advanced

🔤 Subtitles: Provided

💬 Topics: Science, nature

💡 Content: Here’s a science channel by Hank Green from CrashCourse and his team. They explore nature phenomena, space, health challenges, animals, you name it (=everything else too).

⛓️ Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/scishow

👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube

Know Your World #81: Global Superpowers

▶️ Watch this insightful (=making you understand sth deeply) TED Talk by American political scientist Ian Bremmer who explains the state of the world (=the situation of the world) in simple terms (=with easy words).

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #ted #future

Afandi Quiz #157: Which country?

▶️ Here is a mysterious picture from a mysterious country.

👉@afandi_english👈 #picture_quiz

World Food #21: Chakalaka from 🇿🇦South Africa

▶️ South African cuisine is a blend (=mixture) of European, Indian and local African influences. Check out this vegetable dish invented in Johannesburg.

... made with:
Onions, beans and tomatoes are a must, everything else is optional: Cabbage, garlic, and any other vegetables. And then there’s a lot of spices in a good chakalaka – chili, turmeric, coriander, cumin, etc.

... eaten with:
Pap (the South African fufu) or any other staple (=main food) like rice or bread. Locals also have it with braai (South African barbecue).

Healthy or not? 🟢
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟢

👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food

Our favourite mistakes #158: Vocabulary

▶️ Please translate the following:
Uyim Andijon viloyatida, hozir Toshkent shahrida yashayman.

❌ Perhaps you think it is:
My house is in Andijan region, now I live in Tashkent city.

✅ Well, it should be:
My home is in the Andijan Region, now I live in Tashkent.

❓Why?

❗️Your house is the place where you actually live, not where you come from. That's your home.

❗️Tashkent has a region as well but that's not important in English. Internationally, Tashkent is only known to be a city. Tashkent city sounds like you live in that rich new neighbourhood named “Tashkent City”.

❗️Most regions of Uzbekistan are named after their cities. Foreigners don’t know that. My home is in Andijan would be understood as in the city of Andijan. If you don’t come from the city you should say My home is near Andijan.

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary

Know Your World #82: What do all languages have in common?

▶️ Get to grips with (=understand or learn the basics of) linguistics to find out what it is that all human languages have in common (=be the same in some way).

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary

Let your ears travel and subscribe to my new old channel for lovely songs from pretty much every country! I'll add a new one each day.

▶️ https://t.me/worldinsongs

🎉 Special Day: Happy Diwali!

▶️ Watch this moving TV commercial about a poor old artist street vendor in 🇮🇳India.

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #must_watch

Movie Time #85: The Great Debaters (2007)

▶️ Today’s movie is a drama set in 1930s Texas where a teacher and social justice activist leads his students to take on (=challenge, compete with) Harvard University in a nationwide debate contest. Watch how these Afro-American students struggle in their racist society but finally show what they are capable of.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #american_films