#75 Our favourite mistakes: Vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Men rus tilini o’rganyapman.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
I’m learning Russian language.
✅ Well, it should be:
I’m learning Russian.
❓Why?
❗️ The word language is not needed in English.
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▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Men rus tilini o’rganyapman.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
I’m learning Russian language.
✅ Well, it should be:
❗️ The word language is not needed in English.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary
#24 Tongue twister: Harvest
❗️Challenge yourself with this tongue twister:
▶️ Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.
Translation:
Pishgan oq bug’doy o’roqchilari pishgan oq bug’doyni to’g’ri yig’ib olishadi.
❗️Pay attention to:
🔘 Pronunciation – The [r] sound is difficult for some students. Try not to let your tongue vibrate while producing a trilling [rrr].
🔘 Pronunciation – Make sure your [w] doesn’t sound like [v]. The Uzbek letter ‘v’ is pronounced like a mixture of both.
▶️ Now practice: Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.
👉@afandi_english👈 #tongue_twisters
❗️Challenge yourself with this tongue twister:
▶️ Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.
Translation:
Pishgan oq bug’doy o’roqchilari pishgan oq bug’doyni to’g’ri yig’ib olishadi.
❗️Pay attention to:
🔘 Pronunciation – The [r] sound is difficult for some students. Try not to let your tongue vibrate while producing a trilling [rrr].
🔘 Pronunciation – Make sure your [w] doesn’t sound like [v]. The Uzbek letter ‘v’ is pronounced like a mixture of both.
▶️ Now practice: Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.
👉@afandi_english👈 #tongue_twisters
#42 Travelogue Uzbekistan: Copybook vs Notebook 4:1
The snappy word daftar is translated in two ways apparently – copybook sounds quite odd in English but is a good description of how this thing is often used, unlike what the word notebook suggests. What’s the difference?
Copybook
You copy random texts from the screen of your phone or your classmate’s daftar into your own daftar. You have no idea about what you write, nor do you care. Your teacher collects it and calls that “education”.
Notebook
You write what you need to remember in your own style and for your own use. No one checks it and no one collects it. Perhaps you won’t look at it again but when you took your notes you really thought about it all.
Daftars exist in the exact same format in Russia and also have exciting designs. But I doubt they can they match these ones here. 😜
---Vocab---
📍snappy = short and clear 📍apparently = it seems 📍odd = strange
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uzbekistan
The snappy word daftar is translated in two ways apparently – copybook sounds quite odd in English but is a good description of how this thing is often used, unlike what the word notebook suggests. What’s the difference?
Copybook
You copy random texts from the screen of your phone or your classmate’s daftar into your own daftar. You have no idea about what you write, nor do you care. Your teacher collects it and calls that “education”.
Notebook
You write what you need to remember in your own style and for your own use. No one checks it and no one collects it. Perhaps you won’t look at it again but when you took your notes you really thought about it all.
Daftars exist in the exact same format in Russia and also have exciting designs. But I doubt they can they match these ones here. 😜
---Vocab---
📍snappy = short and clear 📍apparently = it seems 📍odd = strange
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uzbekistan
What do you think about writing "konspekt"?
Anonymous Poll
25%
It's somehow useful.
27%
It's outdated but better than nothing.
25%
It's harmful and should be forbidden.
23%
It's the last thing I think about.
#56 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi in Shahrixon
❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?
❗️If you can you might win 5,000 Paynet-soums!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?
❗️If you can you might win 5,000 Paynet-soums!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
Congrats to Muhammadiy!!! 🥳🥳🥳
And fantastic designs again, this time from Dilnary, Xurshida and Oisha! 👍✌️👏
And fantastic designs again, this time from Dilnary, Xurshida and Oisha! 👍✌️👏
#15 Featured article: Is Uzbek cuisine to die for?
📍 Today’s article is about Uzbek cuisine (=a country’s or region’s range of dishes and cooking style). It is controversial (=making many people disagree) as it says that Uzbek food is really heavy and causes diet-related diseases.
⛓ http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20191117-is-uzbek-cuisine-actually-to-die-for
▶️ Take a look at the article and then debate with your fellow subscribers in the Afandi English Chat.
❓The debate question is: Should Uzbek cuisine change?
📅 If your birthday is between 1 January and 30 June you say NO.
📅 If your birthday is between 1 July and 31 December you say YES.
💁♂️ Do not debate with your real opinion and don’t get personal, this is just an exercise!
👉@afandi_english👈 #article
📍 Today’s article is about Uzbek cuisine (=a country’s or region’s range of dishes and cooking style). It is controversial (=making many people disagree) as it says that Uzbek food is really heavy and causes diet-related diseases.
⛓ http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20191117-is-uzbek-cuisine-actually-to-die-for
▶️ Take a look at the article and then debate with your fellow subscribers in the Afandi English Chat.
❓The debate question is: Should Uzbek cuisine change?
📅 If your birthday is between 1 January and 30 June you say NO.
📅 If your birthday is between 1 July and 31 December you say YES.
💁♂️ Do not debate with your real opinion and don’t get personal, this is just an exercise!
👉@afandi_english👈 #article
Bbc
Is Uzbek cuisine actually to die for?
While food is certainly a draw for Uzbekistan, an emerging destination on the historical Silk Road, a recent study gave its cuisine a new superlative: the world’s deadliest food.
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#40 Afandi Quiz: Mysterious song
Today’s quiz is about a mysterious song from a mysterious part of India! Can you guess where it’s from? Pay attention to the language and style.
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Today’s quiz is about a mysterious song from a mysterious part of India! Can you guess where it’s from? Pay attention to the language and style.
👉@afandi_english👈 #song_quiz
Which part of India is this song from?
Final Results
25%
North (Punjab)
45%
West (Gujarat)
25%
South (Tamil)
5%
East (Bengal)
Afandi English
Which part of India is this song from?
Ayyy!
👎 Gujarat was wrong. The state of Gujarat is among the richest and most developed in India. Gujaratis are good at business but do not dominate (=be stronger than others) the Indian music industry. Tamil was also wrong. South Indian languages have a lot more retroflex sounds (=sounds from the tongue snapping in the mouth). Bengal was also wrong. The home state of Rabindranath Tagore is known for its calm and poetic music.
👍 Punjab was the correct answer. Punjabis are famous for their crazy style of singing and talking and basically doing anything. They are the “sho’xest” people of India. But not only that, they are also strong in Indian politics and the military and dominate Indian cuisine abroad. How do you know someone is from Indian Punjab? Look out for big turbans (=long cloth around the head) – by the rules of their Sikh religion, they are not allowed to cut their hair.
👎 Gujarat was wrong. The state of Gujarat is among the richest and most developed in India. Gujaratis are good at business but do not dominate (=be stronger than others) the Indian music industry. Tamil was also wrong. South Indian languages have a lot more retroflex sounds (=sounds from the tongue snapping in the mouth). Bengal was also wrong. The home state of Rabindranath Tagore is known for its calm and poetic music.
👍 Punjab was the correct answer. Punjabis are famous for their crazy style of singing and talking and basically doing anything. They are the “sho’xest” people of India. But not only that, they are also strong in Indian politics and the military and dominate Indian cuisine abroad. How do you know someone is from Indian Punjab? Look out for big turbans (=long cloth around the head) – by the rules of their Sikh religion, they are not allowed to cut their hair.
#76 Our favourite mistakes: Punctuation
▶️ What’s wrong here in this non-language paragraph?
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet , consectetur elit,sed do eiusmod- tempor ut aliqua .Ut enim “ ad minim ”veniam ;quis exercitation –ullamco nisi ut consequat.Duis dolor(reprehenderit )in eu pariatur .
❗️ The problem is spacing around punctuation marks. Mistakes with spacing make your text look messy and unprofessional!
• No space before and a space behind
[.] full stop
[,] comma
[:] colon
[;] semicolon
[?] question mark
[!] exclamation mark
[)] closing bracket
[”] closing speech marks
• A space before and no space behind
[(] opening bracket
[“] opening speech marks
• Spaces to both sides
[–] dash
• No spaces at all
[-] hyphen (connecting two words)
▶️ Now look at the correct version:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur elit, sed do eiusmod-tempor ut aliqua. Ut enim “ad minim” veniam; quis exercitation – ullamco nisi ut consequat. Duis dolor (reprehenderit) in eu pariatur.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing
▶️ What’s wrong here in this non-language paragraph?
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet , consectetur elit,sed do eiusmod- tempor ut aliqua .Ut enim “ ad minim ”veniam ;quis exercitation –ullamco nisi ut consequat.Duis dolor(reprehenderit )in eu pariatur .
❗️ The problem is spacing around punctuation marks. Mistakes with spacing make your text look messy and unprofessional!
• No space before and a space behind
[.] full stop
[,] comma
[:] colon
[;] semicolon
[?] question mark
[!] exclamation mark
[)] closing bracket
[”] closing speech marks
• A space before and no space behind
[(] opening bracket
[“] opening speech marks
• Spaces to both sides
[–] dash
• No spaces at all
[-] hyphen (connecting two words)
▶️ Now look at the correct version:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur elit, sed do eiusmod-tempor ut aliqua. Ut enim “ad minim” veniam; quis exercitation – ullamco nisi ut consequat. Duis dolor (reprehenderit) in eu pariatur.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing
#43 Travelogue Uzbekistan: Bygone Uzbekistan
There’s something strangely attractive about relics of the past found in Uzbekistan. Why is that?
Globalisation
There are many things you can find anywhere in the world and hey, that’s super boring. When they take the trouble to come to Uzbekistan, foreigners want to discover something unique, even if that something is shabby.
East & West
We all have our ideas of other people and places and we’re always happy when we find some truth in them. Westerners may love to find shabbiness in the East as it tells them they won the Cold War.
”Ruinenlust”
This German word translates as “taking pleasure in ruins” and is a fascination with lost empires. Ruins let us imagine what life was like in the past and show us that nothing lasts forever.
---Vocab---
📍bygone = of the past 📍relic = sth left from the past 📍shabby / shabbiness = of low quality, in a bad condition📍ruins = leftovers of destroyed buildings
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uzbekistan
There’s something strangely attractive about relics of the past found in Uzbekistan. Why is that?
Globalisation
There are many things you can find anywhere in the world and hey, that’s super boring. When they take the trouble to come to Uzbekistan, foreigners want to discover something unique, even if that something is shabby.
East & West
We all have our ideas of other people and places and we’re always happy when we find some truth in them. Westerners may love to find shabbiness in the East as it tells them they won the Cold War.
”Ruinenlust”
This German word translates as “taking pleasure in ruins” and is a fascination with lost empires. Ruins let us imagine what life was like in the past and show us that nothing lasts forever.
---Vocab---
📍bygone = of the past 📍relic = sth left from the past 📍shabby / shabbiness = of low quality, in a bad condition📍ruins = leftovers of destroyed buildings
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uzbekistan