#72 Travelogue Germany: Weird products
People lack very little in an advanced economy like Germany but, damn, they don’t know that! They need all kinds of peculiar products. Let’s take a look at some:
Stamped vegetables
Save the planet? Don’t use labels then, plastic or paper, all bad.
Covid soft toys
You feel that covid is so much more than just a virus and the vaccine is really THE vaccine? Cuddle up to these little life changers.
Rainbow hand cream
Can’t get proud enough of LGBT? Celebrate every day with a specially themed hand cream.
Flood bread
Do something good for flood victims, your local bakery and yourself all at once? That’s well worth a few extra pennies.
Cheese melting dome
You’re upset that your cheese on the grill refuses to melt while the meat under it gets burnt? Get yourself some professional gear.
Dog poop bags
Wanna walk your dog like a pro? Get a roll of dog poop bags in a cute little container.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #germany
People lack very little in an advanced economy like Germany but, damn, they don’t know that! They need all kinds of peculiar products. Let’s take a look at some:
Stamped vegetables
Save the planet? Don’t use labels then, plastic or paper, all bad.
Covid soft toys
You feel that covid is so much more than just a virus and the vaccine is really THE vaccine? Cuddle up to these little life changers.
Rainbow hand cream
Can’t get proud enough of LGBT? Celebrate every day with a specially themed hand cream.
Flood bread
Do something good for flood victims, your local bakery and yourself all at once? That’s well worth a few extra pennies.
Cheese melting dome
You’re upset that your cheese on the grill refuses to melt while the meat under it gets burnt? Get yourself some professional gear.
Dog poop bags
Wanna walk your dog like a pro? Get a roll of dog poop bags in a cute little container.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #germany
Afandi English
#72 Travelogue Germany: Weird products People lack very little in an advanced economy like Germany but, damn, they don’t know that! They need all kinds of peculiar products. Let’s take a look at some: Stamped vegetables Save the planet? Don’t use labels…
---Vocab---
📍peculiar = strange 📍label = thing on a product telling the name and/or price of it 📍cuddle up to/with sb = be very close to sb 📍themed = having a theme, being designed in a certain style 📍extra pennies = a little bit more money 📍dome = round roof 📍gear = equipment 📍a pro = a professional, an expert
📍peculiar = strange 📍label = thing on a product telling the name and/or price of it 📍cuddle up to/with sb = be very close to sb 📍themed = having a theme, being designed in a certain style 📍extra pennies = a little bit more money 📍dome = round roof 📍gear = equipment 📍a pro = a professional, an expert
How many of these products would you buy?
Anonymous Poll
13%
All of them.
20%
Most of them.
34%
Maybe one or two.
33%
None of them.
#84 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi loves Uzbekista…
❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?
❗️ You might be the lucky winner of 5,000 Paynet-soums!
❓ How? Spot Afandi, mark him in the picture and send it to @jochenho. The time limit is 30 minutes. Not sure what Afandi looks like? Check the pinned message above!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?
❗️ You might be the lucky winner of 5,000 Paynet-soums!
❓ How? Spot Afandi, mark him in the picture and send it to @jochenho. The time limit is 30 minutes. Not sure what Afandi looks like? Check the pinned message above!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
Congrats to Madina S. 🥳🥳🥳
And lovely designs again, this time from Zivyoviddin, Ilhomjon and Muhammadali! 👏👏👏
And lovely designs again, this time from Zivyoviddin, Ilhomjon and Muhammadali! 👏👏👏
🏮Happy Chinese New Year🏮
Don't miss today's bombastic (=exaggerated, inflated) show on Chinese TV (live on YouTube), the world's most watched programme every year! Literally everyone in China watches it.
⛓ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTo4o-CwplE
🧨 You can be lucky or unlucky, there are some breathtaking sing and dance as well as almost scary hyper-patriotic performances, but also some standup comedy that you won't find funny unless you know Chinese (and even then it's not that funny, hehe). Peek in (=take a quick or secret look) a few times to catch some of the amazing bits!
⏰ The show has already started and will finish by 10pm Uzbek time. Chinese midnight is 9pm Uzbek time.
Enjoy & Happy New Year of the Tiger! 🐯
Don't miss today's bombastic (=exaggerated, inflated) show on Chinese TV (live on YouTube), the world's most watched programme every year! Literally everyone in China watches it.
⛓ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTo4o-CwplE
🧨 You can be lucky or unlucky, there are some breathtaking sing and dance as well as almost scary hyper-patriotic performances, but also some standup comedy that you won't find funny unless you know Chinese (and even then it's not that funny, hehe). Peek in (=take a quick or secret look) a few times to catch some of the amazing bits!
⏰ The show has already started and will finish by 10pm Uzbek time. Chinese midnight is 9pm Uzbek time.
Enjoy & Happy New Year of the Tiger! 🐯
Afandi English
This picture was taken in …
Not too bad!
👍 🇯🇵Japan was the correct answer. Some of you spotted some Japanese company name on one of the buildings. Fair enough, but even easier is looking at the traffic. The cars are driving on the left side of the road!
👎 🇶🇦Qatar has tall buildings but they look more fancy than these ones. Japan developed continuously over many decades, not just in the last 10-20 years. Therefore it has a mix of modern and not so modern buildings. 🇧🇪Belgium is in Europe and Europe doesn’t have many tall buildings despite being highly developed. The cars also don’t look European. 🇨🇦Canada seems possible but the left-hand traffic doesn’t match.
👍 🇯🇵Japan was the correct answer. Some of you spotted some Japanese company name on one of the buildings. Fair enough, but even easier is looking at the traffic. The cars are driving on the left side of the road!
👎 🇶🇦Qatar has tall buildings but they look more fancy than these ones. Japan developed continuously over many decades, not just in the last 10-20 years. Therefore it has a mix of modern and not so modern buildings. 🇧🇪Belgium is in Europe and Europe doesn’t have many tall buildings despite being highly developed. The cars also don’t look European. 🇨🇦Canada seems possible but the left-hand traffic doesn’t match.
#31 Tongue twister: Tough Nonsense
❗️Challenge yourself with this tongue twister:
▶️ Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.
❗️ Unfortunately there is no translation for this tongue twister as it doesn’t mean anything. Researchers at MIT have tried to create the most difficult tongue twister of all times believe that this one could be it. Practice to see if they are right and if you belong to the very few people who can say it correctly multiple times!
👉@afandi_english👈 #tongue_twisters
❗️Challenge yourself with this tongue twister:
▶️ Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.
❗️ Unfortunately there is no translation for this tongue twister as it doesn’t mean anything. Researchers at MIT have tried to create the most difficult tongue twister of all times believe that this one could be it. Practice to see if they are right and if you belong to the very few people who can say it correctly multiple times!
👉@afandi_english👈 #tongue_twisters
#108 Our favourite mistakes: Grammar & Vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Vaqtingiz bormi? Qachon vaqtingiz bor?
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Do you have a time? When do you have a time?
✅ Well, it should be:
Do you have time? When do you have time?
❓Why?
❗️ The indefinite article a suggests that time is countable, but it is actually uncountable. The countable form of time translates as marta in Uzbek, e.g. ten times = o’n marta.
❗️ Similar to this mistake, students often wrongly add a in give birth. 👉U o’tgan hafta tug’di. ❌ She gave a birth last week. ✅ She gave birth last week.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #grammar #vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Vaqtingiz bormi? Qachon vaqtingiz bor?
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Do you have a time? When do you have a time?
✅ Well, it should be:
Do you have time? When do you have time?
❓Why?
❗️ The indefinite article a suggests that time is countable, but it is actually uncountable. The countable form of time translates as marta in Uzbek, e.g. ten times = o’n marta.
❗️ Similar to this mistake, students often wrongly add a in give birth. 👉U o’tgan hafta tug’di. ❌ She gave a birth last week. ✅ She gave birth last week.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #grammar #vocabulary
#8 World Food: Rösti from 🇨🇭Switzerland
▶️ Rösti is …
... made with:
Grated (=cut into thin stripes) potatoes either raw or half-cooked are pressed into a frying pan like a pancake and fried thoroughly (=carefully, through and through) in butter from both sides. The potatoes should get brown and slightly crispy (=hard but pleasant to eat).
... eaten with:
While it can be eaten as a main dish or a side dish there are many things you can add to the basic recipe, like onions, eggs, cheese, sausage or greens (=green herbs or leafy vegetable).
Rösti is the national dish of Switzerland but it also divides the country because it is a dish of German-speaking Switzerland, not so much of the French and Italian-speaking parts.
Healthy or not? 🟡
Easy to make? 🟡
Cheap enough? 🟢
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
▶️ Rösti is …
... made with:
Grated (=cut into thin stripes) potatoes either raw or half-cooked are pressed into a frying pan like a pancake and fried thoroughly (=carefully, through and through) in butter from both sides. The potatoes should get brown and slightly crispy (=hard but pleasant to eat).
... eaten with:
While it can be eaten as a main dish or a side dish there are many things you can add to the basic recipe, like onions, eggs, cheese, sausage or greens (=green herbs or leafy vegetable).
Rösti is the national dish of Switzerland but it also divides the country because it is a dish of German-speaking Switzerland, not so much of the French and Italian-speaking parts.
Healthy or not? 🟡
Easy to make? 🟡
Cheap enough? 🟢
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
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#27 Movie Time: Paulette (2012)
▶️ Today’s movie is a 🇫🇷French comedy about an old lady living in one of the notorious (=famously bad) outskirts (=urban area outside a big city) of Paris. Financially troubled, she turns to drug trade in search for a decent living (=a good life with enough money). Check out how she does it!
❗️ The movie is in French with English subtitles. Subtitles are an excellent way of pushing you speed up your reading and stop the stupid habit of reading out loud! 🤓
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #european_films #comedy
▶️ Today’s movie is a 🇫🇷French comedy about an old lady living in one of the notorious (=famously bad) outskirts (=urban area outside a big city) of Paris. Financially troubled, she turns to drug trade in search for a decent living (=a good life with enough money). Check out how she does it!
❗️ The movie is in French with English subtitles. Subtitles are an excellent way of pushing you speed up your reading and stop the stupid habit of reading out loud! 🤓
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #european_films #comedy
Dear Afandi aficionados (=people who like sth very much and know a lot about it),
I’ve started a new channel for teachers (https://t.me/learn_2_teach) and would like to spend more time on that while still bringing you the best infotainment here on Afandi English. This will require your help though!
It’s time for you to get involved (=participate). We’ll choose a couple of new admins who carefully prepare new posts and turn Afandi English into a community of thoughtful learners who share great content with each other.
What’s in store? (=What can you get?) Lots of speaking and writing practice with a foreign teacher (wow! 😜), managing your time, learning to work meticulously (=carefully, paying attention to small details), finding and handling materials and getting to grips with (=learning about) working online.
I will use the coming days to find candidates and we can meet up here in Andijan and discuss how to proceed (=go on).
Contact: @jochenho
I’ve started a new channel for teachers (https://t.me/learn_2_teach) and would like to spend more time on that while still bringing you the best infotainment here on Afandi English. This will require your help though!
It’s time for you to get involved (=participate). We’ll choose a couple of new admins who carefully prepare new posts and turn Afandi English into a community of thoughtful learners who share great content with each other.
What’s in store? (=What can you get?) Lots of speaking and writing practice with a foreign teacher (wow! 😜), managing your time, learning to work meticulously (=carefully, paying attention to small details), finding and handling materials and getting to grips with (=learning about) working online.
I will use the coming days to find candidates and we can meet up here in Andijan and discuss how to proceed (=go on).
Contact: @jochenho
#85 Spot Something: Dom's deodorant
❓ Can you spot the deodorant around this temple in 🇹🇼Taiwan?
❗️If you can you might win 5,000 Paynet-soums!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_something
❓ Can you spot the deodorant around this temple in 🇹🇼Taiwan?
❗️If you can you might win 5,000 Paynet-soums!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_something
Congrats to Muhammadazim Abdus. 👏👏👏
And thumbs up to our designers for today: Sardorbek, Miss Shona & Nozanin 👍👍👍
And thumbs up to our designers for today: Sardorbek, Miss Shona & Nozanin 👍👍👍