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#3 Future: Interview with a robot
🆕 Anticipate (=expect and be ready for sth) the future with Afandi English. The world is changing rapidly – damn you if you sleepwalk (=walk while sleeping, getting into a bad situation because you don’t pay attention) into the future and don’t secure your place!
▶️ Here’s an interview with Sophia, a slightly creepy (=frightening, making you nervous), artificially intelligent robot that looks and acts like a human. The video is several years old actually and Sophia has either learned to be even more human-like by now or she was replaced by a better robot, who knows.
👉@afandi_english👈 #future
🆕 Anticipate (=expect and be ready for sth) the future with Afandi English. The world is changing rapidly – damn you if you sleepwalk (=walk while sleeping, getting into a bad situation because you don’t pay attention) into the future and don’t secure your place!
▶️ Here’s an interview with Sophia, a slightly creepy (=frightening, making you nervous), artificially intelligent robot that looks and acts like a human. The video is several years old actually and Sophia has either learned to be even more human-like by now or she was replaced by a better robot, who knows.
👉@afandi_english👈 #future
Should humans keep creating intelligent robots?
Anonymous Poll
39%
Yes, it’s the future.
33%
Yes, but not human-like robots.
15%
No, it’s morally wrong.
14%
No, they may kill humans one day.
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#28 Movie Time: Mars Attacks (1996)
▶️ Today’s movie is an 🇺🇸American comedy about a Martian (=from planet Mars) invasion (=taking control of a territory by force) of Earth. Watch how Earth manages to defend itself accidentally!
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #american_films #comedy
▶️ Today’s movie is an 🇺🇸American comedy about a Martian (=from planet Mars) invasion (=taking control of a territory by force) of Earth. Watch how Earth manages to defend itself accidentally!
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #american_films #comedy
#87 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi getting a haircut by Nuriddin in Paytug’
❓ 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 Muhammadaziz!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Free haircut, perhaps? 🤪
And big thanks to our designers Sardorbek A., Sardorbek T. and Nozanin! 👏👻🤠
Free haircut, perhaps? 🤪
And big thanks to our designers Sardorbek A., Sardorbek T. and Nozanin! 👏👻🤠
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#11 Know Your World: Ancestry in America
▶️ America is a melting pot (=metaphor of a pot in which different people become one and the same) – or is it a salad bowl (=metaphor of a bowl in which different people remain different but are part of the same)? Anyway, when you ask people where their grandparents, great-grandparents and also their family name came from they can actually tell you. Check out where most of them came from!
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #maps
▶️ America is a melting pot (=metaphor of a pot in which different people become one and the same) – or is it a salad bowl (=metaphor of a bowl in which different people remain different but are part of the same)? Anyway, when you ask people where their grandparents, great-grandparents and also their family name came from they can actually tell you. Check out where most of them came from!
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #maps
The man is running …
Final Results
27%
hastily
14%
speedily
24%
fastly
14%
breakneck
13%
hurrily
1%
high
7%
gallopy
Afandi English
The man is running …
Not bad!
👍 The man is running hastily. He pushes other people away. Hasty means quick and in a careless way.
👎 The word fastly doesn’t exist – the adverb of fast is also fast. Speedy has the right meaning but doesn’t collocate (=make a word combination) with running. Breakneck is a noun and goes together with speed, i.e. something happens at breakneck speed. Hurrily doesn’t exist – only hurriedly does. There’s also no such word as gallopy, only gallop which describes a running horse. Run high exists but it means that something is too much, especially feelings.
👍 The man is running hastily. He pushes other people away. Hasty means quick and in a careless way.
👎 The word fastly doesn’t exist – the adverb of fast is also fast. Speedy has the right meaning but doesn’t collocate (=make a word combination) with running. Breakneck is a noun and goes together with speed, i.e. something happens at breakneck speed. Hurrily doesn’t exist – only hurriedly does. There’s also no such word as gallopy, only gallop which describes a running horse. Run high exists but it means that something is too much, especially feelings.
#111 Our favourite mistakes: Vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Menga maslahat bera olasizmi?
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Can you give advice for me?
✅ Well, it should be:
Can you give me some advice?
❓Why?
❗️ This sentence definitely sounds better with some.
❗️ Use me as an indirect object.
❗️ There is no reason why you should use for here. It doesn’t go with give. You don’t give something for someone but you give something to someone.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Menga maslahat bera olasizmi?
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Can you give advice for me?
✅ Well, it should be:
❓Why?
❗️ This sentence definitely sounds better with some.
❗️ Use me as an indirect object.
❗️ There is no reason why you should use for here. It doesn’t go with give. You don’t give something for someone but you give something to someone.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary
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#6 Afandi Karaoke: Bellyache (by Billie Eilish)
▶️ Here’s a song that most of you have probably heard. Try to make sense of the video and lyrics yourself!
👉@afandi_english👈 #karaoke
▶️ Here’s a song that most of you have probably heard. Try to make sense of the video and lyrics yourself!
👉@afandi_english👈 #karaoke
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#29 Movie Time: Wallace and Gromit (2005)
▶️ Today’s movie is a 🇬🇧 British cartoon that's all about Wallace, a quirky (=strange but genius, esp. professors) inventor, and his dog Gromit. Check out how they try to save precious vegetables from being eaten by rabbits!
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #british_films #cartoon #comedy
▶️ Today’s movie is a 🇬🇧 British cartoon that's all about Wallace, a quirky (=strange but genius, esp. professors) inventor, and his dog Gromit. Check out how they try to save precious vegetables from being eaten by rabbits!
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #british_films #cartoon #comedy
#74 Travelogue UK: China Town
London has attracted immigrants from all corners of the globe. 35% of people living there were born outside the UK and only 44% identify as White British.
Foreigners all have their communities and we find them in different parts of the city. Let’s do a quick case study of the Chinese community:
Nationality
Chinese people from the communist Mainland are very different from those that come from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia. Nationality divides them more than it unites them.
Language & Culture
Shared language, food, holidays – these are the things that really unite Chinese people. Despite all local differences they still have a lot in common: Chinese characters, chopsticks, Chinese New Year, etc.
Religion
There’s little common ground between Mainlanders and the others. Most Mainlanders are not religious at all.
Conclusion: The Chinese community of London is an ethno-linguistic one.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uk
London has attracted immigrants from all corners of the globe. 35% of people living there were born outside the UK and only 44% identify as White British.
Foreigners all have their communities and we find them in different parts of the city. Let’s do a quick case study of the Chinese community:
Nationality
Chinese people from the communist Mainland are very different from those that come from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia. Nationality divides them more than it unites them.
Language & Culture
Shared language, food, holidays – these are the things that really unite Chinese people. Despite all local differences they still have a lot in common: Chinese characters, chopsticks, Chinese New Year, etc.
Religion
There’s little common ground between Mainlanders and the others. Most Mainlanders are not religious at all.
Conclusion: The Chinese community of London is an ethno-linguistic one.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uk
Afandi English
#74 Travelogue UK: China Town London has attracted immigrants from all corners of the globe. 35% of people living there were born outside the UK and only 44% identify as White British. Foreigners all have their communities and we find them in different parts…
---Vocab---
📍identify as sb = say that you belong to one group in society 📍Mainland = Mainland China = Communist China = China excluding Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao 📍Chinese characters = the writing system of Chinese 📍chopsticks = sticks that East Asians eat with 📍common ground = have the same opinions and ideas 📍ethno-linguistic = relating to an ethnic group that has a shared language
📍identify as sb = say that you belong to one group in society 📍Mainland = Mainland China = Communist China = China excluding Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao 📍Chinese characters = the writing system of Chinese 📍chopsticks = sticks that East Asians eat with 📍common ground = have the same opinions and ideas 📍ethno-linguistic = relating to an ethnic group that has a shared language