#75 Afandi Quiz: Cultural Misunderstanding
Today’s quiz is about a cultural misunderstanding in the following situation:
▶️ Selma and Lars are young couple from 🇸🇪Sweden. For their honeymoon (=a trip right after one’s wedding) they travel to 🇬🇷Greece and spend a romantic two-week holiday on an island in the Mediterranean Sea (=the sea between Europe and Africa). They decide to rent a car to explore the island. Right on the first day they almost crash the car as they drive on a narrow mountain slope (=a road going up or down) and see cars on the other side flashing their lights.
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Today’s quiz is about a cultural misunderstanding in the following situation:
▶️ Selma and Lars are young couple from 🇸🇪Sweden. For their honeymoon (=a trip right after one’s wedding) they travel to 🇬🇷Greece and spend a romantic two-week holiday on an island in the Mediterranean Sea (=the sea between Europe and Africa). They decide to rent a car to explore the island. Right on the first day they almost crash the car as they drive on a narrow mountain slope (=a road going up or down) and see cars on the other side flashing their lights.
👉@afandi_english👈 #culture_quiz
What's the misunderstanding?
Final Results
20%
Roads are often in a poor condition. Greeks flash their lights in dangerous situations.
30%
Coming from Sweden they were driving on the wrong side of the road.
6%
Greeks are crazy drivers and flash their lights as a way to greet strangers.
44%
Flashing lights means “Get out of my way” in Greece while in Sweden it means “Please go before me”.
Afandi English
What's the misunderstanding?
Pretty good!
👍 Traffic is a hotbed (=a place where a lot of bad things happen) of culture clashes. Unlike Southerners, Northern Europeans are relatively gentle drivers who stop at zebra crossings and rarely break rules.
👍 Traffic is a hotbed (=a place where a lot of bad things happen) of culture clashes. Unlike Southerners, Northern Europeans are relatively gentle drivers who stop at zebra crossings and rarely break rules.
#10 A Good Laugh: Covid memes
▶️ Within just two years covid has turned our world upside down. That’s of course not funny but whatever problem we face, human stupidity makes for (=causes) some entertaining side effects.
👉@afandi_english👈 #good_laugh
▶️ Within just two years covid has turned our world upside down. That’s of course not funny but whatever problem we face, human stupidity makes for (=causes) some entertaining side effects.
👉@afandi_english👈 #good_laugh
#112 Our favourite mistakes: Vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Yoki darsga vaqtida kirasiz yoki darsdan keyin o‘n bir yigirmada kelasiz.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Or you enter to the class on time or you come after the class at eleven and twenty.
✅ Well, it should be:
Either you come to the class on time or you come after the class at eleven twenty.
❓Why?
❗️ “Or … or …” is an Uzbek and Russian construction. In English it is “Either … or …”.
❗️ The verb enter is used without the preposition to.
❗️ Entering a class is emphasizing that someone physically enters the classroom but doesn’t mean that someone is a student or participates in the class. Come and go are preferred here.
❗️ When telling the time there is no and between the hour and the minutes, unless you use o’clock.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Yoki darsga vaqtida kirasiz yoki darsdan keyin o‘n bir yigirmada kelasiz.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Or you enter to the class on time or you come after the class at eleven and twenty.
✅ Well, it should be:
❗️ “Or … or …” is an Uzbek and Russian construction. In English it is “Either … or …”.
❗️ The verb enter is used without the preposition to.
❗️ Entering a class is emphasizing that someone physically enters the classroom but doesn’t mean that someone is a student or participates in the class. Come and go are preferred here.
❗️ When telling the time there is no and between the hour and the minutes, unless you use o’clock.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary
#9 World Food: Hotpot from 🇨🇳China
▶️ Hotpot is …
... made with:
A spicy soup and plenty of vegetables, meat, noodles, tofu (=cheese-like thing made from beans), dumplings (=meat-filled pastry), mushrooms, etc.
... eaten with:
People dip the stuff from the pot in a sauce that they can mix by themselves. This can be soya sauce (=a salty dark brown sauce made from beans), vinegar, sesame sauce, herbs, garlic, chili and many more.
The interesting part is that the soup boils constantly and people add in whatever they feel like eating. It’s a popular dish for the cold season. Of course this food is eaten with chopsticks (=sticks that East Asians use for eating).
Healthy or not? 🟡
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟡
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
▶️ Hotpot is …
... made with:
A spicy soup and plenty of vegetables, meat, noodles, tofu (=cheese-like thing made from beans), dumplings (=meat-filled pastry), mushrooms, etc.
... eaten with:
People dip the stuff from the pot in a sauce that they can mix by themselves. This can be soya sauce (=a salty dark brown sauce made from beans), vinegar, sesame sauce, herbs, garlic, chili and many more.
The interesting part is that the soup boils constantly and people add in whatever they feel like eating. It’s a popular dish for the cold season. Of course this food is eaten with chopsticks (=sticks that East Asians use for eating).
Healthy or not? 🟡
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟡
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
#38 YouTube Channel Recommendation: Ali Abdaal
📊 English Level: Upper
🔤 Subtitles: Available
💬 Topics: Life hacks, business, technology, education
💡 Content: This creator of this channel is a doctor from the UK. He aims to help people lead happier, healthier, and more productive lives.
⛓ Link: https://youtube.com/c/aliabdaal
🤝 Provided by Bakhtiyar Naimov. https://t.me/American_Dream_Inc
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📊 English Level: Upper
🔤 Subtitles: Available
💬 Topics: Life hacks, business, technology, education
💡 Content: This creator of this channel is a doctor from the UK. He aims to help people lead happier, healthier, and more productive lives.
⛓ Link: https://youtube.com/c/aliabdaal
🤝 Provided by Bakhtiyar Naimov. https://t.me/American_Dream_Inc
👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube
#89 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi taking a dip in the Narin River
❓ 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
Muhammadayyubxon did it again! 🥳🥳🥳
Lots of fantastic designs today, check out the ones from Muhabbat, Qodirjon and Oisha! 👏👏👏
Lots of fantastic designs today, check out the ones from Muhabbat, Qodirjon and Oisha! 👏👏👏