#117 Our favourite mistakes: Vocabulary

▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Boshliq kabinetidami yoki ko’chadami?

❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Is the boss in his cabinet or on the street?

✅ Well, it should be:
Is the boss in his office or outside?

❓Why?

❗️ Cabinet exists in English but doesn’t have the meaning of room. The main meaning is group of ministers in a government and a secondary meaning is a slightly old and formal word for cupboard, especially one in which important things are stored.

❗️ On the street means literally on the street and nothing else. From the Uzbek sentence it’s not clear where exactly the boss is, the correct translation is therefore outside.

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#10 World Food: 🇪🇬🇱🇧🇸🇾 Falafel

▶️ Falafel is a common type of street food in the Middle East. You can also find it in Europe and North America where there are Arab eateries (=places to eat) and food vendors (=sb who sells sth, esp. on the street). It is …

... made with:
Chickpeas (=a kind of bean) or beans formed into small balls that are deep-fried (=fried in a lot of oil).

... eaten with:
Hummus, a sauce made from chickpeas, or a yoghurt sauce and often also vegetables in a flat bread, very much like a doner kebab.

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

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#32 Movie Time: Animals Are Beautiful People (1974)

▶️ Today’s movie is a family-friendly (=suitable for children) 🇿🇦South African nature documentary film with a comedy twist (=an unexpected characteristic). The animals of the Kalahari Desert are quite entertaining, see for yourself!

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#94 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi checking in at Hotel Uzbekistan

❓ 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!

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Today again at Andijan Yoshlar Markazi, 2nd floor!

Be there at 1pm and join us discussing and planning real-life projects in English.

Participation is free!

#80 Afandi Quiz: What’s the word?

Let’s talk about failure today.

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Not bad!

💡 You say you can do it, walk to the front of the class but then you can’t do it and everyone laughs at you. How embarrassing! Congratulations, you’ve just fallen flat on your face!

#118 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation

▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• above
• every
• move
• oven
• over
• video
• visa
• vowel

❓What do these words have in common?

❗️ They all have a strong [v] sound, like the ‘в’ in Russian and unlike ‘v’ in Uzbek. For clarity in Cyrillic (not Russian pronunciation):
• above – ❌ эбоу, ✅ эбав
• every – ❌ эури, ✅ эври
• move – ❌ муу, ✅ мув
• oven – ❌ оуэн, ✅ авен
• over – ❌ оууер, ✅ оувер
• video – ❌ уидео, ✅ видиоу
• visa – ❌ уиза, ✅ виза
• vowel – ❌ уауэл, ✅ вауэл

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#10 Must Watch: The greatest country?

▶️ Here’s a famous scene from The Newsroom, an 🇺🇸American political TV serial, in which a journalist gives a shocking answer to the question “Why is America the greatest country in the world?” – see for yourself.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #must_watch