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🎂Happy 2nd birthday to Afandi English! 🎂

#8 Short Film: Night On Earth – Paris

▶️ Here’s one sequence of the movie “Night on Earth” from 1991. The movie is about weird, nocturnal (=in the night) encounters (=sb meeting sb) between taxi drivers and their customers in different cities.

🔤 The film is in 🇫🇷French with English subtitles.

👉@afandi_english👈 #short_film

#120 Our favourite mistakes: Grammar

▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Armiyaga borganingizda, vazn yo'qotishingiz mumkin.

❌ Perhaps you think it is:
When you go to army you may lose your weight.

✅ Well, it should be:
When you go to the army you may lose weight.

❓Why?

❗️ Like the government, we can assume that there is only one army in one country. That’s why we should use the definite article the before army.

❗️ Lose your weight sounds like you’re losing all of it. That wouldn’t be good. You can either lose some weight or just lose weight, without the determiner.

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #grammar

#8 Afandi Karaoke: Try (by Colbie Caillat)

▶️ Today’s song is about natural beauty, encouraging women to show their face without makeup.

👉@afandi_english👈 #karaoke

#42 YouTube Channel Recommendation: Marques Brownlee

📊 English Level: Upper

🔤 Subtitles: Automatic

💬 Topics: Tech

💡 Content: Marques Brownlee is a high-profile (=famous, of high quality) YouTuber who shows you all you need to know about the latest trends in technology. He’s so professional and famous that he gets to (=gets a chance to) interview celebrities (=famous people) like Bill Gates and Will Smith.

⛓ Link: https://www.youtube.com/c/mkbhd

👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube

🎊 Happy Arafa, everyone! Afandi is buried in plov, nowhere to be spotted today! 🙈

🎉 Special Day: Mass Migration for Eid

▶️ Some Muslim-majority countries like 🇮🇩Indonesia or 🇧🇩Bangladesh are seriously crowded and after two years of covid travel restrictions people travel once again to visit their family. Check out what that can look like!

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #documentary

#82 Afandi Quiz: Cultural Misunderstanding

Today’s quiz is about a cultural misunderstanding in the following situation:

▶️ Chris from 🇳🇿New Zealand has been living as an expat (=Westerner working in a non-Western country) in 🇯🇵Japan for two years now. He used to work for an American company but recently joined a Japanese firm. His foreign friends warned him that it wouldn’t be easy for him. His Japanese boss and colleagues seem kind to him and praise him when he works extra hours but he still doesn’t feel like he’s part of the team.

👉@afandi_english👈 #culture_quiz

Ouch!

💡🇯🇵 Japanese work culture is quite peculiar (=strange in an interesting and surprising way). A lot of people are “salaryman” – someone who works many years for the same company, typically in an office, and devotes (=dedicate, give everything) even their free time to the company, including nights out (=going to bars or discos in the evening). The Japanese government tries to persuade people to leave the office at a normal time and take more days off but employees often feel ashamed and don’t want to seem lazy.

▶️ Watch this video for more interesting insights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-YJEtxHeo

#23 Self-study: Young Italian Farmers

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about well-educated young Italians who choose to live and work in the countryside. Dig deeper (=think about sth more deeply), follow the script and use it for self-study!

❗️If you think this is good material for your self-study, please follow the instructions in #1 👆 and the instructions on the handout below 👇.

👉@afandi_english👈 #self_study #documentary

#121 Our favourite mistakes: Vocabulary

▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Avval registratsiya qilishingiz kerak. Shu yo’l bilan kursga qatnashingiz mumkin.

❌ Perhaps you think it is:
First you should registrate. By this way you can attend to / join to the course.

✅ Well, it should be:
First you should register. In this way you can attend / join the course.

❓Why?

❗️ There is no such word as registrate. The noun is registration and the verb is register. Both are pronounced with [дж], not [г].

❗️ By this way is a non-existing mixture of by the way and in this way. The two phrases mean different things. By the way means darvoqe.

❗️ Both attend and join do not need any preposition.

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary

#11 World Food: 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Mac & Cheese

▶️ This dish is British in origin but now considered a very American thing that came back to Britain as that. Make sure you get one thing right – macaroni is only one kind of pasta, i.e. short little tubes. Each shape has a different Italian name but we can call all of them pasta. Mac & Cheese is …

... made with:
Pasta, usually macaroni, and lots of cheese, usually cheddar cheese. Sometimes butter and milk make the dish more creamy.

... eaten with:
Nothing in particular, but a salad is good to balance out the fattiness of Mac & Cheese.

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

👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food

#34 Movie Time: The Circle (2017)

▶️ Today’s movie is a drama set in the not-too-faraway future of a fictitious (=fictional, not real) evil social media platform called “The Circle”. Tom Hanks plays its eccentric (=proud to be crazy) founder while Emma Watson is in the main role of a brave employee. Watch how she changes herself and the company.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #american_films #drama #future

🦅 Dear burguts & burgutkas! 🦅
Today we will spot Afandi's cousin from Samarkand! Tune in, spot them at 9pm and win 5000 soum Paynet! 🤑

#97 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi going on a mulberry binge

❓ 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