#1 Learn how to learn: 3 steps to manage your time!
❗️We all know that time management is key to successful studying. But how to do it? Here are 3 steps:
1️⃣ Do a research – how do you actually spend your time? For a couple of days, don’t change what you do but make a list of how much time you spend on doing what. Find the activities that kill your time.
2️⃣ Be patient and realistic. Don’t over-plan. Start by testing yourself, what can you do and what can’t you do? Don’t follow books or teachers blindly but get to know yourself!
3️⃣ Have some little rituals! Do the same study activities at the same time and in the same place every day. Regular meal times, sleeping times and even prayer times can help you. One hour after dinner, half an hour before sleeping, the time between two prayers, etc.
Best of luck & Join us for more!
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@afandi_english #learn2learn
❗️We all know that time management is key to successful studying. But how to do it? Here are 3 steps:
1️⃣ Do a research – how do you actually spend your time? For a couple of days, don’t change what you do but make a list of how much time you spend on doing what. Find the activities that kill your time.
2️⃣ Be patient and realistic. Don’t over-plan. Start by testing yourself, what can you do and what can’t you do? Don’t follow books or teachers blindly but get to know yourself!
3️⃣ Have some little rituals! Do the same study activities at the same time and in the same place every day. Regular meal times, sleeping times and even prayer times can help you. One hour after dinner, half an hour before sleeping, the time between two prayers, etc.
Best of luck & Join us for more!
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@afandi_english #learn2learn
#3 Our favourite mistakes: Grammar
Please translate:
1️⃣ Hech qanday pulim yo’q.
2️⃣ Ertaga meni hech qanday vaqtim yo’q.
❓Well…?
1️⃣
I have no any money. ❌
I haven’t any money.❌
I have no money. (spoken) ☑️
I don’t have any money.☑️
I haven’t got any money.☑️
2️⃣
Tomorrow I haven’t any time.❌
Tomorrow I have no any time.❌
Tomorrow I have no time. (spoken) ☑️
Tomorrow I don’t have time.☑️
Tomorrow I won’t have any time.☑️
❗️Favourite mistakes:
- saying “no any” although this word combination doesn’t exist
- saying “haven’t” or “hasn’t” without the present perfect tense
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #grammar
Please translate:
1️⃣ Hech qanday pulim yo’q.
2️⃣ Ertaga meni hech qanday vaqtim yo’q.
❓Well…?
1️⃣
I have no any money. ❌
I haven’t any money.❌
I have no money. (spoken) ☑️
I don’t have any money.☑️
I haven’t got any money.☑️
2️⃣
Tomorrow I haven’t any time.❌
Tomorrow I have no any time.❌
Tomorrow I have no time. (spoken) ☑️
Tomorrow I don’t have time.☑️
Tomorrow I won’t have any time.☑️
❗️Favourite mistakes:
- saying “no any” although this word combination doesn’t exist
- saying “haven’t” or “hasn’t” without the present perfect tense
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #grammar
#2 World Englishes: Scottish English
❗️Just over 5 million people live in Scotland, a country within the United Kingdom. Scottish people sound quite different from other British English speakers. Perhaps you’ve heard the famous Scottish song – “Auld Lang Syne”? People in the UK sing this for New Year’s Eve.
🔘 Pronunciation: The vowels are often changed and there is a trilling [r] like in Russian, but not so hard.
🔘 Grammar: Scottish people may say strange things like “My hair is needing washed” or “Amn’t I invited?”
🔘 Vocabulary: Some “Scotticisms“ (Scottish words in English) are understood by non-Scottish people too, like “aye” meaning “yes” and “wee” meaning “small” or “a little bit”.
▶️ Check out what it sounds like!
⛓ Homeless in Edinburgh
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_englishes
❗️Just over 5 million people live in Scotland, a country within the United Kingdom. Scottish people sound quite different from other British English speakers. Perhaps you’ve heard the famous Scottish song – “Auld Lang Syne”? People in the UK sing this for New Year’s Eve.
🔘 Pronunciation: The vowels are often changed and there is a trilling [r] like in Russian, but not so hard.
🔘 Grammar: Scottish people may say strange things like “My hair is needing washed” or “Amn’t I invited?”
🔘 Vocabulary: Some “Scotticisms“ (Scottish words in English) are understood by non-Scottish people too, like “aye” meaning “yes” and “wee” meaning “small” or “a little bit”.
▶️ Check out what it sounds like!
⛓ Homeless in Edinburgh
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_englishes
#4 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• apple
• fashion
• imagine
• national
• natural
• valley
❓Did they sound similar or different?
❗️They should all sound similar as they have the same vowel [æ] as in apple.
❗️For clarity some pronunciation in Cyrillic (not very exact but you can get the idea):
• fashion
❌фейшн ✅фэшн
• imagine
❌имейджин ✅имэджин
• national
❌нейшенел ✅нэшенел
BUT nation ✅нейшен
• natural
❌нейчерел ✅нэчерел
BUT nature ✅нейчер
• valley
❌волли ✅вэлли
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• apple
• fashion
• imagine
• national
• natural
• valley
❓Did they sound similar or different?
❗️They should all sound similar as they have the same vowel [æ] as in apple.
❗️For clarity some pronunciation in Cyrillic (not very exact but you can get the idea):
• fashion
❌фейшн ✅фэшн
• imagine
❌имейджин ✅имэджин
• national
❌нейшенел ✅нэшенел
BUT nation ✅нейшен
• natural
❌нейчерел ✅нэчерел
BUT nature ✅нейчер
• valley
❌волли ✅вэлли
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation
#2 Tongue twister: 30th Birthday
❗️Practice your [th] pronunciation with this tongue twister today:
▶️ Thirty-three thousand thugs think that this Thursday is their thirtieth birthday.
Vocab:
thug = a violent man
You know it's good because it's from
👻@afandi_english👻 #tongue_twisters
❗️Practice your [th] pronunciation with this tongue twister today:
▶️ Thirty-three thousand thugs think that this Thursday is their thirtieth birthday.
Vocab:
thug = a violent man
You know it's good because it's from
👻@afandi_english👻 #tongue_twisters
#2 University Vocab: Academic Literature
❗️When you study at a university you most likely have to read a lot for your essays and thesis paper.
🔎 Books are reliable sources of information. You find them in the library or, if you’re lucky, as pdf-files on the internet. Copyright is tricky, but you can always turn to Russian websites!
🔎 Articles, also just called papers, are more specialised than books. They are usually included in academic journals. It’s easy to get them on the internet but the quality of articles and also journals is not always good.
🔎 Websites are not academic literature! Anyone can publish anything online.
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📌reliable = trustworthy, always there for you
📌tricky = complicated, difficult
👉@afandi_english👈 #uni_vocab
❗️When you study at a university you most likely have to read a lot for your essays and thesis paper.
🔎 Books are reliable sources of information. You find them in the library or, if you’re lucky, as pdf-files on the internet. Copyright is tricky, but you can always turn to Russian websites!
🔎 Articles, also just called papers, are more specialised than books. They are usually included in academic journals. It’s easy to get them on the internet but the quality of articles and also journals is not always good.
🔎 Websites are not academic literature! Anyone can publish anything online.
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📌reliable = trustworthy, always there for you
📌tricky = complicated, difficult
👉@afandi_english👈 #uni_vocab
#1 YouTube Channel Recommendation: Vox
🆕 Yes, books are good. But how much can you read in a couple of minutes? YouTube is both a fountain of knowledge and a dumping ground, we only have to know where to find the good stuff. To help you with that we recommend you some channels on YouTube that are good for learning high-level vocab and expanding your knowledge and outlook at the same time.
⛓ Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/voxdotcom
📊 English Level: Upper
🔤 Subtitles: Available
💬 Topics: Travel, politics, history, music, technology, environment
💡 Content: Vox has different sub-channels; Glad You Asked, Open Sourced, Vox Borders and Vox Atlas are the most exciting ones as they cover international issues while giving lots of background knowledge.
📍@afandi_english 📍– Why go for less?
#youtube
🆕 Yes, books are good. But how much can you read in a couple of minutes? YouTube is both a fountain of knowledge and a dumping ground, we only have to know where to find the good stuff. To help you with that we recommend you some channels on YouTube that are good for learning high-level vocab and expanding your knowledge and outlook at the same time.
⛓ Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/voxdotcom
📊 English Level: Upper
🔤 Subtitles: Available
💬 Topics: Travel, politics, history, music, technology, environment
💡 Content: Vox has different sub-channels; Glad You Asked, Open Sourced, Vox Borders and Vox Atlas are the most exciting ones as they cover international issues while giving lots of background knowledge.
📍@afandi_english 📍– Why go for less?
#youtube
#5 Our favourite mistakes: Vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Meni kutib turing, besh minutdan keyin boraman.
❓Perhaps you think it is:
Wait me, I will go after five minutes.
❗️Sorry, but it should be:
Wait for me, I’ll come in five minutes.
❓Why?
❗️We wait for somebody, we don’t just wait somebody.
❗️We should use come and not go if we move towards the listener.
❗️If we mean five minutes from now we should say in five minutes. Only if it is five minutes in the past or in the future or any time, then we can use after five minutes, for example: I was there at 8 o’clock sharp but the teacher only came after five minutes. / Whenever I boil an egg I take it out of the water after five minutes.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Meni kutib turing, besh minutdan keyin boraman.
❓Perhaps you think it is:
Wait me, I will go after five minutes.
❗️Sorry, but it should be:
❓Why?
❗️We wait for somebody, we don’t just wait somebody.
❗️We should use come and not go if we move towards the listener.
❗️If we mean five minutes from now we should say in five minutes. Only if it is five minutes in the past or in the future or any time, then we can use after five minutes, for example: I was there at 8 o’clock sharp but the teacher only came after five minutes. / Whenever I boil an egg I take it out of the water after five minutes.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary
#2 Learn how to learn: Handle your phone!
❗️Think of your phone as your best and worst “frenemy” – your friend and your enemy at the same time. It’s your friend because you can get any information you want but also your enemy because it steals a lot of your time.
1️⃣ Think of your phone as a tool, not as a part of your body. Do some regular activities (not only sleeping!) without your phone, like playing with kids, sports, gardening, cooking, etc.
2️⃣ Switch off notifications from social media. Your Facebook and Telegram should never make any sounds. If anyone needs you right now they can call you or send you an SMS.
3️⃣ Get an offline dictionary, for example Longman’s or Merriam-Webster. It gives you plenty of good examples for usage and you don’t have to be online for it.
Become who you are!
👉@afandi_english👈 #learn2learn
❗️Think of your phone as your best and worst “frenemy” – your friend and your enemy at the same time. It’s your friend because you can get any information you want but also your enemy because it steals a lot of your time.
1️⃣ Think of your phone as a tool, not as a part of your body. Do some regular activities (not only sleeping!) without your phone, like playing with kids, sports, gardening, cooking, etc.
2️⃣ Switch off notifications from social media. Your Facebook and Telegram should never make any sounds. If anyone needs you right now they can call you or send you an SMS.
3️⃣ Get an offline dictionary, for example Longman’s or Merriam-Webster. It gives you plenty of good examples for usage and you don’t have to be online for it.
Become who you are!
👉@afandi_english👈 #learn2learn
#6 Our favourite mistakes: Grammar
▶️ Please translate:
1️⃣ Agar siz borsangiz, men ham boraman.
2️⃣ Agar Buxoroga borsangiz, ko’p eski binolarni ko’ra olasiz.
❓Well…?
1️⃣
If you will go I will also go.
If you go I will also go. ✅
2️⃣
If you go to Bukhara and you can see many old buildings.
If you go to Bukhara you can see many old buildings. ✅
Favourite mistakes:
📌Don't say “will” in an if-clause – it should only be in the main clause!
📌Don't say “and” between if-clause and main clause – this “and” is meaningless and incorrect!
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #grammar
▶️ Please translate:
1️⃣ Agar siz borsangiz, men ham boraman.
2️⃣ Agar Buxoroga borsangiz, ko’p eski binolarni ko’ra olasiz.
❓Well…?
1️⃣
2️⃣
Favourite mistakes:
📌Don't say “will” in an if-clause – it should only be in the main clause!
📌Don't say “and” between if-clause and main clause – this “and” is meaningless and incorrect!
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #grammar
#3 World Englishes: Caribbean English
❗️About 6 million people in 18 countries and territories of the Caribbean speak English as their mother tongue. Most of them are black people that the British colonisers brought there from Africa. They speak a mixture of British (colonial influence) and Black American English (cultural influence) with localisms (African and native American influences).
🔘 Pronunciation: Quick is better! Double vowels are often reduced, like “face” – not [feıs] but [fe:s]; consonants can be reduced, like “hand” – not [hænd] but [han].
🔘 Grammar: Easy is better! “To be” is often dropped, and plural and tense endings, too.
🔘 Vocabulary: Local is better! Many words are only understood locally. Sometimes we cannot call it English anymore but "creole", a mixed language.
▶️ Check out what Jamaican English and creole sound like!
⛓ A Jamaican farmer
⛓ An explainer
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_englishes
❗️About 6 million people in 18 countries and territories of the Caribbean speak English as their mother tongue. Most of them are black people that the British colonisers brought there from Africa. They speak a mixture of British (colonial influence) and Black American English (cultural influence) with localisms (African and native American influences).
🔘 Pronunciation: Quick is better! Double vowels are often reduced, like “face” – not [feıs] but [fe:s]; consonants can be reduced, like “hand” – not [hænd] but [han].
🔘 Grammar: Easy is better! “To be” is often dropped, and plural and tense endings, too.
🔘 Vocabulary: Local is better! Many words are only understood locally. Sometimes we cannot call it English anymore but "creole", a mixed language.
▶️ Check out what Jamaican English and creole sound like!
⛓ A Jamaican farmer
⛓ An explainer
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_englishes
#7 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• computer
• concert
• conclusion
• continue
• document
• evolution
• monitor
• Mexico
• Moscow
• Olympic
❓ Did you hear [a] sounds in them?
❗️There aren’t any [a] sounds here. The reason why you may be saying [a] is the Russian unstressed O, as in “хорошо” which sounds more like “хaрaшо”.
Three solutions:
1️⃣ [ə], like the И in “борми”: computer, continue, evolution, monitor (second O), olympic
2️⃣ [ɔ], like the O in “got”: concert, document, monitor (first O), Moscow (first O)
3️⃣ [oʊ] or [əʊ], like the O in “boat”: Mexico, Moscow (second O)
Dear fans of American English, your [a] has to be a long [a:] to make it American, and it only really works with 2️⃣.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• computer
• concert
• conclusion
• continue
• document
• evolution
• monitor
• Mexico
• Moscow
• Olympic
❓ Did you hear [a] sounds in them?
❗️There aren’t any [a] sounds here. The reason why you may be saying [a] is the Russian unstressed O, as in “хорошо” which sounds more like “хaрaшо”.
Three solutions:
1️⃣ [ə], like the И in “борми”: computer, continue, evolution, monitor (second O), olympic
2️⃣ [ɔ], like the O in “got”: concert, document, monitor (first O), Moscow (first O)
3️⃣ [oʊ] or [əʊ], like the O in “boat”: Mexico, Moscow (second O)
Dear fans of American English, your [a] has to be a long [a:] to make it American, and it only really works with 2️⃣.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation
#3 Tongue twister: Beetles & Bugs
❗️Practice your pronunciation with this tongue twister today. Be careful, at the end of “big” and “bug” there is [g] not [k]!
▶️ A big bug bit a little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back.
Vocab:
bug = a small insect
bit = past tense of ‘bite’
beetle = an insect with a hard shell
Go for it!
👉@afandi_english👈 #tongue_twisters
❗️Practice your pronunciation with this tongue twister today. Be careful, at the end of “big” and “bug” there is [g] not [k]!
▶️ A big bug bit a little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back.
Vocab:
bug = a small insect
bit = past tense of ‘bite’
beetle = an insect with a hard shell
Go for it!
👉@afandi_english👈 #tongue_twisters
#3 University Vocab: Tuition Fees
❗️ Deciding where to study is never easy because you have to think about so many things. Especially money. So it’s good to know what is what!
🔎 Tuition fees (British English) or just tuition (American English) is the money you have to pay for your studies.
🔎 A scholarship can be awarded to good students, either only covering their tuition or both tuition and living expenses. It is either paid to the university directly or to the student in form of monthly payments, not called “salary” but stipend.
🔎 A grant is money that can be given by a government or an organisation as part of a programme.
🔎 A student loan is money that students can get from a bank and have to pay back after they graduate.
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📌sth is awarded to sb = sth is given to a person for doing sth well
📌cover sth = here: be enough money to pay for sth
📌living expenses = money that people spend for food, housing, etc.
Keep it cool!
👉@afandi_english👈 #uni_vocab
❗️ Deciding where to study is never easy because you have to think about so many things. Especially money. So it’s good to know what is what!
🔎 Tuition fees (British English) or just tuition (American English) is the money you have to pay for your studies.
🔎 A scholarship can be awarded to good students, either only covering their tuition or both tuition and living expenses. It is either paid to the university directly or to the student in form of monthly payments, not called “salary” but stipend.
🔎 A grant is money that can be given by a government or an organisation as part of a programme.
🔎 A student loan is money that students can get from a bank and have to pay back after they graduate.
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📌sth is awarded to sb = sth is given to a person for doing sth well
📌cover sth = here: be enough money to pay for sth
📌living expenses = money that people spend for food, housing, etc.
Keep it cool!
👉@afandi_english👈 #uni_vocab
#2 YouTube Channel Recommendation: Great Big Story
⛓ Link: www.youtube.com/channel/UCajXeitgFL-rb5-gXI-aG8Q
📊 English Level: Upper
🔤 Subtitles: Available
💬 Topics: Travel, culture, food, trivia
💡 Content: Something between information and entertainment (“infotainment”), Great Big Story has stories from different parts of the world. These stories show special people and special things. You may find some of the stories interesting, and the level of English isn’t that high because the topics are not very abstract.
Live the moment!
👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube
⛓ Link: www.youtube.com/channel/UCajXeitgFL-rb5-gXI-aG8Q
📊 English Level: Upper
🔤 Subtitles: Available
💬 Topics: Travel, culture, food, trivia
💡 Content: Something between information and entertainment (“infotainment”), Great Big Story has stories from different parts of the world. These stories show special people and special things. You may find some of the stories interesting, and the level of English isn’t that high because the topics are not very abstract.
Live the moment!
👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube
#8 Our favourite mistakes: Grammar & Vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Olma juda foydali.
❓Perhaps you think it is:
Apple is very useful.
✅ Well, it should be:
Apples are very healthy.
❓Why?
❗️The Uzbek “olma” is singular but in English we need to use the plural “apples”, meaning “all apples”.
❗️When we talk about health we should use the word “healthy”. When we say “useful” we think of something we want to do, like “I love Afandi English, it’s really useful” (=I use it for learning English).
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #grammar #vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Olma juda foydali.
❓Perhaps you think it is:
Apple is very useful.
✅ Well, it should be:
❗️The Uzbek “olma” is singular but in English we need to use the plural “apples”, meaning “all apples”.
❗️When we talk about health we should use the word “healthy”. When we say “useful” we think of something we want to do, like “I love Afandi English, it’s really useful” (=I use it for learning English).
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #grammar #vocabulary
#3 Learn how to learn: Making a word list
❗️We all know the problem. Learning vocabulary takes forever and our word lists get longer and longer. Meanwhile we feel stupid for always forgetting.
❓How can we make the list efficient?
1️⃣ Focus on useful words. The best kind of words for your list are words that you’ve seen before but forgot or still don’t know the meaning of.
2️⃣ Avoid words that are not your level. Yes you want to reach that level but if it’s five levels too high then it’s just not the right time.
3️⃣ Limit yourself to one word – one meaning. “Park” (noun) and “park” (verb) mean totally different things, we don’t learn both meanings at the same time.
4️⃣ Wherever you meet your new words, try to keep them in their sentences. Only in this way you can also get a feeling for the usage.
5️⃣ Use a good dictionary that gives you examples for usage.
How did I live before Afandi English?
👉@afandi_english👈 #learn2learn
❗️We all know the problem. Learning vocabulary takes forever and our word lists get longer and longer. Meanwhile we feel stupid for always forgetting.
❓How can we make the list efficient?
1️⃣ Focus on useful words. The best kind of words for your list are words that you’ve seen before but forgot or still don’t know the meaning of.
2️⃣ Avoid words that are not your level. Yes you want to reach that level but if it’s five levels too high then it’s just not the right time.
3️⃣ Limit yourself to one word – one meaning. “Park” (noun) and “park” (verb) mean totally different things, we don’t learn both meanings at the same time.
4️⃣ Wherever you meet your new words, try to keep them in their sentences. Only in this way you can also get a feeling for the usage.
5️⃣ Use a good dictionary that gives you examples for usage.
How did I live before Afandi English?
👉@afandi_english👈 #learn2learn
#9 Our favourite mistakes: Spelling
▶️ Please take a look at the following words:
• becouse
• can not
• Chine
• doughter
• grammer
• knowladge
• standart
• Tadjik
• techer
• vedio
❓ What went wrong here? For some mysterious reason many people keep making the same spelling mistakes with these words. You probably don’t make all of these mistakes all the time but maybe one or two? Be honest with yourself!
❗️ The correct spellings are:
• becouse because
•can not cannot (one word!)
•Chine China
•doughter daughter
•grammer grammar
•knowladge knowledge
•standart standard
•Tadjik Tajik
•techer teacher
• vedio video
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing
▶️ Please take a look at the following words:
• becouse
• can not
• Chine
• doughter
• grammer
• knowladge
• standart
• Tadjik
• techer
• vedio
❓ What went wrong here? For some mysterious reason many people keep making the same spelling mistakes with these words. You probably don’t make all of these mistakes all the time but maybe one or two? Be honest with yourself!
❗️ The correct spellings are:
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•
•
•
•
•
•
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#1 It’s a strange world: That’s a loooong name for a place!
🆕 For your intelligent entertainment we’re bringing you some strange and unique Wikipedia articles. These articles are hypertext, meaning that you can easily jump from one article to another. Just follow your interest and explore our strange planet while breathing English! It also helps you get familiar with Wikipedia – a great, handy source of knowledge.
Today’s article is about the small town with the longest place name in Europe: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales, UK
⛓https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
There's also a YouTube video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3b2F-bkAdM
Enjoy & join us for more!
👉@afandi_english👈 #strange_world #culture #geography
🆕 For your intelligent entertainment we’re bringing you some strange and unique Wikipedia articles. These articles are hypertext, meaning that you can easily jump from one article to another. Just follow your interest and explore our strange planet while breathing English! It also helps you get familiar with Wikipedia – a great, handy source of knowledge.
Today’s article is about the small town with the longest place name in Europe: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales, UK
⛓https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
There's also a YouTube video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3b2F-bkAdM
Enjoy & join us for more!
👉@afandi_english👈 #strange_world #culture #geography
#4 World Englishes: Chinese English and “Chinglish”
❗️ 6-7% of Chinese people are fluent in English, but given the country’s huge population we’re talking about 80-100 million people! Northerners and Southerners may sound a little different, even in English.
🔘 Pronunciation: Words are pronounced one by one. Chinese may add a little [ə] when a word ends in a consonant (Northerners) or drop the consonant (Southerners), and Northerners may add [r]. “I don’t think it is a good idea.” ⏩ “I don’te sinke ite ise a goode idear.”
🔘 Grammar: Chinese grammar is very straightforward. No tenses, no plural, no cases, no articles – that makes for some challenges!
🔘 Vocabulary: Chinese doesn’t have words for “yes” and “no”, they have to repeat the verb, e.g. A: “Are you going to the party?” B: “Going!”
▶️ Check out what it sounds like:
⛓ Beijing English
⛓ Explainer
And a collection of Chinglish signs: www.instagram.com/chinglish_signs/
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_englishes
❗️ 6-7% of Chinese people are fluent in English, but given the country’s huge population we’re talking about 80-100 million people! Northerners and Southerners may sound a little different, even in English.
🔘 Pronunciation: Words are pronounced one by one. Chinese may add a little [ə] when a word ends in a consonant (Northerners) or drop the consonant (Southerners), and Northerners may add [r]. “I don’t think it is a good idea.” ⏩ “I don’te sinke ite ise a goode idear.”
🔘 Grammar: Chinese grammar is very straightforward. No tenses, no plural, no cases, no articles – that makes for some challenges!
🔘 Vocabulary: Chinese doesn’t have words for “yes” and “no”, they have to repeat the verb, e.g. A: “Are you going to the party?” B: “Going!”
▶️ Check out what it sounds like:
⛓ Beijing English
⛓ Explainer
And a collection of Chinglish signs: www.instagram.com/chinglish_signs/
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_englishes