#21 Know Your World: Special marriage practices

▶️ It’s interesting how in other cultures something we think of as crazy can be totally normal. Marriage practices can be especially shocking. Let’s look at three phenomena and their geographic distribution:

1. Polygamy: This is when a one person has more than one spouse (=married partner, husband or wife). When a man can have several wives we speak of polygyny; when a woman can have several husbands it’s polyandry.

2. Cosanguinity: This is the word for “cousin marriage”. In some countries it’s common to marry one’s first cousin.

3. Child marriage: This is when a person (usually girl) marries before reaching adulthood.

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#88 Afandi Quiz: Mysterious song

Today’s quiz is about a mysterious song from a mysterious country! Maybe you think it’s from India but it’s not!

👉@afandi_english👈 #quiz #song_quiz

What a draw!

💡 The style of this song is Bhangra from the region of Punjab which is divided between India and Pakistan. Since India wasn’t an option it should have been Pakistan.

#1 Correct me if you can

🆕 On Afandi English we’ve had an awful lot of (=terribly many) favourite mistakes in the past 2+ years and we’re far from done with them. But in order to really eliminate (=kill off, make sth disappear) these mistakes we need some practice. So in this new series of posts you will be given a faulty (=containing mistakes) sentence to correct.

▶️ Please find the mistake in the following sentence:

Please wait me, I’ll be back in 5 minutes.

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #correct

#24 Self-study: Towards a robotic future?

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about so-called “futurism” – predicting the future through research of current trends. Listen to what the eccentric (=strange but interesting person) Faith Popcorn, head of a New York consulting company, has to say and pick up some English on the way!

❗️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 #future

#101 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi weaving carpets in Marg’ilon

❓ 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

#22 Know Your World: Travelling in Afghanistan

▶️ Back in 2018 I met Frank, a young 🇨🇦Canadian traveller in 🇨🇳China and we’ve kept in touch since then. Here’s a podcast in which he talks about his recent travel experience in 🇦🇫Afghanistan as the first Western traveller since the Taliban took over the government.

✏️ He would love to hear your feedback! Message him on +254 750 127 803. He’s travelling in 🇧🇮Burundi (East Africa) right now.

👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #podcast #travel

#89 Afandi Quiz: What’s this map about?

▶️ Here’s a strange-looking world map. Some countries are inflated (=made bigger, esp. from pumping air inside) while others seem abnormally thin.

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Good but not good enough!

💡 The map was about population size. In case you didn’t know it, two countries alone account for 40% of the world’s population: China and India. Other heavily populated world regions include Southeast Asia and Europe. Meanwhile Russia, Canada and Australia are ridiculously small.

#9 Afandi Karaoke: True Romance (by Citizens!)

▶️ Today’s song is from the soundtrack of the Korean movie The Beauty Inside. The movie is about a lady who falls in love with someone who wakes up in a different body every morning.

👉@afandi_english👈 #karaoke