#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.

👉@afandi_english👈 #maps #map_quiz

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

#126 Our favourite mistakes: Vocabulary & Grammar

▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Imtihon paytida shovqin o’quvchilarga xalaqit berishi mumkin.

❌ Perhaps you think it is:
While exams noise can effect on students.

✅ Well, it should be:
During exams noise can affect students.

❓Why?

❗️ Students often confuse the synonyms while and during. Generally while is followed by a verb, e.g.: While students take exams … or While taking exams …. During is followed by a noun.

❗️ The two words effect and affect are synonyms, too, but not completely. While effect can be positive or negative, affect is always negative.

❗️ Effect is a noun, not a verb. The usage is have an effect on sb/sth.

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary #grammar

#12 Documentary: God Grew Tired Of Us (2006)

▶️🇸🇩Sudan was the biggest country of Africa until 2011 when 🇸🇸South Sudan became the world’s youngest nation which it still is today. Prior to (=before) South Sudanese independence there were decades of bloody conflict between the stronger Arab North and the Black Christian and Animist (=nature religions) tribes in the South. At some point the 🇺🇸United States agreed to resettle (=make sb live somewhere else) some “Lost Boys” who had lost their homes and families and escaped. Watch how they cope a mixture of appreciation and proper culture shock, the latter (=the last mentioned one) producing many funny moments actually.

👉@afandi_english👈 #documentary

#33 Tongue twister: Sleepy sheep

❗️Challenge yourself with this tongue twister:

▶️ These sheep shouldn’t sleep in a shack. Sheep should sleep in a shed.

Translation:
Bu qo‘ylar kulbada uxlamasligi kerak. Qo'ylar omborxonada uxlashlari kerak.

🔘 Fluency and accuracy: Tongue twisters force you to pay more attention to correct pronunciation, while at the same time trying to speak fast. Keep practicing them until your both fluent and accurate, it’ll benefit your speaking skill!

👉@afandi_english👈 #tongue_twisters

#90 Afandi Quiz: Cultural Misunderstanding

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

▶️ Burak is a student from 🇹🇷Turkey studying in Riga, 🇱🇻Latvia. Apart from a couple of strange traditions and food he is mostly cool with Latvian culture but the one day that his local friend Peteris took him to the sauna he felt very uneasy (=uncomfortable).

👉@afandi_english👈 #culture_quiz

Whoopsie!

💡 Saunas in Latvia are not sleazy (=cheap and dirty, esp. relating to sex) places where women entertain men. After all, the country isn’t too far from Russia and Finland, two real sauna-loving nations.

💡 There’s an interesting North-South divide when it comes to nudity (=being naked) in public saunas. Southerners are much more prudish (=easily shocked by sth relating to sex, treating sex as a taboo) than Northerners, not only in Europe but also in Central Asia and even in East Asia. Scandinavians, Germans and the Dutch go naked while the French, Italians and Spaniards don’t. Similarly, Kyrgyz and Kazakhs go naked while Uzbeks and Tajiks don’t. And yet similarly, Koreans, Japanese and Northern Chinese go naked while Southern Chinese and Vietnamese don’t. Does anyone know why?

#2 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:

I’m very sorry, I have no any money.

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #correct