What did the Turkish student find shocking?
Final Results
42%
All the staff is female while visitors are all male.
6%
The sauna is too hot, around 90 degrees.
30%
Everybody is naked at the sauna.
22%
Sauna is a family affair for Latvians.
Afandi English
What did the Turkish student find shocking?
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?
💡 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
🆕 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:
#12 World Food: Šaltibarščiai from 🇱🇹Lituania
▶️ Here’s a cold soup that helps you stay cool in the summer – super easy to make and healthy, too! The shocking pink colour comes from beetroot (dark red) and sour cream (white). It is …
... made with:
Beetroot (=red root vegetable), cucumbers, sour cream, boiled eggs, green onions, dill (=a herb commonly used in Northern and Eastern European as well as Iranian cuisines), vegetable or chicken broth (=clear soup), lemon juice.
... eaten with:
Boiled potatoes.
Healthy or not? 🟢
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟢
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
▶️ Here’s a cold soup that helps you stay cool in the summer – super easy to make and healthy, too! The shocking pink colour comes from beetroot (dark red) and sour cream (white). It is …
... made with:
Beetroot (=red root vegetable), cucumbers, sour cream, boiled eggs, green onions, dill (=a herb commonly used in Northern and Eastern European as well as Iranian cuisines), vegetable or chicken broth (=clear soup), lemon juice.
... eaten with:
Boiled potatoes.
Healthy or not? 🟢
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟢
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
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#38 Movie Time: The Wave (2008)
▶️ Today’s movie is a 🇩🇪German drama about a high school teacher who starts an experiment in his history class in order to teach students about the political system of autocracy (=opposite of democracy). See how things get more and more serious and end in a disaster. The film is based on the true story of an American teacher who ran a similar social experiment with his students.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #european_films #drama
▶️ Today’s movie is a 🇩🇪German drama about a high school teacher who starts an experiment in his history class in order to teach students about the political system of autocracy (=opposite of democracy). See how things get more and more serious and end in a disaster. The film is based on the true story of an American teacher who ran a similar social experiment with his students.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #european_films #drama
#102 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi getting started in India
❓ 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!
🆕 If you win you have 30 minutes to claim your prize. If you don’t we’ll find another winner!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
❓ 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!
🆕 If you win you have 30 minutes to claim your prize. If you don’t we’ll find another winner!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
Tabriklations to Doniyorbek S.!!! 🥳🥳🥳
And thanks to our designers for today - Abdulloh, Ihtiyor and Nasiba! 🙏🙏🙏
And thanks to our designers for today - Abdulloh, Ihtiyor and Nasiba! 🙏🙏🙏
#91 Afandi Quiz: Which country?
▶️ Here is a mysterious picture from a mysterious country.
👉@afandi_english👈 #picture_quiz
▶️ Here is a mysterious picture from a mysterious country.
👉@afandi_english👈 #picture_quiz
The picture was taken in ...
Anonymous Quiz
13%
🇬🇾Guyana
37%
🇸🇬Singapore
42%
🇮🇳India
8%
🇬🇧United Kingdom
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#12 Must Watch: Music saves lives
▶️ Here’s another inspiring TV commercial from Thailand, this time with a troubled schoolboy who raises money (=collect donations) for his mother’s cancer treatment.
👉@afandi_english👈 #must_watch
▶️ Here’s another inspiring TV commercial from Thailand, this time with a troubled schoolboy who raises money (=collect donations) for his mother’s cancer treatment.
👉@afandi_english👈 #must_watch
#127 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• church
• Turkey
• word
• work
• world
• worm
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ They all contain the [ɜ:] vowel, as in “girl”. Be especially careful with “work”, it should sound different from “walk”.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• church
• Turkey
• word
• work
• world
• worm
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ They all contain the [ɜ:] vowel, as in “girl”. Be especially careful with “work”, it should sound different from “walk”.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation
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#7 Future: Delivery Bots
▶️ Here’s what the future of delivery could look like – food or goods ordered online arrives at our doorstep by itself. Watch some of the prototypes (=new design of a machine) being tested now.
👉@afandi_english👈 #future
▶️ Here’s what the future of delivery could look like – food or goods ordered online arrives at our doorstep by itself. Watch some of the prototypes (=new design of a machine) being tested now.
👉@afandi_english👈 #future
Do delivery bots make our life better?
Anonymous Poll
46%
Yes definitely.
29%
Maybe a little.
20%
Time will tell.
6%
No, this is nonsense.
#103 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi gazing at the Taj Mahal from afar
❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?
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❓ 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!
🆕 If you win you have 30 minutes to claim your prize. If you don’t we’ll find another winner!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
❓ 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!
🆕 If you win you have 30 minutes to claim your prize. If you don’t we’ll find another winner!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
Congrats to Diyorbek yet again! 🥳🥳🥳
And hats off to (=greeting with respect) our designers: Oybek, Ziyoviddin and Zikrillo! 👍👏✌️
And hats off to (=greeting with respect) our designers: Oybek, Ziyoviddin and Zikrillo! 👍👏✌️