#5 Travel Notes: Christian Armenia
▶️ Think what you want about religion but I find it fascinating to observe people at their most spiritual moments. 🇦🇲Armenia is situated in the mountains. Mountain dwellers (=people who live in the mountains) around the world have always been more likely to preserve (=keep) ancient traditions and not follow current changes around them. Visiting an Armenian church or monastery (=religious building where monks or nuns live) therefore feels a little bit like travelling through time as well. It is quite unlike anything you find in the hustle and bustle (=noise and activity of a crowded place) of Europe or America.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #armenia
▶️ Think what you want about religion but I find it fascinating to observe people at their most spiritual moments. 🇦🇲Armenia is situated in the mountains. Mountain dwellers (=people who live in the mountains) around the world have always been more likely to preserve (=keep) ancient traditions and not follow current changes around them. Visiting an Armenian church or monastery (=religious building where monks or nuns live) therefore feels a little bit like travelling through time as well. It is quite unlike anything you find in the hustle and bustle (=noise and activity of a crowded place) of Europe or America.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #armenia
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#13 Must Watch: Hong Kong by Night
▶️ Switch off all the lights around you and embark (=start a journey, esp. on a ship or plane) on a nocturnal (=in the night) drone flight through sleepless Hong Kong. Impressive and humbling (=making you feel small) at once.
👉@afandi_english👈 #must_watch
▶️ Switch off all the lights around you and embark (=start a journey, esp. on a ship or plane) on a nocturnal (=in the night) drone flight through sleepless Hong Kong. Impressive and humbling (=making you feel small) at once.
👉@afandi_english👈 #must_watch
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#43 Movie Time: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
▶️ Today’s film is a 🇬🇧British drama based on George Orwell’s dystopian (=having a bad vision of the future) novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell wrote it in 1948, imagining what the world might be like in 1984 if things go very wrong. In this bad future people are kept in poverty and ignorance. They are brainwashed and under government surveillance (=watching and checking people) at all times. Even their language is changed to prevent them from thinking. Nineteen Eighty-Four serves as a warning for people to defend their freedom. In our age of technology, crises and mass hysteria (=many people getting crazy about sth) Orwell’s novel is ever more relevant.
Beware of (=warning sb to be careful) some strong scenes.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #british_films #drama #future
▶️ Today’s film is a 🇬🇧British drama based on George Orwell’s dystopian (=having a bad vision of the future) novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell wrote it in 1948, imagining what the world might be like in 1984 if things go very wrong. In this bad future people are kept in poverty and ignorance. They are brainwashed and under government surveillance (=watching and checking people) at all times. Even their language is changed to prevent them from thinking. Nineteen Eighty-Four serves as a warning for people to defend their freedom. In our age of technology, crises and mass hysteria (=many people getting crazy about sth) Orwell’s novel is ever more relevant.
Beware of (=warning sb to be careful) some strong scenes.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #british_films #drama #future
#107 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi in Kadiköy, 🇹🇷Istanbul
❓ 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
Congrats to Muhammadali!!! 🥳💯🎊
And thanks for the lovely designs, Abdulahatty, Avazxon and Monaa! 💥🔥✨
And thanks for the lovely designs, Abdulahatty, Avazxon and Monaa! 💥🔥✨
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#3 Know Yourself: Are you smarter than others?
▶️ Scientists have tried to correlate (=connect two facts) intelligence with certain characteristics and behaviours. See what they’ve come up with (=have an idea) and check how many boxes you tick!
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_yourself #infographic #psychology
▶️ Scientists have tried to correlate (=connect two facts) intelligence with certain characteristics and behaviours. See what they’ve come up with (=have an idea) and check how many boxes you tick!
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_yourself #infographic #psychology
#98 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
Afandi English
This picture was taken in ...
Good job!
💡 This picture was indeed taken in 🇬🇷Greece. The look of the surroundings is not very specific but there is some writing in the Greek script (=writing system, alphabet). 🇲🇽Mexico is a Spanish-speaking country and uses Latin, 🇧🇬Bulgaria has Cyrillic (=Russian alphabet) and 🇮🇱Israel has their own Hebrew (=the language of Israel) script which looks more boxy (=shaped like a box) and doesn’t resemble (=be similar to) the Latin script at all.
💡 This picture was indeed taken in 🇬🇷Greece. The look of the surroundings is not very specific but there is some writing in the Greek script (=writing system, alphabet). 🇲🇽Mexico is a Spanish-speaking country and uses Latin, 🇧🇬Bulgaria has Cyrillic (=Russian alphabet) and 🇮🇱Israel has their own Hebrew (=the language of Israel) script which looks more boxy (=shaped like a box) and doesn’t resemble (=be similar to) the Latin script at all.
#6 Correct me if you can
▶️ Please find the mistake in the following sentence:
She doesn’t like dog, she likes cat.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #correct
▶️ Please find the mistake in the following sentence:
#82 Travelogue Georgia: Ukraine is in Georgia
▶️ Everyone talks about Ukraine, so let’s do that as well! Many people support Ukraine but what you can see in 🇬🇪Georgia is really on another level. How come?
A troubled history
Despite being the home country of Stalin, Georgians see themselves as victims of Russian aggression. That’s mainly because Russia is controlling the two breakaway republics inside the country – Abkhasia and Southern Ossetia – and Georgians see how Russia is trying to do the same in Ukraine.
Wannabe Western
Georgia is somehow in Asia but it feels like Europe and Georgians are eager to join the EU. They are also heavily pro-American. Being against Russia is one way of expressing this. And as in Europe it’s also fashionable to show support for Ukraine even when you don’t care about it deeply.
Funny situation: A random young guy in Tbilisi comes up to us to ask where we are from. So we ask him back and the answer is …? – “I’m from f***ing Russia.” 😳
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #georgia
▶️ Everyone talks about Ukraine, so let’s do that as well! Many people support Ukraine but what you can see in 🇬🇪Georgia is really on another level. How come?
A troubled history
Despite being the home country of Stalin, Georgians see themselves as victims of Russian aggression. That’s mainly because Russia is controlling the two breakaway republics inside the country – Abkhasia and Southern Ossetia – and Georgians see how Russia is trying to do the same in Ukraine.
Wannabe Western
Georgia is somehow in Asia but it feels like Europe and Georgians are eager to join the EU. They are also heavily pro-American. Being against Russia is one way of expressing this. And as in Europe it’s also fashionable to show support for Ukraine even when you don’t care about it deeply.
Funny situation: A random young guy in Tbilisi comes up to us to ask where we are from. So we ask him back and the answer is …? – “I’m from f***ing Russia.” 😳
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #georgia