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#50 Movie Time: The Social Dilemma (2020)

▶️ Today’s film is something between a documentary and a drama. In it, tech industry insiders report how social media has turned from a blessing into something evil, causing many social and personal problems. An absolute must-watch for concerned citizens (=people who are worried about society)!

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👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #documentary #future

#42 Know Your World: Rubbish can be clean and fun

▶️ Creativity has always been part of what it means to be 🇩🇰Danish. The country’s capital Copenhagen is full of unusual attractions, and a new one has just been added: “CopenHill” – an artificial ski slope (=place on a mountain where people ski) and park on the roof of a power plant (=factory producing electricity).

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary

#111 Afandi Quiz: Mysterious song

Today’s quiz is about a mysterious song from a mysterious country! Can you guess where it’s from? Pay attention to the language and style.

👉@afandi_english👈 #quiz #song_quiz

#16 Must Watch: Nobody Cares About What You Say

▶️ This song titled “Outtayerdaminde”, i.e. “out of your damn mind”, is a slap in the face of (=strong criticism) attention-seeking influencers trying to make noise online. It’s a compilation (=collection of pictures or songs) of the most embarrassing stuff there is out there. It makes you think “Wow, what a time to be alive!” 😅

👉@afandi_english👈 #must_watch

#139 Our favourite mistakes: Vocabulary & Grammar

▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
U 25 yoshli programist, har oyda ikki ming topadi.

❌ Perhaps you think it is:
He’s a 25 years old programmist and earns two thousands per month.

✅ Well, it should be:
He’s a 25-year-old programmer and earns two thousand per month.

❓Why?

❗️ To turn 25 years old into an adjective it gets hyphenated (=with hyphens, short strokes to connect words) and the plural -s in years is dropped.

❗️ Programist is Russian, this job is called programmer in English.

❗️ As numbers, thousand and also million cannot be in the plural. You can say thousands and millions (meaning many thousand/million) but not with a number before it.

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary #grammar

#37 Tongue twister: War

❗️Challenge yourself with this tongue twister:

▶️ A loyal warrior will rarely worry why we rule.

Translation:
Sadoqatli jangchi nimaga biz boshqarishimizdan kamdan-kam xovotir oladi.

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

👉@afandi_english👈 #tongue_twisters

#51 Movie Time: Idiocracy (2006)

▶️ Today’s film is a comedy set in the future. The basic idea is that in our present times intelligent, educated people tend to have less children than unintelligent people. This means that in the future there will be less and less intelligent people. Watch just how bad things could turn out (=become) for humanity.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #american_films #comedy #future

Let's spot Anna & Willem’s umbrella in Beirut, 🇱🇧Lebanon, at 9:30pm, shall we?

#5 Know Yourself: The Nocebo Effect

▶️ Psychology is quite amazing. Some experiments can make us realise just how strong the influence of the human mind is on our body. Watch this video titled “This video will hurt”.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #know_yourself #documentary #psychology

🎉Special Day: Get married without leaving your car in 🇺🇸Las Vegas!

▶️ Afandi English cares about your special feelings on this Valentine’s Day, and so here’s a truly shockingly romantic video of a 🇳🇱Dutch couple for you.

If you enjoy this video you probably also enjoy this Afandi karaoke song!

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👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #documentary

#1 Talking Point: Is history a lie?

🆕 Get to grips with (=understand sth difficult) controversial (=causing disagreement between people) issues and force yourself to think. In this series of posts Afandi English will give you the gentle push you need!

▶️ Worried about how he would go down in history (=the way people remember sth or sb), the late 🇫🇷French emperor (=king of an empire) Napoleon told these words: “History is a set of lies agreed upon.”

👉@afandi_english👈 #talking_point

#15 Correct me if you can

▶️ Please find the mistake in the following sentence:

Why you are always late?

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #correct