#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.

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#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!

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#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.

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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.

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🎉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!

🔤 Subtitles provided.

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#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.”

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#15 Correct me if you can

▶️ Please find the mistake in the following sentence:

Why you are always late?

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#52 Movie Time: Rush Hour 1 (1998)

▶️ Today’s film is an action comedy with 🇭🇰Hong Kong martial arts superstar Jackie Chan and 🇺🇸Afro-American comedian Chris Tucker as a police officer dream team (=people working together very well). It’s the first movie of the Rush Hour trilogy (=series of three movies or novels).

🔤 Subtitles provided.

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