#16 Correct me if you can
▶️ Please find the mistake in the following sentence:
My sister entered university last year and is a first-course student now.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #correct
▶️ Please find the mistake in the following sentence:
#48 YouTube Channel Recommendation: Behind the News
📊 English Level: Advanced
🔤 Subtitles: Mostly provided
💬 Topics: Current affairs, popular science
💡 Content: This channel by the 🇦🇺Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) offers some explainers to help you make sense of the news and give you background knowledge about modern-day issues and phenomena.
⛓ Link: https://www.youtube.com/@BehindtheNewsABC
👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube
📊 English Level: Advanced
🔤 Subtitles: Mostly provided
💬 Topics: Current affairs, popular science
💡 Content: This channel by the 🇦🇺Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) offers some explainers to help you make sense of the news and give you background knowledge about modern-day issues and phenomena.
⛓ Link: https://www.youtube.com/@BehindtheNewsABC
👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube
#128 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi hustling and bustling on a busy market in Kampala, 🇺🇬Uganda
❓ 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
That was not easy! Extra big congrats to Oybek!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Thanks to our designers Farhodbek and Boburshox! 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Thanks to our designers Farhodbek and Boburshox! 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
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#45 Know Your World: Why we all need subtitles now
▶️ It’s not just language learners, even native speakers are becoming increasingly fond of (=like, appreciate) subtitles. There are some interesting reasons for this. Watch to find out!
🔤 Subtitles provided. Obviously. 😅
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary
▶️ It’s not just language learners, even native speakers are becoming increasingly fond of (=like, appreciate) subtitles. There are some interesting reasons for this. Watch to find out!
🔤 Subtitles provided. Obviously. 😅
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary
🎉Special Day: Celebrate Women’s Day with Knallerfrauen!
▶️ The condition and lifestyle of the modern woman is captured quite well in this comedy from 🇩🇪Germany. Check it out!
🔤 Subtitles provided.
Check out more Knallerfrauen here, here and here.
👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #good_laugh
▶️ The condition and lifestyle of the modern woman is captured quite well in this comedy from 🇩🇪Germany. Check it out!
🔤 Subtitles provided.
Check out more Knallerfrauen here, here and here.
👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #good_laugh
#141 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• hello
• like
• look
• online
• only
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ They all contain /L/ sounds that Russian-educated Uzbeks often pronounce with a Russian very dark /L/. This is probably for their similarity to Russian words:
• hello sounds like алло
• like sounds like лайк
• look sounds like лук
• online sounds like онлайн
• only sounds close enough to online
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• like
• look
• online
• only
❗️ They all contain /L/ sounds that Russian-educated Uzbeks often pronounce with a Russian very dark /L/. This is probably for their similarity to Russian words:
• like sounds like лайк
• look sounds like лук
• online sounds like онлайн
• only sounds close enough to online
#3 Be Inspired: What the mafia can teach us
▶️ Knowledge and wisdom sometimes come from unexpected sources – like for example the mafia!
👉@afandi_english👈 #inspiration
▶️ Knowledge and wisdom sometimes come from unexpected sources – like for example the mafia!
👉@afandi_english👈 #inspiration
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#54 Movie Time: Don’t Look Up (2021)
▶️ Today’s film is a black comedy (=making fun of serious problems) about the end of the world caused by an approaching (=coming closer) comet (=large rock flying in space). Scientists are trying to warn humanity but media and government create one big mess and mankind goes to the dogs (=falls into a bad condition, becomes ruined).
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #american_films #comedy
▶️ Today’s film is a black comedy (=making fun of serious problems) about the end of the world caused by an approaching (=coming closer) comet (=large rock flying in space). Scientists are trying to warn humanity but media and government create one big mess and mankind goes to the dogs (=falls into a bad condition, becomes ruined).
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #american_films #comedy
#129 Spot Something: Hugo’s Fat Buddha in 🇹🇭Thailand
❓ Can you spot the Buddha in this picture?
❗️ You might be the lucky winner of 5,000 Paynet-soums!
❓ How? Spot the Buddha, mark it in the picture and send it to @jochenho. The time limit is 30 minutes.
🆕 If you win you have 30 minutes to claim your prize. If you don’t we’ll find another winner!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_something
❓ Can you spot the Buddha in this picture?
❗️ You might be the lucky winner of 5,000 Paynet-soums!
❓ How? Spot the Buddha, mark it in the picture and send it to @jochenho. The time limit is 30 minutes.
🆕 If you win you have 30 minutes to claim your prize. If you don’t we’ll find another winner!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_something
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#46 Know Your World: English from another world
▶️ Watch this short video about Emmanuella, a teenage 🇳🇬Nigerian comedy star who built a house for her parents at just 10 years old, and check how much Pidgin English you can understand.
Pidgin is a blend of English and local languages. It has become the #1 lingua franca (=language used for communication between speakers of different languages) of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous (=having a large population) nation. Pidgin is so big that the BBC broadcasts in it. Read more about this new language.
🔤 Subtitles provided (also in Pidgin).
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #world_englishes
▶️ Watch this short video about Emmanuella, a teenage 🇳🇬Nigerian comedy star who built a house for her parents at just 10 years old, and check how much Pidgin English you can understand.
Pidgin is a blend of English and local languages. It has become the #1 lingua franca (=language used for communication between speakers of different languages) of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous (=having a large population) nation. Pidgin is so big that the BBC broadcasts in it. Read more about this new language.
🔤 Subtitles provided (also in Pidgin).
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #world_englishes