🎉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
#113 Afandi Quiz: What is this thing?
Here are some strange-looking things. What could they be?
👉@afandi_english👈 #thing_quiz
Here are some strange-looking things. What could they be?
👉@afandi_english👈 #thing_quiz
These things are …
Final Results
26%
meat shredder claws
13%
ice cleats for winter shoes
37%
gardening tools for sowing
24%
Chinese massage tools
IF YOU ARE IN TASHKENT:
📢 Dear students,
👋 Tired of stuttering? Feeling depressed without the English-speaking environment you deserve? Getting ready for IELTS? Look no further and join our brand new SPEAKING CLUB at Nizomiy (Tashkent State Pedagogical University).
👉 Improve your Speaking with Nizomiy's new foreign teacher Mr Hoffmann and your fellow students. Anyone may join, guests to our university are welcome! We'll be focusing on real communication:
✅ group discussions
✅ individual speeches
✅ guest presentations
✅ debates
✅ projects
✅ games
⚠️ Wednesdays, 3-5pm, Room 601 of Nizomiy Foreign Languages Faculty (Metro Mirzo Ulug'bek)
⚠️ Today with our special guest Shiva, a YouTuber from 🇮🇳India (https://www.youtube.com/@Procrastinator)
❓Questions? ❗️Contact @jochenho or @happiness7703
📢 Dear students,
👋 Tired of stuttering? Feeling depressed without the English-speaking environment you deserve? Getting ready for IELTS? Look no further and join our brand new SPEAKING CLUB at Nizomiy (Tashkent State Pedagogical University).
👉 Improve your Speaking with Nizomiy's new foreign teacher Mr Hoffmann and your fellow students. Anyone may join, guests to our university are welcome! We'll be focusing on real communication:
✅ group discussions
✅ individual speeches
✅ guest presentations
✅ debates
✅ projects
✅ games
⚠️ Wednesdays, 3-5pm, Room 601 of Nizomiy Foreign Languages Faculty (Metro Mirzo Ulug'bek)
⚠️ Today with our special guest Shiva, a YouTuber from 🇮🇳India (https://www.youtube.com/@Procrastinator)
❓Questions? ❗️Contact @jochenho or @happiness7703
Afandi English
These things are …
Almost good job!
💡And here’s the answer: These things are meat shredder claws. Feel like a real animal and dig in!
💡And here’s the answer: These things are meat shredder claws. Feel like a real animal and dig in!
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#12 Future: A linear city
▶️ The world’s most futuristic city is under construction in 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia. It’s being built in a straight line that stretches (=has a length of) over 170 kilometres. The smart city will be called “The Line” and is set to (=planned to) be completed by 2030.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #future #documentary
▶️ The world’s most futuristic city is under construction in 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia. It’s being built in a straight line that stretches (=has a length of) over 170 kilometres. The smart city will be called “The Line” and is set to (=planned to) be completed by 2030.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #future #documentary
Would you like to live in this futuristic city?
Anonymous Poll
36%
Yes, that would be fantastic.
28%
Maybe, but only with my loved ones.
30%
Nah, I don’t see how I could live a good life there.
6%
Uhm, what’s a linear city?
#17 Correct me if you can
▶️ Please find the mistake in the following sentence:
Most of students don’t listen to the teacher.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #correct
▶️ Please find the mistake in the following sentence:
#130 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi at 🇦🇪Dubai’s Global Village
❓ 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