#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

#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

#113 Afandi Quiz: What is this thing?

Here are some strange-looking things. What could they be?

👉@afandi_english👈 #thing_quiz

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

Almost good job!

💡And here’s the answer: These things are meat shredder claws. Feel like a real animal and dig in!

#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

#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

❗️Spot Afandi in 🇦🇪Dubai at 9pm and win 5000 soum Paynet❗️

#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

Dear friends,

I have uploaded a collection of my movies onto a separate channel.

🎥 https://t.me/movies_with_subs

All the movies are small in size and have subtitles for your language learning benefit.

The genre is mostly comedy and drama - anything that can increase your understanding of the world and all the beautiful cultures in it!

Enjoy! 🤠

#47 Know Your World: The last Zoroastrians of 🇮🇷Iran

▶️ As several countries are celebrating Navruz we may ask ourselves where this celebration comes from. The origin of it is actually the ancient religion of Zoroastrianism, the first monotheistic religion (=a religion with only one god). There are only very few Zoroastrians left in the world today. Learn more about their small community in Iran.

👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary #special_day

Dear friends,

If your English is good enough to follow this channel it might also be good enough to work for the OSCE during the upcoming referendum in Uzbekistan. Check out their vacancies:

https://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/uzbekistan/538994

#142 Our favourite mistakes: Vocabulary

▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Men yaqinda chet elga chiqaman.

❌ Perhaps you think it is:
I will recently go to abroad.

✅ Well, it should be:
I will soon go abroad.

❓Why?

❗️ Recently refers only to the past, not the future. The Uzbek word yaqinda can be translated as either recently (in the past) or soon (in the future).

❗️ The word abroad is an adverb and doesn’t need a preposition, just like home.

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary

#55 Movie Time: The Downfall (2004)

▶️ Today’s film is a 🇩🇪German drama about Hitler’s last weeks in his bunker (=bomb shelter, safe building or tunnel to hide in a war). As the Soviet army advances (=gets closer) to Berlin it becomes clear that Germany is about to (=soon going to) lose the war. Watch how Hitler’s empire collapses in a matter of days (=within only a few days) and enjoy the famous scene (=part of a movie or theatre play) in which he loses his temper (=gets very angry).

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #european_films #drama