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Clever people don't study English, they use it! Welcome to AFANDI ENGLISH.

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#140 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi with Comrade Lenin in Osh, 🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan

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Know Your World #55: Homeless by choice

▶️ Check out how this 🇲🇽Mexican guy makes a living (=earn money to live) in 🇺🇸New York on a super slim (=very small) budget (=money you can use).

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👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary
Afandi Quiz #124: What is this thing?

Here's something that looks like some lavash bread or tortilla or chapati but isn't!

👉@afandi_english👈 #thing_quiz
Almost well done, I think we've found the right answer after all!

These are realistic-looking tortilla blankets. They don't just look funny, they're also super soft and very forgiving when it comes to stains (=dirty areas on clothes).
Our favourite mistakes #147: Pronunciation

▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
confidence
• distance
• development
• government
• helpless
• speechless

What do these words have in common?

❗️ Words ending in -ence/-ance, -ment and -less are pronounced with schwa (ə), just like the last letter in борми.
• kɒnfɪdəns
• dɪstəns
• dɪveləpmənt
• gʌvənmənt
• helpləs
• spi:ʧləs

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation
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Movie Time #62: The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)

▶️ Today’s film is a comedy-drama about an 🇮🇳Indian family of chefs that ends up (=get an unplanned result) somewhere in the 🇫🇷French countryside. Watch how good food transcends (=goes beyond, overcomes) cultural differences and leads to a happy multicultural ending.

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👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #comedy #drama #european_films #international_films
Travelogue 🇩🇪Germany #11: The cure  

▶️ Perhaps you know the Russian word "курорт" which is the German word for "spa town". There are many of them in Germany, and they're usually named "Bad ...". That doesn't mean "bad" in English but "bath".

Some have natural salt deposits (=presence of minerals or elements) in the ground, and inhaling (=breathing in deeply) salty steam (=humid air) can cure (=heal) many ills.

To make the salty water breathable people built these tall structures stuffed (=filled) with tree twigs (=small branches) from which salt water runs down.

Still today it is common to 'go on a cure' for a month or just spend a wellness (=sth good for your body, like massage, sauna, etc) weekend at a spa town. Spa town architecture is also very beautiful.

Check out Hoffmann's Travelogue for more:
https://t.me/+Tq4Tqwl6B6wSJvZJ
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Know Your World #56: Pacific islanders’ recipe for happiness

▶️ Located in the South Pacific, 🇻🇺Vanuatu is an island nation of roughly 300,000 people. Find out how the locals achieve levels of happiness that are above those of rich and “successful” countries.

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👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary
Afandi Quiz #125: What’s this map about?

▶️ Here’s a map of the world showing percentage points for various countries. The highest is 🇿🇼Zimbabwe with a whopping (=crazy high) 269%, the lowest is 🇨🇳China with only 2.1%

👉@afandi_english👈 #maps #map_quiz