🎉 Special Day: A window to the world

▶️ Teachers open doors and books are windows to the world. Metaphors like these remind us of the beauty and value we can find in education. Watch this heartwarming video from 🇮🇳India and feel special today. Happy Teachers’ Day! ☺️

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #inspiration

Afandi Quiz #134: Mysterious song

On the occasion of today’s Renunification Day, the 🇩🇪German national holiday, here are four old songs from the time of German separation (1949-1990). Can you find the one that is from East Germany?

👉@afandi_english👈 #quiz #song_quiz #special_day

🎉 Special Day: The History of Halloween

▶️ Whether you have any special feelings today or not, it’s worth looking into the history of Halloween as a festival that has conquered the world.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #know_your_world #documentary

🎉 Special Day: A Holiday to Remember

▶️ Watch this heartwarming christmassy Chevrolet commercial (=short advertising film) about an awfully forgetful granny.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

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🎉 Special Day: The #1 classical New Year song

▶️ Auld Lang Syne is a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish song that is rivaled (=challenged) only by ABBA’s Happy New Year. Check out the story behind it.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

🎊 And Happy New Year, everyone! Look forward to Afandi English nourishing (=feeding) your hungry mind in 2024.

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #documentary #know_your_world

🏮 Special Day: Welcome the Year of the Dragon!

▶️ Tune in to the world’s biggest televised event – the Chinese Spring Festival Gala. It’s a potpourri (=mix) of bombastic (=big, shocking) musical performances, spectacular kongfu (=Chinese martial art) shows, not that funny standup comedy and lots of propaganda (=advertising for the government). And it’s going on RIGHT NOW! 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTEG19BHt1U

🐉 By the way, the year of the dragon is considered the luckiest one!

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #know_your_world

🎉 Special Day: Happy April Fools!

▶️ Penguins can fly, but only on one day of the year! Watch this enchanting (=pleasant, lovely) video about a colony (here: a group of animals living together) of flying penguins with which the BBC fooled their TV audience in 2008.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

If you haven’t fooled anyone today, why not check out some ideas from last year’s Afandi Prankster Guide?

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day

🎉 Special Day: 10 Eid Festival Songs

▶️ Happy Eid! Celebrate the moment with Afandi English as a global citizen with festive tunes from around the world.

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👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day

🎉 Special Day: Happy Mother's Day!

▶️ What do you do for your mother? Get inspired today by a chubby (=a little bit fat) boy in 🇹🇭Thailand.

❗️ A lot of countries celebrate their Mother's Day today. Even if you don't, your mum deserves (=is worth) it!

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #must_watch

🎉 Special Day: Happy Children’s Day!

▶️ Here’s a beautiful short film from 🇮🇳India about boy who works as a chaiwala (=person selling spiced milk tea in India or Pakistan).

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #short_film

🎉 Special Day: Happy Eid! La la la!

▶️ Here’s 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia’s teenage Instagram sensation (here: popular person) Rama Rubat with a song about Eid.

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #must_watch

🎉 Special Day: Happy Teachers Day!

▶️ I don’t know how they do it, but inspiring videos from 🇹🇭Thailand always move people to tears (=touch people emotionally). For today’s occasion (=reason to celebrate) watch this story of a medical professor and his students.

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #must_watch

🎉 Special Day: Happy Diwali!

▶️ Watch this moving TV commercial about a poor old artist street vendor in 🇮🇳India.

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #must_watch