#5 Learn how to learn: Learning language with movies
❓Learning English by watching movies is very enjoyable indeed – but is it actually possible?
❗️Well yes, but keep these 5 things in mind:
1️⃣ Follow your heart but don’t forget to take your brain with you. That means follow your interest but don’t forget your language learning purpose.
2️⃣ Be choosy about movies. Action movies can be full of slang and incomplete sentences, and that’s not going to help you with exams. Choose documentaries for both academic vocab and knowledge!
3️⃣ Choose movies with subtitles. You can always pause and check the meaning, and it also helps your reading skills.
4️⃣ Improve your pronunciation and intonation by pausing the movie, then imitate. Do that with voices and accents that you feel comfortable with.
5️⃣ Don’t watch lots of movies but watch the best ones several times. Language learning needs repetition. This also lets you pay more attention to the language.
👉@afandi_english👈 #learn2learn
❓Learning English by watching movies is very enjoyable indeed – but is it actually possible?
❗️Well yes, but keep these 5 things in mind:
1️⃣ Follow your heart but don’t forget to take your brain with you. That means follow your interest but don’t forget your language learning purpose.
2️⃣ Be choosy about movies. Action movies can be full of slang and incomplete sentences, and that’s not going to help you with exams. Choose documentaries for both academic vocab and knowledge!
3️⃣ Choose movies with subtitles. You can always pause and check the meaning, and it also helps your reading skills.
4️⃣ Improve your pronunciation and intonation by pausing the movie, then imitate. Do that with voices and accents that you feel comfortable with.
5️⃣ Don’t watch lots of movies but watch the best ones several times. Language learning needs repetition. This also lets you pay more attention to the language.
👉@afandi_english👈 #learn2learn
#15 Our favourite mistakes: Writing
▶️ Please take a look at this sentence:
I like Afandi. Because he is very clever.
❓What’s wrong here?
❗️ It should be one sentence, not two. It’s better not to start a sentence with “Because” because “Because” is usually the beginning of a sub-clause and cannot be a sentence by itself. So it should be: I like Afandi because he is very clever.
❗️ You can start a sentence with “Because of …”: Because of the bad weather, Afandi left his donkey at home and went to the market by taxi.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing #grammar
▶️ Please take a look at this sentence:
❗️ It should be one sentence, not two. It’s better not to start a sentence with “Because” because “Because” is usually the beginning of a sub-clause and cannot be a sentence by itself. So it should be: I like Afandi because he is very clever.
❗️ You can start a sentence with “Because of …”: Because of the bad weather, Afandi left his donkey at home and went to the market by taxi.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing #grammar
#3 It’s a strange world: Deep Fakes
❗️Oh my God! I can’t believe the president really said that!!! Well, in the future it may become more difficult to know what’s real and what’s fake. Today, with a bit of technology you can make anyone say anything!
⛓en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake
⛓Here’s a YouTube video about Deep Fakes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLoI9hAX9dw
👉@afandi_english👈 #strange_world #technology
❗️Oh my God! I can’t believe the president really said that!!! Well, in the future it may become more difficult to know what’s real and what’s fake. Today, with a bit of technology you can make anyone say anything!
⛓en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake
⛓Here’s a YouTube video about Deep Fakes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLoI9hAX9dw
👉@afandi_english👈 #strange_world #technology
#6 World Englishes: Dubai English
❗️ Dubai English isn’t really one particular kind of English. It is rather an easy and basic (some would even say “broken”) kind of English with maximum tolerance for difference. As more than 80% of Dubai residents are foreigners, some of the accents heard most in Dubai include Indian English, Arab English and Philippine English.
🔘 Pronunciation: There’s a lot of trilled “r” pronunciation and in Dubai that’s perfectly acceptable.
🔘 Grammar & Vocabulary: Usually very easy and understandable; avoiding idioms that may not be understood by people from other countries.
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_englishes
❗️ Dubai English isn’t really one particular kind of English. It is rather an easy and basic (some would even say “broken”) kind of English with maximum tolerance for difference. As more than 80% of Dubai residents are foreigners, some of the accents heard most in Dubai include Indian English, Arab English and Philippine English.
🔘 Pronunciation: There’s a lot of trilled “r” pronunciation and in Dubai that’s perfectly acceptable.
🔘 Grammar & Vocabulary: Usually very easy and understandable; avoiding idioms that may not be understood by people from other countries.
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_englishes
#16 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• thank
• thick
• thin
• thing
• think
• breathe
• faith
• fourth
• worth
• youth
❓You’ve probably noticed, it’s all about the “th” here. But what’s the problem?
❗️If mispronounced, these words are easy to misunderstand:
• thank ≠ sank (past of “sink”)
• thick (yo’g’on, qalin) ≠ sick
• thin (yupqa, nozik) ≠ sin (gunoh)
• thing ≠ sing
• think ≠ sink (verb: cho’kmoq, noun: rakovina)
• breathe (nafas olmoq) ≠ breeze (shabada)
• faith (imon) ≠ face
• worth (arziydigan) ≠ worse (yomonroq)
• youth (yoshlik) ≠ use
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• thank
• thick
• thin
• thing
• think
• breathe
• faith
• fourth
• worth
• youth
❓You’ve probably noticed, it’s all about the “th” here. But what’s the problem?
❗️If mispronounced, these words are easy to misunderstand:
• thank ≠ sank (past of “sink”)
• thick (yo’g’on, qalin) ≠ sick
• thin (yupqa, nozik) ≠ sin (gunoh)
• thing ≠ sing
• think ≠ sink (verb: cho’kmoq, noun: rakovina)
• breathe (nafas olmoq) ≠ breeze (shabada)
• faith (imon) ≠ face
• worth (arziydigan) ≠ worse (yomonroq)
• youth (yoshlik) ≠ use
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation
#6 Tongue twister: Swan swam over the sea
❗️Practice your pronunciation with this tongue twister today. Keep in mind, for a tongue twister to be useful you have to practice it as many times as possible!
▶️ Swan swam over the sea. Swim, swan, swim! Swan swam back again. Well swum, swan!
❗️Pay attention to:
🔘 Vowels – The vowel in swan is [ɒ] as in hot, while swam has [æ] as in apple and swum has [ʌ] as in bus.
🔘 Intonation – Stress the following words:
Swan swam over the sea. Swim, swan, swim! Swan swam back again. Well swum, swan!
----------
Vocab:
📍swan = oqqush
📍swim – swam – swum (irregular verb) = suzmoq
👉@afandi_english👈 #tongue_twisters
❗️Practice your pronunciation with this tongue twister today. Keep in mind, for a tongue twister to be useful you have to practice it as many times as possible!
▶️ Swan swam over the sea. Swim, swan, swim! Swan swam back again. Well swum, swan!
❗️Pay attention to:
🔘 Vowels – The vowel in swan is [ɒ] as in hot, while swam has [æ] as in apple and swum has [ʌ] as in bus.
🔘 Intonation – Stress the following words:
Swan swam over the sea. Swim, swan, swim! Swan swam back again. Well swum, swan!
----------
Vocab:
📍swan = oqqush
📍swim – swam – swum (irregular verb) = suzmoq
👉@afandi_english👈 #tongue_twisters
#4 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi in Namangan
❓ Can you spot Afandi and his donkey in this picture?
❗️If you can, follow the instructions in #1 (see pinned message) and win 5,000 Paynet-soums!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
❓ Can you spot Afandi and his donkey in this picture?
❗️If you can, follow the instructions in #1 (see pinned message) and win 5,000 Paynet-soums!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
#6 University Vocab: Online Education
❗️ Online education – e-learning or distance education – is becoming more and more popular.
🔎 Distance learning is not a new thing, and at some universities you can get Bachelor or Master degrees just by studying online. However, such degrees are not very valuable.
🔎 While higher education is still mostly on-campus learning, almost every university nowadays has their own e-learning platform for sharing materials, submitting coursework, etc.
🔎 There is something between on-campus education and distance education which is called blended learning. Students of blended courses do one part of their studies on campus and another part online.
👉@afandi_english👈 #uni_vocab
❗️ Online education – e-learning or distance education – is becoming more and more popular.
🔎 Distance learning is not a new thing, and at some universities you can get Bachelor or Master degrees just by studying online. However, such degrees are not very valuable.
🔎 While higher education is still mostly on-campus learning, almost every university nowadays has their own e-learning platform for sharing materials, submitting coursework, etc.
🔎 There is something between on-campus education and distance education which is called blended learning. Students of blended courses do one part of their studies on campus and another part online.
👉@afandi_english👈 #uni_vocab
#17 Our favourite mistakes: Vocab
▶️ Please translate the following sentences:
1️⃣ Afandi imtihonda yuqori ball oldi, shunday qilib sertifikatni ham oldi.
2️⃣ Afandi Kanada vizasini oldi.
3️⃣ Endi yaxshi oylik oladi.
❓Perhaps you think it is:
1️⃣ Afandi took a high mark in the exam, and so he took the certificate.
2️⃣ Afandi took a Canadian visa.
3️⃣ Now he takes a good salary.
❗️Sorry, but it should be:
1️⃣Afandi got a high mark in the exam, and so he got the certificate.
2️⃣ Afandi got a Canadian visa.
3️⃣ Now he gets a good salary.
❓Why?
❗️ The word “take” here is a direct translation from Uzbek into English. When it comes to salary, certificates, visas as well as grades / scores / marks / results / points, the verb we use in English is GET, not TAKE.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentences:
1️⃣ Afandi imtihonda yuqori ball oldi, shunday qilib sertifikatni ham oldi.
2️⃣ Afandi Kanada vizasini oldi.
3️⃣ Endi yaxshi oylik oladi.
❓Perhaps you think it is:
1️⃣ Afandi took a high mark in the exam, and so he took the certificate.
2️⃣ Afandi took a Canadian visa.
3️⃣ Now he takes a good salary.
❗️Sorry, but it should be:
1️⃣
❗️ The word “take” here is a direct translation from Uzbek into English. When it comes to salary, certificates, visas as well as grades / scores / marks / results / points, the verb we use in English is GET, not TAKE.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary
#5 YouTube Channel Recommendation: The School of Life
⛓ Link: www.youtube.com/user/schooloflifechannel
📊 English Level: Upper
🔤 Subtitles: Available
💬 Topics: Society, psychology, history, philosophy, culture, politics
💡 Content: The School of Life is a great channel that makes you think more deeply about yourself and the world around you. Not only do they offer amazing explanations but there are also plenty of videos that give you advice on how to live your life. If you are interested in big topics and want to know about the world without reading lots of books then this is your chance!
👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube
⛓ Link: www.youtube.com/user/schooloflifechannel
📊 English Level: Upper
🔤 Subtitles: Available
💬 Topics: Society, psychology, history, philosophy, culture, politics
💡 Content: The School of Life is a great channel that makes you think more deeply about yourself and the world around you. Not only do they offer amazing explanations but there are also plenty of videos that give you advice on how to live your life. If you are interested in big topics and want to know about the world without reading lots of books then this is your chance!
👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube
#6 Learn how to learn: Record yourself when reading
❓Are there some pronunciation problems that you know you have but just cannot get rid of?
❗️ The following technique works well for typical problems like the [th] sounds as in “ssank you” and “weazzer”, the trilling [r] as in “childrrrren”, the hard [x] as in “xello”, and the soft [v] as in “ewery”. Here’s how:
1️⃣ Think which problems you have. Maybe your teachers have told you before or you feel which sounds are difficult.
2️⃣ Take any text you want and mark the sounds that you have problems with.
3️⃣ Start the audio recorder on your phone and read the text aloud. Pay attention to the marked sounds.
4️⃣ Check your pronunciation by listening to the recording.
5️⃣ Count your mistakes and repeat if necessary until you feel you have made progress.
❗️ Pronunciation problems are hearing problems and learning to hear the correct sounds is the solution. You're perfectly able to pronounce the sounds of English.
👉@afandi_english👈 #learn2learn
❓Are there some pronunciation problems that you know you have but just cannot get rid of?
❗️ The following technique works well for typical problems like the [th] sounds as in “ssank you” and “weazzer”, the trilling [r] as in “childrrrren”, the hard [x] as in “xello”, and the soft [v] as in “ewery”. Here’s how:
1️⃣ Think which problems you have. Maybe your teachers have told you before or you feel which sounds are difficult.
2️⃣ Take any text you want and mark the sounds that you have problems with.
3️⃣ Start the audio recorder on your phone and read the text aloud. Pay attention to the marked sounds.
4️⃣ Check your pronunciation by listening to the recording.
5️⃣ Count your mistakes and repeat if necessary until you feel you have made progress.
❗️ Pronunciation problems are hearing problems and learning to hear the correct sounds is the solution. You're perfectly able to pronounce the sounds of English.
👉@afandi_english👈 #learn2learn
#18 Our favourite mistakes: Grammar, Vocab & Pronunciation
▶️ Please translate the following sentences:
1️⃣ Afandining xotini tug’di.
2️⃣ Bola sog’lom tug’ildi.
3️⃣ Afandi bolasining tug’ilganidan xursand bo’ldi.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
1️⃣ Afandi’s wife born. / Afandi’s wife gave a birth.
2️⃣ The baby born healthy.
3️⃣ Afandi is happy about born of the baby.
✅ Well, it should be:
1️⃣ Afandi’s wife gave birth.
2️⃣ The baby was born healthy.
3️⃣ Afandi is happy about the birth of the baby.
❓Why?
❗️ Some students use the word “born” for everything tug’-… in Uzbek. Basically tug’ilmoq is the passive be born while tug’moq is the active give birth to …. The noun tug’ilish is birth in English.
❗️ There is no article “a” in “give birth”.
❗️ The vowel in “born” is [ɔ:] as in “sport”, don’t pronounce it like “burn”!
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #grammar #vocabulary #pronunciation
▶️ Please translate the following sentences:
1️⃣ Afandining xotini tug’di.
2️⃣ Bola sog’lom tug’ildi.
3️⃣ Afandi bolasining tug’ilganidan xursand bo’ldi.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
1️⃣ Afandi’s wife born. / Afandi’s wife gave a birth.
2️⃣ The baby born healthy.
3️⃣ Afandi is happy about born of the baby.
✅ Well, it should be:
1️⃣ Afandi’s wife gave birth.
2️⃣ The baby was born healthy.
3️⃣ Afandi is happy about the birth of the baby.
❓Why?
❗️ Some students use the word “born” for everything tug’-… in Uzbek. Basically tug’ilmoq is the passive be born while tug’moq is the active give birth to …. The noun tug’ilish is birth in English.
❗️ There is no article “a” in “give birth”.
❗️ The vowel in “born” is [ɔ:] as in “sport”, don’t pronounce it like “burn”!
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #grammar #vocabulary #pronunciation
#4 It’s a strange world: No visa, no problem!
❗️Did you know there’s a place in this world where totally everyone is welcome and people from every country on Earth have the right to live and work? That place actually exists but in a cold and hostile environment: the islands of Svalbard that belong to Norway, located between Norway and the North Pole.
⛓https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Svalbard
▶️Here’s a YouTube video about Svalbard: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPbZZ1qIozk
👉@afandi_english👈 #strange_world #geography
❗️Did you know there’s a place in this world where totally everyone is welcome and people from every country on Earth have the right to live and work? That place actually exists but in a cold and hostile environment: the islands of Svalbard that belong to Norway, located between Norway and the North Pole.
⛓https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Svalbard
▶️Here’s a YouTube video about Svalbard: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPbZZ1qIozk
👉@afandi_english👈 #strange_world #geography
#5 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi in the cucumbers
❓ Can you spot Afandi and his donkey in this picture?
❗️If you can, follow the instructions in #1 (see pinned message) and win 5,000 Paynet-soums!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
❓ Can you spot Afandi and his donkey in this picture?
❗️If you can, follow the instructions in #1 (see pinned message) and win 5,000 Paynet-soums!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
#7 World Englishes: Southern US English
❗️ People in the Southern United States (Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, etc.) not only have their own accent, they also have their own history.
🔘 Pronunciation: Southerners often make vowels longer and sound like two vowels; “red” may sound like reyd. But some vowels are also shortened, like “my” sounding closer to ma. Some words are also stressed differently, e.g. GUItar and POlice.
🔘 Grammar: They may skip some modal verbs, like I done it or You seen her? Some past forms are also non-standard, like knowed or choosed. Double negatives, like Ain’t got no time for this are also common.
🔘 Vocabulary: A famous southern greeting is Howdy!; for the plural “you” Southerners may use y’all; finally, ain’t is used as negative for any present form of ‘to be’ or ‘to have’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_American_English
▶️ Check out what it sounds like:
⛓ About a Chinese cowboy with a Southern accent
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_englishes
❗️ People in the Southern United States (Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, etc.) not only have their own accent, they also have their own history.
🔘 Pronunciation: Southerners often make vowels longer and sound like two vowels; “red” may sound like reyd. But some vowels are also shortened, like “my” sounding closer to ma. Some words are also stressed differently, e.g. GUItar and POlice.
🔘 Grammar: They may skip some modal verbs, like I done it or You seen her? Some past forms are also non-standard, like knowed or choosed. Double negatives, like Ain’t got no time for this are also common.
🔘 Vocabulary: A famous southern greeting is Howdy!; for the plural “you” Southerners may use y’all; finally, ain’t is used as negative for any present form of ‘to be’ or ‘to have’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_American_English
▶️ Check out what it sounds like:
⛓ About a Chinese cowboy with a Southern accent
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_englishes
#19 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• climate
• crisis
• dinosaur
• micro
• migrant
• psychology
• textile
• Titanic
• virus
❓What sound do these words have in common?
❗️Unlike Russian and Uzbek, they all have the vowel sounds [aɪ], as in “write”:
• climate [klaɪmət]
• crisis [kraɪsɪs]
• dinosaur [daɪnəsɔ:]
• micro [maɪkrəʊ]
• migrant [maɪgrənt]
• psychology [saɪkɒləʤɪ]
• textile [tekstaɪl]
• Titanic [taɪtænɪk]
• virus [vaɪrəs]
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• climate
• crisis
• dinosaur
• micro
• migrant
• psychology
• textile
• Titanic
• virus
❓What sound do these words have in common?
❗️Unlike Russian and Uzbek, they all have the vowel sounds [aɪ], as in “write”:
• climate [klaɪmət]
• crisis [kraɪsɪs]
• dinosaur [daɪnəsɔ:]
• micro [maɪkrəʊ]
• migrant [maɪgrənt]
• psychology [saɪkɒləʤɪ]
• textile [tekstaɪl]
• Titanic [taɪtænɪk]
• virus [vaɪrəs]
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation