Congrats to Abdukhalil 👏👏👏
And cheers for some fantastic designs again! Good job, Doniyor, Oisha and Abdulahatty!
And cheers for some fantastic designs again! Good job, Doniyor, Oisha and Abdulahatty!
#14 Featured article: O’zbekiston kelajagi buyuk Xitoymi?
📍 Today’s article is about face recognition systems being installed at schools across Uzbekistan.
⛓ https://kun.uz/en/85752493
▶️ Read the article and debate with your fellow subscribers in the Afandi English Chat.
🗣 The debate question is: Can cameras and Face ID systems improve the quality of education?
🙂 If your birthday is between 1 January and 30 June you say YES.
☹️If your birthday is between 1 July and 31 December you say NO.
❗️Do not debate with your real opinion and don’t get personal, this is just an exercise!
👉@afandi_english👈 #article
📍 Today’s article is about face recognition systems being installed at schools across Uzbekistan.
⛓ https://kun.uz/en/85752493
▶️ Read the article and debate with your fellow subscribers in the Afandi English Chat.
🗣 The debate question is: Can cameras and Face ID systems improve the quality of education?
🙂 If your birthday is between 1 January and 30 June you say YES.
☹️If your birthday is between 1 July and 31 December you say NO.
❗️Do not debate with your real opinion and don’t get personal, this is just an exercise!
👉@afandi_english👈 #article
Kun.uz
Schools to introduce Face ID system to monitor students
Schools of Uzbekistan will introduce a Face ID system to monitor students. This was reported at a board meeting of the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Public Education.
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#36 Afandi Quiz: Mysterious song
Today’s quiz is about a mysterious song from a mysterious country! Can you guess where it’s from? Pay attention to the language and style.
👉@afandi_english👈 #song_quiz
Today’s quiz is about a mysterious song from a mysterious country! Can you guess where it’s from? Pay attention to the language and style.
👉@afandi_english👈 #song_quiz
Afandi English
This song is from ...
A close call!
👎 Iceland was way off. The non-Germanic language and the brisk (=quick, full of energy) style was not really Northern European. It couldn’t have been Bulgarian or Slovak as these are Slavic languages and a little bit similar to Russian.
👍 Hungary was the correct answer. Hungarian is from the Finno-Ugric family of languages and a distant relative of Finnish and Estonian. It is also an agglutinating language (=a language in which new words are formed by sticking parts of words together), just like Turkic (=Uzbek, Turkish, Kazakh, Uyghur, etc.) languages.
👎 Iceland was way off. The non-Germanic language and the brisk (=quick, full of energy) style was not really Northern European. It couldn’t have been Bulgarian or Slovak as these are Slavic languages and a little bit similar to Russian.
👍 Hungary was the correct answer. Hungarian is from the Finno-Ugric family of languages and a distant relative of Finnish and Estonian. It is also an agglutinating language (=a language in which new words are formed by sticking parts of words together), just like Turkic (=Uzbek, Turkish, Kazakh, Uyghur, etc.) languages.
#72 Our favourite mistakes: Writing
▶️ What’s wrong here in these sentences?
• We had not written
• It will be writing
• I shall not have written
• I am taken
❌ Perhaps you think about grammar now. Please don’t. Please also don’t think about what these sentences might mean (it’s complete nonsense without context).
❗️ The problem is …missing full stops (British English =dot to finish a sentence; Americans say “period”)! Every sentence needs one at the end, unless you’re chatting with someone on Telegram. The same goes for questions. Every question needs a question mark!
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing
▶️ What’s wrong here in these sentences?
• We had not written
• It will be writing
• I shall not have written
• I am taken
❌ Perhaps you think about grammar now. Please don’t. Please also don’t think about what these sentences might mean (it’s complete nonsense without context).
❗️ The problem is …
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing
#39 Travelogue Uzbekistan: Clean Russians, dirty Uzbeks?
Have you ever seen any cleaning product made in Uzbekistan that has Uzbek written on the front? Soap, shampoo, washing-up liquid, washing powder – there’s only a list of ingredients in Uzbek on the back, everything else is written in a mixture of Russian and English. What might be the reasons for this?
Imitation
Imported products are generally trusted and thought to be of higher quality. Customers may assume high quality when it looks foreign, even when it’s not.
Convention
When other products have no Uzbek written on them, why would anyone try to be different? There are different conventions for different types of products.
History
With the exception of soap, most other types of cleaning products were introduced during Soviet times, and that was all about Russian.
❗️ If you can find a cleaning product with Uzbek writing on the front I will give you 5,000 soum paynet. Max. 5 participants. You have one week!
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uzbekistan
Have you ever seen any cleaning product made in Uzbekistan that has Uzbek written on the front? Soap, shampoo, washing-up liquid, washing powder – there’s only a list of ingredients in Uzbek on the back, everything else is written in a mixture of Russian and English. What might be the reasons for this?
Imitation
Imported products are generally trusted and thought to be of higher quality. Customers may assume high quality when it looks foreign, even when it’s not.
Convention
When other products have no Uzbek written on them, why would anyone try to be different? There are different conventions for different types of products.
History
With the exception of soap, most other types of cleaning products were introduced during Soviet times, and that was all about Russian.
❗️ If you can find a cleaning product with Uzbek writing on the front I will give you 5,000 soum paynet. Max. 5 participants. You have one week!
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uzbekistan
Do you prefer imported products?
Anonymous Poll
31%
Yes, they are usually better.
51%
Sometimes, depends on the product.
9%
No, Uzbek products are just as good.
8%
I don't think of that.
#53 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi in Namangan
❓ Can you spot Afandi and his donkey in this picture?
❗️If you can, mark Afandi on the picture and send it to @jochenho. The time limit is 15 minutes. If you’re lucky you can win 💸 5,000 Paynet-soums!
❓ New to the game? Follow the instructions in #1 (see pinned message 👆).
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
❓ Can you spot Afandi and his donkey in this picture?
❗️If you can, mark Afandi on the picture and send it to @jochenho. The time limit is 15 minutes. If you’re lucky you can win 💸 5,000 Paynet-soums!
❓ New to the game? Follow the instructions in #1 (see pinned message 👆).
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
Congrats to Shoxsanam!!! 👏👏👏🥳
And thanks for some funky designs, Khamidulloh, Oisha and Doniyor! ✌️👌👍
And thanks for some funky designs, Khamidulloh, Oisha and Doniyor! ✌️👌👍
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#7 Documentary: Iceland’s language struggles
▶️ Iceland is a small but rich nation. Although it wasn’t colonised by England people there find that the English language is threatening their own language. Watch this video to find out why!
🆕 Monday is for discussions and debates! Today we will have a discussion on Afandi English Chat (@afandi_english_chat) for the remaining evening. You will find the questions there!
👉@afandi_english👈 #documentary
▶️ Iceland is a small but rich nation. Although it wasn’t colonised by England people there find that the English language is threatening their own language. Watch this video to find out why!
🆕 Monday is for discussions and debates! Today we will have a discussion on Afandi English Chat (@afandi_english_chat) for the remaining evening. You will find the questions there!
👉@afandi_english👈 #documentary
#37 Afandi Quiz: Cultural Misunderstanding
Today’s quiz is about a cultural misunderstanding in the following situation:
▶️ Ron is a middle-aged businessman from the 🇬🇧UK. He used to work for a trading firm but has recently emigrated (=moved to another country) from his rainy native town of Bristol to sunny Cape Town in 🇿🇦South Africa. Inspired (=given a new idea) by the country’s vineyards (=grape farm) he decides to set up a wine trading business, hoping to export local wines to the rest of the world. Unfortunately he finds it difficult to deal with suppliers (=people or companies who provide goods) and feels that for some reason they don’t seem to trust him.
👉@afandi_english👈 #culture_quiz
Today’s quiz is about a cultural misunderstanding in the following situation:
▶️ Ron is a middle-aged businessman from the 🇬🇧UK. He used to work for a trading firm but has recently emigrated (=moved to another country) from his rainy native town of Bristol to sunny Cape Town in 🇿🇦South Africa. Inspired (=given a new idea) by the country’s vineyards (=grape farm) he decides to set up a wine trading business, hoping to export local wines to the rest of the world. Unfortunately he finds it difficult to deal with suppliers (=people or companies who provide goods) and feels that for some reason they don’t seem to trust him.
👉@afandi_english👈 #culture_quiz