#85 Our favourite mistakes: Grammar & Vocab
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Biz siz bilan o’tgan yili ko‘rishdik.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
We met with you last year.
✅ Well, it should be:
I met you last year. / We met last year.
❓Why?
❗️ Meet does not need with.
❗️ There are only two people, the speaker shouldn’t use the plural, unless it’s a group of people. This confusion comes from the Russian мы с тобой. In English think я с тобой.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #grammar #vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Biz siz bilan o’tgan yili ko‘rishdik.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
We met with you last year.
✅ Well, it should be:
❗️ Meet does not need with.
❗️ There are only two people, the speaker shouldn’t use the plural, unless it’s a group of people. This confusion comes from the Russian мы с тобой. In English think я с тобой.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #grammar #vocabulary
#51 Travelogue UK: Housing in England
In England there are exactly four types of houses to live in:
• Detached house
A house that isn’t attached to another house. While in the countryside this is the most common form of housing it is real luxury in the city.
• Semi-detached house
Basically two households in one building. Semi-detached houses are very common in any city’s outskirts.
• Terraced house
Rows of identical-looking houses. Terraced houses are found in every city, some look fancy and some look shabby.
• Flat
Units within big buildings. There are pricey apartments and horrible tower blocks.
What’s interesting here? Housing is very much about people’s social class. In cities detached houses are for the rich and semi-detached and terraced houses are for the middle class while working-class families usually live in terraced houses or flats.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uk
In England there are exactly four types of houses to live in:
• Detached house
A house that isn’t attached to another house. While in the countryside this is the most common form of housing it is real luxury in the city.
• Semi-detached house
Basically two households in one building. Semi-detached houses are very common in any city’s outskirts.
• Terraced house
Rows of identical-looking houses. Terraced houses are found in every city, some look fancy and some look shabby.
• Flat
Units within big buildings. There are pricey apartments and horrible tower blocks.
What’s interesting here? Housing is very much about people’s social class. In cities detached houses are for the rich and semi-detached and terraced houses are for the middle class while working-class families usually live in terraced houses or flats.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uk
Afandi English
#51 Travelogue UK: Housing in England In England there are exactly four types of houses to live in: • Detached house A house that isn’t attached to another house. While in the countryside this is the most common form of housing it is real luxury in the…
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📍attached = physically connected 📍outskirts = not city centre 📍identical-looking = looking exactly the same 📍fancy = beautiful and expensive 📍shabby = of bad quality 📍pricey = expensive 📍tower blocks = group of big apartment buildings 📍social class = group of people in society with high or low income, and education
📍attached = physically connected 📍outskirts = not city centre 📍identical-looking = looking exactly the same 📍fancy = beautiful and expensive 📍shabby = of bad quality 📍pricey = expensive 📍tower blocks = group of big apartment buildings 📍social class = group of people in society with high or low income, and education
Social classes are very strong in Britain while Uzbek society is almost class-less. What’s a good society in your mind?
Anonymous Poll
28%
Where some people are rich and others are poor. (elitism)
47%
Where all people are the same. (egalitarianism)
25%
Where I don’t have to think so much.
Media is too big
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#14 Movie Time: Intouchables (2011)
▶️ Today’s movie is a famous 🇫🇷French comedy about a disabled rich man who employs a big black guy as his caretaker. Watch how the two become unlikely friends.
❗️ The movie is in French with English subtitles. Subtitles are an excellent way to help you speed up reading and stop the stupid habit of reading out loud! 😉
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #european_films #comedy #drama
▶️ Today’s movie is a famous 🇫🇷French comedy about a disabled rich man who employs a big black guy as his caretaker. Watch how the two become unlikely friends.
❗️ The movie is in French with English subtitles. Subtitles are an excellent way to help you speed up reading and stop the stupid habit of reading out loud! 😉
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #european_films #comedy #drama
#62 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi in Frankfurt Old Town
❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?
Today you will half an hour to spot Afandi!
❗️If you can you might win 5,000 Paynet-soums! Mark the picture and send it to @jochenho. You have half an hour!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?
Today you will half an hour to spot Afandi!
❗️If you can you might win 5,000 Paynet-soums! Mark the picture and send it to @jochenho. You have half an hour!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
Congrats to Farhodbek! 🥳🥳🥳
And amazing designs again from Abdulahatty, Oisha and Kvadratillo! 👏👏👏
And amazing designs again from Abdulahatty, Oisha and Kvadratillo! 👏👏👏
#23 It’s a strange world: The Overton Window
❓How is it possible that public opinion can change over time?
❗️ The key to understanding this is the “Overton Window” which describes the range of acceptable ideas. It can move, expand and shrink through cultural change but also manipulation (=making people change their ideas or behaviour without realising it).
⛓ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
▶️ Here’s a video about the Overton Window:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQvKxGehKok
👉@afandi_english👈 #strange_world #politics
❓How is it possible that public opinion can change over time?
❗️ The key to understanding this is the “Overton Window” which describes the range of acceptable ideas. It can move, expand and shrink through cultural change but also manipulation (=making people change their ideas or behaviour without realising it).
⛓ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
▶️ Here’s a video about the Overton Window:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQvKxGehKok
👉@afandi_english👈 #strange_world #politics
#49 Afandi Quiz: Cultural Misunderstanding
Today’s quiz is about a cultural misunderstanding in the following situation:
▶️ Chuifang is a traveller from 🇹🇼Taiwan on a two-week trip around Europe. As she touches down (=lands, arrives by plane) in Frankfurt and starts her trip in 🇩🇪Germany she sees a lot of German flags everywhere. She’s puzzled (=very confused) because in her travel guide book she read that Germans are not very patriotic and seldom express any love for their country.
👉@afandi_english👈 #culture_quiz
Today’s quiz is about a cultural misunderstanding in the following situation:
▶️ Chuifang is a traveller from 🇹🇼Taiwan on a two-week trip around Europe. As she touches down (=lands, arrives by plane) in Frankfurt and starts her trip in 🇩🇪Germany she sees a lot of German flags everywhere. She’s puzzled (=very confused) because in her travel guide book she read that Germans are not very patriotic and seldom express any love for their country.
👉@afandi_english👈 #culture_quiz
What are the flags all about?
Final Results
24%
Frankfurt is the place where most foreigners arrive and the flags are supposed to greet them.
30%
The flags are simply decoration. Germans don’t think much of the meaning.
40%
She came during a major football tournament. Flags are mostly a symbol for football in Germany.
6%
Whenever an important person dies people use flags to express their sadness.
Afandi English
What are the flags all about?
Good job, mostly!
👍 After Germany’s defeat in World War II people used to have an uneasy relationship with the national flag - up until 2006 when Germany hosted the FIFA World Cup. Suddenly showing the flag became a normal thing but only really in the context of football. Taiwan is not a football nation at all, so our Taiwanese tourist may not be aware of football tournaments.
👍 After Germany’s defeat in World War II people used to have an uneasy relationship with the national flag - up until 2006 when Germany hosted the FIFA World Cup. Suddenly showing the flag became a normal thing but only really in the context of football. Taiwan is not a football nation at all, so our Taiwanese tourist may not be aware of football tournaments.