🎉 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.

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

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Know Your World #69: The benefits of being bilingual

▶️ Demand more from your brain and it will do more for you! Such is the case with bilingualism, which has been shown to be more beneficial than we thought!

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Know Your World #71: What brands do to your brain

▶️ We like to think that we’re in control of ourselves, but brands seem to be very close to our heart and have more power over us than we like to think.

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Know Your World #72: Guns, Germs and Steel (Part 2)

▶️ This documentary from 2005 is a real classic. It tries to answer the question why Europeans, and more broadly Westerners, have dominated the globe for so long. Watch Part 1 here.

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Movie Time #79: Human (2015)

▶️ Here’s a cinematic (=about movies) collection of fascinating and touching interviews with people from pretty much every country on earth. It's another masterpiece from French filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand, just as the movie Home. Watch it and feel what it means to be human.

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Know Your World #74: The pork taboo

▶️ Billions of people around the world don’t eat pork, usually for religious reasons. But it’s interesting to investigate (=check) this taboo (=a rule not to do sth) scientifically and look into historical reasons.

❗️Contains potentially (=possibly, maybe) upsetting imagery (=pictures).

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Know Your World #76: The History of English as a Global Language

▶️ How did English become the world’s first language? Watch this animated video to understand the basics.

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Know Your World #77: The future of agriculture

▶️ No country feeds the world like the tiny 🇳🇱Netherlands. A good part (=a big part) of what we eat every day comes from crops (=plants used for agriculture) that grew out of seeds from this country. Catch a glimpse (=take a quick look to understand sth) at the future of agriculture which starts right there.

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Know Your World #78: Climate – the Movie (2023)

▶️ It seems that climate change is a matter of belief, and nothing is quite as certain as we like to think. Hear the other side about climate change being a hoax (=joke or lie that many people believe) and use your critical thinking when choosing who you want to believe.

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Know Your World #79: How the rich avoid paying taxes

▶️ Why is it that rich people pay less taxes than ordinary people like you and me? The reason lies in the tax system. Not just in America. Watch this explainer video to find out more.

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Know Your World #80: Brief history of the toilet

▶️ Let’s not talk about it. Oh really? Actually there’s a lot of human history to be explored. Watch to find out!

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Know Your World #82: What do all languages have in common?

▶️ Get to grips with (=understand or learn the basics of) linguistics to find out what it is that all human languages have in common (=be the same in some way).

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