YouTube Channel Recommendation #53: Luke Korns
📊 English Level: Intermediate and above
🔤 Subtitles: Automatic
💬 Topics: Travel
💡 Content: Like many others, Luke travels the world. But he has his very own style. Wherever he goes he meets locals and shares their life for a while. Absolutely worth watching!
⛓ Link: https://www.youtube.com/@LukeKorns
👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube #travel
📊 English Level: Intermediate and above
🔤 Subtitles: Automatic
💬 Topics: Travel
💡 Content: Like many others, Luke travels the world. But he has his very own style. Wherever he goes he meets locals and shares their life for a while. Absolutely worth watching!
⛓ Link: https://www.youtube.com/@LukeKorns
👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube #travel
Forwarded from Hoffmann's Old Travelogue
Travelogue 🇺🇸USA #14: The Uzbek Dream
▶️ In New York I stayed with a bunch of Uzbek guys who had all come to America illegally through the Mexican border. They work mainly in food deliveries and construction as they don't speak enough English for other jobs.
And this is how they live: 10 guys, 3 rooms, in a $5000 apartment somewhere in Queens (=a district of New York) from where you can reach Manhattan (=the central district of New York) within less than an hour by subway. The apartment is pretty clean for the fact that (=although) they are all guys. They come from all over Uzbekistan and often shop at the Uzbek supermarket in New York.
One of them is taking English classes on Telegram with some lady student somewhere in Uzbekistan. During their class she explained him the verb "to be". I thought it was a very interesting educational setting!
📍New York, USA
#travel #usa
▶️ In New York I stayed with a bunch of Uzbek guys who had all come to America illegally through the Mexican border. They work mainly in food deliveries and construction as they don't speak enough English for other jobs.
And this is how they live: 10 guys, 3 rooms, in a $5000 apartment somewhere in Queens (=a district of New York) from where you can reach Manhattan (=the central district of New York) within less than an hour by subway. The apartment is pretty clean for the fact that (=although) they are all guys. They come from all over Uzbekistan and often shop at the Uzbek supermarket in New York.
One of them is taking English classes on Telegram with some lady student somewhere in Uzbekistan. During their class she explained him the verb "to be". I thought it was a very interesting educational setting!
📍New York, USA
#travel #usa
Forwarded from Hoffmann's Old Travelogue
Travelogue 🇨🇳China #1: Been a long time
▶️ It was strange to be back in China after more than 5 years. Here are some impressions:
Cash is really a thing of the past in China. Locals usually pay with their phones but I can't do that. In one small shop the shopkeeper had just a little black plastic bag under the counter (=table in a shop) that she kept a small amount of cash in.
There are a looot more metro lines than before. I think around 20 lines just in Shanghai.
Air pollution is still around. I was told Beijing is much better now (after being worse than Shanghai). It's always bad in the winter.
Less people wear pointless (=stupid, unnecessary) masks than in Japan. China's zero-covid policy was a disaster and people want to forget about those dark days.
📍Shanghai, China
#travel #china
▶️ It was strange to be back in China after more than 5 years. Here are some impressions:
Cash is really a thing of the past in China. Locals usually pay with their phones but I can't do that. In one small shop the shopkeeper had just a little black plastic bag under the counter (=table in a shop) that she kept a small amount of cash in.
There are a looot more metro lines than before. I think around 20 lines just in Shanghai.
Air pollution is still around. I was told Beijing is much better now (after being worse than Shanghai). It's always bad in the winter.
Less people wear pointless (=stupid, unnecessary) masks than in Japan. China's zero-covid policy was a disaster and people want to forget about those dark days.
📍Shanghai, China
#travel #china