Know Yourself #13: Why you have a foreign accent

▶️ Do you hate your accent in English? Do you lack talent or what is it? Let this video from the Economist enlighten (=explain) you.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

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Afandi Quiz #144: What’s this map about?

▶️ Here’s a world map showing a few special countries in red – the United States, Liberia, Myanmar and a few Pacific Island nations.

👉@afandi_english👈 #maps #map_quiz

Our favourite mistakes #152: Punctuation

▶️ Look at these sentences:

1) Life-the gift of God.
2) She’s a middle–aged lady.
3) It’s a long -term plan.

❓What’s wrong?
❗️1) Should be a dash, not a hyphen. Dashes are like commas but stronger, for extra emphasis.
2) Should be a hyphen, not a dash. Hyphens turn two or more words into one.
3) Wrong space before the hyphen. Hyphens don't have spaces around them, dashes do.

Remember:
Hyphen = short, no spaces
Dash = long, with spaces

More about spacing in a previous post.

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #punctuation #writing

Movie Time #74: The Hunt (2012)

▶️ Today’s film is a psychological drama from 🇩🇰Denmark about a man who works in childcare and is wrongly accused of paedophelia (=sexual attraction to children). Watch how he becomes an outcast (=sb who is kicked out from society) and how hard it is to get rehabilitated (=be regarded as good again after being regarded as bad).

🔤 English subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #european_films

Odd Man Out #6

▶️ Pay attention to the vowel sound [aɪ].

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🏮 Special Day: Welcome the Year of the Dragon!

▶️ Tune in to the world’s biggest televised event – the Chinese Spring Festival Gala. It’s a potpourri (=mix) of bombastic (=big, shocking) musical performances, spectacular kongfu (=Chinese martial art) shows, not that funny standup comedy and lots of propaganda (=advertising for the government). And it’s going on RIGHT NOW! 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTEG19BHt1U

🐉 By the way, the year of the dragon is considered the luckiest one!

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #know_your_world

❗️Spot Afandi again at 9pm and win 10,000 soum Paynet 💸

Afandi Quiz #145: Which country?

▶️ Here is a mysterious picture.

👉@afandi_english👈 #picture_quiz