Fooled you!

💡 The graffiti says “No babies”, so people should NOT throw their babies inside. Except “retain” – which means “keep” – all the words were synonyms of throw away or leave behind.

#125 Our favourite mistakes: Writing

▶️ Look at this sentence:
People today face many problems, such as stress, loneliness, conflicts with others and etc.

❓ What’s wrong here?

❗️ There is no combination and etc. because etc. means et cetera and et already means and in Latin.

❗️ You have two options – either just etc. or and so on. Choose one only.

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing

#43 YouTube Channel Recommendation: Simone Giertz

📊 English Level: Upper

🔤 Subtitles: Automatic

💬 Topics: Do-it-yourself, inventions, home improvements

💡 Content: Simone comes from 🇸🇪Sweden and lives in 🇺🇸America, and she’s not your typical girl. She rolls up her sleeves (=prepares to do physical work), heads into her workshop and makes new stuff from scratch (=from zero) while sharing her thoughts in the process. Watch her make furniture or handicraft, fiddling (=touching and moving sth) with cars or inventing something totally new.

⛓ Link: https://www.youtube.com/c/simonegiertz

👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube

#21 Know Your World: Special marriage practices

▶️ It’s interesting how in other cultures something we think of as crazy can be totally normal. Marriage practices can be especially shocking. Let’s look at three phenomena and their geographic distribution:

1. Polygamy: This is when a one person has more than one spouse (=married partner, husband or wife). When a man can have several wives we speak of polygyny; when a woman can have several husbands it’s polyandry.

2. Cosanguinity: This is the word for “cousin marriage”. In some countries it’s common to marry one’s first cousin.

3. Child marriage: This is when a person (usually girl) marries before reaching adulthood.

👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #map

#88 Afandi Quiz: Mysterious song

Today’s quiz is about a mysterious song from a mysterious country! Maybe you think it’s from India but it’s not!

👉@afandi_english👈 #quiz #song_quiz

What a draw!

💡 The style of this song is Bhangra from the region of Punjab which is divided between India and Pakistan. Since India wasn’t an option it should have been Pakistan.

#1 Correct me if you can

🆕 On Afandi English we’ve had an awful lot of (=terribly many) favourite mistakes in the past 2+ years and we’re far from done with them. But in order to really eliminate (=kill off, make sth disappear) these mistakes we need some practice. So in this new series of posts you will be given a faulty (=containing mistakes) sentence to correct.

▶️ Please find the mistake in the following sentence:

Please wait me, I’ll be back in 5 minutes.

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #correct

#24 Self-study: Towards a robotic future?

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about so-called “futurism” – predicting the future through research of current trends. Listen to what the eccentric (=strange but interesting person) Faith Popcorn, head of a New York consulting company, has to say and pick up some English on the way!

❗️If you think this is good material for your self-study, please follow the instructions in #1 👆 and the instructions on the handout below 👇.

👉@afandi_english👈 #self_study #future

#101 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi weaving carpets in Marg’ilon

❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?

❗️ You might be the lucky winner of 5,000 Paynet-soums!

❓ How? Spot Afandi, mark him in the picture and send it to @jochenho. The time limit is 30 minutes. Not sure what Afandi looks like? Check the pinned message above!

👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi