#80 Travelogue Armenia: Soviet Yerevan
▶️ Welcome to 🇦🇲Armenia, a landlocked country in the South Caucasus region. Landlocked countries and societies of mountain dwellers are usually more conservative and slower to develop. Armenia’s capital Yerevan is a vibrant city that offers all the modern comforts but doesn’t hide its Soviet past:
Architecture and ornaments
To honour the state and society, socialist architecture is all about extravagant buildings in city centres and boring standard greyish buildings everywhere else. Ornaments celebrate the big themes in small details.
A familiar metro
Like other Soviet-built metro systems, Yerevan’s metro is deep, dark, beautiful and has heavy machinery. It is so noisy that having a conversation during the ride is sheer impossible and the distance between stations is quite big.
Abandonment
Old iron stuff lying around? Like in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan people feel no hurry to get rid of it. Maybe they’re at peace with the past.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #armenia
▶️ Welcome to 🇦🇲Armenia, a landlocked country in the South Caucasus region. Landlocked countries and societies of mountain dwellers are usually more conservative and slower to develop. Armenia’s capital Yerevan is a vibrant city that offers all the modern comforts but doesn’t hide its Soviet past:
Architecture and ornaments
To honour the state and society, socialist architecture is all about extravagant buildings in city centres and boring standard greyish buildings everywhere else. Ornaments celebrate the big themes in small details.
A familiar metro
Like other Soviet-built metro systems, Yerevan’s metro is deep, dark, beautiful and has heavy machinery. It is so noisy that having a conversation during the ride is sheer impossible and the distance between stations is quite big.
Abandonment
Old iron stuff lying around? Like in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan people feel no hurry to get rid of it. Maybe they’re at peace with the past.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #armenia
Afandi English
#80 Travelogue Armenia: Soviet Yerevan ▶️ Welcome to 🇦🇲Armenia, a landlocked country in the South Caucasus region. Landlocked countries and societies of mountain dwellers are usually more conservative and slower to develop. Armenia’s capital Yerevan is a…
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📍landlocked (country) = a country that doesn’t have a sea coast 📍Caucasus = the mountain range between Russia and Iran/Turkey 📍mountain dweller = sb who lives in the mountains 📍vibrant = full of activity 📍ornament = decoration added to a building or room 📍extravagant = more beautiful and expensive than necessary 📍greyish = somehow grey 📍machinery = large machines 📍sheer = virtually, pretty much 📍abandonment = leaving something without caring for it 📍be at peace with sth = not angry about sth, okay with sth
📍landlocked (country) = a country that doesn’t have a sea coast 📍Caucasus = the mountain range between Russia and Iran/Turkey 📍mountain dweller = sb who lives in the mountains 📍vibrant = full of activity 📍ornament = decoration added to a building or room 📍extravagant = more beautiful and expensive than necessary 📍greyish = somehow grey 📍machinery = large machines 📍sheer = virtually, pretty much 📍abandonment = leaving something without caring for it 📍be at peace with sth = not angry about sth, okay with sth
How should cities treat their Soviet past?
Anonymous Poll
20%
They should respect and restore old buildings.
61%
Some old buildings can be modernised but not all.
19%
Soviet anything is ugly and cities should get rid of it.
#94 Afandi Quiz: What’s the word?
Baby birds go from naked to something to feathers.
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Baby birds go from naked to something to feathers.
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Afandi English
What do we call that something?
Whoopsie!
💡 There are not many ornithologists (=bird specialists) among us it seems. Down in the noun form has this meaning actually. Plumes are feathers, especially when they are used for decoration. Hair is found on humans, fur on animals. Mane is the cuddly thing that male lions have around their head and coat is just a piece of clothing.
💡 There are not many ornithologists (=bird specialists) among us it seems. Down in the noun form has this meaning actually. Plumes are feathers, especially when they are used for decoration. Hair is found on humans, fur on animals. Mane is the cuddly thing that male lions have around their head and coat is just a piece of clothing.
#34 Tongue twister: Big Apple
❗️Challenge yourself with this tongue twister:
▶️ I like New York. Unique New York. I like unique New York.
Translation:
Menga Nyu York yoqadi. Yagona Nyu York. Menga yagona Nyu York yoqadi.
🔘 Fluency and accuracy: Tongue twisters force you to pay more attention to correct pronunciation, while at the same time you’re trying to speak fast. Keep practicing them until your both fluent and accurate, it’ll benefit your speaking skill!
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❗️Challenge yourself with this tongue twister:
▶️ I like New York. Unique New York. I like unique New York.
Translation:
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#4 Correct me if you can
▶️ Please find the mistake in the following sentence:
I want to sleep. Because I’m very tired.
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▶️ Please find the mistake in the following sentence:
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#10 Afandi Karaoke: Let’s Fall In Love For The Night (by Finneas)
▶️ Today’s song is catchy tune (=a melody that is easy to remember) with a lot of contemporary (=of our current times) Western culture content. It’s basically saying that life-long love and lasting relationships are unrealistic anyway, so there’s no need to even try.
👉@afandi_english👈 #karaoke
▶️ Today’s song is catchy tune (=a melody that is easy to remember) with a lot of contemporary (=of our current times) Western culture content. It’s basically saying that life-long love and lasting relationships are unrealistic anyway, so there’s no need to even try.
👉@afandi_english👈 #karaoke
#3 Travel Notes: Mount Ararat
▶️ Borders are weird sometimes. Mount Ararat is the national symbol of 🇦🇲Armenia although it is entirely in 🇹🇷Turkey. The sight of the mountain is truly impressive and graces (=make sth more attractive) the Yerevan cityscape (=landscape of a city), especially when there is less air pollution. The mountain is 5,137 metres high. Read more about it on Wikipedia.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #armenia #turkey
▶️ Borders are weird sometimes. Mount Ararat is the national symbol of 🇦🇲Armenia although it is entirely in 🇹🇷Turkey. The sight of the mountain is truly impressive and graces (=make sth more attractive) the Yerevan cityscape (=landscape of a city), especially when there is less air pollution. The mountain is 5,137 metres high. Read more about it on Wikipedia.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #armenia #turkey
#24 Know Your World: The real meanings of country names
▶️ The names of foreign countries often sound unique and exotic (=strange in an interesting way, from a faraway place) to our ears. They often have a really ordinary or strange meaning. Someone made a world map with the literal meanings (=word-for-word meaning) of every country name.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #infographic
▶️ The names of foreign countries often sound unique and exotic (=strange in an interesting way, from a faraway place) to our ears. They often have a really ordinary or strange meaning. Someone made a world map with the literal meanings (=word-for-word meaning) of every country name.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #infographic