#83 Travelogue Georgia: Where am I?
▶️🇬🇪Tbilisi is a hotspot of international youth culture and there are places in the city that make you feel like you’re in no particular country at all. You can’t even tell by people’s looks – they come from all corners of the globe. What are these places?
Co-working spaces
These are the natural habitat of digital nomads, i.e. where they get to “work”. Some old factories get turned into a co-working spaces, retaining a charmingly industrial atmosphere thanks to cables, pipes and rough concrete walls.
Hostels
Digital nomads and backpackers live on a modest budget and obviously don’t choose expensive hotels. Hostels have dormitories with bunk beds, and they can be really cheap, like $5 per night. They usually have a common area and shared kitchen where people can socialise.
Georgia can have these places because it is a very open country.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #georgia
▶️🇬🇪Tbilisi is a hotspot of international youth culture and there are places in the city that make you feel like you’re in no particular country at all. You can’t even tell by people’s looks – they come from all corners of the globe. What are these places?
Co-working spaces
These are the natural habitat of digital nomads, i.e. where they get to “work”. Some old factories get turned into a co-working spaces, retaining a charmingly industrial atmosphere thanks to cables, pipes and rough concrete walls.
Hostels
Digital nomads and backpackers live on a modest budget and obviously don’t choose expensive hotels. Hostels have dormitories with bunk beds, and they can be really cheap, like $5 per night. They usually have a common area and shared kitchen where people can socialise.
Georgia can have these places because it is a very open country.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #georgia
Afandi English
#83 Travelogue Georgia: Where am I? ▶️🇬🇪Tbilisi is a hotspot of international youth culture and there are places in the city that make you feel like you’re in no particular country at all. You can’t even tell by people’s looks – they come from all corners…
📍hotspot = here: a place full of activity 📍tell by sth = recognise, get to know sth from some signs 📍habitat = natural environment inhabited by a plant or animal 📍retain = keep 📍concrete = a building material made of sand and cement 📍backpacker = traveller with a large backpack 📍modest budget = not having much money for sth 📍bunk bed = a bed with two floors 📍common area = shared place for people 📍socialise = spend time with people
What’s your opinion about digital nomads and backpackers?
Anonymous Poll
35%
They are cool people. I wish I could be one of them.
31%
They should go home and live with their families.
35%
I don’t know much about them.
#112 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi ready to board a ship in Flensburg, 🇩🇪Germany
❓ 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!
🆕 If you win you have 30 minutes to claim your prize. If you don’t we’ll find another winner!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
❓ 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!
🆕 If you win you have 30 minutes to claim your prize. If you don’t we’ll find another winner!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
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#112 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi ready to board a ship in Flensburg, 🇩🇪Germany ❓ 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…
Congrats to Kvadratillo! 🥳🥳🥳
And four designs really stand out today, they are from Zikrillo, Qodirjon, Boburshox and Umid. Well bloody done! 👏👏👏
And four designs really stand out today, they are from Zikrillo, Qodirjon, Boburshox and Umid. Well bloody done! 👏👏👏
#32 Know Your World: The illusion of choice
▶️ Our supermarkets are full of colourful products. We have a dazzling (=very impressive) choice. Or do we? Yes and no. Most products are actually made by the same few companies. They hide behind different brands, grab shelf space, control prices, advertise heavily, buy up competitors and even make the cheaper no-name products just to keep other companies out.
Europe and America are very much in the hands of these big companies and they’re doing everything to get bigger in other parts of the world, too.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #infographic
▶️ Our supermarkets are full of colourful products. We have a dazzling (=very impressive) choice. Or do we? Yes and no. Most products are actually made by the same few companies. They hide behind different brands, grab shelf space, control prices, advertise heavily, buy up competitors and even make the cheaper no-name products just to keep other companies out.
Europe and America are very much in the hands of these big companies and they’re doing everything to get bigger in other parts of the world, too.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #infographic
#35 Tongue twister: Was was was was was
❗️Challenge yourself with this tongue twister:
▶️Before was was was, was was is.
Translation:
Was was bo’lganidan oldin was is bo’lgan.
🔘 Weak forms – Distinguish between the quoted word “was” and the past simple form “was”.
The quoted word is pronounced in its full form [wɒz] while the verb form is reduced to its weak form [wəz]:
was = strong / was = weak
Before was was was, was was is.
❗️Challenge yourself with this tongue twister:
▶️
Translation:
Was was bo’lganidan oldin was is bo’lgan.
🔘 Weak forms – Distinguish between the quoted word “was” and the past simple form “was”.
The quoted word is pronounced in its full form [wɒz] while the verb form is reduced to its weak form [wəz]:
was = strong / was = weak
Before was was was, was was is.
#133 Our favourite mistakes: Writing
▶️ Look at this sentence:
If I get a chance to travel I want to go to America, Europe, Japan, Australia.
❓ What’s wrong here?
❗️ In a list of items (enumeration) there should be ‘and’ before the last item, not a comma. It should be America, Europe, Japan and Australia.
❗️ The only exception to that is newspaper headlines where you can find things like ‘Agreement signed between Russia, Ukraine’.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing
▶️ Look at this sentence:
❗️ In a list of items (enumeration) there should be ‘and’ before the last item, not a comma. It should be America, Europe, Japan and Australia.
❗️ The only exception to that is newspaper headlines where you can find things like ‘Agreement signed between Russia, Ukraine’.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing
#7 Travel Notes: Wannabe Europe
▶️ 🇬🇪Georgia was recently hoping to become an official candidate country to join the 🇪🇺European Union but – oh no! – was refused. Maybe it will take another 10 years, who knows. That doesn’t stop Georgians from expressing their enthusiasm (=strong feeling of interest and enjoyment) for Europe.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #georgia
▶️ 🇬🇪Georgia was recently hoping to become an official candidate country to join the 🇪🇺European Union but – oh no! – was refused. Maybe it will take another 10 years, who knows. That doesn’t stop Georgians from expressing their enthusiasm (=strong feeling of interest and enjoyment) for Europe.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #georgia