#36 Know Your World: The History of Marriage

▶️ Watch this TED-Ed video to feel amazed and shocked by some of the weird marriage practices in the history of mankind.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary

#107 Afandi Quiz: What’s the word?

Some of us have a truly terrible habit – checking our smartphone even on the toilet.

👉@afandi_english👈 #word_quiz

#36 Tongue twister: Peter Piper

❗️Challenge yourself with this tongue twister:

▶️ Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Translation:
Piter Payper bir oram tuzlangan qalampir tanladi. Piter Payper tuzlangan qalampirdan bir oram tanlaganmi? Agar Piter Payper bir oram tuzlangan qalampir tanlagan bo'lsa, Piter Payper tanlagan bir oram tuzlangan qalampir qani?

🔘 Intonation: As a rule of thumb (=approximate rule, not 100% rule), go ↗️ before commas and ↘️ before full stops. Go ↗️ at the end of yes-or-no questions and ↘️ at the end of wh-questions. 👇

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers ↘️. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers ↗️? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers ↗️, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked ↘️?

👉@afandi_english👈 #tongue_twisters

#136 Our favourite mistakes: Vocabulary

▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Prosto seni sevaman demoqchi edim.

❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Just I wanted to say I love you.

✅ Well, it should be:
I just wanted to say I love you.

❓Why?

❗️ Just I means only I – not somebody else. This is not the intended meaning here.

❗️ Just is a synonym of only and always describes the word behind it. Unlike the Russian просто it cannot be used for a whole phrase.

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary

#15 Must Watch: Bertha Benz

▶️ Mercedes-Benz is not only among the major car manufacturers today, the company was also a 19th century pioneer of the automotive industry (=car industry). Enjoy this commercial about Bertha Benz, the wife of Carl Benz who built the first ‘modern’ car.

👉@afandi_english👈 #must_watch

#48 Movie Time: The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)

▶️ Today’s film is a 🇬🇧British drama about an genius Indian mathematician who is invited to Cambridge and work together with the world’s best maths professors. His life story is a tragic one as he falls ill and eventually dies much too young. Watch how the story unfolds in the context of its time, the early 20th century. The film is based on a book which itself is based on a true story.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #british_films #drama

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#119 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi exploring the heights of Tashkent

❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?

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#4 Know Yourself: Procrastination

▶️ You have the whole weekend to do your homework? You need finish your report by Wednesday? You still haven’t made that really important phone call? If you wait too long with important tasks you may be called a “procrastinator”. Go to the bottom of this issue that troubles students even more than other people.

❗️This infographic is serious research; below you'll find funny ones.

❗️Read a previous post about it.

👉@afandi_english👈 #know_yourself #infographic #psychology

#108 Afandi Quiz: Mysterious song

Today’s quiz is about a mysterious song from Greater China (=territories with a Chinese majority population).

👉@afandi_english👈 #quiz #song_quiz