Know Your World #56: Pacific islanders’ recipe for happiness

▶️ Located in the South Pacific, 🇻🇺Vanuatu is an island nation of roughly 300,000 people. Find out how the locals achieve levels of happiness that are above those of rich and “successful” countries.

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Know Your World #58: Calling a floating island home

▶️ The 🇨🇦Canadian couple Catherine and Wayne didn’t have it easy. They had no money to buy a house, so they decided to build their own. And what can you do if you don’t have a piece of land? Simple – build it on water!

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▶️ Afandi English is over 4 years old now and there’s a ton of stuff you’ve missed. Here are some hashtags for posts about movies & videos:

#american_films
Pick your favouries from the home country of movies.

#british_films
Feel very British with the best of British cinema.

#cartoon
Let yourself be entertained and watch cartoons in English.

#comedy
Learn English while laughing!

#documentary
Get knowledge and academic vocab at the same time.

#drama
Stay closer to real life with dramas.

#european_films
Realise that Europeans make great movies, too.

#good_laugh
Watch the funniest of them all.

#international_films
Check out movies from all corners of the globe!

#karaoke
Use the most enjoyable way to learn English.

#movie
Don’t be choosy and watch them all. With subtitles.

#must_watch
Make sure you don’t miss out.

#short_film
Watch movies even when you don’t have time.

#special_day
Enjoy festivals with Afandi English.

#youtube
Get the most out of YouTube with channel recommendations.

Know Your World #59: The Benefits of Dancing

▶️ Few people think of dancing in any serious way but actually there are a lot of good reasons why people dance and why you should, too, if you don’t yet do it! Watch this short BBC documentary to find out.

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Know Your World #60: Expired or not?

▶️ When it’s so hard to make food, why do so many of us waste so much food? One of the reasons: expiry dates. Let this video convince you to trust your senses a little more than a printed date.

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🎉 Special Day: The History of Halloween

▶️ Whether you have any special feelings today or not, it’s worth looking into the history of Halloween as a festival that has conquered the world.

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Know Your World #64: Guns, Germs and Steel (Part 1)

▶️ This documentary from 2005 is a real classic. It tries to answer the question why Europeans, and more broadly Westerners, have dominated the globe for so long. Watch Part 2 here.

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Know Your World #67: The Great Global Warming Swindle

▶️ Here’s a 2007 British documentary that claims global warming is a swindle (=cheating). The term “global warming” has since been abandoned in favour of the more universal “climate change”. It’s been heavily criticised for going against mainstream science.

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Know Your World #68: AI can do your homework. Now what?

▶️ Should students be allowed to use AI? Here’s how the world of homework is changing. Good food for thought!

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🎉 Special Day: The #1 classical New Year song

▶️ Auld Lang Syne is a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scottish song that is rivaled (=challenged) only by ABBA’s Happy New Year. Check out the story behind it.

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🎊 And Happy New Year, everyone! Look forward to Afandi English nourishing (=feeding) your hungry mind in 2024.

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Know Your World #69: The benefits of being bilingual

▶️ Demand more from your brain and it will do more for you! Such is the case with bilingualism, which has been shown to be more beneficial than we thought!

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Know Your World #71: What brands do to your brain

▶️ We like to think that we’re in control of ourselves, but brands seem to be very close to our heart and have more power over us than we like to think.

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👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary #psychology

Know Your World #72: Guns, Germs and Steel (Part 2)

▶️ This documentary from 2005 is a real classic. It tries to answer the question why Europeans, and more broadly Westerners, have dominated the globe for so long. Watch Part 1 here.

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Movie Time #79: Human (2015)

▶️ Here’s a cinematic (=about movies) collection of fascinating and touching interviews with people from pretty much every country on earth. It's another masterpiece from French filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand, just as the movie Home. Watch it and feel what it means to be human.

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👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #documentary #international_films

Know Your World #74: The pork taboo

▶️ Billions of people around the world don’t eat pork, usually for religious reasons. But it’s interesting to investigate (=check) this taboo (=a rule not to do sth) scientifically and look into historical reasons.

❗️Contains potentially (=possibly, maybe) upsetting imagery (=pictures).

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Know Your World #76: The History of English as a Global Language

▶️ How did English become the world’s first language? Watch this animated video to understand the basics.

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Know Your World #77: The future of agriculture

▶️ No country feeds the world like the tiny 🇳🇱Netherlands. A good part (=a big part) of what we eat every day comes from crops (=plants used for agriculture) that grew out of seeds from this country. Catch a glimpse (=take a quick look to understand sth) at the future of agriculture which starts right there.

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