#2 Corona: Corona childhood
Children in corona-crazy countries are not to be envied (=wishing that you had someone else’s things or talents). Social distancing on the playground? That seems difficult for children to understand, so playgrounds just get shut. And when the children ask why someone explains it to them like this: “You don’t want to kill your grandmother, do you? So keep away from other children!” A lost generation of corona kids or an unclear number of preventable deaths among old people – what’s worse?
👉@afandi_english👈
Children in corona-crazy countries are not to be envied (=wishing that you had someone else’s things or talents). Social distancing on the playground? That seems difficult for children to understand, so playgrounds just get shut. And when the children ask why someone explains it to them like this: “You don’t want to kill your grandmother, do you? So keep away from other children!” A lost generation of corona kids or an unclear number of preventable deaths among old people – what’s worse?
👉@afandi_english👈
Afandi English
This picture was taken in ...
50-50!
👍 Kazakhstan is the right answer. Yes the guy looks East Asian and is eating with chopsticks, but the trained Afandi eye must have spotted some Cyrillic writing in the background. Just for your information, I took this picture in Almaty and the guy is an ethnic Dungan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungan_people).
👎 Taiwan, Vietnam and North Korea are all chopsticks countries but don’t use Cyrillic. Simple as that!
👍 Kazakhstan is the right answer. Yes the guy looks East Asian and is eating with chopsticks, but the trained Afandi eye must have spotted some Cyrillic writing in the background. Just for your information, I took this picture in Almaty and the guy is an ethnic Dungan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungan_people).
👎 Taiwan, Vietnam and North Korea are all chopsticks countries but don’t use Cyrillic. Simple as that!
IELTS DOs & DON’Ts: Review time
I often get asked advice that I’ve given before, so let’s look again at the past 10 posts in this series before moving on:
1️⃣ Exam culture
2️⃣ Speaking: Self-introduction
3️⃣ Academic topics
4️⃣ Reading
5️⃣ Last minute preparation
6️⃣ Preparation for Speaking
7️⃣ General English
8️⃣ Listening
9️⃣ Notes for essays
🔟 Career advice
❗️ Recent test takers – your suggestions for future posts are welcomed!
👉@afandi_english👈 #ielts
I often get asked advice that I’ve given before, so let’s look again at the past 10 posts in this series before moving on:
1️⃣ Exam culture
2️⃣ Speaking: Self-introduction
3️⃣ Academic topics
4️⃣ Reading
5️⃣ Last minute preparation
6️⃣ Preparation for Speaking
7️⃣ General English
8️⃣ Listening
9️⃣ Notes for essays
🔟 Career advice
❗️ Recent test takers – your suggestions for future posts are welcomed!
👉@afandi_english👈 #ielts
#67 Our favourite mistakes: Vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Biz bir maktabda o’qiymiz.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
We study at one school.
✅ Well, it should be:
We study at the same school. / We go to the same school.
❓Why?
❗️Saying that we study at one school means that we don’t study at two schools but only one – which is a strange thing to say.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Biz bir maktabda o’qiymiz.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
We study at one school.
✅ Well, it should be:
❗️Saying that we study at one school means that we don’t study at two schools but only one – which is a strange thing to say.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary
Afandi English
#1 Self-study: Tom & Savannah 🆕 Brand new on the channel: Materials for self-study! Learn English with interesting videos. You won’t believe how much English you can extract from a video if you go to the bottom of it. IELTS students – here is your source…
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#11 Self-study: Dog Retirement Home
▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a retirement home for old dogs. Find out about pet craze (=craziness) in the United States and pick up lots of vocab and structures at the same time!
❗️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
▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a retirement home for old dogs. Find out about pet craze (=craziness) in the United States and pick up lots of vocab and structures at the same time!
❗️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
Afandi English
#11 Self-study: Dog Retirement Home ▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a retirement home for old dogs. Find out about pet craze (=craziness) in the United States and pick up lots of vocab and structures at the same time! ❗️If you think this is good material…
National Geographic Dog retirement home (self-study version).pdf
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#33 Travelogue Uzbekistan: The Art of Spelling
Haven’t you asked yourself why English words in Uzbek are rarely spelt in the original English way? I don’t mind spelling Trump as Tramp but Trastbank instead of Trustbank looks weird. But the one word that looks okay to a foreigner, i.e. Paynet, doesn’t sound quite right when people say it. What’s behind this spelling mess?
Russian
English and other European words often enter Uzbek through Russian which doesn’t use the Latin alphabet. That’s obvious with words like Gamburger or Xot-dog.
Script changes
Uzbek used the Arabic alphabet, then Latin, then Cyrillic and now Latin again. Alphabets come and go, so spelling depends on pronunciation and not much else.
Oral culture
Writing is not so much part of people’s daily life as business can be done orally and people send lots of voice or video messages. Spelling issues are simply not that important.
---Vocab---
📍tramp = homeless person, beggar
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uzbekistan
Haven’t you asked yourself why English words in Uzbek are rarely spelt in the original English way? I don’t mind spelling Trump as Tramp but Trastbank instead of Trustbank looks weird. But the one word that looks okay to a foreigner, i.e. Paynet, doesn’t sound quite right when people say it. What’s behind this spelling mess?
Russian
English and other European words often enter Uzbek through Russian which doesn’t use the Latin alphabet. That’s obvious with words like Gamburger or Xot-dog.
Script changes
Uzbek used the Arabic alphabet, then Latin, then Cyrillic and now Latin again. Alphabets come and go, so spelling depends on pronunciation and not much else.
Oral culture
Writing is not so much part of people’s daily life as business can be done orally and people send lots of voice or video messages. Spelling issues are simply not that important.
---Vocab---
📍tramp = homeless person, beggar
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uzbekistan
Foreign words in Uzbek should be ...
Anonymous Poll
19%
spelt according to Uzbek pronunciation
74%
kept in the original foreign spelling
7%
spelt anyhow, no need for a standard
#22 YouTube Channel Recommendation: Half as Interesting
📊 English Level: Advanced
🔤 Subtitles: Available
💬 Topics: Geography, politics, history, society
💡 Content: This channel is something for fun-loving people with a keen interest in global affairs. The videos are all about strange phenomena or events in the world, some of it really wacky (=strange in a funny way) stuff. The narrator speaks quite fast and most of the time he only jokes, which is why you need to have a high level of English if you want to keep up. It’s not all just trivia (=fun facts, unimportant but entertaining information), there is also some deeper truth and lots of background knowledge found in these stories. All in all a great source of intelligent infotainment!
⛓ Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuCkxoKLYO_EQ2GeFtbM_bw/videos
👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube
📊 English Level: Advanced
🔤 Subtitles: Available
💬 Topics: Geography, politics, history, society
💡 Content: This channel is something for fun-loving people with a keen interest in global affairs. The videos are all about strange phenomena or events in the world, some of it really wacky (=strange in a funny way) stuff. The narrator speaks quite fast and most of the time he only jokes, which is why you need to have a high level of English if you want to keep up. It’s not all just trivia (=fun facts, unimportant but entertaining information), there is also some deeper truth and lots of background knowledge found in these stories. All in all a great source of intelligent infotainment!
⛓ Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuCkxoKLYO_EQ2GeFtbM_bw/videos
👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube
Forwarded from Joho
Dear friends,
❗️We have spotted Afandi many times. It’s now time to use our spotting skills for something you hide for us!
How does it work?
1. Choose an item that subscribers to the channel should spot. It could be anything – a shoe, a tomato, a toy, a flower, a shampoo bottle – whatever really.
2. Take a close-up photo of it, so we know what we should look for.
3. Hide your item in a picture that you take. Make it not too easy and not too difficult. Take a couple of shots and choose the best one. Your item should be hard to find but still visible in a low resolution on Telegram.
4. Send your close-up and search pictures to @jochenho by 9pm tonight.
5. We will vote whose item we want to spot and then do the spotting at 9:30pm on the channel.
Get involved enjoy the buzz!
👉@afandi_english👈
❗️We have spotted Afandi many times. It’s now time to use our spotting skills for something you hide for us!
How does it work?
1. Choose an item that subscribers to the channel should spot. It could be anything – a shoe, a tomato, a toy, a flower, a shampoo bottle – whatever really.
2. Take a close-up photo of it, so we know what we should look for.
3. Hide your item in a picture that you take. Make it not too easy and not too difficult. Take a couple of shots and choose the best one. Your item should be hard to find but still visible in a low resolution on Telegram.
4. Send your close-up and search pictures to @jochenho by 9pm tonight.
5. We will vote whose item we want to spot and then do the spotting at 9:30pm on the channel.
Get involved enjoy the buzz!
👉@afandi_english👈