#1 Travel Notes: Khoresmic Shower
🆕 Travelling is not just an activity, it’s a way of looking at the world around you. Here are some brief travel notes where I’m sharing one impression at a time, letting you travel with me!
▶️ Water goes in somehow, heats up naturally, and splashes down on your dust-covered body. Found in a small town near Urgench. Spot the cat in the picture!
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uzbekistan
🆕 Travelling is not just an activity, it’s a way of looking at the world around you. Here are some brief travel notes where I’m sharing one impression at a time, letting you travel with me!
▶️ Water goes in somehow, heats up naturally, and splashes down on your dust-covered body. Found in a small town near Urgench. Spot the cat in the picture!
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uzbekistan
Would you like to take a Khoresmic Shower?
Anonymous Poll
44%
Without hesitation
32%
A bit unsure
24%
Never ever
#93 Afandi Quiz: What is this thing?
Here’s a strange-looking thing. What could it be?
👉@afandi_english👈 #thing_quiz
Here’s a strange-looking thing. What could it be?
👉@afandi_english👈 #thing_quiz
This thing is to lock up ...
Final Results
22%
small birds in a car
26%
cigars for special occasions
12%
photos of hated people
41%
addictive mobile phones
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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#25 Self-study: Living in the past
▶️ Today’s video and handout are about an Englishman who leads a double life. He works for British Airways as a flight attendant but at home he lives like in the 1940s. Check out the house he lives in.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
❗️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 an Englishman who leads a double life. He works for British Airways as a flight attendant but at home he lives like in the 1940s. Check out the house he lives in.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
❗️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
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#40 Movie Time: The Other Son (2012)
▶️ Today’s movie is a 🇫🇷French drama set in 🇮🇱Israel. It’s about an Israeli and an Arab family whose sons were accidentally swapped (=exchanged) at the time of their birth. They find out many years later when the sons have grown up. See how the story unfolds (=the story is told) and what “blood is thicker than water” really means.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #international_films #drama
▶️ Today’s movie is a 🇫🇷French drama set in 🇮🇱Israel. It’s about an Israeli and an Arab family whose sons were accidentally swapped (=exchanged) at the time of their birth. They find out many years later when the sons have grown up. See how the story unfolds (=the story is told) and what “blood is thicker than water” really means.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #international_films #drama
#79 Travelogue Kazakhstan: The Kazakh Dubai?
🇰🇿Kazakhstan is a nation blessed (or cursed?) with natural resources, and nowhere is this more evident than in Aktau, the Kazakh boomtown by the Caspian Sea. I can’t help feeling reminded of Dubai:
What’s the same?
The city is surrounded by desert and has a coastline. There’s a huge construction boom going on. People drive ridiculously good cars. The roads are wide and without a car you’re nothing. The buildings are huge and without air-condition you cannot survive.
What’s different?
The city feels quite empty. Apart from a few ‘mini markets’ you can’t find anywhere to shop and there’s basically no gastronomy, not even by the rocky beach. The palm trees are made of plastic and the areas between freshly built apartment blocks are still pieces of untouched desert. There are also close to no foreign workers or tourists.
No matter the luxury dump that Aktau is now, I’m sure we will hear more about it in the years to come.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #kazakhstan
🇰🇿Kazakhstan is a nation blessed (or cursed?) with natural resources, and nowhere is this more evident than in Aktau, the Kazakh boomtown by the Caspian Sea. I can’t help feeling reminded of Dubai:
What’s the same?
The city is surrounded by desert and has a coastline. There’s a huge construction boom going on. People drive ridiculously good cars. The roads are wide and without a car you’re nothing. The buildings are huge and without air-condition you cannot survive.
What’s different?
The city feels quite empty. Apart from a few ‘mini markets’ you can’t find anywhere to shop and there’s basically no gastronomy, not even by the rocky beach. The palm trees are made of plastic and the areas between freshly built apartment blocks are still pieces of untouched desert. There are also close to no foreign workers or tourists.
No matter the luxury dump that Aktau is now, I’m sure we will hear more about it in the years to come.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #kazakhstan
Afandi English
#79 Travelogue Kazakhstan: The Kazakh Dubai? 🇰🇿Kazakhstan is a nation blessed (or cursed?) with natural resources, and nowhere is this more evident than in Aktau, the Kazakh boomtown by the Caspian Sea. I can’t help feeling reminded of Dubai: What’s the…
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📍blessed = being given good things by God 📍cursed = punished by God 📍natural resources = usable things provided by nature, like minerals, coal, oil or gas 📍evident = obvious, easy to see 📍boomtown = a city in which the economy grows quickly 📍Caspian Sea = sea between Kazakhstan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan 📍sb can’t help doing sth = sb must do sth, sb is unable to stop doing sth 📍boom = rapid development 📍ridiculously good = so good that it makes you laugh 📍gastronomy = businesses that serve food and drink, like restaurants, cafes, bars, etc. 📍close to no = almost no 📍dump = place where people throw rubbish
📍blessed = being given good things by God 📍cursed = punished by God 📍natural resources = usable things provided by nature, like minerals, coal, oil or gas 📍evident = obvious, easy to see 📍boomtown = a city in which the economy grows quickly 📍Caspian Sea = sea between Kazakhstan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan 📍sb can’t help doing sth = sb must do sth, sb is unable to stop doing sth 📍boom = rapid development 📍ridiculously good = so good that it makes you laugh 📍gastronomy = businesses that serve food and drink, like restaurants, cafes, bars, etc. 📍close to no = almost no 📍dump = place where people throw rubbish
Can Aktau become another Dubai?
Anonymous Poll
34%
Yes, money can do just that.
50%
Maybe, but it still has a long way to go.
16%
No way, this is a far cry from Dubai.
#105 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi in an old staircase of Tbilisi old town, 🇬🇪Georgia
❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?
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❓ 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
This was a tough one today!! Congrats to Bobur!!! 🥳🥳🥳
And only one design for today, from Akmalxon. Everyone else was busy spotting Afandi... 👏👏👏
And only one design for today, from Akmalxon. Everyone else was busy spotting Afandi... 👏👏👏