#125 Our favourite mistakes: Writing
▶️ Look at this sentence:
People today face many problems, such as stress, loneliness, conflicts with others and etc.
❓ What’s wrong here?
❗️ There is no combination and etc. because etc. means et cetera and et already means and in Latin.
❗️ You have two options – either just etc. or and so on. Choose one only.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing
▶️ Look at this sentence:
❗️ There is no combination and etc. because etc. means et cetera and et already means and in Latin.
❗️ You have two options – either just etc. or and so on. Choose one only.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing
#43 YouTube Channel Recommendation: Simone Giertz
📊 English Level: Upper
🔤 Subtitles: Automatic
💬 Topics: Do-it-yourself, inventions, home improvements
💡 Content: Simone comes from 🇸🇪Sweden and lives in 🇺🇸America, and she’s not your typical girl. She rolls up her sleeves (=prepares to do physical work), heads into her workshop and makes new stuff from scratch (=from zero) while sharing her thoughts in the process. Watch her make furniture or handicraft, fiddling (=touching and moving sth) with cars or inventing something totally new.
⛓ Link: https://www.youtube.com/c/simonegiertz
👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube
📊 English Level: Upper
🔤 Subtitles: Automatic
💬 Topics: Do-it-yourself, inventions, home improvements
💡 Content: Simone comes from 🇸🇪Sweden and lives in 🇺🇸America, and she’s not your typical girl. She rolls up her sleeves (=prepares to do physical work), heads into her workshop and makes new stuff from scratch (=from zero) while sharing her thoughts in the process. Watch her make furniture or handicraft, fiddling (=touching and moving sth) with cars or inventing something totally new.
⛓ Link: https://www.youtube.com/c/simonegiertz
👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube
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#21 Know Your World: Special marriage practices
▶️ It’s interesting how in other cultures something we think of as crazy can be totally normal. Marriage practices can be especially shocking. Let’s look at three phenomena and their geographic distribution:
1. Polygamy: This is when a one person has more than one spouse (=married partner, husband or wife). When a man can have several wives we speak of polygyny; when a woman can have several husbands it’s polyandry.
2. Cosanguinity: This is the word for “cousin marriage”. In some countries it’s common to marry one’s first cousin.
3. Child marriage: This is when a person (usually girl) marries before reaching adulthood.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #map
▶️ It’s interesting how in other cultures something we think of as crazy can be totally normal. Marriage practices can be especially shocking. Let’s look at three phenomena and their geographic distribution:
1. Polygamy: This is when a one person has more than one spouse (=married partner, husband or wife). When a man can have several wives we speak of polygyny; when a woman can have several husbands it’s polyandry.
2. Cosanguinity: This is the word for “cousin marriage”. In some countries it’s common to marry one’s first cousin.
3. Child marriage: This is when a person (usually girl) marries before reaching adulthood.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #map
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#88 Afandi Quiz: Mysterious song
Today’s quiz is about a mysterious song from a mysterious country! Maybe you think it’s from India but it’s not!
👉@afandi_english👈 #quiz #song_quiz
Today’s quiz is about a mysterious song from a mysterious country! Maybe you think it’s from India but it’s not!
👉@afandi_english👈 #quiz #song_quiz
This song is from ...
Final Results
32%
🇧🇩Bangladesh
32%
🇱🇰Sri Lanka
32%
🇵🇰Pakistan
5%
🇦🇫Afghanistan
Afandi English
This song is from ...
What a draw!
💡 The style of this song is Bhangra from the region of Punjab which is divided between India and Pakistan. Since India wasn’t an option it should have been Pakistan.
💡 The style of this song is Bhangra from the region of Punjab which is divided between India and Pakistan. Since India wasn’t an option it should have been Pakistan.
#1 Correct me if you can
🆕 On Afandi English we’ve had an awful lot of (=terribly many) favourite mistakes in the past 2+ years and we’re far from done with them. But in order to really eliminate (=kill off, make sth disappear) these mistakes we need some practice. So in this new series of posts you will be given a faulty (=containing mistakes) sentence to correct.
▶️ Please find the mistake in the following sentence:
Please wait me, I’ll be back in 5 minutes.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #correct
🆕 On Afandi English we’ve had an awful lot of (=terribly many) favourite mistakes in the past 2+ years and we’re far from done with them. But in order to really eliminate (=kill off, make sth disappear) these mistakes we need some practice. So in this new series of posts you will be given a faulty (=containing mistakes) sentence to correct.
▶️ Please find the mistake in the following sentence:
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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#24 Self-study: Towards a robotic future?
▶️ Today’s video and handout are about so-called “futurism” – predicting the future through research of current trends. Listen to what the eccentric (=strange but interesting person) Faith Popcorn, head of a New York consulting company, has to say and pick up some English on the way!
❗️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 #future
▶️ Today’s video and handout are about so-called “futurism” – predicting the future through research of current trends. Listen to what the eccentric (=strange but interesting person) Faith Popcorn, head of a New York consulting company, has to say and pick up some English on the way!
❗️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 #future
Afandi English
#24 Self-study: Towards a robotic future? ▶️ Today’s video and handout are about so-called “futurism” – predicting the future through research of current trends. Listen to what the eccentric (=strange but interesting person) Faith Popcorn, head of a New York…
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#101 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi weaving carpets in Marg’ilon
❓ 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!
👉@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!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
Congrats to Oisha!!! 🥳🥳🥳
And fantastic designs again, thanks to Oygul, Muhammadazim, Oybek and a couple more guys actually! 👏👏👏
And fantastic designs again, thanks to Oygul, Muhammadazim, Oybek and a couple more guys actually! 👏👏👏
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Francis Tapon
#22 Know Your World: Travelling in Afghanistan
▶️ Back in 2018 I met Frank, a young 🇨🇦Canadian traveller in 🇨🇳China and we’ve kept in touch since then. Here’s a podcast in which he talks about his recent travel experience in 🇦🇫Afghanistan as the first Western traveller since the Taliban took over the government.
✏️ He would love to hear your feedback! Message him on +254 750 127 803. He’s travelling in 🇧🇮Burundi (East Africa) right now.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #podcast #travel
▶️ Back in 2018 I met Frank, a young 🇨🇦Canadian traveller in 🇨🇳China and we’ve kept in touch since then. Here’s a podcast in which he talks about his recent travel experience in 🇦🇫Afghanistan as the first Western traveller since the Taliban took over the government.
✏️ He would love to hear your feedback! Message him on +254 750 127 803. He’s travelling in 🇧🇮Burundi (East Africa) right now.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #podcast #travel
#89 Afandi Quiz: What’s this map about?
▶️ Here’s a strange-looking world map. Some countries are inflated (=made bigger, esp. from pumping air inside) while others seem abnormally thin.
👉@afandi_english👈 #maps #map_quiz
▶️ Here’s a strange-looking world map. Some countries are inflated (=made bigger, esp. from pumping air inside) while others seem abnormally thin.
👉@afandi_english👈 #maps #map_quiz