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2021-06-22 19:14:33 #40 Afandi Quiz: Mysterious song

Today’s quiz is about a mysterious song from a mysterious part of India! Can you guess where it’s from? Pay attention to the language and style.

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2021-06-21 19:04:44 #15 Featured article: Is Uzbek cuisine to die for?

Today’s article is about Uzbek cuisine (=a country’s or region’s range of dishes and cooking style). It is controversial (=making many people disagree) as it says that Uzbek food is really heavy and causes diet-related diseases.

http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20191117-is-uzbek-cuisine-actually-to-die-for

Take a look at the article and then debate with your fellow subscribers in the Afandi English Chat.

The debate question is: Should Uzbek cuisine change?

If your birthday is between 1 January and 30 June you say NO.
If your birthday is between 1 July and 31 December you say YES.

Do not debate with your real opinion and don’t get personal, this is just an exercise!

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2021-06-20 19:21:49 Congrats to Muhammadiy!!!

And fantastic designs again, this time from Dilnary, Xurshida and Oisha! Open / Comment

2021-06-20 19:00:27 #56 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi in Shahrixon

Can you spot Afandi in this picture?

If you can you might win 5,000 Paynet-soums!

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2021-06-20 18:03:43 Afani spotters to the front! We'll play another round at 9pm! Open / Comment

2021-06-19 20:11:49 #42 Travelogue Uzbekistan: Copybook vs Notebook 4:1

The snappy word daftar is translated in two ways apparently – copybook sounds quite odd in English but is a good description of how this thing is often used, unlike what the word notebook suggests. What’s the difference?

Copybook
You copy random texts from the screen of your phone or your classmate’s daftar into your own daftar. You have no idea about what you write, nor do you care. Your teacher collects it and calls that “education”.

Notebook
You write what you need to remember in your own style and for your own use. No one checks it and no one collects it. Perhaps you won’t look at it again but when you took your notes you really thought about it all.

Daftars exist in the exact same format in Russia and also have exciting designs. But I doubt they can they match these ones here.

---Vocab---
snappy = short and clear apparently = it seems odd = strange

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2021-06-18 19:58:01 #24 Tongue twister: Harvest

Challenge yourself with this tongue twister:

Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.

Translation:
Pishgan oq bug’doy o’roqchilari pishgan oq bug’doyni to’g’ri yig’ib olishadi.

Pay attention to:

Pronunciation – The [r] sound is difficult for some students. Try not to let your tongue vibrate while producing a trilling [rrr].

Pronunciation – Make sure your [w] doesn’t sound like [v]. The Uzbek letter ‘v’ is pronounced like a mixture of both.

Now practice: Ripe white wheat reapers reap ripe white wheat right.

@afandi_english Open / Comment

2021-06-17 19:00:48 #75 Our favourite mistakes: Vocabulary

Please translate the following sentence:
Men rus tilini o’rganyapman.

Perhaps you think it is:
I’m learning Russian language.

Well, it should be:
I’m learning Russian.

Why?

The word language is not needed in English.

@afandi_english Open / Comment