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2021-05-30 19:20:27 Congrats to Shoxsanam!!!
And thanks for some funky designs, Khamidulloh, Oisha and Doniyor! Open / Comment

2021-05-30 19:00:23 #53 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi in Namangan

Can you spot Afandi and his donkey in this picture?

If you can, mark Afandi on the picture and send it to @jochenho. The time limit is 15 minutes. If you’re lucky you can win 5,000 Paynet-soums!

New to the game? Follow the instructions in #1 (see pinned message ).

@afandi_english Open / Comment

2021-05-30 17:24:38 Afandi spotters, don't forget to tune in at 9pm Open / Comment

2021-05-29 19:14:34 #39 Travelogue Uzbekistan: Clean Russians, dirty Uzbeks?

Have you ever seen any cleaning product made in Uzbekistan that has Uzbek written on the front? Soap, shampoo, washing-up liquid, washing powder – there’s only a list of ingredients in Uzbek on the back, everything else is written in a mixture of Russian and English. What might be the reasons for this?

Imitation
Imported products are generally trusted and thought to be of higher quality. Customers may assume high quality when it looks foreign, even when it’s not.

Convention
When other products have no Uzbek written on them, why would anyone try to be different? There are different conventions for different types of products.

History
With the exception of soap, most other types of cleaning products were introduced during Soviet times, and that was all about Russian.

If you can find a cleaning product with Uzbek writing on the front I will give you 5,000 soum paynet. Max. 5 participants. You have one week!

@afandi_english Open / Comment

2021-05-27 19:00:44 #72 Our favourite mistakes: Writing

What’s wrong here in these sentences?
• We had not written
• It will be writing
• I shall not have written
• I am taken

Perhaps you think about grammar now. Please don’t. Please also don’t think about what these sentences might mean (it’s complete nonsense without context).

The problem is … missing full stop (British English =dot to finish a sentence; Americans say “period”)! Every sentence needs one at the end, unless you’re chatting with someone on Telegram. The same goes for questions. Every question needs a question mark!

@afandi_english Open / Comment

2021-05-26 19:22:09 A close call!

Iceland was way off. The non-Germanic language and the brisk (=quick, full of energy) style was not really Northern European. It couldn’t have been Bulgarian or Slovak as these are Slavic languages and a little bit similar to Russian.

Hungary was the correct answer. Hungarian is from the Finno-Ugric family of languages and a distant relative of Finnish and Estonian. It is also an agglutinating language (=a language in which new words are formed by sticking parts of words together), just like Turkic (=Uzbek, Turkish, Kazakh, Uyghur, etc.) languages. Open / Comment

2021-05-25 19:04:47 #36 Afandi Quiz: Mysterious song

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

@afandi_english Open / Comment

2021-05-24 18:59:49 #14 Featured article: O’zbekiston kelajagi buyuk Xitoymi?

Today’s article is about face recognition systems being installed at schools across Uzbekistan.

https://kun.uz/en/85752493

Read the article and debate with your fellow subscribers in the Afandi English Chat.

The debate question is: Can cameras and Face ID systems improve the quality of education?

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

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

@afandi_english Open / Comment