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World Food #21: Chakalaka from 🇿🇦South Africa

▶️ South African cuisine is a blend (=mixture) of European, Indian and local African influences. Check out this vegetable dish invented in Johannesburg.

... made with:
Onions, beans and tomatoes are a must, everything else is optional: Cabbage, garlic, and any other vegetables. And then there’s a lot of spices in a good chakalaka – chili, turmeric, coriander, cumin, etc.

... eaten with:
Pap (the South African fufu) or any other staple (=main food) like rice or bread. Locals also have it with braai (South African barbecue).

Healthy or not? 🟢
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟢

👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food

Afandi Quiz #157: Which country?

▶️ Here is a mysterious picture from a mysterious country.

👉@afandi_english👈 #picture_quiz

Know Your World #81: Global Superpowers

▶️ Watch this insightful (=making you understand sth deeply) TED Talk by American political scientist Ian Bremmer who explains the state of the world (=the situation of the world) in simple terms (=with easy words).

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #ted #future

YouTube Channel Recommendation #56: Scishow

📊 English Level: Upper & advanced

🔤 Subtitles: Provided

💬 Topics: Science, nature

💡 Content: Here’s a science channel by Hank Green from CrashCourse and his team. They explore nature phenomena, space, health challenges, animals, you name it (=everything else too).

⛓️ Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/scishow

👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube

#32 Self-study: Language learning with ChatGPT

▶️ Here’s a little demo of how you could be using ChatGPT to learn English. See how it works and share your opinion below.

👉@afandi_english👈 #self_study #future #talking_point

A Good Laugh #25: Best of Loriot

▶️ Here's some old-but-gold 🇩🇪German comedy. Enjoy!

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #good_laugh

🎉 Special Day: Happy Teachers Day!

▶️ I don’t know how they do it, but inspiring videos from 🇹🇭Thailand always move people to tears (=touch people emotionally). For today’s occasion (=reason to celebrate) watch this story of a medical professor and his students.

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #must_watch

Congrats to Humoyunmirzo!!! 🥳🥳🥳

And credits for the design go to Akmal! 👍

Spot Afandi and his donkey #165: Afandi in Kashgar, Uyghur Autonomous Region, 🇨🇳China

❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?

❗️ You might be the lucky winner of 🔥10,000🔥 Paynet-soums!

❓ How? Spot Afandi, mark him in the picture and send it by private message to ❗️🆕❗️@jochhoff. The time limit is 30 minutes.

❗️ If you win you have 30 minutes to claim your prize. If not we’ll find another winner!

👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi

❗️Spot Afandi again at 9pm and win 10k paynet soums 😎

Movie Time #84: I Am Sam (2001)

▶️ Today’s movie is a drama about an intellectually (=mentally) disabled single father (=a man raising his child alone without the mother) who fights to keep his daughter. Watch how he forges an unlikely and comical bond (forge a bond =start being connected emotionally) with his lawyer.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #comedy #american_films

Unmissable Websites #8: Paint Toys

▶️ Feel like an artist and create a work of art with just a few clicks. How? Use one of the tools on this website.

🔗 https://paint.toys/

👉@afandi_english👈 #website