Stranded on a mountain road in Tajikistan 🇹🇯
Girded by dramatic mountain ranges and having more in common culturally with the Persian civilisations of Greater Iran than the Turkic nomads of the steppe, no part of the former Soviet Union, nor any region of Central Asia, holds the same enigmatic appeal as Tajikistan. Many of the great Persian dynasties ruled over the modern territory of Tajikistan and the people there speak a dialect of Persian which they call Tajik. The Soviets, in their heavy-handed way, carved anew the boundaries of Central Asia and in this way obliterated much of its cultural and linguistic order. The great cities of Tajik civilisation - Samarkand and Bukhara - were allotted to Uzbekistan. As compensation, the Soviets built for Tajikistan a new capital city around a town that held a large market on Mondays. This became Dushanbe, which means “Monday” in Persian. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, those great seats of culture and history lay far away beyond an international border. The bloody civil war of 1995 compounded the question that the country still grapples with: what is Tajikistan? It is that question that we will aim to answer on this quest. Join me as we travel into a remote corner of this extraordinary country and meet the people who call it home.
Day 2 of the adventure: • Solo in a remote Tajik...
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00:00 Iranians of the East
01:21 The cement factory
02:23 Negotiations
04:19 Into the mountains
04:45 Anzob tunnel
05:37 Ayni
07:10 A guest of the state
09:08 The Zerafshan valley
09:45 Mr President
10:58 Tajiks in Russia
11:53 The valley of gold
12:44 Car trouble
14:58 The marriage question
16:40 The river Zerafshan
17:21 A tow and its cortege
18:28 Heave-ho
19:49 A speculator
24:20 Night falls, stakes rise
25:39 A physician
26:02 Good Samaritans
27:15 Onward, upward
28:45 Charismatic megafauna
30:29 I ❤️ Veshab
31:45 Umar
34:25 Umar’s home
35:05 Soviet space dog
35:36 Une soirée en famille
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Those mountains, as stark and bleak as they are, are beautiful.
U should get Oscar for your unique documentaries 👈👍👌☝
@JosephMorganYT
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Thanks for the support man :) I’m glad you’re enjoying the content and I hope you like the new video
wow going to ayni seem to requiring lots of hassle and transfer, you had a great adventure there :)
I just watched all your videos last week and was sad that I ran out of videos. I was so excited when I saw your upload! Keep making videos please don't stop! I love coming with you on your adventures!
@JosephMorganYT
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That’s awesome to hear man :) I’ll be working hard to keep the content coming
Great video!
I like the way you document everything! Great travel vlog :)
@JosephMorganYT
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Thanks man :) more to come...
Fantastic video, thank you.
@JosephMorganYT
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I’m glad you enjoyed it :)
How do you manage to upload these videos? Do you have an international SIM and upload things when you get to a major city?
I absolutely love these type of videos. It's like taking a peek into a completely different world. Also, your russian is very good. I'm also learning russian and was wondering if you have any tips for me.
@JosephMorganYT
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Thanks man, glad you like them :) Some tips on learning Russian: 1) Focus on acquiring as broad a range of vocabulary as possible. If you understand the dictionary meaning of every word in a sentence, you stand a good chance of grasping the sentence. Use Anki if that kind of thing helps you. 2) Do not get too bogged down in the minutiae of grammatical points that don't really help you express yourself, eg. verbs of motion. You can learn those nuances later. 3) But do focus on those grammatical features which are essential to communication. I would say case endings are in that category. 4) Pay attention to stress patterns. I don't see many people give this much importance, but it turns out that if you pronounce a word with the wrong stressed syllable, a Russian speaker will look at you like you're an alien. I found that learning songs (and poems) was useful for drilling stress because the rhythm of the music reinforces the stress patterns in the words. For example, I learnt all the words to almost every song by Кино. 5) It is very, very hard, but stick with it. It opens up a whole new world and that can be incredibly rewarding. Best of luck man.
@-azerima5039
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@@JosephMorganYT Thank you so much for the tips. I'm actually currently going through an anki deck to get some basic vocab down. I'm around 200 words in and it's actually crazy how much you can understand by just learning the most common words. and I actually love listening to kino. They are one of the first russian artists that I've ever listened and I will definietly start using songs as a way to improve my speech and vocab further. Thanks again for the tips and good luck with your adventures.
Whoever you are Wherever you are Whenever you are The Emperor loves you brother
@ChillAssTurtle
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The overall quality of your videos n the way you present everything has gotten noticeably better in such a short time, well done brother
WHile you're sitting in the car and you have plenty of time ask them to tell u a local legend ;)