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Speak Hokkien with Niki

⭐ Pouquoi le drapeau français est-il bleu, blanc et rouge ? C’est ce que nous allons voir dans cet épisode.

⭐ To make the most of this podcast, a transcript, an English translation and language activities are available on my BLOG.

⭐ If you want to practise your French further, please check out my regular podcast channel "Learn French with Anthony" and visit my website to access plenty of interactive language activities.

Explore France with Anthony

#02 Le drapeau français

Qualche informazione riguardo la giornata di ferragosto e il modo di trascorrere questa festività.

The Italian Miscellaneous Podcast for beginners

Ferragosto

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Learning Chinese by reading picture book

make a snowman 堆雪人

Pronunciation and sentence practice using the letter 'M' 

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Say Hi English! With Teacher Duran.

5 minute Adjectives:  The letter 'M' 

Amanda: Hi Maria!
Maria: Oh, hi Amanda.
Amanda: You look a bit worried, are you all right?
Maria: I’m exhausted. Yesterday’s homework took me all evening. It’s probably going to double next year, isn’t it?
Amanda: Probably. My older brother has to write long essays for his English literature course. But we’ll have fewer subjects to study. Have you chosen your courses yet?
Maria: No, when’s the deadline?
Amanda: We have another month, but the school emailed us all the list the other day. I have it on my phone.
Maria: Ooh, let’s have a look, then.
Amanda: Here it is. Oh, look, the Spanish and biology timetables clash. I won’t be able to do both.
Maria: Would you do that, though? Languages and science don’t go together, do they?
Amanda: Well, you wouldn't think so, but actually, my aunt is a research scientist, and a lot of European universities work together on projects. She’s working on a project with a university in Rome, one in Germany, and one in Portugal.
Maria: Is it a biology project?
Amanda: No, she’s a chemist. They’re working on a solution to clean up deadly pollution in rivers and lakes.
Maria: That sounds so cool and really fascinating.
Amanda: It really is. She gets to visit colleagues in different cities sometimes, and she gets her work translated into lots of different languages. She wishes she had learned some German, though, so she could communicate better with her German research partners. She understands Portuguese and Italian, but German, not so much.
Maria: When did she learn Portuguese and Italian?
Amanda: I think she did some of her university degree in Lisbon and some in Rome.
Maria: Studying chemistry in different languages?
Amanda: Yes, she loved it!
Maria: So, you’re kind of following in her footsteps, then. Science and languages. You could be a biologist in Spain.
Amanda: Yep, or at least study there, or South America.
Maria: So, what are you going to do about the timetable clash?
Amanda: I think I’ll talk to the dean. 

English Conversation/Dialogue

Science For All

If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully. For instance, "we sailed through the first half of the presentation but the second half was really difficult. There were just so many numbers and figures to communicate!". 

DAILY Business English VOCABULARY builder

If only my job were like a ship!

In this episode we will talk about 【Target, action, time】, you will learn how to say 【procrastination, idle one's time away】 ect. The material helps you get used to different voice and accent. 
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It is recommended that you study in the following ways:
Step 1: Gist listening. Listen to get the main idea. (more times if necessary)
Step 2: Read the text to find out words you didn't get, then look up the dictionary. 
Step 3: Listen and imitate as much as you can without looking at the text.
Step 4: Write down what you hear if you want to practise writing.
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大家好，我是Yuli。欢迎收听我的播客。
好久没有跟大家分享了，因为过去几个月我非常忙。我去了很多地方，一边工作一边旅行。因为太忙了，有很多想做的事情一直没有时间做。如果你也跟我一样，在生活和工作中有拖延症，那今天的内容可能对你有一些帮助。我们来听一听吧。
我特别喜欢这三个定律啊，简洁高效，快速变优秀。
第一个叫萨盖定律。戴一块手表的人能够准确的知道时间，但戴两块手表呢，很可能就不知道是几点了。一个阶段的目标应该是明确的，想要太多信息太乱，只会打乱自己的节奏。
第二个，48小时定律。假如你有了一个决定了，但是没有在48个小时内去做，那大概率就不会再做了。拖延非常消耗我们的耐心和热情，想做什么就在48个小时之内去做掉，不要让美好无疾而终。
第三个，帕金森定律。一项任务呢，可以在10个小时完成，也可能4个小时就做完了，换句话来讲啊，暑假作业总是拖到最后一刻，工作和学习，也总是拖到最后一刻才搞定。给自己设定一个最后的期限，更专注更高效，把原本蹉跎掉的时间拿来享受生活。这多好呀。
你听出来没有，这三个定律分别是关于目标、行动和时间。优秀的人都会掌握好这三件事。加油！
你学中文的目标是什么呢？快行动起来吧。我们下期见。（音频来自李筱懿）
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拖延症 / tuō yán zhèng / procrastination
定律 / dìng lǜ / (scientific) laws
简洁 / jiǎn jié / concise
萨盖定律 / sà gài dìng lǜ / Sagay's Law
打乱节奏 / dǎ luàn jié zòu / disrupt the rhythm
大概率 / dà gài lǜ / with high probability
无疾而终 / wú jí ér zhōng / to result in failure, to come to nothing
帕金森定律 / pà jīn sēn dìng lǜ / Parkinson's Law.
换句话来讲 / huàn jù huà lái jiǎng / In other words
拖到最后一刻 / tuō dào zuì hòu yí kè / Procrastinate until the last minute
(最后)期限 / qī xiàn / deadline
蹉跎岁月 / cuō tuó suì yuè / idle one's time away

Yuli's Chinese Channel

目标、行动、时间 Target, action, time （Advanced level）

Hi there! This is me, Ken!
Today's topic is "favourite food". 
I am going to share my favourite food and favourite restaurant as well.
I would be happy to get to know your favourite food and restaurants.
