The beauty industry is a billion dollar industry. Why? because so many women buy beauty products. In this podcast, I will give my personal insights on why women invest a lot on beauty.

FLO TALKS 

Why women spend so much money on beauty?

⭐ Contents: 1/ Les objets 2/ Les inventions 3/ Les inventions françaises 4/ Raoul Parienti et le Concours Lépine 5/ Le smartphone 6/ Les objets connectés 7/ La pollution, le recyclage 8/ Jean Tinguely 9/ Romuald Hazoumé

⭐ To go further, visit www.explorefrench.com. On my website, you can become a Premium Member and gain full access to all transcripts, games and language activities for both of my podcast channels "Learn French with Anthony" and "Explore France with Anthony". On my website, you'll also gain full access to my French online courses, "Skills Trainer" modules to enhance your proficiency in French, "Word Builder" modules to expand your French vocabulary, and audiobooks specially designed for learners of French. 

⭐ In this A2-level episode, we will talk about objects and inventions, the development of smart objects in our daily lives, and the denunciation of consumerism by artists such as Jean Tinguely and Romuald Hazoumé, whose works are based on recycled objects. We will practice demonstrative pronouns, the compound past, and we will review the vocabulary for daily life objects and activities in French, among many other things.

⭐ In the first part of this podcast, I will speak only in French, and in the second part, I will translate and explain everything in English.

Learn French with Anthony

A2#02 Objets, art et technologie

皆さんの国に方言はありますか。
日本には地域によって多様な方言があります。
今回は、北海道出身のフミと佐賀県出身のアヤがお互いの方言について話します。

Are there any dialects in your country?
In Japan, there are many different dialects depending on the region. 
This time, Fumi from Hokkaido and Aya from Saga talk about our dialects. 

♤ キーワード
・標準語（ひょうじゅんご：standard language）
・ぽろっと（slip out accidentally）
・自発的な（じはつてきな：spontaneously）
・気取る（きどる：act snobbish）
・〜色に染まる（〜いろにそまる：to be absorbed in…）
・平安時代（へいあんじだい：The Heian period：At the end of the 8th century, the capital was moved to present-day Kyoto. The Heian period designates a span of roughly 400 years until the 12th century.）
・十二単（じゅうにひとえ：a twelve-layered kimono worn by noblewomen during the Heian period）

♧ 理解度チェッククイズ
1. 佐賀県の方言「ぞろびく」はどういう意味？
2. 北海道と佐賀県の方言で「さようなら」はそれぞれ何と言う？

♢ 前回のクイズの答え
1. フミが最近気になっている言葉は？ 
→ 界隈（かいわい）
2. それはどういう意味？ 
→ 〜の人たち、〜をする人たち
3. 元々どこで使われていた言葉？
→ インターネット上でスラングとして使われていた

BGM special thanks：MusMus

アヤさんとフミさんの日本語雑談（Aya and Fumi’s Japanese Chit-Chat）

Episode 30：日本の方言

This is for beginner and intermediate level. 

Arabic Podcast

Mansour story part2

This is a very short poem by Cahit Külebi. 

Şiirler/Poems 

Anlarsın

In this episode, we are going to listen to a dialogue and talk about some common phrases people use to argue. 
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To see podcast transcripts, a list of all my podcasts, vocabulary lists, quizzes, and more, click through to my website above where you will find all the links. You will also find links to my beginner-level podcasts for Chinese and Spanish there as well.
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Enjoy the podcast!

Flying In English | Intermediate

“I’ve Had It!” Learn how to have an argument | Flying in English Intermediate Ep. 001

Sometimes it's not easy to take care of our pets, especially when we are busy or traveling. In this episode, Karen and Baiwei talked about various pet services on the market nowadays. 

Chillchat (Learn Chinese and Chill)

备受宠爱的宠物 The Pampered Pets

In this episode, I am talking about the weather. How to say, it is hot today or it is cold today or it is raining. 

Let's talk Nepali 

Let's talk about weather | मौसमको कुरा गरौं 

Working from home and avoiding the journey to and from the office is saving many of us at least an hour every day, according to a 2023 study.

But we're not always using that saved time for ourselves — we're actually spending a lot of that time working.

The US-based National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) did a survey that looked at how workers in 27 countries used their time when working from home.

On average, the daily time saved by working from home was found to be 72 minutes.

Workers in China saved 102 minutes per day, while in Japan it was 100 minutes, and in India it was 99.

But the study also found that, on average, 40% of that saved time was spent working — either on the worker's main job or on an additional one.

Workers in Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan said they used more than half of their saved time to work.

So what happened to the rest of that extra time?

According to the study, an average of 34% was used as leisure time — with people in Germany and Austria using almost half of their extra time for leisure.

And 11% — about eight minutes per day — was spent looking after children or other family members.

The NBER said children had gotten a better deal with parents working from home — but that the big winners were employers, who got extra work time from their employees.

