1.太太：tài tai  n Mrs., madam
2.秘书 ：mì shū. n secretary
3.经理：jīng lǐ.n . manager
4.办公室：bàn gōng shì. n office
周太太：喂，你好！请问周明在吗？
秘书：周经理出去了，不在办公室。
周太太：他去哪儿了？什么时候回来?
秘书：他出去办事了，下午回来。
周太太：回来了就让他给我打个电话。
秘书：好的，他到了办公室我就告诉他。

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hsk 3 在打电话 On the phone 

In this episode, we talk a little bit about ourselves.

Real Native Vocabulary

Introducing ourselves

❓Com’è vivere all’estero? 
❓Quali sono i vantaggi e quali gli svantaggi?
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⬇️VOCABOLARIO ⬇️
Le cuffie = the headset 
salto nel vuoto = leap into the unknown
Biglietto di sola andata = one way ticket 
Ampliare gli orizzonti = broaden my horizons
Opportunità di carriera = career opportunity 
Mi sono trasferita a Lisbona = I moved to Lisbon 
Tagli alla sanità e all’istruzione = cuts in health and education
Anno sabatico = gap year 
Fraintendimenti = misunderstandings
Non ci faccio più caso = I don’t notice that 
Conviverci = to live with this 


Puro Parlare

16. Com'è vivere all'estero?

IELTS Preparation. Band 8-9 Answers. Part 3 - Photography. Question 4.

When can an image be worth a thousand words?

Here are some relevant vocabulary you can use:

Humans, responsive, visual, cues, feel, happy, sad, disgusted, excited and curious, picture, arouses, emotions, convey, complex, unique, ideas, image.

I hope it helps you get closer to your IELTS speaking goal!

Let me know how I can assist your spoken English development.

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IELTS Preparation. Band 8-9 Answers. Part 3 - Photography. Question 4.

hi, in this podcast I'll be touching a lot of topics at once. It was totally unplanned as I wanted to focus on IELTS but I was inspired to support you in this:

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How to succeed as a communicator in English? Career development.

When we talk about Lionel Messi, it's easy to talk about numbers. He has been named the best men's player in the world eight times. He has won one World Cup, four European Champions League trophies and an Olympic gold medal.

He has scored more than 800 goals for his clubs and his country.

But these numbers only tell some of the story. It's also his balance, the way he moves his feet, slides the ball through another player's legs and finds space on the field.

Soccer is often called "the beautiful game," and for many people, no one has ever played it quite as beautifully as Messi.

His story began in Rosario, Argentina, where he was born in 1987. There, when he was a child, he played for a club called Newell's Old Boys.

Clubs around the world soon heard about the young star in South America, and aged 13 he moved with his family to Spain, where he joined FC Barcelona's junior team.

By the age of 16, he was already playing for the club's adult team. Goals, then trophies, came quickly, and he never looked back.

He was soon a global star, and one of the world's highest paid sportspeople.

Messi left Barcelona in 2021, having scored more goals for the club than anyone else. He joined Paris Saint-Germain, and then, two years later, Inter Miami in the US.

In 2022, he was Argentina's captain and the star player in his country's World Cup win. Messi, at just 170 centimeters tall, had become a giant of the sport.




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A new survey in Japan has shown that many people may be giving up on "happily ever after" when they get older than 35.

A survey by the Nippon Foundation asked 6,000 people, aged 15 to 45, about the country's falling birth rate. Among the 3,935 single participants, 46% said they want to get married, while 33% said they don't.

However, when asked if they really think they will get married, only 27% said yes, while 39% said no.

Younger people were more hopeful about marriage, with about 40% of those aged 15 to 25 thinking they will marry. But over 50% of single people aged 36 to 45 believe they won't get married, suggesting people may give up on marriage as they age.

Of the 1,313 people who said they don't want to get married, 40% said they prefer being single. Other reasons for staying single included not being able to see any benefit to marrying, and wanting to put their own life first. More than 20% didn't have a clear reason or just didn't know why.

For the 267 people who want to marry but think they won't, the top reason for thinking it won't happen is not having chances to meet potential partners, which was mentioned by 49% of these people. Others said they weren't good at getting along with people of the opposite sex, or felt financially insecure.

Where people lived also affected views on marriage. About 30% of people in central Tokyo and big cities thought they would marry, but only just over 20% of those in smaller towns and villages felt the same.

Marriages in Japan have been decreasing for years. In 2023, there were 3.9 marriages per 1,000 people in Japan — down from a high of 12 marriages per 1,000 people in 1947.