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Months & Seasons

¡Año nuevo, vida nueva! dice la letra de una canción muy popular en mi país, y es porque cada año trae la esperanza de cosas nuevas. En este nuevo episodio del podcast Hablemos de Salud te invito a practicar tu español y conocer cuales son los propósitos de año nuevo mas comunes cuando se busca mejorar la salud

¡Hablemos de salud!

Propósitos en salud para el año nuevo

इस कहानी से हमें यह शिक्षा मिलती है कि हमे अपने से बड़ो की बात का मान रखना चाहिए और कभी भी अपने साथी को दुर्बल नही समझना चाहिए, न ही उसे कम आंकना चाहिए, जरूरत पड़ने पर यह दुर्बल साथी भी बड़ी मदद कर जाते हैं।


Stories from Panchatantra 

ब्रह्मदत्त केकड़ा और सांप की कहानी

【北海道Hokkaido生活】
〈#113〉9月9日金曜日　天気/晴れ　気温/22℃ 

大樹町/たいきちょう
・ロケットを打ち上げるための宇宙港を作る
・その前に、着工式
・来年、完成予定

［単語］
ロケット/ろけっと…空に行くための乗り物
打ち上げ/うちあげ…空に上がること
宇宙/うちゅう…空の上
宇宙港/うちゅうこう…宇宙に行くための港
着工/ちゃっこう…建物などを作り始めること
式/しき…関係する人が集まって、お祝いをする。
完成/かんせい…（物が）できる

レッスン待ってます♪


北海道Hokkaido生活 for Japanese learners

〈#113〉9月9日金曜日　ロケットを打ち上げるための港を作る

I will give you 4 words, honestly, only 4 words, which will make you sound more natural instantly. They are words all my students know, but never use!!

Sometimes trying to replace simple vocabulary has the opposite effect of sounding natural :) Stick to the basics!

Please comment if you like what you hear, or leave me a comment to focus on something in particular.   

I have a transcript available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6uqVQLjxQI0MqNP7zNi57jkcjwtfI_DBJ-hS57KBwY/edit?usp=sharing

English With Craig  - Natural English, Natural Learning

Episode Two:  4 words to sound WAY more natural! 

Uyghurche Learning FM/ئۇيغۇرچە تىل ئۆگىنىش

Chapter 1, Exercise 14

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Čeština s Davidem

Vtipy 06

Listen to this interesting article!

University Students Interested in Stress-Reducing Cats
While a number of universities offer students opportunities to play with dogs as a way to reduce stress, little is known about whether cats could help in the same way.

So researchers from the US and Belgium surveyed more than 1,400 students and staff from 19 Belgian universities to see how interested they would be in on-campus cat visiting programs.

Participants were asked seven questions about a possible cat program, including whether they would like to have a cat on campus, if they would find it relaxing, whether they would visit the cat, and whether they would recommend a cat program to other universities. They gave each idea a score out of five.

The average total score was 3.8 in favor of a campus cat.

The researchers found that the people with the most positive feelings about a cat program were women, cat owners, people who were more emotional, and — perhaps surprisingly — people who were interested in dog programs.

The study authors said that previous research has shown that emotional people are more likely to have strong relationships with animals.

However, dog owners, as well as people who were afraid of or allergic to cats, were found to be less interested in a cat program. Some also worried that having a cat on campus would be risky.

According to the researchers, the aim of the study was to find more ways to help people feel less stressed.

They believe cats can help, since including both cats and dogs in these stress-reducing programs could encourage more people to take part, and cats would need less training than dogs to help.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

University Students Interested in Stress-Reducing Cats

A bluefin tuna was sold for 36.04 million yen -- around $273,000 -- at the first auction of the year at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market.

The price of the 212-kilogram fish was more than double that of the most expensive fish at last year's New Year's auction: a 211-kilogram fish that sold for 16.88 million yen -- at that time worth $145,000.

Both fish were caught off the coast of the town of Oma in Aomori prefecture.

This year's auction began at 5:10 a.m. on January 5, and around 230 tuna were sold in just 15 minutes.

Seafood wholesaler Yamayuki bought this year's most expensive fish for the sushi restaurant Ginza Onodera. The tuna was served to the restaurant's customers later that same day.

This is the third year in a row that Yamayuki has bought the most expensive tuna. However, prices had fallen in recent years as the restaurant industry suffered during the coronavirus pandemic.

Yamayuki's president Yukitaka Yamaguchi told The Yomiuri Shimbun that the increased price this year "is good news that symbolizes the gradual recovery from the pandemic."

This year's top price was the sixth highest since records began being kept in 1999.

The highest price recorded was at the New Year's auction in 2019 -- just after Tokyo's fish market moved from Tsukiji to Toyosu. At that auction, a 278-kilogram fish was sold for 333.6 million yen -- at that time $3 million -- to Kiyomura Corp., whose owner, Kiyoshi Kimura, runs the Sushi Zanmai restaurant chain.