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Dance before you get old

Hablamos sobre que es la muy llamada "the dip"  (by Seth Godin) en el aprendizaje de idiomas y que hacer cuando nos encontramos en ella.

Hablando sobre libros en los idiomas

The dip en el aprendizaje de idiomas (1 de 3)

Hey guys! 你好, Welcome to Veronica's Chinese Channel！ In today’s lesson, we are going to learn how to say “how are you” and how to answer it in Chinese.

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 How are you? 你好吗？

我在中国
去年，我在中国的一所学校工作，才过了一个月，就很想家了。因为想家，我很难过，总是哭。学生们常常问我：“老师，你怎么了？生病了吗”。我告诉他们“我想爸爸妈妈，也想男朋友了。”
几个月后，我认识了一个中国女孩儿。我们一起在学校门口租房子。她的朋友都对我很热情。我们常常一起逛街、看电影、散步、去很多地方旅游。和她们在一起，我能练习中文，学习做中国菜。
有一天，爸爸妈妈给我打电话。他们问我“你现在怎么样？还是很想家吗？还会每天哭吗？”“不，我喜欢这个城市；我喜欢我的朋友；我喜欢我的中国生活”。

Wǒ zài Zhōngguó 
Qùnián ， wǒ zài Zhōngguó de yì suǒ xuéxiào gōngzuò 。 cái guò le yí gè yuè ， jiù hěn xiǎng jiā le 。 Yīnwèi xiǎng jiā ， wǒ hěn nánguò ， zǒngshì kū 。 Xuésheng men chángcháng wèn wǒ ： " Lǎoshī ， nǐ zěnme le ？ Shēngbìng le ma " 。 Wǒ gàosu tāmen " Wǒ xiǎng Bàba、Māma ， yě xiǎng nánpéngyou le。 "
jǐ gè yuè hòu ， wǒ rènshí le yí gè Zhōngguó nǚháir 。 Wǒmen yìqǐ zài xuéxiào ménkǒu zū fángzi 。 Tā de péngyou dōu duì wǒ hěn rèqíng 。 Wǒmen chángcháng yìqǐ guàngjiē 、 kàndiànyǐng 、 sànbù 、 qù hěnduō dìfang lǚyóu 。 Hé tāmen zài yìqǐ ， wǒ néng liànxí Zhōngwén ， xuéxí zuò Zhōngguó cài 。 
Yǒuyìtiān ， Bàba、Māma gěi wǒ dǎdiànhuà 。 Tāmen wèn wǒ " Nǐ xiànzài zěnmeyàng ？ Háishì hěn xiǎng jiā ma ？ Hái huì měitiān kū ma ？ "" bù ， wǒ xǐhuan zhège chéngshì ； wǒ xǐhuan wǒ de péngyou ； wǒ xǐhuan wǒ de zhōngguó shēnghuó " 。


Learn Chinese through stories - HSK2  （more podcast：https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk_Q-vfEdpBJCRJviEEY0KQ）

My life in China

"Менять/ся" can have many prefixes, but the most popular question is about "из-"

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менять/ся | изменять/ся 

nside a dimly lit cave, a group of people sit huddled around glowing amphoras. These vessels are no ordinary pottery; they're meticulously painted with images of legendary wrestlers, engaged in eternal combat. The flickering light from a small fire casts these images onto the walls, animating the wrestlers in a primitive, captivating dance of shadows.



The cave's inhabitants watch these images, interpreting the epic battles as the ultimate expression of wrestling. They debate the techniques, celebrate the victories, and mourn the defeats, all from the moving images on the amphoras. To them, these representations are the entirety of wrestling—there is no world beyond the wrestlers on the pottery.


Nikostratos, ever the curious and skeptical cat, notices a sliver of light peeking through a crack in the cave wall. The murals and their tales don't satisfy his curiosity. One day, driven by a particularly pungent smell of the outside world—a mix of fresh earth and sweat—he finds a loose stone and wiggles his way through the crack.

Everything Zenified 

Wrestling, skeptical Cats, and Allegory of the Cave

Easy News📺
I introduce Japanese news in easy Japanese.
Today’s Theme is “Gion Festival in Kyoto”.
This episode is JLPT-N4 level.

I created a quiz on this episode.
After listening, please take the quiz!

Please use this audio for listening and shadowing practices.

☆Words☆
祭り（まつり / matsuri）：festival
コロナウイルス（ころなういるす / korona uirusu）：coronavirus
飾る（かざる / kazaru）：decorate
山車（だし / dashi）：festival car (float)
喜ぶ（よろこぶ / yorokobu）： be happy

日本三大祭り（にほんさんだいまつり / nihon sandai matsuri）：the Japan’s three greatest festivals
・祇園祭（ぎおんまつり / gion matsuri）：Gion Festival（Gion Matsuri is a one of the biggest festival which takes place over the entire month of July in Kyoto. The biggest event of this festival is Yamahoko. Yamahoko is the decorated float which is made by every town in Kyoto. These floats will be paraded through streets on every July 17th.）

・神田祭（かんだまつり / kanda matsuri）：Kanda  Festival（Kanda Matsuri is one of Edo’s (old Tokyo’s) great festivals. Events last one week but the highlight is the procession of more than 100 o-mikoshi (divine palanquins) from all the area’s neighborhoods to and from the shrine; experience the unbelievable atmosphere in Kanda, Nihonbashi, Otemachi, Marunouchi and Akihabara.）

・天神祭（てんじんまつり / tenjin matsuri）：Tenjin  Festival（Tenjin Matsuri is a festival held by Osaka Tenmangu shrine, Sugawarano Michizane is enshrined at and has more than 1000 years of history.）

☆Grammar☆
・～になる：become
・～ように･･･：so that / in order to
・～そうです（伝聞）：I heard that

☆Script for this episode
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#20 Easy News / 京都の祇園祭《Gion Festival in Kyoto》// N4 Level

LECTURA COMPRENSIVA.


ESTE CUENTO NOS HABLA DE UNA PERSONA RELATANDO DE SU PUEBLO.


Antes de comenzar la lectura.


1. ¿Te gusta vivir en un pueblo o en una ciudad grande?

2. ¿Como es el lugar donde vives?


Presta atención a la lectura de tu profesor.


Vivo en un pueblo muy pequeño cercano a la montaña, donde hay un lago precioso en donde es habitual ver patos y cisnes nadando. Es un lugar muy bonito para pasear y disfrutar de la vida en el campo, pero existen pequeñas incomodidades al existir pocos servicios.

En el pueblo solo hay una pequeña tienda de ultramarinos donde venden productos de primera necesidad. Cuando se necesita ir al médico hay que desplazarse a otro pueblo más grande situado a quince kilómetros, donde hay un centro médico.

En invierno es frecuente que nieve y haya dificultades para viajar en el coche, pero los niños se ponen muy contentos porque a veces se libran de ir al colegio y juegan con la nieve en su lugar.

No obstante es un pueblo muy agradable para vivir y disfrutar de una vida tranquila en un entorno precioso.