Today we're talking about the idioms "free rein" and "carte blanche" 

For instance, "the architect given carte blanche to design the store", or "you have free rein to hire anyone you want".

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You're free! Do whatever you want!

聊中西文化，也聊很多东西！
第一期，我们聊聊30岁的女人真的老了吗？

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001. 30岁老了吗？Is 30 an old age? - ttmiChinese

yì tiān，wū yā jiǎn dào le yí kuài ròu，ɡāo xìnɡ jí le。
一天，乌鸦捡到了一块肉，高兴极了。
tā diāo zhe ròu fēi dào shù shànɡ。
它叼着肉飞到树上。
zhè shí，hú li kàn jiàn le，
这时，狐狸看见了，
tā chán de liú kǒu shuǐ，
它馋得流口水，
tè bié xiǎnɡ chī nà kuài ròu。
特别想吃那块肉。
hú li xiào xī xī de duì wū yā shuō：
狐狸笑嘻嘻地对乌鸦说：
“nín hǎo，měi lì de wū yā，
“您好，美丽的乌鸦，
kuài xià lái yì qǐ wán bɑ！” 
快下来一起玩吧！”
kě shì wū yā bù lǐ tā。
可是乌鸦不理它。
jiǎo huá de hú li zài shù xià zhuàn le jǐ quān， 
狡猾的狐狸在树下转了几圈，
xiǎnɡ chū le yí ɡè hǎo zhǔ yì。
想出了一个好主意。
tā tái qǐ tóu dà shēnɡ de duì shù shànɡ de wū yā shuō：
它抬起头大声地对树上的乌鸦说：
“měi lì de wū yā，
“美丽的乌鸦，
wǒ tè bié xǐ huān tīnɡ nín chànɡ ɡē， 
我特别喜欢听您唱歌，
nín de ɡē chànɡ de tài hǎo tīnɡ le，
您的歌唱得太好听了，
nín chànɡ chànɡ bɑ！chànɡ chànɡ bɑ！” 
您唱唱吧！唱唱吧！”
tīnɡ le hú li de huà，wū yā dé yì jí le。
听了狐狸的话，乌鸦得意极了。
tā zhānɡ kāi dà zuǐ ɡānɡ yào chànɡ，
它张开大嘴刚要唱，
zuǐ lǐ de ròu jiù diào xià qù le。
嘴里的肉就掉下去了。
hú li jiǎn dào ròu，pǎo le。 
狐狸捡到肉，跑了。

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Today’s Theme is “A day in the life of an Online Japanese Language Teacher”.
This episode is JLPT-N5 level.

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☆Words☆
１日（いちにち / ichinichi）：one day
紹介する（しょうかいする / shōkaisuru）：introduce
オンライン（おんらいん / onrain）：online
日本語教師（にほんごきょうし / nihongokyōshi）：Japanese language teacher
ルーティン（るーてぃん / rūthin）：routine
スマホ（すまほ / sumaho）：smart phone
アニメーション（あにめーしょん / animēshon）：animation
ストレッチ（すとれっち / sutorecchi）：stretch
化粧（けしょう / keshō）：make-up
ラーメン（らーめん / rāmen）：ramen noodles
チャーハン（ちゃーはん / chāhan）：Chinese-style fried rice
昼寝（ひるね / hirune）：nap
ダイエットドリンク（だいえっとどりんく / daiettodorinku）：energy drinks designed to get rid of weight
味（あじ / aji）：taste
小説（しょうせつ / shōsetsu）：novel

☆Grammar☆
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・～たり、～たりします

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#28 A day in the life of an Online Japanese Language Teacher  // N5 Level

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Anyone visiting Paris for this summer's Olympic Games may have to pay a little more than usual for hotels, trains and food and drink.

But here's one thing that won't cost them anything: a ride in a flying taxi.

That's right: it might sound like the most expensive way to get around, but it has been announced that visitors will be able to take new electric-powered flying taxis without paying.

They're called flying taxis, but if you're hoping for a car with wings you might be disappointed! They look like small helicopters, but with a "loop" on top with 18 small rotors instead of one large set of blades.

In Paris, they can land on a special "vertiport" — a place for vertical takeoff and landing — on the River Seine.

Made by a German company called Volocopter, the taxis can take one person at a time from the Seine, close to Austerlitz train station, to four places around Paris, including two airports.

The trips are free because the flights are being called "demonstrations" — since the taxis have not yet been certified by the European Union's Aviation Safety Agency.

There is also a limit of two flights per hour between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m, and a limit of 900 flights over the whole year.

This has been called a "trial period" for the taxis, but some people in Paris are unhappy that they're coming at all.

They're worried about the taxis' environmental impact, and the noise they might make.

Volocopter says its taxis are much quieter than normal helicopters, as well as being very safe and better for the planet. In future, the company hopes to make larger taxis that could also be used as flying ambulances.

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Paris Welcomes Flying Taxis for Olympic Games

Narrator: Malala Yousafzai was born in 1997 in the Swat Valley in northern Pakistan. Her father was a social activist and educator, and he named his daughter after a female hero who led the Afghan people to victory in an 1880 battle against the British.

Narrator: Malala attended the girls’ school that her father had founded, but when the Swat Valley came under the control of the Taliban in 2007, the family, including her two younger brothers, had to leave. The Taliban is a political and religious group that follows a strict form of Islam. They do not believe that girls should attend a school or that women should play an active part in society. Upon the family’s return in 2008, Malala gave her first public speech, called “How dare the Taliban to take away my basic right to an education?” As the Taliban continued with their violent campaign of closing and destroying girls’ schools, Malala started to blog for the BBC under a different name. During the next few years, she made two documentaries with a US filmmaker about the local situation and met with United Nations workers. Her activism attracted global attention, including a nomination from South African archbishop Desmond Tutu for the International Children’s Peace Prize.

Narrator: On the ninth of October 2012, Malala was traveling home from school when a Taliban gunman got onto her bus and asked, “Who is Malala?” She was shot in the head and had to be transferred to the UK for medical care. She and her family stayed in that country with relatives, and she continued her studies thereafter she got better. She did not visit Pakistan again until 2018.

Narrator: The Taliban’s violent actions led to a new international focus on and action for girls’ educational rights, and Malala’s work was right at the heart of these efforts. In 2013, on her sixteenth birthday, she gave a speech at the United Nations in New York. She was also named one of Time magazine’s most influential people of the year and published her life...

STORY OF MALALA YOUSAFZAI

The experience of learning is quite different for older people.

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