Konnichiwa! Welcome to Slow Japanese! Do you like tea? There are many kinds of tea in the world. The most famous Japanese tea is probably "green tea", but did you know that there are many different types of green tea as well?

Usage of Slow Japanese:
STEP 1. Listen to the episode without seeing scripts.
STEP 2. Go to mochifika.com/podcast/ and check "Key vocabularies of this episode", listen again to the episode while seeing the list.
STEP 3. Check the whole script, it'll fill the gap in your understanding.

Scripts and key vocabularies of this episode are here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/slow-japanese-14-63363665?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare

Slow Japanese

Episode #14 - Japanese green tea

Write a new story using the words from this lesson.

Yo-You 与你同行(HSK)

HSK1-6

In this week's episode, learn the meaning and nuances of the phrase HIT HOME.

Brentoni's English Podcast

037 - hit home

Part 4. Food.

Please listen to the audio and then choose your answer.

Please answer the following questions of understanding:

Question 1:
What is a grocery store?
a An establishment that cooks food for customers
b There are several definitions of a grocery store
c A place to sell and trade goods
d An establishment that distributes foods, drinks, household products, and other items that're used by the typical consumer

Question 2:
Fresh fruits and vegetables are collectively referred to as which of the following terms?
a Produce
b Feggies
c Veggies
d Famine	

Question 3:
What are staples?
a Small pieces of metal used to hold papers together
b Rare foods
c Foods that play a prominent role in the average diet
d Green fruits and vegetables

Question 4:
More vegetables are stocked in grocery stores than fruits because:
a Fruits stay fresh for less time than vegetables
b Vegetables are more popular than fruits, generally speaking
c Grocery store managers prefer fruits
d A and B

Question 5:
"Fresh" groceries are:
a Prepared by employees
b Measured manually
c Charged by the pound
d All of the Above


I hope you enjoyed spending time thinking and answering some questions and the idea is to do it daily for at least 90 days for the habit ‘to properly register’ in your brain.

See you tomorrow for further development :)


The Habits of Women Growing Into Strong, Confident English Communicators

Listening & Comprehension. 

Vidéo complète avec sous-titres et traductions ici: 
https://youtu.be/unjCZoeTUNQ?si=xPtznFeEHiFtRhdJ

French Stories For All

Manque de Lumière - French Listening Practice 

Привет! В первом епизоде моего подкаста на русском языке я расскажу вам коротко о себе.
Ciao! Nel primo episodio del mio podcast in lingua russo vi racconto brevemente di me.

RUSSANDO... russo per italiani!

Кто я? Chi sono?

En este episodio repasaremos las expresiones para hablar sobre el tiempo.
Vocabulario y expresiones coloquiales muy útiles para tener una buena comprensión del español. El lenguaje no siempre es una traducción literal de un idioma a otro. 

Español con Maite

El tiempo

Nissan has begun testing its new self-driving car on the streets of Yokohama.

The Japanese carmaker has been testing a Nissan LEAF prototype that uses its own self-driving technology.

During testing, the vehicle traveled on the busy roads of Japan's second largest city, close to the company's offices.

Nissan said the vehicle was able to predict the behavior of pedestrians, change lanes, and decide when it was safe to enter an intersection.

The prototype has 14 cameras, 10 radars and six sensors, and there was a safety driver in the driver's seat during testing.

This vehicle has more of this equipment than previous versions, according to Nissan, and has a number of sensors on the roof.

The company wants to release self-driving cars in 2027 and plans to do more tests this year in other busy parts of Yokohama.

It said that self-driving vehicles could help to make it easier for older people to get around towns and cities.

Japan is getting ready to have self-driving technology on its roads. The government changed its traffic laws last April to make this possible.

And according to a Kyodo News survey from the start of 2024, 36 of the country's 47 prefectures are thinking about using self-driving technology on their buses.

Many of the country's bus companies have had problems finding drivers and they have had to reduce bus services because of this.

Self-driving buses would help with this problem, but people are still worried about the safety of the new technology.

A self-driving bus service began in Fukui prefecture in 2023 but this was stopped after one of the buses collided with a bicycle.




Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Nissan Tests Self-Driving Car on Yokohama's Roads

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TwFd8yU5xTBdv9eq4wBCza-D-7HCF-ch/view?usp=drivesdk