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The House of Leaves Museum - Tirana, Albania (with transcript) 

このエピソードでは、好きな音楽について話しながら、好きな理由や音楽と生活の関連についてお話ししています。特に日本語学習の上級者に向けて話しています。
以下は話の中で使った語彙や文法のポイントです。

🎵　🎵　🎵　🎵　🎵　🎵

深掘りする（ふかぼりする）Delve deeply　／　深挖
例文: ジャーナリストはその問題について深掘りして調査しました。

手がけた（てがけた） Undertaken　／ 亲手做
例文: 私のチームは今、新しいプロジェクトを手がけています。

鳥肌が立つ（とりはだがたつ）To get goosebumps　／　 起鸡皮
例文: その美しい音楽を聴いて、鳥肌が立ちました。

引き込まれる（ひきこまれる） To be drawn in　／被吸引
例文: 友達がしていた映画の話に引き込まれ、時間を忘れてしまいました。

和太鼓（わだいこ） Japanese drum　／　和太鼓
例文: お祭りでは和太鼓の音が会場に響いていました。

和楽器（わがっき） Japanese musical instruments　／和乐器
例文: 和楽器の演奏は日本の伝統を感じさせます。

心地よさ（ここちよさ）Comfort　／舒适
例文: 外の風景と爽やかな風が吹くこの場所は、心地よさと安らぎを感じさせてくれます。

弾き語り（ひきがたり）Solo acoustic performance　／独唱弹奏
例文: 昨日、私の好きなアーティストが、カフェで弾き語りをしていてとても感動的な演奏でした。

昭和・平成・令和（しょうわ・へいせい・れいわ）The names of eras in the Japanese calendar system.- Translation: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa.／昭和、平成、令和
例文: 昭和、平成、そして令和の時代を経験することができました。

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はれのひ　ぎこチャンネル　for Advanced  level (高级）☆☆☆ 

#01 好きな音楽について🎵

用中文和你聊聊最近发生的事！今天的话题是：和ai聊天。

Let’s talk about recent things in Chinese! Today’s topic is: Chatting with AI.

现在，越来越多的人喜欢和 AI 聊天。
Now, more and more people like to chat with AI.
有的人在生活里会遇到不开心的事。
Some people will meet unhappy things in life.
他们的心里很难受。
They feel very bad in their heart.
这些话，他们不想告诉身边的人。
They don’t want to tell these words to people around them.
所以，他们会说给 AI 听。
So they will talk to AI.
AI 听到以后，会很快给出回答，但 AI 没有像人一样真实的感情。
After AI hears this, it will answer quickly, but AI does not have real feelings like humans.
但是，它说话的语气很温柔。
However, its tone of speaking is very gentle.
在人们常常觉得孤单的时候，AI 的回应会让人们心里很舒服。
When people often feel lonely, AI’s responses will make people feel comfortable.
它也能让人们的心情慢慢变好。
It can also make people’s mood get better slowly.
现在不只是年轻人会和 AI 聊天。
Now not only young people chat with AI.
很多年纪大的人也会和 AI 说话。
Many elderly people also talk to AI.
他们会和 AI 聊一些心里话。
They will talk with AI about their true thoughts.
比如孩子不想结婚，或者孩子不让自己随便买药。
For example, their children don’t want to get married, or their children don’t let them buy medicine casually.
如果有和 AI 聊天，你会和它说些什么呢？
If you chat with an AI, what would you say to it?

难受（nán shòu）- feel bad
身边的人（shēn biān de rén）- people around them
回答（huí dá）- answer
真实的（zhēn shí de）- real
感情（gǎn qíng）- feeling
语气（yǔ qì）- tone
温柔（wēn róu）- gentle
孤单（gū dān）- lonely
回应（huí yìng）- response
舒服（shū fu）- comfortable
心情（xīn qíng）- mood
慢慢（màn màn）- slowly
聊天（liáo tiān）- chat
心里话（xīn lǐ huà）- true thoughts
结婚（jié hūn）- get married
随便（suí biàn）- casually
药（yào）- medicine
陪（péi）- accompany

Orange Chinese Corner - Chinese Hot Topics 中文热点

Let’s chat in Chinese! Today’s topic: Chatting with AI

2025/9/12に録音しました🎧
I talked about "草食系男子" and "肉食系男子."

Nihongo Hiyori | Japanese Podcast

#140 「草食系男子🌱」「肉食系男子🍖」？？

People who travel a lot will know the feeling — you've just landed in a country on the other side of the world, ready to explore and see the sights, but you're too tired to do anything!

Jet lag is usually linked with travel and changing time zones. But a new study has found that even small changes to our daily schedules can change our sleeping patterns.

And it's not just sleep that gets affected by a disrupted schedule — our bodies work differently when our daily patterns change.

The study, published in iScience, looked at how our bodies respond to a five-hour time change — similar to the kind of jet lag you'd feel after traveling from New York to London, for example.

It looked at people's circadian rhythm — our body's natural clock that controls when we sleep, when different hormones are released, and how our bodies use energy.

During the study, scientists observed 14 people in a lab for eight days.

On the first two days, the participants followed their normal daily schedules. But from the third day, the participants' meals, sleep and light exposure were changed to five hours later than normal.

The researchers tested the participants' blood and checked their digestion, energy use, and levels of melatonin — a hormone that helps control sleep by making you feel tired when it gets dark — to see how their bodies reacted to the time change.

The results showed that the five-hour time change made digestion slower, changed blood sugar levels, and affected how the body used fat. The body also burned less energy from food.

These things started to go back to normal after two or three days as the body adjusted to the new schedule.

One of the study's researchers, Jonathan Johnston, told StudyFinds this shows how sticking to a regular schedule can make a big difference to our health.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

How Jet Lag Affects More than Just Your Sleep

JULIE: I just bought a ticket to New York City. I’m so 
excited to see the city!
SOPHIE: Good for you! Traveling is so much fun. I love 
discovering new places and new people. When 
are you leaving?
JULIE: Next week. I’m taking the red eye. It was cheaper. 
Hopefully, I’ll be able to sleep on the plane.
SOPHIE: I wish I could go with you! New York City is a magical 
place. You will have so much fun.
JULIE: I hope so. I’m going to visit my brother who lives 
there. I will stay for a week and then take the train 
down to Washington, D.C.
SOPHIE: That sounds like a great vacation. I’m looking 
forward to a week at the beach for my summer 
vacation. I just want to relax.


LANGUAGE NOTES
• Ticket can refer to many different types of transportation (metro, bus, train, plane, etc.). 
In general, you can guess the means of transportation by the context.
• When discussing airplane travel, a red eye is a flight that leaves at night to arrive early 
the next morning. This is in reference to how red your eyes become when you don’t get 
a full night’s sleep

English Conversation practice (30-day challenge)

Day 25: Taking vacations

笨鸟先飞[bèn niǎo xiān fēi]：clumsy/bird/first/fly, Clumsy birds have to start flying early .
灵活 líng huó：quick; clever
嘲笑 cháo xiào：laugh at
懒惰 lǎn duò：lazy
气馁 qì něi：be discouraged lose heart
飞翔 fēi xiáng：fly; flight; hover
坚持不懈 jiān chí bù xiè：hold on consistently and persistently
尝试 cháng shì：try;attempt;trail
掌握 zhǎng wò：grasp; master; know well
技巧 jì qiǎo：skill;technic
顺利 shùn lì：smoothly;successfully
出色 chū sè：outstanding;remarkable
The idioms means to be successful you have to keep one step ahead other people.
