Why should you bother about different accents when yours is fine enough? 

💃🏻111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 19 – Celebrate the Accent Diversities of Students and Teachers in the Italki Community 

Louis : Oh pardon, madame ! Excusez-moi ! Je ne vous avais pas vue !
Anne : Ce n'est rien, monsieur. Il n'y a pas de mal !
(plus tard)
Louis : Je suis désolé d'être en retard ! J'avais oublié la réunion !
Laurent : Ce n'est pas grave, nous n'avons pas encore commencé.
(Plus tard, en sortant du bureau)
Isabelle : Louis ! Louis !
Louis : Isabelle ! Oh, pardon, excuse-moi, je ne t'avais pas entendue !

Vocabulaire :

pardon : perdão, sorry
excusez-moi (vouvoiement) : desculpe-me, sorry
voir : ver, to see
Je ne vous avais pas vue : não tinha visto a senhora / I hadn’t seen you
ce n’est rien : tem nada não, it’s alright
il n’y a pas de mal : não faz mal, no harm done
être désolé(e) de = desculpa por, sorry to
ce n’est pas grave : tem problema não, no harm done
plus tard : mais tarde, later
être en retard : estar atrasado, to be late
j’avais oublié : tinha esquecido
oublier : esquecer, to forget
pas encore : ainda não, not yet
en sortant de : saindo de, leaving
entendre : ouvir, to hear
je ne t’avais pas entendue : não tinha te ouvido, I hadn’t heard you



Professeur Maxime : dialogues

Pardon madame !

I want to talk to you about two very often confused words advice and advise. 
Advice. 
- Advice is a noun, an uncountable noun.It is spelled a-d-v-i-c-e. The ‘c’ sounds like an ‘s’. Advice. It is used to mean a suggestion about what you should do. 
Advise
- 
Advise is spelled a-d-v-i-s-e, and is a verb. The ‘s’ sounds like a ‘z’. Advise. It means to suggest what should be done, to recommend or to give information to someone. 
The main difference between advice and advise is the grammar.  So obviously, you can't use a noun in the place of a verb or a verb in the place of a noun. So if you know which is which and which pronunciation goes with which, you will never get it wrong. But a big problem is with advice being uncountable. So many times I hear, can I give you an advice? No no… it to give me a piece of advice or some advice - depending on whether you mean something singular or plural.
In theory it is very simple to understand, but if you don’t pay attention to learning the rules it can make a  big difference to you getting it right or wrong in Business English.
Every day, I hear so many advanced speakers who use these words wrong. So have a look, learn it, fix it, never get it wrong again. That's it today. Bye.


All Ways Business

Advice or Advise

Tajik dialects

In questo podcast parlo dell'ultima tappa del viaggio che ho fatto con la mia famiglia sulla West Coast Americana:  le spiaggie in cittá che abbiamo visitato e altre spiaggie un po' più selvaggie, altri posti in cittá da vedere, le mie impressioni. Tempi verbali: presente, passato: passato prossimo e passato remoto. 

Vivendo tra due lingue

Ultima tappa Viaggio West Coast Americana: Los Angeles

A veces hay personas que nos molestan y queremos que nos dejen en paz. Si eso pasa en España tenemos un lugar, bueno de hecho varios, donde podemos mandar a esas personas.

En el episodio de hoy te voy a enseñar estos diferentes lugares dónde podemos mandar a las personas que nos molestan.  

Después de escuchar el episodio dime si conocías estos lugares, o expresiones. Y si tenéis alguna frase similar en tu país, ¿dónde mandáis a las personas para que os dejen en paz?


Blanca to go 

66 – Dónde mandamos a las personas que nos molestan

Today we discuss the idioms:

• to be GREEN
• in the RED
• to BLACK out
• the BLACK sheep

The Jerome Meadows Experience

Getting in the Red and Blacking Out (Color Idioms)

トイレはどこですか。（Where’s the toilet?）

ここは事務所（じむしょ）です。(This is the office.)
それはエレベーターです。(That is the elevator.)
あそこはトイレです。(The toilet is over there.)
そこは病院（びょういん）です。(It’s a hospital.)
あそこは会社（かいしゃ）です。(The company is over there.)
トイレはどこですか。(Where is a toilet?)
トイレはここです。(Here is the toilet?)

トイレはどちらですか。(Where is a toilet?)
トイレはあちらです。(The toilet is over there.)
カリナさんの部屋（へや）はどちらですか。(Where is a Karina’s room?)
3階（かい）です。(It’s third floor.) 

教室（きょうしつ）　classroom
食堂（しょくどう） canteen
事務所（じむしょ） office
会議室（かいぎしつ）conference room
受付（うけつけ） reception desk
階段（かいだん）staircase
エレベーター elevator
エスカレーター escalator
自動販売機（じどうはんばいき） vending machine
電話（でんわ） telephone
おくに（お国） country
会社（かいしゃ） company
うち  house home
くつ  shoes
ネクタイ  necktie
ワイン wine
売り場（うりば） department store
地下（ちか） basement
一階（いっかい） first floor
なんがい（何階） which floor
一円（いちえん） 1 yen
いくら  how much
百（ひゃく）  hundred
千（せん）  thousand
万（まん）  ten thousand

