What Topic should I Talk about today? 

If that is a Question you ask yourself often, then you're at the right place. In this Series on Speaking Activities, I'll share great many Fun and Interesting topics that can you practice with. 

In this episode, I talk about a topic which I call 'Animating the Objects around Us.'

All Things English

Speaking Activity - Animating the Objects around Us

Did someone say NO to you? Not a big deal. Now you know how to answer.
If you liked the episode, consider subscribing to @yaroslavarussian and saying ПРИВЕТ :)

Russian Daily with Yaroslava

Ep8 На нет и суда нет (how to handle a rejection)

我们一起了解一下在中国春运的情况吧！

Learn Chinese with Danny

2.春运

Avant d'enseigner le français, j'ai travaillé 5 ans dans une centrale nucléaire. Voici à quoi ressemblait mon travail dans ce milieu très rigoureux et sécurisé. Et toi quel est ton métier ? 

Cher Journal

Episode 9 - Travailler dans le nucléaire

안녕하세요. Hello~
한국어 듣기 수업 시작해요. Let's start with the Korean listening class.
선생님 읽어요. I read it.
잘 들으세요. Please listen well.

I posted the sentences on my blog.
https://blog.naver.com/laramcraft/222734884189
https://youtu.be/eImK96sF6Yg

The basics are important.
It is also good to check the basics of 한글 Hangeul before this listening class.
1-1. Korean alphabet - Vowels 모음 - What is Hangeul?
https://youtu.be/0YzhJ9p2lcs
2-1. Korean alphabet - Consonants 자음 -What are the consonants 자음?
https://youtu.be/lckgvQ_vreA
3-1. Korean alphabet - Final Consonants 받침 - What are the final consonants 받침?
https://youtu.be/sLlFmG30fNI

This is a class to listen to Korean conversational sentences.
In this voice recording for listening,
After reading many sentences with Korean grammar in Korean conversation sentences,
Check out how much you understand the sentences with a voice recording.
Never look at the sentences when listening to the voice recording.
And listen to the sentence repeatedly until you hear it completely.

You are listening to the Sejong Korean conversation. (세종학당)
There are four books in total. (Korean conversation, 1, 2, 3, 4.)
It consists of 1st and 2nd courses for beginners and 1st and 2nd courses for intermediate.
Each course is conducted in 14 units. (2 grammar - for each unit.)
This listening class you are taking is Korean Conversation 1. (Beginner 1)
Please listen carefully.

Korean Listening Class 한국어 문장 듣기 - Korean teacher, Grace

Updated-Korean Conversation 1. (Beginner 1) - Lesson 7.  - Beginner 1  Part 1 에,  Part 2 -으세요/-세요

PATTY: I’m really excited for Aunt Mary’s surprise birthday party
this afternoon! Aren’t you?
SUSAN: Yeah! How old is she?
PATTY:  She’ll be 55 on May 14 [fourteenth].
SUSAN: Wow! I didn’t know that my mom was older — she’s going
to be 57 on September 2 [second]. Anyway, Aunt Mary’s 
going to be so surprised to see us all here!
PATTY: I know! But we still have to get all the food set up before 
she gets here … OK! We’re all ready now. Shh! She’s here!
ALL: Surprise!


LANGUAGE NOTES
• I’m really excited … Notice the emphasis on “really.” “Really” is used to emphasize the 
adjective “excited” here.
• Birthday party Notice that the normal stress for a compound noun falls on the first 
element of the compound.
• Aren’t you? This negative tag is used to show that the speaker expects a positive 
answer. Patty assumes that Susan is also looking forward to the party.
• She’ll be 55 Notice that “55” is stressed here. This detail answers the question “How 
old is she?”
• Fourteenth Notice that we use “th” for ordinal numbers, starting with 4 [but first, 
second and third]. The stress is on the second syllable [fourTEENTH]. Compare this with 
“fortieth: 40th” [FORtieth].
• She’s going to be ... Notice how this is pronounced like “gonna be.” Instead of four 
syllables “go/ing/to/be” there are three syllables “ga/na/be.”

English Conversation practice (30-day challenge)

Day 20: Birthdays

✔If you want to watch this video, go to YOUTUBE link here!
💻https://youtube.com/shorts/Wu6X5b5nG6I

“꼼짝 마!”

꼼짝 마가 뭐예요? What is 꼼짝 마? 

"꼼짝" is a kind of mimetic word meaning a sluggish and slow movement. 
And when the imperative ending "-아" is added to the verb "말다", it becomes "마".
So if we put things together, 
“꼼짝 마”
Don’t do any slow movement! Don’t move! Freeze!

Especially in K-dramas, police officers often use this expression toward criminals.

무슨 말인지 알겠어요? You got it?


✔K-Universe 1on1 Class: https://www.italki.com/teacher/9928310


그거 봤어? Did you watch it?

How to say "Freeze!" in Korean? OOO!

今天Karen和柏威聊了聊在柏威-一位美国人-眼里中国那些“奇怪”的习惯和文化现象。


Chillchat (Learn Chinese and Chill)

那些”奇怪“的中国习惯 Those "strange" habits Chinese people have

こんにちは！Atsushiです！
今日の北海道の天気は曇り。
気温は23℃。

さて、今日は日本語の発音について。
というより、私が英語の発音の勉強をしていて、実感したことをお話します。

今、PodcastやYouTubeで英語の発音について、見たり聞いたりしています。

そこではじめて知ったことですが、
英語は喉の奥を使って息を吐きながら止めずに話すと良いそうです。
例えば、Helloだと、
日本語ぽく言うと、Hello
英語ぽく言うと、Hello

となるみたいです。
なんとなく違い伝わりますか？

では、日本語はどうか、というと、日本語は口の中の真ん中や先の方で発話しているんですね。

それから、息を切る、
ハキハキ話すイメージでしょうか。

こんにちは！とハキハキ話すと日本語らしく聞こえますね。
英語と同じ発話だと息を吐き出しながら話すので、日本語らしく聞こえにくいかもしれません。

私も英語の発音について、練習しはじめたばかりですし、とても難しく感じます。みなさんにとっても日本語のようにはっきりと話す発話は難しいかもしれませんが、練習をたくさんしましょう！

ということで、今回も最後まで聞いていただき、ありがとうございます！

ではまた！

