Happy New Year! 🎍 A new year has begun. Have you decided on your "New Year's Resolutions" yet?

In this episode, I talk about my two main goals for the year:

Podcast Consistency: I aim to create and upload episodes twice a week, more than I did last year. Let me know what topics you'd like to hear about!

Swimming: I’ve started going to a local sports center twice a week. Currently, I can swim about 15 meters using the breaststroke, but my goal is to reach 50 meters! 🏊‍♂️

Swimming is great for health and fitness. I’d love to hear your resolutions too—please share them in the comments!

かいわのためのポッドキャスト-Japanese for conversation-

あけましておめでとうございます

This episode contains short introductory information about me and the main idea of this podcast, including the structure of each episode. 

Russian Cat 

About me and the channel 

今日（きょう）のテーマは、


日本人（にほんじん）は「とても」を言（い）わない？
We Japanese don't say "TOTEMO" 


じゃあ、何（なに）を使（つか）うの・・・？
So, use what...?


NANAのにほんごpodcast 

日本人（にほんじん）は「とても」を言（い）わない？ | We Japanese don't say "TOTEMO" 

En este episodio les relato una breve descripción de la historia del año bisiesto, en nuestro calendario actual ( Calendario Gregoriano ).

SpanishForToday

Año Bisiesto ( Leap Year) 

3minutes listening practice 3分钟听力练习

CHAO's HSK Listening Capsule（Advanced）|A Daily Dose to Sharpen Your Ears|CHAO的HSK听力胶囊（高级）

CHAO‘s HSK Listening Capsule（Advanced）HSK5-5 发现生活中的小快乐Discovering small joys in life

Transcription:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LHkNMaZrveUJ4233X61Vjr3ZKtQC77l7fMyZuLsKNC4/edit?usp=sharing

Enjoy Russian with Yanchik ❤️

# 6 Alice in Wonderland  (+transcription)

Recitation for Japanese learners.
You can practice shadowing, 
and repeating with this reading.
シャドーイングやリピーティングにもどうぞ。 
(the text below.　本文は下部にあります。）

📚My lessons:
https://www.italki.com/ja/teacher/6185061

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『羅生門』 第三話　芥川龍之介・著
   'Rashomon' #3     
   Written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

その代わりまた鴉がどこからか、
たくさん集ってきた。
昼間見ると、その鴉が何羽となく輪を描いて、
高い鴟尾のまわりを啼きながら、
飛びまわっている。
ことに門の上の空が、
夕焼けであかくなる時には、
それが胡麻をまいたように はっきり見えた。
鴉は、勿論、門の上にある死人の肉を、
啄みに来るのである。――もっとも今日は、
刻限が遅いせいか、一羽も見えない。
ただ、所々、崩れかかった、
そうしてその崩れ目に長い草のはえた
石段の上に、鴉の糞が、
点々と白くこびりついているのが見える。
下人は七段ある石段の一番上の段に、
洗いざらした紺の襖の尻を据えて、
右の頬に出来た、大きな面皰を気にしながら、
ぼんやり、雨のふるのを眺めていた。

漢字

鴉　　　　　　からす
集まって　　　あつまって
昼間　　　　　ひるま
何羽　　　　　なんわ
輪　　　　　　わ
描いて　　　　えがいて
鴟尾　　　　　しび
啼きながら　　なきながら
夕焼け　　　　ゆうやけ
胡麻　　　　　ごま
勿論　　　　　もちろん
死人　　　　　しびと
啄み　　　　　ついばみ
刻限　　　　　こくげん
崩れかかった　くずれかかった
下人　　　　　げにん
紺　　　　　　こん
襖　　　　　　あお
据えて　　　　すえて
頬　　　　　　ほお
出来た　　　　できた
面皰　　　　　にきび
眺めて　　　　ながめて


朗読クラブ📚Reading to Japanese language learners 

朗読 『羅生門』第三話 Recitation 'Rashomon' #3

Podcast  by American English tutor Carl. Improve your spoken English and book a lesson with me: https://teach.italki.com/teacher/1947582
Episode 13 (R.I.P phone) Filming in Israel
Welcome back to Streetwise English Podcast. I'm your host, Carl. Since we're on the topic of cell phones, I want to tell you another story about my favorite cell phone in the world, which is a Sony cell phone from Japan. Was a Sony cell phone from Japan. And I was taking a video of a tourist group in Tel Aviv, Israel.


So I'm an American guy, and I was with a group of Chinese tourists and I was hired to film these tourists on their trip in Israel.


It was our first day at the beach. I think it might have been our very first day in Israel. I think we arrived early in the morning at the airport. So I filmed people picking up their luggage and then we were cruising around at the beach, maybe we visited a store. I think there was a guy who played a trumpet that was kind of like made out of a bullhorn or something, a traditional horn, an old man with a beard and a, um, a hat, like the traditional Jewish people wear there in Tel Aviv.


And anyways, we were down at the beach, and this was the first time I'd seen the beach in Tel Aviv. And let me tell you, it looked like Santa Monica, California. There were people roller skating. There were people , girls in bikinis. There were surfers out in the water. People surfing in Tel Aviv. I had no idea. This is not the picture I had in my mind when thinking of Israel or Tel Aviv.


So my cell phone that I mentioned earlier that I just loved was a Sony cell phone and it was waterproof. The phone was waterproof. You could dump it in the water in a swimming pool and it would continue shooting. And I had actually filmed with it before in Spain underwater in the ocean and filmed fish swimming and everything and no problem.
So this trip though, I was in Tel Aviv  (text count limit)









Streetwise English

 SWE 14 (R.I.P. phone) Filming in Israel 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11zgEYDqxpxrEfkWXromj7uOVH-vUofl4/view?usp=drivesdk