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Describing the Christmas Decorations

The Topic Marker は “wa”
  
Topic is something that you and your conversation partner(s) have been talking about. It is sometimes called “old information.”

The topic marker -wa roughly corresponds to English ‘as for’.

(Example)
私の仕事は教師です 
わたしの しごとは きょうし です  
 Watashi no shigoto wa kyôshi desu

English
As for my job, (it) is a teacher.   ->   My job is a teacher.


日本語 / にほんご / Japanese
(1)私はフランシスです。
(2)私はテキサス出身です。
(3)彼は学生です。
(4)彼はアメリカ出身です。
(5)彼女は歌手です。
(6)彼女は看護師です。

ことばと表現 / Words & Expressions
出身【しゅっしん】one’s hometown/ one’s birthplace.


英語 / えいご / English
(1)I am Francis.
(2)I’m from Texas.
(3)He is a student.
(4)He is from America.
(5)She is a singer.
(6)She is a nurse.


ひらがな / Hiragana
(1)わたしは ふらんしす です。
(2)わたしは てきさす しゅっしん です。
(3)かれは がくせい です。
(4)かれは あめりか しゅっしん です。
(5)かのじょは かしゅ です。
(6)かのじょは かんごし です。



ローマ字 / Roman letters
(1)Watashi wa Fransisu desu.
(2)Watashi wa Tekisasu syusshin desu.
(3)Kare wa gakusei desu.
(4)Kare wa Amerika syusshin desu.
(5)Kanojo wa kasyu desu.
(6)Kanojo wa Kangoshi desu.


Japanese Right Now！

だ / です (da / desu) " to be" (copula)

Transcript + Exercises → https://espanolparati.notion.site/Mi-personalidad-ser-ed9a3e835dea4c41b7f7030416a2437d
Do the exercises in the transcript to get the most out of every episode!


Español Para Ti (Spanish For You!)

"Mi personalidad" (+ Transcript 📄) - A1 / Beginner

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Ritmos del mundo

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How do we know that vegetables don't suffer when they are "killed"!

The Social Evolutionary

Don't Kill Vegetables!

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Priče iz Hrvatske

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Intermediate Chinese Listening

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Understanding the most common prefixes and suffixes in English is a great way to build your vocabulary. In this blog post, I cover how we form adjectives in English using "-y" as a suffix.  

For the full text of the article, go to https://www.difficultenglishexplained.com/adjectives-that-end-with-y/.

For a visualizer, go to:  https://youtu.be/eWxfzuEqlvs.