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Easy Arabic

こんにちは、あかりです。今日(きょう)は私(わたし)にとってのアニメ、ベスト3について話(はな)します。
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Slow Japanese

Episode #67 - My favorite Anime in this year

Haggle is an art, especially in places where the price is not set. How do you haggle? Today we will talk about how foreigners bargain in China

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Haggle in China

There is an old theory that eating cheese before bed causes bad dreams, although scientists don't have much evidence to prove it.

But if cheese can't make us dream, new research from the US says that perhaps an app could — and they don't have to be bad dreams!

Researchers experimented with an app that they designed to encourage people to have lucid dreams. These are dreams that feel vivid and real.

During lucid dreams, people know that they're dreaming and may even be able to control what happens in the dream.

Not everyone has lucid dreams. It's thought that about half of us will have them during our lives, but some people may have them regularly.

Lucid dreams may be useful for us: experts think they could encourage creativity and problem-solving, or help us with nightmares.

The app in the study used a method called "targeted lucidity reactivation" that is supposed to make people more likely to experience lucid dreams.

This is usually done in a laboratory, but the researchers wanted to see how effective an app used at home could be.

They did two experiments to see if the app could increase the frequency of participants' lucid dreams.

The first experiment included 19 participants. Before going to sleep, they did a 20-minute activity that encouraged them to enter a "lucid mindset" when they heard certain sounds.

These same sounds were then played during the night. The frequency of the participants' lucid dreams more than doubled during the week of the experiment.

Fifty people completed the second experiment. They were put into three groups, with one group using the targeted lucidity reactivation method.

The people in this group reported that they had experienced more lucid dreams during the week of the experiment than those in the two control groups.

The researchers said these results suggest that apps like this could help people to use sleep for "personal benefits" including "spiritual and personal growth."

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

App Could Help People to Have Lucid Dreams

The word "to" causes a lot of confusion for English language learners.  Why?  "To" can play very different roles in English grammar.  "To" can be a preposition, or it can be a verbal particle.  It can play both of these roles in the same sentence.  

For the full text, go to https://www.difficultenglishexplained.com/two-different-roles-for-the-word-to/.

Difficult English Explained

Two different roles for the word "to"

【北海道Hokkaido生活】
〈#104〉8月15日月曜日　　天気くもり　気温/25℃ 

新千歳空港/しんちとせくうこう　
・3年ぶりに行動制限をしないお盆
・Uターンラッシュがピーク
・新千歳空港が混んだ。

［単語］
お盆/おぼん…だいたい8/13〜8/16。夏休みみたいなもので、家族といっしょにいることが多い。
行動/こうどう…動くこと
制限/せいげん... してはいけないことを決めること
Uターン/ゆーたーん…行って帰ること
ラッシュ/らっしゅ…たくさん人がいる
ピーク/ぴーく…一番すごい
混む/こむ…たくさん人がいる

〈美和Miwa〉
日本語の先生
Podcast「どこでも.JAPANESE」も放送中！

レッスン待ってます♪


北海道Hokkaido生活 for Japanese learners

〈#104〉8月15日月曜日　空港にたくさんの人が！

El axolote mexicano o ajolote, Ambystoma mexicanum, es una salamandra con la característica poco habitual de conservar sus rasgos larvales en su vida adulta. Esta condición, que se conoce como neotenia, significa que conserva su aleta dorsal de renacuajo -que recorre casi la totalidad de su cuerpo- y sus branquias externas, que sobresalen de la parte trasera de su ancha cabeza en forma de plumas.

Este singular anfibio se encuentra en peligro crítico de extinción según la lista roja de la Unión Internacional por la Conservación de la Naturaleza, debido a la pérdida de hábitat, la introducción de especies invasoras en su hábitat, la sobreexplotación, la contaminación y su consumo como alimento. El axolote se encuentra únicamente en el complejo lacustre de Xochimilco (pronunciado Sochimilco), cercano a la ciudad de México, y difiere de la mayoría de las salamandras en que vive permanentemente en el agua. En casos extremadamente raros, el axolote madura y sale del agua, pero en la mayoría de los casos prefieren permanecer en el fondo de los lagos y canales de Xochimilco.

El axolote, pariente cercano de la salamandra tigre, puede ser bastante grande y alcanza longitudes de hasta 30 centímetros, aunque su tamaño medio es de 15 cm. El axolote suele ser negro o marrón moteado, aunque también son relativamente comunes las variedades albinas y blancas, especialmente entre especímenes criados en cautividad.

El axolote es longevo, alcanza hasta 15 años de edad alimentándose de moluscos, gusanos, larvas de insectos, crustáceos y algún pez. Esta especie, acostumbrada al papel de predador en su hábitat, ha empezado a padecer la introducción de grandes peces en su hábitat lacustre. Entre las amenazas naturales se cuentan las aves de presa como las garzas. 





