Bite-sized Ukrainian grammar lessons with English explanations and listening practice to train your ear, get used to irregularities, and build confidence in understanding Ukrainian cases and speech. 

Grammar bits in Ukrainian

This podcast is designed for beginner and intermediate learners who want to practice the language in a fun and practical way. Each episode features simple stories and helpful grammar tips.

Story Bits in Russian

In this story, a piece of toast named Buttersy has an uncomfortable bus ride to work. How will she deal with the terrible smell? This is Part 3 of 5. 

The bus kept going as the morning sun rose higher and higher. The candy passengers begun to seem uncomfortable. They wiped sweat off their foreheads and fanned themselves using their wrappers. The temperature was rising. 

Buttersy had a painful look on her face as she sniffed. “What’s that smell?” 

She scanned the bus and found the offender. 

In the middle of the bus was a middle-aged piece of cheesecake. He sat at the window and almost took up two seats because of his size. He was sweating, breathing heavily and groaning. The passenger next to him left her seat and decided to stand at the front. 

“Ugh, it’s disgusting,” said Buttersy, now holding her nose, not worried about what others will think. “How can he be so inconsiderate? A thing like that shouldn’t leave the house without a wrapper!” 

Choco laughed, knowing that Buttersy wasn’t serious, but only expressing her frustration. He said, “This is public life. Just keep breathing through your mouth; we’re not far from our stop.” 

Buttersy held her nose, getting angrier and angrier. She noticed the bus was equipped with a huge air conditioning system, but it was only blowing a tiny breeze. 

“What’s going on!? Are these candies all crazy?” she said, noticing how the others just tolerated the sour smell that filled the bus. “I’d prefer to have a bird peck out my eyes than this.” 

As the journey continued, the smell only got worse and worse. 


Being a Cloud

Buttersy the Piece of Toast

Olá, tudo bem? Gostou do episódio anterior? Neste eu vou relatar para você como foi minha experiência ao trabalhar no Censo brasileiro.

Segue o link para você poder baixar o documento com a transcrição deste episódio, se desejar, para conferir a escrita correta das palavras, além de treinar a pronúncia:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fgURYWCWsdZvWpgonFzj7G155IG4frvX/view?usp=drive_link.

Bom episódio!

Aprenda português

Episódio 02 - Como foi trabalhar no Censo

Today we're talking about the word stress and the grammar of how to use it.

DAILY Business English VOCABULARY builder

Don't let this podcast stress you out!


No hay soluciones mágicas ni atajos mis amigos, No saldrás de este podcast dominando el uso de Para y Por. i´m sorry. real talk. Solo a través de la utilización de la herramienta de práctica conversacional podremos lograr reconocer en modo de piloto automático cuando es incorrecto uno u otro solo de oírlos en conversación o de verlos plasmados en textos.  

Perno no te desanimes, hablaremos aquí del empleo de para y por acompañándolos de ejemplos, y como en todos mis podcasts es únicamente una toma o  grabación , cero edición, y siempre tratando de divertirnos mientras aprendemos. Seguramente me equivoque en algún momento también. i´m only human :) ..y por demás adoremos los errores, son los mejores maestros ;)

Estoy a tu disposición para cualquier pregunta adicional o cualquier otra ayuda que necesites, y si te parece también podemos ponernos de acuerdo para una lección donde de seguro podremos profundizar sobre este tema o cualquier otro, y de paso pasaremos un rato agradable.

Espero grabar otro podcast pronto para ti, así que ideas y sugerencias sobre temas que les gustaría escuchar son más que bienvenidos.

Hasta la próxima, amigo. Cuídense.
 
Keep up with the good work  :-)

++Recursos que te ayudarán a dominar para y por: 

(OJO - esto no es una regla absoluta, tiene excepciones)

POR es utilizado cuando dices en inglés: 

For: En lugar de , a favor de, a cambio de.
By (por medio de, utilizando el..  ) , 
per
because of
through

PARA es utilizado cuando dices en inglés: 

For: intencionado para
By (deadlines)
To (a fin de, con destino a)

About Cuba with Ruben

PARA y POR. Un vistazo rápido con ejemplos y consejos :)

Join us on a special trip to the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, where we'll explore the amazing underwater world. Discover colourful fish, funny penguins, and graceful rays as we learn about the ocean and why it's important to protect it. Get ready for an exciting adventure filled with incredible sea creatures and the beauty of nature.

"Welcome to our podcast, Playful English Proficiency!

I'm your host, Adalet, and today we're going on an amazing adventure to the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, South Africa. Get ready to explore the underwater world and meet some incredible sea animals!

The aquarium is in Cape Town, where you can see a beautiful big mountain called Table Mountain. It's called the Two Oceans Aquarium because two oceans meet here near Cape Town: the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

Inside the aquarium, I saw lots of bright tropical fish, like clownfish and pretty pink anemones. They looked so beautiful!

I also saw some funny penguins. There were penguins from South Africa called African penguins, and they were really noisy! They walked around and made loud noises, like donkeys. I love their adorable little waddle.

Next, I found some penguins called rock hoppers. Now, they jumped on rocks just like their name. It was so fun to watch them! Later, they were swimming in a big tank, and it looked like they were flying underwater!"

Please feel free to contact me here on italki if you would like a PDF script of this podcast episode.

See you next time!

Cape Town Chronicles

Episode 1: An Adventure at The Two Oceans Aquarium (A2)

Full transcript: https://japanesemayuna.com/

はい、こんにちは。今回は、ポッドキャストのシーズン２の３回目です。今月の終わりから大学の授業が始まります。今日はレッスンがなかったので、下見に行きました。「下見」とは、行き方や場所の様子を調べるために実際に行くことです。

Hello. This is episode 3 of season 2 of my podcast. My university lessons start at the end of this month. I didn't have any lessons today, so I went for a Sitami. 'Shitami’ (Preview) means actually going to the location beforehand to find out how to get there and what the place looks like.

大学は京都にあるので、大阪から電車で１時間半ぐらいです。大学に行くまでに大阪駅と京都駅を通ります。大阪駅と京都駅はいつも人がいっぱいで、とても疲れます。今年の10月から日本に観光客が入れるようになったので、外国人もたくさんいました。京都にはヨーロッパ系の観光客が多いですが、最近は東南アジア系の観光客も増えている気がします。「〜系」は人種を表します。たとえば、国籍がブラジルで親が日本人の人を日系ブラジル人といいます。大学は駅からバスで10分ぐらいでした。山の近くにあってとても静かでした。

The university is located in Kyoto, which is about an hour and a half by train from Osaka. I pass through Osaka and Kyoto stations on my way to the university. Osaka and Kyoto stations are always full of people, and walking through them is always tiring. Since October this year, tourists have been allowed into Japan, so there were many foreigners. There are many European Kei tourists in Kyoto, but recently I feel that there are more and more South-East Asian Kei tourists. ‘-Kei (-descent)' denotes ethnicity. For example, people whose nationality is Brazilian and whose parents are Japanese are called Nikkei Brazilians. (The "ni" in nikkei is the first character of Japan). The university was about 10 minutes by bus from the station. It was very quiet near the mountains.

Japanese Lessons with Mayuna

S2 Ep3. 和牛ステーキ

【北海道Hokkaido生活】
〈#109〉8月31日水曜日　天気/雨　気温/22℃ 

網走市/あばしりし
・詐欺の被害を防ぐため、小学生が手書きのメッセージでお年寄りに手紙を書いた。
・お年寄りを騙す人がいる
・被害額が2000万円

［単語］
詐欺/さぎ… うそを言って、お金や物をとる。
被害/ひがい…わるいことをされる
防ぐ/ふせぐ…わるいことをされないようにする
手書き/てがき…手で書いた字。パソコンではない。
メッセージ/めっせーじ…自分の考えを伝える
お年寄り/おとしより…おじいちゃん、おばあちゃん。自分のおじいちゃんとおばあちゃん以外も。
騙す/だます…うそを言う
被害額/ひがいがく…被害のお金


〈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

〈#109〉8月31日水曜日　詐欺に気をつけて！

This podcast for intermediate students of English talks about a new idiom every week. The topic for this week is the idiom "off the top of my head." But first, the host introduces herself and explains what an idiom is.

Este podcast para los estudiantes intermedios de inglés se trata de un modismo nuevo cada semana. El tema de esta semana es el modismo "off the top of my head" o "desde lo alto de la cabeza." Pero primero, la presentadora se presenta y explica lo que es un modismo.

Tools used:

Music (Chapéu-Mangeira by Luc-Allieres) downloaded from Artlist

Editing software: Audacity