Teacher Joseph's Podcast

Shadowing and Sounds of English

En este episodio de Porteña te cuento cuáles son los beneficios de conocer la gramática cuando estamos aprendiendo una lengua nueva

Porteña

¿Por qué estudiar gramática?

Analysis of the cultural, social and linguistic content, of the text of the song

SOLO MUSICA ITALIANA  PODCAST

L'italiano (lasciatemi cantare) di Toto Cutugno|Aprende italiano cantando|Learn italian singing

Today, let's try practicing some Russian tongue twisters! Tongue twisters are a fantastic tool for improving your pronunciation, focusing on challenging sounds, and increasing your speech speed, ultimately making it clearer.
Give it a shot and try repeating after me. I'll read each one twice: first slowly, and then closer to normal speed.

бык тупогУб, тупогУбенький бычОк, у быкА белА губА былА тупА. (б,п) 

Карл у КлАры укрАл корАллы, а КлАра у КАрла укрАла кларнЕт. (к,р,л)

на мелИ мы налИма ленИво ловИли, менЯли налИма вы мне на линЯ. о любвИ не менЯ ли вы мИло молИли, и в тумАны ЛимАна манИли менЯ. (л,м,н)

These tongue twisters focus on various Russian sounds. Try to articulate them as clearly as possible. Let's focus on accuracy rather than speed. Good luck!

Russian with Elina

Russian tongue twisters - part 2

おはようございます。こんにちは。こんばんは。おげんきですか。

あしたどこへ行（い）きますか。Where will you go tomorrow?
会社（かいしゃ）へ行きます。I will go to work.
学校（がっこう）へ行きます。I will go to school.
デパートへ行きます。To the department store.
スーパーへ行きます。To the supermarket.
東京（とうきょう）へ行きます。I am going to Tokyo.

けさ　どこへ行きましたか。Where did you go this morning?
けさ　学校へ行きました。I went to school this morning.
けさ　スーパーへ行きました。I went to the supermarket this morning.

なんで学校へ行きますか。How do you go to school?
あるいて学校へ行きます。I go to school by walk.
自転車(じてんしゃ)で学校へ行きます。I go to school by bicycle.
電車（でんしゃ）で学校へ行きます。I go to school by train.

わたしは日本へ行きます。I will go to Japan.
飛行機（ひこうき）で日本へ行きます。I will go to Japan by plane.
だれと日本へ行きますか。Who are you going to Japan with?
一人（ひとり）で日本（にほん）へ行きます。I will go to Japan alone.
友（とも）だちと日本へ行きます。I will go to Japan with my friends.
何よう日（なんようび）に学校へ行きますか。What days of the week do you go to school?
月よう日（げつようび）と水よう日（すいようび）に学校へ行きます。
I go to school on Mondays and Wednesdays.

いつ会社へ行きますか。When do you go to work?
毎日（まいにち）会社へ行きます。I go to work every day.
9時半（くじはん）に会社へ行きます。I go to work at 9:30.
9時半に電車（でんしゃ）で会社へ行きます。I go to work at 9:30 by train.

たんじょう日はいつですか。When is your birthday?
たんじょう日は8月17日です。My birthday is August 17.

たくさんきいて、たくさんれんしゅうしてください。
（Please listen and practice a lot!)




にほんごのれんしゅう

みんなの日本語　Lesson 5

In Episode 73 of 111 Tips for Learning a Language, we explore the intersection between emotional regulation and conversational fluency through the lens of the sacral chakra. Drawing from both neuroscience and yogic philosophy, this episode demonstrates how breathwork, pelvic awareness, and emotional expression activate the vagus nerve, reducing amygdala hyperactivity and supporting hippocampal memory consolidation—crucial for vocabulary retrieval and confident speaking (Porges, 2011; Lupien et al., 2009). By cultivating awareness of the emotional body through the sacral region, language learners can overcome anxiety, improve expression, and foster greater ease and authenticity in communication.

💃🏻111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 73 - How to activate the sacral chakra for language learning

Today we are going to practice listening and comprehension, with an intonation for tales.

We will make a few Questions about the tale:
1)	¿Cómo era la primera casa del cerdito?
2)	¿Cuantos cerditos había en el cuento?
3)	¿Quién estaba soplando las casas de los cerditos?
4)	¿Cómo era la segunda casa de los cerditos?
5)	¿El tercer cerdito era perezoso?
6)	¿El primer cerdito era trabajador y precavido?
7)	¿De quien era la casa de madera?
8)	¿Quién cayó en la olla hirviendo?




Podcast Learn Spanish

A Short tale with questions: The three little pigs

Life's too short to read the small print, right? The small print, sometimes called the "fine print" is the name for the terms and conditions you find on websites, contracts and other documents.

The size of the text is often a little smaller and there can be quite a lot of it. For these reasons, some of us don't read it all — even though we know it can be very important.

A company from the UK decided to test how many people really do read the small print.

The company, called Tax Policy Associates, hid a little surprise in the privacy policy on its website, offering to send a nice bottle of wine to anyone who read it.

It was the idea of company founder Dan Neidle. He wrote in the policy: "We will send a bottle of good wine to the first person to read this."

The policy was posted online in February, but the company was only contacted about the wine in May!

He told the BBC that it was a "childish protest" because "all businesses have to have a privacy policy" even though no one reads them.

Neidle added: "Every tiny coffee shop has to have a privacy policy on their website, it's crazy."

He said that the person who found the sentence about the wine had been writing their own privacy policy, and they were looking for examples.

That lucky person was sent a bottle of French red wine and the sentence offering the free wine has now been taken out of the policy!



Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Company Hides Offer of Free Wine in 'Small Print'

Robert Burns Night (with transcript)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZCwL9K15p7dCv7XBO0i1BGoMosxZ075H/view?usp=drive_link