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Daily English Podcast Chapter # 18

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03.  Is Marriage a Must_一定要结婚吗？

⭐ Contents: 1/ Faire du sport (ou pas) 2/ Les sports les plus populaires 3/ Pourquoi faire du sport 4/ La marche 5/ Les bienfaits du sport 6/ Quelques conseils 7/ Les J.O. de Paris 2024 8/ Les mascottes de Paris 2024

⭐ To go further, visit www.explorefrench.com. On my website, you can become a Premium Member and gain full access to all transcripts, games and language activities for both of my podcast channels "Learn French with Anthony" and "Explore France with Anthony". On my website, you'll also gain full access to my French online courses, "Skills Trainer" modules to enhance your proficiency in French, "Word Builder" modules to expand your French vocabulary, and audiobooks specially designed for learners of French. 

⭐ In this A2-level podcast, we will talk about sports, the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, as well as the increasing use of sports to cure health problems. We will practice the future tense, and learn how to give advice with structures such as "you should", "you could", and "I advise/recommend you to." We will also cover how to translate "never" and "not anymore/no longer," and review the vocabulary related to sports and common health problems in French, among many other things.

⭐ In the first part of this podcast, I will speak only in French, and in the second part, I will translate and explain everything in English.

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A2#06 Sports, santé et Jeux Olympiques

Try it now！ 
听播客回答问题，Listen to the podcast and answer the questions below. There will be a text tomorrow after you finish the exercise! 
1. zhōng guó běi fāng de tiān qì zěn me yàng ？ shì nèi ne ？ 
1. 中    国  北  方   的 天   气 怎  么 样   ？ 室  内  呢 ？ 
2. nán fāng de wēn dù zěn me yàng ？ 
2. 南  方   的 温  度 怎  么 样   ？ 
3. nán fāng rén zěn me ràng zì jǐ nuǎn huo yì dián ér ？ 
3. 南  方   人  怎  么 让   自 己 暖   和  一 点   儿 ？ 

他们在聊啥？What are they talking about？

中国南北差异zhōng guó nán běi chā yì ：North-south differences in China

🎧 
Prueba de Comprensión de Lectura 
Tarea 4

¿Vas a presentar el examen DELE B2? Escucha este cortito audio para que sepas qué tienes qué hacer, de forma muy general, en la Tarea 4 de la prueba de comprensión de lectura. No se trata solamente de leer, sino de Entender lo que se lee.

Mucho que decir

Examen DELE B2 🎧 

Today we are going to listen to the story of Navratri which signifies the triumph of good over evil.

open the doorway to the heart of India with hindi

Navratri a festival of india

Ālǐ: Lǎoshī, Zhōngguó yǒu nǎxiē chuántǒng jiérì?
阿里：老师，中国有哪些传统节日?
 
Lǎoshī: Zhōngguó yǒu Chūn Jié, Yuánxiāo Jié, Zhōngqiū Jié......
老师：中国有春节，元宵节，中秋节......
 
Ālǐ: Chūn Jié shì jǐ yuè jǐ rì?
阿里：春节是几月几日?
 
Lǎoshī: Chūn Jié shì nónglì Yīyuè yī rì.
老师：春节是农历1月1日。
 
Ālǐ: Yuánxiāo Jié shì jǐ yuè jǐ rì?
阿里：元宵节是几月几日?
 
Lǎoshī: Yuánxiāo Jié shì nónglì Yīyuè shíwǔ rì.
老师：元宵节是农历1月15日。
 
Ālǐ: Zhōngqiū Jié ne?
阿里：中秋节呢?
 
Lǎoshī: Zhōngqiū Jié shì nónglì Bāyuè shíwǔ rì.
老师：中秋节是农历8月15日。
 
Ālǐ: Zhōngguó yǒu Qíngrén Jié ma?
阿里：中国有情人节吗?
 
Lǎoshī: Yǒu, Zhōngguó de Qíngrén Jié shì nónglì Qīyuè qī rì.
老师：有，中国的情人节是农历7月7日。
 
Ālǐ: Èr líng yī èr nián Zhōngguó Qíngrén Jié shì nǎ tiān?
阿里：2012年 中国 情人节是哪天?
 
Lǎoshī: Shì èr líng yī èr nián Bāyuè èrshísān rì, Xīngqīsì.
老师：是2012年8月23日，星期四。
 
 

中文每日一练

每日听汉语

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'

In this episode we will talk about 【Language learning 】, you will learn how to say 【bottleneck,bonus system,imitate】 ect.
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大家好，我是Yuli。欢迎收听我的播客。
今天想和大家聊一聊【语言学习的方法】。
相信在收听这期播客的你，中文已经达到了中高级水平了，也一定有自己独特的学习方法和心得。在学习一门外语的时候，到了中高级水平很容易遇到瓶颈，我自己也有这样的体会。今天我们一起来听一位牛津大学硕士的分享，学了九门语言的他有什么语言学习方法呢？
大家好，这里是杨老师。那么这期视频呢，我想来和大家分享一下我自己的一些语言学习的经验。
那么第1点也是我觉得最重要的一点，就是一定要给自己的语言学习找到一个合适的动力。如果你本来学习语言就是因为对它感兴趣的话，那当然是最好。但是呢有很多情况是我们迫不得已要学习一门语言，比如说有时候呢我要出国了，所以我要学习雅思托福。这种情况下就需要有一个合适的奖励机制，比如说你可以让学习本身变成一件快乐的事情。你可以用更有趣的学习资料，当然也可以进行一些外在的激励，比如说今天我背了几个单词，那就奖励我自己一件衣服之类的。
那么第2点呢，我觉得大家可以根据不同语言的特点来进行一个学习方法的调整。比如说我之前学习泰语的时候呢，会觉得它的这个书写系统非常的复杂，所以呢，我就先着重于它的口语学习，因为它的口语呢，语法还是和中文比较像的。这样呢可以让你在学习语言遇到瓶颈的时候不那么容易放弃。因为你不管在学习哪个部分的时候呢，你的综合语言能力都是在提升的。
那么第3点呢，我觉得大家可以根据自己的需求来制定一个学习计划。像我自己呢会列一张表，这张表上我有听说读写4个部分。大家可以制定一年的计划也可以制定三个月的计划。制定计划了以后呢，也要写出比如说我每周要做的一些事情才可以达到我制定的这个标准。那么每周做的这个事情呢，最好还是可以量化的。
那么第4点呢，就是大家在练习口语或者写作的时候呢，一定不要怕犯错，特别是在学习口语的时候，很多同学会觉得哎呀我有口音、我说得不标准，或者说是我有可能说错那我就先不说了。但是呢，其实你犯的错越多，你进步才会越快。
接下来第5点呢，就是大家一定要重视口语的学习。当然你可以有个先后顺序，你说我先来学阅读和听力以后再来学口语，当然可以。但是不可以直接把口语这一块给放弃掉了，因为你在和外国人交流的时候，最先要用到的就是口语。可以比如说在网上找一个语伴，那也可以找一些外国的电影进行一些模仿，或者是你去给它配音。
那么最后一点呢，就是如果你要找一个老师和你一起学习的话呢，一定要找一个合适你的老师。如果有这样子的兴趣相同的老师呢，学习就会更加地轻松愉快。
我相信任何方法都是离不开实践和坚持，只要努力了一定会有收获。在未来的某一天你一定会特别感谢曾经努力的自己。我们下期见。
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心得/xīn dé/what one has learned from work, study, etc.
瓶颈/píng jǐng/bottleneck
牛津大学	/niú jīn dà xué/Oxford university
迫不得已	/pò bù dé yǐ/have got to do
雅思/yǎ sī/IELTS
托福/tuō fú/TOEFL
奖励机制	/jiǎng lì jī zhì	/bonus system
书写系统	/shū xiě xì tǒng/writing system
激励/jī lì	/stimulate,motivate
着重于/zhuó zhòng yú/lay emphasis on
可量化/kě liàng huà/quantifiable
语伴/yǔ bàn/language partner
模仿/mó fǎng/imitate
配音/pèi yīn/dubbing