In this episode of 'English Learners Boost,' explore the art of setting SMART goals for the New Year. Discover the power of Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound goals in transforming your English language journey. With practical examples and personalized approaches, learn how to enhance your vocabulary, grammar, listening, and writing skills. Plus, don't miss the exclusive opportunity to experience a unique teaching methodology by booking a lesson on iTalki. Elevate your English learning adventure and make 2023 the year of language breakthroughs. Tune in now and set yourself up for success!

English Learner's Boost

Setting SMART Goals for the New Year

I talk about my visit to the Natural History Museum- dinosaurs, bugs, panorama, beehive, animals.

Children's movie I reference: The Land Before Time

Learn English with Stories

My Visit to the Natural History Museum

Nell'episodio di oggi vi parlerò dei pro e contro del Natale in Italia. Buon ascolto e soprattutto buon natale!

The Italian Miscellaneous Podcast🖐 

Quasi Natale 🎅 

Palabras claves

deportar

obligar a alguien a salir de un país
Fue deportado poco después de ser arrestado.

Influencer

una persona que es muy popular en las redes sociales y a menudo las empresas le 
pagan para promocionar sus productos
Con más de 20 millones de seguidores, es una de las influencers más conocidas en 
Instagram.

muelle

una estructura larga y elevada que va desde la tierra hasta el mar
Los boletos se venden en el barco o en el muelle.

contenido

algo que aparece en un sitio web, en una revista, etc.
Hay una gran cantidad de contenido diferente en este sitio web.

recuperar

volver a ser normal o exitoso nuevamente después de una dificultad
Nepal está luchando para recuperarse de un terremoto.

empatía

la capacidad de comprender los sentimientos, experiencias, etc. de otra persona.
Mostró empatía por su problemático amigo.

Preguntas

¿Qué piensa sobre los problemas de Bali con los turistas extranjeros?
¿La gente de tu pueblo o ciudad se queja a menudo de los turistas?
¿Sigues a muchos influencers en las redes sociales? ¿Por qué? ¿Por que no?
¿Cuál de tus amigos publica el contenido más entretenido en las redes sociales?
¿Has estado en Bali? Si es así, ¿podría verse viviendo allí

Learn Spanish with Elvis (A2)

Bali deporta a los influencers que rompen las reglas!

Transcript: https://www.patreon.com/posts/zhong-wen-shi-95740701?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Lily's Chinese 对话

20240229毛泽东自传节选

In this episode we are going to learn how to 【Introduce a friend】. 
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As a beginner, there're some vocabularies that you didn't learn before, and native speaker's speed seems too fast to understand. But don't worry, let's do it step by step. 
1st time: listen and catch the words you know alreay, have a guess about the content.
2nd time: look at the text to check if you guessed it right. 
3rd time: listen one more time, repeat after it.
4th time: practise until you can speak as the normal speed without looking at the text. 
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这是我的好朋友，她叫丽丽。
zhè shì wǒ de hǎo péng yǒu ， tā jiào lì lì 。
This is my good friend. Her name is Lili.
我们是小学同学，我们认识二十多年了。
wǒ men shì xiǎo xué tóng xué ， wǒ men rèn shí èr shí duō nián le 。
We were classmates in primary school. We have known each other for more than twenty years.
丽丽很漂亮，很多男生都喜欢她。
lì lì hěn piào liàng ， hěn duō nán shēng dōu xǐ huān tā 。
Lily is beautiful. Many boys like her.
丽丽也很聪明，她会说英语、日语和西班牙语。
lì lì yě hěn cōng míng ， tā huì shuō yīng yǔ 、 rì yǔ hé xī bān yá yǔ 。
Lily is also smart. She can speak English, Japanese and Spanish.
她的生日是8月26号。
tā de shēng rì shì bā yuè èrshíliù hào 。
Her birthday is on August 26th.
我们每年都一起过生日。
wǒ men měi nián dōu yì qǐ guò shēng rì 。
We celebrate birthday together every year.
我给她买了一个生日蛋糕。
wǒ gěi tā mǎi le yí gè shēng rì dàn gāo 。
I bought her a birthday cake.
祝她生日快乐。
zhù tā shēng rì kuài lè 。
Wish her Happy birthday.

Yuli's Chinese Channel

介绍朋友 Introduce a friend（for beginner）

Like many other grandmothers, Daisy likes to knit, and she isn't very good with technology.

Or, at least, that's what she might tell people on the phone.

Daisy also describes herself as "your worst nightmare." But don't worry, she's not talking to you — she's talking to phone scammers.

That's because Daisy is actually an AI chatbot. She was created by UK phone company Virgin Media O2 to speak to scammers on the phone and make them believe they're talking to a real person.

Older people are very vulnerable to scams. In July, a UK study found that about 67% of people over the age of 75 were victims of at least one scam attempt in the six months before the study — with almost 75% being phone scams.

Enter Daisy, who has been trained to have conversations with phone scammers and waste their time.

Virgin Media O2 worked with Jim Browning, a YouTuber who has spent years "scambaiting" — that is, pretending to be a clueless victim to waste scammers' time.

And that's the whole point — Daisy can't stop scammers, but she can slow them down.

"Whenever she's on the phone with a scammer, your parents, your grandparents, your relatives, are not being scammed," Browning told Sky News.

The company says Daisy is already "wasting hundreds and hundreds of hours of scammers' time," and has shared real-life conversations the chatbot has had with scammers.

Some conversations last nearly an hour. She talks about her cat, Fluffy, and people in her family. In some conversations, she gives the scammers what they want — bank details. But of course, they're not real.

Murray Mackenzie from Virgin Media O2 said Daisy is also a reminder that the person you're speaking to on the phone might not always be who they say they are.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Meet the AI Grandma Wasting Scammers' Time

En un entorn molt llunyà, més concretament a la selva, diversos animals convivien feliçment en un entorn salvatge. Però allà també hi vivia un lleó molt golafre, el rei de la selva, que acostumava a menjar-se entre 3 i 4 animals cada dia. Un dia, farts de viure espantats, tots els animals de la selva van organitzar una revolta i van anar a buscar el lleó.
– Accepto que soc una mica golafre, però necessito menjar animals per poder mantenir-me viu i fort. – Va dir el lleó.
Els animals semblaven entendre el que deia, però no podien permetre perdre tants amics cada dia. Finalment, van proposar un pacte que deia que el lleó només es menjaria un animal al dia. El lleó va remugar una mica, però finalment el va acceptar. La promesa no va durar gaires dies i, en un atac de golafreria, el lleó (que ja s’havia menjat un estruç aquell dia) va voler menjar-se un petit conill que passejava camí cap al seu cau. El conill havia vist un pou ple d’aigua uns quants metres enrere i com que era molt presumit s’havia estat mirant al reflex de l’aigua durant una bona estona. Però a part de presumit també era molt valent i va dir al lleó que coneixia un altre lleó que anava dient per la selva que era més poderós. Com podeu comprendre, al rei de la selva no li van agradar gens aquestes paraules, i va demanar al conill que el portés cap on estava aquest lleó.
Van anar caminant i el conill va demanar al lleó que s’aturés davant del pou. Assenyalant el reflex de l’aigua del pou amb el dit, li va dir:
-Mira'l, és aquí.

VOCABULARI: 
🦁  golare, golafres = glotón / glutton 
🐰 estar fart, farts = estar harto / to be fed up
🦁  la revolta, les revoltes = revuelta / revolt
🐰 remugar (verb) = pensar / to think about 
🦁  l'estruç, els estruços = avestruz / ostrich 
🐰 el cau, els caus = madriguera / burrow
🦁  el pou, els pous = pozo / well, pit (water)
🐰 el reflex, els reflexos = reflejo / reflection 

Contes en català amb la Paula 👩🏻‍🏫  📚 

 📚Conte: El lleó i el conill 🦁🐰 

Celsius or Fahrenheit [with transcript for study]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BorxpvR3-pbi6kfVMtXFHHBZhP_HQjo7/view?usp=drivesdk