.في حلقتنا لهذا اليوم, سنتعرف على التقويم الهجري و كيف يختلف عن التقويم الميلادي المتبع في  أغلب دول العالم

Arabic Café | مقهى اللغة العربية

الحلقة 2 - التقويم الهجري | Intermediate Arabic |

"Hit the Books" with these slick and smooth idioms pertaining to BOOKS :) 

Baffling Lingo

Book Idioms 

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

1.共享单车是互联网时代的绿色出行方式，用户可以通过手机App实现注册、扫码解锁、骑行、还车等操作，实现便捷的短途出行。它有效缓解了城市交通拥堵，减少了环境污染，同时提供了经济实惠的短途出行选择。共享单车已广泛普及，成为城市生活中不可或缺的一部分。

2.ɡònɡ xiǎnɡ dān chē shì hù lián wǎnɡ shí dài de lǜ sè chū xínɡ fānɡ shì ，yònɡ hù kě yǐ tōnɡ ɡuò shǒu jī App shí xiàn zhù cè 、sǎo mǎ jiě suǒ 、qí xínɡ 、huái chē děnɡ cāo zuò ，shí xiàn biàn jié de duǎn tú chū xínɡ 。tā yǒu xiào huǎn jiě le chénɡ shì jiāo tōnɡ yōnɡ dǔ ，jiǎn shǎo le huán jìnɡ wū rǎn ，tónɡ shí tí ɡōnɡ le jīnɡ jì shí huì de duǎn tú chū xínɡ xuǎn zé 。ɡònɡ xiǎnɡ dān chē yǐ ɡuǎnɡ fàn pǔ jí ，chénɡ wéi chénɡ shì shēnɡ huó zhōnɡ bù kě huò quē de yí bù fēn 。

3.Bike-sharing is a green mode of travel in the Internet age, where users can register, scan codes to unlock, ride, and return bikes through mobile apps, enabling convenient short-distance travel. It effectively eases urban traffic congestion, reduces environmental pollution, and provides an economical choice for short-distance travel. Bike-sharing has been widely popularized and become an indispensable part of urban life.

Lily的每日中文 Daily Chinese

共享单车Shared bicycles 

Both the word ただ and だけ can often be translated as "just" or "only" in English. So what's the difference?

Patreon https://www.patreon.com/twowisemonkeysjapanesepodcast

Two Wise Monkeys Japanese Podcast

Ep.3 ただ vs だけ

Some common phrases we say at Christmas time. But be careful!

The Social Evolutionary

Silly things we say in the "Silly Season", (Christmas).

Globalisation often comes up in the IELTS test. Make sure you're ready to answer this question by listening to this podcast.

Remember that you can take a private lesson with me by clicking on my profile.

IELTS with Nick - World Knowledge 

How has globalisation affected small businesses?

No, money doesn't grow on trees. Sorry!
An explanation of the expression.
Remember to do the two attached quizzes to test your understanding of some related expressions.

Money grows on trees???

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16ruoOwe0pKFi5oB98shzaTmU89PrVCrg/view?usp=drivesdk