３月といえば、出会いと別れの季節です。
日本では４月に新年度が始まり、３月に終わるので、春は入学・入社祝いなどで贈り物をすることがよくあります。
今回は、アヤが中国人の生徒に聞いた贈り物のタブーについて話します。

March is the season of encounters and partings. 
In Japan, the new academic and fiscal year begins in April and ends in March, so we often give gifts in the spring to celebrate someone’s enrollment or joining the company. 
This time, Aya talks about the taboo of gifts that she heard from her student from China.

♤ キーワード
・年度（ねんど：academic and fiscal year）
・節目（ふしめ：milestone）
・弔う（とむらう：mourn）
・喪服（もふく：mourning dress）
・心機一転（しんきいってん： get a fresh start）

♧ 理解度チェッククイズ 
1. 中国でタブーとされている贈り物は？ 
2. それをプレゼントとしてあげるのは、どのくらい失礼？

♢ 前回のクイズの答え
1. フミが春を感じるのはいつ？
→ 札幌雪まつりが終わる頃
2. 日本の気候について、二人が子どものときと比べて変わったことは？
→ 四季がはっきり感じられなくなった

BGM special thanks：MusMus

アヤさんとフミさんの日本語雑談（Aya and Fumi’s Japanese Chit-Chat）

Episode 25：贈り物のタブー

حول الأزمة الفنزويلة والهجرة المعاكسة ...

Arabic (Modern Standard) Texts with Aymaro - Level A2 - C1 - *نصوص عربية مع إيمارو

Arabic for non-native speakers - level A2 هجرة عكسية من فنزويلا إلى البرتغال 

En este episodio hablaremos de como nuestra capacidad para ver a color es realmente sorprendente siendo el resultado de una evolución compleja, donde nuestro sistema visual se basa principalmente en tres colores primarios

¡Hablemos de salud!

Los colores y la visión humana

日本語の先生のTinaです！
今日は、「〜ないで」という言葉を紹介します。
これも、二つの短い文をいっしょにして、一つの長い文を作るのに便利ですよ〜！

Podcastを聞いて、クイズに答えよう！
レッスンの予約もお待ちしています♪
いっしょに、日本語の勉強をがんばりましょ〜！
Episodeのリクエストは、ぜひコメントしてくださいね。

Tina Japa Go!

Episode 14. 〜ないで

Many people want to look younger these days. It's because people are pressured to look their best. In this podcast, I will be sharing some tips for you to look younger. These are things that I personally do. Please consult your doctor if you are taking medications, pregnant or lactating before taking Collagen or Glutathione.

FLO TALKS 

5 TIPS TO LOOK FOREVER YOUNG 

In this episode, I share one of the best methods to quickly improve your vocabulary and retain what you study. 



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T.E.A. Time with Tayvin Bayless 

Reading for better vocabulary

It's summer. You're on the beach, by the pool or in the garden — it might be time to get your swimwear out!

But if you're talking about swimwear in English, there's a small problem: there are many different words for it.

"Swimwear" can be used for anything you put on to go in the water, whether you're male or female, so it's always a safe choice of word.

You might also hear "swimmers" used by people from Australia. This means the same thing, and it's always used with the "s" on the end.

In Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, swimwear will also often be called "togs."

And Australians also say "bathers." It's short for "bathing suit," which in British English usually refers to women's one-piece swimwear, but in American English can be anything you wear to swim in.

Anything you swim in can also be called a "swimsuit."

"One-piece" can be used on its own to refer to women's swimwear that's made from one piece of material, as opposed to a two-piece swimsuit like a bikini.

In the UK, the term "swimming costume" also tends to be used to talk about female swimwear. Some British and Australian English speakers might shorten this to "cozzie" — sometimes spelled "cossie," but said the same.

In the US or Britain, men going to the beach shouldn't forget their "swimming trunks." These are the casual shorts people often wear. You'll hear these called "board shorts" or "boardies" in Australia.

Men who are going for a serious swim might choose "Speedos."

Speedo is the name of a swimwear company, but the word is now used across the world for the tight briefs men might wear when they want to swim very fast.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Who Let the Togs Out? Key English Swimwear Terms

The Nordic countries of Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden are regularly top scorers in world happiness rankings. These countries have placed in the top 10 of the World Happiness Report (WHR) every year since 2013 — so what's their secret?

These five countries score well in all six of the things considered in the WHR: GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity and corruption.

But the WHR has noted that there might be another thing these countries have more of than others — trust.

Trust is very important, says WHR editor John F. Helliwell, a former professor at the University of British Columbia. And he developed a study to test how community trust is linked to better well-being.

In Helliwell's study, he looked at how likely people thought it would be for a lost wallet to be returned to them, and he compared this to their life satisfaction score from zero to 10.

He found that those who expected their wallet to be returned had a higher life satisfaction score.

"We find people are much, much happier if they feel they're in an environment where people are going to watch their back," Helliwell told Euro News.

In a 2023 experiment by Reader's Digest, wallets were actually left for people to find in cities around the world. And where was a lost wallet most likely to be returned? In Helsinki, the capital of Finland.

The WHR has noted that a high level of trust may be among the things that explain Nordic happiness.

However, as Forbes has suggested, it may not be so much about big-smile "happiness" as quieter "contentment."

Rather than always trying for something better, people in Scandinavian countries are more often content with what they have. As a result, few of them will say they are unhappy — which helps these countries do well in world happiness rankings.

What's the Secret to Nordic Countries' Happiness?

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