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Learn English with William

Mi amigo Martin y yo hablamos sobre Turquía y cómo es la cultura del café aquí.
Mira al perfil de Martín para mas episodios interesantes: 
https://www.italki.com/teacher/5211013  

Turkishized

El Cafe Turco 

1. Pazartesi
2. Salı
3. Çarşamba
4. Perşembe
5. Cuma
6. Cumartesi
7. Pazar

ALL ABOUT TURKıSH

HAFTANIN GÜNLERİ (DAYS OF THE WEEK)

Chinese simplified version:
老师告诉大家，我们要常常帮助人。
平平想：“我要怎么做呢？”
平平等红绿灯的时候，看见一位老爷爷想过马路。平平牵着老爷爷的手，一起过马路。
平平去市场的时候，看见一位老奶奶买了很多东西。 平平帮老奶奶拿篮子。
平平看到一位小女孩在哭，她找不到妈妈。 平平带她找妈妈。
平平回家了，告诉妈妈今天他做了什么。
妈妈说：“你真棒！ 你帮助了很多人。”
妈妈又说：“现在可以请你帮我倒垃圾吗？”

Traditional Chinese version:
老師告訴大家，我們要常常幫助人。
平平想：“我要怎麼做呢？”
平平等紅綠燈的時候，看見一位老爺爺想過馬路。平平牽著老爺爺的手，一起過馬路。
平平去市場的時候，看見一位老奶奶買了很多東西。平平幫老奶奶拿籃子。
平平看到一位小女孩在哭，她找不到媽媽。平平帶她找媽媽。
平平回家了，告訴媽媽今天他做了什麼。
媽媽說：“你真棒！ 你幫助了很多人。”
媽媽又說：“現在可以請你幫我倒垃圾嗎？”

English translation:
The teacher told everyone that we should often help people.
Ping Ping thought: "What should I do?"
When Pingping was at the traffic light, he saw an old man. He held the grandfather's hand and crossed the road together.
When Ping went to the market, he saw an old woman with lots of things. He helped her to carry some baskets.
Ping saw a girl crying. She couldn’t find her mom. Ping helped her to look for her mom.
Ping went back home and told his mom what he had done today.
Mom said, “You are so nice! You’ve helped a lot of people.”
Mom said, “Now, can you help me throw the carbage?”

Yasmine's Chinese Reading - elementary

帮助别人最快乐 - Helping others is the happiest thing

En este episodio aprenderas el significado de este dicho mexicano muy popular y cómo utilizarlo en la vida diaria 

Dichos y refranes mexicanos

A caballo regalado no se le ve colmillo

不是。①英语中的过去式只用时过去的时态，“了”不一定只用于过去。
       明天下了课就去看电影。（I will go to the movies tomorrow after class.）
       她要是知道了这事肯定要大闹。（If she found out about it, she would definitely make a fuss.）
         ②英语不管是状态还是时间，只要是过去的事情们都要用过去时。“了”只用于过去的事件，不用于过去的状态。错误示例：小时候她很漂亮了。（×）我刚到北京时，妈妈很担心了。（×）我没吃了。（×）



喵喵说汉语---HSK 4

“了”是英语中的过去时吗？

Müəllif bir yay günü marketdə rastlaşdığı fəhlə barədə danışır. Fəhlənin pulu çatmadığından almaq istədiyi suyu nisyə götürmək istəyir. Müəllif isə onun əvəzinə pul ödəmək istəyir.

Podcast Azerbaijan

Bir yay günü

[Conversational Podcast] Finding myself 2

Korean stories with Donggyu

Transcript by italki teacher Carl:
Improve your spoken English and book a lesson with me: https://teach.italki.com/teacher/1947582
Streetwise English Podcast - Pink Floyd
Welcome back to another mini episode of Streetwise English podcast. You can search for Streetwise English Podcast on other platforms and find full length episodes, but these are just mini podcasts. Today I'd like to talk about music, and specifically I'd like to talk about an English band called Pink Floyd. So Pink Floyd was big back in the 1970s. And I remember as a kid my dad had the album The Dark Side of the Moon, and the cover Art of the Dark Side of the Moon was a prism, like a triangle.
And then on the right side of the prism was a rainbow. So the spectrum of colors in light and this album was groundbreaking at the time because it was kind of a new genre of music. It was psychedelic rock, so there were soundscapes and they were using synthesizers and electric instruments in ways that people had never done before. And I looked, I Googled it, checked on the Wikipedia page, and it says that The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album of the English rock band Pink Floyd released on March 1st 1973 the record was conceived as an album that focused on the pressures faced by the band during their arduous lifestyle. And dealing with the apparent mental health problems suffered by former band member Syd Barrett, who was a part of the group in 1968.
So in my research, um, my brief research here on Pink Floyd I learned about Syd Barrett and that he was the founding member of the band who left the group and I guess he had some kind of mental illness and experimented with a lot of psychedelic drugs. Um, and he kind of disappeared from the band, but it seems like he was probably maybe the most talented one and the original member of the band and kind of helped form, form their style of exploring sonic soundscapes and free flow of consciousness and the way that he would create the lyrics and...

