Learn Spanish easyly from day one while building your vocabulary with these short lessons! All in just 4 minutes. With 49 interactive video lessons included, you will master your Spanish.

4 Minutes Spanish - Complete Course for beginners

Leyenda popular mexicana perfecta para el mes de octubre. 
Todo mexicano conoce esta leyenda, agrega esa historia como un tema de conversación en tu plática con mexicanos.
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Día de Muertos

La llorona mexicana

En este episodio escucharás una lectura acerca de Colombia. Espero que te guste.

Los países Hispanohablantes

Colombia

Nick discusses ideas about which is better, single sex or mixed sex schools.

IELTS with Nick - World Knowledge 

Single-sex vs mixed schools

Today is ANZAC Day, which remembers the soldiers of Australia and New Zealand.

The Social Evolutionary

Fight... for Freedom, but Forgive for True Peace.

This lesson will help you to learn daily used Urdu sentences about "Watch and  Time".

Speak Urdu with Mehwish

Lesson#01 Watch and Time

Halo! Wah, sudah lama ya! Apa kabar semua? 
Saya baru kembali ke Jepang, dari perjalanan ke luar negeri selama kira-kira dua bulan. Saya sedikit capek, jadi akhir minggu, saya terus tidur haha… 
Kali ini, saya mau sedikit bercerita tentang perjalanan saya dengan pesawat, waktu saya kembali ke Jepang. Saat pesawat saya ada di atas samudra pasifik, tiba-tiba pilot bilang "Karena ada masalah dengan mesin pesawat, kita akan kembali ke tempat asal"  Saya kaget dan takut!! Eh, ada apa ini? Kami sudah terbang sekitar 7 jam, dan harus kembali lagi?! 
Mungkin Pilot juga bingung dan panik ya, tapi Pilot pasti sudah berpikir dengan kepala dingin dan memutuskan yang terbaik untuk semua. "Berpikir dengan kepala dingin" artinya "berpikir dengan tenang", "Think calmly", dan di Bahasa Jepang artinya "冷静に考えます”.
Semua penumpang di dalam pesawat juga tidak panik dan tidak marah. Mereka menghadapi situasi ini dengan kepala dingin. Hebat ya! Akhirnya, kami bisa terbang lagi dan sampai di Jepang dengan selamat. 
Apa kalian pernah punya situasi seperti ini? Di antara kalian, pasti pernah ada di situasi yang menakutkan atau situasi yang membuat sangat marah. Saya harap, dengan pengalaman saya kali ini, kita bisa selalu ingat, berpikir dengan kepala dingin, biasanya akan selalu mendapat hasil yang lebih baik daripada berpikir terburu-buru. Kalian setuju?
Ok, selamat beraktivitas semuanya! ^^


Akhir minggu

Kepala dingin

Have you ever heard the phrase, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do"?

It means you should follow the customs of the place you're visiting or the people you're with. So in Japan, for example, you should take off your shoes before entering someone's home, because it's the custom.

However, people often shorten this phrase to just, "When in Rome."

Phrases like this, where part of the sentence is not spoken but the meaning is still clear, are called "anapodotons" ("an-uh-PAW-duh-tuns"). People don't say the second part of the phrase, but everyone knows what they mean.

But why do people leave phrases unfinished?

According to Instagram linguist Adam Aleksic, it's because we like to save time and effort when talking. By saying less, we can still share the full idea, as long as others know the rest of the phrase.

Anapodotons are very common in English. Let's look at some more now!

"Speak of the devil" is something people say when someone appears just as you were talking about them. The full phrase is, "Speak of the devil, and he shall appear." But it doesn't mean you think the person who appeared is a bad person!

"It takes a village" is another example. The full phrase, "It takes a village to raise a child," means raising children is easier with help from others. It can also be used to talk about teamwork or group tasks.

"If you can't stand the heat" comes from, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." This means if something is difficult or stressful, you should either deal with it or stop complaining and leave!

Anapodotons may be short, but they have a lot of meaning!

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Saying Less, Meaning More: The Power of Anapodotons

This podcast is about free entry to museums and galleries in the UK - it will be used in some of my lessons next week for study.