Listen to this short extract for A2 level English learners as part of my Learn English with Pip course.

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Reading extract: a police story (English A2 level) 

在今天这集播客里，你学会到和狗有关的词汇和表达，例如狗的体型，特点，品种等等。赶快来听听吧！


Chillchat (Learn Chinese and Chill)

聊聊狗狗 Let’s talk about doggos!!

Une sacrée galette
Tous les animaux de la forêt ont l'habitude de se réunir pour fêter les rois. Cette année, c'est Kipic, le hérisson, qui achète la galette.
De sa vie, Kipic n'a jamais eu la fève. Alors il s'est arrangé avec le pâtissier qui en a placé vingt-cinq dans la galette. Le hérisson est certain, cette fois-ci, d'être le roi.
Le sanglier a fait les parts. Le lièvre était caché sous la table. Eh bien, c'est à peine croyable : la chèvre a eu cinq fèves, le lièvre trois, le sanglier six, le cerf quatre, l'ours deux, la souris cinq et Kipic... rien du tout. Quelle malchance !

Des Milliers D'histoires

Histoire 5 - Une sacrée galette

Welcome to 'English Learners Boost,' where language meets culture! In today's episode, we're exploring 'New Year's Resolutions Around the World.' Join us as we delve into common resolutions, from language mastery to global traditions. Discover practical usage tips, cultural insights, and don't miss our sponsor segment for a chance to experience a unique teaching methodology on italki. Let's make 2024 the year your English proficiency skyrockets! Subscribe, share, and embark on this linguistic adventure with 'English Learners Boost.

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New Year's Resolutions Around the World

La parola di oggi è: CORSIVO. In questo podcast vi spiegherò meglio cosa si intende per "corsivo" e quando utilizzarlo.

🇮🇹 ITALIANO IN PILLOLE

📝 CORSIVO

Vamos a hablar de un tema que todos mencionamos en nuestras conversaciones diarias: el clima y las estaciones del año. Este episodio te enseñará vocabulario y frases útiles para hablar del tiempo en español

Español en Acción

Temporada 1 Episodio 7 Hablemos del Tiempo - Cómo hablar del clima y las estaciones del año

Comentario sobre la más reciente película de Tim Burton, secuela de su "Beetlejuice" de 1988.

El kinetoscopio

Episodio 10: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

CHISTES MEXICANOS

ZONAS DE DESASTRE.

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.