Partez aujourd'hui avec nous sur les pas de Claude Monet en Normandie. 


Douce France

Claude Monet et la Normandie

⭐ In this B1-level podcast I will talk about happiness and the search of happiness, migration and expatriation, and will also tell you a bit about my family’s origin and about myself. We will see how to express unsatisfaction, how to speak about future plans, we will practise the imperfect and the compound past and much more.

⭐ In the first part of this podcast I will speak French only, and in the second part I will translate and explain everything I said in English. 

Learn French with Anthony

#06 (B1) Bonheur et avenir

紙を貼って作った人形、張り子。丸みのある形と、シンプルで力強い線で描かれたデザインがとても素敵な伝統工芸です。

Today I talk about Japanese traditional crafts, Hariko dolls. Its rounded shape and simple but strong brushwork are really attractive.


+++ words +++
伝統工芸（でんとうこうげい）traditional crafts
木の型（きのかた）　　　　　wooden block to shape something
貼る（はる）　　　　　　　　stick
外す（はずす）　　　　　　　take off

仏教（ぶっきょう）　　　　　Buddhism
お坊さん（おぼうさん）　　　monk
縁起物（えんぎもの）　　　　bringer of good luck
だるま　　　　　　　　　　　Bodhidharma, a Buddhist monk
おもり　　　　　　　　　　　weight

穏やか（おだやか）　　　　　calm
起き上がり小法師（おきあがりこぼし）a tiny traditional hariko doll in Aizu region
姿（すがた）　　　　　　　　figure
転がす（ころがす）　　　　　roll over
赤べこ（あかべこ）　　　　　a traditional cow hariko doll in
方言（ほうげん）　　　　　　dialect
言い伝え（いいつたえ）　　　folklore
ゆらゆら　　　　　　　　　　swinging

ふんどし　　　　　　　　　　loincloth
裸（はだか）の　　　　　　　naked
お参り（おまいり）する　　　go to a temple or a shrine
縄（なわ）　　　　　　　　　rope
迫力（はくりょく）がある 　 look powerful

+++ grammers +++
--various type of "よう"s
～ように　　　　　　　　　　wish to
Vようになる　 　　　　　　　get to do
Vように　　　 　　　　　　　so that

～かどうか　　　　　　　　　if ～ or not


Country Life in Japan とかいとちがう　かもしれない　いなかのくらし

張り子いろいろ（会津の伝統工芸）

Il podcast del modenese!

Introduzione

In todays episode we discuss new vocabulary involving double vowels !

Let's have a chat (Discussions In English) 

Episode 34: Words with double A, I and U

I hope everyone is enjoying the Olympics! Maybe you've seen a couple of RELAY events. If you have, then perhaps you'll be interested to know how we can use this word at work. That's what we're talking about today. 

DAILY Business English VOCABULARY builder

This Olympic event is also a Business English verb!

欢迎来到科技黑话第二集！在本期播客里，我们会一起学习和互联网、群聊、流媒体有关的表达。


Chillchat (Learn Chinese and Chill)

互联网词汇101 Internet-lingo

A toxic workplace is one of the biggest reasons why people leave their jobs.

It might be a place where staff are stressed, managers bully their employees and people don't trust each other.

"Toxic" usually means something that's poisonous, but we can also use it to mean "very unpleasant." The word is often used to describe a workplace that's so bad it's almost poisonous.

If you work in a toxic place, you'll probably know about it. But how can you tell if a workplace is toxic before you even start a new job?

Career coach Beata Staszkow says the way the manager treats you during the interview might give you an idea about how they'll treat you as an employee.

Look out for bosses who don't seem interested in your answers, she adds, or those who make inappropriate jokes.

A manager showing up late for an interview could also be a bad sign, says jobs expert Mita Mallick, writing in Harvard Business Review.

Mallick says to also watch out for things like the interviewer changing the job description after you've started discussing the job, or putting pressure on you to take the job right away.

It's also good to do some research into how many employees are leaving a company and how many new ones are joining. This is known as "employee turnover."

Sometimes there are good reasons for turnover. But it could be a sign of a toxic workplace. You should be able to find out about it by looking on sites like LinkedIn — and you might also be able to contact someone who used to work at the company.

If you're already in a toxic workplace, you'll probably want to get out of it. But you don't want to jump from one toxic workplace into another!

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

How to Find Out if a Workplace Is 'Toxic'

The English Idiom - Worlds Apart.

transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NSCB3ktTvM0IhB2TXAIWkdlBzabDmNsXsQlsn515slA/edit?usp=drivesdk