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Diction Warmup 5/21/22

A fun trip to Mongolia in the summer of 2020.

layover - a short stay in a place that you make while you are on a longer journey to somewhere else
reasonable - if you say that the price of something is reasonable, you mean that it is fair and not too high
to go with something -  to choose or accept something
packed - filled to capacity; full
to see smth with your own eyes - see something yourself, especially when it is something that you would not believe to exist or be true if you did not see it
to make a buck - to earn money
a nomad -  is a member of a group of people who move from one place to another rather than living in one place all of the time
portable - something that is portable is light and small enough to be easily carried or moved, like a portable speaker 
exhausted - extremely tired
to scam - to trick someone into giving you money, usually in an illegal way

Enjoy :)

All-Weather English

My trip to Mongolia

to ask about and describe how someone disposes someone else or something

标准汉语会话360句 book1-4 Standard Chinese conversation 360 sentences

我们把桌子放到窗户旁边吧

元の記事/ Original Article↓
https://www.huffingtonpost.jp/entry/story_jp_62da52a8e4b0a6852c364957

☆目次
0:00 オープニング
1:19 Introduction
2:03 “「地頭がいい」は本当か？”
4:46 地頭
7:53 “環境が才能を引き出す、周囲の人が重要”
10:22 結果が重要？
13:58 “教育の実践者でありたい”
15:18 やればできる？

☆語彙
自己肯定感（じここうていかん）
言い訳（いいわけ）
地頭（じあたま）
学力（がくりょく）
主体的（しゅたいてき）
つまづく
論理（ろんり）
選択肢（せんたくし）
同感（どうかん）
顕著（けんちょ）
全面的（ぜんめんてき）
痛感（つうかん）

☆引用記事
ハフポスト日本版編集部. “ビリギャル・小林さやかさん「日本人の自己肯定感の低さ」に課題意識。コロンビア教育大学院に進学する理由とは【2022年 上半期回顧】”. HUFFPOST. 2022-07-24. https://www.huffingtonpost.jp/entry/story_jp_62da52a8e4b0a6852c364957

"After 5" by Japanese Teacher

“Education and low self-esteem of Japanese” 「ビリギャル・小林さやかさん「日本人の自己肯定感の低さ」に課題意識。コロンビア教育大学院に進学する理由とは【2022年 上半期回顧】」

Si empiezas el día con mal pie, todo se complica...

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Empezar con mal pie

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Hello! I’m Yuli. Long time no see! 😊

This is an Authentic Chinese listening episode at natural native speed.

How to study:
1. Listen once without reading.
2. Listen again with the transcript.
3. Notice natural expressions and sentence patterns.

Transcript:

哈喽，大家好，我是 Yuli。好久不见！
Hālou, dàjiā hǎo, wǒ shì Yuli. Hǎojiǔ bú jiàn!
Hello everyone, I’m Yuli. Long time no see!

距离我上次发布视频，已经过去一年半了。我终于又有时间继续更新了。
Jùlí wǒ shàng cì fābù shìpín, yǐjīng guòqu yì nián bàn le. Wǒ zhōngyú yòu yǒu shíjiān jìxù gēngxīn le.
It has been a year and a half since I last posted a video. I finally have time to keep updating again.

这个视频里，我想重新介绍一下自己，聊聊我的工作和生活。
Zhège shìpín lǐ, wǒ xiǎng chóngxīn jièshào yíxià zìjǐ, liáoliao wǒ de gōngzuò hé shēnghuó.
In this video, I want to reintroduce myself and talk about my work and life.

更重要的是，我的语言学习经历。
Gèng zhòngyào de shì, wǒ de yǔyán xuéxí jīnglì.
More importantly, I want to talk about my language-learning journey.

我从小就很喜欢学英语，英语也是我学得最好的科目之一。
Wǒ cóngxiǎo jiù hěn xǐhuan xué Yīngyǔ, Yīngyǔ yě shì wǒ xué de zuì hǎo de kēmù zhī yī.
I have loved learning English since I was little, and English was also one of my best subjects.

高考结束后，我需要选专业，我毫不犹豫地选择了外语专业。
Gāokǎo jiéshù hòu, wǒ xūyào xuǎn zhuānyè, wǒ háo bù yóuyù de xuǎnzé le wàiyǔ zhuānyè.
After the college entrance exam, I had to choose a major, and I chose a foreign-language major without hesitation.

其实，法语才是我的第一志愿，可惜我的分数不够高，最后我被日语专业录取了。
Qíshí, Fǎyǔ cái shì wǒ de dì yī zhìyuàn, kěxī wǒ de fēnshù bú gòu gāo, zuìhòu wǒ bèi Rìyǔ zhuānyè lùqǔ le.
Actually, French was my first choice, but unfortunately my score was not high enough, so in the end I was admitted to the Japanese major.

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Complete scripts and video versions: find “Daily Chinese With Yuli” on YouTube.