Intermediate Chinese Listening：数字忌讳  The Taboos about Numbers

Intermediate Chinese Listening

✔K-Universe 1on1 Class: https://www.italki.com/teacher/9928310
✔YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/YtYlhxnIFNo

가: “서울역에 가 주세요.” (Please go to Seoul Station.)
나: “서울역이요?” (Seoul station?)
가: “맞아요.” (That’s right!)

Let’s imagine you’re asking a native Korean about some location. 
Or you should tell a taxi driver your destination. 
You are trying to explain where to go. 
Then he or she might ask you back because he wants to make sure.
Then you want to say “that’s right! That’s where I want to go! You’re right!” 
In this case, you can use this expression. 

한 걸음씩(One Step At A Time)

맞아요.(That's right.)

Scottish people eat fried what?!?

Find out the answer to this question and details about traditional Scottish food in the latest episode of my podcast about Scotland. 

Transcripts available on request. 

Scotland - Everything I've Ever Had

0004: Traditional Scottish food

Many students are afraid of speaking because they worry about vocabulary. Find easy ways to describe things. Here is a fun example of describing cheese!

The Social Evolutionary

How can you describe cheese?

IELTS Speaking Part 3 Topic: Travel and transport. Q. 4-6.

4. What are the pros and cons of low-cost air travel?
5. How do you think people will travel in the future?
6. Should the government in a country focus more on rail transports or road transports? Why?

What ideas did you like best?

IELTS-SPEAKING 8-9 BAND IS POSSIBLE. DAILY SPEAKING PRACTICE PART 1,2 & 3. Listen daily.

IELTS Speaking Part 3 Topic: Travel and transport. Q. 4-6.

Where Malayalam sits in its family, who its relatives are, and what you get free if you ever study another one.

Malayalam belongs to the Dravidian family: around twenty-six languages, depending how you count, and roughly a quarter of a billion speakers. Four have long literary traditions and official status — Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

I am Dr. Reshmi R. Nair, an applied linguist from Kerala. I have taught hundreds of learners to speak Malayalam as it is actually spoken.

THE BRANCHES
SOUTH DRAVIDIAN — Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and also Tulu around Mangalore, Kodava in Coorg, and the small languages of the Nilgiri hills: Toda, Kota, Irula, Badaga.
SOUTH-CENTRAL — Telugu, the largest by speakers, with Gondi and others.
CENTRAL — several smaller languages of central India.
NORTH DRAVIDIAN — which contains the fact that makes this family interesting to everyone.

THE OUTLIER
Brahui is a Dravidian language, and it is spoken in Balochistan, in Pakistan — roughly two thousand kilometres from the nearest other Dravidian speech, with the entire Indo-Aryan north in between. Whatever the explanation, it is a genuine puzzle sitting inside an otherwise tidy map.

WHAT THIS BUYS YOU AS A LEARNER
The family shares its architecture: verb-final word order, agglutinating suffixes, postpositions rather than prepositions, the inclusive and exclusive "we", and a retroflex series. Learn how Malayalam is BUILT and a great deal of Tamil, Kannada and Telugu grammar is already familiar — the vocabulary changes, the machinery does not.

Do you speak another Dravidian language? Which piece of Malayalam felt familiar first?

#LearnMalayalam #Malayalam #Kerala

The Story of Malayalam | History, Words and Linguistics

The Dravidian Family — Malayalam’s Relatives and One Strange Outlier | Learn Malayalam #343

Ramdan is a special month for Muslims = ramdan da musalmananah dapara yo khas rwaz da. 
During this month, Muslims fast from dawn until sunset = pa d myast ki musalmanan da nwar rakhato na tar nwar kozedo pore roja nise. 
This means no food or drink during the day = da de Matlab de, na sa skal aw na sa khwRal pa tola rwaz ki. 

پښتونستان | Pakhtoon-is-tan | 1 Minute Talk

Ramdan | روژه

Leemos el cuento completo “Continuidad de los parques”, de Julio Cortázar, para explorar la elipsis: lo que el texto calla y el lector completa en una experiencia inquietante.