Liam and Ava, soaked at a rainy bus stop, misunderstand each other over the phrase "Tell me about it." After a funny rant and clarification, Liam considers booking English lessons for better fluency.

LEARN BY LISTENING

Rainy Rant & English Secrets: A Misunderstanding Leads to a Lesson

Alam n’yo ba na puwedeng pantaboy ng lamok ang dumi ng elepante?

Learn Tagalog with Teacher Regina

Alam N’yo Ba? Dumi ng Elepante bilang Pantaboy ng Lamok

Use: budu, bude and budu/bude + infinitiv

Czech Drills

Future tense

A gerund is a verb in its present participle form (root verb + “ing”) that acts as a noun in a sentence. 

What are the different kinds of gerunds?
Subject
Direct object
Indirect object
Object of a preposition
Subject complement
Object complement

Dusty's LETS TALK!

What Is a Gerund? Not just "ing"

In this episode I’m talking about my day. Tell me about yours.

Русский с Валентиной

Мой день. (My day - A1.)

According to data from the World Food Program, nearly 20% of all food produced each year is wasted or lost before it reaches our tables. This adds up to about 1 billion meals going to waste every day.

Wasting food is not only costly but also harmful to the planet. Growing food requires a lot of land, water and energy, and these resources are all wasted when food is thrown away. Also, food waste in landfills produces harmful greenhouse gases.

In fact, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature, food waste accounts for up to 10% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. And cutting global food waste by 50% by 2030 is a key goal of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

So it's clear that food waste is a huge problem, but what can the average person do to help?

For a start, several apps have been created to help reduce food waste, one of which is called Too Good to Go.

Restaurants, cafes and bakeries create a "surprise bag" — a collection of surplus food items that would otherwise be thrown away because they're close to expiring — and advertise it on the app.

Although users can't choose what goes into their surprise bag, the food in the bag is much cheaper than it would usually be.

Too Good to Go was founded in 2015 in Denmark, as a solution to the large amounts of food that were being wasted at buffet restaurants.

Many big stores now list their surplus food on Too Good to Go, such as Starbucks and Burger King. And the app's founders say their users have saved over 330 million meals from going to waste.

So while dealing with the issue of food waste may seem overwhelming, there are steps we can all take to make a difference.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

This App Saves Wasted Food — And Saves You Money!

In this episode of Streetwise English Podcast, I talk about why I like studying languages on italki. My teacher profile: https://italki.com/teacher/1947582 Thanks for listening! 
transcript for Reading while listening.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MnDkCaOJ92y9J-5OsVp0w-IK7Q7kw96eDB0_1PudtYc/edit?usp=sharing

Streetwise English

SWE 115 Why I love italki language study (Intermediate English)

你能猜猜”哭成狗“，”领头羊“，”驴唇不对马嘴”什么意思吗？在本集全中文播客里，Karen介绍了几个中文里和动物有关的表达。一起来看看吧！


Chillchat (Learn Chinese and Chill)

(全中文) 马嘴？哭成狗？这些和动物有关的表达太搞笑了！

En este episodio de podcast hablamos de edad y de cumplir años. En él te hablo de una tradición española muy curiosa “los tirones de orejas”. Y te comento varias maneras diferentes de hablar de la edad aproximada de una persona. Es decir vas a aprender a decir la edad, sin decir exactamente tus años.

Después de escuchar el episodio, no te olvides de decirme:

¿Habías escuchado de “los tirones de orejas”? ¿En tu país lo hacéis? 

¿Qué tradición especial tienes para celebrar los cumpleaños? 
