Chinese language has not many syllables, as a result, many Chinese words that sound the same have totally different meanings. The feature of Chinese allows speakers to use homophones quite often. There are six types of homophone rhetoric. This voice will introduce the first type.

Learning Chinese culture with Miss Zhang

Homophones1

Прослушайте адаптированный рассказ А.П. Чехова "Клевета" и ответьте на вопрос кто оклеветал учителя чистописания?
Оклеветать - сказать неправду о человеке. 

Russfriend  (all about russia) 

" Клевета" А.П. Чехов 

This is the first part of a murder mystery story by Edgar Allan Poe, one of the most famous American writers and poets of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is surprisingly easy to follow but will have you gripped til the very end!

Stories to Stimulate!

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

En este episodio reflexionamos sobre el encuentro del Señor Jesús con la mujer samaritana. Él no la juzgó, la escuchó con verdad y le ofreció el agua viva que solo Él puede dar.
Una invitación a dejar de buscar satisfacción en lo terrenal y abrir el corazón a la única fuente que sacia verdaderamente el alma: nuestro amado Salvador.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i2gCxDuAPsw8Oy6diEXtI3DrUXHsCU0i-0MrfHd8Pxg/edit?usp=sharing

A los pies del Maestro

Serie Encuentros personales con el Maestro: La mujer samaritana

Each week I read an interesting news article from the BBC. Listen along to the words and pronunciation and I will also share with you the link to the story so that you can read along as well. This week's news article can be found here:  https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63245150

The Breaking News Podcast

E-waste: 5 billion phones to be thrown away in 2022

TOPIC: Where you live now.
QUESTION: Is it a good place for young people?

Answer Structure: 
Answer + Reason + Example

Answer: I live in Melbourne.
Opinion: Yeah, I think it’s a great place for young people.
Reason: There are lots of job opportunities, a lively nightlife, and plenty of parks and cafes to hang out in.
Example: For example, the city has tons of events and festivals throughout the year, so there’s always something fun going on.

IELTS SPEAKING TIPS and STRATEGIES

How to Answer Part 1 IELTS Speaking Question

There is an old theory that eating cheese before bed causes bad dreams, although scientists don't have much evidence to prove it.

But if cheese can't make us dream, new research from the US says that perhaps an app could — and they don't have to be bad dreams!

Researchers experimented with an app that they designed to encourage people to have lucid dreams. These are dreams that feel vivid and real.

During lucid dreams, people know that they're dreaming and may even be able to control what happens in the dream.

Not everyone has lucid dreams. It's thought that about half of us will have them during our lives, but some people may have them regularly.

Lucid dreams may be useful for us: experts think they could encourage creativity and problem-solving, or help us with nightmares.

The app in the study used a method called "targeted lucidity reactivation" that is supposed to make people more likely to experience lucid dreams.

This is usually done in a laboratory, but the researchers wanted to see how effective an app used at home could be.

They did two experiments to see if the app could increase the frequency of participants' lucid dreams.

The first experiment included 19 participants. Before going to sleep, they did a 20-minute activity that encouraged them to enter a "lucid mindset" when they heard certain sounds.

These same sounds were then played during the night. The frequency of the participants' lucid dreams more than doubled during the week of the experiment.

Fifty people completed the second experiment. They were put into three groups, with one group using the targeted lucidity reactivation method.

The people in this group reported that they had experienced more lucid dreams during the week of the experiment than those in the two control groups.

The researchers said these results suggest that apps like this could help people to use sleep for "personal benefits" including "spiritual and personal growth."

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

App Could Help People to Have Lucid Dreams

Alfonso Caso, HA SIDO CONSIDERADO COMO uno de los siete sabios mexicanos

Apasionado por el México antiguo y conocedor de diversas disciplinas

Alfonso Caso Andrade, arqueólogo, filósofo y abogado. Nació en la Ciudad de México en 1896, fue un destacado intelectual y realizó importantes descubrimientos arqueológicos.

Fue el rector número 28 de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y se desempeñó como jefe del Departamento de Arqueología del Museo Nacional; años después, se convirtió en el Director del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH).

Obtuvo numerosos premios y reconocimientos por su labor, entre los que destaca el Premio Nacional de Ciencias.

Entre sus grandes descubrimientos sobresalen la ciudad prehispánica de Monte Albán y Monte Negro. Gracias a esto, publicó una gran cantidad de libros, artículos, así como conferencias y literatura popular.

Una de sus aportaciones más importantes fue el desciframiento del sistema de escritura de las culturas prehispánicas de Oaxaca.

Caso también fundó aquellas instituciones que aseguraban la protección del patrimonio arqueológico de los mexicanos, como el INAH y el Museo Nacional de Antropología. Asimismo, fundó el Instituto Nacional Indigenista, organismo en el que pasó los últimos años de su vida.



Spanish México

Alfonso Caso

lesson on italki 
https://www.italki.com/ja/teacher/9451959/japanese

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ccr9nwq8ytV

こんばんは！
Japanese daily life podcast のAtsushiです。
このPodcastは、日本語を勉強しているみなさんに向けたPodcastです。

今回は、ーわけではない、について話します。
意味は完全な否定ではなく、部分的な否定をする時に使います。

例文です。

・あそこのラーメンはおいしいけど、値段が安いわけではない。

・ドラマは見ないけど、嫌いなわけではない。

・よく司会を任されるけど、決して得意なわけではない。

・Podcastを聞くだけで日本語が話せるようになるわけではない。

・海外に住めば、英語が話せるわけではない。

こんな感じですね。

ーわけではない。僕もよく使います。日本語レッスンの時に、自分でよく使ってるなと思っています。

みなさんも口に出して練習したり、例文作ってみてくださいね。

今回も最後まで聞いていただき、ありがとうございます！
ではまた！