This podcast episode will help you with numerous definitions of the phrasal verb 'take up'. Be sure to go to my profile and book your online English lesson! ^^

All About English and How You Learn It!

How to Use 'Take Up' as a Phrasal Verb

POSTAL CLERK: What can I do for you today?
CAROL: I need to mail this package to New York, please.
POSTAL CLERK: OK, let’s see how much it weighs … it’s about 
five pounds. If you send it express, it will get there 
tomorrow. Or you can send it priority and it will get 
there by Saturday.
CAROL: Saturday is fine. How much will that be?
POSTAL CLERK: $11.35 [eleven thirty-five]. Do you need anything else?
CAROL: Oh, yeah! I almost forgot. I need a book of stamps, too.
POSTAL CLERK: OK, your total comes to $20.35
[twenty dollars and thirty-five cents].


LANGUAGE NOTES
• What can I do for you today? Notice that this question starts with “What,” so the 
intonation drops at the end of the question.
• Or you can send it priority … Notice the stress on “or,” which emphasizes that there is 
another possibility.
• $11.35 ... $20.35 Notice the two different ways the postal clerk says the price. First he 
says eleven thirty-five (without the words dollars and cents), then he says twenty dollars 
and thirty-five cents.
• Oh, yeah! is an expression used here to mean “I just remembered something.” It’s often 
followed by “I almost forgot.”
• Your total comes to … is a way of saying “the cost is ….”

English Conversation practice (30-day challenge)

Day 16 : At the post office

¡Bienvenidos a Maria & Pablo Spanish! En esta serie de episodios especiales, hemos estado compartiendo con ustedes el uso de diferentes verbos en español. En este penúltimo episodio vamos a darles algunas oraciones con el verbo ‘to be delayed’, que se puede traducir en español como demorarse, tardarse y retrasarse.  ¡Empecemos! 

Les invitamos a conocernos más en: 
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Maria & Pablo Spanish

20. Verbos en contexto. How to say ‘to be delayed’ in Spanish (Part 6)

This episode explains the meaning and background of the proverb "All that glitters is not gold"

American English Proverbs

5 - All that glitters is not gold

Vocabulario de la casa y adjetivos. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s35lZwizjyuZ4Z4koLZbC5R8tsMr8heTt34Xyi_b2F4/edit?usp=sharing

Inspirando a principiantes: Audios para nivel A2

Mi hogar amado (con transcripción)

[conversation]

A : 진아 씨, 이분은 누구세요?
B : 우리 아버지세요.
A : 아버지는 무슨 일을 하세요?
B : 은행에서 일하세요.
A : 이 사람은 누구예요?
B : 제 동생이에요.
A : 동생은 뭘 해요?
B : 학생이에요.

A : Jina, who is this?
B : My father.
A : What does he do for a living?
B : He works at a bank.
A : Who is this?
B : My younger brother.
A : What does he do?
B : He is a student.


[vocabulary]

할아버지 grandfather 할머니 grandmother 아버지 father 어머니 mother
형 elder brother (from a male perspective) 누나 elder sister (from a male perspective)
오빠 elder brother (from a female perspective) 언니 elder sister (from a female perspective)
남동생  younger brother 여동생 younger sister 동생 younger brother or sister
가족 family
이분 this person (honorific) 저분 that person (honorific)

[grammar]

N의 N
When expressing possessive case, '의' is added to posessor, N.
Also note that '의' is often omitted.

N(이)세요
-(이)세요 is a combination of -이에요/예요 and -(으)시-, which shows respect towards the subject.
nouns ending with a vowel + -세요
nouns ending with a consonant + -이세요

무슨 N
무슨 is used when asking someone to choose and answer from a pool of options.



Reading Korea.

Family

In this episode I will tell you about a small trip I did last week. I went for the first time to Medellin, a famous city here in Colombia.  

Spanish with Jas

EP 36. COLOMBIA: MEDELLIN

In this episode, Karen and Baiwei chatted about automated driving technologies. They also played a fun trivia on autonomous driving! Join us in the quiz XD


Chillchat (Learn Chinese and Chill)

自动驾驶汽车? Self-driving Cars!

Platiqué con Jennifer, una profesora tica, sobre la simbiosis entre la población costarricense y la biodiversidad.