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Le 14 juillet, également connu sous le nom de "fête nationale" ou "jour de la Bastille", est une date chargée de symbolisme et de célébrations. Son origine remonte à l'année 1789, lorsqu'un événement historique marquant s'est produit : la prise de la Bastille. 
Depuis lors, le 14 juillet est devenu un symbole de liberté, d'égalité et de fraternité, valeurs fondamentales de la République française. Chaque année, ce jour est commémoré par des défilés militaires, des feux d'artifice spectaculaires, des bals populaires et bien d'autres festivités qui rassemblent les Français dans un esprit de fierté nationale et d'unité. C'est un moment privilégié pour célébrer notre histoire, nos valeurs et notre attachement à la liberté.

Le podcast de la culture française 

Le 14 juillet, la fête nationale en France

Are you enthusiastic? 

Let's talk about the word Enthusiastic. We will proceed with a Q and A, followed by five different sentence variations. 


Joy to Our World

I am enthusiastic! 

Intermediate to advanced Swahili comprehension. A short story narration.

Swahili With Shaz 

Adhabu Ya Rahim | Rahim's Punishment 

I made a song about Japanese burgers with AI.
It has both Japanese and English lyric so it helps you to learn Japanese!

日本でもハンバーガーはとても人気です。が、日本のハンバーガーはどうやら他の国とはいろいろなことが違うようです。

【intro】
パンに何を はさむのか？
(What do you put inside your bun?)
その答えは　国によってちがう！
(The answer depends on where you're from!)

【verse1】
アメリカでは　バーガーといえば
牛のパティが王様さ
チキンはサンド　フィッシュもサンド
ルールがちゃんとあるんだよ
でも日本じゃ　そうじゃない
チキンも魚も　なんでもアリ！
コロッケバーガー？　エビカツバーガー？
全部まとめて　バーガーでしょ！
【chorus】
バーガーの国境　こえてみよう
(Cross the burger border, take a bite!)
言葉の壁も　味でこわせ！
(Smash the language wall with flavor and delight!)
「これはバーガー？」って聞かれたら
("Is this a burger?" someone might say...)
「うん、日本ではね」って笑えばいいさ！
"Yep—in Japan, that’s the way!"

【verse2】
We’ve even got burgers made of rice!
Round buns of grain? Still tastes nice!
Americans give that puzzled stare...
"Isn’t that just a rice ball... with flair?"
Japan’s all about ideas and fun!
Deliciousness over definition!
"What’s a burger?" they ask me again...
"It’s freedom in a bun, my friend!"

【chorus】
バーガーの定義（ていぎ） ちがっても
(Even if our definitions don’t align,)
愛があれば　それでいい
(If there’s love in it, that’s just fine!)
文化のフレーバー　はさんでさ
(Let’s layer in culture, spice, and style!)
世界に届け！　おいしい笑顔！
Spread tasty smiles across the miles!

【bridge】
ハンバーガー vs チキンサンド
(Hamburger or chicken sandwich, right?)
呼び方ちがっても中身はバディ
(They’ve got different names but share the bite)
どこで食べても楽しめる
(Anywhere you eat, the joy’s the same)
食文化のシンフォニー！
A food culture symphony—what a name!

【final chorus】
バーガーの国境　なくしていこう
(Let’s break down the burger borders today)
みんなちがって　みんないい！
(Different’s good—that’s what we say!)
パンにはさもう 友情の味
(So let’s sandwich in the taste of peace,)
バーガーでつながる 世界の輪！
With burgers, let global friendships increase!

日本語聞いてみよう！

【ハンバーガーの歌】a song about burgers in Japan

健康码和行程码，你了解过吗？
如果你住在中国，你会发现，疫情期间，人人都在用的，除了口罩，就是健康码了。
在这个“绿码走遍天下，红码寸步难行”的时期，无论你是进超市，还是进公司大楼，听到最多的话就是：来，健康码出示一下！
那么，这种健康码是怎么逐渐流行起来的？
2020年2月，中国疫情正处于最严重的时间。人们应该如何生活和工作成为焦点。此时，一个叫做“钟毅”的警察接到了政府的紧急任务——制定健康码。这是一个全新的想法。他们没有任何可以参考的东西。因此，颜色、图形结构、空间安排等每一个细节都需要反复确定。而这个过程，钟毅和他的团队用了48个小时。更新系统近30多次，接听咨询电话380多个，走访不同地区50多个。最终，他们制定出来了。感染了新冠病毒的人，医院会把病人的信息上传到健康码里面。他的健康码就会变成红色。跟他接触过的人健康码会变成黄色。而其他的人，则是绿色。当天下午，健康码正式向全国人民开放使用。“健康码”普及全国，为中国的防疫工作提供了一张地图。
行程码是由中国的通信公司制定的一种二维码。手机定位能告诉你14天内到过的所有地方的信息。在确保信息安全的情况下，为疫情防控、道路通行、出入境等提供了可靠的技术。
面对新冠病毒，中国实行的是“清零”政策，健康码和行程码的作用就体现出来了。根据你的行程和所接触人的情况，健康码和行程码会出现绿色、黄色、红色。绿色代表你很健康，没有感染新冠病毒。黄色代表你可能接触过感染新冠病毒的人。红色代表你跟感染新冠病毒的人有非常近的关系，你有90%的可能已经感染病毒了。


Jiànkāng mǎ hé xíngchéng mǎ ， nǐ liǎojiě guò ma ？ 
Rúguǒ nǐ zhù zài Zhōngguó ， nǐ huì fāxiàn ， yìqíng qījiān， rénrén dōu zài yòng de ， chúle kǒuzhào ， jiùshì jiànkāng mǎ le 。 
Zài zhège "Lǜmǎ zǒu biàn tiānxià ， hóngmǎ cùnbù nánxíng " de shíqī ， wúlùn nǐ shì jìn chāoshì ， háishì jìn gōngsī dàlóu ， tīngdào zuìduō de huà jiùshì ： lái ， jiànkāng mǎ chūshì yíxià ！ 
Nàme ， zhèzhǒng jiànkāng mǎ shì zěnme zhújiàn liúxíng qǐlái de ？ 
2020 nián 2 yuè ， Zhōngguó yìqíng zhèng chǔyú zuì yánzhòng de shíjiān 。 Rénmen yīnggāi rúhé shēnghuó hé gōngzuò chéngwéi jiāodiǎn 。 Cǐshí ， yígè jiàozuò " Zhōng Yì " de jǐngchá jiēdào le zhèngfǔ de jǐnjí rènwù——zhìdìng jiànkāng mǎ 。 Zhè shì yí gè quánxīn de xiǎngfǎ 。 Tāmen méiyǒu rènhé kěyǐ cānkǎo de dōngxi 。 Yīncǐ ， yánsè 、 túxíng jiégòu 、 kōngjiān ānpái děng měi yí gè xìjié dōu xūyào fǎnfù quèdìng 。 Er zhè ge guòchéng ， Zhōng Yì hé tā de tuánduì yòng le 48 gè xiǎoshí 。 Gēngxīn xìtǒng jìn 30 duō cì ， jiētīng zīxún diànhuà 380 duō gè ， zǒufǎng bùtóng dìqū 50 duō gè 。 Zuìzhōng ， Tāmen zhìdìng chūlái le 。Gǎnrǎn le Xīnguàn bìngdú de rén ， yīyuàn huì bǎ bìngrén de xìnxī shàngchuán dào jiànkāng mǎ lǐmiàn 。Tā de jiànkāng mǎ jiù huì biànchéng hóngsè 。 Gēn tā jiēchù guò de rén jiànkāng mǎ huì biànchéng huángsè 。

Learn Chinese through stories - HSK5 / HSK6   （more podcast：https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk_Q-vfEdpBJCRJviEEY0KQ）

什么是健康码和行程码？

Two corvesations: 

1- La tienda de ropa

2- La bicicleta

This podcast is to improve your listening and vocabulary

Learn Spanish Conversation

Learn Spanish Conversation parte 20

In this podcast we'll look into some answers to 3 common questions:

1. How to answer: ‘Tell me a bit about yourself.’

2. How to answer: ‘What are your weaknesses?’

3. How to answer: ‘Describe a time you faced a challenge and what steps you took to overcome it.’

Before you'll go further - how would you do it yourself? What will your thinking be while answering?

Question One: The interviewer typically isn’t asking you about your weekend here. Take this opportunity to capture and distill the most important things they need to know about you as an employee—your most impactful job, the skills you’d most like to highlight, as well as some of the previous projects you feel showcase your abilities are all great options.

Question Two: Avoid responding with something that’s not genuine and communicates inauthenticity—saying something like ‘I work too hard!’ doesn’t come across well. Everyone has weaknesses—it’s how we manage them that’s important and expressing what you’ve already got underway to alter it is the key.

QUestion Three: This demands self-reflection and self-examination, focusing on problem solving skills and your attitude to challenges, conflict resolution and how you cope under pressure. Work through the S.T.A.R method if you get a little stuck: first, contextualise the situation for your interviewee by presenting the challenge in a professional manner and explain how it arose in the first place, then explain a little about where you fell in the group in relation to the task at hand.

Use some ideas aboe and also prepare your answers as well. At the end of the day - they are 'buying' your personality, not so much how you answer those questions so don't be shy being yourself, it countrs massively!

Let me know how I can help you privately in your interview preparations!

To Your Success!

Job Interview Preparation | Build Strong Communication Under Pressure

Job Interview Preparation. Tip 10. How to answer 3 common questions?

You're lying on the couch, bored, looking at videos on TikTok or YouTube. You watch a video of a dog swimming, and then switch to a cooking video, then to someone doing a weird dance.

But it doesn't help your boredom.

In fact, according to new research, it could make it even worse.

Researchers in Canada found that switching from one video to another, or moving forward or backward in the same video, can increase feelings of boredom.

In a study published by the American Psychological Association, the researchers did several experiments with more than 1,200 people.

In one experiment, participants were first given seven different five-minute videos they could switch between over 10 minutes. They were then given one 10-minute video to watch, without being able to fast-forward.

The participants reported lower levels of boredom when they watched the single 10-minute video, and found the experience to be more engaging and meaningful than when they switched between the shorter videos.

In another experiment, participants were found to be less bored when they watched a single 10-minute video than when they were given 10 minutes to skip forward and backward through a 50-minute video.

Katy Tam, one of the researchers, said digital switching — switching between videos or within a video itself — can make watching something feel meaningless, because you don't have time to engage with it or understand it.

"If people want a more enjoyable experience when watching videos, they can try to stay focused on the content and minimize digital switching," she said. "Just like paying for a more immersive experience in a movie theater, more enjoyment comes from immersing oneself in online videos rather than swiping through them."

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Swiping Through Online Videos Can Increase Boredom

Some great tips for getting started with accent reduction.

Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b9heA2sPs8UI-aac2YKOznlKw41RKM_L/view?usp=drivesdk