Elementary level：Common expression
You will spend seven days (six days of study, one day of review) to learn the most basic Chinese sentence patterns.




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Reading common audiobooks at a slow speed helps you improve your Chinese listening skills in the interesting way.

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みなさんは「さっき」という言葉を聞いたことがありますか？「さっき起きました」「さっきまで勉強していました」など、「さっき」とは少し前という意味です。昨日より前に起こったことは「さっき」とは言いません。
では、「さっき」より前のことはどう言いますか？いつのことかを覚えている場合は「先週友達とご飯を食べました。」とはっきりとその時を示した方が分かりやすいと思います。いつのことか覚えていない場合は、「前に」や「この前」、「以前」などを使います。
例えば「前に会ったことがあります」「この前はじめてお寿司を食べました」「以前この場所に来たことがあります」と言います。ちなみに「前に」や「この前」、「以前」はニュアンスがそれぞれ少しずつ違うので自分で例文を作って練習したり、日本人がどのように使い分けているかを注意して聞いてみてください。

このポッドキャストを今初めて聞いている人は、前のポッドキャストも聞いて勉強していくださいね。
私はオンラインで日本語を教えています。よかったら私のレッスンに来て一緒に勉強しましょう。


時：とき　time
示す：しめす　demonstrate
さっき：just
前に：まえ　before
この前：このまえ　the other day
以前：before  *sounds formal
前回：last time
例文：example sentence
注意して：ちゅういして　carefully

Nihongo Short Story by Noriko

さっき-Today’s Word

En el episodio de hoy hablo de interjecciones, que son palabras cortitas que intentan imitar un sonido y que tienen un significado en sí mismas. En él menciono algunas expresiones españolas muy comunes, su significado y situaciones donde podemos utilizarlas.

Blanca to go 

17– exclamaciones en español 

Once again, the Mediterranean diet has been named the world's best by US News & World Report.

The diet, which is eaten across the world but is based on foods and recipes from countries around the Mediterranean Sea, has now been at the top of the list for six years.

Its focus on fruit, vegetables, olive oil and fish has helped the Mediterranean diet to the top, according to US News.

A team of experts looked at 24 different diets, putting them in order from best to worst.

There were also a number of different category winners.

The Mediterranean diet was chosen as the best plant-based diet, and, along with the flexitarian diet, it tied as the best for families. It also tied with the DASH diet as the best for healthy bones.

The flexitarian diet encourages people to eat a vegetarian diet most of the time, but still allows some meat.

The DASH diet is meant to help people with high blood pressure. It focuses on fruit, vegetables and whole grains, as well as low-fat products.

The flexitarian and DASH diets also tied for second place on the overall list.

The Mediterranean diet is not exactly the same across all Mediterranean countries, but these countries do share the same basic eating principles.

This low-fat way of eating — which also includes beans and grains, and not much red meat or butter — has been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease and other health problems.

Speaking to CNN, Gretel Schueller from US News said we can all use these ideas to eat a Mediterranean diet wherever we are in the world.




Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Mediterranean Diet Named World's Best — Again

😊 ¡Bienvenidos a Maria & Pablo Spanish! 😊 

En la siguiente serie de episodios especiales, compartiremos con ustedes el uso de diferentes verbos en español. En este segundo episodio, vamos a darles algunas oraciones con el verbo ‘to hurry up’, que se puede traducir en español como afanarse, apurarse, apresurarse, moverse y darse prisa.  ¡Empecemos entonces con este segundo episodio! 

Te invitamos a conocernos más en: 
📍 María: https://linktr.ee/spanishwithmariap  
📍 Pablo: https://linktr.ee/pabloalejos 


Maria & Pablo Spanish

16. Verbos en contexto. How to say ‘to hurry up’ in Spanish (Part 2)

Il film Luca

Il film d’animazione Luca è ambientato a Portorosso. Portorosso non esiste davvero, è un paese di fantasia, ma si ispira alle famose Cinque Terre, cinque paesi che si trovano in Liguria.
 Portorosso
I cinque paesi sono Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola e Riomaggiore. Il nome Portorosso è ispirato a Monterosso, invece l’aspetto del paese, soprattutto la piazza, è molto simile a Vernazza.

Daya's language corner (ITALIAN)

 Movie Luca - dove si trova Portorosso? A2

Episode Translation: Lost On The Train

How to ask for directions at a train station and other transportation vocabulary. (Beginner A2 - Intermediate B1)

In this episode I talk about the time I got lost in a train station in Japan on my way to the Hello Kitty theme park (Sanrio Puroland). 

Vocabulary List:
perderse (to get lost)
tren (train)
Japón (Japan)
disculpe (excuse me)
estación (station)
pasar (to pass)
encontrar (to find)
entrar (to enter)
plataforma (platform)
llegar (to arrive)
necesitar (to need)
tomar (to take)
linea (line)
perdido (lost)
despues (after)
caminar (to walk)
subirse (to get on)
destino (destination)
deber (should)
bajarse (to get off)
central (center)
parada (stop)
siguiente (next)
parque tematico (theme park)
salir (to exit)
ahora (now)
regresar (to return)
tres cuartos (three fourths)

Las Aventuras De Miss Jacy

Perdida En El Tren

Cafes are a popular meeting place — whether you're meeting a friend, meeting someone for the first time or even having an informal business meeting.

But Shojo Cafe is not the place to go if you're planning to talk to people. The new cafe in Osaka doesn't allow any sound — that means no music or talking, and orders must be made silently.

The cafe opened in April, as a space where people can go to enjoy some peace and quiet in a busy city.

It's run by AB Possible, an organization that supports people with disabilities. Many of the cafe employees are deaf or have hearing difficulties, and a space like this allows them to play an active role in society, the organization said.

Customers are asked to make their orders silently, such as by writing or pointing at the menu.

Sign language is also encouraged — and if you're interested in learning, there are informal sign language classes after the cafe closes. Classes are one hour long and cost 2,000 yen — or about $13 — which also includes a cup of matcha.

The organization said that, unlike a normal cafe where people talk to each other, the silence in Shojo Cafe will help customers focus on other things — like the color and taste of the cafe's tea and sweets. Customers can even try making the matcha themselves.

Cafe owner Haruna Matsumoto told The Asahi Shimbun the idea for the cafe came after she visited a silent cafe in Vietnam, and all she could hear was the sound of rain and people walking.

"I got to know the comfort of silence and the lively way the cafe staff worked," Matsumoto said, adding that she wanted more people to learn about both things.

No Talking Allowed at Osaka's Silent Cafe

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UVYHupHye-xb-94QbyBXbTs-jJC8oqND/view?usp=drivesdk