This is a short podcast where I talk in simple past about how did I get my first job.

My Life 

How did I get my first job?

                    xué Zhōng wén
                           学  中  文
Bǎoluó shì wǒ de xué shēng 。
保  罗 是  我 的 学 生。

Tā shì Yīng guó rén ，jīn nián 28 suì ， tā zhù zài màn chè sī tè 。
他  是    英     国    人，   今  年   2 8  岁，   他  住  在  曼   彻  斯  特。

Tā shuō tā xué Zhōng wén  yǐ jīng yì nián le ，
他  说     他   学     中       文    已  经 一  年 了，

tā shì zài shǒu jī shàng xué xí de 。
他 是  在   手     机  上       学  习 的。

Bǎoluó hěn xǐ huan yīn yuè 。 Tā huì tán jí tā ，bèi sī hé gāng qín 。
保 罗      很    喜 欢     音  乐。      他 会  弹  吉 他， 贝 斯 和     钢  琴。

Xiàn zài ，Bǎoluó gēn wǒ yìqǐ xuéxí Zhōngwén jiǔ gè yuè le 。
现   在，      保罗     跟    我  一起  学习    中 文        九  个  月  了。

Tā xué huì le liǎng bǎi duō gè hànzì ，hái kāishǐ yòng hànzì xiě rìjì ne 。
他   学 会  了    两    百     多   个  汉字，    还  开始   用     汉字     写  日记 呢。

Wǒmen yìqǐ liáo yīnyuè ，měi shí děng yǒuqù de huàtí 。
   我们    一起  聊     音 乐，   美   食   等       有趣   的  话题。


                    Learning Chinese
           
Paul is my student.

He's English. He's 28 years old. He lives in Manchester.

He said he had been studying Chinese for a year,

He learned it on his phone.

Paul likes music very much. He plays the guitar, bass and piano.

Paul and I have been learning Chinese together for nine months now.

He learned more than two hundred Chinese characters and began to 
write a diary in Chinese characters.

We talked about music, food and other interesting topics.













Listening & Speaking (Mandarin)

学中文 xué Zhōngwén

📝 In this special Eid ul Adha episode, we talk about different types of meat people prefer — fatty or lean — and the fun Pashto saying "غټه خښه، نری خوښه!" (ghata ghwakha, naray ghwakha)
Tune in and learn useful vocabulary and cultural expressions for Eid!

vocabulary of this topic; 

1. Nary ghwakha = Goat's meat
2. Ghata ghwakha = cow's meat 
3. ghat akhtar = eid ul adha/Big festival 
3. to like = khwakhaw-al 

پښتونستان | Pakhtoon-is-tan | 1 Minute Talk

Big festival + Meat | Fatty or Lean 🥩

眉- Méi

 "目" - mù - eye, the upper part of 眉- Méi could refer to "毛" - máo", meaning "hair" or "fur." 
The combination represents the hairs above the eyes, hence "eyebrows." 
This formation suggests the character's meaning directly and visually connects it to the facial feature it represents.

用法 (Usage)

 As a noun, "眉" directly refers to the eyebrows. 
 眉毛 - méi mao - eyebrows

例如 (For example): 
他的眉毛很浓。- Tā de méi mao hěn nóng  
(His eyebrows are very thick.)

However, it is often used metaphorically in Chinese to denote expressions or emotions conveyed by the movement of the eyebrows, such as surprise, concern, or anger.

For instance, 眉头- méi tóu - the inner brow, refers to the area where the eyebrows begin, typically located above the inner corners of the eyes.

For example, "皱眉头" - zhòu méi tóu, means "to furrow one's brow," indicating worry or deep thought..

Idiomatic Expressions: "眉- Méi" appears in various idioms that use eyebrows metaphorically to talk about emotions or aesthetic qualities.

例如 (For example): 
眉开眼笑 - méi kāi yǎn xiào - lit. "eyebrows rise and eyes smile," meaning to smile joyfully or beam with happiness

眉飞色舞 - méi fēi sè wǔ - lit. "eyebrows fly and colors dance," used to describe vivid, expressive facial gestures of excitement or happiness

Metaphorical Usage: In poetic or artistic contexts, "眉" can metaphorically relate to things that resemble the shape or curve of eyebrows.

例如：(For example): 
山的轮廓好像一道眉形。-Shān de lún kuò hǎo xiàng yí dào méi xíng 。
(The outline of the mountain resembles the shape of an eyebrow.)


每日一字

The chemist asked me about my symptoms. I had a high temperature1, as well as a cough and a sore throat , plus my neck was very painful

I went to see my doctor for a check-up because I felt extremely tired and lacked energy. At times I felt confused, and my husband thought I looked very pale too.

I ate some fish which didn't taste good, and it gave me an upset stomach. 

English Mini Lessons

Illness

Medical Spanish🎧🏥
Duración: Casi 2 minutos
Les hablo brevísimamente de los músculos, y algunas lesiones comunes.


Mucho que decir

Muscle Injuries 🎧🏥 Medical Spanish

Как вы думаете,  может ли человек скучать по Родине, если он уехал, когда был совсем маленьким ребёнком?

Russfriend  (all about russia) 

О чём думает  Марабу?

Transcript by italki teacher Carl:
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Streetwise English Podcast - Pink Floyd
Welcome back to another mini episode of Streetwise English podcast. You can search for Streetwise English Podcast on other platforms and find full length episodes, but these are just mini podcasts. Today I'd like to talk about music, and specifically I'd like to talk about an English band called Pink Floyd. So Pink Floyd was big back in the 1970s. And I remember as a kid my dad had the album The Dark Side of the Moon, and the cover Art of the Dark Side of the Moon was a prism, like a triangle.
And then on the right side of the prism was a rainbow. So the spectrum of colors in light and this album was groundbreaking at the time because it was kind of a new genre of music. It was psychedelic rock, so there were soundscapes and they were using synthesizers and electric instruments in ways that people had never done before. And I looked, I Googled it, checked on the Wikipedia page, and it says that The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album of the English rock band Pink Floyd released on March 1st 1973 the record was conceived as an album that focused on the pressures faced by the band during their arduous lifestyle. And dealing with the apparent mental health problems suffered by former band member Syd Barrett, who was a part of the group in 1968.
So in my research, um, my brief research here on Pink Floyd I learned about Syd Barrett and that he was the founding member of the band who left the group and I guess he had some kind of mental illness and experimented with a lot of psychedelic drugs. Um, and he kind of disappeared from the band, but it seems like he was probably maybe the most talented one and the original member of the band and kind of helped form, form their style of exploring sonic soundscapes and free flow of consciousness and the way that he would create the lyrics and...



Streetwise English

SWE #10 Pink Floyd- Psychedelic Rock

This podcast is about free entry to museums and galleries in the UK - it will be used in some of my lessons next week for study.