I get asked about idioms all the time. This is the second part of idioms related to efficiency. Sign-up for a class with me today. https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/8543771

All American Podcast 

Idioms (efficiency) part II.

I talk about recent events in simple Japanese.Today, I’ll introduce a perfect Japanese food for summer.

TakoyakiTaya

Somen

我是一名医生，工作很忙。我不会做饭，一般也不在家里吃，下班以后经常去医院旁边的饭馆吃饭。后来，同事们告诉我，可以用手机点外卖，又方便又便宜。我试了一个星期，感觉太好了。我现在每顿都可以吃不同的东西，昨天吃饺子，今天吃面条，明天吃三明治，太幸福了！

Wǒ shì yì míng yī shēng ，gōng zuò hěn máng 。Wǒ bú huì zuò fàn ，yì bān yě bú zài jiā lǐ chī ，xià bān yǐ hòu jīng cháng qù yī yuàn páng biān de fàn guǎn chī fàn 。Hòu lái ，tóng shì men gào sù wǒ ，kě yǐ yòng shǒu jī diǎn wài mài ，yòu fāng biàn yòu biàn yí 。wǒ shì le yí gè xīng qī ，gǎn jiào tài hǎo le 。Wǒ xiàn zài měi dùn dōu kě yǐ chī bú tóng de dōng xi ，zuó tiān chī jiǎo zǐ ，jīn tiān chī miàn tiáo ，míng tiān chī sān míng zhì ，tài xìng fú le ！




Listening & Speaking (Mandarin)

点外卖  Diǎn wài mài 

Melhore sua pronuncia do português com esse exercício de ouvir e repetir.

Português com Samuka

5 fonemas consonantales del portugué que no existen en el español 

Hey! Bienvenido al primer episodio. 🙌🏼
Escucha con atención e interpreta lo que escuchas.
Al terminar: responde las preguntas 👩🏽‍🏫 Así sabrás cuánto aprendiste.

Cuentos en Español 📚 - Listening activities!

Fijar metas altas 🚀

Сегодня не классика, а отрывок из автобиографической книги “Прощание с иллюзиями” ведущего и журналиста Владимира Познера. Возможно вы о нем слышали. Давайте узнаем его взгляд на тему иммиграции.

Слова, которые объясняю в эпизоде: ничуть - никак, ни в малейшей степени, ни капли - not at all; сомневаться - не быть уверенным - doubt; право - свобода что-нибудь делать, осуществлять - right; передвижение - перемещение, движение с одного места на другое - movement; покинуть - уйти, оставить - leave; предел - граница, ограничение - limit; вне зависимости от - независимо от - regardless of; проживание - место, где живут, пребывают - residence; вместе с тем - однако, тем не менее - nevertheless; родина - место, где человек родился, родная страна - homeland, motherland; по-настоящему - действительно, на самом деле - truly; убедительный - настойчивый, уверенный - convincing; опасность - когда существует риск или угроза чего-либо опасного - danger; угрожать - представлять угрозу, быть опасным - threaten; благополучие - спокойная, счастливая жизнь, полная обеспеченность состояние процветания - well-being; близкий - родственник, человек, с которым есть близкие отношения - close (as in "close relative"); удушливый - вызывающий чувство удушья, душный - suffocating; терпеть - выносить, переносить - endure; молочные реки - в сказках: выражение, указывающее на изобилие и благополучие, о сытой, свободной жизни - milk and honey (literally "milk rivers").

Интересно, а как вы считаете, человек обычно уезжает куда-то или откуда-то?

Спасибо вам, что слушаете мои подкасты! Пишите, что еще хотелось бы услышать?

И помните, что чтение по-русски углубляет ваши знания языка! Хороших вам книг, друзья!

Reading Russian

Отрывок из книги "Прощание с иллюзиями" В.В. Познер

In my country, FOOD is an important part of our culture and idiosyncracy. So, in this episode, I'll talk about the two most traditional sweets dishes in Argentina and a drink you probably never heard about. Are you ready?

Your Spanish Journey

Customs and traditions from Argentina and Latin America. Today: The three most popular dishes - Part 2 (sweets and drinks)

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Welcome back to another episode of Streetwise English podcast. My name is Carl. Today I want to talk about breaking the ice. So breaking the ice means meeting someone new that you don't know for the first time. So when you go to a party or you go to a new workplace or a new school, you're always going to have the occasion where you need to meet people for the very first time.


And sometimes this can be awkward and you can feel embarrassed about talking to someone if you don't know them and they don't know you and you're not friends yet. So I just wanted to talk really briefly about some advice that I have for you to meet people for the first time in any environment. And this is especially true if you are not a native speaker of their language.


So the first tip I have is to simply smile. Make your face look friendly and welcoming and give eye contact to the person that you want to talk to. It sounds really simple and obvious, but if you missed this step um, you know, this is a very important step and this is half the battle. So make sure that you look approachable yourself and you smile And you might even make a slight hand gesture, like, uh, a mini wave of some sort.  And the next thing is to simply say hello.


You don't have to come up with any kind of clever saying or pick up line or joke just simply saying hello. And you can see if the other person is interested in having a conversation with you.


And another tip is that you can be observant of what the person looks like or what clothes they're wearing and use that as a clue um, to tell you about who they are. For example, if the person is wearing very nice running shoes you kind of have the idea that this person likes to run or this person may be a runner or if you notice that the person has, um, cauliflower ears, you know, scarred ears from wrestling OK, this guy is probably a fighter. (please subscribe to the Streetwise English Podcast)





Streetwise English

SWE17 How to Break the Ice?

If you look up “get” in a dictionary, you might see anywhere from 10 to 20 definitions.  That is really scary.  However, I have some good news.  There is a much easier way to remember how to use “get.”  

Instead of memorizing dozens of meanings, it’s better to organize the meanings of “get” into groups.  Each group is easy to recognize because it is based on what comes after “get.” 

For the full text of this podcast, please go to https://www.difficultenglishexplained.com/the-verb-get-not-as-complicated-as-it-looks/ . 
 