No episódio dessa semana, vamos falar brevemente sobre as diferenças culturais, comparando o Brasil e os Estados Unidos! Sei que as diferenças são muitas, mas escolhi as mais marcantes. Vamos descobrir juntos?
E não esqueça de me mandar uma mensagem me contando suas impressões sobre o podcast e mandando sugestões de temas para os próximos.

Português Brasileiro

#6 – Diferenças culturais Brasil x Estados Unidos

Paris attend les Jeux olympiques! (Paris awaits the Olympic Games!)
Les Américains aiment le sport, et cette année, le monde du sport se tourne vers la France ! Savez-vous pourquoi ?  Les Jeux olympiques d'été auront lieu à Paris du 26 juillet au 11 août 2024. C'est la troisième fois que la Ville Lumière accueille cet événement international important.

En ce moment, Paris se prépare pour les Jeux. On peut voir le compte à rebours s'afficher dans la ville.  Les athlètes du monde entier s'entraînent dur pour être prêts à concourir.  Bientôt, la France vibrera au rythme des Jeux !

Êtes-vous intéressé par les Jeux olympiques ?  Si oui, vous pouvez suivre l'actualité sur le site internet des Jeux [jeuxolympiques.paris.fr] (website unavailable in English).  Vous pourrez y trouver des informations sur les sports, les athlètes et comment acheter des billets (tickets) pour assister aux compétitions.

Alors, on se retrouve à Paris pour célébrer le sport et l'amitié internationale !  (See you in Paris to celebrate sports and international friendship!)


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French Koala

Avril 2024 niveau A2-B1 Les JO à Paris

日本語での「Many Years Ago」の言い方についてお話ししました😊

Nihongo Hiyori | Japanese Podcast

#119 「Many Years Ago」は日本語でなんと言う？

Konnichiwa! Welcome to Slow Japanese! What do you do in your free time? Maybe game? Today I talk about Japanese tabletop games!

Usage of Slow Japanese:
STEP 1. Listen to the episode without seeing scripts.
STEP 2. Go to mochifika.com/podcast/ and check "Key vocabularies of this episode", listen again to the episode while seeing the list.
STEP 3. Check the whole script, it'll fill the gap in your understanding.

Scripts and key vocabularies of this episode are here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/slow-japanese-15-63474320?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare

Slow Japanese

Slow Japanese – Episode #15 – Tabletop game

Adult pronunciation mistakes are not random. They are almost entirely predictable from the sound system of the language you already speak. Linguists call it transfer — and the useful consequence is that if I know your first language, I can tell you in advance what you are getting wrong.

The six Malayalam contrasts that carry meaning and that foreigners collapse. Malayalam — Manglish — English:

ത vs ട — tha vs ta — dental against retroflex. For ത the tongue tip touches the back of the upper front teeth (the t of French, Spanish, Italian, Russian). For ട it curls back to the ridge behind them.
ല vs ള vs ഴ — la vs La vs zha — plain l, retroflex l, and the famous one. ഴ is a retroflex approximant: curl the tongue back and let air pass without contact. It exists in Malayalam and Tamil and almost nowhere else.
Do not substitute an English r or a zh sound for ഴ. Curl further back than feels reasonable and let it stay vague — it is not a sharp sound.

Consonant length — അമ്മ (amma). That doubled letter is not decoration. Hold it. The m lasts twice as long as a single m.

സംവൃതോകാരം — samvruthokaaram — the closed final u in വീട് (veedu), നാട് (naadu), കാട് (kaadu). Not a full u: a very brief, unrounded, central vowel, near the last sound of English "sofa" but shorter and further back. English speakers either drop it or turn it into a full oo. Both are wrong and both are instantly audible.

Then the diagnosis by first language — what English, Hindi, Arabic and Romance speakers each get wrong, and the specific fix for your mouth.

Slow and clear, for English speakers, heritage learners and the Malayali diaspora. No prior classes needed.

What is your first language? Comment below and I will tell you which one to drill first.

Speak Real Malayalam | Slow • Clear • Natural

How to Pronounce Zha and Fix Your Malayalam Accent | Learn Malayalam #340

Viajemos juntos a la ciudad de la luz o del amor; como quieras llamarle ésta ciudad de enamorará.

Viajando con Facundo

París: un encuentro con la ciudad de la luz

All that glitters is not gold 
सबै चम्किने चीजहरु सुन हुदैनन् 
Vocabs :

Glitter : चमक
Gold : सुन
Quality : गुण
Good person : राम्रो मान्छे
Bad person : नराम्रो मान्छे・ खराब मान्छे

gold
Quality 
good person
bad person

सानो कुराकानी | Sano kurakani | Little talks| リトル・トーク 

2-  सानो कुराकानी | Sano kurakani | Little talks| リトル・トーク - All that glitters is not gold 

In todays episode we discuss anger and methods to overcome it in our daily life.

Let's have a chat (Discussions In English) 

Episode 21 : Are you an angry person? 

Introduction to my podcast explaining the purposes of this podcast as well as how I got into language learning & tutoring / coaching