Ciao a tutti e ben ritrovati in questo nuovo episodio. Come ben sapete sono un gran appassionato dei viaggi, dai quali è nato il mio amore per le lingue straniere. L'episodio di oggi sarà dedicato proprio a loro, i viaggi, cosa significa viaggiare e come è cambiato il nostro concetto di viaggio negli ultimi cinquant'anni! Buon ascolto!

The Italian Miscellaneous Podcast🖐 

Sì, viaggiare!

In this second episode we look at 5 English idioms and their meanings:
- A Sitting Duck
- Add Fuel To The Fire
- All That Jazz
- As Poor as a Church Mouse
- At the Drop of a Hat

Conversational English with Tersha

Idioms Part 2 for Conversational English

Did you feel confident in your last interview? 

If you didn’t feel confident, your interviewer likely didn’t perceive you as confident. 

Yet, in the U.S. and many other countries, interviewers prefer confident candidates. It seems to have an intoxicating effect on them, and many of them equate it (for better or for worse) with competence. So, it’s a skill worth learning! 

Tune into the latest Express to Impress podcast to learn which groups of people struggle most with confidence in interviews. You’ll also learn how you can overcome self-doubt to feel and project confidence in an interview.  Ultimately, you'll feel better, increase your interviewer's confidence in you, and land a job offer. 

Papers Cited:

Belmi P, Neale MA, Reiff D, Ulfe R. The social advantage of miscalibrated individuals: The relationship between social class and overconfidence and its implications for class-based inequality. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2020 Feb;118(2):254-282. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000187. Epub 2019 May 20. PMID: 31107052.

Exley, Christine L and Kessler, Judd B. The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion. National Bureau of Economic Research: Working Paper Series number 26345. 2019 Oct. doi: 10.3386/w26345.

Episode originally published June 28, 2021.

Original theme music by Lucas Knutter 

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Express to Impress

How to Be Confident in an Interview

The short story 'Great Claus and Little Claus' by Hans Christian Andersen.


Teacher Michelle's Learn English with Story

 Great Claus and Little Claus - LEARN ENGLISH WITH STORY 

PHIL: What time is that soccer game on? I thought it started 
at noon.
JACK: We must have had the wrong time. Oh, well … soccer’s not my 
favorite sport anyway. I much prefer basketball.
PHIL: Oh, really? I thought your favorite sport was tennis! I’m a big
fan of basketball, too.
JACK: How about a game sometime?
PHIL: Sure thing! Why don’t we go shoot some hoops now since the 
soccer game isn’t on?
JACK: Excellent idea. Let’s go.



LANGUAGE NOTES
• What time is that soccer game on? means “When does the soccer game start?” 
“What time” plus something plus “on” is a common expression used to ask about the 
start time of a TV show or a movie.
• I much prefer basketball here means “I like basketball a lot more than soccer.” Notice 
how “much” is stressed to show that the speaker really likes basketball.
• Oh, really? Notice the rising intonation on “really.” This shows that the speaker is 
surprised. He thought that Jack liked tennis the best.
• I’m a big fan of basketball is a way of saying “I like basketball very much” (“to be a 
fan of” is a casual expression used to describe something you really like).
• How about a game here means “Let’s play a basketball game.”
• Sure thing! This is a casual expression used to mean “OK.”
• Shoot some hoops means to play an informal game of basketball. This is a casual 
expression used between friends

English Conversation practice (30-day challenge)

Day 23: Favorite sport

Neste episódio eu falo sobre como é comemorado o Dia das Mães no Brasil. 

Português Fluente com Cynthia

Episódio 10 - Dia das Mães

Un detto italiano dice: "Non si può avere la botte piena e la moglie ubriaca", applicandolo al tema di oggi, è molto difficile avere un salario alto e molto tempo libero. Purtroppo spesso è anche difficile avere del tempo libero pur non avendo un salario alto. Ma in genere, se è vero che il tempo è denaro, più ne vendiamo più si guadagna. Quanto vale la nostra libertà? 

Tempo libero e salari

「夏休みはどうする予定ですか」

夏休みに国内旅行をしたいと思って、日程を確認しているところなんです。自由に旅行したいので、団体旅行ではなく個人旅行がいいと思っているんです。
せっかくなので、少し遠出をして、３泊４日ぐらいがいいなぁと思っています。日帰り旅行は、旅行している感じがしないし。

友達は熱海に別荘があるみたいで、そこでのんびりするそうです。だから、夏休みの予定はすでに決まっているんですって。
私も早めに何とか今週中に決めて、新幹線の往復チケットか航空券を予約したいです。


N2合格

第1部4章の言葉を使って①「夏休みはどうする予定ですか」

PUNTOS DE INTERES EN LA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO.