This is the first Episode of the year and we going to discuss the term Procrastination and how it sets us back in life

Sit & Sip with Herriet

Procrastination

This episode covers basic greetings in Afrikaans and includes an example discussion in Afrikaans using the vocabulary that has been learned. 

Afrikaans Building blocks

Basic Afrikaans Greetings

Let's start from Zero

Challenge your Pinyin skills

حكيم	        Wise	
عادل	         Just	Fair
مملكة	         Kingdom
مخلصًا	          Loyal	Faithful
يُدعى	          Called	Named
يُساعد	          Helps	
سردها	         Narrated it	Told it
أرويها	         I tell it	I narrate it
بحث عن	         Searched for	Looked for
اتخاذ القرارات	Decision-making
العديد من	         Many of	A lot of, Numerous
لم يتمكن من	Was unable to
يمكنني أن	I can	I'm able to
خطرت فكرة	An idea occurred	

Singular and plural words

بلد	بلدان / بلاد	Country
قرار	قرارات	        Decision
فكرة	   أفكار	        Idea
ملك	ملوك	         King
ملكة	ملكات       	Queen
وزير	وزراء	                Minister	
زوجة	زوجات	        Wife


Learning MAS through stories.

A part of a story from One Thousand and One Nights.

❥ In this podcast, Melo reads from The Aesop for Children found for free online at: https://www.read.gov/aesop/001.html
❥ Listen and learn the moral of each story.
❥ Practice listening and/or reading comprehension by answering the quiz questions.
❥ Today's fable is called “The Heron” and can be found here:
https://www.read.gov/aesop/015.html
❥The moral of today’s fable is: 
“Do not be too hard to suit or you may have to be content with the worst or with nothing at all.”

❥ 在这个播客中，梅洛朗读了《儿童伊索》，可在网上免费找到：https://www.read.gov/aesop/001.html
❥聆听并学习每个故事的寓意。
❥ 通过回答问答问题练习听力和/或阅读理解。
❥ 今天的寓言叫"苍鹭号"，可以在这里找到：
https://www.read.gov/aesop/015.html
❥今天的寓言故事的寓意是： 
"不要太难适应，否则你可能不得不满足于最差的情况，或者什么都不满足。"

Life Lessons from Aesop's Fables

Episode 14: The Heron

Speaking about situations when I travel. To speak what I like when I travel.

A1-Niveau

07_Reisen

Günlük hayat hakkında bilgi sahibi olur.

Orta Düzey Türkçe

Günlük Hayat

What if ancient wisdom could make your language learning calmer, stronger, and more sustainable?

In Episode 95 of 111 Tips for Learning a Language, we explore how Stoic philosophy can guide you through grammar, speaking, writing, listening, and more. With Stoicism, you stop fearing mistakes, accept challenges as training, and focus only on what is in your control—the effort itself.

Which Stoic principle do you need most in your language learning?

Discipline with grammar rules?

Courage to speak despite mistakes?

Acceptance when listening feels difficult?

Clarity of thought through writing?

Episode 95 shows how Stoicism can enrich both language learning and life. Grammar becomes training in discipline, pronunciation becomes freedom from others’ judgments, reading becomes practice in accepting difficulty, speaking becomes an act of courage, writing becomes a path to clarity, and listening becomes an exercise in equanimity. Stoic philosophy reminds us that obstacles are not barriers but the very path itself. By learning with calm determination and focusing on what you can control, you gain not only fluency but also resilience, patience, and wisdom.

💃🏻111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 95 - How Stoicism can help you learn a language

В этом подкасте я рассказываю о результатах всероссийского опроса о распределении  обязанностей в семье.