How to Speak like a Native: The Power of Lexical Chunks
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Episode 2: How to Speak like a Native: The Power of Lexical Chunks

Simple conversations are perfect for breaking the ice, and they are perfect for beginners. Talk about everyday situations like shopping, traveling, and dining out.


🗣️ Daily Life Dialogues

A dialogue between two friends who met after long time (Chapter # 3)

This story uses words from '2000 Most Common Words in English'. 

It’s five in the evening and the sun is slowly going down. The sky is a warm yellow colour. 

John is a bundle of pasta. He is held together by a paper band. He is sitting on his roof with his 
acoustic guitar on his lap. In front of him is a pen and notepad. 

Ah yes, thinks John. I’ll use an A chord here. That will make the melody so beautiful. 

The bundle of pasta is writing a love song for his dear wife Karren. She is a bowl of Pho. 

John plays his composition and imagines his wife crying because his song is so touching. He sings about the day he met Karren, about how they fell in love, about how they complete each other. 

Suddenly, John stops playing. He takes his notepad, crosses out some words and scribbles some notes. He has a great idea.
 
The day you found me
I was flying blind
Now I see the light
I’m willing to fight
For you

John is happy with his new lyrics. He takes his guitar again and plays his love song from the 
beginning. Then, he hears a beautiful sound. But it’s not coming from his guitar. It’s coming from inside the house. It’s his amazing, lovely wife calling his name. 

Being a Cloud

John the Bowl of Pasta

"Con base en" es una expresión muy utilizada en la lengua española para afirmar, para sustentar, para fundamentar algo. Ejemplo: Con base en las investigaciones realizadas, escribí un artículo académico, es decir gracias a las investigaciones pude escribir este artículo. Esta expresión es muy utilizada por los hispanohablantes tanto en la oralidad como en la redacción.  Te invito a escuchar podcast y no dudes en escribir tus dudas o preguntas al respecto.

Mejorando mi español

¿Conoces la expresión "con base en"

CHISTES MEXICANOS

UNA MUJER BIBLIOTECARIA.

Découvrez comment utilisé correctement, l'imprafait, le passé composé et le plus-que-parfait.

Edmond FLE

Les temps du passé

Today, we’ll explore how to book a single room in Italian, perfect for anyone planning a trip to Italy or looking to improve their language skills. Together, we’ll learn the essential steps to effectively communicate with hotel staff and ensure a comfortable stay. Listen and repeat the sentences.

Italian Everyday

Useful Sentences: Booking a hotel room

Medical Spanish🏥
Cápsula informativa sobre la glándula tiroides y algunas de sus afecciones.

Medical Spanish

The thyroid gland🏥

The Step Pyramid of Djoser Part 2. 

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When finally completed, the Step Pyramid rose 62 meters high and was the tallest structure of its time. The complex in which it was built was the size of a city in ancient Egypt and included a temple, courtyards, shrines, and living quarters for the priests. It covered a region of 16 hectares and was surrounded by a wall 10.5 meters high. The wall had 13 false doors cut into it with only one true entrance cut into the south-east corner; the entire wall was then ringed by a trench 750 meters long and 40 meters wide. The false doors and the trench were incorporated into the complex to discourage unwanted visitors. If someone wished to enter, he or she would have needed to know in advance how to find the location of the true opening in the wall. Djoser was so proud of his accomplishment that he broke the tradition of having only his own name on the monument and had Imhotep’s name carved on it as well.

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The burial chamber of the tomb, where the king’s body was laid to rest, was dug beneath the base of the pyramid, surrounded by a vast maze of long tunnels that had rooms off them to discourage robbers. One of the most mysterious discoveries found inside the pyramid was a large number of stone vessels. Over 40,000 of these vessels, of various forms and shapes, were discovered in storerooms off the pyramid’s underground passages. They are inscribed with the names of rulers from the First and Second Dynasties of Egypt and made from different kinds of stone. 

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