Short story 「手ぶくろを買いに《 Buying Mittens》ep2」
This story is written by Nankichi Nīmi.
He is a Japanese author of children's literature.
Although his life was only 29 years, he left us with many stories to tell.
（※About Nankichi Nīmi【Wikipedia】：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nankichi_Niimi）

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☆Buying Mittens ep1
#21 Short story /  Buying Mittens ep1 / storytelling // N3 Level

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Simple Japanese Listening with Meg（めぐ）Smile

#24 Short story /  Buying Mittens ep2 / storytelling // N3 Level

In this podcast you will know some ways to greet in some other countries.

Remember that I teach Spanish on italki, you can book a class for more information you can look at it on my profile :)

Colombia

Las formas ‘extrañas’ de saludar en algunos países del mundo

Una chiacchierata con mio padre sul mezzo più rappresentativo del Bel Paese e sugli anni della sua massima diffusione! Buon ascolto e buono studio a tutti!
P.S Il ragazzo in foto sono io (2004/5)

The Italian Miscellaneous Podcast🖐 

Tutti gli italiani hanno una vespa? 🛵 

In Episode 86, you learn how positive emotions can supercharge your language learning. Each feeling—happiness, calm, peace, satisfaction, pride, excitement, love, and ambition—supports different parts of language study. You discover that happiness boosts vocabulary and creativity, calm strengthens grammar accuracy, peace improves pronunciation and listening, satisfaction locks in memorization, pride fuels speaking confidence, excitement speeds vocabulary recall, love reduces anxiety for speaking, and ambition sharpens goal-based tasks. You are guided to match each emotion to the right skill and to use short rituals to spark the state before practice.

💃🏻111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 86 - How ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ ) Positive Feelings & Emotions can help you learn a language

If you're looking to make a good first impression on a dating app, from your POV, you might think it would be a good idea to send a text using lots of abbreviations to make it seem like you're BFFs with the person you're texting.

But FWIW, according to a recent study from Stanford University and the University of Toronto, nobody likes receiving text abbreviations — not even young people.

Don't know those abbreviations? "POV" means "point of view," "BFF" means "best friend forever," and "FWIW" is "for what it's worth"!

Researchers studying the use of such abbreviations did a number of studies with several thousand people, and they found that texts using abbreviations were less likely to get replies. And writers using abbreviations were more likely to be seen as insincere.

Of course, we all use abbreviations — in one survey, it was found that 99% of people said they used them. But the researchers found that people don't like receiving texts with abbreviations, because rather than making them feel closer to the other person, it felt like the other person wasn't putting much effort into the conversation.

And while young people are even more likely to use abbreviations, they still felt that people who used them were insincere. Young people were also less likely to reply to such messages.

Lead researcher David Fang said we often put different amounts of effort into our conversations to show how important the other person is to us.

So it might be fine to put little effort into, say, a quick message to a delivery driver. But Fang said his team's results are especially important for people who really want to make a good impression — like at the beginning of a relationship!

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Want a Reply by Text? Don't Use Abbreviations!

How do you improve your IELTS band score. In this podcast I’m going to give you 1 simple strategy to help you get the band score you need.

The technique I’m going to teach you is paraphrase. Yes, paraphrasing is very important, and it’s something that IELTS examiners listen out for. In the IELTS band descriptors you will see that you can not get a band score 6 or 7 unless you can paraphrase effectively.

Let me give you an example.

Let’s say in part 1 the examiner asks you about your hometown and asks you this question: Is your hometown a popular destination for foreigners?

You should answer the question by choosing a synonym for foreigners, for example, tourists.

You could also choose a synonym  for destination, for example visit.

So, when the examiner asks you “Is your hometown a popular destination for foreigners?” you could answer like this:

Yes, many tourists visit my hometown. 

So, you’ve answered the question using paraphrase.

Instead of foreigners you said tourists and instead of destination, you said visit.

Let me teach you again. If the examiner asks you “Is your hometown a popular destination for foreigners?” you could answer:

Yes, many tourists visit my hometown. 

Book an IELTS speaking exam preparation lesson with me to improve your IELTS score.




IELTS Speaking Practice

1 IELTS strategy to improve your IELTS score - paraphrase

A simple phrase, a powerful reaction. Kenji's story reveals what English fluency really is.

Real English Skills

Japanese Student Obsessed With Perfect English, Until He Broke One Rule

こんにちは、あかりです。日本の料理(りょうり)はこれがあれば大丈夫(だいじょうぶ)！

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Slow Japanese

Episode #71 - Japanese meal Tips!

어제 비가 많이 왔어요.  Yesterday it rained a lot. 
그래서 나무가 쓰러졌어요. So a tree fell over. 
어제 yesterday
비가 오다 It rains. 
그래서 so, therefore, that's why
나무 a tree
쓰러지다 (in this case) to fall over

Please after listening to this, repeat it twice. !!