We all have our dark hours when learning a language becomes frustrating and no longer seems appealing. To keep you motivated and to support you during those hours, I started recording episodes with successful learners - my subscribers and students from all over the world! 

This is the second episode of the Lingua Motivator thread of the Russian Bridge Podcast and I'm sure you'll enjoy it. Meet Marcel, a journalist and writer from the UK!

RUSSIAN BRIDGE PODCAST

Lingua Motivator. Марсель (B1-B2)

Recommended to listen repeatedly until you understand. Key words and Commonly used phrases, Please read after me. You can record the phrases you read and send it here, I'll correct the pronunciation for you. Follow me ,you will learn more Chinese. 

Key words and phrases : 左边、右边、公司、颜色、饭馆、找手机、教室、椅子、电脑、哭笑、知道、妻子、丈夫、飞机、觉得、第一、进去、看看、红色的、怎么样、什么时候、为什么、哪个房间、好多了、吃完饭、说得太快了、很漂亮、几点开始、打个电话问问

Merry's Channel（HSK 二）

HSK二 Key words and common phrases (3) , Please read after me

Let's discuss life in a big city. Easy podcast for beginners in Russian.

Russian Library

Big city life

De compras en la tienda 👕👗

Lucía: ¡Mira esta tienda, Juan! Tienen ropa con descuento.

Juan: ¡Genial! Justo necesito una camisa nueva para la cena del sábado.

Lucía: Yo también quiero ver vestidos. Vamos a probar algunas cosas.

Juan: ¿Qué te parece esta camisa azul? ¿Me la pruebo?

Lucía: Sí, se ve bien. Pero también prueba esta negra, te quedaría genial.

Juan: Buena idea. Voy al probador. ¿Tú encontraste algo?

Lucía: Sí, este vestido rojo me gusta mucho. Voy a probármelo también.

Juan: (Saliendo del probador) ¿Qué te parece? ¿Me queda bien?

Lucía: La azul te queda bien, pero la negra te hace ver más elegante.

Juan: Sí, creo que me llevaré la negra. ¿Y tú? ¿Cómo te queda el vestido?

Lucía: (Saliendo del probador) No sé… ¿No es muy ajustado?

Juan: Un poco, pero te queda increíble. Además, el color te favorece.

Lucía: ¡Gracias! Creo que lo compraré. Vamos a la caja.

Juan: Sí, y después podemos tomar un café. ¡Hoy fue un buen día de compras!

Learn Spanish Conversation

Learn Spanish conversation part 36

Fewer young people in the US are vaping this year than at any point in the last decade, government officials have reported.

The latest survey numbers show the teen vaping rate fell to under 6% this year, down from 7.7% in 2023. More than 1.6 million students aged between 11 and 18 reported vaping in the previous month — about one-third the number in 2019, when underage vaping peaked.

Brian King from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said the decline was good news but added: "There's clearly more work to do to further reduce youth use."

It is illegal for a retailer to sell any tobacco product to anyone aged under 21.

King and other officials noted that the drop in vaping hasn't led to an increase in the use of other tobacco industry products, such as nicotine pouches.

Sales of small, flavored pouches like Zyn have increased among adults. The pouches come in flavors like mint and cinnamon and slowly release nicotine when placed behind the lips. This year's US survey shows 1.8% of teens are using them, which is about the same percentage as last year.

The survey involved more than 29,000 students, who completed an online questionnaire in the spring.

Officials from the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attributed the big drop in vaping to recent age restrictions and more aggressive enforcement against retailers and manufacturers, including Chinese vaping companies who have sold their e-cigarettes illegally in the US for years.

Use of the most popular e-cigarette among teens, Elf Bar, fell 36% in the wake of FDA warning letters to stores and distributors selling the brightly colored vapes, which come in flavors like watermelon ice and peach mango.

Nearly 90% of the students who vape used flavored products, with fruit flavors the most popular.

In 2020, FDA regulators banned fruit and candy flavors from reusable e-cigarettes like Juul. 

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Number of US Teens Vaping at 10-Year Low

Analysis of the cultural, social and linguistic content, of the text of the song Centro di gravità permanente di Franco Battiato
Analisi culturale, sociale e linguistica del testo della canzoneCentro di gravità permanente di Franco Battiato
Análisis cultural, social y lingüístico de la letra de la canciónCentro di gravità permanente di Franco Battiato

SOLO MUSICA ITALIANA  PODCAST

Centro di gravità permanente di Franco Battiato|Aprende italiano cantando|Learn italian singing

Do you ever wish you had a personal coach for language learning? The good news is—you can be your own. 

In this episode of 111 Tips for Learning a Language, you’ll learn how to:
✨ Create identity-based goals that stick
✨ Build automatic habits with if–then plans and habit stacking
✨ Run a weekly self-check to track and adjust
✨ Use WOOP to turn obstacles into clear next steps
✨ Speak to yourself like a kind, encouraging coach

In Episode 93, you learn how to life-coach yourself through your language journey with compassion and structure. You begin with an identity statement that anchors your learning, then set one clear outcome and two supportive behaviours. You discover how to make practice automatic through if–then plans, habit stacking, and pairing practice with daily routines. A weekly self-check helps you track progress, reduce friction, and adjust kindly. Tools like WOOP (Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan) keep you moving forward, and self-talk shifts from criticism to encouragement. With simple drills for vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, listening, speaking, and writing, you create a steady system that keeps you consistent and motivated.

Listen now and discover how to coach yourself with compassion, structure, and steady progress.
And if you’d like extra guidance, I’d love to walk this journey with you in class on Italki.

💃🏻111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 93 - How becoming your own ﮩـﮩﮩ٨ـ🫀ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ Life Coach can help you learn a language

标准汉语会话360句 book1-4 Standard Chinese conversation 360 sentences

今天天气真热。

Benvenuti a "Espresso Italiano", il podcast che vi porta alla scoperta delle sfumature più affascinanti della lingua e cultura italiana. Oggi ci immergeremo nel cuore di Roma, esplorando 15 espressioni del dialetto romano che dovreste conoscere se avete in programma una visita nella Città Eterna.

Prepariamoci a conoscere i modi di dire più celebri del dialetto romano. Queste espressioni non solo vi aiuteranno a comprendere meglio i romani, ma vi permetteranno anche di interagire con un pizzico di autenticità in più, magari strappando qualche sorriso alla gente del posto.

Il dialetto romano è una fonte inesauribile di frasi colorite, divertenti e talvolta pungenti, che raccontano molto della storia e della cultura della Capitale. Ecco quindi 15 espressioni tipiche, insieme alle loro spiegazioni, che vi faranno sentire un po' più romani durante la vostra visita.

Daje, stacce e scopriamole insieme!