上次课我们介绍了中国女孩儿小杰跟随非洲男生卡林通回到了非洲几内亚，生了一个女儿，并且开始了在非洲的幸福生活。现在，我们继续介绍故事的第三集。

Audio book -  远嫁非洲是什么体验？

《远嫁非洲是什么体验？》第3集  战争来了，两人分开  - Audiobook

Welcome to Story Time with Voce, a podcast where storytelling meets language learning! Join me as I read captivating short stories and fables, pausing to explain key vocabulary and expressions to help you improve your English. This is an introductory clip, look out for new episodes. Coming soon!

Story Time with Voce

Привет! Вкратце расскажу о том, как вчера наводила порядок. Начала перебирать свои вещи и решила, что нужно выкинуть старые материалы по испанскому языку, которые я распечатывала. Начала пересматривать все папки, отложила то, что мне ещё пригодится. Сейчас у меня на столе куча макулатуры. Макулатура – это старые документы, книги, короче говоря, любая бумага, которая подходит для переработки. 

распечатывать (нсв/imperf.) / распечатать (св/perf.)  to print / imprimir
папка  folder /  carpeta
пригодится = будет нужно 
куча = много
переработка recycling /  reciclaje


Ты со мной? 

Вкратце расскажу о том, как вчера наводила порядок

Chi di noi non si è mai chiesto "Perché si dice così?" studiando una lingua?
In questo episodio alcune riflessioni sulle difficoltà del dare una risposta a questa domanda... e se valga veramente la pena porsela.

Il podcast del modenese!

Live riflessioni: perché si dice così?

In this episode I talk about Damascus and take you in a journey around its wall and gates.

Real Syrian Arabic

Real Syrian Arabic Podcast Episode 4- A tour around the gates of Damascus جولة حول أبواب دمشق

Across the world, millions of people are watching other people play video games on platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitch.

Twitch in particular has become the world's biggest video game streaming platform, with over 240 million people using the site each month, and over 7 million people actively streaming.

Imagine that — a whole business, worth billions of dollars, based on people wanting to watch other people play video games.

But why do people want to do this — instead of just playing the games themselves?

One possible reason is the personality of the players. People enjoy watching how these gamers react and make jokes as they play the games. One study in 2021 found that people like to watch gamers simply because they find their personalities attractive.

They may also be attracted by a player's skill. Some simply find it enjoyable to watch a professional gamer play a difficult video game, while others may hope to learn and improve their own skills by watching.

Another study in 2016 looked at people who watch gamers on Twitch in particular. It found that people watch these gamers not only to learn from them, but also to see what a game is like before they decide whether or not to buy it.

The same study found that people also watched games online because they could interact with other people who liked games, and it gave them a sense of community.

This kind of online community would become especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Twitch's audience grew by about 80%.

However, according to the 2016 study, the biggest reason people like to watch video gamers is simply because they want to relax and forget about their daily life.

Just as there are many different kinds of video games, there are also many different kinds of gamers. And it seems people's reasons for watching these gamers are just as varied.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Why Do People Watch Other People Play Video Games?

Nǐhǎo! Zhèɡe bēizi duōshao qián?
A：你好！这个   杯子    多少    钱？
    èrshíbā kuài.
B：  28         块。
    Nàɡe bēizi duōshao qián?
A：那个  杯子   多少     钱？
    Nàɡe bēizi shíbā kuài qián. 
B：那个  杯子     18     块     钱。


日常对话 daily conversation

在商店 In a store

The cutting of huge figures or ‘geoglyphs’ into the earth of English hillsides has taken place for more than 3,000 years. There are 56 hill figures scattered around England, with the vast majority on the chalk down lands of the country’s southern counties. The figures include giants, horses, crosses and regimental badges. Although the majority of these geoglyphs date within the last 300 years or so, there are one or two that are much older.

The most famous of these figures is perhaps also the most mysterious — the Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire. The White Horse has recently been re-dated and shown to be even older than its previously assigned ancient pre-Roman Iron Age* date. More controversial is the date of the enigmatic Long Man of Wilmington in Sussex. While many historians are convinced the figure is prehistoric, others believe that it was the work of an artistic monk from a nearby priory and was created between the 11th and 15th centuries.
The method of cutting these huge figures was simply to remove the overlying grass to reveal the gleaming white chalk below. However, the grass would soon grow over the geoglyph again unless it was regularly cleaned or scoured by a fairly large team of people. One reason that the vast majority of hill figures have disappeared is that when the traditions associated with the figures faded, people no longer bothered or remembered to clear away the grass to expose the chalk outline. Furthermore, over hundreds of years the outlines would sometimes change due to people not always cutting in exactly the same place, thus creating a different shape to the original geoglyph. The fact that any ancient hill figures survive at all in England today is testament to the strength and continuity of local customs and beliefs which, in one case at least, must stretch back over millennia.

The Habits of Professionals Growing Into Strong, Confident English Communicators

Cambridge 16 Reading Test 2.   The White Horse of Uffington

In this episode we are going to learn 【My work】in Chinese. 
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As a beginner, there're some vocabularies that you didn't learn before, and native speaker's speed seems too fast to understand. But don't worry, let's do it step by step. 
1st time: listen and catch the words you know already, have a guess about the content.
2nd time: look at the text to check if you guessed it right. 
3rd time: listen one more time, repeat after it.
4th time: practice until you can speak as the normal speed without looking at the text. 
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小时候妈妈问我：“你长大后要做什么？”
xiǎo shí hòu mā ma wèn wǒ ：“ nǐ zhǎng dà hòu yào zuò shén me ？”
When I was a child, my mother asked me, "What do you want to do when you grow up?"
我说：“我以后想当老师。”
wǒ shuō ：“ wǒ yǐ hòu xiǎng dāng lǎo shī 。”
I said, "I want to be a teacher in the future."
现在我是一名老师。
xiàn zài wǒ shì yì míng lǎo shī 。
Now I am a teacher.
我在学校工作。
wǒ zài xué xiào gōng zuò 。
I work at school.
我工作8年了。
wǒ gōng zuò bā nián le 。
I have been working for 8 years.
有时候我的工作很忙，忙得连喝水的时间都没有。
yǒu shí hòu wǒ de gōng zuò hěn máng ， máng de lián hē shuǐ de shí jiān dōu méi yǒu 。
Sometimes my work is so busy that I don't even have time to drink water.
我喜欢我的工作，因为很有意思。
wǒ xǐ huān wǒ de gōng zuò ， yīn wèi hěn yǒu yì sī 。
I like my job because it's fun.