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Thinking out loud in Japanese

すんでいるところ

From this episode we are going to learn how to ask other people's hobbies.  Please subscribe the channel if you find it is helpful!

1.你有啲乜嘢嗜好呀？（What hobbies do you have?））
néih yáuh dī māt yéh si hou a?（Yale）
nei5 jau5 di1 mat1 je5 si3 hou3 aa3?（Jyutping）

2.你鐘意做啲乜嘢呀？（What do you like to do?）
néih jūng yi jouh dī māt yéh a?
nei5 zung1 ji3 zou6 di1 mat1 je5 aa3?

3.你得閒鐘意做啲乜嘢呀？（What do you like to do in your free time?）
néih dāk hàahn jūng yi jouh dī māt yéh a?
nei5 dak1 haan4 zung1 ji3 zou6 di1 mat1 je5 aa3?
To answer:
我鐘意睇書。(I like reading.)
ngóh jūng yi tái syū.
ngo5 zung1 ji3 tai2 syu1.
睇戲tái hei/ tai2 hei3 (to watch movies)
睇電視tái dihn sih/tai2 din6 si6（to watch television）
聽音樂tēng yām ngohk/teng1 jam1 ngok6（to listen to music）
打籃球dá làahm kàuh/ daa2 laam4 kau4（to play basketball）
打波dá bō/daa2 bo1（to play ball game）
踢波tek bō/ tek3 bo1（to play soccer）
行街hàahng gāai/haang4 gaai1（to go window-shopping）
去旅行heui léuih hàhng/heoi3 leoi5 hang4（to go traveling）
唱歌cheung gō/coeng3 go1（to sing）
跳舞tiu móuh/tiu3 mou5（to dance）
游水yàuh séui/ jau4 seoi2（to swim）

你鐘唔鐘意……?（Do you like…or not？）
néih jūng m̀h jūng yi……? 
nei5 zung1 m4 zung1 ji3……?
鐘意呀。/唔鐘意。（Yes, I do./ No, I don’t.）
jūng yi a./ m̀h jūng yi.
zung1 ji3 aa3./ m4 zung1 ji3. 

Daliy Conversations for Cantonese (粵語會話）

First meet conversations（初次見面）part2

Título: NO felicitar por el Día Internacional de la mujer ¿Por qué NO?,
Categoría: Opinión sobre hecho de actualdad.
Nivel: Intermedio 

¿Sabías que felicitar a una mujer el 8 de marzo puede ser, en realidad, un error? 

Sí, así como lo lees.

Hoy no vamos a hablar de flores, chocolates o mensajes bonitos. Hoy vamos a hablar del verdadero significado del Día Internacional de la Mujer, el 8 de Marzo.

Hola, soy Rocío, tu profesora, y esto es Rocío en Español. 

En este episodio les digo por qué NO deberíamos felicitar a las mujeres el 8M y qué podemos hacer en su lugar. ¿Listos para algo que quizá no sabían? ¡Eso espero!

Puedes pedir la transcripción a soyrocio@rocioenespanol.com o me escribes por este medio <3

Te espero en clases.
Rocío.-

Rocío en Español Podcast

27 No felicitar por el Día de la Mujer: ¿Por qué no?

最近、桜が咲き始めたというニュースを見るようになりました。
東京の 桜は ２８日ごろ 満開に なるそうです。
日本にいたときは桜を見て、春が来たことを感じていました。
日本で桜を見たいという生徒さんの声をよく聞きます。
この2年はコロナのせいで、外国人は日本に旅行することができませんでした。来年の春は外国人のみなさんも日本で桜を楽しむことができればいいですね。
ところで、みなさんは「花より団子（だんご）」という言葉を知っていますか？
食べられない花より、団子のほうがいいという意味のことわざです。
ちなみに私は両方楽しみたい派（は）です。桜を見て、桜餅（さくらもち）を食べることは私の春の楽しみの一つです。

花より団子 ≈ Bread is better than the songs of birds.

咲き始める：さきはじめる　start blooming
満開：まんかい　full bloom
団子：だんご sweet rice dumplings
ことわざ：proverb
意味：いみ　meaning
両方：りょうほう　both of them
〜派（は）です：I prefer to~
私（わたし）の春（はる）の楽(たの)しみの一つ：one of my pleasures of Spring

Nihongo Short Story by Noriko

桜が咲き始めました!

❥ In this podcast, Teacher Melody from The Aesop for Children. 
❥ Aesop's Fables are free online at:
www.read.gov/aesop/ 
❥ Listen and learn the moral of each story.
❥ Follow along as Teacher Melody Aesop's fable called 
"The Fox & the Grapes"
https://www.read.gov/aesop/005.html
❥The moral of today’s fable is: 
"There are many who pretend to despise and belittle that which is beyond their reach."

Life Lessons from Aesop's Fables

Episode 4: The Fox & the Grapes

In this episode, I talk about some tips to help you speak better English. I hope you find them useful and if you want me to send you the booklets I mention, send me a message here on italki.

Kev's English Podcast

Kev's English Podcast: Episode 3: Three tips to improve your spoken English!..

Working from home and avoiding the journey to and from the office is saving many of us at least an hour every day, according to a 2023 study.

But we're not always using that saved time for ourselves — we're actually spending a lot of that time working.

The US-based National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) did a survey that looked at how workers in 27 countries used their time when working from home.

On average, the daily time saved by working from home was found to be 72 minutes.

Workers in China saved 102 minutes per day, while in Japan it was 100 minutes, and in India it was 99.

But the study also found that, on average, 40% of that saved time was spent working — either on the worker's main job or on an additional one.

Workers in Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan said they used more than half of their saved time to work.

So what happened to the rest of that extra time?

According to the study, an average of 34% was used as leisure time — with people in Germany and Austria using almost half of their extra time for leisure.

And 11% — about eight minutes per day — was spent looking after children or other family members.

The NBER said children had gotten a better deal with parents working from home — but that the big winners were employers, who got extra work time from their employees.



Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Work from Home Study: We Save Time but Work More

Dire que les adjectifs en français se possitionnent toujours après le nom est une erreur !
Il est, en effet, possible de positionner ceratins adjectifs avant le nom. Découvrons ensemble les nuances que cette posuition apporte à ces adjectifs.

Edmond FLE

La place des adjectifs

Medical Spanish 🏥
Entrevista a la odontóloga Karla Morris Vargas sobre los terceros molares o muelas del juicio.