To that one soul listening, welcome to "FLO TALKS." A podcast that will help you improve your listening skills, knowledge and learn something about life.
It's the podcast that will help you level up.

FLO TALKS 

If there is one harsh reality that I learned during the past two years is that, "LOOKS MATTER."
Humans are visual creatures and that how we present ourselves to the world affects our value.

"THE BEAUTY PODCAST."

The story follows a young prince who visits various planets in space, including Earth, and addresses themes of loneliness, friendship, love, and loss. Despite its style as a children's book, The Little Prince makes observations about life, adults and human nature

Learn French through literature ☕

THE LITTLE PRINCE "Le Petit Prince"  d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (French Hero and Writer) CHAPTER ONE

История создания праздника, основные традиции и приметы.

(B1-C2) Podcasts - Daily Life (by M.Kuznetsova) 

Podcast 11 День Святого Валентина 

How many times have you been trapped in a boring presentation? How many times have you given a boring presentation? And why are so many presentations boring by the way?

Most people have a deep fear of giving presentations. A negative mindset, coupled with little preparation time, results in boring presentations.

However, when you learn to see the opportunities associated with giving presentations and learn how to prepare for them, you will be able to influence people, share ideas you are excited about, and motivate others.

In this Express to Impress Podcast episode, you will learn how to develop a positive mindset, plan, structure, prepare, and deliver an effective presentation. Your audience will not fidget anxiously or scan their phones from boredom, but be attentive from start to finish. Specifically, you'll discover six steps for creating a high-quality presentation that resonates with your listeners.

At the end of the episode, you'll learn definitions for English idioms and phrases.

Episode originally published on July 31, 2020.
Transcript at https://www.express-to-impress.com/give-a-presentation/.
Infographics for this episode at https://www.pinterest.com/ExpresstoImpress/. 

Express to Impress

How to Give Effective Presentations That Don't Bore Your Audience

English on the Road Episode #1 - Canadian Provinces
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In this episode, I talk about the ten provinces of Canada. 

English on the Road 

Canadian Provinces

In this episode we will talk about 【Pandemic】, you will learn how to say 【do nucleic acid, wear a mask】 ect.
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It is recommended that you study in the following ways:
1st time: listen without looking at the text.
2nd time: look at the text and write down the new words, later look up the dictionary. 
3rd time: listen again without looking at the text.
4th time: repeat after it without looking at the text.
大家好，我是Yuli。欢迎收听我的播客。
今天我们来聊一聊【疫情】的话题。
中国的疫情是2019年底开始的。我记得那一年的春节，我回了老家。每天在电视上看到武汉疫情的报道，觉得很难过。假期结束后要回广州上班，一路上戴着口罩，有点害怕。每天进公司和进小区都要测体温。外卖只能送到小区门口，自己去拿，也不可以在饭店里吃饭。
疫情不太严重的时候，我们的生活正常一点，但是去外面也要戴口罩。有一段时间国内没有疫情，国内旅游也正常了。但是因为有国外回来的人，很难一直都是正常的。如果一个地方出现新的疫情，很多人都要去做核酸。严重的时候，这个地方所有的人都要去做核酸。
时间过得很快，疫情已经两年多了。虽然我们已经习惯了戴口罩的生活，但是它真的改变了我们的生活。
最大的改变是很多东西都发展为线上了。特别是疫情严重的时候，大家只能在家里。于是上班族开始在家办公，学生开始上网课。因为不能去健身房，很多人买了健身的东西，在家里健身。因为不能出去吃饭，很多人都是用手机叫外卖，或者开始学习做饭。因为不能像以前一样出去旅游，这几年野餐和露营的人越来越多。野餐和露营不需要去很远的地方，买一些食物，就可以和家人朋友一起去玩了。
疫情对经济的影响是最大的。商店的生意变得很差，因为只要有疫情影响，他们很可能就得关门。换工作的人比以前少了，因为经济不好，工作不好找。更多的大学毕业生选择了考研和考公务员，因为更稳定。
你们国家的疫情怎么样呢？疫情改变了你的生活吗？留言告诉我吧。我们下期见。
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小区	xiǎo qū	community,neighbourhood
测体温	cè tǐ wēn	take one's temperature
外卖	wàimài	food delivery
戴口罩	dài kǒu zhào	Wear a mask
做核酸	zuò hé suān	do nucleic acid
上班族	shàng bān zú	office worker
上网课	shàngwǎngkè	have class online
野餐	yě cān	Picnic
露营	lù yíng	Camping
考研	kǎo yán	take postgraduate entrance examination
考公务员	kǎo gōng wù yuán	take part in civil servant exam 

Yuli's Chinese Channel

疫情 Pandemic （Intermediate level）

What do you think is the most expensive place in the world to live? New York? London? Maybe Tokyo?

While Japan has long had a reputation as an expensive place to live, its cities have been getting cheaper in recent years — with some big changes coming just in the last 12 months.

American consulting company Mercer recently released its 2024 Cost of Living City Ranking, which compares the costs of over 200 items in 226 cities around the world. The results are based on a March 2024 survey, and include things like housing and transportation, as well as food, clothing and entertainment.

All five of the world's most expensive cities are unchanged from last year, with Hong Kong and Singapore again in first and second place. These two Asian cities are followed by three Swiss cities: Zurich, Geneva and Basel.

Bern, another Swiss city, has risen from seventh to sixth place, while New York City has fallen one place to seventh.

However, Tokyo has dropped 30 places to 49th — putting it right after San Juan in Puerto Rico. And Osaka has dropped 53 places to 146th — just ahead of Wuhan in China.

However, the biggest drop since last year was for Lagos in Nigeria, which fell 178 places to 225th. And the least expensive city is now Abuja, Nigeria's capital, at 226th.

Mercer wrote that many big drops were caused by changes in exchange rates. Japan's yen dropped to a 34-year low against the US dollar in March — and hit a 38-year low in early July.

The ranking was also affected by inflation — especially in housing prices — as well as increasing political uncertainty around the world.

Mercer says it's important for companies to look at its cost of living ranking when thinking about sending staff to live abroad.




Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Japan Tumbles on Expensive Cities Ranking

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.

我的工作 My work （Beginner）

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jjaWJy1Is8pMwcT58Y7IN7Ww1ciqUvZe/view?usp=drivesdk