In this episode, I explain how to ask your friends "Come on. Focus!" in Japanese. There are some cultural differences between Japanese and English. Check it out!

Takeshi's 2 minutes Japanese!

How to say "Come on. Focus!" without offending anyone!

Listen and try to imitate it with your friend


Listening for beginners

Dialogue for acquaintance - حوار للتعارف - 4

Today we are going to practice listening and comprehension, with an intonation for tales.

We will make a few Questions about the tale:
1)	¿Cómo era la primera casa del cerdito?
2)	¿Cuantos cerditos había en el cuento?
3)	¿Quién estaba soplando las casas de los cerditos?
4)	¿Cómo era la segunda casa de los cerditos?
5)	¿El tercer cerdito era perezoso?
6)	¿El primer cerdito era trabajador y precavido?
7)	¿De quien era la casa de madera?
8)	¿Quién cayó en la olla hirviendo?




Podcast Learn Spanish

A Short tale with questions: The three little pigs

Reading a book in Japanese ''The Music Box Planet'' #13
You can practice shadowing, and repeating with this reading and the text below. Besides, it's helpful to study Kanji. 😊 
📚My lessons: https://www.italki.com/ja/teacher/6185061
あれから ５０年・・・・・・

カンパネラ爺が５０年前から こしらえているラッパは、工場の屋根を つきぬけて、
空中帝国から ずいぶんと空へ とびだしています。
空中帝国の ひとびとは、なん十年も かけて ラッパを こしらえるカンパネラ爺の行動に すっかりあきれ顔。しかし爺は おかまいなし。
「できたぞい」
ついに、だれも見たことがない大きなラッパを完成させたのです。
カンパネラ爺は、ヨロヨロとした足どりで、ラッパの根もとへと むかいました。


【Kanji】

年　　　ねん
前　　　まえ
爺　　　じい
工場　　こうじょう
屋根　　やね
顔　　　かお　＊あきれ顔・・・あきれがお
完成　　かんせい
足どり　あしどり
根もと　ねもと


朗読クラブ📚Reading to Japanese language learners 

朗読：『オルゴールワールド』#１５ にしのあきひろ著

Hello, everyone! This is Kate.

Welcome to my podcast. Today we are going to study one very interesting and important grammar, which is gonna help you to sound like a native speaker.

Ready?-Let’s go!


Okay, imagine that you need to go to the hairdressers. Your hair is long and obviously it’s time to do something with it. How would you tell this to your companion?  

“I’m gonna cut my hair?”, but you are not doing it yourself, so, there is a better option.

If you are getting some services, there is a construction which simplifies everything.

To have something done.

Listen to my examples:

I have my hair cut every month.
I’m having my hair cut right now.
I’ve decided. I will have my hair cut!

The verb have is used like any other verb and it follows all the rules.

Present simple: I have my windows cleaned every week. Someone cleans them for me.
Present Perfect: I have just had my dinner cooked. Someone cooked it for me.
Past Continuous: I was having my homework checked yesterday.


You see, it’s super easy and handy!


Practise yourself, here are some sentences in the description below:

I didn't cook my dinner myself. Someone prepared it for me.
I usually don't clean the windows by myself.
I have never cut my hair myself
I will not fix my car. My dad will do it for me.
I won’t check my blood pressure myself.

Excellent at English with Kate K

Have something done: WHAT IS IT?

Branna plays music on streets and make money let's listen to her life and enjoy her story.

Enjoy our journey and Speaking English

Branna's life story as a busker

Here you will find some sentences to use for the restaurant.

A1-Niveau

04_Essen und Trinken

Welcome back to another episode of Streetwise English. I'm your host, Carl. I'm an italki American English tutor. Today I want to talk about technical aids for learning languages. And specifically, I want to talk about headphones. So one of the most important things for improving your fluency in any foreign language is to listen to content in that target language.
So for me, I'm currently studying Spanish and trying to maintain my Chinese, so I don't forget it. So what I like to do every day is listen to podcasts. Now you can listen while you're doing other activities like washing your clothes or washing the dishes or exercising at the gym. You can listen to podcasts while you're on the treadmill. 

But the problem is headphones can smash your ears and make your ears uncomfortable. So what I like to do is use bone conduction headphones or earphones. It's a type of headphone that doesn't actually cover your ear canal. It goes in front of your ear and kind of sits on your face. Um, kind of behind your sideburns if you're a man, right in front of your ear and the sound transmits a vibration that goes into your skull and into your ear and your brain can hear the sound just from the vibrations going through your bones. And so they are called bone conduction headphones. I swear by them. And I use them every day. I have a pair which is charged with a USB C port.

So there are many different kinds of options on the market, but I like the ones that use a USB C port to charge them because I don't have to worry about losing the appropriate proprietary charging cord. Instead, I can just use any USB C charging cord to power up the headphones. 

So another advantage of using bone conduction headphones is that while you're wearing them, you can hear sounds outside of the content that you're listening to.
So for example, say, I'm running, I'm jogging and listening to my podcast which is in Chinese while I'm jogging. ( Text limit )


