An explanation of perfect tenses. 
Transcript is here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oyopkBGxwFDrFK5rW4XK_s0eBG6_0FRH/view?usp=drivesdk

Teacher Joseph's Podcast

Perfect Tenses [with transcript for study]

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明けましておめでとうございます。
皆さんは年末年始をどう過ごしましたか？
今回は、新年の恒例行事である初詣について話します。

Happy New Year! 
How did you spend your New Year’s holiday?
This time, we talk about 初詣, which is the New year's visit to a shrine / temple that many Japanese do as one of the annual New Year's events.


♤ キーワード
・初詣（はつもうで：first shrine visit of the New Year）
・三が日（さんがにち：the first three days of the new year）
・おみくじ（a fortune-telling paper strip）
・真に受ける（まにうける：take something too seriously） 
・万事（ばんじ：everything）
・運勢（うんせい：fortune）

♧ 理解度チェッククイズ 
1. アヤが初詣でいつもすることは？ 
2. フミがそれを躊躇（ちゅうちょ）してしまう理由は？

♢ 前回のクイズの答え
1. フミの今年の漢字と、それを選んだ理由は？ 
→「楽」よく楽器に触り、楽しい気持ちで新しいことにチャレンジしたから。そして、これからは楽をしたいから。
2. アヤの今年の漢字と、それを選んだ理由は？
→「調」新しいことを始めて、生活を調整・調節する必要があったから。

BGM special thanks：MusMus

アヤさんとフミさんの日本語雑談（Aya and Fumi’s Japanese Chit-Chat）

Episode 21：初詣

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In this episode of channel Let's speak Albanian/Le të flasim shqip we'll have Greetings/Përshëndetjet in  Albanian language for level A1 - C1. I wish these episodes will help everyone practice and enjoy listening Albanian any time you like to.    
Lets enjoy together!
                  Formal greetings
Përshëndetje! - Hello!
Mirëmëngjes! - Good morning! 
Mirëdita! - Good afternoon! 
Mirëmbrëma! - Good evening! 
Më vjen mirë që ju takoj! - I am glad to meet you!
Kënaqësi që ju takoj! - Pleasure of meeting you!
Gëzohem që ju takoj! - I am glad to meet you!
Gëzohem gjithashtu! - Glad too!, I'm happy too!
Kënaqësia është e imja! - The pleasure is mine!
Shikues të nderuar, mirëmbrëma! - Dear viewers, good evening!
Të nderuar kolegë! -  Dear colleagues!
Të nderuar debutetë! - Honorable debutantes!

      Informal greetings 
Si je?! - How are you?!/What's up!
Ç'kemi! - Hi! (What do we have!)
Ça bëre! - What's up! (What did you do!/What have you done!)
Si kalove! - How were you!/How did you spend!
Mirë?! - Good?!/ Okay?!
Mirupafshim! - Goodbye!
Mirë u takofshim! - Good to meet you!/Nice to meet you!
Ditën e mirë! - Good day!/Have a nice day!
Drekën e mirë! - Good afternoon!
Natën e mirë! - Good night!
Shihemi së shpejti! - See you soon!
Kalofshi mirë! - Have a nice day!/Have a great time!
Gjithë të mirat! - All the best!



Let's speak Albanian

Përshëndetjet 

🇰🇷 짜요 [jja-yo]
🇫🇷 C'est salé.

🗣️ Vous pouvez pratiquer cette phrase avec mon audio.

1jour 1phrase 🇰🇷 - coréen -

C'est salé 🇰🇷 en coréen ? 

Today's vocabulary words are the noun subsidy and the verb to subsidise.

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Don't worry, someone else will pay for it!

The Spanish have lots of yummy food. But when you see what their name means, it doesn't sound so good.
I wrote a romantic comedy novel about bad translations. "Loosely Translated", by Simon Wheeler, is on Amazon, as a digital book.

The Social Evolutionary

Spanish Food Translates Badly!

Ingredients:
3 onions
3 carrots
2 potatoes
1 parsnip or turnip
3 celery sticks
250 g  mushrooms
1 ½ tbsp plain flour 
500 ml vegetable stock made with 1.5 stock cubes
1 tbsp Balsamic vinegar
1 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp tomato puree
1 tsp mixed herbs
2 dashes of Tabasco sauce
120 g frozen peas
Freshly ground pepper

Method:

Roughly chop all the vegetables (except frozen peas) and place in a large bowl.
Stir in the flour, herbs and pepper.
Tip into slow cooker.
To the stock add and mix in the Balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, tabasco sauce and tomato puree.
Pour over the vegetables.
Cook until vegetables are tender.