Today we're talking about the adjective "haphazard" and the adverb "haphazardly". These are really fun words to say and I hope you find them useful!

Don't forget that I'm a full time English coach and tutor, right here on iTalki. So if you use English as a second language at work and you'd like to improve your professional communication skills then feel free to book some of my time and let's get to work!

DAILY Business English VOCABULARY builder

This podcast was not carefully planned

Uma mulher cansada dos relacionamentos tóxicos recorre a uma médium para encontra o amor da sua vida. 

Aprenda Português Com Notícias Insólitas e Malucas -Learn Portuguese With Crazy Isoteric News 

Encontra o Amor Devido a Médium

In this episode we discuss different personalities and professionals in Swahili

The-SWAHILI Podcast

Various Personalities and Professions (Watu mbalimbali)

안녕하세요. Hello~
한국어 듣기 수업 시작해요. Let's start with the Korean listening class.
선생님 읽어요. I read it.
잘 들으세요. Please listen well.

I posted the sentences on my blog.
https://blog.naver.com/laramcraft/223105743730
https://youtu.be/P6LJMBCcIAQ

The basics are important.
It is also good to check the basics of 한글 Hangeul before this listening class.
1-1. Korean alphabet - Vowels 모음 - What is Hangeul?
https://youtu.be/0YzhJ9p2lcs
2-1. Korean alphabet - Consonants 자음 -what are the consonants 자음?
https://youtu.be/lckgvQ_vreA
3-1. Korean alphabet - Final Consonants 받침 - What are the final consonants 받침?
https://youtu.be/sLlFmG30fNI

This is a class to listen to Korean conversational sentences.
In this voice recording for listening,
After reading many sentences with Korean grammar in Korean conversations sentences,
Check out how much you understand the sentences with a voice recording.
Never look at the sentences when listening to the voice recording.
And Listen to the sentence repeatedly until you hear it completely.

You are listening to the Sejong Korean conversation. (세종학당)
There are four books in total. (Korean conversation, 1, 2, 3, 4.)
It consists of 1st and 2nd courses for beginners and 1st and 2nd courses for intermediate.
Each course is conducted in 14 units. (2 grammar - for each unit.)
This listening class you are taking is Korean Conversation 4. (Intermediate 2)
Please listen carefully.

Korean Listening Class 한국어 문장 듣기 - Korean teacher, Grace

Korean Conversation 4. (Intermediate 2) - Lesson 11. Part 1 -는/-은/-ㄴ만큼/ 만큼,  Part 2 -는 데

Short story 「あめだま」
I read a story written by Nankichi Niimi.
He is a Japanese author of children's literature.
Although his life was only 29 years, he left us with many stories to tell.
This story is JLPT-N4 level.

I created this episode quiz.
Please listen and then try the quiz!
☆Quiz for this episode
https://www.italki.com/quiz/set-result?id=3697

Please use it for listening and shadowing practices.

☆Script for this episode
The scripts (URL) are listed in the overview section of the channel.

Simple Japanese Listening with Meg（めぐ）Smile

#3 Short story あめだま storytelling //N4 Level

Learn Three Sentences a Day：Day26
 S76—S78

Master Mandarin Daily : Learn Three Sentences a Day!

Learn Three Sentences a Day：Day26

IELTS Preparation. Band 8-9 Answers. Part 3 - Influence of television. Q3-4.

3. Why do people like watching television?
4. Which one do you think is better - state or private television?

Which idea can you use in your answers if the same type of question would come up on your test?

For more IELTS podcasts - check my podcasts section and get more ideas.

To be trained by me personally - send a class request.


IELTS-SPEAKING 8-9 BAND IS POSSIBLE. DAILY SPEAKING PRACTICE PART 1,2 & 3. Listen daily.

IELTS Preparation. Band 8-9 Answers. Part 3 - Influence of television. Q3-4.

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

I describe the supermarket

 Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ps48_kdUP9ZkSRjjgr941TP-Uxlp4CnP/view?usp=drivesdk