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"Mi personalidad" (+ Transcript 📄) - A1 / Beginner

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🐸 **The Deaf Frog | Дүлий мэлхий**

In this episode, you’ll listen to a short story translated into Mongolian for language learners.

This is a simple and fun listening practice designed to help you get used to **natural Mongolian pronunciation, sentence patterns, and vocabulary**.

🎧 Try listening once without reading anything, then listen again and see how much you can understand.

**Level:** Beginner–Intermediate
**Focus:** Mongolian listening & vocabulary

to give up - бууж өгөх 
to succeed - амжилтад хүрэх 
тэмцээн — competition
цамхаг — tower
орой — top
уралдаан — race
оролцох — participate
бууж өгөх — give up
амжилтад хүрэх — succeed
гайхах — be surprised / wonder 

Listening for Mongolian learners

The story of deaf frog  l Дүлий мэлхий 

A podcast tracing the history of Liquid Paper, a product that was once found in almost every office in the world. Although it was made obsolete by the rise of the word processor, its invention and rise to fame is still a remarkable and inspiring story.

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In this Chillchat episode, Karen and Baiwei chatted about what it is like to see a doctor in Mainland China and the U.S., their experiences with both public hospitals and private clinics, how people book an appointment, where one gets medication, and so on.

Chillchat (Learn Chinese and Chill)

在中国怎么看病？How do you see a doctor in China?

You will meet a Malayalam word of fifteen letters and your instinct will be to panic. By the end of this class your instinct will be to take it apart from the right-hand end — and you will usually be able to.

Linguists sort languages by how they package meaning into words. Isolating languages keep one meaning per word — Mandarin, Vietnamese. Fusional languages fuse several meanings into one ending you cannot cut apart — Latin, Russian, Arabic. Agglutinative languages string together clearly separable pieces, each with one job. Malayalam is the third kind.

That is why learning Malayalam quietly makes Japanese and Turkish less alien afterwards — same mechanism, same logic.

Why the pieces do not always look how you expect. Malayalam — Manglish — English:

സന്ധി — sandhi — "junction": the sound changes where two morphemes meet. Sanskrit made a science of it; Malayalam inherited both the phenomenon and the name.

മരം → മരത്തിൽ — maram → maratthil — tree → in the tree. Not മരംഇൽ. A ത്ത appears at the join.
പുസ്തകം → പുസ്തകത്തിൽ — pusthakam → pusthakatthil — book → in the book
സ്ഥലം → സ്ഥലത്ത് — sthalam → sthalatthu — place → at the place
ഭക്ഷണം → ഭക്ഷണത്തിന് — bhakshanam → bhakshanatthinu — food → for the food

Learn that one pattern and long words stop being walls.

Slow and clear, for English speakers, heritage learners and the Malayali diaspora.

What is the longest Malayalam word that has stopped you? Post it and I will take it apart.

Malayalam Grammar Made Obvious | Cases, Verbs and Tenses

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In this episode, I’ll explain the differences between “全职 / 兼职” and “主业 / 副业” in Chinese! Let’s learn how Chinese people talk about different kinds of work and income~
Plus, you’ll get some handy vocabulary to describe your own job situation!

Learn Chinese and Have Fun!

兼职？副业？Which One Are You Doing?

Your fluency begins in your head, not your mouth. In this episode, learn how to train your inner voice to think in English—using fragments, fillers, and feelings that build natural fluency step by step.