In every business situation, there might be moments in which you don't agree with what your colleague is saying.  How do you express your disagreement in a way that is professional?  This short podcast episode answers that question.

Business English for Professionals

Business English for Professionals - Expressing disagreement in a professional setting

Part 1 of 5. 

Inside a dusty workroom, an old craftsman held up a chess piece to the window. He rotated it in the sunlight and inspected its every detail. 

“Perfection,” said the craftsman. 

He added it to the set he had been building. Sixteen grey pieces sat on his worktable, all handmade and almost ready for sale. 

The craftsman felt very satisfied with his designs. He was ready for the final stage of the process. He picked up one of the pawn pieces and said, “What about you, my little friend? What colour would you like to be?” 

He reached for his paint brush, dunked it into glass of water and then into a container of paint. The grey pawn received a heavy coating of shiny white paint.

Fast-forward several years into the future. After repeated use and abuse, that little pawn’s proud white colour had faded. Areas of his original grey were visible. Because of this, whenever players assembled their chess set, they left this little grey-white pawn to the side. 

“Uhm, is that yours or mine?” said the white player. 

“It doesn’t matter. Put it back in the box and choose from the others,” said the black player. 

This little plastic pawn’s name was Gary. 


Being a Cloud

Gary the Chess Piece

¡El domingo fue mi cumpleaños! Y Sandra, mi pareja, tenía preparada una sorpresa para mí. ¿Quieres saber qué? ¡Aquí te lo cuento! 


Y si quieres cantarle a alguien el cumpleaños feliz en español, puedes tener una clase conmigo y te lo enseño.


La vida de Héctor (Spanish Podcast)

Capítulo 34 - ¡Mi cumple!

Hola a todos, en este episodio hablaremos sobre la fiesta de mi amigo. Les dejo algo de vocabulario que aparece en el audio:

Fiesta: party
Amigo: friend
Ayer: yesterday
Mejor amigo: best friend
Casa: house
Hacía mucho que no los veía: its been a while since I saw them
Fue una larga pandemia: the pandemic was long
Haber: to be (hay) 
Comida: food
Tacos: Mexican food
Carne: meat
Pollo: chicken
Cerdo: pork
Vegetales: vegatables
Vegetariano: vegetarian
Queso: cheese
Me gusta mucho: I like a lot
Salsa: sauce
Agua de limón: lemonade
Refresco: soda (you can also say soda, some parts of latin America do so)
Pastel: cake
Velas: candles
Encender: to light up (encendidas)
Cantar: to sing (cantamos)
Mañanitas: Mexican song we sing at birthday like happy birthday but longer. Look it up its really nice and traditional.
Apagar: turn of (apaga)
Aplaudir: to clap (aplaudimos)
Partir: to cut (partimos)
Mi favorito: my favorite
Música: music
Bailar: to dance (bailamos)
Divertirse: to have fun (divertí)

Please let me know what you think about this episode. See you nest time.
Por favor cuentenme que opinan de este episodio. Nos vemos la próxima.


Tomemos una taza de café 

Episodio 5 La fiesta de mi amigo (PRINCIPIANTES)

Привет!

В этом выпуске мы поговорим о том, как использовать родительный падеж на практике.

Приятного прослушивания!


Speak fluent Russian A1-A2

Выпуск 25. Родительный падеж в контексте / The Genitive case in context 

Learning Indonesian is fun. But for people who have never learned Indonesian at all, they may not know and are confused about how to get started. Well, to start learning a Indonesian, the first thing you have to learn is the Indonesian alphabet. Why should you learn the alphabet? The answer is, so that when you start learning vocabulary, you can pronounce the word correctly. So, if you've never studied a Indonesian at all, don't underestimate learning the alphabet. And in every country it will be different how to pronounce the alphabet. If it's your first time learning a Indonesian and the teacher doesn't teach you how to read the alphabet, don't hesitate to ask your teacher to give you an alphabet reading lesson first.

Learning Bahasa (Complete Beginer)

What Should you Learn if you are "Complete Beginer" in study Language?

第二页（New words 37-2）
（正）在 (zhèng) zài adv. in the course of
收拾 shōushi v. to tidy
房间 fángjiān n. room
做饭 zuò fàn to cook
化妆 huà zhuāng v. to put on make-up
打（电话） dǎ (diànhuà) v. to make (a phone call)
猫 māo n. cat
它 tā pron. it
吃饭 chī fàn to have a meal

中文每日一练

每日听汉语

Try it now！
Keywords to help you understand：
星座 [xīng zuò]  n. constellation
属相 [shǔ xiàng]  year of birth ; Chinese Zodiac
天秤座 [tiān chèng zuò]  n. libra
命运 [mìng yùn]  destiny ; fate 

他们在聊啥？What are they talking about？

星座和属相 Constellation and Chinese Zodiac

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https://www.italki.com/ja/teacher/9451959/japanese

★buy me a coffee 
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★Kindle Japanese books
https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-text&rh=p_27%3AAtsushi+_Japanese&s=relevancerank&text=Atsushi+_Japanese&ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1

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こんにちは！
Japanese daily life podcast のAtsushiです。
このPodcastは、日本語を勉強しているみなさんに向けたPodcastです。

今日もN4です！
〜しか、についてやります！

例文をつくりましょう！


・英語をずっと勉強しているのに、ほとんど話せません。聞き取りしかできません。

・昨日、3時間しか寝てません。

・今、100円しか持ってません。

・iPhoneのバッテリーが6%しかありません。

・体がしんどいので、食べやすいものしか食べたくない。

こんな感じです！
英語のonlyに近いですね。

これだけ、ということを強調したい時に使います。
ぼくもよく使います。

みなさんも一緒に声に出したり、例文作ってみたりしてくださいね！

ということで、今回も最後まで聞いていただき、ありがとうございます！ではまた！