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Teacher Joseph's Podcast

Verb: To Skedaddle (with transcript)

En este nuevo episodio vamos a escuchar a Enrique, un minero del municipio de Muzo, Boyacá, quien nos cuenta sobre su vida y su trabajo con las piedras preciosas más deseadas en Colombia, las esmeraldas. 
Remember this episode is a dictation activity, listen to it as many times as you need and write what you understand; when finished check the document with the transcription, you will find it in the following link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F6-7SdhK0PzuD3gRG1XmhRf7FT3eeRXwgVI6SccX-xw/edit?usp=sharing

Real Spanish Podcast

Dictado: La vida de un minero

In this episode I am talking about  talking, talking to yourself, talking to Your Self and the importance of it along your journey. 
Enjoy the episode!

Like a Chameleon

Talking to Your Self

00:00〜 : ネイティブの速さ
00:43〜 : ゆっくり

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今日は家族とカンジャンケジャンを食べました。
カンジャンケジャンは韓国料理の一種で、生のカニを使った料理です。韓国料理は日本でとても人気ですが、この料理は日本では少し珍しい料理だと思います。
冷凍のカンジャンケジャンを買い、解凍して食べました。
私の祖母は「美味しい」と言ってたくさん食べていましたが、正直私はしょっぱ過ぎると思いました。私は薄味の料理が好きで、祖母は濃い味が好きです。母はなんでも好きです。
私たち家族はみんな韓国ドラマが好きなので、韓国ドラマに出ている色々な料理に挑戦してみたいです。
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🌟これは〜の一種（いっしゅ）だ = This is a kind of ~
🌟生（なま）の〜=raw~/uncooked~
🌟冷凍（れいとう）の=frozen~
🌟〜<食べ物>を解凍（かいとう）する=to thaw~
🌟薄味（うすあじ）の料理=light-flavored dish
🌟濃い味=strong taste/salty taste
🌟挑戦（ちょうせん）する=to challenge

日本語いずみの国

カンジャンケジャンを食べました。

春秋时代，齐国有个人叫毛空，他爱听那些没有根据的传说，然后再把自己听到的津津有味地讲给别人听。

有一次，毛空听到一只鸭和一块肉的事，他觉得非常稀奇，便告诉他的朋友艾子。他说:“有一个人，养了一只特别能生蛋的鸭，那鸭一天能生一百多个蛋。” 他见艾子笑了，又说:“那天，从天上掉下一块肉，那块肉长有三十丈, 宽有十丈。”

艾子笑着问道:“真的吗?有那样长的肉吗?” 毛空急忙说:“噢，那就是长二十丈。”艾子仍不相信。

他又改口:“一定是十丈长了。” 艾子说:“你说的那只鸭是谁家养的?你说的那块肉掉在了什么地方?” 毛空支支吾吾说不出来，只好说:“我是在路上听别人说的。”

后来人们就用“道听途说”这个成语指不可靠的，没有根据的传闻。

举例：

现在网络这么发达，在网上我们可以看到各种各样的信息，有些并非是真的。我们需要有自己的想法，而且要正确地判断那些信息的真实性，不要道听途说，否则就变成散播谣言啦。




In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man named Mao Kong in the state of Qi. He liked to listen to those baseless legends, and then told others what he heard with interest.
Once, when Mao Kong heard about a duck and a piece of meat, he felt very strange, so he told his friend Aizi. He said, "There was a man who raised a duck that can lay eggs. That duck can lay more than 100 eggs a day." Seeing AI Zi smiling, he said, "That day, a piece of meat fell from the sky. It was 300 feet long and 100 feet wide."
AI Zi smiled and asked, "Really? Is there REALLY such long meat?" Mao Kong hurriedly said, "Oh, that's twenty feet long, then." AI Zi still doesn't believe it.
He changed his words again: "It must be 200 feet long." AI Zi said, "Who raised the duck you said? Where did the meat you said fall?" Maokong hesitated and couldn't say it, so he had to say, "I listened to others on the road."
Later, people used the idiom "dào tīng tú shuō" to refer to unreliable and groundless rumors.

An example:
Now the Internet is so developed that we get all kinds of information online, some of which are not true. We need to have our own ideas and correctly judge the authenticity of those information. Don't listen to hearsay, otherwise it will become spreading rumors.

HSK6 Vocab Based - Short Story Podcast

02. 成语故事--道听途说 Idiom Story--dào tīng tú shuō

🌈 Paint Your Way to Fluency! 🌈
Did you know that colours can change how you learn a language? 🎨
In Episode 88 of 111 Tips for Learning a Language, we explore how:

✨ Dark colours sharpen your grammar focus
✨ Light colours make vocabulary shine
✨ Pastels calm you for speaking
✨ Warm hues energize your fluency
✨ Cool tones boost listening & memory

🎧 Listen now and discover how to colour-code your study routine for faster, deeper learning!

👉 Which colour helps you learn best—dark, light, pastel, warm, or cool?





💃🏻111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 88 - How 🔫🌈 🫧 🍾 🎊 Colors can help you learn a language

❥ In this podcast, Melo reads from The Aesop for Children found for free online at: https://www.read.gov/aesop/001.html
❥ Listen and learn the moral of each story.
❥ Practice listening and/or reading comprehension by answering the quiz questions.
❥ Today's fable is called “The Stag & His Reflection” and can be found here:
https://www.read.gov/aesop/017.html
❥The moral of today’s fable is: 
“We often make much of the ornamental and despise the useful.”

❥ 在这个播客中，梅洛朗读了《儿童伊索》，可在网上免费找到：https://www.read.gov/aesop/001.html
❥聆听并学习每个故事的寓意。
❥ 通过回答问答问题练习听力和/或阅读理解。
❥ 今天的寓言叫"雄鹿和他的倒影"，可以在这里找到：
https://www.read.gov/aesop/017.html
❥今天的寓言故事的寓意是： 
"我们常常夸大装饰性，而轻视实用性。"

Life Lessons from Aesop's Fables

Episode 16: The Stag & His Reflection

People in Switzerland eat more chocolate than anyone else in the world.

According to data from World Population Review, the average Swiss person eats nearly 9 kilograms of chocolate a year — almost twice as much as people in America.

So it might be no surprise that a Swiss university is doing research on chocolate — looking for ways to make it healthier and better for the planet!

Chocolate is made using cocoa beans, which grow in pods on the cacao tree. Each pod holds 20 to 60 seeds — or beans — that are covered in sweet white pulp.

Researchers from the university ETH Zurich have found a way to mix the pulp with part of the pod to make a sweet gel, which can be used instead of the powdered sugar that's usually added to cocoa beans when making chocolate.

Typical dark chocolate might be made of 30% to 40% powdered sugar. Testing different recipes, the researchers found they could make chocolate that was up to 20% gel and about as sweet as chocolate with 5% to 10% powdered sugar.

The new chocolate also had 20% more fiber and 30% less saturated fat than typical European dark chocolate — meaning it's healthier to eat.

Main study writer, Kim Mishra, told The Guardian that the new chocolate has a fruitier taste than typical dark chocolate — although it also tastes more acidic.

The researchers said using parts of the cocoa plant that are usually thrown away reduces waste, while using the new gel would let cocoa farmers get money not just from their beans, but by selling the pulp and pod parts needed for the gel as well.

It may be a while before we can try this chocolate for ourselves. However, ETH Zurich has already filed a patent for the recipe.

