This week Karen and Baiwei are chatting about their childhood! Are there any differences? And what about the childhood of kids nowadays?

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Chillchat (Learn Chinese and Chill)

Our Childhood!

zì yán zì yǔ

指自己对自己说话。

Chinese idioms (中国成语)

自言自语

Explanation of the idiom: “To pull someone’s leg”  

You can write down an example with this idiom to remember it better👇🏻🫶🏻


Yeva's Blog 

Explanation of the idiom: “To pull someone’s leg”  🫶🏻

Knowing Everything About Chinese Cultrue

20The custom of giving gifts in China

Today we're talking about 2 alternatives for the verb "investigate".
Today's vocabulary
investigate
look into
explore

DAILY Business English VOCABULARY builder

I really think you should look into this...

【北海道Hokkaido生活】
5月6日金曜日　天気/晴れ　気温/19℃ 

札幌市/さっぽろし
北海きたえーる/ほっかいきたえーる
・「北海きたえーる」は体育館
・5日「こどもの日」があった
・こどもたちにスポーツを楽しんでもらおうと無料開放
・プロの人たちも来て、一緒にスポーツをした


［単語］
体育館/たいいくかん（たいくかん）...スポーツをするための建物
無料/むりょう…お金を出さないで、使うことができる。
開放/かいほう…自由に出たり、入ったりできること。
プロ/ぷろ…あることを仕事にしてる人

レッスン待ってます♪

北海道Hokkaido生活 for Japanese learners

〈#54〉5月6日金曜日　「こどもの日」に体育館を無料開放

On the Italian island of Budelli, visitors like to look at a place called Spiaggia Rosa, a beautiful beach where the sand is pink.

But those visitors can only look — they can't touch the sand.

That's because the authorities want to preserve the beach. In the past, people have been seen taking the sand home with them.

Anyone who breaks the rules will be punished, as a Brazilian influencer has found out.

The travel influencer, who has more than 35,000 Instagram followers, took videos of herself walking on the beach and posted them online.

Italian websites said the woman had taken a boat to the beach so she could walk on the sand.

Tourists can visit the island and walk on a path behind the beach, but no one has been allowed on the sand or in the water around it since the 1990s.

Italians weren't happy when the influencer's videos were seen online.

While she had already left the island, the authorities were able to find her in Dubai, where she lives, and they fined her almost $2,000.

About $300 of the fine was for walking on the beach, and the rest was for using a boat that wasn't allowed to travel to the island.

Authorities say there are signs telling people they cannot enter the area.

No one lives on the island, which is just north of the large island of Sardinia.

However, a man whose boat broke down nearby lived on the island for more than 30 years until he was told to leave in 2021.