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「無印良品」で買った便利な旅行グッズを紹介します。
みなさんは旅行の時、どんなものを持っていきますか。

「むじるしりょうひん」でかったべんりなりょこうぐっずをしょうかいします。
みなさんはりょこうのとき、どんなものをもっていきますか。

Sayuriのポッドキャスト🇯🇵

旅行グッズ（りょこうぐっず）

¡Bienvenidos a Maria & Pablo Spanish!  

En esta serie de episodios especiales estuvimos compartiendo con ustedes el uso de diferentes verbos en español. Ahora en este último episodio de la serie de “Verbos en contexto”, vamos a darles algunas oraciones con el verbo ‘to fail’, que se puede traducir en español como: perder, no pasar, desaprobar, rajarse, tirarse y jalar.  ¡Empecemos! 

Les invitamos a conocernos en: 
📍 María: https://linktr.ee/spanishwithmariap  
📍 Pablo: https://linktr.ee/pabloalejos 


Maria & Pablo Spanish

21. Verbos en contexto. How to say ‘to fail’ in Spanish (Part 7)

Сегодня мы читаем статью про стереотипы.
Гендерные, этнические, религиозные — это только часть стереотипов, которым подвержены люди. Разбираемся, в чём польза и опасность стереотипов и как не стать их жертвой.

 Слушайте и читайте текст одновременно: https://trends.rbc.ru/trends/social/6308b2e59a7947f90dc1bcf8?from=mainpage

Если вы хотите обсудить услышанное и подискутировать на эту тему - приходите на урок.

Listen and read

Стереотипы - они нам помогают или вредят? A2-B2

Today's episode is the audio to the Guide to the TOEFL - Speaking presentation. In it, you'll learn what the speaking section of the Test of English as a Foreign Language requires, as well as hear some sample questions and answers and get advice on whether using templates to form your answers is a good idea. Some of the questions depend on written text, so be sure to go to the website to download the transcript so you can read them: https://lovelangwri.com/2022/05/10/guide-to-the-toefl-speaking/

For the Love of Language and Writing

Guide to the TOEFL - Speaking

Jag har röstat i valet 2022 på konsulatet i Cairns. Det ska bli intressant av följa valet 2022. Är numera socialdemokrat på grund av Magdalena-effekten. I detta avsnitt kan du höra hur en svensk talar vardagligt om politik B2+ nivå, eftersom jag pratar snabbt tempo och hyfsat svåra ordval.

Boka gärna en lektion om du vill ta del av materialet jag har kring politik och valet 2022. Jag har skapat en del övningar och quiz om svensk politik. 

Tack för du lyssnat och hoppas det hjälpte dig att lära dig lite mer om hur det låter när en svensk talar om politik.

Matilda

Tankar på svenska

Tankar på svenska : Om politik och att jag röstat i valet 2022

I discuss some of my favorite idioms! 
Can't see the forest for the trees
better late than never 
fishing for compliments 
could care less 
go above and beyond (the call of duty) 
go the extra mile 
You give them an inch and they take a mile. 
on the fence/in two minds about
Take it easy

Nit-Picky English with Nika 

Interesting Idioms

In this episode we are going to learn 【Appearance】in Chinese. 
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As a beginner, there're some vocabularies that you didn't learn before, and native speaker's speed seems too fast to understand. But don't worry, let's do it step by step. 
1st time: listen and catch the words you know already, have a guess about the content.
2nd time: look at the text to check if you guessed it right. 
3rd time: listen one more time, repeat after it.
4th time: practice until you can speak as the normal speed without looking at the text. 
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她很漂亮，不高不矮。
tā hěn piào liàng ， bù gāo bù ǎi 。
She is beautiful, not too tall, not too short.
她很苗条，皮肤很白。
tā hěn miáo tiáo ， pí fū hěn bái 。
She is slim and has fair skin.
她有一头黑色的长发。
tā yǒu yì tóu hēi sè de cháng fà 。
She has black long hair.
她的脸很小，眼睛很大。
tā de liǎn hěn xiǎo ， yǎn jīng hěn dà 。
Her face is small and her eyes are big.
她的哥哥又高又帅。
tā de gē ge yòu gāo yòu shuài 。
Her brother is tall and handsome.
他喜欢运动，不胖不瘦。
tā xǐ huān yùn dòng ， bú pàng bú shòu 。
He likes sports and is not fat or thin.
他有一头棕色的卷发。
tā yǒu yì tóu zōng sè de juǎn fà 。
He has brown curly hair.
他的鼻子很高，嘴巴很大。
tā de bí zi hěn gāo ， zuǐ bā hěn dà 。
He has a high nose and a big mouth.
他们长得很像爸爸和妈妈。
tā men zhǎng de hěn xiàng bà ba hé mā ma 。
They look a lot like dad and mom.

Yuli's Chinese Channel

外貌 Appearance （Beginner）

Have you ever heard the phrase, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do"?

It means you should follow the customs of the place you're visiting or the people you're with. So in Japan, for example, you should take off your shoes before entering someone's home, because it's the custom.

However, people often shorten this phrase to just, "When in Rome."

Phrases like this, where part of the sentence is not spoken but the meaning is still clear, are called "anapodotons" ("an-uh-PAW-duh-tuns"). People don't say the second part of the phrase, but everyone knows what they mean.

But why do people leave phrases unfinished?

According to Instagram linguist Adam Aleksic, it's because we like to save time and effort when talking. By saying less, we can still share the full idea, as long as others know the rest of the phrase.

Anapodotons are very common in English. Let's look at some more now!

"Speak of the devil" is something people say when someone appears just as you were talking about them. The full phrase is, "Speak of the devil, and he shall appear." But it doesn't mean you think the person who appeared is a bad person!

"It takes a village" is another example. The full phrase, "It takes a village to raise a child," means raising children is easier with help from others. It can also be used to talk about teamwork or group tasks.

"If you can't stand the heat" comes from, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." This means if something is difficult or stressful, you should either deal with it or stop complaining and leave!

Anapodotons may be short, but they have a lot of meaning!