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Hoy te enseño dos refranes populares en español que usamos para decir que debemos aceptar las cosas de buena gana, con buena actitud o tolerando los defectos.

Kaizen Spanish

A CABALLO REGALADO... ¿NO HAY PAN DURO?

Ride in a car         (HSK 1)
坐车
Zuò chē

一天，爸爸带儿子去玩。回来的路上，儿子对爸爸说：”爸爸，我累了，我们坐车吧。”

”那要看你表现。”爸爸说。

儿子说：”好的，如果我表现好，我们就坐公共汽车回去；如果我表现不好，我们就坐出租车回去。”

Yī tiān , bà ba dài  ér zi qù wán 。Huí lái de lù shang ，ér zi duì bà ba shuō ：”bà ba，wǒ  lèi le ，wǒ men zuò chē ba 。”

”nà yào kàn nǐ biǎo xiàn 。”bà ba shuō 。

ér zi shuō ：”Hǎo de ，rú guǒ wǒ biǎo xiàn hǎo ，wǒ men jiù zuò gōng gòng qì chē huí qù ；rú guǒ wǒ biǎo xiàn bù hǎo ，wǒ men jiù zuò chū zū chē huí qù 。”



Listening & Speaking (Mandarin)

Ride in a car 坐车 （HSK 1-2)

В този епизод ще разгледаме най-желаните професии, които младите хора в България избират за своето бъдещо развитие! А дали са същите и във вашата държава? :) 

Bulgarian Today

Кои са най-желаните професии в България?

¡Hola! Welcome to Spanish from Zero, a podcast for people who are just starting the amazing journey that is learning Español. Today we’re gonna practice talking about occupations. 

Here’s how it usually goes:
• ¿Qué haces? (What do you do?)
• Yo soy… (I am…)

Note that in Spanish we tend to NOT use articles (a, an) when describing someone’s job title:
Yo soy profesora. (Literally: I am teacher)


The other thing we have to keep in mind whenever we’re describing someone is their gender. These are the most common word endings when it comes to occupations:

• Gender neutral endings:
ISTA: el artista / la artista, etc.
NTE: el estudiante / la estudiante, etc.

• Feminine vs. Masculine endings:
O / A: el secretario / la secretaria, etc.
OR / ORA: el profesor / la profesora, etc.


Okay! Now that the explanation is out of the way, let’s practice a little bit. I’ll say a couple of sentences and you need to figure out if I could be describing a man, a woman, or either one:

Es arquitecta 🏗️
Es programador 💻
Es analista 📉
Es presidente 🏳️
Es veterinaria 🐾
Es electicista 🔌
Es asistente 📋
Es dentista 🦷
Es fotógrafo 📷
Es mecánico 🔧
Es doctora 🩺

How was it? Let me know if you have any questions, and subscribe to get the new episodes as soon as they come out. ¡Gracias por escuchar! :)

Spanish from zero

Listening practice for beginners • Talking about occupations

Here is a short, formal dialogue that takes place in a coffeeshop.

Romanian with Gia

Dialogue 1. The Chair (Scaunul)

いっかい　 the first floor
にかい　    the second floor
さんがい/さんかい　the third floor
よんかい/よんがい　the forth floor
ごかい　 the fifth floor
ろっかい　the sixth floor
ななかい　the seventh floor
はっかい　the eighth floor
きゅうかい　the nineth floor 
じゅっかい　the tenth floor
ちか いっかい　the first basement
ちか にかい    the second basement

ようへい先生　　N4,N5チャンネル

The each floor`s name

Staying healthy can be difficult — it might mean we don't always get to eat and drink the things we want.

Sometimes we have to sacrifice some sweet things because we know they're not such a good idea!

But how far would you go to make sure you have a healthy diet?

A new survey has found that almost a quarter of people in the UK don't enjoy their meals because they put health before taste.

That means they're choosing to eat meals they don't like just because they're healthy.

However, the survey, by a bread company called Warburtons, also found that 74% of people aged between 25 and 44 aren't quite sure how to eat a balanced diet.

So it's perhaps not a surprise that people are eating meals they don't enjoy!

It's true that foods full of sugar, salt and butter can taste good, but experts say that healthy meals can taste great too.

And we can still enjoy some tasty things as part of a healthy diet.

In fact, some experts say that we shouldn't think of foods as "good" or "bad" — we should be able to enjoy everything in moderation.

This is something that older adults are better at, according to the survey, which included 2,000 people in the UK.

Adults over the age of 65 were most likely to put their enjoyment first when making food. Younger people admitted to eating meals in front of others to look like they're healthy — even if they don't like the food.

English Conversation/Dialogue

Survey: Young Adults Sacrifice Taste for Health in Meals

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Escúchanos a Belem (de Chihuahua) y a mí (de Coahuila), hablar de comida, de salsita, de guisos, de burritos y algo más de acá de México.
