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Konnichiwa! Welcome to Slow Japanese! What season is it now in your town? This time, we'll listen about the seasons in Hokkaido, north of Japan.

Usage of Slow Japanese:
STEP 1. Listen to the episode without seeing scripts.
STEP 2. Go to mochifika.com/podcast/ and check "Key vocabularies of this episode", listen again to the episode while seeing the list.
STEP 3. Check the whole script, it'll fill the gap in your understanding.

Scripts and key vocabularies of this episode are here:
https://mochifika.com/podcast-script/slow-japanese-episode-12-seasons/

Slow Japanese

Episode #12 - The seasons in Hokkaido

just a cute little story about cooking 

Новые слова 生词：

ингредиенты - ingredients, 配料；
миндаль - almond，扁桃仁；
сахарная пудра - icing sugar，糖粉；
столовая ложка - a table spoon, 勺子；
корица - cinnamon，桂皮；
ванильный сахар - vanilla sugar, 香草糖;

взбиваем миксером - to mix the ingredients, 混合配料;
добавляем 2 ложки - to add 2 table spoons, 添加2汤匙;
ставим в холодильник - to put into the fridge, 放入冰箱;
раскатываем тесто - to roll out the dough, 将面团擀开;
нагреваем духовку - to heat the oven, 加热烤箱;
выпекаем печенье - to bake the cookies, 烤饼干




Пряник

Новогоднее печенье

Pizza is one of the world's most popular fast foods. It's believed that over 5 billion pizzas are sold around the world every year. In the US alone, people buy about 3 billion pizzas each year, which is about 46 slices per person!

But it wasn't always as popular as it is today — in fact, it used to be looked down on, even by Italians!

The modern pizza we know today started in Naples, Italy, in the 18th century. Poor people in the city needed cheap food that was easy to eat as they looked for work. Street vendors sold them pizzas with simple toppings like garlic and tomatoes.

For a long time, pizza was looked down on as food for the poor, and visitors to Naples thought it was dirty and unappealing.

But this changed in 1889, when Queen Margherita of Italy tried pizza and loved it. The pizza with tomatoes, mozzarella and basil was named after her, and pizza started to become a national dish in Italy.

Pizza became a favorite in the US after Italian immigrants brought it with them. It became especially popular in cities like New York, and new styles like Chicago deep dish and Hawaiian were invented.

And it became even more popular with the invention of frozen pizza, which let people make their own pizzas at home.

Today, pizza is enjoyed around the world, with many different toppings and styles. But its basic form hasn't changed very much from all those years ago.

