🎙️ English in a Minute is your quick and clever guide to mastering the quirks of the English language — one minute at a time! Perfect for intermediate - advanced learners, we dive into grammar & more

English in a Minute

Businessperson 1: Mmmm! That burger looks delicious! I might order some takeout too. I’m exhausted.
Businessperson 2: Yeah, it’s really tasty and massive. And the fries are THE best.
Businessperson 1: What are you watching there?
Businessperson 2: This amazing documentary on food waste. Have you seen it?
Businessperson 1: No, is it any good?
Businessperson 2: Scary! I’m blown away by the statistics. Did you know that, out of all the food that is produced to eat, the world throws away about one-third of it? Every single year.
Businessperson 1: Seriously?
Businessperson 2: Yeah! We could feed three billion people with that food. And it’s worth one trillion US dollars.
Businessperson 1: I can’t even wrap my head around how much food that is.
Businessperson 2: Maybe this will help. You’ve been to China, right?
Businessperson 1: Yes. I did that trip from Shanghai to Beijing with my friends. Amazing.
Businessperson 2: So imagine that all of China was just fields that grow crops.
Businessperson 1: That’s a lot of crops.
Businessperson 2: It is. It’s 2.5 billion acres. Now imagine we just throw away all the food that we make with them.
Businessperson 1: That’s crazy!
Businessperson 2: But it’s not just that. It’s the whole food process. The water that is used to grow the wasted food is the equivalent of 200 liters, per person, per day for 9 billion people.
Businessperson 1: 9 billion? But there are only about 7 billion people on the Earth now, aren’t there?
Businessperson 2: Exactly! There won’t be 9 billion people on the planet until the middle of this century, and by then, we will need to be producing 70% more food than we do now to feed everyone.
Businessperson 1: It doesn’t make sense at all. Especially when you consider all of the people who are hungry in the world. I read that about 700 million people don’t have enough food right now.
Businessperson 2: I know! A lot of it, would you believe, is apparently to do with how it looks. 

English Conversation/Dialogue

FOOD WASTE 

今天我给你带来一个包含有点搞笑的词：“piripi”的短语。我觉得这会对你有用。

西班牙语表达

"Estar piripi"

New words
1. 今天 jīn tiān n. today
2. 昨天 zuó tiān n. yesterday
3. 前天 qián tiān n. the day before yesterday
4. 学 xué v. to study, to learn
5. 汉语 Hàn yǔ p.n. Chinese (language)
6. 长城 Cháng chéng p.n. Great Wall
7. 东西 dōng xi n. thing, stuff
8. 游泳 yóu yǒng v. to swim
9. 踢 tī v. to kick, to play
10. 足球 zú qiú n. football, soccer

中文每日一练

每日听汉语

It’s decided: decisive people no more accurate than self-doubters。

Research finds only difference between so-called action-oriented and state-oriented people is confidence

By Nicola Davis

It’s a trait best seen in the eager pub quizzer – a tendency to leap to an answer without a shadow of a doubt.

Now researchers have suggested that while people who have little difficulty making decisions are more confident in their choices, they are no more accurate than those who feel more torn.

Writing in the journal Plos One, researchers revealed how they conducted experiments to explore potential differences between people who tend to be decisive, known as action-oriented people, and those who struggle to commit to a choice, known as state-oriented people.

“What we found is that confidence was the only thing that was different,” said Dr Wojciech Zajkowski, the first author of the research, who is now based at the Riken social decision science laboratory in Japan.


Le Franglish

It’s decided: decisive people no more accurate than self-doubters

≪young, oldを日本語で言うと？≫

10年前にかったペン→古いペン
20年前にかった車→古い車　

あなたは古いです。
あなたは古い人です。
古い考え：old-fashioned 

たいぎ語 （antonym)
✕わかい↔古い　
〇わかい↔としnoun 
私は年（とし） です。 I`m old.
私は年をとっています。I‘m old. 
（年を）とります→とっています


ようへい先生　N4～N3　レベルの生徒（せいと）へ　(^^♪

『わかい↔古い』はまちがい？

Turkish listening

after the age of thirty 

En el episodio de hoy te voy a mencionar y a explicar palabras que la mayoría de hispanohablantes probablemente no conocen. Te voy a hablar de palabras curiosas y que se usan para describir algo muy específico. De hecho, estas palabras hacen refrencia a cosas que son muy comunes a pesar de que muchas personas desconozcan su nombre.

Espero que, como siempre, disfrutes el episodio. Si lo haces, no te olvides de dejar una valoración en la plataforma desde la que estás escuchando.

Además, quiero que me cuentes, ¿conocías el nombre de estas cosas que te he explicado en español? ¿Y en tu idioma? Deja un comentario si la plataforma desde la que escuchas te da esa posibilidad o pásate por mi instagram y cuéntame.


Blanca to go 

161 – Palabras que muchos nativos no conocen

I talk about National Grammar Day and Banksey's real name.
 Transcripts will be back in the next podcast.