To improve listening skills, vocabulary and expression of a native speaker

Amrutham 

This episode will take you for a tour of Malta's best secret places to visit (if you ever visit). I include places in Malta and in Gozo! I hope you enjoy the listening and can't wait to know more about what YOUR country has to offer! 

Introducing my country: MALTA 🇲🇹   ... What about yours?!

Nice Places to Visit in Malta (...that not many tourists know about)

A : Bonjour, madame, je voudrais un beau morceau de cantal, s'il vous plaît.
B : Voilá, monsieur, et avec ceci ?
A : Mettez-moi aussi un petit pot de crème fraîche.
B : Voilà. Ce sera tout ?
A : Oui, merci.

Vocabulaire :
un fromager, une fromagère : queijeiro(a), cheesemaker
une fromagerie : queijaria, cheese monger
un fromage : queijo, cheese
un beau morceau = un morceau généreux
500 grammes de : 500 gramas de, 500 grams of
mettez-moi : coloque pra mim, give me
aussi : também, also
et avec ceci ? : mais alguma coisa?, anything else?
ce sera tout ? : só isso?, is that all?
une tranche de : fatia de, slice of

Professeur Maxime : dialogues

Chez le fromager

Rob: Hi Selma, how are you?

Selma: Oh hi Rob! I’m doing well, thanks. Just finished that essay that’s due in tomorrow. It was a tough topic!

Rob: Tell me about it. It took me ages. So, listen, I wanted to ask you about Netflix. You subscribe to it, don’t you?

Selma: I do, yes.

Rob: I’m thinking about signing up, but I wanted to get your view on it. Is it worth the money?

Selma: I really think it is, although I don’t know that everyone would agree with me. I’m a huge fan of crime series, so there’s nothing I love more than binge-watching a whole series in a day in my pijamas.

Rob: I keep reading about some really interesting films coming up on there – there was that Martin Scorsese film recently?

Selma: Oh yes, The Irishman. I haven’t seen it yet, but Jane loved it and said it was some of his best work. So, it’s on my list. But absolutely everything is covered. There’s Horror, Thrillers, Comedy, Cartoons, you name it. I’ve seen some really thought-provoking documentaries on there recently. There’s Saving Capitalism by Robert Reich which takes a really good look at the system we live in and its problems and then makes suggestions for how to fix it. I watched What The Health which looks at the links between the food industry and healthcare. I’ve had a lot of discussions with other students about that one.

Rob: Is there much music stuff on there?

Selma: Loads! Film from concerts, documentaries about Bowie, Oasis, Bob Dylan… you like Hip Hop, don’t you? There is a great series called Hip Hop Evolutionthat goes into how it all started. It’s fascinating. What I really like about Netflix though is because there’s such a huge audience, there’s a lot of representation of different groups in society. There are loads of foreign films, there’s LGBTQ themes, Black and Asian directors. Something for everyone. Did you hear about Squid Game?

Rob: Oh yeah, the Korean series?

Selma: Yes, it was brilliant and completely unlike anything you’d see over here. 

English Conversation/Dialogue

NETFLIX-ING

龙马精神[lóng mǎ jīng shén]：dragon/horse/ vigour; vitality; drive；
This idiom means vim and vigor, full of life, often used to describe people's fighting spirit and healthy state.
龙马lóng mǎ：The mythical beast with a dragon head and a horse body in ancient legends of Chinese.
饱满 bǎo mǎn：full; plump; well-stacked; flush; filled
充满 chōng mǎn：be filled with;be full of
追求 zhuī qiú：seek; aspire; pursue
梦想 mèng xiǎng：dreams

eg：龙年到了祝您龙马精神! lóngnián dàole zhù nín lóng mǎ jīng shén!
         他是用自己的龙马精神战胜了懒惰的性格。
         tā shì yòng zìjǐ de lóng mǎ jīng shén zhàn shèng le lǎnduò de xìnggé。
       我中午睡了一觉后觉得龙马精神，一下子干了很多的活儿。
        wǒ zhōngwǔ shuì le yī jiào hòu jiàode lóng mǎ jīng shén, yī xià zi gànle hěnduō de huór。


“龙”年中国话（“ lóng ” nián zhōng guó huà）

龙马精神[lóng mǎ jīng shén]

Ahora practicamos la pronunciación.

Escucha y repite las vocales.

Escucha y repite la combinación de vocales.

A1.1. Español básico para principantes. 

Clase 1. Pronunciación de vocales.

Chinese dates are written and read from the bigger unit to the smaller. 

A year is read digit by digit,followed by the character “年nián”. 

A month or date is read the whole number followed by “月yuè”and “日rì /号hào”respectively. 

A day of the week is expressed by the word “星期xīngqī”plus a specific number. 

For example,“August 8th of 2008, Friday” is read as “èr líng líng bā nián bā yuè bā hào, xīngqī wǔ”.

JOJO CHINESE

Expression of date

Today we're talking about the verb "illustrate" and the noun "illustration" and how we can use them at work. 

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How to use graphs and charts in presentations. 

在今天这集播客里，你学会到和狗有关的词汇和表达，例如狗的体型，特点，品种等等。赶快来听听吧！
