Reviewing Japanese Grammar via Genki1

🔶The first 5-min for "beginner learners"
🔶The next 15-min for "N4-level le"
🔶After 20-min for "intermediate learners"

Check the text & whiteboard here
🔗https://www.azumiism.com/category/podcast/

いっしょにNHK News Web Easyを読もう📢Reading News Articles

Let's practice pronunciation while reading easy sentences. Please check the following link.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNirmnzqjsohkCpUoJ0Y66ZBeenkpSeog

はつおんの練習🗣Pronunciation Practice!!

みじかい ものがたりを読もう📖 Read a short story

🎙My friend Aly is interested in learning the Kansai dialect. We will explore the depth of the regional Japanese dialect.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNirmnzqjsohokfe4CVIBjB7qzL8k9BXE

アリー関西弁を学ぶ【 🇺🇸🇯🇵】Bilingual ENG&JP Chit-Chat:Aly Learns Kansai Dialect

Jennifer goes on an investigation to find out the truth. Did Junior really steal his award-winning design or has Jennifer lost her mind?

This story uses words from '3000 most common words in English'. 


When Jennifer got home that day, she called her grandma. They caught up on the essentials: the move to the new city, the teachers at her school and if she liked her new bedroom. But then Jennifer got down to business.

She explained how this guy called Junior won a gardening award for most innovative design, being the youngest winner in the ceremony’s history. Jennifer’s grandma was supportive of this boy, the way grandparents are always supportive of any accomplishment, big or small. But Jennifer insisted that he was treated like an otherworldly superstar and that it didn’t seem right. 

Jennifer finally just said it. “I think Junior violated the competition rules by copying someone’s design, but I can’t prove it.”

“Oh, my dear, that’s cute, you’ve always loved coming up with adorable little theories. Do you 
remember your friend, Samantha? You two were always playing detectives. Sometimes I see her—”

“—Yes, grandma, but could you help? Take a photo of your neighbour’s garden, please. I think Junior copied her design.”

“Oh, sure thing, dear, I’ll take it after our call and send it straight away. So, tell me more about your new friends…”

Jennifer ended the call by ranting about the truth and how when people manipulate reality, they distort our ability to be authentic individuals. Her grandma kept repeating that’s sweet, dear.

Moments after the call ended, Jennifer received the photo. She compared it to Junior’s. They were identical.

Being a Cloud

Jennifer the Tomato

These Pronunciation episodes follow chronologically. They follow a reading on Engoo - with explanations along the way. Go to the website in order to follow along. : https://engoo.com/app/daily-news/article/study-says-reading-fiction-helps-us-understand-others/MsfhnFVrEe22EWf-hDINhQ 

English in 60 Seconds

Pronunciation 8

These two expressions might sound very similar, however they don´t have the same meaning. If you want to unlock the difference you just need to listening to this episode.

De todo un poco

Dar corte vs dar un corte

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Easy Turkish GREETINGS

It is a text about Alexander the Great — when he began his battles, how long they lasted, and which cities he founded.

Greek podcast

a text about the history and the campaigns of Alexander the Great.

Vidéo avec sous-titres: 
https://youtu.be/PJwR0n38lP8?si=4QwKJSAFHsru4CmU 


French Stories For All

Blabla Podcast de mon ami

What do you think is the most expensive place in the world to live? New York? London? Maybe Tokyo?

While Japan has long had a reputation as an expensive place to live, its cities have been getting cheaper in recent years — with some big changes coming just in the last 12 months.

American consulting company Mercer recently released its 2024 Cost of Living City Ranking, which compares the costs of over 200 items in 226 cities around the world. The results are based on a March 2024 survey, and include things like housing and transportation, as well as food, clothing and entertainment.

All five of the world's most expensive cities are unchanged from last year, with Hong Kong and Singapore again in first and second place. These two Asian cities are followed by three Swiss cities: Zurich, Geneva and Basel.

Bern, another Swiss city, has risen from seventh to sixth place, while New York City has fallen one place to seventh.

However, Tokyo has dropped 30 places to 49th — putting it right after San Juan in Puerto Rico. And Osaka has dropped 53 places to 146th — just ahead of Wuhan in China.

However, the biggest drop since last year was for Lagos in Nigeria, which fell 178 places to 225th. And the least expensive city is now Abuja, Nigeria's capital, at 226th.

Mercer wrote that many big drops were caused by changes in exchange rates. Japan's yen dropped to a 34-year low against the US dollar in March — and hit a 38-year low in early July.

The ranking was also affected by inflation — especially in housing prices — as well as increasing political uncertainty around the world.

Mercer says it's important for companies to look at its cost of living ranking when thinking about sending staff to live abroad.




Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Japan Tumbles on Expensive Cities Ranking

Hay muchas marcas españolas, algunas de ellas conocidas internacionalmente. En este episodio comento algunas marcas españolas que creo que puedes conocer, aunque igual no sabes que son de España. Son marcas bastante conocidas en diferentes sectores.
Después de escuchar el episodio dime si conocías estas marcas, y si sabías que eran españolas. Y por supuesto, si conoces alguna otra marca española, ¡dime!
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