Hi, Guys. Thank you all for taking mins to listen to this podcast/ 
Today we talk about how to use active/passive voice in Chinese.
For example, My girlfriend dumped me/我的女朋友甩了我 （Subject+Verb+Object)
                         I was dumped by my girlfriend/我被女朋友甩了（Object+被bei+Subject+Verb)

See, it is very easy, 你学会了吗？ 

NinjaPanda

Learn passive voice with "被“ in Chinese in one minute, Let's check it out. 

Part 1 of 5. 

Inside a dusty workroom, an old craftsman held up a chess piece to the window. He rotated it in the sunlight and inspected its every detail. 

“Perfection,” said the craftsman. 

He added it to the set he had been building. Sixteen grey pieces sat on his worktable, all handmade and almost ready for sale. 

The craftsman felt very satisfied with his designs. He was ready for the final stage of the process. He picked up one of the pawn pieces and said, “What about you, my little friend? What colour would you like to be?” 

He reached for his paint brush, dunked it into glass of water and then into a container of paint. The grey pawn received a heavy coating of shiny white paint.

Fast-forward several years into the future. After repeated use and abuse, that little pawn’s proud white colour had faded. Areas of his original grey were visible. Because of this, whenever players assembled their chess set, they left this little grey-white pawn to the side. 

“Uhm, is that yours or mine?” said the white player. 

“It doesn’t matter. Put it back in the box and choose from the others,” said the black player. 

This little plastic pawn’s name was Gary. 


Being a Cloud

Gary the Chess Piece

“I’d really like to participate in a drawing contest, which is organised by my university every year, and the first three prize winners actually go forward to a national drawing contest. I wasn’t so into drawing over the years, but I found that during all the covid lockdowns that it was a great way to pass the time, and really helped me from going stir crazy stuck at home every day during the numerous lockdowns we had.

 

I recently showed some of my friends a few of my sketches, which are mostly landscapes, and they were very complimentary, and suggested that I enter a competition, which gave me a boost of confidence. 

I imagine that the  competition would be pretty stiff for this contest, but i feel confident that i’ve really developed my skills enough over the past year or so, and with my friends and families encouragement have been able to get the nerve up to show off my drawing skills in public.

 

I guess the main reason i’d like to take part in this contest is that i’ve really grown to love drawing, and feel it would actually be a lot of fun to enter, as well as giving me a new challenge which i think i’m now ready for. Another reason is of course the chance of winning a nice prize, and maybe even having my drawing going forward to the national contest, which would really be amazing.

 

Thank you…. “

IELTS 85 Speaking

Describe a competition/contest you would like to take part in - IELTS speaking part 2

La tête : cabeça, head
Le bras : braço, arm
La main : mão, hand
Le doigt : dedo, finger
Un oeil : olho, eye
Des yeux : olhos, eyes
Le ventre : barriga, belly
La jambe : perna, leg
Le genou : joelho, knee
Le pied : pé, foot
La cuisse : coxa, thigh
L’orteil : o dedo do pé, toe
Le coude : cotovelo, elbow
La cheville : tornozelo, ankle
L’épaule : ombro, shoulder
Le dos : costas, back
La hanche : quadril, hip
Le nombril : umbigo, navel
La poitrine : peito, chest
Le mollet : panturrilha, calf
Le talon : calcanhar, heel
Le poignet : pulso, wrist
Le cou : pescoço, neck
Les seins : peitos, breast
Le pénis : pênis, penis
Le vagin : vagina, vagina
La fesse : nádega, buttock
La nuque : nuca, back of the neck


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Where have you heard or seen this verb before? 

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En el episodio de hoy tenemos un poquito de humor. En él comento algunas quejas absurdas que algunos turistas han tenido después de sus vacaciones. Muchas de estas quejas están relacionadas con sus vacaciones a España, pero también menciono alguna sobre otros lugares que mereceían la pena ser comentadas. Espero que a pesar de lo ridículas que son estas quejas te provoquen una sonrisa.
Si disfrutas el episodio, no te olvides de dejarle una valoración .
Y, después de escucharlo, cuéntame, ¿habías escuchado estas quejas antes? ¿Te parecen razonables? ¿Has escuchado alguna otra que necesitamos escuchar?


Blanca to go 

159 – Quejas ridículas de turistas que te haran reír

🙇I apologize! I didn't upload a new episode last Friday because I wasn't feeling well. Forgive me, please. Today's program content is extremely rich. There are students’ sharing as well as the most recent news from China. So don't miss out, then.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSwxHZnzOCU

News with zhe

#37 2022/11/28新闻

Today I talk about boats of our Royal Family.

I am currently  looking at how to provide a transcript with these podcasts.  The transcript for this ond is here : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1maAKxlbvGIEHvnpp63ZBTf3GJMuzdVbA/view?usp=drivesdk

