In this episode of Streetwise English Podcast, I talk about the Chinese Zodiac and new Year of the Rabbit. My teacher profile: https://italki.com/teacher/1947582 Thanks for listening! Vocab words 
What's your sign? 你属什么？
Horoscope  星座
Chinese Zodiac 十二生肖
Red Underwear 红色内裤

Streetwise English

SWE 114  Red Underwear - Happy Chinese New Year of the Rabbit!

“—下” is used after a verb to indicate a short action, similar to the reduplicative form of a verb.
The object of the verb can be omitted. 
For example:
wǒ kàn yí xià shū 。 
我看一下书。Let me read the book.

nǐ xiū xi yí xià bɑ 。 
你休息一下吧。You can take a break.

nǐ wèn yí xià lǎo shī 。 
你问一下老师。You ask the teacher.

wǒ tīnɡ yí xià zhè shǒu ɡē 。 
我听一下这首歌。Let me listen to this song.


JOJO CHINESE

Verb+一下

《匆匆》是现代散文家朱自清于1922年3月28日创作的散文，细腻地刻画了时间的流逝，表达了作者对时光流逝的无奈和惋惜。燕子、杨柳、桃花、太阳都那么美好，而我们的日子呢？为什么一去不复返呢？

Enjoy Chinese

匆匆 （节选）

Today were talking about the ideas of quitting a job or being fired from a job. We're in particular looking at nicer and better ways to talk about this topic that don't feel so negative! I hope you find them useful.

DAILY Business English VOCABULARY builder

Did you quit or were you fired?

This episode is for advanced learners!
Hi everyone! When you learn a language, it's really important to know what kind of idioms natives use! So, in this episode, I introduce 3 interesting ones you can use in daily conversations! Have fun :)

Some words you may want to check beforehand
・干支（えと）  Chinese Zodiac
・慣用句（かんようく）  idiom 

たつきのにほんご

Interesting Expressions with Animal Names

Listen to this funny conversation between a mother and their children. Pay attention to the vocabulary of the family and the relationship between each member of the family. 

Aprende árabe con Radia 

The family 

Bienvenidos una vez más a este podcast donde poco a poco conoceremos Yucatán, la tierra donde nací y crecí, esto mientras practicamos español.
Hoy les voy a platicar de la Catedral de Mérida.
La Catedral de Mérida o Catedral de San Ildefonso fue construida en 1562 sobre las ruinas mayas de T’ho en el centro de la ciudad de Mérida, la construyeron los mayas bajo las órdenes de los españoles.
Para construirla, ellos utilizaron piedras de un templo maya.
En el frente diseñaron un escudo de armas que contuvo símbolos españoles, lamentablemente, durante la guerra de independencia, los revolucionarios destruyeron parcialmente este escudo como reflejo de un sentido antiespañol.
En la entrada, pusieron las estatuas de San Pedro y San Pablo, esta catedral es considerada la más antigua de México.
Por dentro es majestuosa, con una gran cúpula. En 1967, el pintor y escultor español Ramón Lapeyese del Río construyó un cristo de madera que mide 7.5 metros y descansa sobre una cruz de 12 metros de alto, obra que llamaron el “Cristo de la Unidad”  
Por las noches es iluminada resaltando su belleza arquitectónica e histórica.
Cuando visites Mérida, te recomiendo que visites esta obra tan hermosa ubicada en el centro histórico de la Ciudad.

Coméntame cuantos verbos en pretérito indefinido pudiste encontrar.
Fotografía de www.meridadeyucatan.com

Yuca-talk

Catedral de Mérida/pretérito indefinido

In this episode we are going to learn 【How to invite people】in Chinese. 
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As a beginner, there're some vocabularies that you didn't learn before, and native speaker's speed seems too fast to understand. But don't worry, let's do it step by step. 
1st time: listen and catch the words you know already, have a guess about the content.
2nd time: look at the text to check if you guessed it right. 
3rd time: listen one more time, repeat after it.
4th time: practice until you can speak as the normal speed without looking at the text. 
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明天星期六，我们一起玩吧。
míng tiān xīng qī liù ， wǒ men yì qǐ wán ba 。
Tomorrow is Saturday. Let's have fun together.
超市旁边开了一家新的火锅店。
chāo shì páng biān kāi le yì jiā xīn de huǒ guō diàn 。
Next to the supermarket, a new hot pot restaurant just opened.
那家店每天都有很多人。
nà jiā diàn měi tiān dōu yǒu hěn duō rén 。
There are many people in that restaurant every day.
我们也去试一试吧。
wǒ men yě qù shì yí shì ba 。
Let's go and try it too.
中午人太多了，我们早一点儿去吧。
zhōng wǔ rén tài duō le ， wǒ men zǎo yì diǎn ér qù ba 。
There are too many people at noon, let's go earlier.
10点半去，怎么样？
shí diǎn bàn qù ， zěn me yàng ？
How about going at 10:30?