Listen to Chinese ancient stories,  learn Chinese and Chinese history.

你想吃包子还是饺子？

📺 Watch with subtitles on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OZX7SoyGaFE

🎧 What’s Going On at Starbucks Korea?
What happens when your name is the same as a presidential candidate’s?
In Korea, it might get banned—at least at Starbucks.
This episode looks at why the company blocked certain names during election season,
how Korean society navigates political neutrality,
and what it means when people start choosing clothes and hand gestures more carefully—just to avoid misunderstanding.

🎙️ About ZamZamPod
ZamZamPod is a Korean-language podcast for intermediate and advanced learners.
We explore real Korean issues with natural speech, cultural insights, and clear narration.


📝 한국 스벅에 무슨 일이?
대통령 후보 이름을 컵에 적을 수 없게 된 스타벅스.
이 조치는 단순한 이벤트가 아니라,
선거철 한국 사회의 조심스러운 표현 문화를 보여주는 사례입니다.
이름, 옷 색깔, 손가락 모양까지도 오해를 피하기 위해 신경 써야 하는 현실.
표현은 자유롭지만, 때로는 침묵이 선택이 되는 한국식 중립.
잼잼팟에서 풀어드립니다.

#ZamZamPod #LearnKorean #KoreanPodcast #StarbucksKorea #ElectionSeason #KoreanCulture #잼잼팟 #한국스벅 #콜마이네임 #표현의자유 #한국사회 #한국어팟캐스트



ZamZamPod

[ZamZamPod] EP.8 What’s Going On at Starbucks Korea? | 한국 스벅에 무슨 일이?

Coup de théâtre!
En quelques jours, Zorba découvre et capture le voleur masqué, un raton particulièrement dangereux.
Le chef de la police félicite Zorba et une fête est organisée en son honneur. C’est là que notre chat s’est trahi. Au moment où la reine des écureuils a épinglé la médaille du mérite sur le revers de sa veste, il a miaulé de joie... Mais, rassure-toi, il est resté dans la police et a même été nommé commissaire en chef quelques années plus tard.

Des Milliers D'histoires

Histoire 10 - Coup de théâtre!

How do you usually help your friends with their problems?

Listen to how I answer this particular question, and get some short English explanations about some vocabulary and expressions I use in my answer.  Try to answer the questions in the vocabulary examples using the new vocabulary and expressions.

Speak English With Muki

Episode 10: Supporting Friends

Welcome back to the second season of English In A Teacup!

Today we will be learning about the five senses as well as idiomatic expressions that use them. To help us with the topic, Miss Finesstocrat will be telling us of her first day at her new job working as a tea quality control inspector. How did she get on? Let's put the kettle on and find out!

ENGLISH IN A TEACUP

ENGLISH IN A TEACUP EP11: THE FIVE SENSES

Konnichiwa! Welcome to Slow Japanese! In this episode, program host Akari will talk about her favorite food.
How about you? What is your favorite food?

Usage of Slow Japanese:
STEP 1. Listen to the episode without seeing scripts.
STEP 2. Go to mochifika.com and check "Key vocabularies of this episode", listen again to the episode while seeing the list.
STEP 3. Check the whole script, it'll fill the gap in your understanding.

Scripts and key vocabularies of this episode are here:
https://mochifika.com/podcast-script/slow-japanese-episode-3-favorite-food/

Slow Japanese

Episode #3 - Favorite food

Sit Less, Move More, Live Longer, Says Study
As a new year begins, many of us have been making plans for the months ahead — things we want to do, places we want to go, and parts of our lives we want to change.

And one study from 2022 has some simple advice to share that we might be able to use in 2023: sit less, move more.

Okay, so it's not a new message, but the researchers found that the results of their large study provide more evidence that long periods of sitting are bad for our health.

This is true across the world, but especially in lower-income countries, they said.

The researchers followed more than 105,000 adults — aged between 35 and 70 — for an average of around 11 years.

They looked at how much time the participants — who were from 21 different countries — spent sitting down each day.

And they also wanted to know about their health as the years passed. In total, there were more than 6,200 deaths and almost 5,700 cases of serious heart problems during the study.

Using this information, the researchers found that people who said they sat for eight or more hours per day were at a much higher risk of early death or serious heart disease.

These people were increasing their risk by as much as 20%, according to the researchers, but they added that doing exercise could help reduce these risks.

Scott Lear, who was one of the study's authors, said: "It's a global problem that has a remarkably simple fix. Scheduling time to get out of that chair is a great start."

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

 Sit less, Move More

Comerse unos taquitos en la banqueta es la primera fila de un espectáculo de suadero que se susurra lentamente al hervor del aceite en comales hondos, del oloroso vapor de los tacos sudados y del pastor que se dora y rebana con habilidad, vuela la piña, cebolla, cilantro, salsas, unos pedazos de limón y ¡salen cinco!

Es un ritual nocturno, a veces también mañanero, durante décadas varias taquerías se han ganado la fidelidad de los glotones, porque los chilangos podrán no tener contador, pero sí un taquero de confianza.

La Ciudad de México es el estado con más taquerías en el país, según el mapa llamado “Universo del Taco”, creado en 2019 por el el geógrafo Baruch Sanginés, quien mapeó 1.6 millones de lugares basado en datos del Directorio Estadístico Nacional de Unidades Económicas del Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI).

“Aquí en Ciudad de México prácticamente te podría decir que 95 por ciento de la gente tiene un puesto de tacos a 400 metros de su casa, no importa dónde vivas, casi casi a 400 metros vas a tener un puesto a la mano. Eso habla de la popularidad del taco”.

los clásicos de suadero, longaniza, pastor, bistec o campechanos, pero si se piden “con cochi” se les echa encima un aderezo grasoso que surge de los restos de carne quemados en el comal.

Existen tacos monumentales, de tortilla grande, con copia, cebollitas y nopales para acompañar la carne: bistec, milanesa, longaniza, chuleta, enchilada, alambre campechanos o pechuga.

Por si fuera poco, puedes terminar de armar esa montaña de sabor con jícamas, pepinos, pico de gallo con chicharrón y salsa.

Hay de todo: suadero, tripa, longaniza, pastor, cabeza, bistec, chuleta, pechuga, lengua, sesos, arrachera, costilla, “machos”, en tortilla de maíz, de harina, tortas, “suaquesos”, “choquesos” y gringas.









Spanish México

LOS TACOS 1

Neil McTaggart makes his first journey into town after settling in Canada.
The air is clean, the world quieter than the mills of Kilbirnie he left behind. In a warm little café, he meets Mrs Brant, a woman with her hair pinned up and a strong puritan look that reminds him of his grandmother. Through her quiet kindness, Neil begins to sense what belonging might feel like in this new land.

This gentle, reflective story captures the rhythm of early immigrant life in rural Canada — the small kindnesses, the silence, and the slow building of community far from home.

🎧 Part of the “Neil McTaggart” storytelling series — following a young Scottish man’s journey of migration, memory, and identity in 1920s Canada.