Hinamatsuri is a holiday in Japan on which we celebrate the girls in our lives. We put out ornamental dolls, and eat tasty candy and chirashizushi.  Listen in to learn more about unique Japanese holidays

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[Hinamatsuri🎎🌸] Wishing Health and Happiness to All Girls in Japan

What does confronting death, freedom, and the meaning of life have to do with learning Spanish? 🧠💀

Everything.

Most language advice focuses on the how. But what about the why that lies beneath it all?

In Episode 104 of 111 Tips for Learning a Language, we dive deep into Existential Therapy to explore how facing life's biggest questions can unlock your most powerful learning potential. Discover how to:

• 🗽 Embrace the freedom and responsibility of being the author of your language journey
• 🌉 Use language to bridge our fundamental human isolation and achieve real connection
• 🎨 Create meaning out of arbitrary grammar and vocabulary, making your practice profoundly personal
• ⏳ Harness the awareness of your finite time to fuel a powerful, productive urgency

This isn't just about learning to speak. It's about learning to live more fully through your target language.

We explore how the principles of Existential Therapy can transform language learning from a mere academic task into a profound journey of personal growth. By confronting life's core "givens"—freedom, isolation, meaninglessness, and mortality—this episode reveals how you can harness existential anxiety to fuel your progress. Learn how to take radical responsibility for your learning, find deep connection through communication, create personal meaning, and leverage the urgency of your finite time to become a more authentic and courageous speaker.

💃🏻111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 104 - How🗽Existential Therapy📷 can help you learn a language

Olen kuullut monta kertaa ruotsin olevan suomea helpompaa, joten tässä jaksossa pohdin miksi opiskella ruotsia ja miten ruotsi eroaa suomesta. Suomi on kaksikielinen maa, joten kielitestin voi suorittaa joko suomenkielisenä tai ruotsinkielisenä. Onko suomea todella liian vaikea oppia?

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बच्चों इस कहानी से हमें ये सीख मिलती है कि किसी व्यक्ति के बाहरी रंग रूप से उसकी बुद्धिमत्ता का अंदाजा नहीं लगाया जा सकता इसलिए हमें सिर्फ इसलिए कि किसी ने खराब कपडे पहने हैं या वो देखने में अच्छा नहीं है; उसके बारे में गलत विचार नहीं बनाने चाहियें।

Stories from Panchatantra 

बाज की सीख 

In meiner ersten Podcastfolge stelle ich euch meine Heimatstadt vor: Leipzig. Ihr erhaltet einen Eindruck davon, was man in dieser Stadt alles sehen und erleben kann. Ich erzähle euch von meinen Lieblingsorten und was man über Leipzig wissen muss: interessante Sehenswürdigkeiten, historische Hintergründe und das kulturelle Angebot der Stadt! Viel Spaß beim Hören und Deutsch lernen!

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Leipzig - die lebendige Kulturstadt im Osten Deutschlands

If you’re learning English in order to better your job prospects, the chances are that at some point you’re going to need to understand and employ a more specialised vocabulary.

Working in a business environment will expose you to a raft of new words that don’t tend to be covered by standard English as a Foreign Language courses. In this episode, I will explain some of the words and phrases you can expect to hear in an office, including both official terms and the so-called “office jargon” that has crept into use in the 21st-century workplace.

Engine English

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Beginner Chinese Listening：你在学什么？What are you studying？

Beginner Chinese Listening

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

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