Learn essential Korean place words used in everyday life.
From alleys to cafés, each episode introduces one place with simple explanations and practical sentences.

Korean Places in Real Life

한국어에는 소리와 분위기를 그림처럼 그려내는 아름다운 '감각의 단어(의성어/의태어)'"sensory words"가 있습니다.
10부작 시리즈에서는 한옥에 부는 바람, 조용한 서점의 연필 소리 등 서울의 공간을 채우는 따뜻한 단어들을 소개합니다. 
단 1분, 눈을 감고 제 목소리에 귀를 기울여 보세요. 지금 여러분의 방 안에는 어떤 감각이 스며들고 있나요? 

Korean Words of Senses

Learn natural Korean through real-life situations and emotions.
Each episode is short, simple, and focused on one useful word you can use right away.

Korean in Real Life Moments

Who says Chinese is hard？ 谁说中文很难

Chinese 6 vowels

【スクリプト】
こんにちは～！マルハバ！サウジの日本語の先生、佳子です＾＾
みなさんー！お元気ですかー？もう5月ですね！なんか3月4月が一瞬で過ぎ去った気がします。
今日は前回の続きで、「サウジの学校」についてもう少しお話しします！
まずは時間割から。学校によって多少異なるかもしれないですが、息子の学校についてお話ししますね。息子の学校はアラブ人が多く通う小さなインターナショナルスクールです。なので、どちらかというとサウジの一般的な学校に近いと思います。朝7:20に校庭で集会があり、7:30から9:15まで授業が3つ、そのあと40分の休憩、そのあと授業が6つあります。途中15分程度のお祈りの時間があります。小1のクラスはお祈りの時間、授業を続けたり、ちょっと休憩したりしています。基本的にサウジの学校には、授業と授業の間の短い休憩時間がありません。そして、朝9時ごろに30分程度の休憩時間がありますが、みんな朝食を食べます。日本では学校が8:20ごろにスタートするので、朝食は家で食べてきます。息子の学校は7:30-1:30の6時間なのでランチタイムはありません。7時間の学校はランチ休憩もあります。時期によって時間が変わることもありますが、12時頃、15分程度お祈りの時間があります。日本では12:30ごろに給食があり、そのあとみんなで掃除と昼休みがあります。サウジでは掃除は用務員さんがします。
私は日本の学校システムのほうが好きです。授業の間に休憩時間があることで、授業の途中に教室を出る人が減るし、頭の切り替えがスムーズにできると思います。休憩がない場合、次の授業の先生が来て、すぐ授業が始まるので、一息つく時間があまりありません。そして日本の給食は最高です。メイン、主食、副食、デザート、牛乳のセットで健康的だし、親は忙しい朝にお弁当の準備をする必要がありません。私は保育園から中学校まで給食がありましたが、ほんとうに給食が大好きで、女子では珍しいですが、いつもおかわりしていました！
サウジの学校では朝食を持っていかないといけないので、時々悩みます。というのも3-11月は暑いので、腐りやすいものは持っていけません。息子の場合、ほとんどピーナツバターサンドとりんごまたはピーナッツを持っていきました。3月からピーナツバターサンドに飽きてきて、残すようになり、4月からヘルシーなバナナブレッドに変えてみたりしましたが、今週からまたピーナツバターサンドに戻りました。毎日同じ朝食ではかわいそうな気がしますが、息子の好みと天候を考慮するとこれがベストです。
学校によってはパンなどの軽食を販売する売店があったり、食事を忘れた人のために教室などに売りに来る場合もあります。そういう学校では生徒がお金を持ってくるのが普通です。
息子の学校では通常スイーツやスナック菓子を持ってくるのは禁止ですが、時々イベントがあってアイスクリームなどを販売したり、無料で配ったりしています。サウジナショナルデーなどの大きなイベントが年に3回ほどあり、みんなでお菓子交換をしています。そんなときはもらったらみんな普通に食べています。ちょっと矛盾していますが、そのおかげで息子は時々学校生活を楽しんでいます。
いやー、サウジの学校は本当に日本の学校と360度違うので、おもしろいです。

それでは今日のフレーズです。今日のフレーズは「一息つく」です。「一息」とは何でしょうか？「一呼吸」のことです。つまり「一息つく」とは「少し休む」ということです。「一息入れる」という言い方もします。例えば「今日はお客さんが多くて、2時にやっと一息つけた。」

それではまた、マアッサラーマ！


Learn Japanese with Yoshiko

第45回：サウジの学校の休憩時間と食事~Break time and meal at schools in Saudi Arabia~

Let's learn some basic, daily words in Italian, specifically the movement verbs. You will hear a lot of examples of how to use them properly, as well.

Buon ascolto

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3 minutes Italian

I verbi di movimento - 3 minutes Italian

Olá, tudo bem? Seja muito bem-vindo a mais um episódio do podcast Aprenda português. 
Neste episódio vamos falar sobre outro temperamento, o sanguíneo. Será que este é o seu? Vamos descobrir!
Segue o link para acessar o texto com a transcrição do episódio:
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Venha aprender português comigo!
Até a próxima!


Aprenda português

Episódio 9 - O temperamento sanguíneo

先週の日曜日に久しぶりに浴衣を着ました。浴衣というのは夏に着る着物のことです。知っている方も多いと思いますが、浴衣や着物は着るのがとても難しいです。先週の日曜日は私の住んでいる町でコンサートがあり、日本人の方が来て、演奏するということだったので浴衣を着て出かけることにしました。コンサートは夜だったので、朝から何度もYouTubeを見ながら浴衣を着る練習をしました。浴衣は着物に比べて着るのが簡単ですが、きれいに着るのはとても難しいです。日本人でも着物や浴衣を自分で着られる人は少ないです。ちなみに私の母はもうすぐ70歳ですが自分で着ることはできません。

みなさんは着物を着てみたいですか？
着物を着てどこに行きたいですか？
よかったら私のレッスンに来て教えてください。

演奏する：えんそうする　play music
出かける：でかける　go out

Nihongo Short Story by Noriko

久しぶりに浴衣を着ました（I wore summer Kimono for the first time in years）

IELTS SPEAKING PART 1 - Topic - Food and cooking:

Q. What sorts of food do you like eating most? [Why?]
Q. Who normally does the cooking in your home?
Q. Do you watch cookery programmes on TV? [Why/Why not?]
Q. In general, do you prefer eating out or eating at home? [Why?]

Here are some ideas for you, let me know which one was of help?



IELTS-SPEAKING 8-9 BAND IS POSSIBLE. DAILY SPEAKING PRACTICE PART 1,2 & 3. Listen daily.

IELTS SPEAKING PART 1 - Topic - Food and cooking:

Give and receive advice as well as a gift & articles kein/keine VS ein/eine, nein VS nicht VS kein.

Paul is watching TV with his parents. They complain: Paul has no girlfriend, no good job and no money. He should get his act together. They give him a valuable book as a present in order to make his apartment more stylish. That confuses him: Why is the book valuable? And how valuable?

Boost your German online!
At German Stories, we have speaking, reading, listening, and writing exercises. And there is a lesson plan with progress tracker. It's all right here at german-stories.com

German Stories starts from zero, and leads you to your goal in small steps
It's not difficult to create a learning story and jump to complicated grammatical structures early on, just so the author doesn't have a hard time writing. But it's very difficult to fit your writing into a well structured teaching plan, so that the student doesn't have too much trouble learning German.

We did it the hard way. Hard for us, easy for you: Luckily there's only a little bit of grammar per episode for you to learn. If you're curious about our motivations behind putting in so much effort, go to german-stories.com/the-best-way-to-learn-german

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11: Das Buch | The book

For the past few years, companies around the world have been testing out a four-day work week. In many cases, this means allowing employees to spread their work hours over four days instead of five.

Many of these tests have been successful, and people in the UK may soon get more rights to ask for a four-day work week.

Since April, employees in the UK have had the right to ask for more flexible working conditions, but companies do not have to agree to it.

But under the government's plans to increase flexibility for workers, companies may have to offer flexible working hours from the day the employee starts working — although it's not yet clear what this means.

"One possibility is for the government to make it more difficult for employers to refuse such requests, because at present it is quite easy for them to do so," Charlie Thompson, an employment lawyer who works for law company Stewarts, told Sky News.

Education Minister Jacqui Smith said more flexibility could be better for productivity.

"You're still doing the same amount of work, but perhaps you're doing it in a way that enables you, for example, to need less child care, to spend more time with your family, to do other things, that encourages more people into the workplace," she told LBC Radio.

But not everyone is happy with the idea of a four-day work week, and some tests weren't as successful as others.

UK supermarket Asda tested a four-day week, but changed back to the five-day week after staff said the longer work days were too demanding.

Another supermarket, Morrisons, also tried a four-day work week at its head office, but to make it work, staff sometimes had to work on Saturdays, which they weren't happy about.