"POR and PARA prepositions", one of the most difficult topics in learning Spanish, will no longer be confusing after this podcast.
Enjoy this first round, and follow me for the second one on "PARA"!

Spanish Grammar

POR vs PARA

みなさん、こんにちは。
わたしは、ほぼ毎日息子と主人のお弁当を作っているんです。ときには、自分のものも。
お弁当の中身、気になりますか。何が入っているか。
わたしが作るお弁当ですから、日本の一般的な男子高校生がどんなお弁当を食べているかってことになるでしょうか。
SNSなんかでは、セレブなママさんたちが「今日の息子のお弁当、食べてくれるかな」ってアップしているんですが、私の作るお弁当ってそんな感じではないです。夕ご飯の残りとそこに少しおかずを足す感じです。
とは言っても、私も日本人なので、お弁当を詰めるときには、彩りを考えますし、旬の食材を意識するんです。
さらに、息子は高校生男子ですから、栄養価も考えます。母の愛情弁当ってことになると思うんですが。
彼のお弁当作り始めて、早5年以上です。息子は、小学5年生の途中までは中国のインターに通っていましたから、お昼ごはんはキャンティーンで食べていました。小学5年生と6年生は日本の小学校でしたから、給食でした。中学校と高校は給食がないので、お弁当を持って行くことになった。つまり、私がお弁当を作ることになったというわけです。
え、じゃあなんでご主人の分も作っているのって。
はい、主人は一人で昼食を取るときは、たいていコンビニのサンドイッチのようなんです。で、それはあまり健康によくないってことで、どうせ息子に用意するのだから、ついでに主人の分もということになったわけです。
今日は、何を入れたかな。
昨日の夜のハンバーグ、鶏むね肉のレモンソテー、キャベツのみそ炒め、湯がいたブロッコリー、ミニトマト、それからゆかりご飯です。ボリュームたっぷりですよね。キャベツをみそ炒めにしてしまったので、全体的に茶色くなってしまったので、ブロッコリーとミニトマトを入れました。
この母のこだわりを息子は何も感じずに食べるのかなって感じですが。
どうですか。私のお弁当。おいしそうですか。次回は写真も撮りたいと思います。



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お弁当作り

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Host: Welcome back to the podcast everyone. I’m joined today by Naseem, an IT consultant from 
Delhi and Deepa, an HR consultant from Bangore. Today we’ll be discussing the increase in the number of people moonlighting and what the future holds for companies and workers. So, Deepa, I’ll ask you first: What has created this problem?

Deepa: Well, as with many places around the world, during the pandemic, there was a big increase in the number of people working from home and also economic instability. So, at the same time, we had more people working without any supervision and people were more worried about being able to make a living. So, the increase in online moonlighting was a consequence of that situation really.

Naseem: That’s certainly what happened to me. At the time, you read about all of these companies that were *laying off * their staff and there wasn’t much you could do about it if it happened to you. So suddenly working for just one company seemed like a bad idea. I have a family to feed: three boys and a girl. I felt a lot of insecurity and was terrified of losing money, or maybe even worse, my house. So, I took two jobs.

Host: What effect did that have on you and your family?

Naseem: It gave us some comfort, financially, as I started making more money than I had before the pandemic. But I was also working very long hours each day. I saw the children every day of course, but I couldn’t spend any real time with them as I had to work from almost as soon as I got up, until late in the evening. My wife was working as well, so it was quite hard to manage everything. When the crisis was averted, we had gotten used to having the extra money, so although I cut back on my hours in both jobs, I still continued to work at both.

Host: Do you see anything wrong with doing what you are doing?

Naseem: Not at all. I’m a professional and I work hard at both jobs. My main job is in IT as you mentioned, but my second is in design. 




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Swift was 2024's most-streamed artist globally, ranking in more than 26.6 billion streams. She was followed by The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Drake and Billie Eilish.

Swift also earned the title of most-streamed album in 2024, with The Tortured Poets Department, while Sabrina Carpenter had the most-streamed song both in the US and globally this year, with her summer hit "Espresso." It was streamed more than 1.6 billion times.

For users who want to look back at their listening habits over the year, there were some new features to explore on Spotify Wrapped.

These include a new data story called "Your Music Evolution," which shows three distinct musical phases for each user, and a personalized playlist based on them.

People like to share their Spotify Wrapped data on social media, although this year some complained that the roundup was missing certain features they'd previously enjoyed.

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