Brief "top of the hour" news headline regarding vaccination progress in Israel during 2020. 

News in Hebrew with David Joseph

Short News Blurb in Easier Hebrew

The difference between two prepositions: accross and through.

What's the difference?

Across or Through

В этом эпизоде я говорю о жизни номадов. 

Русский с Валентиной

Цифровые кочевники

🥺 Today I'm not feeling very well. 
➡️ listen to a short story
➡️ I explain useful expressions
➡️ listen again to the story

✅You'll find the whole transcription as well as translation into English and Russian in the special GoogleDoc I created for you https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ThVgMXZbBvtJDaN7_D-dpS1vJbIPEYSuWXSvqy7Ebbo/edit?usp=sharing 

👍If the podcast was useful and taught you something. 
🗨Contact me if you want to improve your speaking skills and practice your French.

En français avec Victoria

🇫🇷 1 minute in slow French. 2. Je ne suis pas trop en forme. 

Para que você tenha um excelente aprendizado com este episódio, recomendo que você o escute com a transcrição. Originalmente, em português, os nomes dos dias da semana tinham influência nos elementos astrológicos e dos deuses antigos; é possível relacionar os dias da semana com cada astro do Sistema Solar: Sol, Lua, Marte, Mercúrio, Júpiter, Vênus e Saturno. Com exceção do português, as outras línguas latinas, mantiveram essa prática. O deus romano da guerra Marte, continua representando a terça-feira nas outras línguas latinas com derivações, no Francês - Mardi, Italiano Martedì, Espanhol Martes e Romeno Marti. As línguas germânicas também não ficam para trás, a segunda-feira se refere a Lua no alemão, no inglês e no holandês, já os outros dias da semana , nas línguas germânicas, vem da mitologia nórdica. Mas, por que a língua portuguesa quis ser diferente? O que aconteceu? A movimentação dos astros não era algo relevante aos portugueses? Precisamente, no ano de 563, ocorreu um concílio católico na cidade portuguesa Braga e foi decidido que não era respeitoso para com o Deus católico usar os dias da semana na semana santa, pois na época, os dias representavam os deuses considerados pagãos pela igreja católica. Os bispos decidiram que , especificamente, na semana santa teria que mudar os dias da semana; provavelmente eles se inspiraram na língua hebraica da qual os dias da semana são representados por números. Então, Domingo, ficou sendo como o primeiro dia da semana, pois vem do latim dies Dominica, o dia do senhor. Sábado, deriva do hebreu Shabbat, dia do descanso dos Judeus. Entretanto, os portugueses, decidiram adotar essa versão especial da semana santa para o ano inteiro. Agora, o termo “feira” há duas possibilidades, a primeira, seria que essa palavra vem de feria , que significa descanso em latim… caso queria a descrição completa, me mande uma mensagem!

Brasileiríssimo

Origem dos dias da semana em Português

In this episode we will explore the Idiom:

•to Tighten your Belt

and look at how to convert Nouns and Adjectives into Verbs by adding +en

exciting stuff!


The Jerome Meadows Experience

Learn English with The Alphabet of Idioms: Tighten your belts!

In this episode we will talk about 【What sports do Chinese people like?】, you will learn how to say 【popularize,Badminton,Camping】 ect. 
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It is recommended that you study in the following ways:
Step 1: Gist listening. Listen to get the main idea. (more times if necessary)
Step 2: Check the script and learn new words. 
Step 3: Listen and imitate as much as you can then retell the story.
Step 4: Write down what you hear if you want to practise writing.
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大家好，我是Yuli。欢迎收听我的播客。
今天想和大家聊一聊【运动】的话题。
在中国，最受欢迎的运动项目包括篮球、乒乓球、羽毛球、足球和跑步等。篮球在中国尤其是年轻人中非常流行，姚明的影响力使得这项运动在中国得到了极大的推广。乒乓球是中国非常突出的运动项目，早在20世纪50年代初，中国领导人毛主席就宣布乒乓球为一项全民运动。这项运动在中国的普及程度非常高，到处可以看到乒乓球桌。羽毛球是中国的另一项全民运动，与乒乓球类似，羽毛球可以随时随地进行，只需要一副球拍。足球在中国也有很大的影响力，但是因为踢足球需要更大的场地，不是每个学校都有足球场。跑步在中国变得越来越流行，越来越多的人选择在城市的街道和乡村小路上跑步。
这几年，户外运动也流行了起来。例如徒步、登山、露营、滑雪、漂流和骑行等，受到了越来越多的人喜爱。这些活动不仅能让人们亲近大自然，还能提供一种健康的生活方式。周末参加一个一天的徒步团，在山里面徒步，呼吸新鲜空气，然后在村里面吃一顿地道的农家菜，对住在城市里的年轻人来说是很新鲜的体验。在徒步的过程中也可以跟其他人聊聊天，认识新朋友，有的年轻人甚至在徒步中遇到自己的另一半。
除此之外，去健身房锻炼身体，去瑜伽馆做瑜伽也是很多年轻人的选择。你可以选择月卡、半年卡和年卡，一般年卡是最划算的。不过经常有年轻人买了年卡以后很少去，坚持运动也是一件不容易的事啊。
没有时间去健身房或者不喜欢社交的人，也可以选择在家里做运动。一边看视频，一边跟着做动作。因此很多运动博主也收获了不少粉丝，一个视频甚至有几千万的播放量。还有一些博主直播带着大家一起运动，运动变成一种新时尚。
你最喜欢什么运动？留言告诉我吧。我们下期见。
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项目/xiàng mù/Programs
乒乓球/pīng pāng qiú/Table Tennis
羽毛球/yǔ máo qiú/Badminton
尤其/yóu qí/Especially
推广/tuī guǎng/Promotion,spread
突出/tū chū/Outstanding
领导人/lǐng dǎo rén/Leaders
毛主席/máo zhǔ xí/Chairman Mao
宣布/xuān bù/Announce
普及/pǔ jí/popularize
与···类似/yǔ ··· lèi sì/Similar to 
徒步/tú bù/Hiking
露营/lù yíng/Camping
漂流/piāo liú/Rafting
农家菜/nóng jiā cài/Farm dishes
瑜伽/yú jiā/Yoga
划算/huá suàn/a good bargin
社交/shè jiāo/Socializing
博主/bó zhǔ/Blogger/youtuber
播放量/bō fàng liàng/amount of play
时尚/shí shàng/Fashion

Yuli's Chinese Channel

中国人喜欢什么运动？（Intermediate level）

arrator: Elvis Presley was born to a very poor family in Mississippi in the south of the United States in 1935. His twin brother died at birth, and he was an only child. The family moved to Memphis, Tennessee thirteen years later. As a teenager, Elvis was interested in all kinds of music and wore colorful clothes with a distinctive hairstyle that he kept for much of his life.
Narrator: In 1954, Sam Phillips, a music producer at Sun Records in Memphis, asked Elvis to come in for an audition. When he played a song that he had composed himself, Phillips recognized the young man’s talent. He offered Elvis a contract and put together a three-piece band for him. They played blues and country music that they knew from the radio, night clubs and churches with both black and white members. The band had a big hit later that year with a cover of a song by Arthur Crudup called, “That’s All Right,” using a style called rockabilly. Their popularity took off in the southern states as people saw them perform in local venues and even heard them on national radio programs.
Narrator: In 1956, Elvis met Colonel Tom Parker, who became his manager and organized a contract with RCA Records in New York. As the hits kept on coming, he changed over to a more rock and roll sound and performed in numerous TV shows and in films.
Narrator: However, in 1958, Elvis was drafted into the army and gave up performing for a couple of years. When he finished his military service, he returned to his music career and during the 1960s he made more than thirty movies and recorded lots of songs. He also married and had a daughter.
Narrator: In 1968, Elvis performed in a Christmas TV special, which boosted his popularity for a while. Between 1969 and 1976, he also put on hundreds of shows in Las Vegas, with tickets regularly selling out. However, in the 1970s, his career started to go downhill, partly because of his lifestyle. He was living in Graceland, a mansion in Memphis that he had bought in 1957.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Elvis Presley

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UwvoKfE76UbOKzwsA8ublVY46ixxQQ1D/view?usp=drivesdk