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Ep 11

我可以加你的微信吗？
wǒ kě yǐ jiā nǐ de wēi xìn ma ？

日常中文（Daily Chinese）

Can I add you on WeChat?  我可以加你的微信吗？

A: Bonjour monsieur. Je voudrais envoyer ce paquet aux États-Unis, s'il vous plaît.
B : Oui, en tarif normal ou en prioritaire ?
A : En prioritaire, s'il vous plaît.
B : D'abord, vous devez remplir cette fiche de douane.
A : Ah oui, "contenu du paquet" : un livre de cuisine.
B : Merci. Voilà, mademoiselle. Ça fait 8,50 euros. Il vous faut autre chose ?
A : Oui, je voudrais aussi un carnet de timbres pour l'Europe, s'il vous plaît.
B : Voilà, dix timbres à 0,50 euros. Ce sera tout ?
A : Non. Est-ce que vous avez aussi des jolis timbres ?
B : Oui, bien sûr. Voilà, nous avons des timbres qui représentent les principaux monuments de France.
A : C'est parfait ! Alors, donnez-moi cinq kolis timbres, s'il vous plaît.
B : Voilà, Au total, cela fera 16 euros.

Vocabulaire :
la poste : correio, post office
envoyer : mandar, enviar, to send
un paquet : pacote, package
un tarif : preço, price
remplir : preencher, to fill in
la douane : alfândega, customs
ce sera tout ? : só isso?, is that all?
le contenu : conteúdo, content
un livre : livre, book
ça fait__ : são__, it’s__
il vous faut__ : você precisa_, you need__
aussi : também, also
un timbre : selo, stamp
joli(e) : lindo(a), beautiful
bien sûr : com certeza, of course
représenter : representar, to represent
un monument : monumento, monumento
parfait : perfeito, perfect
une lettre : carta, letter
alors: então, then
donnez-moi : dê-me, give me
au total : no total, in total
cela fera__ : são__, it will be__


Professeur Maxime : dialogues

à la poste

Learn new words for health and illness with this episode!

Bulgarian Today

Болна съм!

Here I am reading a poem a complication of Nazım Hikmet's and his wife's letters. Enjoy, hit me up for any question : )

Şiirler/Poems 

Ben Senden Önce Ölmek İsterim

İngilizçe - selamlar

Numarası - numbers

There are many types of dairy alternatives on the market today, often made from things like nuts and soybeans.

But have you heard they're now making butter from air?

A US startup called Savor is working on a range of dairy alternatives made using something that exists all around us: carbon.

Fats are made from chains of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Savor's process involves taking carbon — from, say, carbon dioxide — and adding heat and hydrogen to create chains that are combined with oxygen from air.

This results in fat molecules, like the ones found in dairy and other animal products.

Now, regular butter is about 80% fat — the rest is mostly water. So to make butter from its synthetic fat, Savor just adds water, as well as an emulsifier that keeps the liquids from separating, and rosemary oil for flavor and beta carotene for color.

What does it taste like?

"I couldn't believe I wasn't eating real butter," Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote in a blog post earlier this year. Gates is one of Savor's investors.

He wrote that "it tastes really good — like the real thing, because chemically it is."

Savor has already run informal taste tests with small groups of people, and is working to get regulatory approval for its product in the US.

But why butter?

A 2021 study estimated that food production makes up about 35% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions — and Savor estimates that about 7% of greenhouse gas emissions are just from producing fat.

But Savor's process, Gates wrote, doesn't release any greenhouse gases. He added that it uses no farmland and "less than a thousandth of the water that traditional agriculture does."

Savor is focusing on butter to start with partly because its high price point makes it easier to compete on cost. But the startup later hopes to develop other products like milk, ice cream, cheese — even meat.



