Everyone has something to say about transport systems, and if this topic appears in your IELTS Speaking test, you’ll want to be ready with clear ideas, natural expressions, and impressive vocabulary. Listen closely, and don’t forget to take the quiz at the end—it will help you practise some of the idioms featured in today’s episode.

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EP 2: TRANSPORT SYSTEMS

Hi. In my first podcast, will look at the following expressions:

TOWERING
PATRONISE
DRINKING HOLE
INTIMATION 
PESKY MUTT
GAUCHE 
TO CLEAVE 

Enjoy!

English Gym for Word Nerds

EPISODE 1 

Today we're going to talk about renting an apartment, 租房, after this lesson, you'll be able to talk about some details of renting an apartment in Chinese.
New vocabulary:
租房子/公寓： rent an apartment
中介: agent
租金: rent
房东: landlord
看房: see the house
预算: budget
物业费: management fee
押金: deposit
精装修: fine decorated
两房一厅一卫: two bedrooms, one living room and one bathroom

chinesewithserana

租房（renting an apartment）

"
Denizde kayık. 
Sessizce sallanıyor. 
Güneş batarken.
"

[00:00] Welcome to another episode of Bitesize Turkish Haikus. Tek Isırımlık Türkçe Haikuların bir bölümüne daha hoş geldiniz.
[00:11] Today's poem is as follows:
"
Denizde kayık. 
Sessizce sallanıyor. 
Güneş batarken.
"
[00:23] I'll read it one more time.
"
Denizde kayık. 
Sessizce sallanıyor. 
Güneş batarken.
"
[00:33] And here's a rough translation.
"
A boat on the sea
Rocking quietly
As the sun sets
"
[00:44] And today's grammar is -de/-da, the locative suffix. It means 'at', 'in', or 'on'.
[00:55] Deniz, on its own, means 'the sea'.
[01:00] You might already have heard that.
[01:03] You might even have a friend named Deniz. It's also a given name. And it's even gender-neutral, but let's not digress, shall we?
[01:15] You add the locative suffix, -de to 'deniz', and you get 'denizde'. On the sea.
[01:25] The vowel in the suffix may change depending on the last vowel in the word.
[01:35] If it ends in a front vowel like 'e', 'i', 'ö', 'ü', we use '-de'.
[01:47] If it's a back vowel, or as we say in Turkish, 'kalın ünlü', which are 'a', 'ı', 'o' or 'u', we use '-da'.
[02:00] 'Ev', meaning house, becomes 'evde', at home.
[02:05] 'Masa', meaning table, becomes 'masada', on the table.
[02:12] 'Sahil', meaning shore, becomes 'sahilde', on the shore.
[02:20] It's all the same idea. Well, one more time, the whole haiku:
"
Denizde kayık. 
Sessizce sallanıyor. 
Güneş batarken.
"
[02:35] See you in the next episode.

Bitesize Turkish Haikus

#002 Ege Sahilinde

Konnichiwa! Welcome to Slow Japanese! What do you do in your free time? Maybe game? Today I talk about Japanese tabletop games!

Usage of Slow Japanese:
STEP 1. Listen to the episode without seeing scripts.
STEP 2. Go to mochifika.com/podcast/ and check "Key vocabularies of this episode", listen again to the episode while seeing the list.
STEP 3. Check the whole script, it'll fill the gap in your understanding.

Scripts and key vocabularies of this episode are here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/slow-japanese-15-63474320?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare

Slow Japanese

Slow Japanese – Episode #15 – Tabletop game

Funny story for upper intermediate level
B2

Listening for intermediate

Who believes the officials? مَنْ يُصَدِّقُ المَسْؤُولِين؟

This folktale is from Wales, and tells the story of how water lilies came to grow in a lake in the Welsh mountains.

Folktale Friday

HOW WATER LILIES BEGAN

In this American English language podcast about s'mores. Every American kid loves to make s'mores while camping.  https://italki.com/teacher/1947582 Thanks for listening! Visit my website for more of my podcasts (Streetwisenglishdotcom)

Streetwise English

SWE35  Americas best campfire desert -S'mores

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1veubRAV5kQJccBYGXnAQDmuO5RKs6O6a/view?usp=drivesdk