关于狗的介绍，以及如何照顾一条狗，了解养宠物的基本常识。 An introduction to dogs, and how to take care of a dog, learn the basics of keeping pets.

Yasmine's Chinese Reading - intermediate

照顾一条狗 Take care of a dog - part 2

Oi gente, aqui é a Aneleh, sua tutora de português favorita. No episódio de hoje trouxe mais uma fábula famosa para vocês se divertirem e aprenderem palavras novas. No final desse episódio, trarei o vocabulário com seus significados em inglês para ajudar caso vocês tenham dificuldades. Se quiser acompanhar o script do podcast é só clicar neste link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dgiVCEzLRaUVoWaK8ttVzQ3at3JpJHxgjqoQu8ILl3o/edit?usp=sharing
Vamos lá?
Hey guys, this is Aneleh, your favorite Portuguese tutor. In today's episode I brought another famous fable for you to have fun and learn new words. At the end of this episode, I will bring the vocabulary with its meanings in English to help if you have difficulties. If you want to follow the podcast script, just click on this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dgiVCEzLRaUVoWaK8ttVzQ3at3JpJHxgjqoQu8ILl3o/edit?usp=sharing
Let's go?

Portuguese Drops 

O burro e a cobra  

En este nuevo episodio de la serie hablemos de viajes vamos a enfocarnos en la toma de decisiones y el impacto que esta tiene sobre nosotros, viajeros, cuando estamos en movimiento. ¿Qué tanto te gusta tomar decisiones constantemente? ¿Dirías que sos bueno/a en eso? ¿Te estresa? ¿Cómo te sentis cuando el resultado de tus decisiones no es lo que esperabas?

Respondemos estas y otras preguntas en un podcast de tan solo 12 minutos para entrenar tu español, ¿estás listo/a?

DALE PLAY!

Disfruta de aprender

Hablemos de viajes, parte XI !

Giovanni Pascoli è un poeta italiano famosissimo, in questo podcast spiegherò in breve chi era e la sua poetica, a lezione potremo approfondire le sue poesie e la sua essenza poetica. 

Podcast per tutti i gusti!

Pascoli in 5 minuti!

Try these tips during awkward silences or when you don't know what else to talk about.

1.   Don't reject your own ideas thinking that they are not worth sharing. When you filter most of your stories and experiences you have fewer topics to talk about. 
 
2.   Don't list your points, instead elaborate on each point using examples or personal experiences. This also gives the opportunity to the listener to add to the topic or share their own experiences making it a two-way conversation.
 
3.   Speak at the right pace. If you speak too fast, you end the conversation very quickly. It’s usually because the listener doesn’t understand you and therefore can’t keep the conversation going.  
 
4.   Learn to ask smart questions to keep the conversation going. Ask open-ended questions such as, “what do you think about …?” with follow-up questions “why do you think …?”. This helps you build up on the information that you received.
 
5.   Practise thinking critically so you always have something to say. When you practice critical thinking and ask yourself counter-questions, you are able to spontaneously think of ideas and form arguments using your background knowledge. You can easily connect the dots and be eloquent while talking to people.
 
6.   Learn a few speech frameworks such as Past - Present - Future, Problem – Solution - Benefit, or other storytelling formats such as ‘the mountain’. When you have a structure, you don’t lose your chain of thoughts and you don’t run into dead ends. Your listeners are also able to understand you better and remember what you said.
 
7.   If you are using a second language to communicate such as English, then simplify your complex thoughts in your native language first and then translate them to English. Lots of times when translation is tough, we give up and change the topic. But this practice helps you make the translation process easy. 
 
If you want to learn more, please book a session with me. 


Sensei Ann

Tips for not running out of things to say

『新完全マスター語彙　日本語能力試験N2』（2011年、スリーエーネットワーク） 教科書を1課ずつ読んでいきます。 N2、N1に必要な語彙です。 今日は、第4章１課です。

N2合格

N2 語彙　第4章1課

(We have more English speaking than usual)
My frined, Renata and I both work as tour guides before Covid 19.
Now she's trying new tour, so I interviewed about it.

Akari Talks Japan

Talk about new tour possibility with Renata

En este episodio hablamos acerca de la comida picante en México, ¿Por qué nos gusta el picante? nuestros platillos favoritos, variedades de chile y más.

Apapachando en Español

Episodio #6. La Comida Mexicana Picante

In this episode, Karen and Baiwei chatted about the new tier-one cities in China. Why more young people in China are leaving the traditional metropolises of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and where they are moving to.