https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EX3xrwvYavQQflxbNLBdWnzijr4fnxIa/view?usp=drivesdk

Teacher Joseph's Podcast

In Hot Water (English Idiom) (with transcript)

Intermediate-level short story in Urdu which boosts your listening and vocabulary.

Urdu-With-Atif

Five Eggs پانچ انڈے Ep# 01

🥳💦🌸Songkran Festival Vocabulary 🌸💦🥳

🌞 têet sà gaan sǒng graan
เทศกาลสงกรานต์
Songkran Festival

😎 sǒng náam prá
สรงน้ำพระ
Sprinkle water onto a Buddha image

🌶️rót náam dam hǔa
รดน้ำดำหัว
Pour water on the hands of revered elders and ask for blessing

🔫 dtàk bàat / sài bàat
ตักบาตร / ใส่บาตร
To offer food to the monks/ To give alms to the monks

🌷 wát
วัด
Temple

💦 prá pút tá rûup
พระพุทธรูป
Buddha statue, Buddha Image

🌼 wâi prá
ไหว้พระ
To pay respect to Buddha / To pray to the Buddha

🪷 jee dii
เจดีย์
Pagoda

🌻 bpʉʉn chìit náam
ปืนฉีดน้ำ
water gun

☀️ sàat náam
สาดน้ำ
Splash the water/Throw the water

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สงกรานต์นี้ ทุกคนมีแผนทำอะไรบ้างคะ
Do you have any plans for Songkran Festival? 😍

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Learn Thai with Pailin

🌸 Songkran Festival Vocabulary 🌸

It's no secret that Hawaii is a favorite destination for Japanese tourists. In 2023, the islands welcomed around 573,000 visitors from Japan — the most from any country.

But did you know there's a connection between Japan and Hawaii that goes beyond travel and into clothing?

Aloha shirts, also known as Hawaiian shirts, have roots in Japanese culture, beginning with Japanese immigrants in Hawaii.

In the late 1800s, Japanese immigrants in Hawaii started importing Japanese clothing as well as rolls of fabric to make clothes with.

In the 1920s, locals in Hawaii saw these fabrics and started using them to make casual dress shirts with Japanese patterns on them. These shirts became popular with tourists to Hawaii.

Soon after, aloha shirts were made in bulk, but instead of using fabric made for Japanese clothing, stores in Hawaii started bringing in printed fabrics made just for aloha shirts.

And by the late 1930s, the designs had changed from Japanese patterns to the Hawaiian inspired patterns we're used to today — images of Mount Fuji and Japanese pine trees were replaced with things like coconut trees, surfers and fish.

But even though today's aloha shirts don't look very Japanese inspired, they still remain popular within Japan.

Yosuke Seki, an aloha shirt aficionado who goes to Hawaii every year, told CNN he wears his shirts daily, and hopes to inspire others to try them.

"Right now, I'm wearing a replica of one of the expensive designs," Seki said, adding that his shirt cost between $130 and $200. The more expensive shirts can cost thousands of dollars, he explained.

And for some fans, aloha shirts are not just clothing — they're collectable items, or even considered art.

Yoshihiro Nakano is the brand director of Sun Surf, a Japanese company that has been making aloha shirts for about 50 years. Many customers don't even wear the aloha shirts they buy, and instead just collect them or frame them, Nakano told CNN.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

From Japan to Hawaii: The History of Aloha Shirts

En este episodio nos hacemos varias preguntas hipotéticas y las respondemos en pareja.

Un ratito en pareja

UREP - Ep.2  (Preguntas hipotéticas)

A short chat to figure out how to say "I see" in Vietnamese. 

Cùng nói Tiếng Việt nhé!

"I see" tiếng Việt nói như thế nào? 

Describe a business person you admire.

you should say;
Who the person is
How you know this person
What business they do

And explain why you admire them

Notice how i use the word admire 5 or 6 times while speaking, to really keep myself on topic.

IELTS 85 Speaking

Describe a business person you admire - part 2 topic

Vidéo complète avec sous titres et images: 
https://youtu.be/ZK8ZBmCApKw?si=Utgk2PcV_PfHpjnc 



French Stories For All

Histoire & Mots - Prêt Immobilier

今回のエピソードは、私の友人と高校時代についておしゃべりしています！皆さんの高校時代はどんな感じでしたか？ ネイティブ同士の自然なおしゃべりです。皆さん、すべて聞き取り出来ましたか？