Today we're talking about the words "diligent" and "rigorous". Two words that you can use to describe the way that you work if you take a lot of care to ensure that every little detail is correct. I hope you find them useful!

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Dnes budu mluvit o přátelích. 
Kdo tě rozesměje když jsi smutný?
🌱 - tyto epizody jsou pomalé a srozumitelné (for beginners A1)

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6. 🌱 Přátelé 

The structure “快要/快/就要/要……了” indicates that something is going to happen. 
For example:
yào xià yǔ le 。 
要下雨了。It's going to rain.

huǒ chē jiù yào lái le 。 
火车就要来了。The train is coming.

diàn yǐnɡ kuài kāi shǐ le 。 
电影快开始了。The movie is about to begin.

wǒ de shēnɡ rì kuài yào dào le 。 
我的生日快要到了。My birthday is coming up.

If there is an adverbial of time in the sentence, then only“就要.....了”can be used. 
For example: 
mínɡ tiān zú qiú bǐ sài jiù yào kāi shǐ le 。 
明天足球比赛就要开始了。The football match will start tomorrow.

xià ɡè xīnɡ qī wǒ men jiù yào kǎo shì le 。 
下个星期我们就要考试了。We're going to have an exam next week.

mínɡ nián dà wèi jiù yào huí měi ɡuó le 。 
明年大卫就要回美国了。David will go back to America next year.

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要……了

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If you have a bad experience at a restaurant or hotel, what do you do? Do you tell the staff? Do you ask them to apologize — maybe even ask them to give you something for free?

Or do you maybe just say nothing, go online, and write a bad review about the place? Then others might see your review, and decide to go somewhere else.

If you're in Italy, however, soon you may not be able to leave a bad review without being able to prove that you had a bad experience.

In a new law being proposed by the country's government, review websites like TripAdvisor will need to make sure that the people leaving reviews have actually visited the places they're reviewing.

The law, which would be the first of its kind in Europe, would require reviewers to be verified with an ID, and show proof that they had been to the place not more than two weeks before their review.

It's already against the law to leave fake reviews in Italy, but it's not always easy to know which reviews are fake. This law would make sure that the reviewer has, at least, visited the place.

The law would also let businesses ask for bad reviews to be removed after two years if they can show that the problem mentioned in the review has been fixed.

The idea is to protect businesses and make sure reviews are honest — which also means people like influencers won't be able to be paid to leave positive reviews.

In fact, many people who agree with the law believe it should extend to all social media, not just review websites, because with so many influencers being paid by companies online, it's not always easy to know which reviews are honest.

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Leaving a Review in Italy? You May Need to Prove It's True

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