Feeling scattered, worried, or alone in your language learning? 🌱 What if you could feel deeply GROUNDED, consistently NOURISHED, and completely SUPPORTED?

In Episode 109 of 111 Tips for Learning a Language, we dig into the power of the Earth Element (Tǔ, 土)! Discover how to:

🌾 Create rhythmic routines that feel nourishing, not demanding
🤲 "Digest" your learning so it actually sticks
💞 Build a supportive "village" to end lonely studying
🧘 Transform worry and overthinking into stable confidence

Stop feeling adrift. Start putting down roots!

Ready to build a learning practice that truly nourishes you?

Episode 109 explores how to harness the Earth Element (Tǔ, 土) to build a stable, sustainable, and deeply nourishing language learning practice. Discover how rhythmic routines, mindful repetition, and supportive community can transform scattered information into integrated knowledge. This episode also reveals how this grounded approach heals your Spleen (Pí, 脾) and Stomach (Wèi, 胃), alleviates worry, and helps you feel deeply supported in your learning journey.

💃🏻111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 109 - How🪴The Earth Element🪴can help you learn a language

Forbid	禁止	jìnzhǐ
Force	强迫	qiǎngpò
Forget	忘记	wàngjì
Forgive	原谅	yuánliàng
Freeze	冻结	dòngjié



5 Verbs a Day. 每天学习五个动词。

C(32) Vocabulary Set: Forbid Force Forget Forgive Freeze

不免 (bù miǎn) and 未免 (wèi miǎn) are both adverbs that are used to indicate that something is inevitable or cannot be avoided. However, there is a subtle difference in their meanings.
不免 (bù miǎn) means "inevitably" or "unavoidably," and it is used to indicate that something is certain to happen or cannot be avoided. Here is the structure when using 不免：objective reason,+不免+result
未免 (wèi miǎn) means "unavoidably" or "unnecessarily," and it is used to indicate that something is unnecessary or excessive. You use it when you can’t agree to something. Here is the structure when using 未免：（scenario, can be omitted in the sentence)，+未免+judgement
Here are some examples to illustrate the difference between the two, with pinyin provided for the example sentences:
不免 (bù miǎn)
* 这种天气下出门，不免有些冷。 (zhè zhǒng tiānqì xià chūmén, bù miǎn yǒuxiē lěng) (It is inevitably a little cold when going out in this kind of weather.)
* 他的职业生涯结束了，不免有些伤感。 (tā de zhíyè shēngyá jiéshù le, bù miǎn yǒuxiē shāngǎn) (His career has ended, and it is inevitably a little sad.)
未免 (wèi miǎn)
* 这道题的难度未免有点大。 (zhè dào tí de nándù wèi miǎn yǒudiǎn dà) (The difficulty of this problem is unnecessarily large.)
* 他的表演未免有些夸张。 (tā de biǎoyǎn wèi miǎn yǒuxiē kuāzhāng) (His performance is unnecessarily exaggerated.)
* 你这么做，未免太过分。 (nǐ zhème zuò, wèi miǎn tài guòfèn) (What you are doing is unnecessarily extreme.)


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Difference between 不免 (bù miǎn) and 未免 (wèi miǎn) 

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합주는 여러 사람이 여러가지 악기를 같이 연주하는 것을 뜻해요.
제가 연주하는 악기는 드럼이에요.

I played drum in a band last weekend with my friends.
Is there any 악기 that you can play?

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Transcription:
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# 14 What sport do Russians choose? (+transcription)


两个许久未见得的朋友遇见了，他们会说什么？听完后，请回答以下问题
1. 刘老师在这边干什么？
2. 小王有女朋友吗？
3. 小王和刘老师下次什么时候见面？


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偶遇老朋友。

首先，我们要学几个常用的词。左拐，右拐，调头，直走，过路口，停车。
First, let’s learn several words you will use.

Turn left – 左拐（zuǒ guǎi）,
Turn right – 右拐(yòu guǎi )，
U turn – 调头  (diào tóu)，
Go straight – 直走（zhí zǒu）, 
Cross the road – 过马路（guò mǎ lù）,
Stop the car - 停车（tíng chē）。

那么现在，标题的句子对你来说就已经不是很难了。“左拐，前面停车（zuǒ guǎi，qián miantíng chē）”“左拐”的意思是“Turn left”，“左”- Left，“拐”-to turn. “前面”的意思是“front”.”停车”的“停”-stop，车 – car. 所以合在一起，就是“左拐，前面停车（zuǒ guǎi，qián miantíng chē）”
And now, I think the sentence in the title is not too difficult for you. “左拐，前面停车（zuǒ guǎi，qián mian tíng chē）”- Turn left, then stop in the front.“左拐” means “Turn left”， “左” is Left， “拐” means to turn. “前面” means“front”.”停车”’s“停” is stop，车 means car. So put them together and it should be“左拐，前面停车（zuǒ guǎi，qián miantíng chē）”

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4. 左拐，前面停车／Turn left, then stop in the front. 

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