WTO总干事表示，当前全球经济前景黯淡，同时也充满不确定性，但今年全球贸易增长可能比预期更快。但同时预计今年全球货物贸易将仅增长1%，较2022年3.5%的增幅大幅放缓。未来出现其他结果也是有可能的，这取决于俄乌冲突的进展、中国的重新开放，以及各大央行收紧货币政策的力度。WTO警告称，不要只与盟友进行贸易，这将阻碍全球经济的增长。这样做的代价将很严重。
阻碍：hinder
区域性贸易：regionalized trade
沉重的代价/代价沉重：heavy price
盟友：ally
全球经济前景暗淡：Gloomy outlook for the global economy

财经早咖啡【财经新闻】【Business News】

区域化贸易将阻碍全球经济增长，代价沉重；

Hosts discuss the reasons why a knowledge of idioms for Business are so important in the modern business world

The importance of figurative language for Business Communication

The Cultural Code of Business English

The final installment of this amazing story!

Stories to Stimulate!

Will and Mary Part 11

Listen and try to imitate it with your friend

Listening for beginners

Dialogue for acquaintance - حوار للتعارف - 9

『日本語能力試験」対策＿日本語総まとめN3（語彙）』アスク出版 テキストを読んでいきます。 １回に1日ずつ読んでいきます。 今日は、第3週６日です。

N3合格

N3　語彙　第3週6日目

In this story, an hourglass named Timer comes alive and is able to time travel. This is Part 5 of 6.  

Waking up at 5am, his most precious time of day when his genius flows like a mighty waterfall, Henry looked out his laboratory window and saw a magic moment: a baby chick was hatching from its egg. This was a sign, today Henry would complete his greatest invention. 

It looked like a simple household object, fairly inconspicuous, except for its futuristic black appearance. It had two chambers, one on the top and one on the bottom; the bottom was filled with yellow sand. They were connected by a narrow passage in which the sand flowed through. If an ordinary person had seen it, they would have believed it was an ordinary hourglass. 

But there was nothing ordinary about this hourglass. It was Henry’s latest attempt at engineering a time machine. 

Henry poured the remaining yellow sand into the top chamber and watched it fall to the bottom. He then tightly attached its cap. Taking a step back, Henry was overwhelmed with both exhilaration and trepidation. At that moment, a strong gust of wind came in through an open-window and scattered several documents across the floor. 

Henry flipped the hourglass and watched the yellow grains of sand travel through the narrow passage. As they hit the bottom, the grains changed to dark red. Henry looked out the window and saw the proud rising sun, a symbol of a new day. He watched as it slowly went back behind the mountains. He watched as the scattered documents flew up onto his desk and organized themselves as they previous were. He saw the baby chick return to its egg and the egg reassembled itself. 

Finally, the last grain of sand hit the bottom. Henry had traveled thirty minutes back in time. 

Being a Cloud

Timer the Hourglass

みなさんは今、いい感じの人いる？

「いい感じの人」
好きかもしれない人🥰　
相手も自分を好きかもしれない人😘

うらやましいなぁ😙

Japanese "Taka" it easy

いま、いい感じの人　いますか😘？

こんにちは、あかりです。スウェーデンでの新(あたら)しい発見(はっけん)について話(はな)します。

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", and listen again to the episode while seeing the list.
STEP 3. Check the whole script, it'll fill the gap in your understanding.

Slow Japanese

Episode #40 - New discoveries in a new town

Ordering food will be one of your first things to do in China, and also something you are forced to learn very quickly in the beginning of your Chinese learning journey. Today we will not teach you the basics such as ‘wo3yao4…’. Instead we will level up your ordering game and nudge you to become a more confident and native-like speaker, and work your way around all kinds of questions and problems at a restaurant. Let’s go!