The newest Express to Impress Podcast episode will give you tons of new English vocabulary. Tune in to learn fun idioms like Burn a Bridge.

This episode is part two of 4 Tips for How to Negotiate a Job Offer. Learning to detect and use English idioms in use will allow you to communicate better with native English speakers. You won’t feel confused when you hear English idioms and phrases and will keep up with the conversation. 

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Episode originally published August 5, 2021.

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Burn a Bridge and Other ESL Idioms

Un lapin de glace
Edgar a fait un bon de trop, il a cassé la glace et est tombé à l'eau. Il gigote, patauge, mais ça ne sert à rien, il ne sait pas nager. Pauvre Edgar! Il coule dans l'eau glacée. Jeannot, voyant que son ami tarde à remonter, se met aussitôt à crier.
Bien vite, tous les habitants du petit bois arrivent avec des cordes et des filets. Edgar est repêché, mais il est tout gelé!
Que faire ? Allumer un grand feu, pardi! 
Aussitôt dit, aussitôt fait. Peu à peu, la glace se met à fondre en libérant Edgar d'un sommeil forcé.

Des Milliers D'histoires

Histoire 46 - Un lapin de glace

안녕하세요. Hello~
한국어 듣기 수업 시작해요. Let's start with the Korean listening class.
선생님 읽어요.  I read it.
잘 들으세요. Please listen well.

I posted the sentences on my blog. 
https://blog.naver.com/laramcraft/222875733824
https://youtu.be/fw3VUlG0C44

The basics are important.
It is also good to check the basics of 한글 Hangeul before this listening class.
1-1. Korean alphabet - Vowels 모음 - What is Hangeul?
https://youtu.be/0YzhJ9p2lcs
2-1. Korean alphabet - Consonants 자음 -what are the consonants 자음?
https://youtu.be/lckgvQ_vreA
3-1. Korean alphabet - Final Consonants 받침 - What are the final consonants 받침?
https://youtu.be/sLlFmG30fNI

This is a class to listen to Korean conversational sentences.
In this voice recording for listening, 
After reading many sentences in Korean conversations sentences, 
Check out how much you understand the sentences with a voice recording. 
Never look at the sentences when listening to the voice recording. 
And Listen to the sentence repeatedly until you hear it completely. 

You are listening to the Sejong Korean conversation. (세종학당)
There are four books in total. (Korean conversation, 1, 2, 3, 4.)
It consists of 1st and 2nd courses for beginners and 1st and 2nd courses for intermediate.
Each course is conducted in 14 units. (2 grammar - for each unit.) 
This listening class you are taking is Korean Conversation 2. (Beginner 2) 
Please listen carefully.

Korean Listening Class 한국어 문장 듣기 - Korean teacher, Grace

Korean Conversation 2 - Lesson 5. Part 1 -은 후에/-ㄴ 후에,  Part 2 -고 있다  (Beginner 2)

The Step Pyramid of Djoser Part 2. 

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When finally completed, the Step Pyramid rose 62 meters high and was the tallest structure of its time. The complex in which it was built was the size of a city in ancient Egypt and included a temple, courtyards, shrines, and living quarters for the priests. It covered a region of 16 hectares and was surrounded by a wall 10.5 meters high. The wall had 13 false doors cut into it with only one true entrance cut into the south-east corner; the entire wall was then ringed by a trench 750 meters long and 40 meters wide. The false doors and the trench were incorporated into the complex to discourage unwanted visitors. If someone wished to enter, he or she would have needed to know in advance how to find the location of the true opening in the wall. Djoser was so proud of his accomplishment that he broke the tradition of having only his own name on the monument and had Imhotep’s name carved on it as well.

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The burial chamber of the tomb, where the king’s body was laid to rest, was dug beneath the base of the pyramid, surrounded by a vast maze of long tunnels that had rooms off them to discourage robbers. One of the most mysterious discoveries found inside the pyramid was a large number of stone vessels. Over 40,000 of these vessels, of various forms and shapes, were discovered in storerooms off the pyramid’s underground passages. They are inscribed with the names of rulers from the First and Second Dynasties of Egypt and made from different kinds of stone. 

Continuing with the text below

The Habits of Professionals Growing Into Strong, Confident English Communicators

Cambridge IELTS Reading & Comprehension. The Step Pyramid of Djoser Part 2

Le groupe s’approche du royaume du roi Arthuren. Sur le chemin, ils parlent à quelques paysans.
Les paysans semblent effrayés. Lars et les gardes arrivent. Ils parlent au roi Arthuren. Lars et le roi
se connaissent. Le chevalier donne au roi les dernières potions de force. Il dit ensuite le secret à
Alfred. Arthuren n’a plus d’eau magique. Il va essayer de faire plus d’eau magique. Il utilisera les
potions. S’il ne peut pas faire plus d’eau magique, il y aura peut-être une autre grande bataille.

Read with me  the book : French stories in French - Olly Richards and Richard Simcott

Le chevalier - Chapitre 3 - French stories in French - Olly Richards and Richard Simcott

【北海道Hokkaido生活】
〈#137〉11月16日水曜日　天気/くもり　気温/5℃ 

オホーツク地方/おほーつくちほう…北海道の東の場所。18の市や町。
美幌町/びほろちょう
・オホーツク地方でビート収穫
・美幌町の工場で、ビートから砂糖を作る作業
・24時間体制で作り続けている

［単語］
ビート/びーと…野菜
収穫/しゅうかく…おいしくなった食べ物を取る。
作業/さぎょう…仕事
体制/たいせい...何かをするための方法

レッスン待ってます♪


北海道Hokkaido生活 for Japanese learners

〈#137〉11月16日水曜日　ビートからおいしい”さとう”を作る！

❓Quanti degli stereotipi sugli italiani rispecchiano maggiormente gli abitanti del Nord? 
❓Quanti gli abitanti del Sud? 
❓Quanti entrambi?

 🎧 Ascoltate questo episodio e rispondete al quiz finale!  

👇🏼Stereotipi elencati in questo episodio 👇🏼
 
GLI ITALIANI E IL CIBO
1. Mangiano solo pasta e pizza. 
2. Il caffè è sacro. 
3. Sono ossessionati dalla cucina. 

MODA E APPARENZA
4. Sempre eleganti.
5. Occhiali da sole anche al chiuso. 
6. Parlano con le mani.

LA FAMIGLIA 
7. La mamma è al centro del mondo. 
8. Vivono con i genitori fino a tardi.

VITA LENTA E PIACEVOLE
9. La dolce vita.
10. Sempre in ritardo. 

GLI ITALIANI E IL CALCIO
11. Il calcio è una religione.
12. Tutti allenatori.

GLI ITALIANI AL LAVORO
13. Si prendono troppe pause. 
14. Amanti delle ferie. Città vuote ad agosto.

⬇️ VOCABOLARIO ⬇️
- Sono associati a // legati a = they are associated with // related to // connected to
- Sfida = challenge 
- Buttare l’immondizia = throw the trash
- Comici = comedians
- Punto e basta! = period!
- Pecca = flaw
- Citato = mentioned 

🥳Divertitevi! 🥳
 Fatemi sapere nei commenti che ne pensate e se ci sono altri stereotipi che conoscete! 

Puro Parlare

13. Stereotipi sugli italiani: del Nord o del Sud?

Positive thoughts for the New Year!
This is from a blog post I wrote at the start of 2021, but I think it is still really important now.

The Social Evolutionary

Last year was bad? Let's remember the good things.

Waiting for the Tram (no transcript today)