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In Japan, why do they change their way of talking based on differences in age and experience?
日本（にほん）ではどうして年齢（ねんれい）や経歴（けいれき）の差（さ）で、言葉遣（ことばづか）いまで変（か）えるのだろう？

For Japanese learners, I speak Japanese slowly.

学校（がっこう）では教（おし）えてもらえない日本語（にほんご）について、話（はな）します。

こんにちは、Uchiga（うちが）です！ わたしは、仕事（しごと）のための日本語（にほんご）を教（おし）えたり、留学生（りゅうがくせい）や、外国（がいこく）から日本（にほん）に働（はたら）きにきた人（ひと）の仕事（しごと）やCareerについての相談（そうだん）を受（う）けたりしています。

 Hello, I’m Uchiga. I teach Japanese for business and provide career consultation to international students and people from other countries who want to work in Japan. 

直接（ちょくせつ）、人（ひと）とあまり話（はな）さないようなトピックについても、お話（はな）しします。 質問（しつもん）はありますか？

お問合せはお気軽にしてくださいね。
 If you have any inquiries, please feel free to contact me.

[Intermediate-Upper level] Interesting Japanese Not Taught In Schools About Japanese business culture, Japanese habits & Osaka

In Japan, why do they change their way of talking based on differences in age and experience? 日本（にほん）ではどうして年齢（ねんれい）や経歴（けいれき）の差（さ）で、言葉遣（ことばづか）いまで変（か）える

Concéntrate en brillar y ser buena onda con todos los seres vivos 😃🌅

Spanish to improve your life

Inspirar sin esfuerzo 

Story of a bakery and a circus coming to town.

English My Way

HARBORVILLE

每年的4月22日是世界地球日。这是一个为世界环境保护而设立的节日，希望提高人们对于环境问题的意识，并动员大家参与到环保运动中，通过绿色低碳生活，改善地球的整体环境。

地球日是1970年发起的，现在，全球已经有193个国家，每年超过10亿人参与，变成了世界上最大的民间环保节日。

Intermediate Chinese Listening

Intermediate Chinese Listening：4月22日 世界地球日 Earth Day 

In this podcast we'll look into some answers to 3 common questions:

1. How to answer: ‘Tell me a bit about yourself.’

2. How to answer: ‘What are your weaknesses?’

3. How to answer: ‘Describe a time you faced a challenge and what steps you took to overcome it.’

Before you'll go further - how would you do it yourself? What will your thinking be while answering?

Question One: The interviewer typically isn’t asking you about your weekend here. Take this opportunity to capture and distill the most important things they need to know about you as an employee—your most impactful job, the skills you’d most like to highlight, as well as some of the previous projects you feel showcase your abilities are all great options.

Question Two: Avoid responding with something that’s not genuine and communicates inauthenticity—saying something like ‘I work too hard!’ doesn’t come across well. Everyone has weaknesses—it’s how we manage them that’s important and expressing what you’ve already got underway to alter it is the key.

QUestion Three: This demands self-reflection and self-examination, focusing on problem solving skills and your attitude to challenges, conflict resolution and how you cope under pressure. Work through the S.T.A.R method if you get a little stuck: first, contextualise the situation for your interviewee by presenting the challenge in a professional manner and explain how it arose in the first place, then explain a little about where you fell in the group in relation to the task at hand.

Use some ideas aboe and also prepare your answers as well. At the end of the day - they are 'buying' your personality, not so much how you answer those questions so don't be shy being yourself, it countrs massively!

Let me know how I can help you privately in your interview preparations!

To Your Success!

Job Interview Preparation | CEO Interview Strategies From Diverse Business Sectors!

Job Interview Preparation. Tip 10. How to answer 3 common questions?


 Congiunzioni conclusive: 

quindi, perciò, inoltre, insomma, dunque

Servono per giungere alla conclusione in un ragionamento dentro una frase. 
Esempio: 

Oggi fa molto freddo, quindi indosso un maglione pesante.

Come vedi oggi non ha piovuto, dunque  avevo ragione io.











Congiunzioni dichiarative/esplicative

Infatti, difatti, in effetti, ossia, ovvero, vale a dire

Servono a introdurre introdurre una frase che spiega, illustra, chiarisce quello che è stato detto.
Esempi:

In Spagna si vive molto bene, infatti  Valencia è stata eletta a città più vivibile del mondo. 
 Secondo me in Italia non ci sono buone condizioni di lavoro, difatti molti giovani laureati oggi emigrano in altri Paesi. 




Congiunzioni causali
Poiché, perché, siccome, giacché, in quanto che, dato che

Servono a introdurre la causa o il motivo espresso nella frase principale

Poiché ieri non stavo bene, sono rimasto a casa.
Ho comprato una sedia nuova perché l’altra era troppo scomoda. 
In quanto che il tempo è prezioso, sarà bene utilizzarlo nel migliore dei modi. 






Congiunzioni concessive
nonostante, benché , sebbene, qualora

Esempi: 

Nonostante Noam Chomsky abbia 94 anni, è un uomo ancora molto preparato e con un senso critico della realtà. 
Qualora tu fossi interessata, ci sarebbe ancora un posto per il workshop di scrittura creativa. 



Altre congiunzioni varie con esempi: 

purché
  Esempio: Farò di tutto per aiutarti, purché tu riesca a raggiungere i tuoi obiettivi

finché
Esempio: finché continuerai a perdere tempo in aperitivi con gli amici, non riuscirai mai a raggiungere buoni risultati nello sport. 
affinché
Esempio: Affinché potesse studiare meglio il jazz, Mario decise di trasferirsi a New York. 

bensì
esempio: Non voglio un piatto con caviale e aragosta, bensì una semplice focaccia con le olive. 

cosicché
Esempio: Igor ha deciso di trasferirsi in Germania, cosicché avrà maggiori possibilità lavorative



Italiano espresso

33 congiunzioni da sapere in italiano

El Huapango de Moncayo es un poema sinfónico mágico, con ese toque de mexicanidad, que al escucharlo te alegra y te levanta el espíritu.

Es la obra sinfónica mexicana más famosa en el mundo y la más popular en México. Tuvo gran aceptación desde que la Orquesta Sinfónica de México, bajo la batuta de Carlos Chávez, la estrenó en el Palacio Bellas Artes el 15 de agosto de 1941.

No es que el Huapango de Moncayo sea mejor que otras obras musicales, como la Sinfonía India, la más popular de Chávez o las nacionalistas Sensemayá y La Noche de los Mayas, de Silvestre Revueltas.

Pero el Huapango de Moncayo, seas melómano o alguien que no es asiduo a salas de concierto, “te atrapa, más como mexicano”. Es una obra “alegre, que te levanta el espíritu”, dice el pianista y compositor Samuel Pascoe.

Quizá por eso es considerada como el segundo himno nacional de México, distinción que se disputa con la Marcha de Zacatecas.

Gran pianista, percusionista, maestro de música, compositor y director de orquesta, José Pablo Moncayo García nació en Guadalajara el 29 de junio de 1912 y murió en la CDMX el 16 de junio de 1958.

En el Conservatorio Nacional de Música, Carlos Chávez fue maestro de composición de Moncayo, quien sería percusionista y pianista de la Orquesta Sinfónica de México.

En las postrimerías del nacionalismo de esos años y a sabiendas del talento de Moncayo, Chávez le encargó que fuera al puerto de Alvarado, Veracruz, para que conociera a detalle el huapango tradicional y creara una obra sinfónica.

Huapango se estrenó cuando Moncayo tenía 29 años.

Después fue becado por el Institute Berkshire de Serge Koussevitzki y asistió a cursos impartidos por Aaron Copland en Tanglewood, Massachusetts, EU, en 1942. Ahí tuvo como como condiscípulos a Leonard Bernstein y a Blas Galindo.



Spanish México

El Huapango de Moncayo.

In this latest episode of "Everyday Dialogues," "Talking to the Traffic Police." Whether you're a new driver or looking to improve your communication skills in traffic-related encounters, this episode is a must-listen! 🚗💬

Dialogue Reading: 
👮🏻Officer: License and registration, please.
🙎🏼‍♂️Driver: Here’s my license. May I get my registration out of the glove compartment?
👮🏻Officer: Yes. Do you know why I pulled you over?
🙎🏼‍♂️Driver: No, I don’t.
👮🏻Officer: You were going 70 miles an hour, Mr. Lee.
🙎🏼‍♂️Driver: I thought I was going the speed limit, ma’am.
👮🏻Officer: Do you know what the speed limit is here?
🙎🏼‍♂️Driver: I believe it is 65 miles per hour. That is the last sign I saw.
👮🏻Officer: A road crew is painting the lines today. The posted speed limit in the construction zone is 50 miles per hour.
🙎🏼‍♂️Driver: I understand, officer.
👮🏻Officer: Are you aware that the fine for speeding in a construction zone is doubled?
🙎🏼‍♂️Driver: No, I was not aware of that.
👮🏻Officer: Road signs are posted for your family’s safety. Is everyone buckled up back there?
🙎🏼‍♂️Driver: Yes, they are wearing seat belts. I’m sorry they are upset. I have never been pulled over before.
👮🏻Officer: Good. I’m going to write you a ticket for going 10 miles over the speed limit today. Next time you won’t get off so easy. Is that clear, Mr. Lee?
🙎🏼‍♂️Driver: Yes, ma’am.

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