In this channel, you will learn useful Chinese vocabulary in an article and practice your listening skills.

Yasmine's Chinese Reading - elementary

Yasmine's Chinese Reading - intermediate

Yasmine's Chinese Reading - upper intermediate

Yasmine's Chinese Reading - advanced

These posdcasts cover stories, various topics, including health and lifestyle, science, technology, culture, and news, which can be particularly helpful for chatting to friends in English. 

Yasmine's English Reading

Yasmine's Chinese Reading - beginner

Chinese is not simple, but these words are suitable for beginners
Price
jià qián
价钱
Make money
zhuàn qián
赚钱
Borrow money
jiè qián
借钱
Wallet
qián bāo
钱包


HSK vocabulary

HSK——daily Chinese for Beginner

When things start to get hard, try to persevere through adversity.
Many people give up on following their dreams because the work becomes too difficult, tedious, or tiresome–but often, you’re closer to the finish line than you may think, and if you push just a little harder, you will succeed.


Short Stories with Rose 

Three Feet From Gold

История о том как под Новый год случаются чудеса!
А какие подарки судьбы вы получали на новый год?

Russfriend  (all about russia) 

Новогодняя история 

5 ， kǒu wèi --taste
          口  味  
měi ɡè rén de kǒu wèi dōu bù yí yànɡ 。 
每  个 人  的 口  味  都  不 一 样   。 
nǐ xǐ huɑn chī shén me kǒu wèi de cài ？ 
你 喜 欢   吃  什   么 口  味  的 菜  ？ 


6 ， zhēn +adj--really~
         真    
zhè ɡe cài zhēn dì dào ！ 
这  个 菜  真   地 道  ！ 
nǐ zhēn cōnɡ mínɡ ！ 
你 真   聪   明   ！ 


Laura cheng Chinese

Laura Chinese Language points for order food 6

Meetings can be intimidating for a lot of people, even to native speakers! 
Especially if you’re meeting with people who you don’t know very well, if at all. Today we’re going to look at a few pieces of vocabulary that you might hear in meetings and that you might be able to use yourself. At the end we also have our 'big discussion question'.

You can find the vocabulary from this podcast in the vocabulary sets on my profile. I hope you enjoy today's podcast and I look forward to meeting you on a call very soon!

Breakout Business English

Breakout Business English - Ep 1. Meetings

Today August 15th in Italy it's a special day: "Ferragosto!" Do you want to know more about this 100% Italian tradition and celebrate this day as a a real Italian? Then listen to this episode, possibly at the seaside ;)

Article "Tormentone estivo" ---> https://cocaiitaliano.substack.com/p/agosto-italiano-august-in-italy
Our video courses ---> https://cocai-italiano.com/


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Welcome to this brand new podcast broadcasted by Cocai Italian.

3 minutes Italian delivers you a full experience of the Italian language in pills.

Do you want to learn Italian language? Or did you just started this journey? Then 3 minutes Italian by Cocai Italiano will help you by teaching you a few, daily Italian expressions to start speaking today!

3 minutes Italian

Ferragosto - "Italian summer" - 3 minutes Italian

Have you ever heard the phrase, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do"?

It means you should follow the customs of the place you're visiting or the people you're with. So in Japan, for example, you should take off your shoes before entering someone's home, because it's the custom.

However, people often shorten this phrase to just, "When in Rome."

Phrases like this, where part of the sentence is not spoken but the meaning is still clear, are called "anapodotons" ("an-uh-PAW-duh-tuns"). People don't say the second part of the phrase, but everyone knows what they mean.

But why do people leave phrases unfinished?

According to Instagram linguist Adam Aleksic, it's because we like to save time and effort when talking. By saying less, we can still share the full idea, as long as others know the rest of the phrase.

Anapodotons are very common in English. Let's look at some more now!

"Speak of the devil" is something people say when someone appears just as you were talking about them. The full phrase is, "Speak of the devil, and he shall appear." But it doesn't mean you think the person who appeared is a bad person!

"It takes a village" is another example. The full phrase, "It takes a village to raise a child," means raising children is easier with help from others. It can also be used to talk about teamwork or group tasks.

"If you can't stand the heat" comes from, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." This means if something is difficult or stressful, you should either deal with it or stop complaining and leave!

Anapodotons may be short, but they have a lot of meaning!

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Saying Less, Meaning More: The Power of Anapodotons

Motivation (with transcript)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ayPWE3VpeOPQHd7bt4z31B4EmSEpxxfU/view?usp=drivesdk