In HEAR AND THERE, I try to "practice what I preach" - using language as a tool to be more creative, to connect with others, and to feel more brave. I hope my words encourage you to do the same!

Hear and There

Escucha esta entrevista a la profe Karol Cruz, ella es de Portugal.
Ella me platica sobre cómo inició su carrera profesional como maestra de idiomas y también por qué Italki es la mejor plataforma para aprender idiomas.

Karol Cruz:
https://www.italki.com/teacher/8094803

Mucho que decir

Entrevista a la profe Karol

¿Vas como una tortuga por la vida? ¿Conoces a alguien que va como una tortuga? 

Expresiones en español

Ir como una tortuga

One Minute Speaking Challenge: Work Related

If you to give a quick description about your studies or work - what would you say about it?

Which words can you use to describe the details?

Here are some that you can use: project, meeting, manager, schedule, presentation, break, lunch, hurdle,strategy, challenge, opportunity, client, attitude.

Or you can come up with yours.

To help & inspire you even more you can listen to one minute podcast & find useful questions to help you practice speaking even more!

Enjoy and let me know what you've got!

See you tomorrow & please remember to subscribe to my podcasts and share with friends for more benefit & further conversations with them :) 

One minute speaking challenge - Challenge yourself to speak English daily!

One Minute Speaking Challenge: Work Related

How to tell a girl that she is beautiful?

Super HSK

HSK1

大家好，您正在收听中文播客《丹霞说》，我是丹霞。今天我要给你们介绍一下儿我的朋友。

我有一个好朋友，她叫夏白雪。
夏是夏天的夏，不是下雪的下。
为什么她的名字是夏白雪？因为她爸爸姓夏，但是她在冬天出生，出生那天下雪了，所以她叫夏白雪。

白雪家有四口人，她父母、她弟弟和她。她爸爸有自己的商店，她妈妈在学校工作，是英语老师，而他弟弟还是中学生，所以和爸妈住在一起。
白雪在公司上班，有时候她工作非常忙。但周末的时候，她会回家看看家人。

这些词语你听明白了吗？

夏天Xià tiān summer     
下雪xià xuě to snow            
冬天dōng tiān  winter 
名字míng zì name         
因为yīn wèi  because          
出生chū shēng to be born    
所以suǒ yǐ  so
父母fù mǔ  parent      
 商店shāng diàn shop, store  
学校xué xiào  school    
中学生zhōng xué sheng middle school student 
公司gōngsī the company       
工作gōng zuò  to work; the work    
上班shàng bān to go to work  
周末zhōu mò  weekend    
回家huí jiā 


好，现在我们再听一次！

I have a good friend whose name is Xia Baixue.

Xia is xia in summer"xia tian", not the xia in snow"xia xue".

Why is her name Xia Baixue? Because her father's surname is Xia, but she was born in winter. It snowed on the day of her birth, so her name is Xia Baixue.

There are four people in Bai Xue's family, including her parents, her younger brother and her. Her father has his own shop, her mother works in school and is an English teacher, while his brother is still a middle school student, so he lives with parents.

Bai Xue works in a company. Sometimes she is very busy. But on weekends, she will go home to visit her family.

Do you understand these words?


HSK1&2 Vocab Based - Short Story Podcast

01. 我的朋友夏白雪Wǒ de péngyǒu xià báixuě My friend Baixue Xia

I hope you will enjoy this beautiful poem by famous Georgian poet Vazha Pshavela.