All of us are guilty of pondering on the past, wondering what could, would or should have happened.... In different areas of our life, some more than others.

Do you have similar regrets to the ones mentioned in this episode? Or perhaps completely different ones? DO comment and let me know!

British English with Maria

Ep 18 - "No Regrets? Think Again! – Life’s ‘Should Have, Could Have, Would Have’ Moments"

皆さん、お久しぶりです！！
しばらくポッドキャストを休んでいましたが、また月１くらいのペースで更新していこうと思います！
今回は、最近気になっている新語について話します。

It’s been a while!
We have been taking a break from podcasting for a while, but we are going to start updating it about once a month again!
This time, we talk about new words that have been on our minds recently. 

♤ キーワード
・絡む（からむ：hang out）
・素行が悪い（そこうがわるい：behave badly）
・湯船に浸かる（ゆぶねにつかる：soak in the bath）
・出汁（だし：broth）
・属す（ぞくす：belong to）
・あるある（common things）
・黒装束（くろしょうぞく：dressed in black）
・積読（つんどく：the act of leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piling it up together with other such unread books）
・物騒な（ぶっそうな：dangerous）

♧ 理解度チェッククイズ
1. フミが最近気になっている言葉は？
2. それはどういう意味？
3. 元々どこで使われていた言葉？

♢ 前回のクイズの答え
1. フミが朝顔を育てようと思った理由は？
→ ２、３年前に育ててみたら、思いの外きれいだったから
2. 小学生用の朝顔の種にはどんな工夫がされている？
→ 子どもでも育てやすいように一手間加えてある 

BGM special thanks：MusMus

アヤさんとフミさんの日本語雑談（Aya and Fumi’s Japanese Chit-Chat）

Episode 29：最近気になっている新語（2024）

Esta es la segunda parte del episodio en el que Jon (Madrid) y Joan (Barcelona) hablan sobre las cosas que más echan de menos de España cuando están viviendo en el extranjero. ¡Relájate y escúchanos!

¡Qué Pasa! Podcast en Español

Españoles fuera de España - ¿Qué echamos de menos? Parte 2

You can listen to this episode for a quick overview of the themes of Chapter 4 of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This short podcast episode highlights some of the vocabulary from chapter 4, and it also shares a fun quote. 

Here is the vocabulary covered in this episode: 

1.	demonstration (n.) – the act of showing someone how to do something, or
how something works
2.	resemblance (n.) – the fact that two people or things look like each other or are similar in some other way
3.	indifference (n.) – the feeling of not caring about something or having any particular opinions about it

Please DM me if you have any questions or would like further information about The Little Prince Book Club! 🌟

Book Club: The Little Prince

Let's Explore The Little Prince: Chapter 4

Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation states that:
Every mass attracts every other mass in the universe with a force that is proportional to the product of their masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
Let’s break this down in a way that applies to language acquisition. Imagine that:
•	One “mass” is you, the learner.
•	The other “mass” is the language you are trying to learn.
•	The “force” is the attraction or motivation pulling you toward fluency.
•	The “distance” is how far you currently are from using the language fluently and comfortably.






💃🏻111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 64 - How to apply Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation into Language Learning

In questo 4° episodio faccio una intervista ad una ragazza che si è trasferita a cinque anni in Italia con i suoi genitori, parliamo delle sue esperienze di vita e il suo senso di appartenenza a due culture. Tempi verbali: presente, congiuntivo, passato prossimo, passato remoto. 

Vivendo tra due lingue

4° episodio interviste Italiani per il mondo

1]There are eleven vowels and thirty three consonants in Hindi, whereas there are thirteen vowels and thirty three consonants in Sanskrit.
2]There are three Numbers in Sanskrit. They are Singular, Dual and Plural. Only more than two are considered Plural. In Hindi, there are only two numbers. They are Singular and Plural.
3]There are three genders in Sanskrit. They are Masculine, Feminine and Neutral. In Hindi there are just Masculine and Feminine genders.
4] In Hindi, the verb changes according to person, number and gender. In Sanskrit, the verb changes according to person and number only. It does not change according to gender.
5] In Hindi the last syllable of the word is pronounced half, whereas in Sanskrit, it is pronounced completely unless marked by ‘Halant’ . Halant is a symbol to pronounce the syllable half.
6]There are only two types of vowels in Hindi. They are Short and long vowels [Hrasva and Deergha svaras]. In Sanskrit, there are three types of vowels; Hrasva, Deergha and Pluta. Pluta is an elongated vowel. Eg: Raaaamaaa, Krishnaaaa, Aagachchaaaa, etc
7]One remarkable difference between the two is with regard to case endings. Unlike Hindi, Sanskrit is an inflecting language.
8]Because Sanskrit is an inflecting language, word order does not matter at all. In Hindi, word order matters.

Learn Fluent Hindi with Professor Ashish...

Similarities & differences in Hindi and Sanskrit

Dans ce deuxième épisode, on va discuter des pommes, ce fameux fruit que tout le monde consomme 🍎 et typique de la Normandie!

Donc voilà, le podcast

Épisode 2 - Les pommes et la Normandie

【北海道Hokkaido生活】
4月15日金曜日　天気/くもり　気温/7℃ 

北斗市/ほくとし
新函館北斗駅/しんはこだてほくとえき
・先月16日にあった地震の影響で、新幹線が動けない場所があった。
・一ヶ月ぶりに動いた
・北斗市から東京まで直通運転が再開

［単語］
影響/えいきょう…理由があって、変わること
〜（時間）ぶりに…長い時間がすぎたと感じる
直通/ちょくつう…行きたい場所に、一度で行けること
再開/さいかい…また始まる