We are continuing the topic of online shopping and talking about advantages and disadvantages of it. We will learn some cool phrases such as ‘have both pros and cons’ and ‘time and effort-saving’ in the show as well.

Note: This podcast is intended for language learning ONLY. Not for promoting or criticizing any political party or ideology. Let’s keep it friendly and accessible to all :)

Also, all of the experiences are the hosts’ own experiences so please do your own research if you need more information.



Chillchat (Learn Chinese and Chill)

Pros and Cons of Online Shopping

**This story contains graphic and explicit material it is not recommended for children. For mature audiences only** 18+

In this episode the hen interprets every death on her farm as evidence of God’s judgments on the undeserving, and takes skewed life lessons from the deaths. 

Send me a message me for your free pdf copy of this book and if you would like discuss it.
I hope you enjoy it.


Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris read by me Teacher Alyse
Illustrations by Ian Falconer

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk and other stories from David Sedaris ( Adult 18+) 

The Judicious Brown Chicken 18+

안녕하세요. 
오늘은 제가 한 잘못된 선택에 대해서 이야기할 거예요. 

제가 살고 있는 곳에는 오늘 눈이 정말 많이 내렸어요. 
눈이 아주 많이 내려서 앞이 안 보일 정도였어요.

앞이 안 보일 정도로 많은 눈이 내리면 길을 걷는 것도 힘들어요. 
그런데 제가 실수로 겨울용 부츠(boots)가 아닌 운동화를 신고 나가버렸어요. 
날씨가 추우니까 옷을 따뜻하게 입어야 하는 것은 생각했는데
신발을 미처 생각하지 못했어요. 

한국어 수업을 하러 출근하는 길이 정말 미끄러웠어요.
너무 미끄러워서 넘어질 뻔한 순간들이 많았어요,

다행히 한 번도 넘어지지 않았지만, 넘어지지 않으려고 미끄러운 길을 계속 신경을 쓰면서 걸어야 했어요. 그리고 학교에 도착했을 때, 저는 이미 너무 피곤했어요. 

미끄러운 길을 30분 동안 걷는 게 은근히 사람을 피곤하게 만들더라고요. 

한국어 수업이 끝나고 다시 집에 돌아오는 퇴근 길,
저는 그 미끄러운 길을 다시 걸어와야 했어요.

발가락에 힘을 딱 주고, 안 넘어지기 위해서 진짜 노력했어요. 
그리고 다짐했어요.

아~ 이제 정말로 눈이 오면 무조건 부츠만 신어야겠다. 운동화는 절대 안 된다.

오늘같이 눈이 많이 오는 날에  운동화를 선택한 것은 정말 잘못된 선택이었어요.

다시는 이런 선택을 하지 않을 거예요.

미끄러운 길 때문에 출퇴근길이 조금 피곤하고 힘들었지만 
눈이 오는 날에 운동화를 신으면 안 된다는 소중한 교훈을 얻었습니다. 

여러분이 살고 있는 곳의 날씨는 어때요?
혹시 제가 살고 있는 곳처럼 눈이 많이 내리고 있으면
조심해서 길을 걸어야 해요. 다치지 말고 건강하게 겨울을 잘 보내기를 바랍니다.

감사합니다. 


Korean with Rumi

잘못된 선택_A wrong choice

In today's episode, we talk about Sa'di Shirazi's famous poem on the interconnectedness of human beings from his Golestan, a famous and monumental work of classical Persian poetry.

Persian with Mohsen (Advanced)

Episode (2): The Persian Poetry Podcast: Sa'di Shirazi: Human Beings Are Members of a Whole

(esta conversación está dirigida a un paciente MASCULINO, tomen en cuenta hacer en FEMENINO las frases para uno y otro) 

En esta primera consulta exploraremos como sería interrogar a un paciente con diabetes. Intenta decir las frases después de escucharlas en inglés, ahora decirlas en español.
Este es un nuevo tipo de episodio que me sugirió una alumna. Por favor cuéntenme si les gusta o no, si les gustaría que se hiciera diferente etc.

Les dejo algunas de las frases utilizadas en este episodio:
- Hola, buenas tardes, por favor tome asiento.
- Cuénteme ¿por qué viene hoy a consulta/al médico?
- ¿Desde cuándo comenzó esta sensación de cansancio?
- Estoy viendo sus signos vitales y laboratorios y su glucosa está por arriba de 200, ¿Le han dicho algo sobre su glucosa antes?
- Vamos a tener que corroborar este laboratorio, pero primero le voy a seguir haciendo algunas preguntas más.
- ¿Hay otros problemas de salud en su familia? /Existen otros problemas en su familia
- ¿Ha sido hospitalizado alguna vez?
- ¿Lo han operado algún vez?
- ¿Alguna enfermedad que tenga, o que necesite tomar medicamento para algo?
- ¿Cómo son sus hábitos de alimentación?
- ¿Usted realiza algún tipo de ejercicio?
- ¿Le han puesto alguna vacuna últimamente?
- ¿Además de sentirse cansado, tendera algún otro síntoma?
-Bien ahora lo revisaré rápidamente para ver como está.
- Le dejaré aquí la bata, por favor retire su ropa.
- Voy a salir para que esté más cómodo, por favor avíseme cuando esté listo.
- Le voy a tocar la cabeza ¿está bien?
- Le duele aquí, o aquí, que tal acá.
- Si algo duele, molesta o se siente incómodo por favor hágamelo saber.
- Después de esta prueba rápida de laboratorio y todo lo que me ha dicho hoy, hay una probabilidad de que tenga diabetes.
- Voy a necesitar que se realize un estudio confirmatorio
- Para comenzar, vamos a cambiar algunos hábitos de alimentación
- Me gustaría verlo aquí en dos semanas ya con los resultados de laboratorio.
- ¿Tiene algún duda?


Tomemos una taza de café 

Episodio 4 - Consulta médica paciente con Diabetes ESPAÑOL MÉDICO (INT/AV)

Escucha el diálogo y responde a las preguntas:
a) ¿En qué estación del año se encuentran? 
b) ¿Qué opciones tienen para las vacaciones?
c) ¿Qué destino prefiere Joan? 
d) ¿Qué destino prefiere Santi? 
e) ¿Qué deciden finalmente?

Un bocado de español

¿Montaña o playa?

The "th" sound is the hardest sound for everybody. You need to give it special attention.

Tongue twisters with “th”
		The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
		
		I thought a thought. But the thought I thought Wasn’t the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought, Had been the thought I thought, I wouldn’t have thought I thought.
		
		Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug – although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty-year-old thug thought of that morning.
		
		Thirty-three thousand feathers on a thrushes throat.


English for IT Pros

The th Sound in English

Muchas de las expresiones coloquiales en español se construyen utilizando una parte del cuerpo. 
Por ejemplo, "tener mucha cara".
En este episodio descubrirás algunas de las más usadas por los nativos y te ayudarán a entender mejor las conversaciones.

Español con Maite

Expresiones coloquiales con las partes del cuerpo

NASA has given SpaceX an $843 million contract to build the vehicle that will help to destroy the International Space Station (ISS).

Space X, a company that's controlled by Elon Musk, will build the vehicle but the mission will be led by NASA.

The ISS was launched in 1998 and it's likely that it will have to be removed from space in the next few years.

The station is operated by space agencies from the US, Europe, Japan, Canada and Russia. All the countries involved have said they'll operate the station until 2030 except Russia, which has said it will operate it until 2028.

Teams of astronauts have been living in the space station since 2000. During that time, they have done more than 3,300 experiments in space.

It's expected that the SpaceX vehicle will pull the ISS through space before landing it in the sea. Both are likely to break apart as they re-enter Earth's atmosphere.

NASA said that it will be focusing on "commercially owned space destinations closer to home" as life on the ISS comes to an end.

The contract is seen as another vote of confidence for the company that Musk founded in 2002.

But experts say it won't be easy bringing such a large space station back to Earth safely.

Meghan Bartels from Scientific American said it will be a "delicate" challenge.

She said it took 42 different launches to send the ISS into space, where it was put together in orbit.

She added: "The orbiting laboratory contains about as much internal space as a six-bedroom house spread over an area the size of a football field," and that it weighs almost as much as three blue whales.

It's not yet known what the vehicle will look like or exactly when the mission will take place.