Change your positive to the negative: Instead of ‘Do you think this is a good idea?’ Say  ‘Do you think this is a bad idea?’ - The act of phrasing your question in the negative will make people actually stop and think and give you a reasoned response rather than a ‘yes, yes….’ and have them carry on ignoring you or just not paying attention.



All Ways Business

FLIP

我不仅长得帅，也很有钱。
她不仅长得美，而且性格乐观。
这道数学题不仅可以这样做，还有更多的计算方法呢。
玫瑰花不仅花儿美丽，它还有药用价值呢。

喵喵说汉语---HSK 4

不仅...也/而且/还

Te contare que la motivación es super importante para aprender un idioma y para todo en la vida. Enfocarte en lo que quieres te mantendrá motivado y con mucha disciplina lo lograrás.
cierra tus ojos y escucha; close your eyes and listen...

close your eyes and listen/ cierra tus ojos y escucha

La motivación

Latein – ja oder nein?

(A)  Lange Zeit war es in Deutschland ein UNVERZICHTBARER Teil der höheren Bildung: Latein. Vieles sprach dafür: Die Beschäftigung mit dieser alten Sprache zwang Schüler dazu, detaillierte Grammatik-Kenntnisse zu erwerben. 
(B)  Wer weitere Fremdsprachen lernen wollte, konnte IN DER REGEL auf dieser Basis aufbauen. Nicht nur Grammatik, auch ein Großteil des Vokabulars findet sich in modernen romanischen Sprachen wieder. Selbst für das Englische sind Lateinkenntnisse sehr nützlich. 
(C)  Und schließlich basiert im Deutschen fast das ganze Spektrum an Fremdwörtern auf der lateinischen Sprache. Anders ausgedrückt, wer Latein kann, hat kein Problem, sich auf einem hohen sprachlichen Niveau auszudrücken.
(D)  Und doch legen neue Studien nahe, dass man heutzutage besser Zeit und Mühe in das Lernen einer modernen Fremdsprache investieren sollte. In unserer globalisierten Welt kann man nicht früh genug damit beginnen, sich Sprachen anzueignen, in denen man konkret mit anderen Menschen kommunizieren kann. Wer dann noch Zeit und Lust und Energie hat, kann Latein ja jederzeit als Hobby betreiben.

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17_Latein - ja oder nein?

Nivel A2 en Adelante. 
Tema: Cultura Latinoamericana. Vocabulario.

Hoy les hablo DE PANA, si... de la palabra "PANA" en uno de sus tantos significados. Expresión muy común con un sentimiento de amistad. Comparto ejemplos y comentarios sobre su origen y uso. Gracias por sugerir el tema, por sus comentarios y por suscribirse. Los espero en clase de PANA que si 😉. Chao mis panas.

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12. ¡Epa mis PANAS!. Saludo con sabor caribeño.

Recycled Human Hair Is Cleaning Belgian Water
Imagine if the hair caught in your drain could actually help to clean it.

That's what's happening in Belgium, where human hair is being recycled to help clean the country's water.

Around the country, hairdressers are taking the hair they cut from their customers' heads and putting it into bags. These bags of hair are then collected by a non-profit organization that runs a project called "Hair Recycle."

The hair collected by Hair Recycle is put through a machine and made into 60-centimeter-wide square mats. These mats can then be put into a drain to absorb oil and other pollution before it gets into a river or stream.

According to the Hair Recycle website, 1 kilogram of hair can absorb up to 8 liters of oil.

To take part in the project, hair salons have to pay a small fee. They then receive bags to collect the hair, and a sticker for their window, so they can show their customers that they are helping the environment.

Salons in Luxembourg and the Netherlands are also taking part in the Hair Recycle project.

Belgium's Hair Recycle is not the only hair recycling project, however. In the UK and Ireland, a company called Green Salon Collective is recycling hair and other waste from salons, including metal, paper, plastic and chemicals.

And a similar company called Green Circle Salons is recycling hair and other salon waste in the US and Canada.

So maybe hair in the drain can be a good thing?

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Recycled Human Hair Is Cleaning Belgian Water

In today's episode, a Ukrainian student, Kateryna, talks about the day that she met the war, and how her life in Kiev has changed in recent months. This is not a political podcast; it is the heart-wrenching story from the mouth of one student who has been affected by the conflict. In the podcast, Kateryna talks about how she was over 1,000km from her children when the fighting started, and her journey to find safety as war raged around her. She also speaks about the little creature comforts she misses from home, and how her love for her husband has grown even stronger since the outbreak of the war. Most importantly, she talks about her hopes for the future, once the fighting has stopped. Listen now to Kateryna's moving story.

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A Ukrainian student talks about the day she met the war

Vol.32 Roof vs Rooftop屋根vs屋上　やねvsおくじょう

屋根vs屋上　やねvsおくじょう
お屋敷　おやしき　a mansion
お化け屋敷　おばけやしき　a haunted house
豪邸　ごうてい　a luxurious house/a mansion
屋台　やたい　a food stall
夜店　よみせ　a night stall
出店　でみせ a stall
屋号　やごう store name
何でも屋　なんでもや whatever, handyman
便利屋　べんりや whatever, handyman
魚屋　さかなや a fishmonger
八百屋　やおや a grocer
電気屋　でんきや a electrician
ガス屋　がすや  a gas shop or person 

[人の性格でも]

気取り屋　きどりや　a pretentious person
分からず屋　わからずや　an obstinate person 
がんばり屋　がんばりや　a hard worker
恥ずかしがり屋　はずかしがりや a shy person 

根 ね   roots \根っこ　ねっこ roots
木　き a tree
幹　みき a trunk 
枝　えだ　a branch
葉　は、葉っぱ　はっぱ  leaves
土　つち　soil
丸太　まるた　a log 
丸太小屋　まるたごや　a log cabin
年輪　ねんりん　annual rings
樹　き/じゅ　a tree before harvesting
樹齢 じゅれい tree ages
樹液　じゅえき　sap 


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Vol.32 Roof vs Rooftop　屋根vs屋上　やねvsおくじょう

Online reviews are everywhere, whether you're looking for a movie to watch, a hotel to stay in or a new air fryer.

Many of us read these reviews carefully, even though we probably know that not all reviews are unbiased — or even real.

Now, researchers have found out something interesting about online reviews: women generally rate things higher than men.

The researchers looked at more than 1 billion online reviews on five different websites, including Amazon, Google and the movie site IMDb.

They found that, on average, women rate things more positively than men, and are more likely to give five-star reviews.

The research team then did two smaller studies to find out why this might be. They said women don't actually like things any more or any less than men, but they still generally leave better reviews.

In one of those smaller studies, more than 1,100 people were asked to rate art made by artificial intelligence software. They were asked to rate the art privately and then publicly.

Privately, there was not much of a difference between male and female ratings.

But when participants were asked to write public reviews, women were less likely to post lower ratings, especially when they really didn't like the art.

The researchers said women may feel more worried than men about the consequences of writing bad reviews.

They added that everyone should be able to write reviews without being worried about the consequences.