Books are there to give you concepts and sentence structures, as well as ideas but I always caution students that overdoing textbook English will make you sound robotic during a normal conversation. You can memorize all the advanced vocabulary but when you talk to people in a social setting, it is a different matter. You will sound like someone reading something.

FLO TALKS 

HOW TO SPEAK NATURALLY? (NOT TEXTBOOK ENGLISH)

Oi gente, aqui é Aneleh, sua tutora de português favorita. No podcast de hoje, vou contar para vocês a lenda do folclore brasileiro chamada "A Lenda do boto cor-de-rosa". No final, trarei algumas palavras com seus significados em inglês para ajudar caso vocês tenham dificuldade com o vocabulário. 
Se quiser acompanhar a descrição do podcast é só clicar nesse link:
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Hi everyone, this is Aneleh, your favorite Portuguese tutor. In today's podcast, I'm going to tell you the legend of Brazilian folklore called "The Legend of the Pink Boto". In the end, I will bring some words with their meanings in English to help if you have difficulty with vocabulary.
If you want to follow the description of the podcast, just click on this link:
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Portuguese Drops 

Lendas do Brasil - Boto cor-de-rosa

Halo semua! 
Apa yang kalian lakukan di akhir minggu? 
Saya menonton seri televisi Indonesia berjudul "Badai pasti berlalu". 
Sinetron (sinema elektronik) ini diadaptasi dari novel terkenal oleh penulis Marga.T. 
Kalau kalian tertarik, silahkan baca bukunya atau nonton ya! 

Kalian tahu artinya "Badai pasti berlalu?" 
"Badai pasti berlalu" adalah peribahasa yang punya arti, 
masa-masa sulit yang dialami oleh seseorang tidak akan terjadi selamanya, pasti punya akhir. Setelah itu akan ada perubahan atau keadaan yang lebih baik di masa depan. 
Di Bahasa Inggris, artinya "The storm will pass", di Bahasa Jepang saya sering dengar 
嵐が過ぎ去る 。
Kalian percaya peribahasa ini? Saya percaya. 
Jadi siapa pun yang sekarang sedang mengalami masa sulit, percayalah badai pasti berlalu! Semangat ya! 

Selamat hari Senin! Selamat beraktivitas semua! ^^


Akhir minggu

Badai pasti berlalu

Creating conversation is really quite easy. All you have to do is learn how to ask questions and be interested in the answers. I believe that this ability is at the very heart of business.

English for Business

Learn how to ask questions in order to create rapport

¡Hola a todos! Welcome to our Spanish lesson series. Today, we're going to explore a crucial verb tense: the preterite tense (el pretérito indefinido), also known as the simple past in Spanish. In this video, we'll dive into the rules, conjugations, and main uses of this verb tense so you can talk about past actions with confidence and precision. Get ready to master the past in Spanish and take your fluency to the next level! Let's get started!

Super Basic Spanish

Easy Spanish Grammar: El Pretérito Indefinido (The Simple Past)

In 1950s America, smoking was cool, with movie stars like James Dean and Marlene Dietrich making it look stylish. Cigarette companies even claimed smoking was good for you, with one famous advertisement claiming, "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette."

But things started to change in 1951, when a British scientist found a link between smoking and lung cancer.

Today, things look very different, and smoking in the US is at its lowest level in 80 years.

In the 1950s, nearly half of US adults smoked. Now, according to a poll from Gallup, only 11% of American adults say they've smoked in the past week — half the number from 10 years ago.

One reason is that more people now see smoking as bad for you, with 79% of Americans agreeing that cigarettes are very harmful.

Another major reason is that fewer young adults are smoking.

Young adults used to smoke the most out of any age group, but now they're the least likely to smoke. In the early 2000s, 35% of US adults under 30 smoked, but today, it's just 6%. Instead, it's the older generation that are the biggest smokers these days, with 18% of adults aged 50 to 64 saying they smoke.

Although smoking may be declining, vaping is becoming more popular.

Vaping, or using e-cigarettes, is less common than smoking, with just 7% of adults saying they vape. But vaping is more popular with young adults, and nearly 1 in 5 of American adults under 30 vape.

And if they keep vaping into middle age — and if young people today start vaping as they grow up — vaping might soon become more common than smoking.

Health experts say even though vaping is less harmful than smoking, it's best to avoid both.

English Conversation/Dialogue

US Smoking Hits 80-Year Low

لن يستطيع الإنسان مهما كان أن يرضي جميع الناس ولذا عليه أن يقول الحق ولا يخاف من الناس

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Today’s Theme is “ゲーム《video game》 ”.
This episode is JLPT-N5 level.

I created a quiz on this episode.
After listening, please take the quiz!

Please use this audio for listening and shadowing practices.

☆Words☆
趣味（しゅみ / shumi）：interest, hobby
紹介する（しょうかいする / shōkaisuru）：introduce
マリオ（まりお / mario）：Mario《game character》
小学生（しょうがくせい / shōgakusē）：elementary school student
任天堂（にんてんどう / nintendō）：Nintendo《video game software company》
スーパーファミコン（すーぱーふぁみこん / sūpā famikon）：SUPER Famicom《This is a home video game console sold by Nintendo in the 1990s.》
ゲーム機（げーむき / gēmu ki）：game console
ゲームボーイ（げーむぼーい / gēmu bōi）：Game Boy《This is a handheld video game console sold by Nintendo in the 1990s.》
すばらしい（subarashī）：wonderful
SONY（そにー / sonī）：SONY《Japanese general electronics manufacturer》
PlayStation（ぷれいすてーしょん / purē sutēshon）：PlayStation《This is a home video game console sold by SONY.》
アニメーション（あにめーしょん / animēshon）：animation
 RPG（あーるぴーじー / ārupījī）：role-playing game
ファイナルファンタジー（ふぁいなるふぁんたじー / fainaru fantajī）：final fantasy《RPG》
中学生（ちゅうがくせい / chūgakusē）：junior high school student
首（くび / kubi）：neck
肩（かた / kata）：shoulder
動く（うごく / ugoku）：move
顔（かお / kao）：face
そのまま（sonomama）：as it is
びっくりする（bikkurisuru）：to be surprised
笑う（わらう / warau）：laugh
マッサージをする（まっさーじをする / massāji o suru）：massage
お風呂に 入る（おふろに はいる / ofuro ni hairu）：take a bath
switch（すいっち / suicchi）：switch《This is a handheld video game console sold by Nintendo.》
ゲームソフト（げーむそふと / gēmu sofuto）：game software
ダウンロードする（だうんろーどする / daunrōdo suru）：download
どうぶつの森（どうぶつのもり / dōbutsu no mori）：Animal Crossing《This is a game software developed by Nintendo.》

☆Grammar☆
・adjective（past）
・te-form
・～なければいけません：must do something
・～ことができます：able to do; can

☆Script for this episode
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Simple Japanese Listening with Meg（めぐ）Smile

#25 ゲーム / video game  // N5 Level

"Invest in yourself." This is something we often hear from motivational speakers but we probably also heard that from our teachers, parents and friends. Perhaps, it is because of the fact that YOU are your best investment, whether it is with knowledge or skills. In this podcast, I will be sharing three principles of personal development.