Everyone has something to say about transport systems, and if this topic appears in your IELTS Speaking test, you’ll want to be ready with clear ideas, natural expressions, and impressive vocabulary. Listen closely, and don’t forget to take the quiz at the end—it will help you practise some of the idioms featured in today’s episode.

IELTS SPEAKING WITH LIZ UK

EP 2: TRANSPORT SYSTEMS

Welcome to episode 3 of my podcast. 

This podcast is for people who are learning English and who want to know more about Scotland. 

In this episode you will find out what the national animal of Scotland is, what happened when Scotland played England for the first time at football, and which Canary island has the same flag as Scotland. 

Transcripts are available. Please send me a message if you would like a copy. 

Scotland - Everything I've Ever Had

0003: Six More Facts About Scotland

Here we continue the story, you will notice it becoming harder and harder language and more structures and tenses. If it becomes to hard then that's oke, you can go back to previous chapters and practice a bit more. 

Beginner book Dutch A1-A2

Chapter 7 Page 1 - Tandem 

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

"Seek the company of those who know the heart's secrets, rest beneath the tree that bears the ripest fruit. In the market of life, choose not the idle wanderer's path but the shop filled with sweetness. Not every bubbling pot holds a feast, not every pen writes truths, not every gaze sees beyond the surface, not every ocean bed holds pearls."

Learn English and Farsi with teacher Ela

Rumi 01 - Farsi

前回のエピソードで「休み」の重要な使い方を説明するのを忘れていました。前回のエピソードをまだ聞いていない人は後で聞いてみてください。

「今日私は休みです。」皆さんはこの文の意味がわかりますか？これは「今日私は仕事がありません。」という意味です。
アルバイトをしている人は「バイトがない」「シフトがない」という意味です。
何かの理由があって仕事に行かなかった場合には「今日学校を休んでいます」「昨日仕事を休みました」と言います。
仕事の予定がなかった場合は「今日は休みです」「昨日は休みでした」と言います。
また連休という言葉を聞いたことがありますか？連休とは連続した休みのことです。例えば、土日がいつも休みの人の場合、月曜日が祝日で休みの時は土曜日と日曜日と月曜日が休みなので三連休になります。

みなさんは次の連休に何をしますか？
よかったら私のレッスンに来て教えてください。

重要な：じゅうような　important
予定：よてい　plan
連続した：れんぞくした　consecutive
祝日：しゅくじつ　national holiday

Nihongo Short Story by Noriko

休みと連休-Today’s Word

I was watching the podcast of Vivian Tu, when I noticed some remarks on the comment section are saying that she is very masculine. I believe that many women in business had to toughen up a bit and become more like men so that they can succeed. For somehow, who  is also trying her luck in business, I felt like my character is becoming more of a man and I am losing my feminine side because I can't even cry anymore.

FLO TALKS 

WHY WOMEN IN BUSINESS ,SOCIAL MEDIA AND TOUGH INDUSTRIES BECOME MASCULINE?

こんにちは！
Japanese daily life podcast のAtsushiです。
このPodcastは、日本語を楽しく勉強しているみなさんに向けたPodcastです。

ぼくの日常生活の話を聞くことで、日本語のリスニングをよくしたり、新しい言葉を知ってもらえたらいいなと思います。

さて、今日は日本の祝日について。
今日2/11は建国記念日です。

日本ができた、とされる日です。

今日が祝日になったのは、1967年。
はじめの天皇が即位した日、天皇になった日のことですね。

それが、現在の2/11とされています。

それで、今は2/11が建国記念日になっている、ということですね。

神社などでは行事があるみたいですが、ぼくは参加したことはありません。ほとんどの人にとっては、普通の祝日だと思います。

みなさんの国には、建国記念日みたいな祝日はありますか？

そんな話をぜひ日本語のオンラインレッスンでお話しましょう！

お待ちしています！

ということで、今回は以上です。
最後まで聞いていただき、ありがとうございます！

ではまた！





Atsushi のJapanese podcast (travel/news /文法・漢字・語彙/Osaka/Hokkaido/🇹🇷🇬🇪🇦🇲🇪🇸🇵🇹)

#447 日本🇯🇵 2/11は建国記念日！

The cutting of huge figures or ‘geoglyphs’ into the earth of English hillsides has taken place for more than 3,000 years. There are 56 hill figures scattered around England, with the vast majority on the chalk down lands of the country’s southern counties. The figures include giants, horses, crosses and regimental badges. Although the majority of these geoglyphs date within the last 300 years or so, there are one or two that are much older.

The most famous of these figures is perhaps also the most mysterious — the Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire. The White Horse has recently been re-dated and shown to be even older than its previously assigned ancient pre-Roman Iron Age* date. More controversial is the date of the enigmatic Long Man of Wilmington in Sussex. While many historians are convinced the figure is prehistoric, others believe that it was the work of an artistic monk from a nearby priory and was created between the 11th and 15th centuries.
The method of cutting these huge figures was simply to remove the overlying grass to reveal the gleaming white chalk below. However, the grass would soon grow over the geoglyph again unless it was regularly cleaned or scoured by a fairly large team of people. One reason that the vast majority of hill figures have disappeared is that when the traditions associated with the figures faded, people no longer bothered or remembered to clear away the grass to expose the chalk outline. Furthermore, over hundreds of years the outlines would sometimes change due to people not always cutting in exactly the same place, thus creating a different shape to the original geoglyph. The fact that any ancient hill figures survive at all in England today is testament to the strength and continuity of local customs and beliefs which, in one case at least, must stretch back over millennia.