Join in while I share with you some interesting ways of accessing language learning without pressure. I will also share some New Year’s rituals in our family that tie in with this same kind of physical approach to language learning that could also be seen as something of a philosophy.

Philosophical Friday

Foundations of Learning

من کتاب خوندن رو خیلی دوست دارم
ولی به جای “دوست دارم” می‌تونیم بگیم:
📖 “عاشق کتاب خوندنم”
یا
📖 “از کتاب خوندن لذت می‌برم”
یا
📖 “کتاب خوندن یکی از دلخوشی‌های منه.”

به موسیقی هم علاقه دارم و دارم سه‌تار یاد می‌گیرم — سه‌تار یه ساز سنتی ایرانیه.

تقریباً هر روز آشپزی می‌کنم و واقعاً ازش لذت می‌برم.


از گل و گیاه هم خیلی خوشم میاد.
می‌تونم بگم:
🌿 “گل و گیاه انرژی مثبت می‌دن.”
یا
🌿 “بدون گل، خونه‌م یه چیزی کم داره.”




Atefeh's Language Corner

Introduction

Bargeld oder Kreditkarte?
(A)  Indien hat es bereits getan:  Große Banknoten sind seit 2016 abgeschafft. Auch in einigen europäischen Ländern kann man Transaktionen  von mehr als 1000€  nicht mehr mit Bargeld durchführen und 2016 beendete die Europäische Zentralbank die Produktion von 500€-Scheinen.
(B)  Warum auch nicht?  Zum einen ist in einem System ohne Bargeld die Steuervermeidung viel schwieriger. Zum anderen sind Leute leichter zu finden, die für kriminelle Geschäfte große Geldmengen bewegen. Drittens gibt es im Supermarkt keine langwierige Suche nach Kleingeld mehr und keine Warteschlangen an der Kasse. Und viertens ist es auch nicht mehr besonders interessant, einer alten Dame die Handtasche zu entreißen, wenn kein Geld zu erbeuten ist.
(C)  Allerdings gibt es keine Medaille ohne Kehrseite: Viele von uns fühlen sich unter der Überwachung durch soziale Netzwerke schon lange nicht mehr wohl. Sollen nun auch die Banken alles über uns wissen? Wollen wir wirklich einem Kind seine eigene Bankkarte in die Hand geben? Und wie sieht es mit dem Almosen für einen Bettler und dem Trinkgeld für den Kellner im Restaurant aus?
(D)  Keine Frage: Wenn wir nur noch mit der Kreditkarte zahlen, machen wir uns total abhängig von digitalen Systemen und von der Technik. Mit Bargeld hingegen wird seit langer Zeit bezahlt; das funktioniert schnell und unproblematisch, es kostet keine Gebühren, verlangt kein Passwort und niemand kann es hacken.


LearnGermanToday

7_Bargeld oder Kreditkarte?

聊中西文化，也聊很多东西！
第十二期，我们来聊聊中国外国的美女，我们的审美有什么不同。

聊聊东西 - Talk to Me in Chinese

012. Talk about Beauty 谈美的中西差异 - ttmiChinese

In this episode of English Learners Boost, Teacher Ian—licensed professional science teacher and English tutor—dives into the power of experiential learning and how it can transform your English skills. Backed by brain-based research and practical classroom examples, you’ll discover how learning by doing helps you remember better, speak more confidently, and enjoy the process. Plus, find out how you can experience this method firsthand by booking a personalized lesson with Teacher Ian on iTalki!

English Learner's Boost

Experiential Learning

Not all eggs are white and not only birds lay eggs!
A fun story that talks about the importance of the person inside - that it is not important what colour skin we have.

[Easter egg image: By Ikonact - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1905684]

The Social Evolutionary

Why are Easter Eggs Different Colours? (A short story.)

Podcast by italki American English teacher Carl.
Book a lesson with me: https://teach.italki.com/teacher/1947582 
Welcome back to another episode of Streetwise English. I'm your host, Carl. Today, I want to talk about how to take better photos with your cell phone, with your mobile phone. Now, it doesn't matter if you have an iPhone or an Android phone, like a Samsung or Google Pixel or whatever Android phone you have. These techniques will all apply and they will all help you take better photos.

So let's begin. Number one, make sure that you have enough storage on your phone so that you can take photos. Now, I know that I have this problem all the time. I don't have enough storage space and so then I don't take the photo because I don't want to take up space. So do yourself a favor and back your photos up to the cloud or back up to an external device and make sure you have enough space to take the photo in the first place.

Number two is to carry a portable battery charger. So if your phone doesn't have power, you can't take photos. So carry just a little USB charger with your phone. All right. We're almost ready to actually begin taking photos.  So here we go for the actual taking photos. Clean your lens. So your phone lens will get oils off of your finger.
And that will make the images less clear and more blurry. So clean your lens. It can be with a t- shirt or whatever, but always, always, always clean your lens before you take photos with your phone.


Number two, when you take a picture, choose the hero of your photo. So that doesn't even if it's just taking a picture of your food where you've had what you're having for dinner. Choose whatever is the most important item on the plate. And make that your hero. So if that's your steak or if it's a piece of asparagus, make that the center of attention for the video.
It doesn't have to be in the dead center, but it should be the main subject. And that's also with a person. Sorry text count limit















Streetwise English

SWE11 Take better pictures with your phone

"Our world today is so competitive that sometimes even if you are not competing, people can see you as a competition."
- This is a valuable lesson that I learned about business.

FLO TALKS 

VALUABLE BUSINESS LESSONS BEGINNERS MUST KNOW

Featuring some busker´s music and a walk around a town called Irvine. The first part focuses on the word "movement".