There Is a Bird on Your Head!" is a funny book for kids by Mo Willems. It's about two friends, Gerald the elephant and Piggie the pig. Gerald finds a bird on his head, and they try to figure out what to do. I hope you enjoy hearing this story told by me, Teacher Amanda. To read this book with me in class and see the hilarious illustrations, book a Story Time Lesson with me!

Story Time for Kids with Teacher Amanda

Episode 1: There is a Bird on Your Head by Mo Willems

Reading of the short story "A Beleza Total" ("The Total Beauty") by the Brazilian modernist writer and poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. 

In this episode, we work on textual interpretation and vocabulary, with the indication of tenses for some of the verbs contained in the text.

Practice your listening and (why not) your reading as well by grabbing a copy of this modernist text (easily found on Google) while listening to this special episode.

Verb tenses mentioned in the vocabulary section: 

* Pretérito Perfeito
* Pretérito Imperfeito
* Pretérito-mais-que-perfeito

Target audience: Portuguese Students from B1 Level 
Length: ~6 minutes

Music used in the podcast
Song: Brazilian Sunsets, by Ketsa
Source: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/
Free to use with attribution

Braziliant

Reading "A Beleza Total", by Carlos Drummond de Andrade

明けましておめでとうございます！Happy New Year！
Episode76 新年の抱負　New Year's resolutions
2025年にしたいこと、チャレンジしたいことについて話します。

仕事では、このpodcastの内容を充実させたいです。日本語を学習している人の役に立つ内容にしたいです。日本語を聞く力や話す力をのばせる内容にしていきたいと思っています。
プライベートでは、ドイツに旅行しようと思っています。ドイツに友だちがいて、遊びにおいでと言ってくれているので。それから、HONDAのモーターバイク、カブで遠出をすること、バイオリンをもっと練習して上手に弾けるようになること、英語力をアップすること、ドイツ旅行のためにドイツ語の勉強をしたいと思っています。
もう一つ、絶対しなければならないことがあります。それは、健康のためにやせることです。2024年は病気で入院手術をしたので、今年は歩いたり、運動したり、そして食べ過ぎないようにしたいと思っています。これが　私の2025年の抱負です。

新年の抱負（ほうふ）: New Year's resolutions
仕事面（しごとめん）: In terms of work / Work aspect
充実（じゅうじつ）させたい: Want to enrich / Want to make fulfilling
役に立つ（やくにたつ）: Useful / Helpful
バージョンアップ: Upgrade
悩（なや）みながら: While struggling / With worries
伸（の）ばす: Improve / Enhance / Develop
やり方（かた）: Method / Way of doing things / Approach
力（ちから）になる: Be helpful / Be supportive / Be beneficial
プライベート: Personal / Private life
海外旅行（かいがいりょこう）: Overseas travel / International trip
計画を立てる（けいかくを　たてる）: Make plans / Plan out
～ているところです: (Be) in the process of ～
遠出（とおで）: Going on a trip / Travelling far
小1時間（こいちじかん）: About an hour / Roughly one hour
趣味（しゅみ）: Hobby
力になる: Be helpful / Be beneficial
つづけていきたい: Want to continue
欲張り（よくばり）: Greedy / Ambitious
質問（しつもん）される: Be asked questions
別の言語（べつのげんご）: Another language / A different language
困らない程度（こまらない　ていど）: To a level where one won’t struggle / Sufficient level
絶対（ぜったい）: Absolutely / Definitely
体調（たいちょう）: Physical condition / Health
入院（にゅういん）: Hospitalization
手術（しゅじゅつ）: Surgery / Operation
やせる: Lose weight
10キロ以上（いじょう）: More than 10 kilograms
重（おも）すぎる: Too heavy
健康的（けんこうてき）な体作り（からだづくり）: Building a healthy body / Creating a healthy physique

やさしい日本語（にほんご）

Episode76新年の抱負(しんねんのほうふ）New Year's resolutions

In this episode, I talk about some tips to help you speak better English. I hope you find them useful and if you want me to send you the booklets I mention, send me a message here on italki.

Kev's English Podcast

Kev's English Podcast: Episode 3: Three tips to improve your spoken English!..

A short story. let's listen and find the idioms and slang words

English My Way

Whispering Pine

In this audio, you'll practice your Thai listening skills with a conversation about weather preferences and differences in tastes. You'll learn how to ask questions about the weather, talk about what kind of food you like, and discover how to describe your movie preferences. This video highlights useful vocabulary related to weather, food, and expressing differences in opinions.

Thai with Nariss 

Episode 1 : Preference 

こんにちは、あかりです。おすすめの日本のバンド、第3回目(だい さんかいめ)です！

Usage of Slow Japanese:
STEP 1. Listen to the episode without seeing the scripts.
STEP 2. Go to mochifika.com/podcast/ and check "Key vocabularies of this episode", and listen again to the episode while seeing the list.
STEP 3. Check the whole script, it'll fill the gap in your understanding.

👉Support the Mochifika project, and see full scripts + access to the additional materials!
https://www.patreon.com/mochifika

Slow Japanese

Episode #46 - My favorite Japanese band 3

A quick episode featuring 5 great words to learn and use on the topic of language.

IELTS Vocab

IELTS Vocabulary - Language

Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1msoJB-YipN8YvIzTWwhPs48AJfthxsqK/view?usp=drivesdk