今月、ついに日本も個人旅行を解禁しましたね！
皆さんは日本へ来る予定がありますか？
今回は、アヤがアヤ流の旅の楽しみ方について話します。

Japan is finally open to independent travelers this month!
Do you plan on coming to Japan?
This time, Aya talked about how to enjoy traveling in her own way.

♤ キーワード 
・現地（げんち：the actual place）  
・贅沢（ぜいたく：luxury, extravagance）
・ざっくり（rough）
・雑魚寝（ざこね：to sleep together  in a huddle on the floor）
・相部屋（あいべや：shared room）
・行程（こうてい：itinerary） 

♧ 理解度チェッククイズ 
1. アヤが旅を楽しむためにする３つのことは？

♢ 前回のクイズの答え 
1. 二人の血液型は？
→ Ｂ型
2. その血液型の特徴（1~5）について、唯一二人ともに当てはまった項目は？
→ マイペースでこだわりが強い
3. アヤとフミは、今までお互いを何型だと思っていた？
→ アヤはフミをＯ型、フミはアヤをＡ型だと思っていた。

BGM special thanks：MusMus

アヤさんとフミさんの日本語雑談（Aya and Fumi’s Japanese Chit-Chat）

Episode 15：旅の楽しみ方

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HOW TO Stop Translating From Your Native Language To English When Speaking

Hanna, ja i nasz pierwszy podcast :) A Wiktoria na świat przychodzi! 
W tym odcinku dowiesz się, dlaczego to dobrze, że w języku polskim są rodzaje.

POLISH YOUR POLISH

RODZAJ MA ZNACZENIE

An annual event involving dirt, beer and cash once again drew dozens of competitors to a ski resort in Maine on October 12.

More than 30 couples competed in the North American Wife Carrying Championship, a 254-meter race during which competitors splash through water, jump over logs and trudge through mud — all while carrying their partner on their backs or shoulders.

The event began in Finland, with the first official event taking place in 1992. It has grown in popularity since then — the World Championship is held annually in the region of Sonkajärvi, and the North American Championship has taken place in Maine every year since 1999.

Traditionally, the Finnish event involved male competitors carrying a woman. At the competition in Maine, couples didn't have to be married to compete, nor did they have to be a man and a woman.

One participant — the carrier — was dressed as Mr Incredible, while his "wife" was dressed in pink. They and others were cheered on by crowds on both sides of the course at Sunday River ski resort.

Most of the participants use a technique in which the "wife" is carried like a backpack — upside down — to keep their arms free as they run. Wearing smiles and grimaces, competitors end up wet and muddy.

The champion leaves with the weight of the "wife" in beer and five times their weight in cash. To estimate the amount they win, the winning partner is put on one side of a see-saw-like scale that organizers balance out on the other side with cases of beer.

"We come each year for the fun," said Wade Porterfield of Cuba, New York, who competed with his wife, Sara Porterfield. "There is really a low chance of us winning. Pretty much everybody cheers everybody on and it's a blast."

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Couples Compete in US Wife-Carrying Competition

به این اپیزود خوش آمدید!

Once Upon a Time

شازده کوچولو، فصل ششم

¿Te gusta la música tanto como a mí? 

Escucha este podcast: ¡a mí me gustó!

Lo hice con mucho cariño para ayudarte un poco a aprender vocabulario sobre la música 

Hablar por hablar (Listening)

La musik 

"If you were an ice cream flavor, which one would you be, and why?"

This may be your idea of a nightmare interview question — and yes, employers really use it.

Your answer won't reveal anything about your ability to, say, use Microsoft Excel or drive a forklift truck. But it may tell your potential boss something about your "soft skills."

It's been said that hard skills will get you an interview, but soft skills will get you a job.

Hard skills are things you might learn at university, like how to write computer code or speak French.

Soft skills are the things you might not be able to prove with a qualification, but that will help you succeed in the workplace.

These could include being good at things like problem-solving, time management, and communicating with others or understanding how they feel — even being a good listener.

Employers say soft skills are more important than ever as the world adapts to remote and hybrid working patterns, because being able to communicate clearly and adapt to new situations is even more vital to success.

Some have called soft skills innate. But can we learn them or at least improve them?

"Yes," says jobs website Indeed.

It says the keys are to communicate regularly with the people on your team, be open to feedback, and pay attention to the way others overcome challenges including how they interact with people to do so.

Indeed also says it's important to simply get to work on time. This will help with time management, and also helps you achieve your goals and stand out from your colleagues.

Amanda Vickers, CEO of training company Speak First, told The Guardian that it's also important to try to understand what other people's needs and motives might be. This will help you adapt and work successfully with different people.

So, which ice cream flavor are you?

Well, the flavor isn't important but your answer could demonstrate soft skills such as creativity, quick thinking and even self-awareness.

Just don't choose vanilla.

Succeed at Work by Developing Your Soft Skills

いっかい　 the first floor
にかい　    the second floor
さんがい/さんかい　the third floor
よんかい/よんがい　the forth floor
ごかい　 the fifth floor
ろっかい　the sixth floor
ななかい　the seventh floor
はっかい　the eighth floor
きゅうかい　the nineth floor 
じゅっかい　the tenth floor
ちか いっかい　the first basement
ちか にかい    the second basement