The Little Prince meets his proud but lovely rose. 🌹 Listen in Farsi and discover new words about love, feelings, and care.

Once Upon a Time

شازده کوچولو، فصل هشتم

In this episode, I’ll show you how to say “the parking lot is full” and “the parking space is taken” in Portuguese. Don’t miss it! It’s a quick way to grow your vocabulary! ✨

Everyday Portuguese 

Episódio 5 - Don’t confuse “parking lot” with “parking space” in Portuguese!

😊 ¡Bienvenidos a Maria & Pablo Spanish! 😊 

En la siguiente serie de episodios especiales, compartiremos con ustedes el uso de diferentes verbos en español. En este segundo episodio, vamos a darles algunas oraciones con el verbo ‘to hurry up’, que se puede traducir en español como afanarse, apurarse, apresurarse, moverse y darse prisa.  ¡Empecemos entonces con este segundo episodio! 

Te invitamos a conocernos más en: 
📍 María: https://linktr.ee/spanishwithmariap  
📍 Pablo: https://linktr.ee/pabloalejos 


Maria & Pablo Spanish

16. Verbos en contexto. How to say ‘to hurry up’ in Spanish (Part 2)

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最近日本で話題のニュース「米」についての歌をAIで作りました。
日本では米が少なくて、日本政府は古いお米を売ることを決めました。
一年前の米を「古米（こまい）」、二年前は「古古米（ここまい）」、三年前は「古古古米（こここまい）」と言われています。面白い呼び方ですね。
そんなニュースについて、歌で勉強してみませんか？

▽歌詞
炊飯器の横でスマホが光る
「備蓄米、いよいよ流通へ」
“今さら？”とつぶやいたけど
冷凍ピラフは棚に戻した

全国の店舗で扱うらしい
お菓子の棚の一角あたり
パッケージは意外とおしゃれ
中身は三年、静かな時間

🎵 古米、古古米、古古古米
値段はいつもよりやや控えめ
古米、古古米、古古古米
選ぶというより、そういう流れ

週末の売り場に人が並ぶ
ふだんは空いてる通路なのに
「どうせだから」と手に取って
湯気の未来を想像してた

申し込みには不備が多くて
締切は早めに終わってた
誰でも手に入るっていうけど
入口の高さはいつも通り

🎵 古米、古古米、古古古米
安全とは言われているけれど
古米、古古米、古古古米
賞味と意味はちがうらしい

選んでるようで選ばれている
ニュースと生活がかみ合わない
古米、古古米、古古古米
とりあえず今日は炊いてみる



日本語聞いてみよう！

【a song about Japanese news】日本のニュースの歌

In this story, an elephant named Eleven does whatever it takes to maintain peace, even using violence. This is Part 4 of 5. 

As Eleven watched the thieves creep forward, he considered what course of action to take. He could tell the monkeys about the thieves, possibly causing a physical fight to break out. Or he could stop the thieves himself, either scaring them off with his roar or his powerful tusks. Either way, conflict was unavoidable. 

Peace was Eleven’s his highest value. If anything attempted to disrupt it, he made sure to remove it from his life. He saw himself as a protector of peace. It never occurred to him that he might have been actually afraid of healthy conflict.
 
So, believing there to be no ethical dilemma, Eleven decided to conceal the thieves’ robbery. This way the thieves would get what they want, the monkeys would only realize after the fact, and, most importantly, Eleven could get back to his relaxing day in the sun.  

Eleven positioned himself in such a way as to block any view of the robbery. The fox and wild chicken snatched the bananas and made their way for the bushes. However, at that exact moment, one of the monkeys, having climbed up a tree and swung itself into the river, was flying through the air and saw the robbery. 

Splashing into the river, the monkey screamed and shrieked, trying its best to alert the others. But they were too busy slapping each other to notice anything.
 
In an instant, without giving the moment proper reflection, only thinking about his own interests and his self-appointed duty, Eleven forcefully swung his trunk and whacked the shrieking monkey, who flew with great speed into the dense forest and out of sight. 

Being a Cloud

Eleven the Elephant

Om att mataffärer slänger saker som kunder vill köpa, om mina tankar kring detta. Det måste finnas sätt som det går att rädda mat förutom "kort datum - quick sale" det måste förbättras kring lagar och regler som gör att mer mat kan räddas!! Sånt otroligt slöseri med jordens resurser för att bara i slutändan landa i en container. 

Svensk youtuber som dumpster divear mycket, ganska informativt för att se hur mycket perfekt mat som slängs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDfzUcc04cE&t=135s

Tankar på svenska

Tankar På Svenska: Dumpster diving, varför slänger mataffärer perfekt mat?

f you're going to exercise, you have to stretch, right?

Well, maybe not.

The answer might depend on your goals, and what you mean by "stretch."

There are different types of stretches.

In what are known as "static" stretches, you hold a single position for perhaps as long as 60 to 90 seconds. These stretches are great for increasing flexibility.

But there are also "dynamic" stretches, where you repeatedly — but carefully — move your joints through their full range of motion.

Expert opinion on how to use these stretches has changed over the years. But it's now generally believed that dynamic stretching is best before you exercise, while static stretching is better after.

As Alisa Bowman writes for the Mayo Clinic, dynamic stretching helps improve blood flow and joint mobility, which gets your body ready to exercise. Studies have even found that dynamic stretching before exercise can improve your performance.

Meanwhile, some research has found that static stretching can temporarily weaken your muscles, which is why it's generally no longer recommended before certain sports — and especially not for high-performance athletes.

Instead, static stretches are typically recommended for helping to relax your muscles after exercise. Since you've been moving and increasing blood flow to your joints and muscles, you'll actually be more flexible, so you'll get more benefit from those stretches.

But while you may have been told that stretching will reduce soreness after you exercise, research has found that it really doesn't make much difference.

You've also probably been told to stretch to avoid injuries. But research doesn't seem to support that either — especially for static stretching.

Writing for WebMD, Sonya Collins says that, as long as you stretch sometime, it's fine if you don't do it around the time you exercise.

In fact, some experts say if you're short on time, it's better to exercise without doing any stretching than to cut your workout short!

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Do You Really Need to Stretch When You Exercise?

nǐ mèi mei jǐ suì ？ 
你 妹  妹  几 岁  ？ How old is your sister?

nǐ chī jǐ ɡè jī dàn ？ 
你 吃  几 个 鸡 蛋  ？ How many eggs do you eat?

xué xiào yǒu duō shǎo ɡè xué shenɡ ？ 
学  校   有  多  少   个 学  生    ？ How many students are there in the school?

zhuō zi shànɡ yǒu jǐ bēi niú nǎi ？ 
桌   子 上    有  几 杯  牛  奶  ？ How many glasses of milk are there on the table?