Konnichiwa! Welcome to Slow Japanese! Today, Akari will talk about the weather. What kind of weather do you like/don't like?

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

Scripts and key vocabularies of this episode are here:
https://mochifika.com/podcast-script/slow-japanese-episode-13-weather/

Slow Japanese

Episode #13 - Weather

In this episode, you will listen to a dialog at the market and learn how to make simple conversation at the shopping. Enjoy your podcast! <<< Don't forget to solve the related quiz after listening to the podcast.

Turkish Conversations from Zero to Hero

Episode 4: At The Market - Markette Alışveriş Yapıyorum...

Sobre la película de Jason Reitman que conmemora los cincuenta años de la transmisión del primer programa de "Saturday Night Live".

El kinetoscopio

Episodio 15: Saturday Night: la noche que cambió la comedia

明けましておめでとうございます。
皆さんは年末年始をどう過ごしましたか？
今回は、新年の恒例行事である初詣について話します。

Happy New Year! 
How did you spend your New Year’s holiday?
This time, we talk about 初詣, which is the New year's visit to a shrine / temple that many Japanese do as one of the annual New Year's events.


♤ キーワード
・初詣（はつもうで：first shrine visit of the New Year）
・三が日（さんがにち：the first three days of the new year）
・おみくじ（a fortune-telling paper strip）
・真に受ける（まにうける：take something too seriously） 
・万事（ばんじ：everything）
・運勢（うんせい：fortune）

♧ 理解度チェッククイズ 
1. アヤが初詣でいつもすることは？ 
2. フミがそれを躊躇（ちゅうちょ）してしまう理由は？

♢ 前回のクイズの答え
1. フミの今年の漢字と、それを選んだ理由は？ 
→「楽」よく楽器に触り、楽しい気持ちで新しいことにチャレンジしたから。そして、これからは楽をしたいから。
2. アヤの今年の漢字と、それを選んだ理由は？
→「調」新しいことを始めて、生活を調整・調節する必要があったから。

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 21：初詣

Practice four of the seven A sounds in British English: /æ/, /ɑː/, /eɪ/, and /eə/. This episode guides you through clear examples, repetition drills, mixed practice, and tongue twister challenges to help you master pronunciation and reinforce mouth, tongue, and jaw movements for natural, accurate British English.
Transcript: 
/æ/ — cat, man, hat, bat, black, bad, map, bag, hand, tap  (Round) 
/ɑː/ — car, father, park, start, heart, arm, far, calm, dark, hard
/eɪ/ — name, rain, day, play, cake, make, same, take, face, lake
/eə/ — care, fair, hair, share, chair, pair, dare, wear, air, stare 
 cat — car — name — care
 man — father — rain — fair
 bag — park — day — hair
 hand — arm — make — share
 tap — heart — cake — pair
 “A black cat ran past a bad bag of maps.”
 “The car park at the far dark arm of the farm.”
 “May’s cake made the same day as Jane’s play.”
 “Careful Claire shared her chair with a fair pair of bears.”


British Pronunciation Tips 

British Vowel Sound Masterclass: Lesson 2 -  A Sound Practice 

🎧🍃
Charlé con Luisa, una profe bogotana, sobre la cultura medioambiental que impera, (¡o no!), en Colombia y México.

Checa el canal de Luisa para escuchar otro episodio:
https://www.italki.com/teacher/5229881

Hablando Al Chile

Cultura Medioambiental 🎧🍃

Transcripción del episodio: 
https://acortar.link/f9j4Yu

En este episodio te enteraras que hizo que Mamá Elena comenzará hablarle a Tita y quienes llegaron de sorpresa al rancho de Mamá Elena. 

Te invito a crecer como hablante de español:
https://www.italki.com/es/teacher/9508879



Español un viaje a América Latina 

Episodio 6: Libro Como Agua para Chocolate de Laura Esquivel.

Life at School in Hebrew - mini podcast - Жизнь в школе на иврите - мини подкаст

Ссылка на текст👇 Link to the texthttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1IXSTg2jrhc9HD3m5Vr8LgGk_mlu3uuprU5eP6r-IfDE/edit?tab=t.0

#hebrew #hebrewlanguage #иврит #ивритонлайн #израиль #israel #иврит_на_слух #hebrew #hebrewlanguage #иврит #ивритонлайн #израиль #israel #иврит


Лёгкий иврит

Life at School in Hebrew - mini podcast - Жизнь в школе на иврите - мини подкаст

Is college worth the time and money? Americans are increasingly skeptical about the value and cost, according to a new survey.

And most said they feel the US higher education system is moving in the "wrong direction."

Overall, only 36% of adults said they have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in higher education, according to a report released by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation. That confidence level has declined steadily from 57% in 2015.

Some of the same opinions have been reflected in declining enrollment numbers as colleges contend with the effects of the student debt crisis, concerns about the high cost of tuition and political debates over how they teach about race and other topics.

"It's so expensive, and I don't think colleges are teaching people what they need to get a job," said Randy Hill, a 59-year-old driver from Connecticut.

He added: "You graduate out of college, you're up to [your] eyeballs in debt, you can't get a job, then you can't pay it off. What's the point?"

The June 2024 survey's overall finding — that 36% of adults feel strong confidence in higher education — is the same as the year before.

But what concerns researchers is that more Americans — 32% — said they have "very little" or no confidence in higher education.

Experts say that fewer college graduates could lead to labor shortages in fields from health care to information technology.

For those who choose not to go to college, it often means lower lifetime earnings — 75% less compared with those who get bachelor's degrees, according to Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce. And during an economic downturn, those without degrees are more likely to lose jobs.

However, others still see the value in higher education. College student Kristen Freeman from California told The Associated Press: "I think higher education can give students the spark to want to change the system."