Another very useful set of 5 idioms that you can use for Business and Pleasure!

5 Weekly Idioms 

5 Weekly Idioms Part 4

- Day 6 nǐ shì nǎ guó rén 你是哪国人 00_00_15-00_06_16

Who says Chinese is hard？ 谁说中文很难

EP 6 _What is your nationality__ in Chinese  (Subscribe my channel now) 

En este episodio te cuento la primera parte de cómo ha sido mi camino aprendiendo idiomas

Español con Valeria

Mi historia con los idiomas - PARTE 1

This story teaches us something about GENEROSITY!🤗 Think of a time when you were a little bit selfish and of a time when you were generous. What had the better outcome?🤔 For A2 learners and above!
Срећно учење! / Srećno učenje! 📝
See you in class!👍


SERBIAN TO GO

Јабука, сестра и брат - Jabuka, sestra i brat – An apple, a sister and a brother (A Short Story for A2 and above)

Cosa hanno in comune le parole pasticciotto, pizzica, focaccia barese, trullo, frisella? Se avete risposto Puglia, avete indovinato!
Sono Valeria Fusco, insegnante di italiano per stranieri, nativa pugliese ma cittadina del mondo.
Grazie a questo podcast vi condurrò in un appassionante viaggio nella mia lingua, l’italiano e nella mia terra, la Puglia. 
Siete pronti?


PugliaYes - Scopri la Puglia, impara italiano 

Piacere, PugliaYes

Olá, tudo bem? Seja muito bem-vindo a mais um episódio do podcast Aprenda português. 

Por que será que às vezes quando conversamos com um brasileiro ou escutamos algum diálogo entre brasileiros não entendemos completamente o que ele(s) diz(em)? Às vezes parece que os brasileiros falam tudo pela metade e, realmete, em algumas situações é justamente isso o que acontece. Neste episódio, veremos alguns casos em que, quando falamos, comemos algumas letras ou a palavra quase inteira. Cês tão preparado? Vamos lá!

Segue o link para acessar o texto com a transcrição do episódio: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yjI4fax8cRAcX-dghfIO9Wc1k7p-8gZj/view?usp=sharing

Venha aprender português comigo!
Até breve!


Aprenda português

Episódio 16 - Cê tá entendeno o que eu tô falano?

Do you go to work even when you're not feeling well?

If you do, you're not alone. A survey of workers in the US has found that 9% of people never take sick days.

Some said that's just because they don't get sick very often. But others said pressure at work makes them less likely to take sick days.

And some part-time workers said they feel financial pressure to go to work even when they aren't feeling well — because they need the money!

Yahoo News and YouGov surveyed almost 1,500 US adults — although only about half of them were actually workers, so the other half weren't able to comment.

About 16% said they take one or two sick days a year. Twelve percent said they take "a few" days, and 4% said they take "more than a few" days.

Another 3% of people said they don't have the option to take sick days where they work.

But how do your colleagues feel when you take a sick day — or when you go in to work even when you're not well?

More than one-third of people said they prefer their colleagues to stay at home if they're sick. But 5% said people should work even when they're sick.

However, only 7% of people said they always believe their colleagues really are sick when they have a day off!

Experts told Yahoo News that going to work when you're unwell isn't a sign of commitment, however — they said it just shows you're disrespecting yourself and your body.


Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Almost One Tenth of US Workers Never Take Sick Days

矮、愛、八，三個詞的發音和例句。

Taiwan Daphne - elementary vocabulary

1-矮、愛、八

Some animals have been known to use tools such as sticks, rocks and even bait to hunt for food. And humpback whales have been found using their own unique tool to hunt — bubbles.

A study published in Royal Society Open Science in August observed the hunting behaviors of more than 70 humpback whales in Stephens Passage in southeast Alaska, documenting how the whales blow bubbles to catch more prey.

Humpback whales hunt for krill — small, shrimp-like creatures that are around the same size as a paperclip, and which swim in swarms.

Whales can take in large amounts of krill in one mouthful. And to make this easier, humpback whales trap swarms of krill in "bubble nets" before feeding on them.

The whales create these "nets" by releasing air from their blowhole as they swim in circles below the surface of the water. The bubbles rise in a spiral pattern, which, from above the water's surface, looks more like artwork than a tool for hunting.

The rising bubbles create "curtains" of air around the krill that they are reluctant to swim through, although researchers aren't yet sure why this is. The whales then swim up through the "net" with an open mouth to eat the trapped krill.

The study data showed that as a whale swam in tighter circles and the "net" got smaller, the krill caught inside became, on average, more than seven times denser. This allowed the whales to catch more krill in a single mouthful.

A whale doesn't have to move very fast to create a net or eat trapped krill, allowing it to get more food without using any more energy.

While not many other animals create their own tools to catch prey like the humpback whale, there are examples of animals using other tools to hunt.

For example, chimpanzees have been observed using sticks to dig for bugs, while sea otters use rocks to open mussels. Certain species of heron have even been found to use food as bait to attract fish.