No matter the odds of success or the scale of the challenge, your actions can make a difference. It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Every little thing counts. Doing something to make a positive change is always better than nothing!

Short Stories with Rose 

The Story of the Grateful Starfishes 

Questo piccolo podcast tratta della mia grande passione, la linguistica e la glottologia, e consiste in una serie di brevi episodi che trattano questi argomenti.
Lo scopo del podcast è gettare luce su un aspetto che i parlanti di qualsiasi lingua considerano molto poco, cioè sui meccanismi e sull'evoluzione delle parole che usano per comunicare.
Proprio per questo motivo la prima puntata riguarda la storia e l'evoluzione dell'articolo "il", una delle parole (monemi) più frequenti in italiano, spiegandone le origini accertate e anche alcune teorie poco conosciute.


Un viaggio nella linguistica italiana

Il - un articolo tanto comune quanto poco conosciuto

早（はや）く≒すぐ
早く来て！　＝　すぐ来て！（Come right away!）

”早く”の いみ：right away, earlier than usual

きょう早く帰（かえ）ります。
"I will leave earlier than usual."

きょうすぐ帰（かえ）ります。
"I will leave right now"


洋平先生　N3～N2クラスの生徒へ　(^^♪

はやく vs　すぐ

ディズニーシーへ行ってきました！みなさんは行ったことがありますか？🌸

SeikaのPodcast🎧

Ep.4 ディズニーシーへ行きました🧸🌸

Common Mistakes

After

Сегодня суббота. (Today is Saturday.)
Я выспалась и чувствую себя хорошо. (I slept well and I feel good.)
Я помню, когда раньше совсем мало спала, (I remember when I used to sleep very little,)
но сейчас я стараюсь спать больше. (but now I try to sleep more.)
Я ещё не знаю, что я буду делать. (I don’t know yet what I will do.)
Скорее всего, я пойду кататься на велосипеде (Most likely, I will go cycling)
и может быть куплю что-нибудь покушать. (and maybe buy something to eat.)
Сейчас утро и на улице очень солнечно. (It’s morning now and it’s very sunny outside.)
Воздух утром тоже очень свежий. (The air in the morning is also very fresh.)
Много людей сейчас едут в лес со своими собаками. (Many people are going to the forest now with their dogs.)
Собаки очень счастливы потому что им нравится бегать в лесу. (The dogs are very happy because they like running in the forest.)

My diary in Russian

23 августа, суббота 

Tervetuloa kuuntelemaan podcastiani! Suomessa on alkanut kevät: tässä jaksossa pohdin vaihtelevaa kevättä ja Suomen neljää vuodenaikaa. Suomessa on neljä vuodenaikaa, niistä mielestäni paras vuodenaika on syksy. Olen syksyihminen, koska pidän syksyn tuoksusta.

Podcastin jaksokuvassa on valkoisia pieniä kukkia metsässä, ne ovat valkovuokkoja.

Suomea for you

13. jakso: Neljä vuodenaikaa

PHIL: What time is that soccer game on? I thought it started 
at noon.
JACK: We must have had the wrong time. Oh, well … soccer’s not my 
favorite sport anyway. I much prefer basketball.
PHIL: Oh, really? I thought your favorite sport was tennis! I’m a big
fan of basketball, too.
JACK: How about a game sometime?
PHIL: Sure thing! Why don’t we go shoot some hoops now since the 
soccer game isn’t on?
JACK: Excellent idea. Let’s go.



LANGUAGE NOTES
• What time is that soccer game on? means “When does the soccer game start?” 
“What time” plus something plus “on” is a common expression used to ask about the 
start time of a TV show or a movie.
• I much prefer basketball here means “I like basketball a lot more than soccer.” Notice 
how “much” is stressed to show that the speaker really likes basketball.
• Oh, really? Notice the rising intonation on “really.” This shows that the speaker is 
surprised. He thought that Jack liked tennis the best.
• I’m a big fan of basketball is a way of saying “I like basketball very much” (“to be a 
fan of” is a casual expression used to describe something you really like).
• How about a game here means “Let’s play a basketball game.”
• Sure thing! This is a casual expression used to mean “OK.”
• Shoot some hoops means to play an informal game of basketball. This is a casual 
expression used between friends

English Conversation practice (30-day challenge)

Day 23: Favorite sport

日本人が好きなSNSについて話しました！みなさんはどんなSNSを使いますか？🫶