Have you ever made funny mistakes while speaking Russian? I'm sure you have some stories to share. In today's episode we also speak about such mistakes and some confusing situations related to them.

RUSSIAN BRIDGE PODCAST

Lingua Motivator. Курьёзы и конфузы (B1+ B2)

Learn the basic structure of Spanish regular verbs as well as the numbers. We also cover the verb to have (tener) which is irregular but it's one of the most important verbs to know in any language.
Happy studying!

Super Basic Spanish

Episodio 9: Verbos regulares

最近、道にたくさんのりんごが落ちています。
私はりんごが好きなので年中りんごを食べています。最近はスーパーでりんごを買わずに、道で拾ったりんごをよく食べています。このりんごは売っているりんごよりもすっぱいので、そのまま食べるとあまりおいしくありません。なので、昨日アップルパイを作りました。冷凍のパイ生地を使ったので、とても簡単でおいしくできました。
そろそろ栗も出てくる季節なのでオーブンで栗を焼いて食べるのも楽しみです。でも、今ヨーロッパの電気代はとても上がっているので、今年は少しオーブンを使うのを控えた方がいいかもしれません。

みなさんにとって秋の食べ物といえばなんですか？
よかったら私のレッスンに来て教えて下さい。

秋：あき　autumn 
季節：きせつ　season
落ちる：おちる　to drop 
道：みち　road
年中：ねんじゅう　all the year
拾う：ひろう　pick up
冷凍：れいとう　frozen
生地：きじ　dough
栗：chestnut
控える：ひかえる　　try not to ~

Nihongo Short Story by Noriko

秋はりんごの季節です(Autumn is the season for apples)

Seja bem vindo ao nosso primeiro episódio do podcast "Português pra gringo"! Hoje vamos falar sobre algumas tradições de natal do Brasil. Idioma: Português níveis A1 e A2 . 

Português pra gringo

Natal no Brasil (Brazilian Christmas )

Quizá pienses que Cancún por sí solo es de lo más tradicional que puedas encontrar en México: nada más alejado de la realidad. 
Esto incluso fue algo completamente nuevo para mí, pero Cancún no tiene como tal una esencia propia, sino que su esencia lo hacen las demás culturas de las personas que viven ahí, provenientes de México y de otros países.
No esperes más y empieza a aprender acerca de cómo es este lugar y de sus atracciones junto a Jessica, nuestra guía online en este episodio que ha vivido ahí por muchísimos años y que sin duda sabe demasiado de cómo son las cosas por allá.
Si deseas leer la transcripción de este podcast para no perderte ni una sola palabra de lo que decimos, puedes hacerlo yendo a este enlace: https://esdeverdad.com/podcast/cancun-el-chilaquil

Es De Verdad

T1 E3 - Cancún como ciudad multicultural de México (El chilaquil)

Join Billy and Amy in "Making Plans" on the "Everyday Dialogues" podcast! 🗓️

In this exciting episode, learn the art of making small talk and expressing your preferences. 💬 Discover how to use words like "rather," "prefer," and "I feel like/don't feel like" to make plans for the weekend.

👂 Tune in to enhance your conversational skills and boost your vocabulary. Don't miss out on this engaging opportunity to improve your English!

🔗 Subscribe now to "Everyday Dialogues" and never miss an episode! 🎙️ And don't forget to take the quiz to test your understanding! 📝

Happy listening! 🎉👂📚

Everyday Dialogues

Making Plans 🗓

TikTok has announced it will block young users on the social networking platform from using certain beauty filters on photographs.

The filters allow users to edit photos and do things like make people's skin look clearer, their eyes a little bigger or their lips a little fuller.

Some filters also allow users to change their skin color, and it can be hard to see when a photograph has been edited in this way.

People under the age of 18 will be blocked from using these filters, some of which are created by users and others that are made by the app.

TikTok announced the changes after a report by Internet Matters, a children's online safety organization. The organization found that these beauty filters could be damaging to children's mental health because they put young people under pressure to look a certain way.

This can damage children's self-esteem and cause anxiety, experts say.

Christine Grahn from TikTok said on LinkedIn: "If our users don't feel safe, they won't bring their true selves to TikTok and the platform just wouldn't be the same."

One TikTok user told The Guardian in 2022 that she had considered getting cosmetic surgery after a period of using beauty filters on the app.

Fun filters that allow children to add dog noses or rabbit ears to images will still be available to use.

One problem with the ban is that not all users enter their real ages when signing up to TikTok. The company said it would soon be trying out new machine learning systems that could help find out when users had entered the incorrect age.

TikTok is under pressure to stop under 13s from using the platform by giving false dates of birth.

Children's safety charities want all social media sites to do more to make the platforms safe spaces for young people.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

TikTok to Ban Under 18s from Using Beauty Filters

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well. A new episode of let’s check out the news is out now!
In this episode I’ll comment on article titled: “Chinese provinces warn of thick fog, dozens of Shanghai flights delayed” published on Reuteurs. Let me know what you think, enjoy.

Useful vocabulary:
An episode of extreme weather
To issue a warning
Heavy rain – heavy snow – high winds – thick fog
A flight delayed – diverted
To cause disturbances
To salt the roads
To deploy snowplows
Wait for the fog to dissipate
One phenomenon / many phenomena
To cover long distances
To wreak havoc
Tornadoes or floods
The whims of nature
The modern era

Let's check out the news

Super thick fog over China

こんにちは！
Japanese daily life podcast のAtsushiです。
このPodcastは、日本語を楽しく勉強しているみなさんに向けたPodcastです。

ぼくの日常生活の話を聞くことで、日本語のリスニングをよくしたり、新しい言葉を知ってもらえたらいいなと思います。


みなさんお元気でしょうか。
今日もジョージアでPodcastを録っています。

今回は漢字。
在を説明します。

音読みは、ざい
訓読みは、あーる

意味は、ある、いる、という意味があります。


・存在ーそんざい　あること、いること

・現在ーげんざい　今

・在宅ーざいたく　家にいること

・不在ーふざい　そこにいないこと

・在日ーざいにち　日本で長い期間生活していること

例文
・このチームで彼はいつも存在感があるプレーをする

・過去から現在に至るまで、この問題は解決していない。

・コロナ禍になって以降、在宅勤務が可能になりました。

・来週1週間は不在にしています。

・私の友人は在日30年になります。

ということで、今回は以上です。

最後まで聞いていただき、ありがとうございます！
ではまた！




