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Fennec fox

Picture this: a giant peanut statue from the heart of rural America, Durant, Oklahoma, making its way to one of the most prestigious art venues in the world, the Louvre in Paris. 

Everything Zenified 

If a Peanut was the Finest Art

Un regalo muy especial que me recuerda los beneficios de un abrazo largo. Hay personas y vínculos que van mucho más allá de lo que las palabras pueden expresar.

Estudios demuestran la sensación de bienestar después de un abrazo de más de 8 segundos. ¿Te gustan los abrazos?

La magia de la vida

Episodio 8: El regalo: Un abrazo para siempre 

Conoce a esta chica rusa que lleva veinte años viviendo en España y sorpréndete con lo que cuenta acerca de sus anécdotas y las cosas que le han sorprendido de los españoles. 

Café con acento

Café con acento - Entrevista con Irina (Rusia)

Textile waste is an urgent global problem, with only 12% recycled worldwide, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a fashion sustainability nonprofit.

Nowhere is the problem greater than in China, the world's largest textile producer and consumer, where more than 26 million tons of clothes are thrown away each year, according to government statistics. Most of it ends up in landfills.

The country's clothing industry is dominated by "fast fashion" — cheap clothes made from unrecyclable synthetics. And Chinese e-commerce brands Shein and Temu make the country one of the world's largest producers of cheap fashion, selling in more than 150 countries.

Currently, only about 20% of China's textiles are recycled, according to the Chinese government. And many Chinese consumers are unwilling to buy used items anyway.

Still, among younger Chinese, there is a growing awareness of sustainability and some "remade" clothing businesses have emerged.

Designer Zhang Na's fashion label, Reclothing Bank, sells clothes, bags and other accessories made from materials such as plastic bottles, fishing nets and flour sacks.

The items' labels have QR codes that show their composition, how they were made and the source of the materials.

Reclothing Bank began in 2010 to give "new life to old things," Zhang said of her store in Shanghai. A large used clothes deposit box sits outside the entrance.

Zhang said she has seen sustainability consciousness grow since she opened her store, with core customers in their 20s and 30s.

But recycled garments sold at stores like Reclothing Bank cost much more than fast-fashion brands due to their production methods.

And that's the real problem, said Sheng Lu, professor of fashion and apparel studies at the University of Delaware.

"Studies repeatedly show consumers are not willing to pay higher for clothing made from recycled materials" he said.




Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

26 Million Tons of Clothes Discarded in China Each Year

Сегодня читаем отрывок из прекрасного произведения Ремарка. Объясняю некоторые слова и фразы, а остальное, надеюсь, вы поймете сами!

Слова из эпизода:
отры’вок - часть из произведения, книги, речи - fragment, snippet;
това’рищ - человек, близкий по общим взглядам, деятельности, условиям жизни; синоним “друг” - comrade, companion;
слыха'л (просторечие) - слышал - I've heard;
произноси'ли - выговаривали - pronounced;
мимолё'тными - быстро исчезает, проходит, не длительный - fleeting, ephemeral, momentary;
бе'гство - бег, уход от чего-либо, откуда-нибудь - escape, getaway;
отча'яние - состояние крайней безнадёжности -  despair, hopelessness, desolation;
пустота' - когда нет интересов, стремлений - emptiness, vacuum, blank;
полага'ться - надеяться на кого-то, быть должным - rely;
оттого', что - потому что, потому как, благодаря тому что - because;
вду'маешься - внимательно обдумать что-нибудь - ponder;
бесконе'чно - что-либо без конца, завершенности - infinitely, endlessly, eternally;
бу'ря (переносное значение) - о сильном, бурном проявлении чего-либо - storm, windstorm, hurricane;
преобрази'ть - изменить, улучить образ, форму, вид чего-нибудь - transform;
не'что - что-то - something.

Пишите в комментариях, какие произведения или каких авторов вы хотите почитать вместе со мной?

И помните, что чтение по-русски углубляет ваши знания языка! 
Хороших вам книг, друзья!

Reading Russian

Отрывок из "Три товарища" Э.М. Ремарк

Monday, April 15, 1912
2:00 Am
On The Deck Of RMS Titanic

I Survived The Titanic

Chapter 1

이번 주 토요일에 나와 함께 영화 보러 안 갈래?
这周六想不想跟我一起去看电影?

재밌는 영화라도 있어? 
有什么好看的电影吗? 

글쎄, 나도 영화관 안 간지 오래돼서 바람 쐬러 가면 좋겠어.
不清楚, 不过我也好久没去电影院了, 所以想去兜兜风。

그래. 나는 로맨틱 코미디면 다 좋아.
那行。只要是浪漫喜剧我都喜欢。 

~와 함께 跟~一起
바람을 쐬다 兜风
낭만적이다, 로맨틱하다 浪漫
코미디 喜剧

[YOON] 1분 한국어

이번 주 토요일에 나와 함께 영화 보러 안 갈래? 这周六想不想跟我一起去看电影?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CiN0i4-_6admZHcIvVNzbiHnj4ZT-gRJ/view?usp=drivesdk