Listen to me reading a news article about the Country & Western superstar's charity that has helped thousands of underprivileged children across the world.

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News article: Dolly Parton reading scheme helps children in care

成语故事：揠苗助长，Pulling on the plant shoots to help them grow----spoil things through impatience 

中国成语故事

揠苗助长

Host: Welcome back to the podcast everyone. Now we’re moving on to the part of the show that we call ‘Explain yourself!’. This is where our guests talk about a topic and say what they think and why. Listeners, you can tell us who was the most convincing. So we’ve got Jake with us, Jake is from New York in the United States. Then we’ve got Andrew who’s from York in the UK.

Andrew: The original York before the Americans made a worse one.

Jake: No one knows where York is, or cares.

Host: Whoa! We’ve started already. Don’t worry, Jake, Andrew’s just trying to provoke you. This could be an interesting discussion! And today’s topic is Food and Drink. Which is better: American or British?

Jake: Well, this is going to be a short discussion. It’s American food and drink. It’s definitely the most well-known food around the world. What’s the next topic?

Andrew: Just because American food is the most well-known, which it is, it doesn’t mean it’s good. I think most of it is really unhealthy. Yes, he’s definitely an American male. Do all of you just sit watching games on TV that no other countries are interested in, drinking ice cold beer-flavored water and shouting (Mimics) ‘We’re the best at everything! USA!’

Jake: Oh you’re talking to me about beer? Good luck with tempting people to come to your barbecue on a hot day with a nice glass of warm beer. Not that you have barbecues because it’s always raining. You just sit inside with your warm beer and your fish and chips feeling sad.

Andrew: (laughs) I’m not going to apologize for enjoying beer that is slightly warmer than ice. There are things that are more important than how cold it is, you know? Like, oh I don't know - taste?

Host: Beer wars! Are we going to be able to resolve this difference at all, gentlemen?

Andrew: Obviously I’m a little more favorable toward British beer, but Jake has a point about the weather. It doesn’t actually rain all the time, but it’s not usually as hot as it gets in most places in the US. 

English Conversation/Dialogue

Discussion Opinions 

Un tinto con Flora

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (Gabriel García Márquez)

Words containing the letter ë /ئې ھەرىپىنى ئۆز ئىچىگە ئالغان سۆزلەر

Uyghurche Learning FM/ئۇيغۇرچە تىل ئۆگىنىش

Chapter 1, Exercise 10

旅館の　朝ごはんと　私が　いつも　食べる　朝ごはんは　まったく　ちがいます。どんな　朝ごはんを　食べているでしょうか。焼きそばパンってどんなパンでしょうか。
The breakfast I usually eat is completely different from one at the Ryokan-Japanese style hotel. What do you think I eat for breakfast? What kind of bread is Yakisoba-pan?

やさしい日本語（にほんご）

２ あさごはん

こんにちは！さゆりです。
今回のトピックは「日本での一人暮らし（part1：部屋を探す）」です。
いつも聞いてくださってありがとうございます♡

你好！我是さゆり。
這次的主題是「在日本獨居（part1：找房子）」。
感謝大家一直以來的收聽♡

Hi, i'm Sayuri!
Today's topic is "Living Alone in Japan (Part 1: Finding a Room)".
Thank you for listening to my podcast♡

にほんごタイム🇯🇵Learn Japanese with Sayuri!

日本での一人暮らし（part1：部屋を探す）

Analysis of the cultural, social and linguistic content, of the text of the song Come è profondo il mare di Lucio Dalla
Analisi culturale, sociale e linguistica del testo della canzone Come è profondo il mare di Lucio Dalla

SOLO MUSICA ITALIANA  PODCAST

Come è profondo il mare di Lucio Dalla|Aprende italiano cantando|Learn italian singing

In this episode we are going to learn 【Location】in Chinese. 
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As a beginner, there're some vocabularies that you didn't learn before, and native speaker's speed seems too fast to understand. But don't worry, let's do it step by step. 
Step 1: listen and catch the words you know already, have a guess about the content.
Step 2: look at the text to check if you guessed it right. 
Step 3: listen one more time, repeat after it.
Step 4: practice until you can speak as the normal speed without looking at the text. 
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我家附近很方便。
wǒ jiā fù jìn hěn fāng biàn 。
My neighborhood is very convenient.
地铁站在我家对面。
dì tiě zhàn zài wǒ jiā duì miàn 。
The subway station is across from my house.
左边有超市和酒吧，右边有银行和体育馆。
zuǒ bian yǒu chāo shì hé jiǔ bā ， yòu bian yǒu yín háng hé tǐ yù guǎn 。
There is a supermarket and a bar on the left, and a bank and a gym on the right.
我家后面是一个商场。
wǒ jiā hòu miàn shì yí gè shāng chǎng 。
Behind my house is a shopping mall.
商场里面有很多餐厅。
shāng chǎng lǐ miàn yǒu hěn duō cān tīng 。
There are many restaurants inside the mall.
公司离我家一千米，走路五分钟就到了。
gōng sī lí wǒ jiā yì qiān mǐ ， zǒu lù wǔ fēn zhōng jiù dào le 。
The company is one kilometer away from my house, it's just a five-minute walk.
出小区后往右一直走，在第一个红绿灯路口左拐。
chū xiǎo qū hòu wǎng yòu yì zhí zǒu ， zài dì yī gè hóng lǜ dēng lù kǒu zuǒ guǎi 。
Go straight right out of the community and turn left at the first traffic light.
再往前走五百米，公司就在马路的左边。
zài wǎng qián zǒu wǔ bǎi mǐ ， gōng sī jiù zài mǎ lù de zuǒ bian 。
Walk for five hundred meters further and the company is on the left side of the road.