In todays episode we discuss vocabulary on New Year resolutions and have a chat about New Year resolution. 

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Episode 40: What are your New Year Resolutions? 

Hi, and welcome back to Captain Seasalt and the ABC Pirates with Teacher Alyse!
Today, we’re going on an adventure to learn words that start with the letter O Are you ready? Listen carefully, repeat after me, and then try reading them on your own.

orangutan, olives, octopus, otter, opossum, orange, ocelot, okapi, orca, owl, ostrich

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See you next time—bye for now!

Captain Sesalt & The ABC Pirates

Letter O

Full transcripts: https://japanesemayuna.com/

はい、こんにちは。今回は ポッドキャストの15回目です。もう2月ですが、大阪はまだ少し寒いです。晴れているのに雪が降っている日もあって、不思議な天気です。洗濯物はまだ乾きにくいですね。

Hello. This is the podcast episode 15. It's already February, but it's still a bit cold in Osaka. It's a strange weather, with sunny but snowing days. It's still hard to dry the laundry.

私は先日、確定申告を終わらせました。確定申告というのは、自営業者が毎年、自分の１年間の収入を政府に報告することです。自営業者というのは、会社に勤めずに、自分で仕事をしている人です。そして、所得税を払います。所得税というのは、収入にかかる税金です。会社員の所得税は、給料から引かれるので、確定申告をする必要はありません。

I have just finished my tax return. Kakutei Shinkoku (a tax return) is an annual report by a self-employed person to the government on their income for the year. Jieigyousha (a self-employed person) is a person who does not work for a company, but works on his own. And they pay income tax. Shotokuzei (income tax) is a tax on income. Income tax for company employees is deducted from their wages, so there is no need to file a tax return.

日本では、確定申告はオンラインですることができます。実は、日本の政府のオンラインサービスは、数年前まで、あまり便利じゃありませんでした。政府の ウェブデザインはとても時代遅れで、見づらかったです。そこで、2021年に菅総理大臣が「デジタル庁」というオンラインサービスを担当する部署を作りました。政府の ウェブサイトやアプリは2021年からリニューアルされて、見やすくなりました 。確定申告をするためのソフトウェアは、まだエラーが多くて少し不便ですが、少しずつ良くなっていくといいです。

In Japan, tax returns can be filed online. Actually, the Japanese government's online services were not very convenient until a few years ago. The government's web design was very outdated and difficult to read. So, in 2021, Prime Minister Suga created a department called the "Digital Agency" to be in charge of online services. The government's website and apps were redesigned in 2021 to make them easier to navigate. The software for filing tax returns is still a little inconvenient with many errors, but hopefully it will gradually get better.

そして所得税はコンビニで払うことができます。確定申告をした後に表示される QR コードを使って、コンビニのレジで払います 。コンビニで払う場合は現金しか使えませんが、オンラインで払う場合は、クレジットカードや銀行振込で納税することもできます。納税するというのは国に税金を払うことです 。私はレシートが欲しかったので、コンビニで払うことにしました。インターネットで調べたら、アメリカなどの他の国でも、コンビニで納税することができるらしいですね。これはとても便利だと思います。

Japanese Lessons with Mayuna

15. デジタル庁

Four corvesations: 

1- Haciendo compras
2- En el almacén de aparatos electrónicos
3- En el almuerzo en la hacienda maya
4- Por teléfono de nueva york a buenos aires argentina

Learn Spanish Conversation

Learn Spanish Conversation parte 3

“都dōu”means “both/all”. The people or objects included are out before “都”.
For example：

tā men dōu xǐ huɑn hē chá 。 
他们都喜欢喝茶。

wǒ men dōu shì xué shenɡ 。 
我们都是学生。

每měi……都dōu……
In a sentence that contains the term “每”(every), usually “都” has to be inserted further along in the sentence, immediately in front of the verb.

tā měi tiān wǎn shɑnɡ dōu yù xí kè wén 。 
他每天晚上都预习课文。

wǒ měi jié kè dōu lái 。 
我每节课都来。

měi ɡè rén wǒ dōu rèn shí 。 
每个人我都认识。

JOJO CHINESE

都dōu

Today we're talking about the word "nepotism" and how it can create challenging work environments. I hope you find it useful!

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Los refranes son dichos populares y coloquiales que intentan transmitir una enseñanza o dar un consejo o mensaje que nos haga pensar. El refranero español es muy amplio y está lleno de consejos útiles para la vida. En el episodio de hoy comento algunos de ellos y las enseñanzas que tienen.

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115 – refranes españoles para la vida.

Parrots are known for being able to copy some of the sounds that people make — they might squawk "hello" or "how are you?" if they get used to hearing words and phrases like these. They might even say some rude things!

Some birds are also able to learn the names for objects — and identify them.

And a 5-year-old parrot in the US has been recognized by Guinness World Records after correctly identifying 12 objects in three minutes.

That record-breaking bird is an African gray parrot named Apollo, who lives in Florida. He can identify things like books, bugs and socks.

He's become popular on TikTok, where he has about 3 million followers. He also has around 1.5 million subscribers on his YouTube channel called "Apollo and Frens."

And a TikTok video of Apollo asking questions from 2023 has been watched 66 million times.

Apollo actually broke the record in 2023 but he's among the stars in the Guinness World Records book that was released in September.

The parrot is owned by a couple named Dalton and Victoria Mason. They're content creators and they've been working hard to train the bird.

The owners say they teach Apollo as if he were a child of preschool age.

"We teach him as much as we can," the couple told Guinness, adding that they focus on things that Apollo wants to focus on.

Researchers have found that some African gray parrots are able to do better at some cognitive tasks than 5-year-old children.

And Apollo's owners plan to keep teaching the bird to see how much he can learn and how many more records he can break.


