Spanish  for Beginners

Puro Español con Andy 

From this episode, we are going to learn how to read time.

Q: 请问，现在几点？(Excuse me, what time is it now?)
   qǐng wèn , xiàn zài jǐ diǎn ? 
   几点了？
   jǐ diǎn le ?
A: 现在五点。(It is 5 o’clock.)
    xiàn zài wǔ diǎn .
     
早上zǎo shanɡ/上午 shàng wǔ（morning）
中午zhōng wǔ （noon）
下午xià wǔ （afternoon） 
晚上wǎn shang （night,evening）
半夜bàn yè （midnight）

6:00AM 早上六点zǎo shang liù diǎn 
12:00PM 中午十二点zhōng wǔ shí èr diǎn
3:00PM 下午三点xià wǔ sān diǎn
9:00PM 晚上九点wǎn shang jiǔ diǎn
1:00AM 半夜一点bàn yè yì diǎn

The questions from the beginning of this episode:
1.你叫什么名字？
2.你是哪国人？
3.你会说什么语言？
4.你喜欢做什么？
5.今天星期几？
6.今天几号？


Daily Conversation（日常对话）

5. Reading Time（读时间）part1

S'agit-il vraiment de froideur ou d'une simple différence culturelle quand un serveur français vous sert sans le sourire attendu ? Dévoilons ensemble les subtilités qui se cachent derrière les clichés sur l'accueil français et pourquoi le fameux ressentiment envers les Américains n'est, en réalité, qu'un grand malentendu. Loin de l'antipathie, je vous emmène dans une exploration culturelle éclairée des comportements français à travers des thèmes aussi variés que la législation sur les armes, les enjeux de notre système de santé et l'unicité de notre service en restauration. Ce voyage introspectif est une promesse de découvertes où les différences ne sont plus des barrières mais des ponts entre nos mondes.

French Ramble

French stereotypes - Les clichés français.

En este primer episodio, nosotras hablamos acerca del significado de "apapachar" y los temas que trataremos en este podcast.

Apapachando en Español

Episodio #1. Apapachar

La parola di oggi è un avverbio: INTANTO. Fatemi sapere se conoscevate già questa parola o se è la prima volta che la sentite!

Ci vediamo presto con un nuovo podcast!

🇮🇹 ITALIANO IN PILLOLE

📝 INTANTO

It wasn't smooth sailing getting into Angola, with some hefty delays on arrival at Luanda's international airport. Angola only introduced a tourist e-visa just prior to Covid, and this became clear on arrival! Listen to this episode to find out why it took 4 hours from my plane landing for me to walk out of the airport terminal.

Travel diaries

A painful arrival into Angola

Today, in the “Serbian to go” podcast, you will hear 5 WAYS of how to say GOODBYE in Serbian. Let’s start. 
Срећно учење! / Srećno učenje!


SERBIAN TO GO

5 НАЧИНА да кажеш – Goodbye… на српском – 5 WAYS to say - Goodbye… in Serbian (A1-А2)

Like many other grandmothers, Daisy likes to knit, and she isn't very good with technology.

Or, at least, that's what she might tell people on the phone.

Daisy also describes herself as "your worst nightmare." But don't worry, she's not talking to you — she's talking to phone scammers.

That's because Daisy is actually an AI chatbot. She was created by UK phone company Virgin Media O2 to speak to scammers on the phone and make them believe they're talking to a real person.

Older people are very vulnerable to scams. In July, a UK study found that about 67% of people over the age of 75 were victims of at least one scam attempt in the six months before the study — with almost 75% being phone scams.

Enter Daisy, who has been trained to have conversations with phone scammers and waste their time.

Virgin Media O2 worked with Jim Browning, a YouTuber who has spent years "scambaiting" — that is, pretending to be a clueless victim to waste scammers' time.

And that's the whole point — Daisy can't stop scammers, but she can slow them down.

"Whenever she's on the phone with a scammer, your parents, your grandparents, your relatives, are not being scammed," Browning told Sky News.

The company says Daisy is already "wasting hundreds and hundreds of hours of scammers' time," and has shared real-life conversations the chatbot has had with scammers.

Some conversations last nearly an hour. She talks about her cat, Fluffy, and people in her family. In some conversations, she gives the scammers what they want — bank details. But of course, they're not real.

Murray Mackenzie from Virgin Media O2 said Daisy is also a reminder that the person you're speaking to on the phone might not always be who they say they are.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Meet the AI Grandma Wasting Scammers' Time

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