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Learn Three Sentences a Day: DAY9
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Master Mandarin Daily : Learn Three Sentences a Day!

Learn Three Sentences a Day: DAY9

En el vertiginoso y acelerado ritmo de vida de hoy en día, sentir ansiedad se ha convertido en una compañera casi inevitable para muchas personas en todo el mundo. Desde las presiones laborales hasta las demandas sociales y las expectativas personales de todos los tipos, son solo algunos factores que contribuyen a un aumento generalizado de la ansiedad en la sociedad moderna.

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La Ansiedad en el mundo de hoy

Today we'll talk about the does and don'ts when you're eating out in Italy!
How many of the mistakes I mentioned have you already made? 


Subtitled Italian

Season 01 / Episode 14 - Food etiquette in Italy

Nuestra existencia y el desarrollo de todas nuestras extensiones han llevado a la desaparición de muchas especies de animales como de plantas y ecosistemas. Hoy hablamos de los arrecifes ubicados en Centro América y de su papel en nuestras vidas. 
En el siguiente enlace encontrarán en artículo del episodio así como vocabulario nuevo: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cc5qd4OP-JYIZNDmIug-6QAP9Vq5NZ3IuRW27zynY0I/edit?usp=sharing

Voces Difusora

Arrecifes: la existencia del humano, la desaparición del ecosistema

Intermediate Chinese Listening：冬季如何保持健康  How to Stay Healthy in Winter

Some animals have been known to use tools such as sticks, rocks and even bait to hunt for food. And humpback whales have been found using their own unique tool to hunt — bubbles.

A study published in Royal Society Open Science in August observed the hunting behaviors of more than 70 humpback whales in Stephens Passage in southeast Alaska, documenting how the whales blow bubbles to catch more prey.

Humpback whales hunt for krill — small, shrimp-like creatures that are around the same size as a paperclip, and which swim in swarms.

Whales can take in large amounts of krill in one mouthful. And to make this easier, humpback whales trap swarms of krill in "bubble nets" before feeding on them.

The whales create these "nets" by releasing air from their blowhole as they swim in circles below the surface of the water. The bubbles rise in a spiral pattern, which, from above the water's surface, looks more like artwork than a tool for hunting.

The rising bubbles create "curtains" of air around the krill that they are reluctant to swim through, although researchers aren't yet sure why this is. The whales then swim up through the "net" with an open mouth to eat the trapped krill.

The study data showed that as a whale swam in tighter circles and the "net" got smaller, the krill caught inside became, on average, more than seven times denser. This allowed the whales to catch more krill in a single mouthful.

A whale doesn't have to move very fast to create a net or eat trapped krill, allowing it to get more food without using any more energy.

While not many other animals create their own tools to catch prey like the humpback whale, there are examples of animals using other tools to hunt.

For example, chimpanzees have been observed using sticks to dig for bugs, while sea otters use rocks to open mussels. Certain species of heron have even been found to use food as bait to attract fish.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Humpback Whales Use Bubbles to Hunt

 Yo ___ ___ voy a dar.
 Nosotros ___ ___compramos.
 Ustedes ___ ___ prestaron.
 Tú ___ ___ mandaste.
 Ustedes ___ ___ regalaron

Mucho que decir

Reflexive and direct pronouns

You can listen to this episode for a quick overview of the themes of Chapter 4 of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This short podcast episode highlights some of the vocabulary from chapter 4, and it also shares a fun quote. 

Here is the vocabulary covered in this episode: 

1.	demonstration (n.) – the act of showing someone how to do something, or
how something works
2.	resemblance (n.) – the fact that two people or things look like each other or are similar in some other way
3.	indifference (n.) – the feeling of not caring about something or having any particular opinions about it

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