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En este breve pódcast os hablo de la vida en el barrio cuando era pequeño. ¡Cómo ha cambiado todo desde entonces! Empezando por los parques; que no tienen nada que ver con los de antes. Los de antes eran de tierra y estaban llenos de árboles. Los de ahora son de cementos y no hay quien pueda jugar en ellos.

Reyes from Spain

Cómo era la vida en el barrio antes

Hier lernst du, wie man sich förmllich aber auch leger vorstellt.

A1-Niveau

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日本に来てから和菓子を食べるのをやめられません。毎日お昼ご飯の後に必ず食べています。和菓子はケーキにくらべてヘルシーと思うかもしれませんが、そんなことはありません。確かに脂肪は洋菓子に比べてかなり少ないですが、砂糖はたくさん使われています。特に5月からは私の好きなわらび餅や水羊羹（みずようかん）などの冷たい和菓子がたくさん出てくるので、誘惑がいっぱいです。
もし、日本に来て、和菓子を食べるなら、和菓子屋さんで買うことをオススメします。和菓子はコンビニでも買うことができますが、すごく甘かったり、生クリームが入っているものが多いです。生クリームを使った和菓子もたまにはいいですが、私はあっさりした和菓子の方が好きです。
ちなみに日本のケーキもすごくおいしいです。日本にはパティシエがたくさんいるので質が高く、外国のケーキに比べて、あっさりしています。
皆さんは和菓子を食べたことがありますか？
どんなスウィーツが好きですか？


やめられない：I can’t stop ~
確かに：たしかに certainly, surely
脂肪：しぼう fat
洋菓子：ようがし　Western style sweets
誘惑：ゆうわくtemptation
和菓子屋：Japanese sweets shop
生クリーム：whipped cream
あっさりした：light
質が高い：しつがたかい　the quality is high
外国：がいこく　foreign

わらび餅：わらびもち　
Warabi mochi is a traditional Japanese dessert made from bracken starch, soybean flour and topped off with syrup

水羊羹：みずようかん
Mizu-yokan is Japanese confectionery, and is a type of yokan.

Nihongo Short Story by Noriko

和菓子をやめられない（I can’t stop eating Japanese Sweets）

In todays episode we discuss markets and supermarkets, which do you prefer? As well as "what are the pros and cons of each?"

Let's have a chat (Discussions In English) 

Episode 33: Markets Vs Supermarkets (Which do you prefer to shop at?)

Part one of Thumbelina by Author Hans Christian Andersen. Complete the short quiz afterward to check your understanding.

Teacher Michelle's Learn English with Story

Thumbelina Part 1 – LEARN ENGLISH WITH STORY (with quiz)

Staying safe online is important. But a lot of us are making mistakes with the passwords we use for our different accounts.

Password manager company Bitwarden found that a quarter of people use the same password for at least 11 sites or apps. And more than one-third of us use personal information in our passwords.

Personal information isn't a good idea to use, because it's quite easy for others to find it out.

But here's something else that isn't a good idea: using the name of your favorite celebrity, band, singer or superhero!

A company called Mailsuite has been looking at the most dangerous pop culture passwords you can use online.

Mailsuite made a list of more than 2,600 pop culture terms and almost 64,000 different ways of writing them.

It then looked at something called the Pwned Passwords database, which gives information about hundreds of millions of passwords that have been exposed in online data breaches.

The pop culture password that came up most was "Superman." It appeared in almost 585,000 data breaches.

In second place was the US band Blink-182. Used as a password, it appeared in more than 482,000 data breaches.

"Batman," "Star Wars" and "Eminem" were also in the top five.

Bitwarden says you should choose a long password that includes letters, numbers and symbols.

You should also have a different password for each app you use. Sites like Bitwarden also let you check how strong a password is before you choose it.