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4月8日 星期六 晴  
今天给爸爸打电话，爸爸说他不在老家，在另一个大城市。他说他正在去一家医院的路上，想去和那家医院谈谈，去他们的医院工作，做中医师（zhong1 yi1 shi1, TCM doctor）。
我问爸爸，你不想自己开诊所(zhen3suo3, clinic)了吗？虽然诊所很小，可多自由(zi4you2, unrestrained)呀！想开门就开门，想休息就休息。有那么多老病人，都认识几十年了。
爸爸说，疫情(yi4qing2, epidemic situation)以来，很多病,小诊所是不允许(yu3xu3, be allowed)看了，他自己也很担心被传染(chuan2ran3, be contagous)。除了病人变少了以外，还多了很多以前不需要做的事情，比如，有很多会要开，还有卫生局(wei4sheng1ju2, Public Health Bureau)经常来检查(jian3cha2, inspect)。他一个老人，已经没有办法面对很多的变化，更没有办法很快地去完成各种事情。所以现在他就想去大的医院，为医院工作，比较简单。而老病人，还是可以为他们看病的，可以用网络，视频(shi4pin2, video)看病，开药(kai1yao4, to prescribe medicine)，让病人们自己去买药。但有一个问题，他要离开老家去外地工作，如果要见家人和老朋友，就只能在周末了。
真的很难，鱼和熊掌不能兼得(yu2 he2 xiong2zhang3 bu4ke3 jian1de2, lit. the fish and the bear's paw, you can't have both. which means you can't always get everything you want · )。很多时候，两个你都很想要的东西，却告诉你只能选一个，没有办法，只能选一个，因为生活还是要继续。

中文小天地 Little Chinese world

Episode 5 Father's call 给爸爸打电话

Giant Dreams Midget Abilities by David Sedaris read by Teacher Alyse
Read and follow along. Send me a message for your free pdf copy of this story. 

"WHEN YOU'RE PLAYING YOUR GUITAR, MAKE BELIEVE YOU'RE PLAYING AN ACTUAL WOMAN," MISTER MANCINI TOLD ME. "GRAB HER BY THE NECK AND MAKE HER HOLLER."

My father loves jazz and has an extensive collection of records and reel-to-reel tapes he used to enjoy after returning home from work. He might have entered the house in a foul mood, but once he had his Dexter Gordon and a vodka martini, the stress melted away and everything was "Beautiful, baby, just beautiful." The instant the needle hit that record, he'd loosen his tie and become something other than the conservative engineer with a pocketful of IBM pencils embossed with the command think.

"Man, oh man, will you get a load of the chops on this guy? I saw him once at the Blue Note, and I mean to tell you that he blew me right out of my chair! A talent like that comes along only once in a lifetime. The guy was an absolute comet, and there I was in the front row. Can you imagine that?"

"Gee," I'd say. "I bet that was really interesting."

Empathy was the wrong tack, as it seemed only to irritate him.

"You don't know the half of it," my father would say. " 'Really interesting' my butt. You haven't got a clue. You could have taken a hatchet and cut the man's lips right off his face, chopped them off at the quick, and he still would have played better than anyone else out there. That's how good he was."

Because it was the music we'd grown up with, I liked to think that my sisters and I had a genuine appreciation for jazz. We preferred it over the music our friends were listening to, yet nothing we did or said could convince him of our devotion. Aside from replaying the tune on your own instrument, how could you prove you were really listening? It was as if he expected us to change color at the end of each selection.

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NOVEMBER COMPETITION!
We all know how difficult it can be to stay motivated when learning languages, so this month, English In A Teacup is holding a little competition for its listeners. The winners of the competition will get a personal shout out on the podcast and will also get to decide the next topic for Season 2 of my podcast coming out in December. 
To join, send me a message on italki and I will send you the form to fill in. 
In this week's episode of English In A Teacup, we will be continuing with the topic of inversions as well as learning how to write letters.  For students preparing for advanced-level exams (CAE, CPE, IELTS, etc.), it is important to know about inversion and how to use it in the writing sections. To help us with the subject is our fine English lady, Miss Finesstocrat, who will be writing her own letter to a travel agency to complain about her holiday from hell. How did she get on? Let’s put the kettle on and find out!

ENGLISH IN A TEACUP

EP7: MAKING A COMPLAINT (B2-C2)


♣ Congiuntivo – Coniugazione dei verbi essere e avere 
♣ Passato prossimo
 ♣ Congiuntivo – Coniugazione dei verbi in -ire: Dormire 
♣ Periodo ipotetico –secondo e terzo tipo
♣ Passato remoto 




Le vacanze a Milano di Alfonso

Sono anni ormai che passo le vacanze del periodo di Natale a Milano, perché nell’azienda dove lavoro, hanno bisogno che io sia presente anche nei giorni tra Natale e Capodanno, così non vale la pena tornare giù fino a Trapani per due giorni soltanto. 
Nonostante abbia molti amici a Milano, per me è sempre strano restarmene qui, al nord, lontano dalla mia famiglia che si trova in Sicilia in quei giorni. Oltre al cibo che trovo un po’ pesante per via dell’uso del burro, un altro aspetto a cui ancora non mi abituo al nord è la temperatura e il clima. Devo ammettere che fin dal primo momento in cui mi sono trasferito a Milano, ho subito avvertito una certa difficoltà ad abituarmi al clima più rigido di Trapani.
“Ma il sole qui quando esce fuori?” 
Ho chiesto una volta, a un collega di Modica.
“Il sole è sempre assente, se lo vuoi allora immaginalo”.
Sono rimasto a pensare al sole nei primi mesi di vita qui, poi col tempo mi sono abituato alla sua assenza. 
Se potessi scegliere dove vivere, andrei a vivere senz’altro in un posto caldo come la Sicilia, perché io sono molto metereopatico e quando il cielo è grigio e fa freddo, mi sento triste. Certo, se avessi studiato per diventare una guida turistica, un cuoco, un insegnante, allora sarebbe stato più semplice vivere al sud e trovare un lavoro in Sicilia. Ma siccome ho studiato per diventare un esperto di storia dell’arte di Milano, allora è difficile trovare lavoro altrove. Tuttavia, a parte il clima, Milano in realtà mi piace molto: è una città energica e divertente, aperta e con carattere. Tanti anni fa, quando ancora vivevo a Trapani, andai in gita con la scuola a Parma, ma non mi colpì la sua architettura come quella di Milano. ......


Italiano espresso

Lettura livello b1/b2: Le vacanze a Milano di Alfonso

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Ep.88 バイト物語（☕️カフェ）

"Beauty is not everything but it is something."
With the popularity of social media, many people are pressured to look their best, especially women. In my country, the skin care industry is a billion dollar industry. Many people are obsessed to have that porcelain skin and even change their nose and have lip fillers. The competition is stiff when it comes to the beauty department. However, is it enough? Is beauty alone enough to sustain a conversation, to win a pageant and to be successful in any field? This podcast aims to answer this question.
