Joy to Our World

When there is a will, there is a way. Agreed? 

①少女心，大概就是指每个女人还是少女的时候，看世界和看自己的心性：
简单、纯洁、孩子气、童话心、五颜六色的想象力以及对爱的美好憧憬。
如此，少女心实在是一种值得在心里永久保存的心境。
②很多时候，其实生活需要的，也就是一个一笑解千愁的微笑。
女人在任何时候都可以笑出来不是一件易事，需要一颗强大的内心。
而强大的内心，是女汉子最典型的特质。
想想看，你要不要做一个女汉子？
③穿合体的衣，说得体的话，内心千回百转的痛不掩你淡淡的微笑。
这很不容易，是烟火女英雄的最高境界。

你认为你是哪种女人呢，为什么？

Ruby's  Reading club of  Chinese

优雅是种力量(四）与其抱怨，不如改变

🌸📚 Explore the beauty of cherry blossom festivals in this lesson! Listen to the audio and test your knowledge with a fun quiz! Join us now for an engaging episode! 🌸🎥📝

Holidays and Event 🌎🎉

🌸 Cherry Blossom Festivals 🌸

皆さんは、人生の節目にお祝いをもらったら、どうしますか。
日本の贈り物文化は独特で、プレゼントをもらったら「お返し」をするのが普通です。
しかも、細かいルールがあります。
今回は、日本の贈り物文化について話します。

What would you do if you received a gift on the important occasions in your life?
In Japan, we have a unique gift-giving culture, it is customary to give a return gift when receiving one.
Moreover, there are detailed rules involved.
This time, we talked about Japanese gift-giving culture.

♤ キーワード
・内祝い（うちいわい：a Japanese custom of giving a return gift, often about half the value ("han-gaeshi"), to show gratitude for a received gift, often for life events）
・慣習（かんしゅう：custom）
・節目（ふしめ：important occasion）
・幼馴染（おさななじみ：childhood friend）
・チャラ（to be even, to come to nothing）
・しっちゃかめっちゃか（messy）

♧ 理解度チェッククイズ
1. アヤが幼馴染の出産祝いに贈ったものは？
2. ２人がいらないと思う２つの慣習は？

♢ 前回のクイズの答え
1. フミが気をつかわれて嫌だったのは、どんなとき？
→ 学生時代、先に社会人になった同級生との飲み会で「払わなくていいよ」と言われたとき
2. アヤが気をつかわれて嬉しかったのは、どんなとき？
→ 飲み会で、お酒を飲んだ人が「端数は（払わなくても）いいよ」と言ってくれたとき

BGM special thanks：MusMus

アヤさんとフミさんの日本語雑談（Aya and Fumi’s Japanese Chit-Chat）

日本の贈り物文化

一次，华特先生参加一对年轻华侨的婚礼，他很有礼貌的赞美新娘漂亮，一旁的新郎立即代表新娘表示感谢，“哪里哪里”，华特先生觉得挺不好意思的，以为未说到地方，便用中国话再说：头发，眉毛，眼睛，耳朵，鼻子都很漂亮。”

Once, Mr. Walter attended the wedding of a pair of young overseas Chinese. He politely praised the bride for her beauty. The groom at the side immediately thanked her on behalf of the bride. "Where is it?" Mr. Walter felt very embarrassed. He thought he had not spoken about the place, so he said in Chinese: "hair, eyebrows, eyes, ears and nose are beautiful."

哪里哪里-Chinese way to say thanks

开心一刻 Jokes

哪里哪里nǎ lǐ nǎ lǐ 

In today's episode we learn an anecdote about the American tourists who once met the Queen and had no idea who she was. Here's the story. 

Key Vocabulary:
An anecdote   /ˈanɪkdəʊt/   noun  = a short, interesting story about a real incident or person.
To play a prank on someone = To carry out a trick, deception, or practical joke on someone.
To pull someone's leg  =  to deceive someone playfully; tease someone.
Cantankerous	/kanˈtaŋk(ə)rəs/ adjective   = bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative.
To be a fly on the wall =  you would like to hear what will be said or see what will happen while not being noticed

Former Royal Protection Officer, Richard Griffin said he and the Queen met the American hikers one day while they were walking near Balmoral Castle, her holiday home in Scotland.
"The Queen would always stop and say hello," Griffin said. "And it was clear from the moment we first stopped that they hadn't recognized the Queen."
Griffin said one of the Americans asked the Queen where she lived.
"She said, 'Well I live in London, but I've got a holiday home near here,"' Griffin recalled. 
The hiker then asked if she had ever met Queen Elizabeth.
"Well I haven't, but Richard here meets her regularly," the Queen replied.
The hiker then turned to Griffin and asked: "Oh, you've met the Queen? What's she like?"
"I decided to pull her leg, so I said, 'she can be very cantankerous at times, but she's got a lovely sense of humour".
The American then got his camera out, and gave it to the Queen, asking if she could take a picture of him with the royal protection officer. "Then we swapped places and I took a picture of them with the Queen and we waved goodbye". "The Queen said to me, 'I'd love to be a fly on the wall when he shows those photographs to their friends —  hopefully someone tells him who I am.'"

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The Queen and the American tourists

안녕하세요. Hello~
한국어 듣기 수업 시작해요. Let's start with the Korean listening class.
선생님 읽어요. I read it.
잘 들으세요. Please listen well.

I posted the sentences on my blog.
https://blog.naver.com/laramcraft/222734884189
https://youtu.be/eImK96sF6Yg

The basics are important.
It is also good to check the basics of 한글 Hangeul before this listening class.
1-1. Korean alphabet - Vowels 모음 - What is Hangeul?
https://youtu.be/0YzhJ9p2lcs
2-1. Korean alphabet - Consonants 자음 -What are the consonants 자음?
https://youtu.be/lckgvQ_vreA
3-1. Korean alphabet - Final Consonants 받침 - What are the final consonants 받침?
https://youtu.be/sLlFmG30fNI

This is a class to listen to Korean conversational sentences.
In this voice recording for listening,
After reading many sentences with Korean grammar in Korean conversation sentences,
Check out how much you understand the sentences with a voice recording.
Never look at the sentences when listening to the voice recording.
And listen to the sentence repeatedly until you hear it completely.

You are listening to the Sejong Korean conversation. (세종학당)
There are four books in total. (Korean conversation, 1, 2, 3, 4.)
It consists of 1st and 2nd courses for beginners and 1st and 2nd courses for intermediate.
Each course is conducted in 14 units. (2 grammar - for each unit.)
This listening class you are taking is Korean Conversation 1. (Beginner 1)
Please listen carefully.

Korean Listening Class 한국어 문장 듣기 - Korean teacher, Grace

Updated-Korean Conversation 1. (Beginner 1) - Lesson 7.  - Beginner 1  Part 1 에,  Part 2 -으세요/-세요

A dialog between two strangers who are giving introductions in English, then you are prompted to reply to me ! Practice answering introduction questions as well as asking them. Send me a message if you would like a transcript! 

Practice Speaking with me! ( Level A1 - A2 ) 

Episode 1 - Introducing yourself 

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