Listening text for the unit of introductions
Listen to the text repeatedly, and try to imitate it by introducing yourself

Listening for beginners

Dialogue for acquaintance - حوار للتعارف  - 3

How to introduce yourself? 介绍自己
How to talk about your interests? 我的爱好
Describing your city 我的城市
Sharing your phone number and email 电话号/电邮

New Words 生词：
старый - old，旧/老；
уютный - cozy，暖和；
особенно - especially，尤其；
фильмы - movies，电影；
давайте общаться - let's keep in touch，让我们谈谈。

Пряник

Как тебя зовут?

American interviewers want to hear precise, simple, and clear answers. They don’t want to hear rambling or layered communication. Australians, Canadians, and Germans appreciate this communication style too.

On the other hand, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese interviewers are more likely to appreciate sophisticated, nuanced, and layered communication styles. 

In this episode, we dive into communication styles by nationality, and you’ll learn how to prepare for an interview with a hiring manager who expects concise answers.

If you’re accustomed to talking at length and rambling, modifying your communication style will take some effort. But, it’s possible if you follow the seven tips outlined in the episode. 

In this episode, you’ll also hear an example of a concise answer to the interview question, what would you do if you knew your boss was wrong about something? 

Episode originally published on December 24, 2020

Read the transcript at https://www.express-to-impress.com/interview-questions/

Theme music by Lucas Knutter. 

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Express to Impress

How to Answer Interview Questions Without Rambling

In this episode, I read a short story about a man flying home and his conversation with the older gentleman sitting next to him. This story contains great natural dialogue and a casual atmosphere.

You can read the transcript here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kCVgq93sFe0ONtj9TYpz8nxMj3FX1zKz/view?usp=sharing

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T.E.A. Time with Tayvin Bayless 

TEA Time Story # 1 Airplane Talk

Questo piccolo podcast tratta della mia grande passione, la linguistica e la glottologia, e consiste in una serie di brevi episodi che trattano questi argomenti.
Lo scopo del podcast è gettare luce su un aspetto che i parlanti di qualsiasi lingua considerano molto poco, cioè sui meccanismi e sull'evoluzione delle parole che usano per comunicare.
Proprio per questo motivo la prima puntata riguarda la storia e l'evoluzione dell'articolo "il", una delle parole (monemi) più frequenti in italiano, spiegandone le origini accertate e anche alcune teorie poco conosciute.


Un viaggio nella linguistica italiana

Il - un articolo tanto comune quanto poco conosciuto

How long do you want a movie to last? When do you start looking at your watch and wonder when you can leave the darkness of the cinema?

Or maybe it doesn't matter because you watch everything on streaming services, and you can pause anytime you like.

But according to a survey from the US, the perfect movie length is 92 minutes — about the same as a soccer match.

A polling company called Talker Research asked 2,000 people how long movies should be.

Only about 2% said they thought movies should be longer than two and a half hours, while just 15% want to watch a movie that's more than two hours long.

Movies like Dodgeball, Kung Fu Panda and Toy Story 2 are all about 92 minutes long.

But data suggests that the most popular movies are getting longer and longer.

A website called What to Watch found that the average length of the most successful movies has increased from 110 minutes in 1981 to 141 minutes in 2022.

The Guardian reports that nine out of the top 10 most successful films of all time are longer than two hours. Three of them are longer than three hours.

However, some say it's not the length of the film that's important, but how good it is.

There are really long films that feel much shorter because they're so interesting, and there are shorter movies that you wish would just end fast!

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Survey Reveals the Perfect Movie Length

En éste episodio hablo un poco sobre bebidas alcohólicas y sin alcohol populares en España. In this episode I talk a bit about alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks that are popular in Spain (Find more information on minutopodcast.carrd.co)

Minuto Español

Bebidas (drinks)

“Me suena a chino” en España quiere decir que “no entiendo nada de lo que dices”, eso me recuerda una experiencia que tuve en mi primer viaje a China cuando visité una aldea rural donde nadie hablaba inglés y mucho menos español. 

AUDIO-ARTÍCULOS (Nivel B2-C1)

Me suena a chino...

What is more important, accent or pronunciation, and which accent should we learn?