In the late 1970s, a naive young secretary abandons her hometown in Cleveland for San Francisco, and heads into a brave new world of strange and wonderful characters, in this cult classic novel by the Charles Dickens of San Francisco Armistead Maupin. Maupin writes in a simple, but creative way to blend together the lives of some of the city's most-eccentric inhabitants; which makes the story highly accessible for language learners*.

*Suitable for adults over the age of 18.

Audiobooks with Pip

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin: Chapter 1

"La llegada de la sabiduría con el  tiempo" es una historia de Manuel Rivas en su libro ¿Qué me quieres, amor? página 181.  Inspirada en el poema de W.B Yeats. 

The Macondo man stories

La llegada de la sabiduría con el tiempo 

In this Episode you will learn how to use "会“

HSK2

HSK1-7

In last week's podcast episode, you learned how to learn a new language.  You heard that learning a new language should be more than just a means to an end. Of course, learning a new language will help you achieve other goals, but the process of learning a new language can be fun, rewarding, and beneficial in many ways.

Tune in to this week’s episode to learn more about using "a means to an end” and seven more English phrases and idioms. You'll also get some homework at the end so you can continue to improve your English communication skills. Tune in to continue building your English vocabulary with new idioms and phrases! 

Original theme music by Lucas Knutter 

Read the transcript at https://www.express-to-impress.com/english-vocabulary/.

See infographics for this episode at https://www.pinterest.com/ExpresstoImpress/_created/.

Episode originally published October 13, 2020.

Express to Impress

Learning New English Vocabulary

・日本の各地の方言、難解だと思われているランキングを紹介
・東北全県６県がランクインしている
・理由は、はじめて聞く人にとっては東北の方言は「フランス語」や、ほかの国の言語に聞こえるからなどの説あり
・秋田、青森は特に隣り合っているので似ている方言が多い。
・まとめ

Nihongo tokidoki Inaka hougen with Megumi Na

難解な方言都道府県ランキング1位～10位　Learning about the Tohoku diarect

Hi, so you want to improve your business English skills. In order to speak like and understand native speakers, it's important to understand the business idioms which native speakers use on a daily basis. In this podcast I will use 11 business idioms. See you if you can spot them. When you hear an idiom pause the podcast and write it down, then, next to the idiom, write the word or phrase which corresponds to the meaning of the idiom. Your task is to match the idioms to their meanings. I will do the first one for you as an example. In order to organize my tasks every day I have to get my ducks in a row. So the first idiom you should write down is 'get my ducks in a row'. The word you should write next to it is 'organize.' Now, let's get down to business.

Business English

10 Business Idioms

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✔YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/RT5ZvJGId1o (Visit us to see the transcript😎!)

What if the person who doesn't seem to be strong is actually superpower-strong?
What would you do if you were the person with such power?
It started with this crazy idea, but this show makes us LOL!!


그거 봤어? Did you watch it?

44. Strong Woman DoBongSoon (힘쎈여자 도봉순) 

Youth and beauty is temporary so whether you are working as an influencer or an entertainer, you have to set up money for retirement. I came across an article written by a KPOP fan and the article narrated the life of an entertainer who started at a very young age. 

FLO TALKS 

THE LIFE OF A KPOP IDOL

Best Practices for Learning English - My guest today is Teacher Meysam. He teaches English and Farsi on Italki.  His profile is here https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/7480802