Each week I read an interesting news article from the BBC. Listen along to the words and pronunciation and I will also share with you the link to the story so that you can read along as well. This week's news article can be found here: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63394516

The Breaking News Podcast

Google and Microsoft hit by advertising slowdown

In this episode you will find out what this podcast is about. 

Like a Chameleon

Intoduction to the podcast

Vidéo complète avec images et sous titres bilingues ici: 
https://youtu.be/b109t685wLs?si=nBV0RRIY1et1-5eN

French Stories For All

Raconter - Tu es trop Gros -

In English there are many words related to temperature to describe a person's personality. Let's have a look at some.

The Social Evolutionary

How Hot is Your Personality?

¡Hola! En este episodio escuchamos un fragmento del libro "Que mis palabras te acompañen" de la autora mexicana Emma Godoy escrito en 1987. El fragmento que escuchamos trata sobre la disciplina y su función en nuestra vida desde el punto de vista de la autora.
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Lo bonito en español

Disciplina 

As a pessimist, you might view language learning as hard work—and you’re not wrong.
Language acquisition requires effort, repetition, and managing confusion.

Here’s the beautiful part: Pessimists tend to manage disappointment better than idealists.
When you anticipate difficulty, you're less likely to be devastated by it.

In psychological terms, this creates cognitive resilience—the ability to stay in the game even when things go wrong. You expect challenges. You face them head-on. You recover faster because you weren’t expecting ease.

You might never say, “I’m going to be fluent in a year.” That’s okay.
But you might say, “I’m going to keep learning, even if progress is slow.”
And that is the spirit of persistence.
Don’t try to change who you are. Just learn to steer with it.
Pessimism doesn’t mean you’re giving up—it means you’re prepared to endure.
And that, my dear listener, is what long-term success looks like.


💃🏻111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 65 - How Pessimism Builds Resilience in Language Learning

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If you watch ‘the glory' on Netflix, 
you can hear this expression in the first episode.
Yeon-jin’s daughter says this. 

우리 엄마는 주인공이 아니에요. (My mom is not a leading role)
우리 엄마는 부자니까요.(Because she’s rich)
주인공들은 원래 다 가난하니까.(Because the leading roles have always been poor)
You can hear ~~니까 in common. 

In Korean language, there are several expressions meaning “because”.
Some of You may already know about that. 
The basic thing is “~~이기 때문이에요”, “~이기 때문에”
If we replace the lines with ~~이기 때문에, 

우리 엄마는 부자이기 때문이에요. 
주인공들은 원래 다 가난하기 때문에. 
But you can also use “~~니까” instead of ~~때문에

우리 엄마는 부자니까요. 
주인공들은 원래 다 가난하니까. 

Here are other samples. 
사람이니까 실수할 수 있어요. Because you are a human, you can make a mistake.
더우니까 아이스크림을 먹고 싶어요. Because it’s hot, I want to have an Ice-cream.

Don’t forget this. 

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그거 봤어? Did you watch it?

Dear Yeon-jin, This is "-니까"

2024年で見てよかったアニメを３つ紹介します!
introducing three anime that I really enjoyed in 2024.


ANIME ・MANGA TALK | アニメ・マンガトーク | Japanese listening practice N4-N3

見てよかったアニメbest3 The best anime in 2024

I discuss some of my favourite motivational quotes.