British People begin to Prepare for Christmas

Teacher Joseph's Podcast

En este episodio de Porteña te cuento cuáles son los beneficios de conocer la gramática cuando estamos aprendiendo una lengua nueva

Porteña

¿Por qué estudiar gramática?

Heute geht es um ein Thema, das wir alle kennen und mit dem wir jeden Tag (oder besser jede Nacht) zu tun haben: um Träume.
Was sagt die Wissenschaft dazu? Warum träumen wir? Träumen auch Tiere? 
Welche unterschiedlichen Arten von Träumen gibt es? 

Deutsch mit Sonia

Träume

Hablemos en muy resumidas palabras (muy resumidas, en serio) de algunos de los mundos mitológicos más importantes de la historia. En esta oportunidad repasamos algunos detalles de los yanomami, una cultura de la selva amazónica entre Brasil y Venezuela.

Mundos mitológicos

Mitología yanomami

In this episode, you will hear about, the origin of how bolivia was colonized, why the Spanish people came, and what they were looking for.

Tales and Stories of Bolivia

El Dorado (A tale about the Spanish colonization)

Introduction of Tones in Thai, try to get used to the tones as much as you can

Learning Thai with Kru Tarntawan

Tones

This story uses words from '4000 most common English words'

Zara is dragging Bobby into the market. He is like a stubborn little boy. Her eyes are beaming with enthusiasm and his are downcast with despair. 

The market is out of this world! There are countless numbers of things Zara has never seen before. 

As the two friends walk down the street, Zara points at everything in amazement while Bobby  dismisses them as boring and ordinary. 

Arriving at a food stall, Zara wants to experience everything. “And what are these fragrant things?” 

“Those are herbs…” 

“And this spicy thing?”

“Garlic… umm, where are you from?” 

“And what about this? It looks like the roots of a plant!” 

“That’s ginger, and, yes, they are the roots. Are you from outside of China?”

Zara is overwhelmed with positive emotion and disregards Bobby’s questions. 

The two friends arrive at an animal stall. It has horses, cows, chickens and pigs for sale. Zara touches all the animals, smelling and patting them. “These creatures are beautiful!” 

But Bobby doesn’t get it. He’s never met someone so strange in his life. He’s actually starting to feel irritated by Zara’s joy.

“Look, I have to get going soon… You know, my important task. So, is there anything I can do for you?” 

Zara stuffs a sugar-coated figurine into Bobby’s mouth. “Try this!” 

Bobby reluctantly chews and a little smile appears on his face. But then it disappears and he looks annoyed.

Zara runs off down the street, touching all the lovely silks and picking up all the metal tools. 

Bobby thinks, who does she think she is?

Being a Cloud

Zara the Mayfly

Hello and welcome to another episode of Engine English! Every language has its own idioms and expressions and the English language has plenty of phrases that are useful to learn. Idioms are words or phrases that aren’t meant to be taken literally and usually have a cultural meaning behind them. Most of the English idioms you hear are offering advice but also contain some underlying principles and values. You have probably heard some of them, especially in TV shows and movies, and wondered why you can’t understand these idioms even though you fully understand the words. Learning English idioms and expressions can take some time but there are some of them that are more popular than others that will come in handy if you know them. When you learn English idioms and phrases you will sound more confident especially when you speak with native English speakers. If you can’t understand idioms you will not be able to understand the context. That is why I have gathered some of the most common English idioms and phrases so you will understand their true meaning of them.

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Engine English

Episode 8 - 25 Most Common English Idioms and Phrases

こんばんは！Atsushiです。
みなさん、お元気ですか？
僕は元気です！

さて、今日はルーティンについて、話します。
みなさんは、ルーティンが好きですか？
どんなルーティンを持っていますか？

僕はルーティンが好きです。
僕がしているルーティンは、例えば、
ランニングとか、ヨガ、トレーニング、などですね。

毎日やることを決めます。
できるだけ、
同じ時間、例えば朝の7時、
同じ長さ、例えば30分、
走る、とか、ヨガする、とか決めます。

人は21日間続けると、習慣になるそうです。
21日ぐらいまでは、しないことが当たり前なので、毎日することが大変です。
でも、21日をすぎると、やることが当たり前になります。
だから、やらないと、"あ、今日やってないな、やろうか"というふうに脳が変わっていくようです。
おもしろいですよね。

この時、はじめに21日間続けるのが大変ですね。
その時の個人的なポイントは、
ハードルを下げること、ですね。
要は、簡単にする、ということですね。

例えばランニングを習慣にしたい人は、はじめから長い距離、長い時間は走らず、短い距離、時間で走ります。
少し物足りないなと感じるぐらいがちょうどいいと思います。

僕は、自分のルーティンを今見直しているところです。
やりたいことがたくさんあるけど、まだできていないことも多いです。

それを少しでもルーティンに入れたいと思っています。

みなさんはどんなルーティンを持っていますか？
ぜひオンラインレッスンでお話しましょう！

ということで、今回も最後まで聞いていただき、
ありがとうございます！
ではまた！