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Episode Two: Elephant In The Room

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Short story 「七夕（たなばた）《 tanabata 》」
This episode is N5 level.


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☆Words☆
七夕（たなばた / tanabata）：Star festival
星（ほし / hoshi）：star
明るい（あかるい / akarui）：bright
服（ふく / fuku）：clothes
牛（うし / ushi）：cow
世話（せわ / sewa）：care
ある日（あるひ / aruhi）：one day
天の川（あまのがわ / amanogawa）：Milky Way
神様（かみさま / kamisama）：God
怒る（おこる / okoru）：get angry
東（ひがし / higashi）：East
西（にし / nishi）：West
悲しい（かなしい / kanashī）：sad
橋（はし / hashi）：bridge
お願い（おねがい / onegai）：wish

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#16  Short story /  Tanabata / storytelling // N5 Level

Disagreeing with people is an important and healthy part of working on a team towards shared goals. The challenge is therefore, how can we do this in a way that protects and even strengthens our professional relationships? It would be great if the only thing we had to do at work was to agree with people. If everyone around us had great ideas, and if our colleagues' suggestions always seemed like the best things to do. However, this is not the case.  A lot of people worry that if they disagree with their co-workers then this could upset them or damage their professional relationships. However, if we do it right, disagreeing with colleagues when it’s appropriate can be great for your team, your career, and your reputation at work.

Today we’re going to hear some tips and ideas for how to disagree with your colleagues, we’ll hear some great natural and native sounding vocabulary that we can use to do this, and then we’ll finish off with some challenges for you. Including a speaking challenge and a vocabulary quiz to see what you’ve remembered from today’s podcast. As always, if you find this podcast useful and helpful please feel free to follow me on iTalki, it really helps me out. OK, with that said let’s get started. 

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你喜欢什么运动 ？
B：我最喜欢踢足球。
A：下去我们一起去踢足球吧。
B：好啊！


日常对话 daily conversation

运动

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En el siguiente enlace de google docs podrán encontrar la transcripción del episodio, así como vocabulario y verbos nuevos sobre el tema abordado: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CUH5P-PhmLXHxSowBpJ7meEnGYT1UWyMdGvclNxzOls/edit?usp=sharing

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