We love roses. But they have thorns. So why do we still like them?

Rose Photo: JLPC / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30151561

The Social Evolutionary

In Love, opposites attract, or we need something in common?

História de um menino e seu cachorro brincando no jardim.

Histórias curtas em português básico

No jardim

旅行  
lǚ xíng  

跟旅行团旅行不用操心交通、吃住这些事情，  
gēn lǚ xíng tuán lǚ xíng bú yòng cāo xīn jiāo tōng 、 chī zhù zhè xiē shì qing ，  

主要的景点导游都会带你去看，比较舒服。  
zhǔ yào de jǐng diǎn dǎo yóu dōu huì dài nǐ qù kàn ， bǐ jiào shū fu 。  

但是，参加旅行团旅行没有自由，行程都是安排好的，  
dàn shì ， cān jiā lǚ xíng tuán lǚ xíng méi yǒu zì yóu ， xíng chéng dōu shì ān pái hǎo de ，  

如果遇到不好的导游或者不好玩儿的地方，你也没有选择。  
rú guǒ yù dào bù hǎo de dǎo yóu huò zhě bù hǎo wánr de dì fang ， nǐ yě méi yǒu xuǎn zé 。  

如果有条件，旅行还是自己安排比较好。  
rú guǒ yǒu tiáo jiàn ， lǚ xíng hái shì zì jǐ ān pái bǐ jiào hǎo 。  

你可以自由地决定去看什么，去吃什么，住什么地方。  
nǐ kě yǐ zì yóu de jué dìng qù kàn shén me ， qù chī shén me ， zhù shén me dì fang 。  

你也有时间、有机会更好地了解当地的文化。  
nǐ yě yǒu shí jiān 、 yǒu jī huì gèng hǎo de liǎo jiě dāng dì de wén huà 。  

现在旅游网站很多，在网上订票、订房都很方便。  
xiàn zài lǚ yóu wǎng zhàn hěn duō ， zài wǎng shàng dìng piào 、 dìng fáng dōu hěn fāng biàn 。  

当然这样旅行会麻烦一些，  
dāng rán zhè yàng lǚ xíng huì má fan yì xiē ，  

但是，自己解决遇到的麻烦也是旅行的意义。  
dàn shì ， zì jǐ jiě jué yù dào de má fan yě shì lǚ xíng de yì yì 。  


1.  旅行团 lǚxíngtuán：touring group  
2.  景点 jǐngdiǎn：scenic spot  
3.  导游 dǎoyóu：guide  
4.  行程 xíngchéng：journey  
5.  当地 dāngdì：local  
6.  订票 dìngpiào：to book  
7.  解决  jiějué：to solve  
8.  意义 yìyì：signification  


1参加旅行团遇到导游不好或不好玩儿的地方，我们：  
cān jiā lǚ xíng tuán yù dào dǎo yóu bù hǎo huò bù hǎo wánr de dì fang ， wǒ men ：  
 A. 可以跟导游商量 kě yǐ gēn dǎo yóu shāng liàng  
 B. 换旅行社huàn lǚ xíng shè  
 C. 没有很多选择méi yǒu hěn duō xuǎn zé  
 D. 自己去玩儿zì jǐ qù wánr  

2下面哪个不是自己安排旅行中的事？
xià miàn nǎ gè bú shì zì jǐ ān pái lǚ xíng zhōng de shì ？  
 A. 自由决定吃什么zì yóu jué dìng chī shén me  
 B. 自由决定看什么zì yóu jué dìng kàn shén me  
 C. 导游带着你旅行dǎo yóu dài zhe nǐ lǚ xíng  
 D. 自由决定住哪里zì yóu jué dìng zhù nǎ lǐ  

3文章认为旅行中遇到麻烦：
wén zhāng rèn wéi lǚ xíng zhōng yù dào má fan ：  
 A. 很难解决hěn nán jiě jué  
 B. 是一个大问题shì yí gè dà wèn tí  
 C. 可以请人帮忙kě yǐ qǐng rén bāng máng  
 D. 是有意义的shì yǒu yì yì de

Intermediate Chinese Listening

Journey 旅行

You will know some places to visit in Bogota:

El centro histórico de Bogotá

Teatro Colón

Museo del Oro

Cerro de Monserrate

Barrio La Macarena

Andrés Carne de Res

Catedral de Sal de Zipaquirá

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Colombia

Bogotá, una ciudad de lugares únicos para visitar

In this episode of Streetwise English Podcast, I talk about why I like studying languages on italki. My teacher profile: https://italki.com/teacher/1947582 Thanks for listening! 
Welcome my friends to another episode of the Streetwise English Podcast. I'm your host Carl and Italki American English tutor. So today I want to talk to you about… This is the last day of January of the New Year 2023. And I just had a problem this morning. I was trying to download some software, I was trying to install software on my computer and I ran out of internal storage. And so I had my computer failed to install the software. And, I wanted to make the analogy of the human brain. And the computer. So a lot of times we feel stressed out and we have lots of things going on. In our mind our mind is completely full, feels like it's running without any extra storage space. 

full transcript https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bxYks4J7veYm3UJBe1Dx09lLRpRHmJ82mYD9ZR_Sud0/edit?usp=share_link

Streetwise English

SWE 116 Clearing my mind & hard drive  (with Transcript)

“杯弓蛇影”这则成语的意思是误把映入酒杯中的弓影当成蛇。比喻因错觉而疑神疑鬼，自已惊扰自已。

中华成语典故

中华成语典故--杯弓蛇影

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LEARN BY LISTENING

Spontaneous Phone Call With My Iranian Friend

Intermediate Chinese Listening：越来越热  Getting hotter

An annual event involving dirt, beer and cash once again drew dozens of competitors to a ski resort in Maine on October 12.

More than 30 couples competed in the North American Wife Carrying Championship, a 254-meter race during which competitors splash through water, jump over logs and trudge through mud — all while carrying their partner on their backs or shoulders.

The event began in Finland, with the first official event taking place in 1992. It has grown in popularity since then — the World Championship is held annually in the region of Sonkajärvi, and the North American Championship has taken place in Maine every year since 1999.

Traditionally, the Finnish event involved male competitors carrying a woman. At the competition in Maine, couples didn't have to be married to compete, nor did they have to be a man and a woman.

One participant — the carrier — was dressed as Mr Incredible, while his "wife" was dressed in pink. They and others were cheered on by crowds on both sides of the course at Sunday River ski resort.

Most of the participants use a technique in which the "wife" is carried like a backpack — upside down — to keep their arms free as they run. Wearing smiles and grimaces, competitors end up wet and muddy.

The champion leaves with the weight of the "wife" in beer and five times their weight in cash. To estimate the amount they win, the winning partner is put on one side of a see-saw-like scale that organizers balance out on the other side with cases of beer.

"We come each year for the fun," said Wade Porterfield of Cuba, New York, who competed with his wife, Sara Porterfield. "There is really a low chance of us winning. Pretty much everybody cheers everybody on and it's a blast."