When you are too tired to wait for a table during meal time, and you want to ask if you can share the table with others, you may say’不好意思，可以拼桌吗？(bù hǎo yì si , kě yǐ pīn zhuō ma?)-Excuse me, would you mind sharing the table?’ ‘拼’ means ‘put together’, so several people using one table actually indicates putting these people together. 

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7、不好意思，可以拼桌吗？- Excuse me, would you mind sharing this table?

Today we're talking about the words "diligent" and "rigorous". Two words that you can use to describe the way that you work if you take a lot of care to ensure that every little detail is correct. I hope you find them useful!

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Questa puntata è dedicata alla meravigliosa città di Venezia.

Level: Intermediate B2
Source and transcription: https://travel.thewom.it/italia/veneto/venezia/cosa-vedere-Venezia.html


🗺   CITTÀ ITALIANE #QuickItalianWithMara

🛶   VENEZIA

¿Dormimos o no dormimos la siesta los españoles? ¿Será el eterno estereotipo español un mito o una absoluta realidad? En este episodio, Isma y Jon tratarán el tema de la siesta en España y todo lo relacionado con esta famosa tradición, su enlace con la cultura y el clima y los datos reales que explican este fenómeno. Esto y mucho más aquí, en ¡Qué Pasa! ¡Relájate y escúchanos!

¡Qué Pasa! Podcast en Español

La SIESTA en España - Parte 2

       Lǐ lǎoshī duō dà le?
A：李老师多大了？
   Tā jīnnián wǔshí suì le. 
B：她今年50岁了。
   Tā nǚ’ ér ne? 
A：她女儿呢？
   Tā nǚ’ ér jīnnián èrshí suì.
B：她女儿今年20岁。

HSK Standard Course Level 1 Audio of the textbook

Lesson 5 text 3

Hoy aprenderemos a usar los números en español, desde contar hasta hablar de precios y cantidades.

Español en Acción

Temporada 1 Episodio 10 Los Números en Acción - Desde Contar hasta Hablar de Precios y Cantidades

In questo podcast parlo della mia persona preferita, com'era lei e perchè è stata cosi importante nella mia vita. Tempi verbali: presente, passato: passato prossimo, passato remoto. 

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La mia persona preferita, mia nonna

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It is the subject that has so much to do with Korea!
It is a movie that conveys the Korean style of a smile.
It's been a long time since I recommended a comedy movie like that. At last, it has come!
You can find laughter in a big tragedy.


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47. 육사오(6/45)

British writer Bill Bryson once wrote that "London is a city of endless possibility" — and perhaps, endless traffic?

The UK capital is the most congested city in Europe, according to transport analytics company Inrix.

The company looked at data from different cities around the world, and found that drivers in London spent an average of 101 hours sitting in traffic in 2024. That's up from 99 hours in 2023, and 97 hours in 2022.

According to Inrix, these delays cost the city more than $4.8 billion a year — or about $1,200 for each of London's 4 million drivers.

Inrix says London's bad traffic congestion is caused by the "concentration of population, employment and economic activity."

But although it's Europe's most congested city for the fourth year in a row, London has improved in the global rankings. It was third in the world in 2023, but is now in fifth place globally. It is still, however, the only European city in the top five.

Istanbul has jumped to first place, up from sixth, with drivers in the Turkish city spending an average of 105 hours in traffic per year.

New York and Chicago are next on the list, followed by Mexico City in fourth place.

Inrix also calculated each city's "downtown speed" — that is, the speed at which a driver can expect to travel 1.6 kilometers in the center of the city during morning rush hour.

For each of the top five cities, the downtown speed was under 25 kilometers an hour.