Podcasts (French and Spanish)

Hello Everybody,

Can anyone suggest  me  good podcasts in French and Spanish? I am very interested in history, culture, movies, books and music. When I started my English learning a few years ago I found a really good podcast with all these subjects. It was ESL Pod, by Jeff Macquillan. He do a  very good work with cultural notes, history, and so on. I also like BBC stuff. It's harder to a native get but . So if you have a good tip for a podcast in French and Spanish I will really appreciate. 

Thanks,

Erich

Eleanor and Park So I want learn English mainly to read literature. I think that books based on essays or research, on topics like Phycology or Management are easier than Literature. Maybe because they use more terms from Latin and how I speak Portuguese (a romance language), well, some words are quite recognizable. But literature with a history, a plot, turns a bit difficult. There is a lot of substantives and verbs related with actions of the body. So I am beginning with a young age history "Eleanor and Park". Park is an Asian boy. His mother is Korean. Eleanor, according with my understanding of the book, is a little overweight girl with red hair, weird clothes and a lot of problems at home. Her family is very poor and her stepfather isn't a good father to her. Eleanor also is bullied by her colleagues at school. Both take the same bus to school and slowly they are turning friends despite the differences between them.

Point in Italki

Does someone  here know what means the points in our profiles? What are they for? Thanks 

And if my text here had some mistake please fell free to comment. I will really appreciate.. 

Parahamansa Yogananda Parahamansa Yogananda was with a group of his followers meditating in the desert, around a bonfire. Then one of his disciples interrupted the practice's silence and asked: "Master, we all were born and will die alone. Why do we need of this gatherings e retirements?" The master in silence just took a ember off the fire and everybody saw it quickly became cold. Immediately Yoda returned the dark ember to fire who turned it lighted and glowed. So, with no words Yoda taught to all the importance of bonds.

Do you know where my friend lives? - Final So I woke up early today and went on to finish the movie I was watching. I must say that the movie's English title is "Where is the friends home?" by the great Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, recently passed away. So Ami leaves his village (Koker) and goes find Mohammed's house in Poshteh to returning his notebook. In Poshteh at first Ami finds many houses closed He finally meets an old man carrying rocks. He says that in Poshteh there are at least four districts, so it will be difficult to find the right plot. After wanders a bit a woman shows the way to Mohammed's cousin, Hemati . When Ami arrives there the house is also closed. A sick old woman says that Hemati and his father went to Koker! So Ami returns to his village. Unfortnelly there is no sign of Hemati there. Ami then hears a conversation between two men and listens that one of them has the same last name that Mohammed. Maybe he is Mohammed's father! This man tries sell new metal doors to people in Koker. Ami tries call the man but he doesn't listen. The man returns to Poshteh riding a mule and the poor Ami follows him running. When finally Ami reaches him he realizes that he doesn't know the boy. Is getting darker and Ami didn't find his friend's house already. At last, he finds an old carpenter that knows where Mohammed lives. He guides Ami in the dark to his friend's house . In this moment the movie is beautiful. The old carpenter talks about how people is no longer buying the wooden-old-style doors that he used to make. Instead, people are changing these old exquisite doors for metal doors. At same time light is projected through house's doors and windows outward into the outside walls.. The resulting effect it seems they are walking in a dark gothic cathedral with stained glass. Well, Ami reaches Mohammed house, and... He gives up return the notebook. He doesn't even knock the door. He thinks that is too late to call. So Ami returns to his village. He is very sad. On the following day, Mohammed is very nervous . The teacher begins to check the homework of the students, walking between the tables in the aisle. Ami didn't come to class. The next will be Mohammed. Someone knock the door asking to enter the room. It's Ami. He sits beside Mohammed. The teacher is coming. Ami returns the notebook. Happily, the teacher is paying attention to another student. The teacher takes Mohammed notebook. Well done! The homework is perfect. Ami did Mohammed's homework at night and save his day.

Do you know where my friend lives? I was watching an Iranian movie just now. It is about a boy, Ami, that takes by mistake a classmate's notebook. He must return it. If his friend Mohammed don't show to the teacher his homework in the next day he can be expelled from school. Ami don't know where exactly his friend lives. He just now the name of his village. So he goes through the countryside by foot aiming to save her friend's academic life delivering his notebook. I paused the movie. I am sleepy now. Tomorrow I will finish it.

Flexible Work in Brazil. I friend ask me about a possible change in the legal frame that manages market work in Brazil, in special changes . Brazil had experienced recently a change in its government and this proposal is been discussed now . I think that the political environment in Brazil today, forbids this kind of discussion. The national unions are against any attempt of implement flexible job. I think that such idea would face strong opposing under the argument that it would be the first step to extinguish sick leave benefits and other workers' rights, existing since 30's of last century.

Play Pokémon Go can be dangerous. Last Monday, at Curitiba, a 21-year-old man was arrested and a teenager was taken into custody, after they have stolen the purse and the cell of a young woman of 21 who was playing Pokémon Go. One of the muggers said in hearing at police that the victim was "asking to be stolen". The criminals after notice the woman's distraction during the game decided commit the crime. After taking her belongs they shove her, who falls into the ground. In their escape they were caught by the policemen of the unit specialized in stealing and similar crimes.

Flooding in my neighbourhood After a flood storm a few months ago in my city I became worried about the water level at the street where I live. As my parking lot is in the underground I wondered if the water level could raise and enter into the garage. Fortunately it didn't happen. In the other day I met the building manager and ask him if he have already seen any episode of flood in the underground since he began to work there. He said me that at least in the last 16 years that he works there never happened such thing. Otherwise he said that in the early years after the construction of the building this happened four times. After these episodes the construction company did some changes in the vehicles entrance and the problem was solved. He added that the water level was raising only because the manholes were blocked, full of leaves and garbage. When he arrived he told to the employees to clean up them. The flood stopped and the water flowed away, he said.