I've got a large vocabulary, so why can't I understand the locals? 
Let's improve our listening and pronunciation  with movie clips!
听台词，学地道的中文发音和表达。
每天两分钟，让你听懂更多中文。

Iris' screening room

【Beginners&Kids】
  Elementary School Chinese Textbook（first to third grade）
 ✔每日一篇课文，看看中国人的中文课学什么
One text each day from the textbook used by students in  Chinese  elementary school.

Iris读课本—— Original Chinese Textbook Reading（first to third grade）

1.一分钟中文听力资料（名人演讲、采访）
1 Minute Chinese Listening Materials (Speeches and Interviews by Celebrities)
2.适合任何水平 
 For all levels
3.提供文稿和英文翻译
With Chinese & English script



One Minute Chinese—— Celebrity speeches & interviews with Chinese & English script

Learn the Korean word for “café.”
Understand how to describe places where people relax, drink coffee, and spend time.

Key expressions:

이 카페는 조용해요.
(This café is quiet)
카페에서 커피를 마셔요.
(I drink coffee at a café)

Korean Places in Real Life

EP.02 — Café in Korea (카페)

但我断不以别的夸口，只夸我们主耶稣基督的十字架；因这十字架，就我而论，世界已经钉在十字架上；就世界而论，我已经钉在十字架上。
 Gā lā tài shū 6:14 Dàn wǒ duàn bù yǐ bié de kuā kǒu, zhǐ kuā wǒ men zhǔ Yē sū Jī dū de shí zì jià; yīn zhè shí zì jià, jiù wǒ ér lùn, shì jiè yǐ jīng dìng zài shí zì jià shàng; jiù shì jiè ér lùn, wǒ yǐ jīng dìng zài shí zì jià shàng. 
갈라디아서 6:14 그러나 내게는 우리 주 예수 그리스도의 십자가 외에 결코 자랑할 것이 없으니 그리스도로 말미암아 세상이 나를 대하여 십자가에 못 박히고 내가 또한 세상을 대하여 그러하니라

Read the Bible in Chinese

加拉太书6:14      Galatians 6:14    Gā lā tài shū

For Arabic speakers who meet Malayalam every day — employers, colleagues and neighbours of the Malayali workforce across the Gulf — and for Malayalis in the Gulf who want to see how their two languages sit against each other.

I am Dr. Reshmi R. Nair, an applied linguist from Kerala. I have taught hundreds of learners to speak Malayalam as it is actually spoken.

THE RELATIONSHIP, AND THERE IS A REAL ONE
Arabic is Semitic, Afro-Asiatic. Malayalam is Dravidian. Unrelated families, unrelated ancestors. But they have been in contact for a very long time and the contact left real marks. Arab traders were on the Malabar coast for well over a thousand years, and Arabic was the language of Indian Ocean trade for centuries. The result is a substantial Arabic vocabulary layer in Malayalam, strongest in the north and among Kerala's Muslim communities.

THE ARTEFACT EVERY ARABIC SPEAKER SHOULD KNOW
അറബി മലയാളം — Arabi Malayalam — Malayalam written in the Arabic script, with letters added to carry the sounds Arabic does not have. A whole literature exists in it: religious works, poetry, the Mappila song repertoire, textbooks. A Dravidian language, written right to left, in an Arabic hand.

WHAT HELPS YOU
The shared vocabulary is real and larger than you expect, particularly around trade, law, religion and everyday Malabar speech.
You already produce sounds English speakers struggle with, and you are used to a script that marks vowels differently from Latin.

WHAT WILL MISLEAD YOU
Malayalam is verb-final; Arabic is not.
Malayalam has no definite article and no root-and-pattern morphology — words are built by stacking suffixes, not by threading consonants through a template.
And the everyday core vocabulary is Dravidian and entirely new.

Do you work with Malayalam speakers? Which word did you already know without realising?

#LearnMalayalam #Malayalam #Kerala

Malayalam Fluency Lab | Study Plans, Mistakes and Practice

Learning Malayalam If You Already Speak Arabic | Learn Malayalam #185

げんき、第２課57ページ、かいわより。 リスニングとリーディングのれんしゅうです。私が言ったあと、リピートしてください。 2かいめは少しはやいです。 
It‘s for your practice of listening and reading. Repeat after me without reading げんき２, even if you have the textbook. I speak a little faster the second time. 
这是为了你的听力和阅读练习。 即使你有课本，也不要读　げんき２、跟着我重复。 我第二次说得快一点。 
もしあなたが中級（ちゅうきゅう）でも、いいれんしゅうになると思います。 
It should still be good practice even if you are an intermidiate-level student. 
即使您是 N4 或以上级别的学生也很有用


みせの人：いらっしゃいませ。メニューをどうぞ。

メアリー：どうも。これはなんですか。

みせの人：どれですか。ああ、とんかつです。

メアリー：とんかつ？さかなですか。

みせの人：いいえ、さかなじゃないです。にくです。おいしいですよ。

メアリー：すみません。トイレはどこですか。

みせの人：あそこです。

メアリー：ありがとうございます。


Waiter: Welcome. Here`s the menu.

Mary: Thank you. What`s this?

Waiter: Which one? Oh, it is tonkatsu.

Mary: Tonkatsu? Is it fish?

Waiter: No, it is not fish. It is meat. It is delicious.

Mary: Then, I`ll have this.

Mary: Excuse me. Where is the restroom?

Waiter: It is over there.

Mary: Thank you very much. 


ようへい先生　　N4,N5チャンネル

げんき2課

Three words today to talk about clothing and outfits, 
These are garment, garb, and get-up
I hope you find them useful and interesting!

DAILY Business English VOCABULARY builder

You look so cool in that get-up!

Hoy hablo de algunas cosas que puedes hacer para crear tu propia experiencia lingüística en español sin salir de casa. En el episodio comento hábitos que pueden ayudarte, algunos son pequeños cambios en tu rutina, y otros requieren un poco más de esfuerzo.

Después de escuchar dime qué te parecen estos consejos:

-¿has probado alguno de ellos?

-¿tienes otras recomendaciones, algo que hagas, que crees que podía ayudar a otros estudiantes?


Blanca to go 

41 – Trucos para una inmersión en casa

随机应变suí jī yìng biàn，就是根据实际情况而变化， To adjust according to situation。孙子认为一个
Suí jī yìng biàn (to adjust one’s approach according to the actual situation). Sun Tzu believed that 
好的将军如果不懂得变化，总是坚持以前的作战计划，他有再好的条件也不能赢。
a competent general who fails to adapt and rigidly adheres to pre-set battle plans cannot achieve victory, no matter how favorable his conditions are.
举个例子，一个老板开了一家糖果店，他发现有游客到他的店里买糖果，他就把糖果制作成小包装。游客见到精美的礼盒，就忍不住多买几份，于是老板赚了很多钱。
Take an example: a shopkeeper ran a candy store. When he noticed that tourists were visiting his shop to buy candies, he repackaged the candies into small, exquisite gift boxes. Seeing these fancy boxes, the tourists couldn’t help buying several more portions, and the shopkeeper made a handsome profit.
那么再回到我们自己。你是否有遇到什么困难？有没有开始考虑用新的办法去解决呢？
Now, let’s turn to ourselves. Have you encountered any difficulties lately? Have you started thinking about adopting new methods to solve them?




《孙子兵法Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ》The Art of War

《孙子兵法》18

Vol.43ゲームについて

1.ゲームが好きですか？

2.よくしていましたか？

3.何才からしましたか？

4.お兄さんとしましたか？

5.お兄さんは何が好きでしたか？

6.イタリアでは何が流行っていましたか？

7.ゲームセンターに行きましたか？

8.UFOクレーンでなにか取ったことがありますか？

9.今のゲームについてどう思いますか？
(絵がきれい、本当の世界みたいなど)

10.ルカさんから何かあれば話す。


Vol.43About the Game

1.Do you like playing games?

2.Did you often play games?

3.How old were you when you started playing games?

4.Did you play with your older brother?

5.What did your brother like?

6.What was popular in Italy?

7.Did you go to a game arcade?

8.Have you ever won anything with a UFO crane?

9.What do you think about current games? (Pretty pictures, like the real world, etc.)

10. Luke will talk to you if he has anything to say.


第 43 卷关于游戏

1.你喜欢玩游戏吗？

2.你经常玩游戏吗？

3.你几岁开始玩游戏？

4.你和哥哥一起玩吗？

5.你哥哥喜欢什么？

6.意大利流行什么？

7.你去过游戏厅吗？

8.你用飞碟起重机赢过什么东西吗？

9.你对现在的游戏有什么看法？

10. 卢克有什么话会跟你说的。