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Music, food, customs, traditions, dance, language, and many more form a culture. The list can keep going, but new cultures can be overwhelming. That's why the cultural shocks. So? What do we do with all the information?

The Age of Humans

Episode 2: How to Process the Cultural Input

Learn the differences between "ser" and "estar" which both mean "to be" in English

Super Basic Spanish

Basic Spanish: ¿Ser o estar? (two different "to be" verbs)

Benvenuti nella prima puntata di questo nuova serie di podcast! Oggi impariamo a conoscere meglio la parola INTORNO: che cos'è? Come si usa?

Se è tutto chiaro commenta con una frase che contenga la parola INTORNO. 🤩

🇮🇹 ITALIANO IN PILLOLE

📝 INTORNO

Bedside Italian #39 - L'ortica nella cucina italiana.

Bedside Italian

みなさんこんにちは！このエピソードでは、ブリュッセルに住んでいる私が、ブリュッセルの好きなところと嫌いなところをお話します。今回は好きなところをお話しします。

一つ目は、大きな公園がたくさんあるところです。ブリュッセルには広い公園がいっぱいあって、散歩やピクニックにぴったりです。週末には家族や友だちと楽しく過ごす人でにぎわっています。
二つ目は、日本の映画を映画館で見られるところです。ヨーロッパでは日本の映画を見るのがむずかしいかもしれませんが、ブリュッセルではときどき見ることができます。大きなスクリーンで日本の映画を見ると、とてもわくわくします。
三つ目は、フランスパンやケーキがおいしいところです。パン屋さんが多くて、どこでもおいしいパンやケーキが買えます。朝ごはんにクロワッサンを買って、公園で食べるのが私のお気に入りです。
四つ目は、日本の食べ物が簡単に手に入るところです。日本のスーパーやアジア系のお店があって、しょうゆやみそ、だしなどを買うことができます。海外に住んでいても、日本の味を楽しめるのは本当にうれしいです。
五つ目は、空港が近いところです。ブリュッセル空港は市内から電車で約20分で行けます。旅行に行くときや日本に帰るとき、とても便利です。
最後に、マルシェという外の市場がたくさんあるところです。新鮮な果物や野菜、チーズやお花など、いろいろなものが売っています。地元の人と話したり、季節の食べ物を楽しんだりできるのがいいところです。
みなさんの住んでいる町の好きなところはなんですか？よかったら私のレッスンに来て教えて下さい。では、次のエピソードでお会いしましょう。さようなら。

公園 (Park)
映画館 (Cinema/Movie Theater)
パン屋　パンや (Bakery)
日本の食べ物 　にほんのたべもの(Japanese Food)
空港 くうこう(Airport)
市場　いちば　market
手に入る　てにはいる　you can buy and get them
だし　Japanese soup stock
新鮮な　しんせんな　fresh
地元の人　じもとの人　local people




Nihongo Short Story by Noriko

ブリュッセルの好きなところと嫌いなところ（１）

En esta temporada te enseñaré expresiones coloquiales con PRESENTE DE SUBJUNTIVO.

Clase gratis de Presente de subjuntivo: https://spanishwithberta.systeme.io/presentedesubjuntivo

Newsletter (aprende una expresión coloquial cada día): https://acortar.link/d8H9at


Español coloquial

Me saca de quicio que me hagan esperar

Did you feel confident in your last interview? 

If you didn’t feel confident, your interviewer likely didn’t perceive you as confident. 

Yet, in the U.S. and many other countries, interviewers prefer confident candidates. It seems to have an intoxicating effect on them, and many of them equate it (for better or for worse) with competence. So, it’s a skill worth learning! 

Tune into the latest Express to Impress podcast to learn which groups of people struggle most with confidence in interviews. You’ll also learn how you can overcome self-doubt to feel and project confidence in an interview.  Ultimately, you'll feel better, increase your interviewer's confidence in you, and land a job offer. 

Papers Cited:

Belmi P, Neale MA, Reiff D, Ulfe R. The social advantage of miscalibrated individuals: The relationship between social class and overconfidence and its implications for class-based inequality. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2020 Feb;118(2):254-282. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000187. Epub 2019 May 20. PMID: 31107052.

Exley, Christine L and Kessler, Judd B. The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion. National Bureau of Economic Research: Working Paper Series number 26345. 2019 Oct. doi: 10.3386/w26345.

Episode originally published June 28, 2021.

Original theme music by Lucas Knutter 

Read the transcript at https://www.express-to-impress.com/be-confident/

Join the Express to Impress community on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/express-to-impress/.

See infographics for this episode on Pinterest at https://www.pinterest.com/ExpresstoImpress/_created/.

Express to Impress

How to Be Confident in an Interview

IELTS Preparation & Sample Answers. Part 1 - Clothes - 6 New questions.

Q. 1. What kind of clothes do people wear to work in your country? Why?
Q. 2. How have clothes fashions changed in your country over the last few decades?
Q. 3. What is the difference between clothes that young people and old people like to wear?
Q. 4. What influence has the fashion industry had in your country? Why?
Q. 5. What do you think will be the effects of the fashion industry in the next ten years?
Q. 6. How does advertising influence what clothes and dresses people choose to buy? Is this true for everyone?

Please pause, record some ideas and incorporate them into your answers & send me a class request so we can go through your unique challenges so I can prepare you for y our IELTS speaking experience.

