In this episode I talk the world's top 4 spoken languages and the international 普通话.
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Streetwise English

SWE 137 Top 4 languages in the world

In this episode, you will hear a story about two persons' experience of going to a Chinatowm. Thank you for listening to it.

一天，小王的女朋友小平说她想去中国城吃中国饭。小王就开车带小平去中国城。可是，小王从来没去过中国城，他不知道去中国城怎么走，所以小平拿了一张地图告诉小王怎么走。过了二十分钟，他们到了一个地方，在这个地方他们考到了很多中国字，他们想这个地方就是中国城。他们停车问一个人，“你知道中国饭店在哪儿吗？” 那个人说：”这里是小东京，没有中国饭店。“这个时候，他们才知道他们走错了地方，这里不是中国城。小平非常不高兴，因为她只想吃中国菜，不想吃日本菜。

Story Chinese

24#27 去中国城 go to the Chinatown

In this episode, a student from David's 'Movies, TV, and Podcasts' course discusses a new movie; 'Downton Abbey - The end of an era'. This quintessential English drama reveals a great deal about life in an upper-class English family. Listen as Helen tells us why she was attracted to the movie, who her favourite character is, and whether she would recommend the movie to other students of English. If you've watched the movie, please send me your comments, and let me know whether you agree with Helen's review.

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Movie Review: Downton Abbey - The end of an era

In this episode of The Everyday English Podcast, Mohammad Riaz introduces three powerful business English words: optimize, retain, and expand. Learn what they mean and how to use them naturally in professional conversations, meetings, and the workplace. Improve your business vocabulary and communicate with more confidence.

The Everyday English Podcast

3 Powerful Business English Words

Odyssea arrives home and meets her future spouse.

Transcript:
https://saracasalino-books.weebly.com/blog/the-adventures-of-odyssea-ch-7-ithaca

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The Adventures of Odyssea: Ch 7.1 - Ithaca

Tumbarse a la bartola, echarse a la bartola, estar a la bartola... do you want to know the meaning of this popular expression? Listen to the podcast to find it out.

De todo un poco

The meaning "A LA BARTOLA" 😏

En este episodio te enseño cómo presentarte en español de una forma natural y nada “de libro”. Soy Agustí, profe de español, nacido en España y viviendo en Puerto Rico, y aquí te comparto expresiones reales, ejemplos auténticos y formas simples de sonar más natural desde el primer minuto.
Si quieres mejorar tu fluidez y sentirte más seguro presentándote en español, este episodio es para ti. ¡Vamos en ruta! 🌎✨

Español en ruta 

Presentarte en español: lo que nadie te explica

In this episode you can listen to the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty being read out loud in Dutch. 

Sprookjes in het Nederlands voorgelezen

Doornroosje (Sleeping Beauty)

f you're going to exercise, you have to stretch, right?

Well, maybe not.

The answer might depend on your goals, and what you mean by "stretch."

There are different types of stretches.

In what are known as "static" stretches, you hold a single position for perhaps as long as 60 to 90 seconds. These stretches are great for increasing flexibility.

But there are also "dynamic" stretches, where you repeatedly — but carefully — move your joints through their full range of motion.

Expert opinion on how to use these stretches has changed over the years. But it's now generally believed that dynamic stretching is best before you exercise, while static stretching is better after.

As Alisa Bowman writes for the Mayo Clinic, dynamic stretching helps improve blood flow and joint mobility, which gets your body ready to exercise. Studies have even found that dynamic stretching before exercise can improve your performance.

Meanwhile, some research has found that static stretching can temporarily weaken your muscles, which is why it's generally no longer recommended before certain sports — and especially not for high-performance athletes.

Instead, static stretches are typically recommended for helping to relax your muscles after exercise. Since you've been moving and increasing blood flow to your joints and muscles, you'll actually be more flexible, so you'll get more benefit from those stretches.

But while you may have been told that stretching will reduce soreness after you exercise, research has found that it really doesn't make much difference.

You've also probably been told to stretch to avoid injuries. But research doesn't seem to support that either — especially for static stretching.

Writing for WebMD, Sonya Collins says that, as long as you stretch sometime, it's fine if you don't do it around the time you exercise.

In fact, some experts say if you're short on time, it's better to exercise without doing any stretching than to cut your workout short!