一、Listen and fill blanks
        很多女孩子（  1  ）浪漫的爱情。那什么是浪漫呢？年轻人说：浪漫是她想要（  2  ）时，你不会给她星星；中年人说：浪漫是（  3   ）晚上加班到零点，到家时，自己家里也还亮着灯；老年人说：浪漫（   4 ）就像歌中唱的那样，“我能想到最浪漫的事，就是和你一起慢慢变老。”其实，让我们（   5 ）的，就是生活中简单的爱情。有时候，简单就是最大的（   6  ）。

二、Listen and repeat.
       很多（              ）。那什么是（     ）呢？年轻人说：（          ）。中年人说：（              ）；老年人说：（          ）。其实（       ，           。）有时候，（             ）。

Ruby's Listening Studio

幸福是什么？

Did you know?

Glass Frogs

Сегодня знакомимся с Михаилом Зощенко и его весёлыми героями рассказа “Бабушкин подарок” Лёлей и Минькой. 

Слова, которые объясняю в эпизоде: 
горячо́ - (перен.) очень сильно - dearly, strong, so much; дари́ть - to give, present; вдоба́вок - к тому же, в добавление - in addition, moreover, as well; корзи́нка пиро́жных - a basket of cakes; позво́лить - разрешить, дать возможность - to allow; вы́брать - to choose; како́е придётся - любое - any, which one will have; вся́кий раз - каждый раз - every / each time; хны́кать - to whimper; серди́ться - быть раздраженным, злиться на кого-то - be / feel angry; да́ча - dacha; су́мочка, су́мка - bag, purse, handbag; подбежа́ть - run up; поздоро́ваться - say hello, to greet; грусть - sadness; на э́тот раз - this time; рассерди́ться - to get angry; невоспи́танная осо́ба - ill-mannered person; открове́нно - frankly, openly; благовоспи́танный - well-mannered; на све́те - in the world; благодаря́ - по причине, вследствие - thanks to, due to; такти́чное молча́ние - tactful silence; веле́ть - приказывать - to command; протяну́ть - to reach out, reach; ладо́нь - palm, hand; положи́ть - to put; моне́та - coin; копе́йка - penny.

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Reading Russian

Отрывок из рассказа "Бабушкин подарок" М.М. Зощенко

En este nuevo episodio de la serie hablemos de viajes vamos a enfocarnos en la toma de decisiones y el impacto que esta tiene sobre nosotros, viajeros, cuando estamos en movimiento. ¿Qué tanto te gusta tomar decisiones constantemente? ¿Dirías que sos bueno/a en eso? ¿Te estresa? ¿Cómo te sentis cuando el resultado de tus decisiones no es lo que esperabas?

Respondemos estas y otras preguntas en un podcast de tan solo 12 minutos para entrenar tu español, ¿estás listo/a?

DALE PLAY!

Disfruta de aprender

Hablemos de viajes, parte XI !

Draft is available on Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/46030151

-------For Beginners------- 

0:00 オープニング(Introduction) 
2:22 オタクのための日常会話(Daily conversation phrase for OTAKU) 
3:59 オタクのためのオススメアニメ(Recommended anime for OTAKU) 
6:55 Q&A 
7:40 エンドコール(End call) 

-------For Experts------- 
9:26 日常会話の速さでもう一度(Play at the natural conversational speed) 

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Konnichiwa! In this program "Anime-sensei's Otaku radio" aka "Ani-Ota Radio", Native Japanese raised in Saitama Yuuki, who loves anime and works as a tourguide and Japanese teacher will share some Otaku-ish contents! My favorite anime titles, recommended phrases, all useful info "for OTAKU" are here, enjoy listening and make use of for your studying Japanese! 

Nihongo Radio with ANIME SENSEI

(Slow/Natural) Violet Evergarden (ヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデン)

Script

おはようございます。日本語だんだんpodcastのゆかりです。

いまは、11月ですね。

日本は秋から冬(ふゆ)になる季節(きせつ)です。

11月だと、すこし寒(さむ)いです。

でも、今年(ことし)はまだまだ、あたたかいです。

今日、大阪の気温は24度もありました。

11月にしては、あたたかい・・というより、

あつい！です。

ニュースでは、今年の日本の冬は、

"暖冬(だんとう)"といっています。

暖かい冬、とかいて、だんとうです。

いみは、そのまま、あたたかい冬。

いつもの年より、あたたかい冬、ということです。

寒いより、あたたかい方が、きもちがいいですね。

でも、雪があまりふらないと、
スキーやスノーボードができません。

こまることもあります。

今年の日本の冬は"暖冬"。

さて、どうなるでしょうか。

では、今日も最後まで聞いてくれて、だんだん、です、


また明日！

Japaneseだんだんpodcast

40. 日本の今年の冬は「暖冬(だんとう)」です/Japaneseだんだんpodcast

Host: Welcome back to the podcast everyone. I’m joined today by Naseem, an IT consultant from 
Delhi and Deepa, an HR consultant from Bangore. Today we’ll be discussing the increase in the number of people moonlighting and what the future holds for companies and workers. So, Deepa, I’ll ask you first: What has created this problem?

Deepa: Well, as with many places around the world, during the pandemic, there was a big increase in the number of people working from home and also economic instability. So, at the same time, we had more people working without any supervision and people were more worried about being able to make a living. So, the increase in online moonlighting was a consequence of that situation really.

Naseem: That’s certainly what happened to me. At the time, you read about all of these companies that were *laying off * their staff and there wasn’t much you could do about it if it happened to you. So suddenly working for just one company seemed like a bad idea. I have a family to feed: three boys and a girl. I felt a lot of insecurity and was terrified of losing money, or maybe even worse, my house. So, I took two jobs.

Host: What effect did that have on you and your family?

Naseem: It gave us some comfort, financially, as I started making more money than I had before the pandemic. But I was also working very long hours each day. I saw the children every day of course, but I couldn’t spend any real time with them as I had to work from almost as soon as I got up, until late in the evening. My wife was working as well, so it was quite hard to manage everything. When the crisis was averted, we had gotten used to having the extra money, so although I cut back on my hours in both jobs, I still continued to work at both.

Host: Do you see anything wrong with doing what you are doing?

Naseem: Not at all. I’m a professional and I work hard at both jobs. My main job is in IT as you mentioned, but my second is in design. 




English Conversation/Dialogue

MOONLIGHTING 

Enjoy the twenty-fourth episode of Culture To Grow, which allows you to travel the world from the comfort of your home, your car, or if you are still half asleep in your bed.

In this episode, we will uncover the well kept secrets behind seemingly ordinary aspects of daily life including: 

Have you ever wondered which hand should be used to show respect in Mongolia?

Why is buffalo allowed to be eaten, but not cows in Nepal? 

Are Polish people really unfriendly? 

And which country consumes the most meat per capita? 

Culture To Grow

Episode 24: Behind Closed Doors: Exploring the Secrets of Daily Life Around the World Part 2

Transcript by italki teacher Carl:
Improve your spoken English and book a lesson with me: https://teach.italki.com/teacher/1947582
Streetwise English Podcast - Pink Floyd
Welcome back to another mini episode of Streetwise English podcast. You can search for Streetwise English Podcast on other platforms and find full length episodes, but these are just mini podcasts. Today I'd like to talk about music, and specifically I'd like to talk about an English band called Pink Floyd. So Pink Floyd was big back in the 1970s. And I remember as a kid my dad had the album The Dark Side of the Moon, and the cover Art of the Dark Side of the Moon was a prism, like a triangle.
And then on the right side of the prism was a rainbow. So the spectrum of colors in light and this album was groundbreaking at the time because it was kind of a new genre of music. It was psychedelic rock, so there were soundscapes and they were using synthesizers and electric instruments in ways that people had never done before. And I looked, I Googled it, checked on the Wikipedia page, and it says that The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album of the English rock band Pink Floyd released on March 1st 1973 the record was conceived as an album that focused on the pressures faced by the band during their arduous lifestyle. And dealing with the apparent mental health problems suffered by former band member Syd Barrett, who was a part of the group in 1968.
So in my research, um, my brief research here on Pink Floyd I learned about Syd Barrett and that he was the founding member of the band who left the group and I guess he had some kind of mental illness and experimented with a lot of psychedelic drugs. Um, and he kind of disappeared from the band, but it seems like he was probably maybe the most talented one and the original member of the band and kind of helped form, form their style of exploring sonic soundscapes and free flow of consciousness and the way that he would create the lyrics and...

