News in Slow English

2nd June 2025

A very short sharing about my personal journey in 2022. Through this podcast, I hope you can learn some phrases or new vocabularies in Indonesian. Would be more gladly if you could also get inspired by the story of my journey this year. Have a great day! 🤩👍

Bahasa with Ira - Beginner

Podcast 2 - Kenangan Tahun 2022

👉 This episode of Stairway to English is a very special conversation edition! This is Part 1. Part 2 will be available very soon! 

👉 Marisa and I talk about her life, her background with language learning, where her family is from, and growing up as an English language learner. Marisa speaks with a Texan accent. I hope you enjoy the episode!

👉 Vocabulary
Commute - Travel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis

Stay put - To stay in one place

Public Relations - A type of employment where you work with companies to help them in the news or stay out of the news

Birth certificate - A certificate received at birth to show where you were born

Immigrant - A person who moves to and lives in a different country

Pull out - Take something out

Drop off - Leave someone or something somewhere

Hand me over - Give someone something or someone

Siblings - Brothers and/or sisters

Pick up - Collect a person or a thing from a place

Accelerates - Move quickly

Y’all - You all. This is used mainly in the southern part of the USA.

Carried on a long distance relationship - Dated while living far apart from one another

No brainer - An easy decision

Ma’am - A polite way to address women

Sir - A polite way to address men

Mannerisms - The way you act and handle yourself

👉 Have questions about the episode? Comment below or send me a message!

👉 If you would like to take a lesson with me, send me a message here on italki! Right now, I can't accept new students because my italki schedule is full, but I will be able to very soon! Get on my waiting list now so you will be first in line for lesson openings!

Stairway to English: Short easy to understand episodes to improve your English grammar and fluency

Part 1: Conversation Edition: Language Learning, Families, and Immigration with Marisa Vallbona

Hola mi gente!
En el día de hoy quiero dejarles un mensaje de apoyo y animo para todos ustedes, recordarles que aunque hay algunas situaciones difíciles en nuestras vidas, siempre podemos seguir adelante con nuestros proyectos, te dejo un mensaje de apoyo si lo necesitas.
Nos vemos en un próximo capitulo con mucho español mi gente!

ESPAÑOL COLOMBIANO

TÚ PUEDES!

Join us for a Coffee Break as we dive into the art of making Turkish coffee! Learn the step-by-step process, sugar levels, and secret tips for a perfect, frothy cup. Grab your cezve and let's talk ☕








Merhaba Türkçe 

Let's Make Turkish Coffee - Haydi Türk Kahvesi Yapalım

(English)
The Spanish alphabet contains 27 letters, one of which is exclusively used in the language. Its pronunciation is different from other languages and we use it to spell words that other people don't know and need to write.
(Spanish)
El alfabeto en español contiene 27 letras de las cuales una es de uso exclusivo del idioma. Su pronunciación es diferente a otros idiomas y lo usamos para deletrear palabras que otra persona no conozca y necesite escribirlas.
(English)
Next, we are going to pronounce the alphabet in Spanish followed by its English counterpart.
Then. we will do a little practice exercise.
(Spanish)
A continuación, vamos a pronunciar el abecedario en español seguido de su contraparte en inglés.
Luego haremos un pequeño ejercicio de práctica.


Podcast Learn Spanish

El abecedario en español o (The alphabet in Spanish)

日本語にはたくさんの慣用句（かんようく）があります。中でも、体の一部分を使ったことばが　いろいろあります。その中から「足がはやい」「手がはやい」ということばを紹介（しょうかい）します。これらのことばが持つ意味（いみ）を　例文（れいぶん）を使って説明（せつめい）します。
There are many idioms in Japanese. Among them, we have a lot of idioms using the word for part of the body.  Today I will introduce "Ashi ga hayai" and "te ga hayai" and explain the meaning of them with sample sentences.