This episode explores how the way people learn languages has developed in recent years. How can students and teachers face the challenges that this transformation presents? 
This topic is based on a popular choice in my guided conversation classes. An audio script can be read, along with extra notes by following this link: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1crF2uNkwr6xfVvkRd_UWEhS_Pub0NIQ8Z_9U1rD0rWc/edit?usp=sharing



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Hola! en este episodio veremos los tres errores más comunes de personas que están aprendiendo español, estos errores son muy comunes y a veces dificiles de entender pero hoy sabrás las diferencias y cómo corregir estos errores.

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EP 4. Los 3 errores mas comunes en español para extranjeros

8 important Modal Verbs are - 

Can
Could
May
Might
Should
Must
Will
Would


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本集播客是对John Gottman一期讲座的总结和记录。

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They say you can't have too much of a good thing — but according to a new study, maybe you can!

Researchers from the University of Toronto in Canada found that people are feeling more bored than in the past, even though there are endless types of entertainment available.

Could this endless entertainment actually be causing increased feelings of boredom?

Possibly, the researchers say.

In their study, published in Communications Psychology, Katy Tam and Michael Inzlicht looked at data from 2009 to 2020. They also looked at the relationship between digital media and reported feelings of boredom.

They found that people are reporting higher levels of boredom than ever before, with young people and college students feeling bored more often.

Many people reported feelings of boredom after engaging with digital media, leading Tam and Inzlicht to believe this type of entertainment is increasing feelings of boredom.

Digital media, they explain, is highly stimulating, which could cause people to be less interested in activities with lower stimulation, like reading a book.

And with technology offering so many distractions, people find it more difficult to focus on a single activity and take enjoyment from it, the researchers added.

For example, looking at your phone while watching television makes it difficult to focus on what you're watching on TV, which makes it more difficult to enjoy the show.

There's also so much information available online that people often engage with quick, unrelated pieces of media, instead of longer, more meaningful information, which can leave people feeling unsatisfied and bored.

Earlier research by Tam and Inzlicht supports this idea, after it showed that switching between short videos resulted in increased feelings of boredom.

The researchers said we may need to become more comfortable with feeling bored — since not everything in life is meant to be constantly interesting!

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

'Endless Entertainment' May Actually Increase Boredom

In this episode, I teach you 5 common phrasal verbs using the word "Put" so you can sound like a native speaker! 

✔️ Put into 
✔️ Put aside 
✔️ Put forward
✔️ Put back
✔️ Put off

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Working from home and avoiding the journey to and from the office is saving many of us at least an hour every day, according to a 2023 study.

But we're not always using that saved time for ourselves — we're actually spending a lot of that time working.

The US-based National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) did a survey that looked at how workers in 27 countries used their time when working from home.

On average, the daily time saved by working from home was found to be 72 minutes.

Workers in China saved 102 minutes per day, while in Japan it was 100 minutes, and in India it was 99.

But the study also found that, on average, 40% of that saved time was spent working — either on the worker's main job or on an additional one.

Workers in Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan said they used more than half of their saved time to work.

So what happened to the rest of that extra time?

According to the study, an average of 34% was used as leisure time — with people in Germany and Austria using almost half of their extra time for leisure.

And 11% — about eight minutes per day — was spent looking after children or other family members.

The NBER said children had gotten a better deal with parents working from home — but that the big winners were employers, who got extra work time from their employees.



Work from Home Study: We Save Time but Work More

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gp4pam1svh8mK65CE2usbYyInfbhhamD/view?usp=drivesdk

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