This is an important grammar topic at the intermediate level. This short episode introduces the idea of ergative verbs. 

Ergative verbs are a set of verbs which have a third option besides being active or passive: ergative. This means they are active in form, with the receiver of the verb's action as the subject. The meaning is the same as the passive. 

The examples I use in the episode: 
The store opens at 10. 
The movie will star at 8pm. 
The music stopped. 
The weather changed.
The chicken is cooking. 
The car is reversing. 
The plants grew. 
The window broke. 

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Grammar: Ergative Verbs

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In this podcast we'll look into some answers to 3 common questions:

1. How to answer: ‘Tell me a bit about yourself.’

2. How to answer: ‘What are your weaknesses?’

3. How to answer: ‘Describe a time you faced a challenge and what steps you took to overcome it.’

Before you'll go further - how would you do it yourself? What will your thinking be while answering?

Question One: The interviewer typically isn’t asking you about your weekend here. Take this opportunity to capture and distill the most important things they need to know about you as an employee—your most impactful job, the skills you’d most like to highlight, as well as some of the previous projects you feel showcase your abilities are all great options.

Question Two: Avoid responding with something that’s not genuine and communicates inauthenticity—saying something like ‘I work too hard!’ doesn’t come across well. Everyone has weaknesses—it’s how we manage them that’s important and expressing what you’ve already got underway to alter it is the key.

QUestion Three: This demands self-reflection and self-examination, focusing on problem solving skills and your attitude to challenges, conflict resolution and how you cope under pressure. Work through the S.T.A.R method if you get a little stuck: first, contextualise the situation for your interviewee by presenting the challenge in a professional manner and explain how it arose in the first place, then explain a little about where you fell in the group in relation to the task at hand.

Use some ideas aboe and also prepare your answers as well. At the end of the day - they are 'buying' your personality, not so much how you answer those questions so don't be shy being yourself, it countrs massively!

Let me know how I can help you privately in your interview preparations!

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Сегодня мы читаем интересную статью про сложности нахождения друзей, когда ты уже не в школе и не в университете. По-моему, это отличная статья и для тех, кто недавно переехал в новый город или как-то еще масштабно поменял свою жизнь.
Рекомендую слушать подкаст и читать текст статьи одновременно - так вы получите более хороший эффект для вашего словарного запаса. 
Тема статьи: "Как найти новых друзей во взрослом возрасте " 
Ссылка: https://trends.rbc.ru/trends/social/628421679a79472c8b9a67b9
После прослушивания статьи - ответьте на вопросы: 
1) Сколько друзей у вас было в школе и сколько сейчас? 
2) Как вы считаете, чем отличаются ваши отношения с друзьями, с которыми вы дружите со школы, от отношений с "новоприобретёнными" друзьями?
3) Есть ли у вас свой собственный лайфхак - как искать друзей во взрослом возрасте?

Ответы можете писать в комментариях. Если вы хотите обсудить статью подробнее - можете назначить со мной урок - и мы с вами хорошенько обсудим эту тему со всех сторон:)

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Лайфхаки: Как найти друзей, будучи взрослым B1-B2

ことばは生き物だという表現があるように、どんな言語にも日々新しいことばが生まれています。
時折、ネイティブ話者でも意味がわからないことばに出会うことがありますよね。
今回は、最近気になっている新語について話します。

As the expression "language is a living thing" suggests, new words are being created every day in every language.
Even native speakers sometimes encounter words whose meanings they do not understand. 
This time, we talk about new words that have been on our minds recently. 

♤ キーワード
・体たらく（ていたらく：a miserable or pathetic state of a person / affairs）
・造語力（ぞうごりょく：word-building capacity）
・無限（むげん：infinity）
・効率的（こうりつてき：efficient）
・早送りする（はやおくりする：fast forward）
・巻き戻す（まきもどす：rewind）

♧ 理解度チェッククイズ  
1. 「アルモンデ料理」とはどんな料理？ 
2. 「タイパ」は何の略で、どういう意味？

♢ 前回のクイズの答え 
1. フミが最近よく使っているのは、どんなペン？  
→ フリクションという書いた文字が消えるペン
2. フミが海外で働いていたときに使っていたのは、どんなペン？
→ 胸ポケットで映える、ちょっと高めの金属製や木製のペン 

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アヤさんとフミさんの日本語雑談（Aya and Fumi’s Japanese Chit-Chat）

Episode 27：最近気になっている新語（2023）

Hi guys, I wrote those stories based on HSK1 vocabulary and sentence patterns to help you learn Chinese. Hope you will like it!

小桃8岁了，她上小学一年级，她家有四口人，爸爸，妈妈，哥哥和她。她还有一只猫和一只狗。她的猫叫喵喵（miao1 miao），她的狗叫阿黄（a huang2）。猫是白色的，狗是黄色的。小桃有很多爱好，比如唱歌、画画、弹吉他。但是她最喜欢的是书法（shu1 fa3 colligraphy），她每天都要练习写毛笔字。她的字写得很好。﻿﻿小桃平时很忙，从周一到周五每天都要上课，下课后还要写作业，上兴趣班。周末不上课的时候，爸爸妈妈有时候会带她出去玩，他们经常去郊游，爸爸开车带她去爬山或者去湖边散步。﻿﻿小桃喜欢吃很多东西，比如饺子，面条，包子还有她的最爱糖葫芦。糖葫芦很甜很好吃。但是不能多吃，因为会牙疼。﻿﻿小桃最喜欢穿白色的衣服，尤其是夏天，她的裙子都是白色的。﻿﻿小桃有两个很好的朋友，一个叫欢欢，另一个叫芳芳。他们都是8岁，在同一个年级nian2 ji2 (grade)，但是不同班级(ban1 ji2) class. 他们经常在一起写作业，做游戏。﻿﻿现在很多小孩子都喜欢打游戏，但是小桃不喜欢，她喜欢看书，听音乐。她比较喜欢安静的活动。﻿﻿小桃平时8点半睡觉，但是有时候作业太多，写不完，她只能十点睡觉。妈妈觉得这样很不好，但是没办法，现在小孩子压力很大。﻿﻿小桃每天走路去上学，因为她家离学校不远。她不喜欢坐公交车，因为需要等车，又不舒服。More episodes coming up....



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Please let me know if you have any requests of words or phrases that you wish you’ll be able to say in casual Japanese so I’ll make an episode about it!🙌