Since England is an island, it has a rich maritime history and lots of idiomatic expressions that come from sailing and ships. In this podcast, I cover the following:

* “Dead in the water” 
* “Three sheets to the wind” 
* “To go by the board” 

For a full transcript of this podcast, go to https://www.difficultenglishexplained.com/nautical-idioms-part-2/.

Difficult English Explained

Nautical Idioms in English, Part 2:  What do they Mean and Where did they Come from?

Tässä jaksossa kerron siitä, miten lukusanoja on tapana lyhentää puhekielessä. Yy, kaa, koo, nee, vii, kuu, sei, kasi, ysi, kymppi... Se säästää aikaa! Enjoy :)

Heippa hei!

Lukusanat puhekielessä

BCT  

BCT 1 我来介绍一下

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Job interview coaching, Episode 393.

In this lesson, you will learn how to express countries in Chinese, and we will give you some useful tips to help you remember them much more easily.

Veronica's Chinese Channel

How to express countries in Chinese?

A1 Arabic

Arabic numbers 1>5

nside a dimly lit cave, a group of people sit huddled around glowing amphoras. These vessels are no ordinary pottery; they're meticulously painted with images of legendary wrestlers, engaged in eternal combat. The flickering light from a small fire casts these images onto the walls, animating the wrestlers in a primitive, captivating dance of shadows.



The cave's inhabitants watch these images, interpreting the epic battles as the ultimate expression of wrestling. They debate the techniques, celebrate the victories, and mourn the defeats, all from the moving images on the amphoras. To them, these representations are the entirety of wrestling—there is no world beyond the wrestlers on the pottery.


Nikostratos, ever the curious and skeptical cat, notices a sliver of light peeking through a crack in the cave wall. The murals and their tales don't satisfy his curiosity. One day, driven by a particularly pungent smell of the outside world—a mix of fresh earth and sweat—he finds a loose stone and wiggles his way through the crack.

Everything Zenified 

Wrestling, skeptical Cats, and Allegory of the Cave

I have done my job - yo he hecho mi trabajo
You have done your shopping- tú has hecho las compras
She has done her best- Ella ha hecho su mejor esfuerzo
We have done what’s necessary- nosotros hemos hecho lo necesario
You have done something- ustedes han hecho algo
They have done this and that- ellos han hecho esto y aquello