In this episode of Stairway to English, learn how to use the common idiom "drop the ball"

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

Don't drop the ball on that deadline! Learn how to use the English idiom "drop the ball"

1. Siete persone competitive nel gioco?
2. Avevate già sentito parlare dell’Ayurveda?
3. Avevate mai paragonato la medicina occidentale con quella orientale?
4. Come gestite la rabbia? Come gestite la competizione? La sofferenza? E l’amicizia?

In questo episodio parlerò dell'ultimo libro di Gianluca Gotto, intitolato "Verrà l'alba, starai bene."

🔤 Vocabolario 🔤

Controllo ossessivo — Obsessive control

Crollo emotivo — Emotional breakdown

Costretta a fermarsi — Forced to stop

Persona persa — Lost person

Colpi di scena — Plot twists

Ayurveda, l’antica scienza della vita — Ayurveda, the ancient science of life

Questionario — Questionnaire

Temi alquanto interessanti — Quite interesting topics

Competizione — Competition

Monaci buddisti — Buddhist monks

Sofferenza — Suffering

Alimenti l’ego — Feeds the ego

Il desiderio, la rabbia, l’ignoranza — Desire, anger, ignorance

Saggio — Wise person / Sage

Fonte di interesse — Source of interest


Puro Parlare

28. Verrà l'alba, starai bene

EPISODE 3 — “Why Fluency Isn’t Confidence”?

Theme: The real enemy isn’t your English — it’s the fear of judgment that blocks your natural voice.

Focus: How perfectionism, overthinking, and mental translation destroy presence.

Duration: 8 minutes in total.

You can be fluent — and still feel frozen when it matters most.
In this episode, Anatoly Glazkov reveals why high-performing professionals lose their natural voice in English and how to break free from performance mode — the mental trap that kills confidence which will be revealed in this new episode.

Discover how to speak from alignment, not anxiety — and sound like the leader you already are!

Experience  "The Voice Unlock Method™"yourself  — with Anatoly Glazkov and 
Speak with clarity. Influence powerfully. Lead with confidence.

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⭐ The Voice Unlock Method™ –  The Inner Game of Speaking English with Calm, Clarity & Presence 

EPISODE 3 — “Why Fluency Isn’t Confidence”?

Alcuni argomenti interessanti di cui ho discusso recentemente con il mio insegnante di francese.

The Italian Miscellaneous Podcast🖐 

最近のことについて　(Aggiornamenti recenti)

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....



CloverChinese

HSK1 (Level 1) Listening and Reading Practice

Listen to this conversation about the last travel of the protagonist. 

Aprende árabe con Radia 

My last trip

紧急情况时，学会这几句中文可能大有用处。一起来听听看吧！

Chillchat (Learn Chinese and Chill)

紧急中文 Emergency Chinese

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12rEeTnU805BpJWKDBNQgjhagGpS5wJ9m/view?usp=drivesdk

Teacher Joseph's Podcast

Do Affirmations and things like Hypnosis work? (With transcript)

Practice your English listening and speaking with this real BBC-style news clip!
In this episode, we explore the BBC’s new Polish language service — a great topic for shadowing if you're learning English.

🗣️ Shadowing helps improve pronunciation, fluency, and intonation. Just play, repeat, and follow along.

✨ Ideal for learners

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