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The Present Simple Tense -- Do You Really Know It?

我的第一号、第二号作品的不成功，使我泄了气。
I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two.
这些大人们，靠他们自己什么也弄不懂，还得老是不断地给他们作解释。这真叫孩子们腻味。
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

后来，我只好选择了另外一个职业，我学会了开飞机，
So then I chose another profession, and learned to pilot airplanes.


世界各地差不多都飞到过。的确，地理学帮了我很大的忙。
I have flown a little over all parts of the world; and it is true that geography has been very useful to me.
我一眼就能分辨出中国和亚里桑那。
At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona.
要是夜里迷失了航向，这是很有用的。
If one gets lost in the night, such knowledge is valuable.


这样，在我的生活中，我跟许多严肃的人有过很多的接触。
In the course of this life I have had a great many encounters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence.

我在大人们中间生活过很长时间。
I have lived a great deal among grown-ups.
我仔细地观察过他们，但这并没有使我对他们的看法有多大的改变。
I have seen them intimately, close at hand.And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
当我遇到一个头脑看来稍微清楚的大人时，
Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted,


我就拿出一直保存着的我那第一号作品来测试测试他。
I tried the experiment of showing him my Drawing Number One, which I have always kept.


我想知道他是否真的有理解能力。
I would try to find out, so, if this was a person of true understanding.
可是，得到的回答总是：“这是顶帽子。”
But, whoever it was, he, or she, would always say: “That is a hat.”
我就不和他谈巨蟒呀，原始森林呀，或者星星之类的事。
Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests, or stars.

我只得迁就他们的水平，和他们谈些桥牌呀，高尔夫球呀，政治呀，领带呀这些。
I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge,and golf, and politics, and neckties.
于是大人们就十分高兴能认识我这样一个通情达理的人。
And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.

小王子-The Little Prince-Read in Chinese

小王子第二章：通情达理之人

These Pronunciation episodes follow chronologically. They follow a reading on Engoo - with explanations along the way. Go to the website in order to follow along. : https://engoo.com/app/daily-news/article/study-says-reading-fiction-helps-us-understand-others/MsfhnFVrEe22EWf-hDINhQ 

English in 60 Seconds

Pronunciation 6

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!🙌
In this episode, I’m gonna let you know how to say  “I didn’t know that you is the same age as me”  in the way not like Japanese textbooks tell you but how Japanese people actually talk. 
Thank you very much for listening to this podcast😁


Super Casual Japanese with Teppei

Season 1 : Episode 21 : “Hang in there” In Casual Japanese (1-minute episodes)

Oi gente, sejam muito bem-vindos ao Portuguese Drops, o seu Podcast de Português favorito. Meu nome é Aneleh e hoje vamos explorar o fascinante mundo do turismo sustentável no Brasil. Preparem-se para cinco dicas incríveis. E se quiser acompanhar o script do podcast é só clicar nesse link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RCAzQLJ540JmpKRqnB2OO82jQb0GvvocYp8CtDQTAyA/edit?usp=sharing
Vamos lá!

Hey guys, welcome to Portuguese Drops, your favorite Portuguese Podcast. My name is Aneleh and today we are going to explore the fascinating world of sustainable tourism in Brazil. Get ready for five incredible tips. And if you want to follow the podcast script, just click on this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RCAzQLJ540JmpKRqnB2OO82jQb0GvvocYp8CtDQTAyA/edit?usp=sharing
Let's go!

Portuguese Drops 

5 dicas de turismo sustentável no Brasil

La Pascualita es una leyenda chihuahuense y La Taconera es una leyenda coahuilense.


Mucho que decir

La Pascualita y La Taconera

Bu kadar kolay kaybolma. Yön sor ve hemen yardım al.

İngilizçe - selamlar

Nerede

Hello everyone. Today's episode is “Japan and Japanese misunderstood around the world”. I hope you enjoy the episode! What is written on the internet is not always 100% correct. It is important to see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, and feel with your own heart!
みなさま、ごきげんよう。今日のエピソードは、「世界で誤解されている日本と日本人」です。インターネットに書かれていることが100％正しいとは限りません。自分の目で見て、自分の耳で聞いて、自分の心で感じることが大切ですよ～！






Moekoの日本語ベラベラtime

Epi5 : 勘違いされやすいNIPPON【Japanese Podcast】

LOS CHILES MEXICANOS 1.

En México todo el mundo, o casi todo el mundo, come chile. Sin importar esto, la cocina del chile es, estrictamente hablando, nacional. Es lo que nos define, aunque no de un modo exclusivo, frente a otras dietas y cocinas del mundo.

La multiplicidad de moles, muchos de ellos, como hemos visto, ya de uso corriente entre los antiguos mexicanos, aun cuando todavía no fueran “transmutados” por la presencia de los ingredientes traídos por los españoles, es formidable. Hay mole amarillito; mole negro, mole de olla, mole verde, mole de hierbas, pipián, manchamanteles, xoloztle, chorreado, embarrado, poblano, chimole…

Y en cuanto a las salsas…

Un recuento del Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares consigna más de cuarenta preparadas únicamente con chiles de fácil adquisición en el mercado. Nada más con el chile serrano pueden hacerse nueve salsas distintas: cruda, cocida, frita, asada, verde, roja, “mexicana” etc., según la enumeración hecha por ese omnívoro historiador de las comidas que es José N. lturriaga; añadiríamos las variaciones que se pueden lograr si a cada una de ellas se le añade o no ajo, o cebolla, o cilantro, según.

Por otra parte, el chile en México ha llegado a ser casi un símbolo patrio. Los mexicanos no sólo lo emplean en la mayoría de los platillos que consumen, sino que se identifican vital, ontológicamente con él.

La diversidad y la riqueza de los platillos preparados con este producto es impresionante, desde los típicos y consistentes moles de Puebla, Oaxaca y Yucatán, para hablar sólo de los más conocidos, hasta las refinadas salsas y adobos del Estado de México, Guadalajara o San Luis Potosí, la variedad de gustos, sabores e ingredientes que en las cocinas del país se emplean en conjunción con los diferentes chiles ha permitido el desarrollo de una gastronomía característica, sensual e incitante, de un gusto peculiar, que no obstante las transformaciones y las influencias, conserva una tónica particular, debida...

