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Create an awesome job search strategy: Cover letters, CVs and Interviews in English. I will give you the advice and language tools to successfully create and execute your own job application strategy.

How to create an awesome job application strategy: Advice on careers, CVs, cover letters, interview planning

In this podcast, I talk about my favourite dog breeds, the benefits of living with a dog and more. Also, I provide important vocabulary words for talking about dogs. Are you ready to listen and learn? Let's go!

English on the Road 

DOGS // Listen and Learn: English Podcast + Vocabulary for Dog Lovers

In this episode we will talk about 【challenge】, you will learn how to say 【language barrier,cultural difference,dynamic】 ect.
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It is recommended that you study in the following ways:
1st time: listen without looking at the text.
2nd time: look at the text and write down the new words, then look up the dictionary. 
3rd time: listen again without looking at the text.
4th time: shadow reading without looking at the text.
https://www.purpleculture.net/chinese-english-dictionary/
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大家好，我是Yuli。欢迎收听我的播客。
今天想和大家聊一聊【挑战】的话题。
你的生活中，遇到过的最大的挑战是什么呢？我想了一下我自己的经历，有两件事情我觉得是很大的挑战。
第一件事情是，大三的时候我去日本留学。大一大二的时候我学习非常努力，最后通过了面试，拿到了去日本当一年交换生的机会。那是我第一次出国，在那以前，我从来没有坐过飞机。在紧张和害怕中，我开启了日本留学之旅。到了日本以后，因为文化差异，语言障碍和学习压力，我遇到了很多的挑战。但是人往往是在困难中成长的，这一年我经历了很多，也成长了不少。
第二件事情是，我决定从兼职的中文老师变成全职的。在这之前，我在一家日本公司上班。我很喜欢我的同事，但是我对我的工作不是很有激情。我给学生上课的时候就很不一样了，我更开心，也更有活力。决定辞职是一个很大的挑战，因为我要考虑很多的事情。例如，收入是不是稳定？我是不是喜欢在家办公？最后我还是决定辞职了，因为我觉得可以做自己喜欢的工作是一件很幸运的事情，我应该好好抓住这个机会。
你现在的生活有什么挑战呢？我觉得我最大的挑战是做好时间管理，因为我想要做的事情太多了。我每天要给学生上课，我还做中文播客，做中文学习视频。我还想做更多的学习资料，帮助我的学生学好中文。这需要时间，我应该耐心点，一点点做。
关于挑战，你有什么故事？留言告诉我吧。我们下期见。
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交换生	jiāo huàn shēng	exchange student
开启······之旅	kāi qǐ ······ zhī lǚ	Start the journey of······
文化差异	  wén huà chā yì	  cultural difference
语言障碍	  yǔ yán zhàng ài    language barrier
往往	wǎng wǎng	often, tend to
兼职	jiān zhí	part-time
全职	quán zhí	full-time
有活力	yǒu huó lì	dynamic
抓住机会	   zhuā zhù jī huì	seize the opportunity
耐心	nài xīn	patient

Yuli's Chinese Channel

挑战 challenge（Intermediate and advanced level）

In the late 1970s, a naive young secretary abandons her hometown in Cleveland for San Francisco, and heads into a brave new world of strange and wonderful characters, in this cult classic novel by the Charles Dickens of San Francisco Armistead Maupin. Maupin writes in a simple, but creative way to blend together the lives of some of the city's most-eccentric inhabitants; which makes the story highly accessible for language learners*.

*Suitable for adults over the age of 18.

Audiobooks with Pip

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin: Chapter 1

Learn to use adverbs of frequency in the context of everyday activities. 

Super Basic Spanish

Basic Spanish: ¿Con qué frecuencia? (How often?)

Escucha estas palabras y distingue cuándo la T es enfática o suave. 

Aprende árabe con Radia 

Diferencia entre la T enfática y la T suave en árabe

How to describe the place where you live in Russian? 房子的描写
Usage of the Prepositional Case 前置格

New words 生词：
Заходите! - come in! 进来吧！
Одежда - clothes, 衣服；
Идем в (кухню) - Let's go (to the kitchen), 我们去厨房吧；
Открой окно, пожалуйста! - Open the window, please! 请你打开窗户！
Арбуз - watermelon, 西瓜；
Диван - sofa, 沙发；
Мягкий - soft, 软的；
Будешь (кофе)? - Would you like (a cup of coffee)? 你要咖啡吗？

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