1日の終わりに、ホッと一息つきませんか？
Let’s take a break at the end of the day?

お疲れちゃんラジオ

谢谢你的帮助
xiè xiè nǐ de bāng zhù 

不客气
bù kè qì

日常中文（Daily Chinese）

Thank you for your help  谢谢你的帮助

POSTAL CLERK: What can I do for you today?
CAROL: I need to mail this package to New York, please.
POSTAL CLERK: OK, let’s see how much it weighs … it’s about 
five pounds. If you send it express, it will get there 
tomorrow. Or you can send it priority and it will get 
there by Saturday.
CAROL: Saturday is fine. How much will that be?
POSTAL CLERK: $11.35 [eleven thirty-five]. Do you need anything else?
CAROL: Oh, yeah! I almost forgot. I need a book of stamps, too.
POSTAL CLERK: OK, your total comes to $20.35
[twenty dollars and thirty-five cents].


LANGUAGE NOTES
• What can I do for you today? Notice that this question starts with “What,” so the 
intonation drops at the end of the question.
• Or you can send it priority … Notice the stress on “or,” which emphasizes that there is 
another possibility.
• $11.35 ... $20.35 Notice the two different ways the postal clerk says the price. First he 
says eleven thirty-five (without the words dollars and cents), then he says twenty dollars 
and thirty-five cents.
• Oh, yeah! is an expression used here to mean “I just remembered something.” It’s often 
followed by “I almost forgot.”
• Your total comes to … is a way of saying “the cost is ….”

English Conversation practice (30-day challenge)

Day 16 : At the post office

３月といえば、出会いと別れの季節です。
日本では４月に新年度が始まり、３月に終わるので、春は入学・入社祝いなどで贈り物をすることがよくあります。
今回は、アヤが中国人の生徒に聞いた贈り物のタブーについて話します。

March is the season of encounters and partings. 
In Japan, the new academic and fiscal year begins in April and ends in March, so we often give gifts in the spring to celebrate someone’s enrollment or joining the company. 
This time, Aya talks about the taboo of gifts that she heard from her student from China.

♤ キーワード
・年度（ねんど：academic and fiscal year）
・節目（ふしめ：milestone）
・弔う（とむらう：mourn）
・喪服（もふく：mourning dress）
・心機一転（しんきいってん： get a fresh start）

♧ 理解度チェッククイズ 
1. 中国でタブーとされている贈り物は？ 
2. それをプレゼントとしてあげるのは、どのくらい失礼？

♢ 前回のクイズの答え
1. フミが春を感じるのはいつ？
→ 札幌雪まつりが終わる頃
2. 日本の気候について、二人が子どものときと比べて変わったことは？
→ 四季がはっきり感じられなくなった

BGM special thanks：MusMus

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

Episode 25：贈り物のタブー


   a. Better late than never - It's better to do something late than to not do it at all.
      Example: "He finally apologized, saying better late than never."
   b. Kill time - To occupy oneself during a period of waiting or when there's nothing else to do.
      Example: "I usually read a book to kill time during my commute."
   c. Against the clock - To be in a race against time or running out of time.
      Example: "They worked against the clock to finish the project before the deadline."
   d. In the nick of time - Just in time or at the last possible moment.
      Example: "She arrived in the nick of time to catch the train."
   e. Time flies - Time passes quickly.
      Example: "It feels like yesterday, but time flies, and now they're all grown up."


IELTS Podcast 雅思博客

Time-related idioms

¡Bienvenidos a Maria & Pablo Spanish!  

En esta serie de episodios especiales estuvimos compartiendo con ustedes el uso de diferentes verbos en español. Ahora en este último episodio de la serie de “Verbos en contexto”, vamos a darles algunas oraciones con el verbo ‘to fail’, que se puede traducir en español como: perder, no pasar, desaprobar, rajarse, tirarse y jalar.  ¡Empecemos! 

Les invitamos a conocernos en: 
📍 María: https://linktr.ee/spanishwithmariap  
📍 Pablo: https://linktr.ee/pabloalejos 


Maria & Pablo Spanish

21. Verbos en contexto. How to say ‘to fail’ in Spanish (Part 7)

Buenas a todos, por acá Camila, desde Buenos Aires, Argentina, con un nuevo PODCAST, esta vez sobre EL TRABAJO.
5 preguntas con sus respectivas respuestas (basadas en mi opinión y experiencia personales)

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Hablamos de algunos aspectos del trabajo, y de cómo viene el desarrollo del mismo en tu país/ciudad - Es un tema socio-económico, que en un mundo capitalista nos afecta a todos.

Bienvenido/a a este podcast, DALE PLAY Y ENTRENA TU ESPAÑOL!

Saludos desde Buenos Aires!

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