This podcast is for learners who understand French but feel blocked when speaking.

Short episodes focused on oral confidence, real-life French, and communication without stress.


French Speaking Confidence

Ecco tornato nostro appuntamento settimanale alla scoperta delle città italiane! Oggi parliamo della città di Napoli, una delle più grandi ed incantevoli città d’arte del Mediterraneo che, personalmente, consiglio a tutti di visitare almeno una volta nella vita.

Level: Intermediate
Source and transcription: https://www.italia.it/it/napoli

🗺   CITTÀ ITALIANE #QuickItalianWithMara

🌋 NAPOLI

Comentario sobre la segunda parte de la nueva adaptación cinematográfica de la novela de Alejandro Dumas.

El kinetoscopio

Episodio 8: Los tres mosqueteros - Parte II: Milady

I want you to notice what happens right before you speak English.

Not while you’re speaking.
Right before.

There’s a moment — sometimes half a second, sometimes longer —
where you stop.

In that moment, you’re not silent.
You’re busy.

You’re checking grammar.
You’re searching for vocabulary.
You’re arranging the sentence in your head.

That moment is not preparation.

It’s hesitation training.

Native speakers don’t do this.
Not because they’re smarter —
but because they don’t build sentences before speaking.

They start…
and finish while speaking.


LINGONAS ENGLISH DECODED for B2 ➕ 

English RESET 01

Para nedir, para çeşitleri ve geçmişten günümüze paranın değişimi. 

Ekonomi

Para nedir, paranın kısa tarihi

Joy to Our World

Malaysian cuisine; simply the best! 

Being a picky eater can mean a number of different things. It may describe someone who doesn't like to try new foods, or someone who prefers plain meals. It can also refer to someone who eats quite a narrow range of foods.

It's quite common for children to be picky eaters. They may only like their pasta without sauce, or their bread cut in a certain shape.

Parents often feel they're to blame when their children are picky eaters. But according to a new study, picky eating is mostly caused by our genes.

Researchers in the UK looked at data from identical and non-identical twins who had been followed from birth since 2007.

Identical twins share 100% of their genes, while non-identical twins share half, on average. Studying these twins allowed the researchers to compare the eating habits of people who were genetically the same and those who weren't, but still grew up in the same home together.

More than 4,800 twins were included in the study. Their parents completed questionnaires about how picky their children were aged 16 months, then again at the ages of 3, 5, 7 and 13.

Not all parents completed the questionnaires as their children got older, but from the results, the researchers found that the eating habits of identical twins were much more similar than those of non-identical twins.

They also found that genetic variation explained 60% of the differences in food pickiness at 16 months, and 74% between the ages of 3 and 13. Meanwhile, shared environment only explained 15% to 26% of these differences, and the environmental effect was strongest when children were younger.

However, the researchers added that environmental effects are still important: parents can still influence their children's eating habits by eating together as a family, and by offering a wide variety of different foods, for example.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Genes Biggest Cause of Picky Eating in Children

Adeptos do Benfica erram na cidade da Alemanha... O que será que aconteceu?

Aprenda Português Com Notícias Insólitas e Malucas -Learn Portuguese With Crazy Isoteric News 

Adeptos Benfiquistas enganam-se na cidade

Online reviews are everywhere, whether you're looking for a movie to watch, a hotel to stay in or a new air fryer.

Many of us read these reviews carefully, even though we probably know that not all reviews are unbiased — or even real.

Now, researchers have found out something interesting about online reviews: women generally rate things higher than men.

The researchers looked at more than 1 billion online reviews on five different websites, including Amazon, Google and the movie site IMDb.

They found that, on average, women rate things more positively than men, and are more likely to give five-star reviews.

The research team then did two smaller studies to find out why this might be. They said women don't actually like things any more or any less than men, but they still generally leave better reviews.

In one of those smaller studies, more than 1,100 people were asked to rate art made by artificial intelligence software. They were asked to rate the art privately and then publicly.

Privately, there was not much of a difference between male and female ratings.

But when participants were asked to write public reviews, women were less likely to post lower ratings, especially when they really didn't like the art.

The researchers said women may feel more worried than men about the consequences of writing bad reviews.

They added that everyone should be able to write reviews without being worried about the consequences.