With his podcast, Brentoni explores American culture through native conversations, meanwhile highlighting useful everyday American English vocabulary with explanations and example sentences.

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Today I will be discussing a topic that I find not only interesting but important. Assertiveness is commonly confused with aggressiveness but assertiveness is important in emotional intelligence and plays an important role in the workplace. It allows us to create boundaries and be able to express ourselves confidently. I will discuss assertiveness, what it is, why it's important and how to become more assertive.

Matcha & Meditation

Assertiveness.

¿Te está costando volver a tus hábitos pre-pandemia? ¿Cómo viene tu adaptación después de meses de cuarentena? ¿Te estás pudiendo organizar? ¿Te sentís cómodo/a?
Nosotros te contamos nuestro punto de vista. Te invitamos en un comentario a contarnos el tuyo. Nos encataría leerte!


Junto a Martin, como siempre!

Perfil de Martin, profe acá también en Italki: https://www.italki.com/teacher/5211013

Dale Play al Español

Saliendo de la pandemia en 3,2,1 ...

El cine ha multiplicado los estereotipos sobre tiburones (y sus parientes lejanos los megalodones). Aunque los ataques a humanos son inusuales, en la conciencia colectiva se les considera depredadores frecuentes. En cambio, lo que podría parecer una ocurrencia disparatada se ha convertido en una hipótesis trabajada por los científicos: es posible que haya tiburones cocainómanos en las aguas de Florida.

Cafecito con Ale

¿Hay tiburones cocainómanos en Florida?

日本の多くの大学生が経験する就職活動についてお話ししました😊

Nihongo Hiyori | Japanese Podcast

[EP106] 就職活動 | Job Hunting in Japan

Nei prossimi episodi parlerò dello scrittore Gianluca Gotto e dei suoi libri, una guida importantissima ed efficace nel mio percorso di crescita personale. 

Prima, però, vorrei parlarvi della persona che mi ha fatto scoprire Gianluca Gotto, una persona molto significativa nel mio percorso verso la scoperta del mio ikigai: la passione per l'insegnamento delle lingue.  

Chi sarà questa persona? Lo scoprirete in questo episodio! 

Puro Parlare

4. Chi mi ha fatto scoprire Gianluca Gotto?

Have you ever accidentally gotten on a bus that was going out of service?

What do you expect would happen next? The driver would probably open the door and tell you to get off, and they wouldn't start driving until the bus was empty.

But that's not what happened to two tourists in Kyoto.

When they accidentally got on a bus that was going out of service in early June, the driver just closed the doors and drove away with them still on board.

And yes, he knew they were there.

But he was afraid to talk to them because they were foreigners, and he didn't know how to communicate with them.

As The Asahi Shimbun reported, the tourists — a man and a woman — got on the bus through the back door after all the other passengers exited at Kyoto station.

When they realized what had happened, the tourists asked the driver to stop, but he didn't understand them and just kept driving.

He later said he thought it would be best to deal with them at the bus terminal office.

When the driver wouldn't stop, the tourists called the police. An officer spoke to the driver over the phone, and the driver finally stopped.

They had been driving for around 20 minutes, traveling a distance of about 4 kilometers.

The West Japan JR Bus Company said: "We are very sorry for the inconvenience caused. Our employee training was insufficient, and our employee did not handle the situation correctly. We will thoroughly train our employees in the future."

Kyoto has a number of train and subway lines, but some of its most famous sites are most conveniently visited by bus — including Kiyomizudera temple in the east, and the gold-covered Kinkakuji temple in the northwest.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Kyoto Bus Driver Keeps Tourists On Board Out-of-Service Bus

If robots do take over the world, this one probably won't be the leader.

Less than 5.8 centimeters tall — a little shorter than a lighter — it has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's smallest humanoid robot.

Humanoid robots look and act like humans. For the Guinness record, they must be able to move their shoulders, elbows, knees and hips, and also be able to walk.

Made by a Japanese student named Mitsuya Tatsuhiko, this one is less than half the size of the previous holder of the world record, which was made by students from Hong Kong.

Tatsuhiko is a postgraduate student at Nagoya Institute of Technology, where he researches crawler robots. Crawler robots don't look like humans, however, and they're used to inspect places that are hard to get to.

Tatsuhiko has been interested in robots since he was a child.

According to Guinness World Records, he built his first humanoid robot when he was 10.

He didn't spend as much time making them during high school, but he has returned to his passion as he has gotten older.

It took him a few tries to get his record-breaking robot right, and he worked hard to make it as small as he could.

He applied for the record with his third attempt while he was in the fourth year of his degree. He said he was very happy to have broken the record.

Tatsuhiko hopes to work with robots when he finishes university, but he'll also keep making them at home as a hobby.