The Spanish have lots of yummy food. But when you see what their name means, it doesn't sound so good.
I wrote a romantic comedy novel about bad translations. "Loosely Translated", by Simon Wheeler, is on Amazon, as a digital book.

The Social Evolutionary

Spanish Food Translates Badly!

我在北京
我一直都很喜欢中国的文化。今年一月我离开家，离开了我的爸爸、妈妈，一个人坐飞机来北京学习汉语。老师和同学们对我非常好，他们帮助我提高汉语听、说、读、写能力，还告诉我北京人的工作和生活。
北京的春天天气很好，不冷不热，也很少下雨。我最喜欢北京的早上。每天早上五点半，我都会去跑步。在路上，我常常看见很多做运动的人。有的人在前面跑，他们的小狗在后面跑。人跑到哪儿，狗就到哪儿，太有意思了!很多商店很早就开门了，水果和菜就放在桌子上。卖东西的人坐在椅子上，手里拿着杯子，喝着茶，等着客人来买。晚上是我很喜欢的时间，我可以和朋友一起逛街、喝酒、吃好吃的东西。如果10点左右回家也没关系，因为中国是一个很安全的国家。

Wǒ zài Běijīng
Wǒ yìzhí dōu hěn xǐhuan Zhōngguó de wénhuà 。 Jīnnián Yīyuè wǒ líkāi jiā ， líkāi le wǒ de Bàba 、 Māma ， yí gè rén ZuòFēijī lái Běijīng xuéxí Hànyǔ 。 Lǎoshī hé Tóngxuémen duì wǒ fēicháng hǎo ， tāmen bāngzhù wǒ tígāo Hànyǔ de tīng 、 shuō 、 dú 、 xiě nénglì ， hái gàosu wǒ Běijīngrén de gōngzuò hé shēnghuó。 
Běijīng de Chūntiān tiānqì hěnhǎo ， bù lěng bú rè ， yě hěnshǎo xiàyǔ 。 Wǒ zuì xǐhuan Běijīng de Zǎoshang 。 Měitiān Zǎoshang Wǔdiǎnbàn ， wǒ dōu huì qù pǎobù 。 Zài lùshang ， wǒ chángcháng kànjiàn hěnduō zuòyùndòng de rén 。 Yǒude rén zài qiánmian pǎo ， tāmen de xiǎogǒu zài hòumian pǎo 。 Rén pǎo dào nǎér ， gǒu jiù dào nǎér ， tài yǒuyìsi le! Hěnduō shāngdiàn hěnzǎo jiù kāimén le ， shuǐ guǒ hé cài jiù fàng zài zhuōzi shàng 。 Mài dōngxi de rén zuò zài yǐzi shàng ， shǒu lǐ ná zhe bēizi ， hē zhe chá ， děng zhe kèrén lái mǎi 。 Wǎnshang shì wǒ zuì xǐhuan de shíjiān ， Wǒ kěyǐ hé péngyou yìqǐ guàngjiē 、 hē jiǔ 、 chī hǎochī de dōngxi 。 Rúguǒ 10 diǎn zuǒyòu huíjiā yě Méiguānxi ， yīnwèi Zhōngguó shì yí gè hěn ānquán de Guójiā 。


Learn Chinese through stories - HSK3  （more podcast：https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk_Q-vfEdpBJCRJviEEY0KQ）

HSK3 - My life in Beijing

Oggi impariamo insieme una nuova parola "VALANGA", e scopriamo il suo duplice significato.

🇮🇹 ITALIANO IN PILLOLE

📝 VALANGA

Hello, Everyone. This is a continuation of my previous post. The alphabet is very important. Because after knowing how to pronounce the letters of the alphabet correctly, you will be invited to practice simple reading. In this context simple reading is like: reading colors and numbers. In reading practice, you must know the syllables so that you can read correctly. 

Learning Bahasa (Complete Beginer)

After Learning Alphabeth

Two people talk about themselves and their families.


Beginner 

Meet the Teachers - (Be Verbs - Introductions)

Welcome back to another episode of Streetwise English. I'm your host, Carl. I'm an italki American English tutor. Today I want to talk about technical aids for learning languages. And specifically, I want to talk about headphones. So one of the most important things for improving your fluency in any foreign language is to listen to content in that target language.
So for me, I'm currently studying Spanish and trying to maintain my Chinese, so I don't forget it. So what I like to do every day is listen to podcasts. Now you can listen while you're doing other activities like washing your clothes or washing the dishes or exercising at the gym. You can listen to podcasts while you're on the treadmill. 

But the problem is headphones can smash your ears and make your ears uncomfortable. So what I like to do is use bone conduction headphones or earphones. It's a type of headphone that doesn't actually cover your ear canal. It goes in front of your ear and kind of sits on your face. Um, kind of behind your sideburns if you're a man, right in front of your ear and the sound transmits a vibration that goes into your skull and into your ear and your brain can hear the sound just from the vibrations going through your bones. And so they are called bone conduction headphones. I swear by them. And I use them every day. I have a pair which is charged with a USB C port.

So there are many different kinds of options on the market, but I like the ones that use a USB C port to charge them because I don't have to worry about losing the appropriate proprietary charging cord. Instead, I can just use any USB C charging cord to power up the headphones. 

So another advantage of using bone conduction headphones is that while you're wearing them, you can hear sounds outside of the content that you're listening to.
So for example, say, I'm running, I'm jogging and listening to my podcast which is in Chinese while I'm jogging. ( Text limit )




Streetwise English

SWE15 Bone conduction headphones for learning languages

At an Art Exhibition (with transcript)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BZu1Cs1zNRYTwUnUf6NCafd3O_0DjUi-/view?usp=drivesdk


Teacher Joseph's Podcast

At an Art Exhibition (with transcript)

British shopping areas are generally called "High Streets" even when the
Street has a different name.

Standing in the High Street

British People begin to Prepare for Christmas