Many people say they prefer the company of their cat to humans. But can you really trust your "furbaby"?

The Social Evolutionary

How Much Do You Really Love Your Cat?

Let's learn a new technique to reduce procrastination and increase our productivity!

Subtitled Italian

Season 01 / Episode 15 - Time planning: the pomodoro technique

What is Doppiaggio? And what is Doppiaggese? Why are Hollywood movies always late to arrive to Italian cinemas? 
Are there positive sides of the Fascism repression? 
What grants the success of a Hollywood movie in Italy more - the movie itself or its dubbed version? 
Have a listen and let's find out together!


Language Tales

Impact of Fascism on Italian language

안녕하세요. Hello~ 
한국어 듣기 수업 시작해요. Let's start with the Korean listening class. 
선생님 읽어요. I read it. 
잘 들으세요. Please listen well.

I posted the sentences on my blog. 
https://blog.naver.com/laramcraft/223015094502
https://youtu.be/x6CB181v-rU

The basics are important.
It is also good to check the basics of 한글 Hangeul before this listening class.
1-1. Korean alphabet - Vowels 모음 - What is Hangeul?
https://youtu.be/0YzhJ9p2lcs
2-1. Korean alphabet - Consonants 자음 -what are the consonants 자음?
https://youtu.be/lckgvQ_vreA
3-1. Korean alphabet - Final Consonants 받침 - What are the final consonants 받침?
https://youtu.be/sLlFmG30fNI

This is a class to listen to Korean conversational sentences.
In this voice recording for listening, 
After reading many sentences with Korean grammar in Korean conversations sentences, 
Check out how much you understand the sentences with a voice recording. 
Never look at the sentences when listening to the voice recording. 
And Listen to the sentence repeatedly until you hear it completely. 

You are listening to the Sejong Korean conversation. (세종학당)
There are four books in total. (Korean conversation, 1, 2, 3, 4.)
It consists of 1st and 2nd courses for beginners and 1st and 2nd courses for intermediate.
Each course is conducted in 14 units. (2 grammar - for each unit.) 
This listening class you are taking is Korean Conversation 3. (Intermediate 1) 
Please listen carefully.

Korean Listening Class 한국어 문장 듣기 - Korean teacher, Grace

Korean Conversation 3. (Intermediate 1) - Lesson 13. Part 1 ​-는/-은/-ㄴ 편이다, Part 2 -더라고(요)/-(이)더라고(요)

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Explain a situation, give advice, make it up with somebody & irregular verbs: sprechen/essen/treffen, modal particles ‚denn‘ and ‚ja‘.
Tim arrives at the restaurant, and it turns out that Paul wasn't invited to his sister's wedding because he doesn't really know her anyway. Tim must have behaved embarrassingly at the wedding. But Anna is apparently no longer angry. Paul talks about his online date Laura. Anna and Meili propose a housewarming party and Paul should invite her. Can Paul convince Laura of himself?

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16: Eine Party! Super Idee! | A party! Great idea!

Сегодня продолжаем изучать современную русскую литературу. На этот раз - “Женщины Лазаря” от Марины Степновой. Великолепная и очень интересная книга, но язык не всегда прост для иностранца. 

Слова, которые объясняю в эпизоде: вечера́ми - in the evenings; се́меро - или семь - seven; не счита́я - не принимая в расчёт, во внимание - apart from, exclusive, exclusive of; новорождённый - только что или недавно родившийся - newborn; ми́рно - умиротворенно, тихо, спокойно - peacefully; сопе́ть - издавать носом свистящие звуки - to sniff, snuffle; корзи́на - basket; отчита́ться - рассказать, дать отчёт в своих действиях - to report back; зо́рко - во все глаза, пристально, бдительно, внимательно - vigilantly; зо́рко следи́ть - to keep a sharp eye, watch closely; по́ровну - равными частями, одинаково - equally, evenly; умиле́ние - нежное чувство, возникающее от чего-то трогательного - tender emotion; тайко́м - тайно, скрытно - secretly; подсу́нуть - to slip; ла́комый - вкусный - tasty; кури́ться - выделять дымок, туманную дымку - to reek; ла́сковый - полный ласки, выражающий ласку - affectionate; машина́льно - автоматически, бессознательно, непроизвольно - automatically, mechanically; нае́сться - поесть чего-нибудь в большом количестве; поесть досыта - to eat up; разомле́вший - человек, впавший в расслабленное, полусонное состояние - relaxed, languished; мечта́ть - to dream; ку́хонный - бытовой, не отличающийся возвышенностью и утонченностью - simple, household.

Смело предлагайте, каких авторов и книги хотели бы вместе прочитать!
И помните, что чтение по-русски углубляет ваши знания языка! Хороших вам книг, друзья!

Reading Russian

Отрывок из романа “Женщины Лазаря” М. Степнова

3000 Most Common Words

This is a clean and tidy office. A photo is displayed on the wall. It shows the Memory Stationery staff standing proud in front of a new warehouse. Everyone’s face is full of optimism.  But today the company atmosphere is tense. A4, the CEO of the company, is at his desk and on the phone; he is facing out the window at the sky. His facial expression is timid.

“I hear you, Mr. Scissors,” says A4. “But it’s impossible. I can’t take our prices down that low. You’re asking me to sacrifice our entire profit margin.”

A4 sits in silence as he listens to the response. A bead of sweat runs down the CEO’s face. The voice on the other end is frightening him.

“Sir, last month I discounted our products to the bottom line… Yes, but, please, sir, I’m just an
honest wholesaler. I promise I’m not trying to take advantage of you… Other retailers are happy to pay market rate—”

A4 suddenly pulls the phone away from his ear. The voice is furious and aggressive. It is blasting out the tiny speaker. When the harsh noise calms down, A4 puts the phone back to his ear.

“No, please, don’t cut me. Please, sir. You’re right, okay? You’re right. That was rude of me, I’m
sorry… I know. I’m a scrap. You’re right. I’m no better than a tissue. You’re right…”

A4 changes his tone. He isn’t pleading anymore. He sounds like he has given up.

“Mr. Scissors. I’ll look at our margins and call you back. There might be some way we can go down lower…”

A4 hangs up the phone. He leans back in his chair. His eyes are glazed over. He is deep in
contemplation. He imagines the brutal scenario of Mr. Scissors cutting him into a thousand pieces.

Throughout this entire time, A4 has been recording the conversation onto his paper body. This is his natural ability. A4’s unmistakable memory is the reason why he is the CEO.

A4 picks up the phone and dials a number. Life returns to his eyes.

“Backpack, get everyone together in the meeting room. I have an announcement.”

Being a Cloud

A4 the Piece of Paper 

En este episodio descubriremos qué hay detrás del famoso ron cubano. ¡Descúbrelo!

Cafecito con Ale

Los Saberes del Ron Cubano

Today we are talking about advertisements (actually trashing advertisements), so if you want to learn how to talk about your opinions on ads or how much you dislike them in Chinese, let’s take a listen together ba~


Note: This podcast is intended for language learning ONLY. Not for promoting or criticizing any political party or ideology. Let’s keep it friendly and accessible to all :)

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