In this episode, I'm talking about two things all humans do…sleep and dream!  All over the world people seem to be sleeping less than ever before...Listen to some top tips to help you get lots of beauty sleep and sleep like a baby! 
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UK TALKS WITH LIZ

EPISODE 7: SLEEP AND DREAMING

Una chiacchierata con Caro, provando i microfoni nuovi!

The Italian Miscellaneous Podcast🖐 

Microfoni nuovi, vita nuova! (tinos e tanos)

This time I'm talking about Onomichi in Hiroshima. It's a very special place and I hope you all have a chance to go there one day. 

Good luck with your studies and I hope to see you all in a lesson :) 

April in Tokyo

#2: 尾道、広島

Mafalda es un personaje de historieta creado hace más de 60 años por Quino, un humorista gráfico argentino. ¡Pero atención! Aunque es un personaje "viejo", sus ideas siguen siendo superactuales. Ella se cuestiona el mundo, desde los grandes temas hasta las cosas más cotidianas, y nos ayuda a pensar como adultos y a salir del pensamiento rutinario.

📌 Por ejemplo, Mafalda le pregunta a su mamá:
— Mamá, ¿vos qué harías si vivieras?
¡Un ataque directo a la rutina doméstica!

Y sí, es un humor difícil de entender algunas veces, por lo que en mi opinión es un muy buen material de aprendizaje para extranjeros, porque nos ayuda a entender cosas que no están escritas explícitamente. 

En sus historietas, se abordan temas universales como familia, política, escuela, amigos, el mundo, todo. 

📌 Otra frase muy conocida de Mafalda es: “El problema es que hay más gente interesada que gente interesante”, ciertamente un enunciado muy locuaz que deja entrever el interés por el dinero y el poder de algunas personas. 

Y si venís a Buenos Aires y te gusta Mafalda, no podés perderte el PASEO DE LA HISTORIETA. Es un recorrido al aire libre que celebra a los personajes de los cómics argentinos.

El paseo comienza en el barrio de San Telmo. Ahí está la famosísima estatua de Mafalda sentada en un banco en una esquina, donde todos los transeúntes acostumbran a sacarse fotografías con ella. 

📸 Consejo viajero: ¡andá temprano si querés sacarte una foto solo con Mafalda! Porque siempre hay fila. Siempre.

Y desde ahí, luego podés seguir caminando y encontrar estatuas de otros personajes de la historieta argentina. Es como un museo al aire libre, pero sin paredes y gratis. 

Y así termina nuestro episodio de hoy sobre Mafalda, la niña que cuestiona al mundo con una sonrisa, y también con cara de pocos amigos.

Si venís a Buenos Aires, pasá por San Telmo, sacate una foto con ella…y recordá: ¡si querés practicar español, sus historietas también son cultura!

Aprendiendo español con una argentina

MAFALDA: LA NENA QUE CONQUISTÓ BUENOS AIRES… Y EL MUNDO

People who travel a lot will know the feeling — you've just landed in a country on the other side of the world, ready to explore and see the sights, but you're too tired to do anything!

Jet lag is usually linked with travel and changing time zones. But a new study has found that even small changes to our daily schedules can change our sleeping patterns.

And it's not just sleep that gets affected by a disrupted schedule — our bodies work differently when our daily patterns change.

The study, published in iScience, looked at how our bodies respond to a five-hour time change — similar to the kind of jet lag you'd feel after traveling from New York to London, for example.

It looked at people's circadian rhythm — our body's natural clock that controls when we sleep, when different hormones are released, and how our bodies use energy.

During the study, scientists observed 14 people in a lab for eight days.

On the first two days, the participants followed their normal daily schedules. But from the third day, the participants' meals, sleep and light exposure were changed to five hours later than normal.

The researchers tested the participants' blood and checked their digestion, energy use, and levels of melatonin — a hormone that helps control sleep by making you feel tired when it gets dark — to see how their bodies reacted to the time change.

The results showed that the five-hour time change made digestion slower, changed blood sugar levels, and affected how the body used fat. The body also burned less energy from food.

These things started to go back to normal after two or three days as the body adjusted to the new schedule.

One of the study's researchers, Jonathan Johnston, told StudyFinds this shows how sticking to a regular schedule can make a big difference to our health.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

How Jet Lag Affects More than Just Your Sleep

En este podcast hablaremos de dos de los jugadores  mas importantes de la historia del futbol!!

Maradona-Messi

Vocabularies
卢浮宫lú fú gong - Louvre
以前yǐ qián HSK3 - in the past/before
门票mén piào HSK2 - entrance ticket
种zhǒng HSK3 - type/kind
价格jià gé HSK4- price
欧洲ōu zhōu HSK5- Europe
欧元ōu yuán- euro
花huā HSK3- spend
只zhǐ HSK3- only
其他qí tā HSK3- other
国家guó jiā HSK3- country
需要xū yào HSK3- need
修xiū HSK4- fix
打算dǎ suàn HSK3- plan
这样zhè yang HSK3- in this way/like this
有名yǒu míng HSK3- famous
地方dì fang HSK3- place

News in Chinese for beginner

HSK3 |Tickets to the Louvre cost more |卢浮宫的门票更贵了 lú fú gong de mén piào gèng guì le

In this episode I talk about how to light or start a fire. Here is Carl's italki teacher profile: https://italki.com/teacher/1947582 Thanks for listening! Visit my website for more of my full-length podcasts . https://www.streetwisenglish.com

Streetwise English

SWE 75 How to light a fire 🔥

1.	What is the purpose of your visit to the UK? 
This question assesses if your intentions align with the visa category you're applying for. 
Answer1: "I intend to study Computer Science at the University of Cambridge."
Answer2: "I plan to pursue a degree in Environmental Science at the University of Oxford."


2.	How long is your course duration? 
This question determines the validity of your visa. 
Answer1: "The course is [duration] years long."
Answer 2: "The program has a duration of [duration] years."
