When we can see English Learning as fun, then we are half way to our destination. It doesn't have to be a painful part of your diary if you manage it well.

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Time Management when Learning

Listening texts about the family
نُصُوصُ اِسْتِمَاعٍ عَنِ الأُسْرَةِ

Listening for beginners

الأسرة -5- The family

Let's go for a walk in Saint-Petersburg again! I'll tell you about places where young people usually hung out. If you visited Saint-Petersburg I'd be happy to hear about your favorite places in the city. All episode is in Russian. Good for B1-B2 level

Russian Fluency

Walking in Saint-Petersburg Part 2

ADEL ALBANNA: A PROFISSIONAL ARABIC TEACHER

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EP.02 Korean Holiday - 설날, New Year's DAY (Intermediate)

Korean stories with Donggyu

Velar consonants are sounds you make with the back of your tongue touching the soft palate, also called the velum. It's the fleshy bit at the back of the roof of your mouth, near your uvula (the little dangly thing).

Production:
Raise the back of your tongue up to touch the velum. Airflow is blocked completely for a moment.

Examples in English:
/k/: This is the voiceless velar plosive, the sound at the beginning of "kit" or "cat."
/g/: This is the voiced velar plosive, the sound at the beginning of "game" or the "g" in "going."
/ŋ/: This is the velar nasal, the sound at the end of "sing" or "long." Notice how air can flow out your nose while making this sound.

Other interesting facts:
The sound /k/ is actually one of the most common consonant sound across all human languages! Velar consonants can be influenced by nearby vowels. They might move slightly forward in the mouth (called "fronting") before front vowels like /

i:/ or /ɪ/ or move back (called "retraction") before back vowels like /u/ or /ʊ/.

Some practice tongue twisters:
Kate keeps giving up in the morning
My gran’s going to see the king in the Congo
Can a king conquer a sinking kangaroo
Kick the giggling goblins guarding the gold
Kevin clung to the clinging kangaroo

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Target: British Accent 

Velar Consonants 

This is a short conversation between  a student and a teacher.
 The script is as follows:
M: Hello, teacher, how are you? sà-wàt-dee kráp kroo bpen yang ngai bâang kráp
T: Hello, fine and you Meng? sà-wàt-dee kâ · sà-baai dee · láew Meng lá kâ
M: Life is fine. I have been to Thailand for 2 days. (ago)
      chee-wít sà-baai · sà-baai kráp · maa bprà-têt tai sŏng wan láew 
T: Are you coming for a visit, right?  maa tîieow châi măi?
 M: Not at all. I moved to work  here. mâi châi loiie kráp  pŏm yáai maa tam ngaan têe nêe
T: Very good. Tomorrow Thailand will have an important festival.
     Dee mâak · prûng-née bprà-têt tai jà mee têt-sà-gaan săm-kan
M: What is the festival? I've never been to Thailand in this period.
      têt-sà-gaan à-rai kráp · pŏm mâi koiie maa bprà-têt tai  chûuang née
T:   Songkran, do you know ?  sŏng-graan · róo jàk măi
M:  I've never heard,  what is it?  mâi koiie dâai yin · keu à-rai kráp
T: Thai New Year's Day Tourists know that Songkran is a water play day for Thai people.
       wan bpee mài tai · nák tông tîieow róo jàk sŏng-graan keu wan lên náam kŏng kon tai
M: Very interesting, I'm glad to be able to visit Songkran Festival.
      nâa sŏn jai mâak · pŏm dee jai têe jà dâai tîieow têt-sà-gaan sŏng-graan
T: not just play with water. We have many activities such as going to the temple to make merit. release the bird, release the fish,  visit family , pay respect to parents and elders and carry sand into the temple
   mâi châi kâe lên náam · rao mee gìt-jà-gam lăai yàang · chên · bpai tam bun têe wát · bplòi nók bplòi bplaa · bpai yîiam krôp kruua · wâai pôr mâe láe pôo sŏong aa-yú láe kŏn saai kâo wát
M: Really excited! Tomorrow I will go to the city and temple to see the Songkran atmosphere.
     róo sèuk dtèun dtên jing jing · prûng-née pŏm jà bpai nai meuuang láe wát · pêuua doo ban-
     yaa-gàat
     Sorry, I have to go. I have an appointment with my boss.
     kŏr tôht kráp · pŏm dtông bpai láew · pŏm mee nát gàp jâo naai kráp

Learning Thai with Kru Tarntawan

Conversation about Songkran Festival

こんばんは、Atsushiです。
今日の天気は晴れでした。
今夜の天気は19℃です。

今日はネコについて。
みなさんはネコが好きですか？
それともイヌが好きですか？
両方好きですか？
それとも、両方好きじゃないですか？

私はネコが好きです。
実際、去年の11月ぐらいから、ネコを1匹飼っています。
名前はアメといいます。かわいいです。

私は昔はイヌの方が好きでした。
でも、いつからかネコの方が好きになりました。
ネコは家の外に出ないからあまり人の家の飼い猫に接するときはありませんでした。

でも、先輩の家に行った時に、ネコがいました。そのネコはいつもは他人にはなつかないらしいですが、私にはなついたようです。そんなことがあり、少しずつネコを好きになっていったような気がします。

今は完全にネコ派です。イヌももちろん嫌いではありませんが、猫の方がすきです。

私の家のネコ、アメさんは、私より奥さんの方が大好きで、奥さんのひざの上でよく寝ています。私にはそういうことはめったにしません。

奥さんよりも私の方が一緒にいる時間は長いですが、そういうことはほとんどしません。たぶん、時々、気が向いた時だけ、私のひざの上にすわります。1ヶ月に1回あるかないかですね笑

でも決して私のことを嫌いなわけではないと思います。
たぶん、しらんけど笑


はい、ということで、今回も最後まで聞いていただき、ありがとうございます！ではまた！

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