Estamos ante un verbo peculiar por varios motivos: mismo verbo, dos estructuras y usos diferentes, y tres significados. ¿Lo estás usando bien?

Curiosidades sobre el español y su cultura

El verbo entretener/entretenerse

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笨鸟先飞[bèn niǎo xiān fēi]：clumsy/bird/first/fly, Clumsy birds have to start flying early .
灵活 líng huó：quick; clever
嘲笑 cháo xiào：laugh at
懒惰 lǎn duò：lazy
气馁 qì něi：be discouraged lose heart
飞翔 fēi xiáng：fly; flight; hover
坚持不懈 jiān chí bù xiè：hold on consistently and persistently
尝试 cháng shì：try;attempt;trail
掌握 zhǎng wò：grasp; master; know well
技巧 jì qiǎo：skill;technic
顺利 shùn lì：smoothly;successfully
出色 chū sè：outstanding;remarkable
The idioms means to be successful you have to keep one step ahead other people.


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笨鸟先飞[bèn niǎo xiān fēi]

How to say “Happy Birthday” in Thai.

This is a phrase that you can use.
สุขสันต์วันเกิด
สุขสันต์ mean Happy
วันเกิด means Birthday
Let’s talk a little bit about สุขสันต์
Eventhough it means Happy, but it is not used in the sentence like “I am happy”.
If you want to say “I am happy”, then you’ll have to say ฉันมีความสุข
Normally you will find สุขสันต์ in a phrase like Happy Birthday, Happy Mother’s Day, Happy
Valentine’s day , etc.
I give you some example, Mothers’ day , In Thai we say วันแม่
So, when you want to say Happy Mother’s day , you will simply say สุขสันต์วันแม่
ok, how about วันพ่อ, วันพ่อ is Father’s day.
Now can you tell me how to say “Happy Father’s Day”.
Give you 3 seconds… 1…2….3 Yes, you got it. สุขสันตัวันพ่อ
When you want to send your birthday wish, some of the most common phrases to say is
ขอให้มีความสุข Wish you happy
ขอให้ร่ำรวย Wish you weathy
ขอให้สุขภาพแข็งแรง Wish you healthy
and sometimes, you want to send these 3 wishes at one time!
You can just join them together as
ขอให้มีความสุข ร่ำรวย สุขภาพแข็งแรง
Finally, any listeners who have a birthday today. This is my wish for you
ขอให้มีความสุข ร่ำรวย สุขภาพแข็งแรง ค่ะ

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How to say Happy Birthday in Thai

how to pronounce خ and some examples of it 

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how to pronunce خ in Farsi

I'm still learning how to do this podcasting thing, but I'm trying to share my words anyway. I speak quite quickly in this episode... Sorry! I will try to speak slower next time. 

There's a question for you to answer at the end - in audio or written form - so if you have 10 minutes to listen, and then 5 minutes to answer the question that end -- why not GIVE IT A GO?! (which is another way of saying -  GO FOR IT! DO IT!) You have nothing to lose and lots to gain!

Using your words to speak about things that matter to you - that mean something to you - is a great way to create output and use your English. If you don't want to answer my question - you could try writing freely for 5 minutes. Or you could speak into your phone and talk about how you're doing/feeling today - or what's on your mind. It may feel strange, at first, and that's normal! But over time, speaking or writing - just for yourself - will start to feel good - and it's a WONDERFUL habit to start to build.

Thanks for listening, and see you next time! 

Hear and There

2. What did you (really) want to "be" (or do for work) - when you were a child/kid? 

Alternative vocabulary for "approximately."

The English Toolbox

Ways to Say "Not Exactly"

En este episodio aprenderás otros significados de verbos que usas normalmente pero quizas no sepas que tambien son verbos de cambio. Aprenderás a identificar cómo y cuando usarlos

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EP 14. 6 VERBOS DE CAMBIO

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