Listen and learn how researchers have taught lab rats how to drive cars.

Weird News: 30-second long news episodes to improve your listening and vocabulary

Weird News: Rats Driving Cars

Los ácidos grasos son esenciales para el buen funcionamiento del cuerpo humano.

VIDA SANA EN ESPAÑOL

ÁCIDOS GRASOS ESENCIALES

In this episode you can hear days of the week and some questions and answers to them. Enjoy it!

Let's speak Albanian

Days of the week / Ditët e javës

Lingua Juice Podcast

Juice is Loose #1 

1)	A: 你好！ 我叫李明，你叫什么名字？
            Nǐ hǎo! Wǒ jiào Lǐmíng, nǐ jiào shénme míngzì?
        B: 你好！我叫大卫。
            Nǐ hǎo! Wǒ jiào Dàwèi.

2)	A: 你家里有几口人？ 
             Nǐ jiā lǐ yǒo jǐ kǒu rén?
        B: 我家有四口人。一个姐姐，两个弟弟和我。
             Wǒ jiā yǒu sì kǒu rén。Yī gè jiějie, liǎng gè dìdi hé wǒ.

3)	A: 那个高大的男人是谁？
             Nà gè gāo dà de nǎn rén shì shéi?
        B: 他是我们的英语老师。
             Tā shì wǒmen de Yīngyǔ lǎoshi.

4)	A: 马丁是英国人还是美国人？ 
            Mǎdīng shì Yīngguó rén hái shì Měiguó rén?
        B: 马丁是美国人。 
            Mǎdīng shì Měiguó rén.

5)	A: 你的小女儿今年几岁了？
             Nǐ de xiǎo nǚ'ér jīn nián jǐ suì le?
            她今年五岁了。
            Tā jīn nián wǔ suì le.



Listening & Speaking (Mandarin)

Greeting and introduction 

The Global Professional Podcast

Get out and start talking to people - Communication Gems

Marc parle français très bien, parce qu’il est français. En France, tout le monde parle français, même les enfants! Beaucoup de Français parlent anglais aussi.
Marc apprend l’anglais à l’école. Comme Marc et Julie sont de bons amis, ils étudient ensemble. Marc aide Julie à apprendre le français. Julie aide Marc à apprendre l’anglais. Julie étudie le français à l’école aussi.
Julie parle français avec un accent américain, et Marc parle anglais avec un accent français.
Julie et Marc sont de bons amis, mais comme tout le monde, ils ont des opinions différentes. Ils ont beaucoup de discussions.
Julie a un chien. Il s’appelle Chouchou. Chouchou est un bon chien. Comme tous les chiens, il écoute les conversations. Il comprend le français.
Activités :

Vrai ou Faux :

Marc parle français très bien parce qu’il étudie le français à l’école.

En France, tout le monde parle anglais.

Julie apprend le français à l’école.

Julie aide Marc à apprendre l’anglais.

Le chien de Marc s’appelle Chouchou.

Chouchou écoute et comprend le français.

Trouvez une expression avec tout dans le texte :
👉 Exemple : « tous les chiens ».

French Stories with Marc and Julie A1-B1

Episode 2: Marc, Julie et le chien

As the US navigates what some experts have described as a loneliness epidemic, employers and employees across the country are trying to address what for many people is a lack of real friendships at work.

It's not a new thing, but remote work has only intensified the problem, says leadership expert Michael Bungay Stanier.

"People have this desire to be seen and be heard," Bungay Stanier says, but on video calls, the group gets right down to business rather than having the natural, informal interactions of a real room. It reduces people to "little heads in squares."

It's not easy to talk about this lack of friendship at work "because it feels like a shameful confession," Bungay Stanier says. But his clients are beginning to bring up the subject.

Awkward as it may be, these are conversations worth having, according to psychology professor Laurie Santos.

At-work friendships are good for employers, too. Santos says research shows that workplace friendships and a sense of belonging are vital to employees' happiness — and companies' success.

We assume that friendships at work are "a nice-to-have, not a need-to-have," she said.

But "maybe one of the reasons we're all so disengaged at work ... is that we're actively not investing in the thing that might matter the most for our happiness at work, which is our connection with other people," Santos said.

Some large companies began paying more attention to employee health long before the pandemic, often focusing on physical health.

Today, more employers are looking at ways to really improve people's mental health and well-being.

And experts say there is a lot that companies can do, even rethinking physical spaces in the offices with relationships in mind.

More than anything, remember the importance of everyday greetings at work — even if they make you a bit uncomfortable. A simple hello, Bungay Stanier says, could be the beginning of the end of loneliness.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Why It's Important to Have Friends at Work

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o-3Ue9_dDr6osT0xyhG_KoDo9YG-9s8H/view?usp=drivesdk