I break down prejudices about learning any language in the world. After 10 years of experience in teaching I found out what  the crucial problems are in the approach to learning foreign languages.  

STRESS FREE STEPS

En este episodio, Jon (Madrid) y Joan (Barcelona) cuentan las aventuras y anécdotas más divertidas e interesantes de su experiencia ERASMUS, un programa europeo de intercambio de estudiantes que da la oportunidad de vivir y estudiar en otro país por un tiempo.  ¡Relájate y escúchanos!

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LA VIDA DE ESTUDIANTE EN OTRO PAÍS - ERASMUS Parte 1

Shouldn't he be called SantO, which is masculine?
Have we been telling our children lies about Santa?

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Is Santa a Woman???

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This might be a little too difficult or fast, but Im talking in the real life casual japanese in this episode.
This is the most casual japanese version of my podcasts season 2 episode 1 "Coffee"

Thank you so much for listening😉

Super Casual Japanese with Teppei

Fast Japanese Challenge 1 - S2E1 : "Coffee”

Littérature avec Isa

Sensation

Hawaii's regular sunshine, short rain showers and clean air come together to create some of the planet's best conditions for viewing rainbows. Rainbows are seen so often here that a University of Hawaii professor calls the state the "rainbow capital of the world."

"Hawaii has maybe the best rainbows on the planet," said Steven Businger, professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

He has even created an app called RainbowChase to help people find rainbows in Hawaii.

Rainbows form when drops of rain refract sunlight into a spectrum of colors. The brighter the sun, the clearer the rainbow.

Hawaii's winds bring many small showers with enough blue sky between them for the sun to shine through. Conditions are best during the rainy season from October through April.

Visitors should look for rainbows when it's both sunny and raining at the same time. Rainbows will appear opposite the sun. They will seem larger and higher in the sky in the early morning and late afternoon, when the sun is lower on the horizon.

Rainbows are popular symbols of island life. Pictures of them can be seen on buildings and buses, and even on vehicle license plates.

"They cause us to stand still and for a moment, forget about the past and the future," Businger said.

There are about 20 names for rainbows in the Hawaiian language, including different words for different types of rainbows.

Sam 'Ohu Gon III, senior scientist and cultural adviser at The Nature Conservancy in Hawaii, said rainbows are considered a symbol of Kāne, one of the four main gods in Hawaiian tradition. The closer you get to a rainbow, the more likely you are to meet a supernatural force or a powerful person, he said.

A rainbow is also believed to show that an aumakua — a deified family member or family god — is nearby.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Why Hawaii Is the 'Rainbow Capital of the World'

EMOJIS
(A)  Emoticons sind BELIEBTE Hilfsmittel in der digitalen Kommunikation. Sie machen einen Austausch zwischen zwei Leuten lebendiger, sie helfen aber auch, Missverständnisse zu vermeiden. 

(B)  Im Gegensatz zu einer realen Unterhaltung sehen wir im digitalen Raum den Gesichtsausdruck unseres Gesprächspartners nicht. Auch seine Gesten und und seine Stimme fehlen in dieser Kommunikation. Emojis können diese emotionalen Aspekte BIS ZU EINEM GEWISSEN GRAD vermitteln. 

(C)  Das "augenzwinkernde Smiley" 😉 zum Beispiel kann den humorvollen Unterton einer Nachricht ausdrücken. Ein Herz ♥ kann ein Wort in einer Gratulation ersetzen. Das Daumen-hoch-Emoji 👍 kann für eine ganze Antwort stehen. 

(D)  Emoticons dienen hauptsächlich dazu, die zwischenmenschliche Ebene in der digitalen Kommunikation zu unterstützen. Abstrakte Ideen oder grammatikalisch komplexe Details können sie nicht darstellen. Trotzdem wird jeder ZUSTIMMEN: Ein Bild sagt mehr als tausend Worte.

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Emojis

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what‘s the difference between 从来不 and 从来没?

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从来不vs从来没

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Welcome back to another episode of Streetwise English podcast. My name is Carl. Today I want to talk about breaking the ice. So breaking the ice means meeting someone new that you don't know for the first time. So when you go to a party or you go to a new workplace or a new school, you're always going to have the occasion where you need to meet people for the very first time.


And sometimes this can be awkward and you can feel embarrassed about talking to someone if you don't know them and they don't know you and you're not friends yet. So I just wanted to talk really briefly about some advice that I have for you to meet people for the first time in any environment. And this is especially true if you are not a native speaker of their language.


So the first tip I have is to simply smile. Make your face look friendly and welcoming and give eye contact to the person that you want to talk to. It sounds really simple and obvious, but if you missed this step um, you know, this is a very important step and this is half the battle. So make sure that you look approachable yourself and you smile And you might even make a slight hand gesture, like, uh, a mini wave of some sort.  And the next thing is to simply say hello.


You don't have to come up with any kind of clever saying or pick up line or joke just simply saying hello. And you can see if the other person is interested in having a conversation with you.


And another tip is that you can be observant of what the person looks like or what clothes they're wearing and use that as a clue um, to tell you about who they are. For example, if the person is wearing very nice running shoes you kind of have the idea that this person likes to run or this person may be a runner or if you notice that the person has, um, cauliflower ears, you know, scarred ears from wrestling OK, this guy is probably a fighter. (please subscribe to the Streetwise English Podcast)



