In this podcast series, students will be able to hear some advice on the skills needed for English exams like the IELTS test.

English exam skills

This is for students of English who are preparing to take the IELTS exam.

IELTS-style speaking questions

In this video, I’ve listed words that have the same or similar meaning. 
I spoke 100% Thai to help you guys practise your listening skills. 
I hope this episode will help you expand your vocabulary and understand the cultural aspect correctly.

Learn Thai with Shelby 

100 MUST-KNOW Synonyms | Learn Thai with Shelby

You can listen and make your own description.

Learn Greek with Marianna!

A daily routine in Greece!

Vidéo du podcast ci-dessous: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qlHDrPzrqE 

French Stories For All

Ecole et vin

⭐ Contents: 1/ Faire du sport (ou pas) 2/ Les sports les plus populaires 3/ Pourquoi faire du sport 4/ La marche 5/ Les bienfaits du sport 6/ Quelques conseils 7/ Les J.O. de Paris 2024 8/ Les mascottes de Paris 2024

⭐ To go further, visit www.explorefrench.com. On my website, you can become a Premium Member and gain full access to all transcripts, games and language activities for both of my podcast channels "Learn French with Anthony" and "Explore France with Anthony". On my website, you'll also gain full access to my French online courses, "Skills Trainer" modules to enhance your proficiency in French, "Word Builder" modules to expand your French vocabulary, and audiobooks specially designed for learners of French. 

⭐ In this A2-level podcast, we will talk about sports, the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, as well as the increasing use of sports to cure health problems. We will practice the future tense, and learn how to give advice with structures such as "you should", "you could", and "I advise/recommend you to." We will also cover how to translate "never" and "not anymore/no longer," and review the vocabulary related to sports and common health problems in French, among many other things.

⭐ In the first part of this podcast, I will speak only in French, and in the second part, I will translate and explain everything in English.

Learn French with Anthony

A2#06 Sports, santé et Jeux Olympiques

        为了看日出，我常常早起。那时天还没有大亮，周围很静，只听见船里机器的声音。
        天空还是一片浅蓝，很浅很浅的。转眼间，天水相接的地方出现了一道红霞。红霞的范围慢慢扩
大，越来越亮。我知道太阳就要从天边升起来了，便目不转睛地望着那里。
        果然，过了一会儿，那里出现了太阳的小半边脸，红是红得很，却没有亮光。太阳像负着什么重担
似的，慢慢地，一纵一纵地，使劲儿向上升。到了最后，它终干冲破了云需，完全跳出了海面，颜色真
红得可爱。一刹那间，这深红的圆东西发出夺目的亮光，射得人眼睛发痛。它旁边的云也突然有了光
彩。

         有时候太阳躲进云里。阳光透过云缝直射到水面上，很难分辨出哪里是水，哪里是天，只看见一片
灿烂的亮光。
        有时候天边有黑云，云还很厚。太阳升起来，人看不见它。它的光芒给黑云镶了一道光亮的金边。
后来，太阳慢慢透出重围，出现在天空，把一片片云染成了紫色或者红色。这时候，不仅是太阳、云和
海水，连我自己也成了光亮的了。
        这不是伟大的奇观么?

听优美短文，提升中文阅读和写作

《海上日出》节选

En este episodio aprenderas diferentes verbos reflexivos y sus significados

Spanish Shortcut

EP 15. USO DE VERBOS REFLEXIVOS

Get ready for a special treat! In this episode, I talk with Cara Leopold, an English Teacher known as the Listening Expert. We covered a lot of topics, so this will be the first of two episodes with our conversation. The main theme of our conversation was building great listening skills in another language. In this first episode, we talk about the importance of listening when learning another language, including pronunciation, and what to do when you don’t understand your colleagues in meetings.  Here are some gems from this episode:

“People might think, “I spend most of my time speaking.” But listening is actually the skill that dominates. So by that logic, the foundation for also learning future languages should be listening.”

“So what’s really helped me to get fluent in French is observing what people say, understanding them, and then copying them.”

“Notice the expressions that people keep using and then use them. You will sound more authentic because you'll be using what the people around you actually say, as opposed to what you read in a book or what you got out of a list of 100 idioms.”

Tune in to get more valuable insights from Cara, so you’ll understand more of what people say around you! The second part of our conversation will be released in the next episode. 

Read the transcript here: https://www.express-to-impress.com/listening-skills/.

Original theme music by Lucas Knutter 

Express to Impress

How to Improve Your Listening Skills With Movies With Cara Leopold

People in Switzerland eat more chocolate than anyone else in the world.

According to data from World Population Review, the average Swiss person eats nearly 9 kilograms of chocolate a year — almost twice as much as people in America.

So it might be no surprise that a Swiss university is doing research on chocolate — looking for ways to make it healthier and better for the planet!

Chocolate is made using cocoa beans, which grow in pods on the cacao tree. Each pod holds 20 to 60 seeds — or beans — that are covered in sweet white pulp.

Researchers from the university ETH Zurich have found a way to mix the pulp with part of the pod to make a sweet gel, which can be used instead of the powdered sugar that's usually added to cocoa beans when making chocolate.

Typical dark chocolate might be made of 30% to 40% powdered sugar. Testing different recipes, the researchers found they could make chocolate that was up to 20% gel and about as sweet as chocolate with 5% to 10% powdered sugar.

The new chocolate also had 20% more fiber and 30% less saturated fat than typical European dark chocolate — meaning it's healthier to eat.

Main study writer, Kim Mishra, told The Guardian that the new chocolate has a fruitier taste than typical dark chocolate — although it also tastes more acidic.

The researchers said using parts of the cocoa plant that are usually thrown away reduces waste, while using the new gel would let cocoa farmers get money not just from their beans, but by selling the pulp and pod parts needed for the gel as well.

It may be a while before we can try this chocolate for ourselves. However, ETH Zurich has already filed a patent for the recipe.

