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日本の鍋料理を紹介します。

にほんのなべりょうりをしょうかいます。

Sayuriのポッドキャスト🇯🇵

日本の鍋料理

Real Life Chinese:
May 20th is also Valentine's Day in China？为什么5月20号也是情人节？
How many Valentine's Days in China?中国有几个情人节？

****Script for your second time listening****
qíng rén jié
情  人  节    
西方情人节 xī fāng qíng rén jié  公历2月14号
七夕情人节 qī xī qíng rén jié 农历7月7号
520=我爱您wǒ ài nín
521=我爱你wǒ ài nǐ

片段一Clip one
520要到了，这大概是我国第五百个情人节，真的，我国人民除了过2月14日西方情人节，还有七夕中国情人节，还有什么520、521野鸡情人节等等，那么我们中国人民到底需不需要这么多情人节？


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May 20th is also Valentine's Day in China？为什么5月20号也是情人节？

Hello everyone! Today’s episode is titled: 'Do Japanese People Really Have Bad Breath?!'
If that’s true, it would be such a shock...
What do you all think? I can’t help but worry about my breath now!


みなさまごきげんよう。今日のエピソードは「日本人の口が臭いってほんと？！」って話だよ！これが本当ならショックが大きいわ…みんなはどう思う？お口の臭い、きになっちゃう～


Moekoの日本語ベラベラtime

Epi11: 日本人の口はくさい？！【Japanese Podcast】

Do you want these ”吃香”的工作？ :)

Blabla Chinese 

13. the Most Popular Jobs in China  中国最吃香的职业

Although, you may think that writing your CV is one of the easier parts of your university application, it is also an extremely important part to get right! In this podcast,  I will provide a guide to help you put together a CV for your university application.

英国留学生的播客 International Students' in the UK podcast 

How to write your CV (for university applications). 

1) Приє́мно познайо́митися - nice to meet you;
2) Зві́дки ви/ти? - Where are you from? 
3) Мо́жна на «ти»? - Let's get on first-name terms;
4) це неподалі́к - it's not far/ це неподалік + Genitive - it's not far from...
5) А з яко́го (са́ме) ти мі́ста? - What city are you from (specifically)?
6) Столи́ця краї́ни - the capital of the country;
7) Чим займа́єшся? - what do you do for a living/what are you up to?
8) Працюва́ти | навча́тися |виклада́ти - to work | to study | to teach
9) -Хо́чеш приєдна́тися? -З ра́дістю! - -Do you want to join? -With pleasure!
10) Ось моя візи́тка - Here is my business card;
11) Весі́лля - wedding;
12) Віта́ю! - congratulations!
___________________
Л: Доброго ранку!
А: Доброго ранку!
Л: Мене звати Лукас, а вас?
А: Мене звати Альберт, приємно познайомитися!
Л: Мені теж. Звідки ви? 
А: Можна на «ти»? Я приїхав з Німеччини.
Л: У мене є друзі в Німеччині! А з якого ти міста?
А: Я з міста Карлсруе. Це неподалік кордону з Францією. А ти звідки?
Л: Я з Еквадору.
А: А з якого саме міста?
Л: Місто Кіто, це столиця країни.
А: А де ти зараз живеш в Україні?
Л: Я зараз живу в Києві.
А: Чим займаєшся в Україні?
Л: Я працюю в Київському національному університеті.
А: Ти викладач?
Л: Так, я викладаю іспанську мову. А ти працюєш тут чи навчаєшся?
А: Я просто турист, приїхав на весілля до своєї сестри.
Л: Вітаю!  
А: Я сьогодні йду до бару ввечері. Хочеш приєднатися?
Л: З радістю. Ось моя візитка. До зустрічі!
А: Бувай!


Everything is going to be Ukraine!

Episode 2: Знайомство

Like many other grandmothers, Daisy likes to knit, and she isn't very good with technology.

Or, at least, that's what she might tell people on the phone.

Daisy also describes herself as "your worst nightmare." But don't worry, she's not talking to you — she's talking to phone scammers.

That's because Daisy is actually an AI chatbot. She was created by UK phone company Virgin Media O2 to speak to scammers on the phone and make them believe they're talking to a real person.

Older people are very vulnerable to scams. In July, a UK study found that about 67% of people over the age of 75 were victims of at least one scam attempt in the six months before the study — with almost 75% being phone scams.

Enter Daisy, who has been trained to have conversations with phone scammers and waste their time.

Virgin Media O2 worked with Jim Browning, a YouTuber who has spent years "scambaiting" — that is, pretending to be a clueless victim to waste scammers' time.

And that's the whole point — Daisy can't stop scammers, but she can slow them down.

"Whenever she's on the phone with a scammer, your parents, your grandparents, your relatives, are not being scammed," Browning told Sky News.

The company says Daisy is already "wasting hundreds and hundreds of hours of scammers' time," and has shared real-life conversations the chatbot has had with scammers.

Some conversations last nearly an hour. She talks about her cat, Fluffy, and people in her family. In some conversations, she gives the scammers what they want — bank details. But of course, they're not real.

Murray Mackenzie from Virgin Media O2 said Daisy is also a reminder that the person you're speaking to on the phone might not always be who they say they are.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Meet the AI Grandma Wasting Scammers' Time

Pizza is one of the world's most popular fast foods. It's believed that over 5 billion pizzas are sold around the world every year. In the US alone, people buy about 3 billion pizzas each year, which is about 46 slices per person!

But it wasn't always as popular as it is today — in fact, it used to be looked down on, even by Italians!

The modern pizza we know today started in Naples, Italy, in the 18th century. Poor people in the city needed cheap food that was easy to eat as they looked for work. Street vendors sold them pizzas with simple toppings like garlic and tomatoes.

For a long time, pizza was looked down on as food for the poor, and visitors to Naples thought it was dirty and unappealing.

But this changed in 1889, when Queen Margherita of Italy tried pizza and loved it. The pizza with tomatoes, mozzarella and basil was named after her, and pizza started to become a national dish in Italy.

Pizza became a favorite in the US after Italian immigrants brought it with them. It became especially popular in cities like New York, and new styles like Chicago deep dish and Hawaiian were invented.

And it became even more popular with the invention of frozen pizza, which let people make their own pizzas at home.

Today, pizza is enjoyed around the world, with many different toppings and styles. But its basic form hasn't changed very much from all those years ago.