Stairway to English - The podcast where you don't need a lot of time to improve your English grammar, fluency, vocabulary, and pronunciation!

New episodes coming in September!

Stairway to English: Short easy to understand episodes to improve your English grammar and fluency

How to say what’s your name? in Thai

First of all, let’s learn some vocabulary

what = a-rai
Is  = kue
your = khong khun
name = chue

To translate directly from English to Thai, we will have the sentence like
“chue khong khun kue a-rai”
Well, this is not wrong , you will still get the answer from the listener.
But to speak in the same way as Thai native speakers, we don’t use that sentence. 
To ask for someone’s name, we will simply say

khun chue a-rai

literally means “You Name What”

The same thing goes  with “surname”.

Surname or last name , in Thai we say “naam sa gun”

Now , can you tell me how to ask “What’s your surname?”.
I give 3 seconds to think.  3 … 2 …. 1 
time’s up. Yes, you’re right. 
The answer is
khun naam sa gun a-rai

When you answer these questions, you can simply tell your name or surname straightaway.






Learn Easy Thai With Sumon

EP2 : How to say "What's your name?" in Thai

This episode focuses on words which can be used to replace basic English terms like SCARED and LAUGHED. 

The Amplify English Podcast

Synonyms for the word SCARED and LAUGHED

日本の食卓事情２

日本では外食（がいしょく）は高（たか）いし、栄養（えいよう）が偏（かたよ）るから自炊（じすい）が一番（いちばん）良（よ）いと考（かんが）える人が多い気がする。あっさりしたメニューの次（つぎ）の日は味（あじ）の濃（こ）い献立（こんだて）にしたり、和食（わしょく）が続（つづ）けば、中華（ちゅうか）料理（りょうり）や韓国（かんこく）料理・イタリアン風（ふう）など様々（さまざま）な国（くに）の料理も作（つく）ったり、色（いろ）んな料理を作るために家（いえ）に常備（じょうび）している調味料（ちょうみりょう）の種類（しゅるい）もかなり多い。料理好（ず）きなら分かるが、料理することが苦痛（くつう）なら作らなければいいのに、なぜここまで頑張（がんば）るのか。

izm's room

日本の食卓事情２【全３話】

Empieza mi viaje a la India. Recorrido, sensaciones, comida... ¿quieres saberlo todo? Pues escucha esta nueva serie sobre mi viaje a este sorprendente país.

La vida de Héctor (Spanish Podcast)

Mumbai (Primer episodio)

If you are interested in the first pages of this novel, you can continue listening to the new part.

Armenian with Armine

Harry Potter and philosopher's stone/Հարրի Փոթերը և փիլիսոփայական քարը-4

Hey there! I’m David, and I’m excited to bring you Spanish Unplugged Season 1: “Surviving Like a Local in Latin America.” 🌎 This season, I’ll be sharing all the Spanish you actually need to feel right at home—no boring grammar rules, just real-life phrases for ordering street tacos, haggling in markets, and chatting with locals.

If you're ready to skip the textbooks and speak Spanish that actually works, subscribe now and join me each week for new episodes.

Let’s get you sounding like a local in no time! 🎧✨

Spanish Unplugged Podcast

TRAILER - S1: Surviving Like a Local in Latin America

【北海道Hokkaido生活】
5月31日火曜日　天気/くもり　気温/14℃ 

別海町/べつかいちょう
・5月30日語呂合わせで『ごみゼロの日』
　「5←ご」
　「3←み」
　「0←ゼロ」
・中学生が清掃活動
・1時間ほどの清掃活動で集まったごみはおよそ180キロ

［単語］
語呂合わせ/ごろあわせ…言葉で遊ぶこと
清掃/せいそう…掃除をすること
活動/かつどう…動いて、働くこと
キロ/きろ…k　重さを知るためのもの

レッスン待ってます♪


北海道Hokkaido生活 for Japanese learners

〈#69〉5月31日火曜日　ごみゼロの日　中学生が清掃活動

When the end of the working week arrives, it can be a little harder to keep going.

If you work from Monday to Friday, you might find yourself thinking about the weekend as your brain and body get ready to rest. You may feel that you're getting less work done.

You might even feel this way near the end of each work day.

And a study from the US has found that yes, it's true — we aren't as productive and we make more mistakes in the afternoons, especially on Fridays.

While most of us could probably have guessed that result, the researchers said most studies in the past have just asked workers about their feelings related to their productivity.

But this one actually used data based on computer use, including how fast people typed and the numbers of typos they made.

The researchers, from Texas A&M University, looked at the computer use of 789 employees working from the office of a big company in Texas.

They studied them for two years and looked at their computer use at different times of the day and week.

And they found that computer use "dropped significantly" on Fridays.

One of the researchers, Taehyun Roh, said: "Employees were less active in the afternoons, and made more typos in the afternoons — especially on Fridays."

The authors added that results like this should encourage bosses to think about flexible working arrangements or four-day working weeks to get the best from their employees.