On this episode my guest Jerome and I discuss different useful phrases related to Halloween🎃🎃 Take a listen and try using one in your next English conversation!

Thanks to Jerome for being such a great guest!!!

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Hey Alexis!

Useful Halloween Idioms

El dios maya Itzamná es considerado uno de los dioses mayas más importantes, es el señor de los cielos y del día (también de la noche), es uno de los principales dioses mayas. Fue el primer sacerdote, por esta razón, se considera el señor de los sacerdotes, es considerado como el patrón del conocimiento, su misión era educar a la población maya y ayudarles a darle sentido a su mundo. Itzamná guardaba gran amor hacia la humanidad.
Palabras clave: 
Ixchel:  Diosa de la luna
Itzamná: Dios del sol
Xtab: Diosa del suicidio
Doncellas: Mujeres jovenes
Si tienes dudas del vocabulario no dudesen preguntarme.   
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Leyendas Mayas

La leyenda de Ixchel e Itzamná

The other day, I had dinner with a foreign friend, he called the waiter to clean up the table, and he said ‘这些不要了（we don’t need these）’.It’s OK, and we also have the corresponding Chinese saying like English.

I often say ’不好意思，麻烦收拾一下（bù hǎo yì si, má fan shōu shi yí xia）-Excuse me, could you please clean up here?’


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5. 不好意思，麻烦收拾一下/ Excuse me, could you please clean up here?

Jimmy abita a Venezia in un appartamento al primo piano. A lui non piace il pianoterra perché quando c’è l’acqua alta, l’acqua entra in casa. Il primo piano è più sicuro.

Come quasi tutte le case di Venezia, anche la casa di Jimmy è antica. È grande e spaziosa, ma non troppo luminosa. La casa è pulita e ordinata. Ci sono tante piante, che Jimmy cura ogni giorno.

La casa ha un grande salotto con il divano, le poltrone, la libreria e la televisione. Davanti al divano c’è un tavolino. Sopra il tavolino c’è un vaso di rose e sotto il tavolino c’è un tappeto. Nella casa ci sono anche una cucina con il forno, i fornelli e il frigorifero - dove Jimmy tiene il cibo; un bagno con la vasca e due camere da letto. Nella camera da letto grande c’è un letto matrimoniale in mezzo a due comodini. Nella camera da letto piccola ci sono due letti singoli ed è la camera per gli ospiti. A casa di Jimmy ci sono anche un guardaroba per i vestiti e uno sgabuzzino dove conserva le scatole e i prodotti per pulire.

Marco abita al pianoterra in un bilocale. Bilocale significa che la casa ha solo due stanze: un salotto molto piccolo che comprende anche la cucina e una camera da letto dove Marco dorme, tiene la scrivania con il computer e l’armadio con i vestiti. Ha anche un bagno con doccia.

La casa di Marco è piccola, stretta, buia, un po’ sporca e molto disordinata. Per questo motivo Marco trascorre molto tempo a casa di Jimmy a giocare a carte con lui. Anche se sono molto diversi, insieme si divertono molto.


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La casa di Jimmy e Marco

我想小王子大概是利用一群候鸟迁徙的机会跑出来的。
I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a lock of wild birds.
在他出发的那天早上，他把他的星球收拾得整整齐齐，
On the morning of his departure he put his planet in perfect order.
把它上头的活火山打扫得干干净净。
He carefully cleaned out his active volcanoes.
他有两个活火山，早上热早点很方便。
He possessed two active volcanoes; and they were very convenient for heating his breakfast in the morning.
他还有一座死火山。
He also had one volcano that was extinct.
他想，“说不定它还会活动呢！”
But, as he said, "One never knows!"
他也把它打扫干净。
So he cleaned out the extinct volcano, too.
打扫干净了，它们就可以慢慢地有规律地燃烧，而不会突然爆发。
If they are well cleaned out, volcanoes burn slowly and steadily, without any eruptions.

火山爆发就象烟囱里的火焰一样。
Volcanic eruptions are like fires in a chimney.
当然，在我们地球上我们人太小，不能打扫火山，
On our earth we are obviously much too small to clean out our volcanoes.
所以火山给我们带来很多很多麻烦。
That is why they bring no end of trouble upon us.
小王子还把剩下的最后几颗猴面包树苗全拔了。他有点忧伤。
The little prince also pulled up, with a certain sense of dejection, the last little shoots of the baobabs.
他以为他再也不会回来了。
He believed that he would never want to return.
这天，这些家常活使他感到特别亲切。
But on this last morning all these familiar tasks seemed very precious to him.
当他最后一次浇花时，准备把她好好珍藏起来。
And when he watered the flower for the last time, and prepared to place her under the shelter of her glass globe,
他发觉自己要哭出来。
he realised that he was very close to tears.
“再见了。”他对花儿说道。
"Goodbye," he said to the flower.
可是花儿没有回答他。
But she made no answer.
“再见了。”他又说了一遍。
"Goodbye," he said again.

小王子-The Little Prince-Read in Chinese

小王子第21章：再见了

PHRASES and VOCABULARIES USED:
• place an order
• take your order
• What would you like to order?
• menu
• a moment to
• take your time
• decided
• drink
• medium
• great choice
• additional items
• anything else?
• that's all
• the total comes to
• proceed to
• counter
• Enjoy your meal!

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Іn juѕt 1.33 ѕесоndѕ, уоu'll dіѕсоvеr еxасtlу whу уоu ѕuссееd оr fаіl іn уоur nеxt jоb іntеrvіеw, рrеѕеntаtіоn, оr соmmunісаtіоn еngаgеmеnt. Іt tооk mе twеntу thоuѕаnd hоurѕ tо unсоvеr thіѕ оnе quеѕtіоn. 

Lіѕtеn сlоѕеlу аnd hоld оn tо уоur ѕеаtѕ — іt mіght bе еxасtlу whаt уоu'vе bееn ѕеаrсhіng fоr оvеr 15 уеаrѕ оf lеаrnіng Еnglіѕh but соuldn't fіnd.

Іf уоu'd lіkе tо wоrk wіth mе, rеасh оut аnd lеt mе knоw whаt'ѕ currеntlу ѕtорріng уоu frоm rеасhіng уоur nеxt соmmunісаtіоn gоаl.

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こんばんは！
Japanese daily life podcast のAtsushiです。
このPodcastは、日本語を勉強しているみなさんに向けたPodcastです。

今日は、知らんけど、について。

日本では、毎年、年末になるとその年の流行語大賞というものが選ばれます。1年の間に話題になった出来事や発言、流行などの中からその年を代表することばを選ぶ賞です。毎年30のことばがノミネートされて、その後にトップ10が選ばれるようです。

その中で、おもしろい言葉が入っていたので紹介しますね。

それは、知らんけど、です。
これ、関西弁なんです。
そして、昔からある言葉です。
関西人どうしでは、少なくとも1日1回は使ってるかもしれないですね。知らんけど。

とこんな感じで使う言葉です。
ちょっと簡単に説明します。

関西人特有なのかわからないですけど、とりあえずなんでもちょっと知ってることは話しはじめるんですね。で、話してる途中に、これ間違ってたら嫌やな、って思ったり、責任を持ちたくないので、最後に知らんけど、ってつけるんです。

でもこれは関西人は結構使ってるので、関西人どうしでは全く問題ないですね。だいたいみんな、知らんのかい！ってつっこんで終わります。たぶんね、知らんけど。

例文、
『スラムダンクの映画はアニメ派には酷評、原作派には好評らしいよ、知らんけど』

最近の話ですけど、日本の漫画のスラムダンクが映画で始まったんですね。ぼくも来週見に行こうと思ってます。でもこの映画は結構、いろんな意見があるみたいです。それで、友達と話す時は、例文のような会話がある、という感じですね。


ということで、今回は知らんけど、について話しました。
最近オンラインレッスンで話している人に関西弁おもしろい！って言ってもらえたので、また関西弁シリーズのPodcastもしようと思います。

最後まで聞いていただきありがとうございます！
ではまた！