This week Mona and I discuss the phrase OUT OF THE WOODS. 

Is it about German fairytales, recovering from an illness or just resolving any problem? And what does it say about human psychology? Listen to find out.

Brentoni's English Podcast

044 - out of the woods

Баяғыда бір қыз болыпты.   
Бір күні оған шешесі қызыл телпек сыйлапты.   
Қыз телпекті ешқашан шешпепті.   
Сондықтан жұрт оны қызыл телпек деп кетіпті.  
 
Бір күні шешесі самса пісірді.   
– Қызыл телпек, самса мен майды әжеңе апар, жолда ешкіммен сөйлеспе, – деді шешесі.   
– Жарайды, – деді Қызыл телпек.   
Қызыл телпек самсаны, майды алып, әжесіне кетті.   
Жолда ол қасқырды көрді.   
– Қызыл телпек, сен қайда бара жатырсың?  - деп сұрады қасқыр.
– Әжеме бара жатырмын.   
– Әжең қайда тұрады? - деп сұрады қасқыр.
– Әжем шеткі үйде тұрады- деп жауап берді қызыл телпек.
Қасқыр қысқа жолмен жүгіріп кетті.   
Ол үйді тез тапты. Қасқыр есікті түртті.   
– Бұл кім? – деді әжесі.   
– Бұл мен, Қызыл телпекпін, – деді қасқыр жіңішке дауыспен. – Сізге самса мен май әкелдім.   
– Жіпті тарт та, ішке кір- деді әжесі.   
Қасқыр жіпті тартып, үйге кірді.   
Сосын әжені жеп қойды да, төсекке жаттып алды.
Бір уақытта Қызыл телпек келді, есікті түртті.   
– Бұл кім? – деді қасқыр жіңішке дауыспен.   
– Бұл мен, Қызыл телпекпін, сізге самса мен май әкелдім - деді Қызыл телпек. 
Қызыл телпек жіпті тартты да, үйге кірді.   
Қасқырға жақынған кезде, ол былай сұрады:   
– Әже, әже, неге сіздің көзіңіз үлкен?   
– Сені көру үшін.   
– Әже, әже, неге сіздің қолыңыз үлкен?   
– Сені құшақтау-обнимать үшін.   
– Әже, әже, неге сіздің аяғыңыз үлкен?   
– Жақсы жүгіру үшін.   
– Әже, әже, неге сіздің құлағыңыз үлкен?   
– Жақсы есту үшін.   
– Әже, әже, неге сіздің тісіңіз үлкен?  - деп сұраса.
– Сені жеп қою үшін, – деп қасқыр Қызыл телпекті жеп деп жатқан жерінен, аңшылар сырттан естіп қалып, үйге кіреді. Олар қасқырдың ішін жарып, қызыл телпек пен оның әжесін құтқарып қалады. Сөйтіп олар аман-есен қауышты.   

Keywords:
баяғыда- once upon a time
ешқашан шешпепті-never took off 
ешкіммен сөйлеспе!-don't talk with anyone!
есікті түртті- knocked on the door
ішке кір-come in
жіпті тарт-pull a rope
құтқарып қалды-rescued
аман-есен қауышты- safely reunited

Stories in Kazakh

Қызыл телпек - Little red riding hood

Read and follow along:. 

The Youth in Asia
"THAT'S IT," MY MOTHER SAID AFTER HAVING SADIE PUT TO SLEEP. "MY CAT DAYS ARE OVER."

In the early sixties, during what my mother referred to as the "tail end of the Lassie years," my parents were given two collies they named Rastus and Duchess. We were living in upstate New York, out in the country, and the dogs were free to race through the forest. They napped in meadows and stood knee-deep in frigid streams, costars in their own private dog-food commercial. According to our father, anyone could tell that the two of them were in love.

Late one evening, while lying on a blanket in the garage, Duchess gave birth to a litter of slick, potato-sized puppies. When it looked as though one of them had died, our mother placed the creature in a casserole dish and popped it into the oven, like the witch in "Hänsel and Gretel."

"Oh, keep your shirts on," she said. "It's only set on 200. I'm not baking anyone; this is just to keep him warm."

The heat revived the sick puppy and left us believing our mother was capable of resurrecting the dead.

Faced with the responsibilities of fatherhood, Rastus took off. The puppies were given away, and we moved south, where the heat and humidity worked against a collie's best interests. Duchess's once beautiful coat now hung in ragged patches. Age set in and she limped about the house, clearing rooms with her suffocating farts. When finally, full of worms, she collapsed in the ravine beside our house, we reevaluated our mother's healing powers. The entire animal kingdom was beyond her scope; apparently, she could resurrect only the cute dead.

The oven trick was performed on half a dozen peakish hamsters but failed to work on my first guinea pig, who died after eating a couple of cigarettes and an entire pack of matches.


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If a person is beautiful, we'll say “ta长得美”，but when you heard someone say ”你想得美“, what does that mean? Let's find out.

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Hey Guys,  this is Chinese teacher Cara, welcome to my Channel,  you’re listening a B1 lesson.
今天为大家朗读的是一篇短文，题目是：美国人如果应对旅游旺季？
美国有很多出行旺季 peak season。最高峰的季节在十一月底，也就是感恩节期间。十二月底到一月初也有很多人出行。当然了，夏季从六月到八月的学校暑假也是旅行季节。

那么美国人怎么出行呢？短途旅行的话，开车是最常见的选择。如果开车得八小时以上，搭乘飞机则是最常见的方式，边开边玩的公路旅行 road trip 也很受欢迎。

有趣的是，在美国，火车票通常比机票更贵，虽然坐火车比飞机慢得多。比如说，从旧金山到纽约，搭乘飞机只需要不足到六小时，如果选择坐火车或坐汽车，同样的旅程需要超过三天，而且费用比飞机票更贵。

你喜欢旅行吗？你今年计划去哪里旅行呢？Please let me know in a comment or we can talk about it in the class, Thanks for listening.我们下次节目再见。


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3.中文阅读系列:美国人如何应对旅游旺季？

En el episodio de hoy te hablo de palabras compuestas, que en mi opinión son geniales, porque las palabras compuestas son palabras creadas a partir de otras dos palabras, entonces muchas veces es una palabra extra que puedes crear usando dos palabras que ya conoces, pero ¡cuidado! No siempre funciona. 

En el episodio de hoy te menciono algunas y te comento como hacemos los plurales de las palabras compuestas, ya que es algo que a menudo genera dudas en los estudiantes de español.


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31 -Palabras compuestas

Hola a todos bienvenidos a este podcast mi nombre es andrés y aquí empezamos ah y que tal como están bueno chicos bienvenidos a este espacio este es un podcast que lo he creado como dije al principio para practicar para hablar español constantemente y bueno en este podcast que es el primero de muchos voy explicarles un poco de que vamos hablar exactamente primero tenemos un tema interesante que es la cultura hispana vamos a analizar en cada uno de los capítulos que cosas interesantes tiene la cultura hispana qué quiere decir esto pues que vamos a aprender de muchos países de latinoamérica de españa vamos a hablar de las cosas más bonitas que tiene cada país y que más vamos a tener historias si vamos a hablar de muchas historias si en español como ustedes saben a mi me gusta mucho escribir si me gusta mucho hablar a través de cuentos y por eso mismo he creado este pocas para hablar para contarles historias interesantes acerca de todo absolutamente vamos a hablar también de temas gramatical es esto es muy importante chicos porque a veces cuando nosotros emprendemos un idioma necesitamos practicarlo constantemente y para practicarlo nosotros tenemos que escuchar ese es un tip muy importante que también vamos a hablar de otros tips en general hay un tema que me encanta y que vamos a hablar también sobre la cocina de hispanoamérica que les parece la cocina exactamente para las personas que son amantes a la cocina si vamos a aprender nuevas recetas y vamos a conocer las cosas de la cocina de latinoamérica y de españa

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Bienvenida

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11jcxR3gxex8GKbcaswqp2g1txJwM47czLNFpGY2yXLw/edit?usp=sharing

Today, I want to tell you all about emotional support chickens. It seems that a nursing home here in the UK has been offered chickens by a local school in order to take away the loneliness of it’s residents and help them feel better.

Nursing Homes and Care Homes are places where we put older people who cannot look after themselves.

It's hoped that the chickens will bring residents a number of benefits. From fostering a sense of community to reducing mental health problems. Now, I'm not sure about you but for me, I'd probably rather have the cash or if  there’s perhaps other opportunities, maybe I’d prefer to talk to someone. These chickens don't actually have to be bought.It looks like they were given free to this nursing home. 

But still, if they're going to give away chickens, I'd rather have the cash.
