Today I am inviting Maroun from Lebanon to answer the question: "What was the best time of your life?"
This is a new concept I want to do, invite French speakers with various accents and have a nice casual chat with them in French so that you can get to see how we speak! I hope this will be entertaining for you and that you will learn some words and pick up some expressions! This should be some quality French input for you, especially when paired with this PDF (or Google doc): 

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That was the best time of his life! Podcast (FR) #1

Nel tempo libero Jimmy fa un sacco di cose. Come sappiamo, Jimmy è un signore molto ricco che non lavora e ha tanto tempo libero.

Il suo hobby principale è studiare l’italiano. Anche se abita in Italia da qualche mese, il suo italiano non è ancora buono. Ama anche passeggiare, fare sport all’aria aperta e vogare la gondola.

Nel fine settimana, se il tempo è bello va a fare delle escursioni in montagna. Se fa brutto rimane a Venezia e va al cinema per vedere un film con il suo amico Marco. Una volta al mese va a vedere uno spettacolo a teatro e una mostra al museo.

A volte fa un viaggio con gli amici: ama visitare le città d’arte e fare fotografie.

Marco non ha molto tempo libero perché lavora tanto. Tutti i mercoledì sera, però, gioca a calcio con gli amici. Nel fine settimana va al cinema con Jimmy, mangia al ristorante e poi va a ballare in discoteca.

Quando è di cattivo umore, suona la chitarra e canta. Quando è di buon umore legge un libro o una rivista di elettronica.

Marco ama anche fare shopping di oggetti tecnologici, stare al computer, navigare su internet e chiacchierare con gli amici su Whatsapp.


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Il tempo libero

Vidéo avec sous-titres et images ici: 
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100% Real Korean Conversation Ep.1 Airport, Public Transportation

Karşısındakini kurnazca konuşturarak ağzından söz almak, istediğini öğrenmek. 
Adamın ağzını ara da bahçeyi satıp satmayacağını öğren.

Türkçe Deyimler - Idioms 

Ağzını Aramak

твари́на – animal
занáдто - too, extremely 
купувáти/купи́ти - to buy
руди́й - red-haired (for animals and people) (m)
незгрáбний - clumsy (m)
товсти́й - fat (m)
ледáчий - lazy (m)
навпаки́ - vice versa
глáдити - to pet
дря́пати - to scratch
дивáн - sofa
годувáти - to fees
при́вид - ghost
сподівáтися - to hope
дóвго - for a long period of time
крáще (adv) – better
personal pronoun in Dative+стрáшно - (I)’m scared
тíльки - only, just
гóрдий - prideful
життя́- life
без + Gen - without 
нуднé - boring (adj m)
сумнé - sad (adj m)
так сáмо - likewise, just the same

У вас є домашні тварини?
 У мене, наприклад, є кіт. Я хотів мати пса, але тато сказав, що наша квартира занадто маленька для пса, тому мені купили кота.
Йому́ вже 6 ро́ків. А мені́ 9 ро́ків. Це значить, що я на 3 ро́ки ста́рше. Кота звати Рудо́льф, він рудий та незграбний. А ще він ду́же товсти́й. Мабу́ть, тому він таки́й леда́чий. Чи навпаки́, він леда́чий, тому що зана́дто товсти́й. 
Мені́ подо́бається його́ гла́дити. А він не лю́бить, коли́ його́ гла́дять. Тому́ він ча́сто мене́ дря́пає. Він дряпає мене і диван. І ніколи не дряпає маму, тому що вона його годує.
Кажуть, що коти бачать привидів. Я сподіваюсь, що це неправда, тому що Рудольф іноді довго дивиться в одне місце. Краще я не буду про це думати, тому що мені страшно.
Що він там бачить?
Але я дуже люблю нашого кота. І він любить нас так сáмо. Тільки він занадто гордий. Життя без тварин нуднe і сумнe. Як добре, що у нас є кіт!

Everything is going to be Ukraine!

Episode 9: життя без тварин дуже нудне

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What did he /she say?

Nissan has begun testing its new self-driving car on the streets of Yokohama.

The Japanese carmaker has been testing a Nissan LEAF prototype that uses its own self-driving technology.

During testing, the vehicle traveled on the busy roads of Japan's second largest city, close to the company's offices.

Nissan said the vehicle was able to predict the behavior of pedestrians, change lanes, and decide when it was safe to enter an intersection.

The prototype has 14 cameras, 10 radars and six sensors, and there was a safety driver in the driver's seat during testing.

This vehicle has more of this equipment than previous versions, according to Nissan, and has a number of sensors on the roof.

The company wants to release self-driving cars in 2027 and plans to do more tests this year in other busy parts of Yokohama.

It said that self-driving vehicles could help to make it easier for older people to get around towns and cities.

Japan is getting ready to have self-driving technology on its roads. The government changed its traffic laws last April to make this possible.

And according to a Kyodo News survey from the start of 2024, 36 of the country's 47 prefectures are thinking about using self-driving technology on their buses.

Many of the country's bus companies have had problems finding drivers and they have had to reduce bus services because of this.

Self-driving buses would help with this problem, but people are still worried about the safety of the new technology.

A self-driving bus service began in Fukui prefecture in 2023 but this was stopped after one of the buses collided with a bicycle.




Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Nissan Tests Self-Driving Car on Yokohama's Roads

In this episode we are going to learn how to【introduce my home】in Chinese. 
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As a beginner, there're some vocabularies that you didn't learn before, and native speaker's speed seems too fast to understand. But don't worry, let's do it step by step. 
1st time: listen and catch the words you know already, have a guess about the content.
2nd time: look at the text to check if you guessed it right. 
3rd time: listen one more time, repeat after it.
4th time: practice until you can speak as the normal speed without looking at the text. 
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我以前的家很小。
wǒ yǐ qián de jiā hěn xiǎo 。
My former home was very small.
只有一个房间。
zhǐ yǒu yí gè fáng jiān 。
There was only one room.
上个星期我搬家了。
shàng gè xīng qī wǒ bān jiā le 。
I moved house last week.
新家有三个房间。
xīn jiā yǒu sān gè fáng jiān 。
There are 3 rooms at the new house.
一个是我的卧室，一个是书房，还有一个是客房。
yí gè shì wǒ de wò shì ， yí gè shì shū fáng ， hái yǒu yí gè shì kè fáng 。
One is my bedroom, one is the study room, and the other is the guest room.
我家还有客厅、厨房、饭厅、洗手间和阳台。
wǒ jiā hái yǒu kè tīng 、 chú fáng 、 fàn tīng 、 xǐ shǒu jiān hé yáng tái 。
There 're also living room, kitchen, dining room, bathroom and balcony in my house.