You know English— so why do your words disappear when it's time to speak? The answer might surprise you. Tap to listen. This episode explains what's really going on— and how to change it.

Real English Skills

The One Skill That Instantly Improves Your English Speaking

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This podcast is aim for students whose Chinese is at level B1 to B2, or intermediate level. However, no matter what level you are at now, you still can listen to this podcast.  In each episode, a news headline will be introduced , and we can learn some vocabulary, grammar, or some new knowledge from that. The Chinese and English transcription of the news headline and vocabulary are provided.

At the end of the each episode, I will give some questions for you to think, to exercise. If you want, you can try to make some sentences with the new vocabulary .

The duration of each episode is about 10 mins. Therefore, you can use a little time to learn Chinese, to improve yourself little by little. Welcome everyone listen to my channel, and please share your opinions or thoughts with me!

New episode will be published on every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

News with zhe

#00 Intro

In this unedited podcast I talk about one of the most famous sky burials in modern times.
(for advanced English learners)
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SWE 157 Gonzo Journalist Sky Burial  (Advanced American English)

CONNIE: Oh! What a beautiful cat. What do you think?
GARY: I think I’d rather get a dog. Dogs are more loyal than cats.
CONNIE: Yes, but they’re so much work! Would you be willing to walk 
it every single day? And clean up after it?
GARY: Hmm. Good point. What about a bird? Or a fish?
CONNIE: We’d have to invest a lot of money in a cage or a fish tank. 
And I don’t really know how to take care of a bird or a fish!
GARY: Well, we’re obviously not ready to get a pet yet.
CONNIE: Yeah, you’re right. Let’s go grab some coffee and talk 
about it.


LANGUAGE NOTES
• Oh! What a beautiful cat “Oh!” is used to show surprise or excitement. “What a …” is 
an expression that means “I think this is a very …” “What a(n) …” is followed by an 
adjective, which is usually emphasized. Notice the emphasis on “beautiful” here.
• Dogs are more loyal than cats. Two things are being compared here (dogs and 
cats). Notice the structure of the sentences: (noun/s) plus “is/are more” plus 
(adjective) plus “than” plus (noun/s). The nouns and the adjective are content words 
here, so they are all emphasized.
• Every single day Notice that each word here is stressed. The speaker wants to make 
a point, so she emphasizes each word equally. “Every single day” is a lot!
• Good point here means “I agree with you.”
• Take care of This phrase is used with animals, people and things. It can mean 
“watch a child while her parents are away,” “feed and house someone or 
something,” or “make sure things work properly.” (I always take care of my baby 
brother./ I take care of my bird by feeding it and cleaning its cage./ I need to take 
care of the broken sink.)
• Yeah, you’re right. Notice the pronunciation of this expression — the words all 
blend together here. This casual expression is used to agree with someone that you 
know well.

English Conversation practice (30-day challenge)

Day 26: At the pet store

در این اپیزود داستان کوتاهی را  به زبان فارسی خواندم

حکایت های کوتاه فارسی  short stories

حکایت اول the first short story

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What if the person who doesn't seem to be strong is actually superpower-strong?
What would you do if you were the person with such power?
It started with this crazy idea, but this show makes us LOL!!


그거 봤어? Did you watch it?

44. Strong Woman DoBongSoon (힘쎈여자 도봉순) 

bed, bear, banana, bird
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Phonics The Alphabet 

Letter B

Each week I read an interesting news article from the BBC. Listen along to the words and pronunciation and I will also share with you the link to the story so that you can read along as well. This week's news article can be found here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63096760