The Old New Year is today! 🎄 Let's find out what it is. 
A short story in English, then in Russian (1:34). 
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Old New Year 

元の記事/ Original Article↓
https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/537600

｢わが子の｢クラス･担任替え｣学校に相談すべき理由」という記事を音読しつつ、思うことを話しました。みなさんも学校制度について思うことがあれば、教えてください！

☆目次
0:00 オープニング
0:57 (p1)1-3
1:31 クラス替え
2:37 (p1)4-5
3:34 相談した方がいいとき
6:07 (p1)6-9
7:44 小学生時代
11:42 (p2)1-3
12:31 先生も知りたい
13:58 (p2)4-8
15:30 交渉術
17:42 (p3)1
17:59 大人の判断力
18:55 (p3)2-4
19:58 担任
21:55 (p3)5-13
24:16 まとめ

☆語彙
可視化（かしか）
信頼関係（しんらいかんけい）
教壇（きょうだん）に立（た）つ
合唱（がっしょう）
身勝手（みがって）
判断基準（はんだんきじゅん）
視点（してん）
骨（ほね）が折（お）れる
対等（たいとう）
ごまをする
つきはなす
想像（そうぞう）に容易（たやす）い
責任者（せきにんしゃ）
閉鎖的（へいさてき）

☆引用文献
親野 智可等. “わが子の｢クラス･担任替え｣学校に相談すべき理由: もし来年に心配があるなら春休み前に行動を”. 東洋経済ONLINE. 2022-3-11. http://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/537600, (参照 2022-03-11).

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“The reason why you should talk with your child’s teacher about a new class” ｢わが子の｢クラス･担任替え｣学校に相談すべき理由」

Los cambios constantes de la vida y la capacidad de resiliencia de una persona, son dos motivos influyentes a la hora de tomar grandes decisiones, que pueden llevarte a salir de tu zona confort e incluso sin preguntarte si deseas o no salir de ella.

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東京人(とうきょうじん)は冷(つめ)たい？
Tokyo people are NOT nice?
도쿄사람들은 착하지 않다고?



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【Japanese Podcast#21】東京人(とうきょうじん)は冷(つめ)たい？Tokyo people are NOT nice?

はい、こんにちは。今回は Podcast の12回目です。12回目なんですけれども、今回初めてitalkiで配信することになったので、まずは簡単に説明をしたいと思います。

Hello, This is the podcast episode 12, and since this is the first time I’m going to be broadcasting on italki, I’d like to give a brief explanation first.

私の名前はMayunaです。2018年からitalkiで日本語を教えています。コミュニティに記事も投稿しています。ポッドキャストは去年の11月に始めました。私の日々の出来事を、日本人がよく使う自然な表現を使って、３分程度でお話ししてます。中級者向けぐらいの内容です。すべてのエピソードにトランスクリプトと英訳がついていて、グーグルポッドキャストでも聞くことができます。毎週更新しています。

My name is Mayuna and I’ve been teaching Japanese at italki since 2018. I also contribute articles to the community. I started the podcast last November. I talk about my daily life in about 3 minutes, using natural expressions commonly used by Japanese people. The content is for intermediate level users. All episodes have a transcript and English translation, and you can listen to them on Google Podcast. It is updated weekly.

今日はレッスンが午後からだったので、午前中はスーパーに買い物に行きました。この Podcast を録音するのが火曜日なので、その録音のために、私はいつものど飴を買います。のど飴というのは、世界中に同じようなものがあるかどうか分からないですけど、ハーブなどが入っている飴で、声がよく出るようにするものです。

Today’s lesson was in the afternoon, so I went to the supermarket in the morning to do some shopping. Since I record this podcast on Tuesdays, I always buy throat lozenges for the recording. I don’t know if there are similar products all over the world, but lozenges are candies that contain herbs and other ingredients to help you speak better.

最近いつも買っている飴の味に飽きてきたので、今日は違う飴を買ったんですね。今日買ったのど飴は蜂蜜と生姜が入っていて、添加物が入っていない、すごく美味しいものだったんですけど、美味しすぎて、普通におやつとして食べてしまうので、のど飴としてはあまりいい選択じゃなかったなと、少し後悔しています。そしてそのときになんとなく、ことわざを思い出しました。

I recently got tired of the taste of the lozenges I always buy, so I bought a different one today. The throat lozenges I bought today contained honey and ginger, no additives, and were very tasty, but they were so tasty that I ended up eating them as a regular snack, so I regretted a little that they were not a good choice for the original purpose. And then I somehow remembered a proverb.

View a full transcript: https://japanesemayuna.com/

Japanese Lessons with Mayuna

12. 良薬口に苦し

Ещё немного о видах глагола в русском языке и том, какие ошибки делают студенты

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Welcome back to another episode of Streetwise English podcast. My name is Carl. Today I want to talk about breaking the ice. So breaking the ice means meeting someone new that you don't know for the first time. So when you go to a party or you go to a new workplace or a new school, you're always going to have the occasion where you need to meet people for the very first time.


And sometimes this can be awkward and you can feel embarrassed about talking to someone if you don't know them and they don't know you and you're not friends yet. So I just wanted to talk really briefly about some advice that I have for you to meet people for the first time in any environment. And this is especially true if you are not a native speaker of their language.


So the first tip I have is to simply smile. Make your face look friendly and welcoming and give eye contact to the person that you want to talk to. It sounds really simple and obvious, but if you missed this step um, you know, this is a very important step and this is half the battle. So make sure that you look approachable yourself and you smile And you might even make a slight hand gesture, like, uh, a mini wave of some sort.  And the next thing is to simply say hello.


You don't have to come up with any kind of clever saying or pick up line or joke just simply saying hello. And you can see if the other person is interested in having a conversation with you.


And another tip is that you can be observant of what the person looks like or what clothes they're wearing and use that as a clue um, to tell you about who they are. For example, if the person is wearing very nice running shoes you kind of have the idea that this person likes to run or this person may be a runner or if you notice that the person has, um, cauliflower ears, you know, scarred ears from wrestling OK, this guy is probably a fighter. (please subscribe to the Streetwise English Podcast)





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Intermediate Chinese Listening

IELTS Speaking Part 3 Topic: Historic Place. Q. 4-6.

Q. 4: How were you taught history when you were at school?
Q. 5: Are there other ways people can learn about history, apart from at school? How?
Q. 6: Do you think history will still be a school subject in the future? Why?

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