Listen to this short extract for A2 level English learners as part of my Learn English with Pip course.

Learn English with Pip

Reading extract: a police story (English A2 level) 

Listen to hear about how Japanese students spend their Februaries. Passing entrance exams and getting into college is extremely competitive. I’ll talk about my experience taking a lot of tests!

Crazy Japanese Culture

Intense Japanese Entrance Exam😱

En el capítulo de hoy sigo reflexionando sobre India y sobre el turismo a este país. Además, termino mi tiempo en Mumbai y me dirijo a un nuevo destino... 
¿Quieres acompañarme?


La vida de Héctor (Spanish Podcast)

Reflexiones sobre mi viaje a India

One way to improve our language skills is by expressing our thoughts in the target language. For that reason, I have prepared an English conversation class “Express Yourself through A Conversation”. Please feel free to check that lesson here: https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/24647106/english
I have a lot of interesting topics to talk about. But of course, you are welcome to bring up your own topic.

In this episode, I want to show you one example of the discussion topic. It’s about my imaginary city, Subara City 素晴市 （スバラしsu ba ra shi）.   The name is derived from 素晴らしい（すばらしい）and 都市（とし）.   素晴らしい means “wonderful”, “magnificent”.    市 means “city” and when placed at the end of a word can be pronounced as “shi”し.   So here I name my imaginary city 素晴市（スバラしsu ba ra shi）or “Subara City”.  In this episode, I’m introducing English lessons, not Japanese. I just want to let you know how I made up the name.

The theme of the story is that you have just been elected to the council for Subara City. You have 6 billion Yen in your budget. What can you do? Listen through. Below here is a simple worksheet to give you more ideas.

Total budget: 6 billion Yen.

(1) Carbon Footprint
Main cause of pollution is old factories on the edge of the city. They have to be relocated.
Budget: ………………….. Yen

(2) Deprivation and Inequality
You need to establish projects to reduce the percentage of people living below the poverty line.
Budget: ………………….. Yen

(3) Congestion and Mobility
Although the ground in Subara City is considered not suitable for subway infrastructure, recent research has been investigating solutions to tackle the ground issue. This research needs funding.
Budget: ………………….. Yen

(4) Education and Qualifications
The number of grants for teachers to study abroad should be increased.
Budget: ………………….. Yen

(5) Language and Cultural Integration
More investment is needed to ensure that migrants coming to work in your city adapt and integrate into the society.
Budget: ………………….. Yen

Midori no Heya

Make a Difference in Subara City

こんにちは、あかりです。今日のエピソードのテーマは健康(けんこう)とメタル音楽(おんがく)です。🤘

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Slow Japanese

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Let's start from Zero

Challenge your Pinyin skills

Short story 「はなこさんの夏休（なつやす）み《 Hanako’s summer vacation 》ep1」
This is an original story I created.
This episode is JLPT-N5 level.

I created a quiz on this episode.
After listening, please take the quiz!

Please use this audio for listening and shadowing practices.

☆Words☆
毎年（まいとし / maitoshi）：every year
 遠い（とおい / tōi）：far
新幹線（しんかんせん / shinkansen）：bullet train 
甘い（あまい / amai）：sweet
お土産（おみやげ / omiyage）：souvenir
辛い（からい / karai）：spicy
切符（きっぷ / kippu）：ticket
席（せき / seki）：seat
笑う（わらう / warau）：laugh, smile
→masu-form：笑います（わらいます / waraimasu）
～号車（～ごうしゃ / ～gōsha）：classifier for naming train cars
ex）１号車（いちごうしゃ / ichigōsha）、２号車（にごうしゃ / nigōsha）･･･

☆Grammar☆
・masu-form（present / past）
・～たいです：want to do

☆Script for this episode
The scripts (URL) are listed in the overview section of the channel.

☆Quiz for this episode
https://www.italki.com/quiz/set/5907?utm_source=copylink_share&utm_medium=share_content&utm_campaign=share_quiz
