Lamia: 你好，请问你们酒店可以接待
外国人吗？
Staff: 可以。
Lamia: 太好了！我们要一个双人间。
Staff: 好的，护照看一下。
Lamia: 给，双人间多少钱一晚？
Staff: 299一晚。
Lamia: 我们住两晚，包含早餐吗？
Staff: 包含，这是房卡，后天中午12点前退房，
       房间在5楼，房号是520。
Lamia: 好的，电梯在哪里？
Staff: 这边。

Daily Spoken Chinese

Lamia's phone has run out of battery

This podcast is the English translation of the original Spanish story, so you can understand it better if you have any doubts.

Clan de Autodidactas

The Polyglot

In our first ever episode we explore the question of how language influences thought. But does it? Apparently even the scientists don't quite agree yet.

The Age of Humans

Episode 1: The controversy of linguistic relativity

En este episodio te cuento brevemente sobre la familia Ocampo y más particularmente sobre Silvina Ocampo, una de las mejores cuentistas argentina. ¡Súper recomendada!

Porteña

Ciclo literatura - Silvina Ocampo

Do you ever wish you had a personal coach for language learning? The good news is—you can be your own. 

In this episode of 111 Tips for Learning a Language, you’ll learn how to:
✨ Create identity-based goals that stick
✨ Build automatic habits with if–then plans and habit stacking
✨ Run a weekly self-check to track and adjust
✨ Use WOOP to turn obstacles into clear next steps
✨ Speak to yourself like a kind, encouraging coach

In Episode 93, you learn how to life-coach yourself through your language journey with compassion and structure. You begin with an identity statement that anchors your learning, then set one clear outcome and two supportive behaviours. You discover how to make practice automatic through if–then plans, habit stacking, and pairing practice with daily routines. A weekly self-check helps you track progress, reduce friction, and adjust kindly. Tools like WOOP (Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan) keep you moving forward, and self-talk shifts from criticism to encouragement. With simple drills for vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, listening, speaking, and writing, you create a steady system that keeps you consistent and motivated.

Listen now and discover how to coach yourself with compassion, structure, and steady progress.
And if you’d like extra guidance, I’d love to walk this journey with you in class on Italki.

💃🏻111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 93 - How becoming your own ﮩـﮩﮩ٨ـ🫀ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ Life Coach can help you learn a language

In this episode, we break down one of English’s most confusing vowel quirks — why the letter A sounds completely different in what and water. You’ll learn how to hear and pronounce the short /ɒ/ and long /ɔː/ vowels, understand what actually changes inside the mouth, and practise with clear word pairs to sharpen your accent. Perfect for learners who want a more natural, confident British pronunciation.

British Pronunciation Tips 

British Vowel Sound Masterclass – Lesson 3: The Curious ‘A’ in What and Water

At a Hollywood studio this October, Tesla unveiled its long-awaited robotaxi, though fans of the electric vehicle maker will have to wait until at least 2026 before it is available.

CEO Elon Musk pulled up to a stage in one of the company's "Cybercabs," telling the crowd that the AI-powered vehicles don't have steering wheels or pedals.

He also expressed confidence in the progress the company has made on autonomous driving technology that makes it possible for vehicles to drive without human intervention.

Tesla began selling the software, which is called "Full Self-Driving," nine years ago. But there are doubts about its reliability.

"We'll move from supervised Full Self-Driving to unsupervised Full Self-Driving, where you can fall asleep and wake up at your destination," he said.

Tesla expects the Cybercabs to cost under $30,000, Musk said. He estimated that the vehicles would become available "before 2027."

The company also expects to make the Full Self-Driving technology available on its popular Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in Texas and California next year.

However, shares of Tesla Inc fell not long after the unveiling — investors don't see a clear timeline for the rollout of the Cybercabs, while other companies are already using similar technology.

"Tesla yet again claimed it is a year or two away from actual automated driving — just as the company has been claiming for a decade," Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies automated vehicles, told The Associated Press.

Tesla's announcement comes as US safety regulators are investigating Full Self-Driving and Autopilot based on evidence that it has a weak system for making sure human drivers pay attention.

Last April near Seattle, a Tesla using Full Self-Driving hit and killed a motorcyclist, authorities said. The Tesla driver told authorities that he was using the system while looking at his phone when the car hit the motorcyclist from behind.



Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Tesla Announces Self-Driving 'Cybercab' for 2026

Hello and welcome back! Today we are going to read a funny book by Dr. Seuss called Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! This story is about a character named Marvin who is told again and again that it’s time to go. The book uses playful rhymes, repetition, and silly ideas to make reading fun and to help practice English rhythm and sounds. Send me a message for your free digital copy of this book to follow along. Let’s get started!
