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¡Hola!  Welcome to Español from Zero, a podcast for people who are just starting the amazing journey that is learning Spanish.

Today’s practice is focused on the verb Llamarse (to be called). Basically the verb that we use to talk about people’s names.

The exercise is really short and simple! Your job is to find the mistakes in these sentences (only one of them is correct):

Yo llamo Rafael 
Nosotros nos llamos Pedro y Juan 
Ella se llaman Claudia
Tú te llamas Lucas
Ellos se llama Ana y Sebastián

You can check out the answers here: https://spanishconmar.wordpress.com/2022/03/04/espanol-from-zero-01/

Have any questions? Get in touch and let's get you speaking Español today! 

Spanish from zero

Let's practice the verb Llamarse (to be called) 

日本の給食

みなさん、こんにちは。ところで、日本の給食を知っていますか。
日本の公立の小学校では、給食を食べることができます。小学校の給食は1食200円弱で栄養満点（えいようまんてん）のものが提供（ていきょう）されています。一時期、海外でも話題になったようです。
私が考える日本の給食の、すごい点がいくつかあるのでご紹介します。
まず、1か月に同じメニューが出ることはほとんどないんです。献立（こんだて）は、和食、洋食、中華、多国籍料理（たこくせきりょうり）とメニューの量が豊富です。すごいですよね。当然ですが、カロリー計算もされていますし、アレルギー成分表も毎回提示（まいかいていじ）されています。なので、アレルギーがあると事前に申告（しんこく）しておくと、別の物が提供されるんです。
そして、食材は常に旬（しゅん）の物が取り入れられているんです。おまけに、その食材は地域で生産されているものを使うことが多いようです。今は9月ですから、娘の学校では、フルーツになしが出るようです。そして、魚のサバが、今から冬にかけて旬になるということで、「さばのあまからあげ」というのが、メニューに入りました。
次に、すごいなと思うことは、給食の配膳（はいぜん）とあと片付け（かたづけ）は子供たちがするということです。各（かく）クラスに提供されたご飯を子供たちで分けて食べるんです。ご飯のよそい方、お味噌汁の入れ方、お皿への盛（も）りつけ方も給食の時間に学ぶことができます。そして、食べきれずに捨（す）てることになってしまった食材の捨て方も学びます。なので、目の前で捨てられるご飯を見て「残すのはもったいない」と自然に学ぶようになります。高学年の子供たちになると、「給食を残さずに食べよう」ということで、いろんな企画（きかく）をします。給食委員会というのがあって、給食を楽しんでもらうために、給食のメニューについて話したり、音楽をかけたり、ポスターを作ったりするようです。
給食の時間はもちろん先生も一緒です。先生も子供たちの様子（ようす）を見ながら食事してくれます。なので、安心です。
小学校の給食、最高ですよね。
最近は、中学校でも給食を提供しようという風潮（ふうちょう）になってきたみたいです。なので、給食を提供するようになった自治体（じちたい）が多くなってきています。
給食を提供してくれると、親もとても楽です。だって、1日最低1食は栄養バランスの取れた食事が保証（ほしょう）されているですから。
ちなみに今日の娘の給食メニューは、「ごはん、ごましお、ぎゅうにゅう、マーボーなす、あおなときのこのスープ」のようです。

みなさんの国には給食はありますか。
日本の給食は食べたことがありますか。



「のぞみ」の日記

日本の給食

Godisavsnittet-Swedish candy!

Vad vet du om svensk godis? 

Vi fortsätter språkresan mot flytande svenska med lite nostalgi om svensk godis!! Här får du veta mer om godis i Sverige och varför det smakar så läckert gott med mjukt lösgodis.      

Prata Flytande Svenska/Speak Swedish Fluently  

Godisavsnittet

Transcript: https://www.patreon.com/posts/zhong-wen-shi-95740701?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Lily's Chinese 对话

20240227高尔基致罗曼罗兰的信

In this episode, you’ll learn how to become a better writer for work. You may have noticed that some people have the gift of gab from an early age. But becoming a great writer takes some effort for everyone. In this episode, you’ll hear about my path to becoming a better writer, and I’ll share five tips to help you improve your business English writing skills. 

When you write in a polite, confident, clear, and concise manner, you will gain your emails answered quickly! You’ll also gain respect and approval of your ideas. You’ll also build relationships and achieve your goals, like securing more clients or making more sales. 

Episode originally published on September 25, 2020
Transcript at https://www.express-to-impress.com/how-to-become-a-better-writer/.

Express to Impress

How to Improve Your Business English Writing Skills

غَالِبًا السوشال ميديا تِعْرِض أَشْيَاء مْفَلْتَرَة مِن الحَيَاة, لأنو الناس يشَارْكُوا الأَحْدَاث المُهِمَّة بَس.
وهَذا الشِي يِعْكِس صُورَة مِثَالِيَّة لحَيَاة بَعْض النَاس اللي هي عَكْس الصُورَة الحَقِيقِيَة.
بَس كَمَان هَذا الشَي يِسَبِّب ضَغْط عَالِي على هَذُول الأَشْخَاص لأنو لازم يِظْهَرُوا دَائِمًا بِصُورَة مِثَالِيَّة.
بِالمُقَابِل, الأَشْخَاص الآخَرِين يقَارْنُوا حَيَاتْهُم مَع حَيَاة هَذُول الأَشْخَاص. 
بَس لِلْأَسَف هذه المُقَارَنِة ممكن تْأَدِّي للشُعُور بِالإِكْتِئَاب.
لازم نِتْذَكَّر دَائِمًا إِنُّو الأشياء اللي قَاعْدِين نْشُوفْهَا على السوشال ميديا ما بِتْكُون الصُورَة الكَامْلِة, وكُل إِنْسَان عِنْدُه مَشَاكِل بِالحَيَاة والحَيَاة المَثَالِيَّة مَا مَوجُودِة!

Mostly social media shows filtered things from life, because people share only the important events.
And this reflects a perfect image of the life of some people which is the opposite of the real image.
But also this thing causes high pressure on these people because they always have to appear in a perfect image.
In contrast, the other people who compare their life with the life of those people.
But unfortunately, this comparison can lead to the feeling of depression.
We should always remember that the things that we are seeing on social media are not the full picture, and every human has problems in life, and the perfect life does not exist.

Gulf Dialect (Level 2)

السوشال ميديا / Social Media 🎭

Are you ready to get that idiom monkey off your back and learn 7 more idiomatic expressions to help you improve your IELTS band score?

The idioms in this podcast are quite useful. They should add another string to your bow. In our IELTS speaking exam we should also learn how to paraphrase. Learning how to paraphrase adds a really important string to your bow, as well. In order to gain a band score 6, it’s important to attempt to paraphrase as well as use connectives. Using connectives, like therefore, however, and to be honest, can add another string to your bow.

When we know how to use idioms, we can improve our IELTS band score, because it’s important to use some less common idiomatic vocabulary in your IELTS exam. Idioms are very common and used in everyday daily life. As a rule of thumb, they help the examiner to know if you have spent time studying common idiomatic phrases.

So, keep your chin up. And keep studying. Because idioms are easy to learn. You just have to take the time to learn them, and practice using them. Don’t let learning idioms worry you, because they really are fun. They won’t get you into hot water. Learning idioms cannot get you into trouble. On the contrary, they will show the IELTS examiner that you are dilligent, studious, and hard working. Nobody’s going to hit the roof just because you’ve learned a few idioms. Of course not! No one is going to be angry with you for studying idioms! They are a vital part of your English language skills. Native English speakers use idioms day in, day out.

Don’t forget to take the quiz and learn the meanings of the idioms in this podcast. 

And don’t forget to book a lesson with me, so I can help you get the IELTS band score you need. And if you dont know many idioms, dont you think it’s time to get that monkey off your back?

IELTS Speaking Practice

7 Idioms

გამარჯობა, რამდენი ენა იცი? - Hello, How many languages do you know? 
მე ვიცი ხუთი ენა. I know five languages.
ვიცი ქართული, ინგლისური, ფრანგული, ცოტა რუსული და ცოტა პოლონური. I know georgian, english, french, a little bit of russian and a little bit of french. 
რა ენებზე ლაპარაკობ ? - what languages do you speak ?
მე ვლაპარაკობ ქართულად, ინგლისურად, ფრანგულად, ცოტა რუსულად და პოლონურად. I speak georgian, english, french, a bit of russian and polish. 
ქართული ჩემი მშობლიური ენაა. Georgian in my native language.
ინგლისური ენა ძალიან კარგად ვიცი, ფრანგული ენაც ძალიან კარგად ვიცი, რუსული ენა ცუდად ვიცი, პოლონური ენა ძალიან ცუდად ვიცი. I know the english language really well, I also know the french language really well, I know the russian language badly, the polish language also badly. (literally translation) 
კარგად ვიცი I know smth well 
ცუდად ვიცი I know smth poorly, badly. 