Vocabulary:
inheritance: money and property passed down to descendants
deceive: to fool someone
to be in hot water: to be in trouble
provoke: to make someone angry
tactician: someone who understands strategy
to be in the wrong: to be wrong
ashamed: embarrassed
unethical: immoral
ethical: moral
natural monument: an important landmark made by nature
intact: in one piece

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Movie Series: Extraordinary Attorney Woo, episodes 4-8

 How I learn a third language using ESPRR
E: Exposure
S: Study
P: Practice
R: Revision
R: Repetition

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How I learn a third language using ESPRR

bù zhì kě fǒu

意思是不说可以，也不说不可以。指不表明态度。

形容对某件事情或某个观点既不明确表示支持也不明确表示反对的态度。

Chinese idioms (中国成语)

不置可否

Giant Dreams Midget Abilities by David Sedaris read by Teacher Alyse
Read and follow along. Send me a message for your free digital copy of this story. 

"WHEN YOU'RE PLAYING YOUR GUITAR, MAKE BELIEVE YOU'RE PLAYING AN ACTUAL WOMAN," MISTER MANCINI TOLD ME. "GRAB HER BY THE NECK AND MAKE HER HOLLER."

My father loves jazz and has an extensive collection of records and reel-to-reel tapes he used to enjoy after returning home from work. He might have entered the house in a foul mood, but once he had his Dexter Gordon and a vodka martini, the stress melted away and everything was "Beautiful, baby, just beautiful." The instant the needle hit that record, he'd loosen his tie and become something other than the conservative engineer with a pocketful of IBM pencils embossed with the command think.

"Man, oh man, will you get a load of the chops on this guy? I saw him once at the Blue Note, and I mean to tell you that he blew me right out of my chair! A talent like that comes along only once in a lifetime. The guy was an absolute comet, and there I was in the front row. Can you imagine that?"

"Gee," I'd say. "I bet that was really interesting."

Empathy was the wrong tack, as it seemed only to irritate him.

"You don't know the half of it," my father would say. " 'Really interesting' my butt. You haven't got a clue. You could have taken a hatchet and cut the man's lips right off his face, chopped them off at the quick, and he still would have played better than anyone else out there. That's how good he was."

Because it was the music we'd grown up with, I liked to think that my sisters and I had a genuine appreciation for jazz. We preferred it over the music our friends were listening to, yet nothing we did or said could convince him of our devotion. Aside from replaying the tune on your own instrument, how could you prove you were really listening? It was as if he expected us to change color at the end of each selection.

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主要介绍汉语口语习惯用语中“1.没心没肺2.小聪明3.往心里去”的意思及用法

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前天我给你发了一箱苹果，你收到了吗？
熊猫很可爱，无论在哪都受到大家的欢迎。

今早上大家都收到了公司的通知。
普京是很了不起的人，一直都受到人们的尊敬。

我收到了你的来信。
签证过期要尽快续签，不然会受到罚款。



喵喵说汉语---HSK 4

收到和受到

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46% of US Teens Use the Internet 'Almost Constantly'
We know that teenagers spend a lot of time online, but the Pew Research Center has been finding out a little more about what some of them are doing.

A survey of more than 1,300 young people in the US, aged between 13 and 17, found that 97% use the internet every day. And 46% said they use it "almost constantly" — an increase from 24% in 2014 and 2015.

The new survey, done in April and May 2022, also found that YouTube is now the most popular app among teens, with 95% using the video site, and 19% saying they are on it "almost constantly."

TikTok is the next most popular app, with 67% saying they use it.

Things have changed over the years, however: in Pew's 2014 and 2015 survey, Facebook was the most popular site among teens, with 71% saying they used it. But that fell to just 32% in the 2022 survey.

Twitter has also become less popular — 23% of teenagers say they now use it, down from 33% seven years ago.

There are some differences between the way boys and girls spend their time online.

Pew said that boys are more likely to be on YouTube, Twitch and Reddit, while girls are more likely to use TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat.

It has never been easier for young people to use these sites and apps — 95% of teens said they have a smartphone, while 90% have access to a computer.