A South Korean musical about a teenage girl who meets a mysterious magician.

Vocabulary:
burden: something heavy you carry, whether physical or figurative
creditor: someone you owe money to
magician: a person who does magic tricks
wind-up toy: a toy that uses a clockwork motor to move
rat race: constantly competing to get ahead
distraction: something that moves your attention elsewhere

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Movie Series: The Sound of Magic

En este episodio hablaremos acerca de los niveles educativos que conforman la educación en México.

The Mexican Way Podcast- Sandra Alvarado

La educación en México

Recommended to listen repeatedly until you understand.
Key words and Commonly used phrases, Please read after me. You can record the phrases you read and send it here, I'll correct the pronunciation for you. Follow me ,you will learn more Chinese.

Key words:
商店、医院、医生、学生、椅子、桌子、水果、苹果、多、少、什么、爱、汉语、上午、昨天
Commmon phrases:
好大、太多了、很漂亮、我的朋友、猫和狗、不客气、下大雨了、去哪里、明天下午、今天中午、吃什么、一本书、三杯茶、五个苹果、钱小姐

Merry's voice (HSK一）

HSK一， Commonly used phrases 4 , Please read after me

ドイツの田舎では庭に鳥小屋を置いている家をよく見かけます。
これは鳥を飼うためのものではなく、野生の鳥にえさをあげるためのものです。
私の家の大家さんもいつもひまわりの種を鳥小屋の中に置いています。
時々そこにえさを食べに来ている鳥を見ることができます。
私の家の庭には大きな木があり、窓から木に止まっている鳥を見ることができます。
先週、ドイツの家の庭で見ることができる鳥の種類を描いたポスターを買いました。私はドイツに来るまで野生の鳥にあまり興味がありませんでした。でも今はこのポスターを見ながら、「今日はこれを見たよ」とか「この種類はまだ見たことがないね」とパートナーと言って楽しんでいます。

日本で鳥といえば、カラスやハトですよね。カラスはゴミをあさったり、ハトはベランダにふんをしたりするので私は正直嫌いでした。
皆さんは鳥を見るのが好きですか？

田舎：いなか　countryside
庭：にわ　garden
鳥小屋：とりごや　bird house 
野生の：やせいの　wild
気軽に：きがるに　easily, casually
大家さん：おおやさん　landlord
ひまわり：sunflower
種：たね　seeds
窓：まど　window
種類：しゅるい　kind
カラス：crow
はと：pigeon
ゴミをあさる:　scavenge through garbage
ふんをする：take a poop
正直：しょうじき　honestly

Nihongo Short Story by Noriko

鳥を見るのは好きですか？(Do you like bird watching?)

Netflix now has 10 million subscribers in Japan, according to the streaming company.

It got to that number during the first half of 2024, so it may be even higher by now — and it's double the number of subscribers Netflix had in the country four years ago.

It's believed that new Japanese shows on the platform — including Tokyo Swindlers, The Queen of Villains and The Boyfriend — have helped the streaming service get more subscribers.

"Japan in particular is a country which wants to see a lot of its own content so we strongly feel the need to produce it," said Kaata Sakamoto, Netflix's vice president of content for Japan.

He added that the company wants to produce more content that will be popular with people in Japan, including more sports and comedy shows.

Subscribers around the world have also been enjoying Japanese content on the platform. It's the third-most-watched non-English-language content on Netflix, after Korean and Spanish. And Japanese anime shows and movies have been watched more than 1 billion times on Netflix in the last year.

Sakamoto said there are plans to make more anime for the platform, but he wants to find "stories that have never been told before."

Netflix first came to Japan in 2015. In 2023, it was the most popular streaming service in the country, with about 22% of the market share.

Around the world, Netflix has more than 280 million subscribers.

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Netflix Reaches 10 Million Subscribers in Japan

In today's episode we discuss our perception of time and whether it moves too slow or too fast?

Let's have a chat (Discussions In English) 

Episode 17 : What is your perception of time? Does time stand still or move too fast? 

¿Quieres hablar español con naturalidad? Empieza por vivirlo.
En este episodio te enseño cómo transformar tu entorno, tu rutina y tus pensamientos para crear una inmersión total sin salir de casa.
Aprende técnicas como: etiqueta todo, modo español ON, y el domingo sin inglés para hacer que el español se convierta en parte de ti.

👉 “Don’t translate your life —live it in Spanish.”
Convierte tu hogar en el mejor país hispanohablante del mundo: el tuyo.

Español No Excuses: Level-Up Your Mind, Speak Out Loud

Vive en español sin salir de tu casa: cómo crear tu mundo 100% inmersivo

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Streetwise English Podcast - Pink Floyd
Welcome back to another mini episode of Streetwise English podcast. You can search for Streetwise English Podcast on other platforms and find full length episodes, but these are just mini podcasts. Today I'd like to talk about music, and specifically I'd like to talk about an English band called Pink Floyd. So Pink Floyd was big back in the 1970s. And I remember as a kid my dad had the album The Dark Side of the Moon, and the cover Art of the Dark Side of the Moon was a prism, like a triangle.
And then on the right side of the prism was a rainbow. So the spectrum of colors in light and this album was groundbreaking at the time because it was kind of a new genre of music. It was psychedelic rock, so there were soundscapes and they were using synthesizers and electric instruments in ways that people had never done before. And I looked, I Googled it, checked on the Wikipedia page, and it says that The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album of the English rock band Pink Floyd released on March 1st 1973 the record was conceived as an album that focused on the pressures faced by the band during their arduous lifestyle. And dealing with the apparent mental health problems suffered by former band member Syd Barrett, who was a part of the group in 1968.
So in my research, um, my brief research here on Pink Floyd I learned about Syd Barrett and that he was the founding member of the band who left the group and I guess he had some kind of mental illness and experimented with a lot of psychedelic drugs. Um, and he kind of disappeared from the band, but it seems like he was probably maybe the most talented one and the original member of the band and kind of helped form, form their style of exploring sonic soundscapes and free flow of consciousness and the way that he would create the lyrics and...

