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Want to improve your English while staying informed? In this video, you'll learn essential English vocabulary and phrases in the context of the California wildfires. We break down key words, expressions, and real-world sentences to help you understand and use English naturally.

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Learn English with Real News: California Wildfire Explained

¿Te consideras una persona puntual?

Si tu respuesta es sí. ¡Genial! Ser una persona puntual es algo muy bueno. Pero si tu respuesta es no, no te preocupes, es más normal de lo que parece. Ojo, no estoy diciendo que es bueno ser impuntual, solo digo que es bastante normal.

De hecho, en mi país usamos la expresión “hora ecuatoriana” para hablar de eso. Y en este episodio te quiero contar sobre eso.

Spanish with Andres T.

La hora Ecuatoriana

In this podcast we'll look into some answers to 3 common questions:

1. How to answer: ‘Tell me a bit about yourself.’

2. How to answer: ‘What are your weaknesses?’

3. How to answer: ‘Describe a time you faced a challenge and what steps you took to overcome it.’

Before you'll go further - how would you do it yourself? What will your thinking be while answering?

Question One: The interviewer typically isn’t asking you about your weekend here. Take this opportunity to capture and distill the most important things they need to know about you as an employee—your most impactful job, the skills you’d most like to highlight, as well as some of the previous projects you feel showcase your abilities are all great options.

Question Two: Avoid responding with something that’s not genuine and communicates inauthenticity—saying something like ‘I work too hard!’ doesn’t come across well. Everyone has weaknesses—it’s how we manage them that’s important and expressing what you’ve already got underway to alter it is the key.

QUestion Three: This demands self-reflection and self-examination, focusing on problem solving skills and your attitude to challenges, conflict resolution and how you cope under pressure. Work through the S.T.A.R method if you get a little stuck: first, contextualise the situation for your interviewee by presenting the challenge in a professional manner and explain how it arose in the first place, then explain a little about where you fell in the group in relation to the task at hand.

Use some ideas aboe and also prepare your answers as well. At the end of the day - they are 'buying' your personality, not so much how you answer those questions so don't be shy being yourself, it countrs massively!

Let me know how I can help you privately in your interview preparations!

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Hi guys, I wrote those stories based on HSK2 vocabulary and sentence patterns to help you learn Chinese. Hope you will like it! 

小桃的故事Continue

小桃有很多梦想，长大后她想去环游世界（huan2 you2 shi4 jie4 travel around the world），所以现在她很用功地读书（study hard）。

小桃每天6点起床，因为她7点要去学校上课。她很喜欢运动，所以很少生病。她喜欢打羽毛球和踢足球。她现在一米四几，她希望自己能长到一米六几。她的爸爸是一名医生，工作很忙，有时候周末也要上班。她的妈妈是一名小学老师，有很多的学生。

她的爸爸喜欢看报纸，有时候看到开心的地方，还会读给她听。妈妈喜欢唱歌，她会唱很多歌。

小桃的房间是淡蓝色的，因为她喜欢安天空的颜色，可以思考很多问题。她喜欢每天晚上躺在床上看书，也喜欢看小说，她最喜欢的小说是西游记。

周末有空的时候，她们一家人会去外面饭馆儿吃饭。小桃最喜欢吃小笼包和西红柿炒鸡蛋，爸爸最喜欢吃饺子，妈妈最喜欢吃蔬菜。爸爸还喜欢喝绿茶，午饭后，他经常喝一杯绿茶。这个周末，妈妈打算去给小桃买衣服，因为以前的衣服太小了，不能穿了。

小桃最近在学骑自行车，妈妈给她买了一辆新的自行车，是红色的，她很喜欢，每天下午放学后都要骑一会儿。小桃很喜欢看动画片，但是妈妈不让她每天看，有时候作业太多，也没时间看。快要考试了，小桃要好好学习了哦！More episodes coming up....


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HSK2 (Level 2) Reading and Listening Practice Part 1

The number of couples getting married in South Korea increased by almost 15% between 2023 and 2024.

That's the biggest percentage increase in marriages since the government began collecting this data in 1970.

More than 222,000 couples got married in South Korea in 2024. That's good news for a country with one of the world's lowest birth rates.

The government has been trying to encourage people to get married and have children to help boost the country's shrinking population.

It may just have worked. However, not all young people are convinced that marriage is the right thing for them.

According to The South China Morning Post, many young people in the country are still choosing an "unmarried lifestyle" for personal and financial reasons.

Some said that getting married and doing things like buying a home and having children are too expensive.

Others felt they would be more likely to find happiness on their own.

The government data also showed that the number of marriages between South Koreans and foreign nationals has increased for the third year in a row.

There were almost 21,000 of these marriages last year. That's an increase of more than 1,000 from 2023, although still not quite as high as it was before the coronavirus pandemic.

Almost three out of 10 foreign husbands were from the US. And about a third of foreign wives were from Vietnam, while many others were from China and Thailand.

The number of divorces among couples of different nationalities also decreased last year, according to Yonhap News Agency.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Big Rise in Number of Marriages in South Korea

un jour : dia, day
les jours de la semaine : dias da semana, weekdays
une semaine : semana, week
lundi : segunda-feira, Monday
mardi : terça-feira, Tuesday
mercredi : quarta-feira, Wednesday
jeudi : quinta-feira, Thursday
vendredi : sexta-feira, Friday
samedi : sábado, Satuday
dimanche : domingo, Sunday
le week-end : fim de semana
mardi matin : terça de manhã, Tuesday morning
samedi soir : sábado de noite, Saturday evening
vendredi après-midi : sexta a tarde, Friday afternoon
le lundi, le mardi, le mercredi, etc : às segundas, às terças, às quartas, etc / on Mondays, on Tuesday, on Wednesdays, etc


Professeur Maxime

Les jours de la semaine

In questo podcast parlo di una cosa che é molto importante per la cultura italiana, la colazione al bar, per quelli che stanno imparando questa lingua può essere molto utile e interessante.

Vivendo tra due lingue

Colazione all'italiana

Is American and British English the Same?

Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cLHFS63yLNOh5ZCfa9zmYMg-5_xZk-zQ/view?usp=drivesdk