When we learn anything new, including a foreign language, it's necessary to memorize some basic information.  This provides a foundation for everything else.  So how can you memorize what you need without wasting a lot of time or feeling bored?  

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Difficult English Explained

What's the most efficient way to memorize material? (Part 1)

A great story about Angulo brothers  who were imprisoned by their father in a tiny apartment in New York. 

Enjoy our journey and Speaking English

The Angulo Brothers

En el podcast #1  les cuento quién soy y cuáles son los temas que vamos a desarrollar en este canal.  Hablaremos música, viajes, dichos, refranes, choque cultural, tradiciones y fiestas, turismo, equivalencias y contrastaremos un poco la grámática española  con la inglesa y la francesa,  entre otros. 

HABLAR ESPAÑOL

¿QUIEN SOY?

Speaker 1: For me, having a dumbphone would be …dumb. I really like surfing the web on my phone to find out about things. If I hear the name of an actor I don’t know about, I can look them up, or if I‘m in a new place and I want to find a restaurant to go to, I can find somewhere easily. Plus, I love Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. I follow loads of celebrities and I love to watch concerts and live-tweet what is happening. Without my smartphone, my friends wouldn’t know what I was doing. It would feel very strange.

Speaker 2: I’m seriously thinking about getting a dumbphone. I hate how the battery on my smartphone is in control of my life. I always have to find somewhere to charge the phone when I’m out and I’m always worried about it. I also don’t like the way search engines record your history and use it to sell you things. I feel as though my attention is always taken away from everything I do with my smartphone because I use it so much. I was with a friend the other day and after a while, we were sitting there not talking, just looking at our phones. It was like our phones just killed the conversation. We didn’t even realize it was happening.

Speaker 3: I like the idea of a dumbphone. I’m just not sure if I would like it in practice. I travel a lot with my work, so it really helps being able to access my inbox when I’m out. If I didn’t, I would spend all my time in the office answering emails. I also have a favorite podcaster who I listen to all the time when I’m traveling. I can download his latest episode and pass the time when I’m on a flight or a train. I do enjoy being offline as I feel as though I am always using my phone to communicate, with email, Skype, phone calls, and text. But I think if I didn’t have access to the Internet most of the time, I would worry.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

DUMBPHONES

What did the free women of Algeria do to escape the attempts of rape by the French occupation?

Listening for intermediate

نِسَاءُ الجَزَائِرِ - Free Algerian women

Learning languages and how your personality maybe effected.

Lingua Juice Podcast

How are you when you speak another language?

mǎ hu xiān shēnɡ 
马虎先生
zhānɡ xiān shēnɡ shì yí ɡè hěn bù xì xīn、hěn mǎ hu de rén。 
张先生是一个很不细心、很马虎的人。
tā chánɡ chánɡ xiě cuò zì，
他常常写错字，
tā yě chánɡ chánɡ rèn cuò rén， 
他也常常认错人，
suǒ yǐ dà jiā dōu jiào tā“mǎ hu xiān shēnɡ。” 
所以大家都叫他“马虎先生。”
yǒu yì tiān，zhānɡ xiān shēnɡ zài lù shànɡ kàn jiàn yí ɡè pénɡ you， 
有一天，张先生在路上看见一个朋友，
tā shuō：“hāi，wánɡ lǎo shī，nǐ hǎo mɑ？” 
他说：“嗨，王老师，你好吗？”
nà ɡè rén hái méi huí dá，zhānɡ xiān shēnɡ yòu shuō： 
那个人还没回答，张先生又说：
“ɑ！wánɡ lǎo shī，nǐ biàn le！ 
“啊！王老师，你变了！
nǐ méi yǒu yǐ qián pànɡ， 
你没有以前胖，
ér qiě yě méi yǒu yǐ qián ɡāo le， 
而且也没有以前高了，
nǐ bǐ yǐ qián hēi duō le。 
你比以前黑多了。
nǐ de shēn tǐ hái hǎo bɑ？” 
你的身体还好吧？”
nà ɡè rén shuō：“duì bù qǐ， wǒ bù xìnɡ wánɡ！” 
那个人说：“对不起，我不姓王！”
zhānɡ xiān shēnɡ tīnɡ le，hū rán dà shēnɡ shuō： 
张先生听了，忽然大声说：
“nǐ zhēn de biàn lɑ！ 
“你真的变啦！
nǐ kàn，nǐ lián xìnɡ shén me dōu biàn le！” 
你看，你连姓什么都变了！”
nà ɡè rén tīnɡ le，rěn bú zhù dà xiào qǐ lái。
那个人听了，忍不住大笑起来。

CHINESE STORY中文故事

马虎先生

EL CAÑÓN DEL PERGIS CHIHUAHUA, MÉXICO.

Cañón del Pegüis Chihuahua, es uno de los cañones emblemáticos de la zona desértica del estado, una espectacular barranca y una zona desconocida para muchos escaladores. Cuenta con paredes de caliza de hasta 200 mts de altura, algunas de ellas teniendo base en el río Conchos, otras con repisas para su ascenso. El lugar aparte de contar con paredes enormes para ruta, cuenta también con una gran extensión de boulders a lo largo de todo el cañón. Se tiene que tomar una canoa, para poder escalar en ellos. También se permite practicar rafting de un mediano a un alto nivel de dificultad. En el lugar existe un mirador sobre la carretera, donde podrás observar una gran sección de los paredones que conforman el cañón, los cuales llegan a medir hasta 300 metros de alto.

 La mejor temporada para el Cañón del Pegüis es entre Abril hasta Octubre.
- No se recomienda ir en verano por el calor intenso y los mosquitos.



Spanish México

EL CAÑÓN DEL PERGIS CHIHUAHUA, MÉXICO.

Idiom "It Threw Me" (with transcript)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PcBGc2Y0DnkPfcIEQ2SXRZBD2ilr7BxN/view?usp=drive_link