Confidence in English isn’t about speaking perfectly — it’s about staying in the conversation, even when mistakes happen. In this episode, discover simple shifts and anchor phrases to help you sound natural and confident without feeling like you’re on stage.

Context Clues

Confidence Is a Conversation, Not a Performance

En este episodio te explico de forma sencilla cómo se organiza el gobierno en México, qué papel tienen los partidos políticos y qué ideas representa el gobierno actual.

México Contemporáneo 

¿Cómo funciona el gobierno de México? 

今日のエピソードでは私（わたし）が最近（さいきん）かった物（もの）についてお話（はな）ししています😊✨

Hyakuchji Japanese podcast 🇯🇵

EP#5 最近買ったもの　

Hi, and welcome back to Captain Seasalt and the ABC Pirates with Teacher Alyse!
Today, we’re going on an adventure to learn words that start with the letter T. Are you ready? Listen carefully, repeat after me, and then try reading them on your own.

Tortoise, turkey, tiger, toucan, tangerine, Tasmanian devil, termites, treasure chest, tea, trumpet

Great job! Keep practicing, and if you’d like free flashcards to follow along, send me a message. You can also watch this Super Simple Songs Captain Seasalt video on YouTube to learn even more!
See you next time—bye for now!

Captain Sesalt & The ABC Pirates

Letter T

Intermediate Chinese Listening：你有微信吗？Do you have WeChat account?

Intermediate Chinese Listening

こんにちは！今日(きょう)はMBTI診断(しんだん) について話(はな)します。

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Slow Japanese

Episode #77 - 16 Personality Types

For the past few years, companies around the world have been testing out a four-day work week. In many cases, this means allowing employees to spread their work hours over four days instead of five.

Many of these tests have been successful, and people in the UK may soon get more rights to ask for a four-day work week.

Since April, employees in the UK have had the right to ask for more flexible working conditions, but companies do not have to agree to it.

But under the government's plans to increase flexibility for workers, companies may have to offer flexible working hours from the day the employee starts working — although it's not yet clear what this means.

"One possibility is for the government to make it more difficult for employers to refuse such requests, because at present it is quite easy for them to do so," Charlie Thompson, an employment lawyer who works for law company Stewarts, told Sky News.

Education Minister Jacqui Smith said more flexibility could be better for productivity.

"You're still doing the same amount of work, but perhaps you're doing it in a way that enables you, for example, to need less child care, to spend more time with your family, to do other things, that encourages more people into the workplace," she told LBC Radio.

But not everyone is happy with the idea of a four-day work week, and some tests weren't as successful as others.

UK supermarket Asda tested a four-day week, but changed back to the five-day week after staff said the longer work days were too demanding.

Another supermarket, Morrisons, also tried a four-day work week at its head office, but to make it work, staff sometimes had to work on Saturdays, which they weren't happy about.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

UK Workers May Get More Rights to Four-Day Week

En el episodio de hoy comparto contigo algunos adjetivos que son muy usados en el español del día a día. La mayoría de estudiantes los desconoce, porque son bastante coloquiales y no aparecen en los libros de texto, pero si visitas España o ves series españolas, estoy segura de que vas a escucharlos más de una vez.

Blanca to go 

11 - adjetivos coloquiales 

Odyssea and her crew land on the cyclops' island and search for a missing person.

Transcript: https://saracasalino-books.weebly.com/blog/the-adventures-of-odyssea-ch-6-cycla