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南京的梧桐树真正的名字叫“悬铃木”。So its real name is " plane ".
悬铃木的果实有一个球的、叫“一球悬铃木”，三个球的叫“三球悬铃木”。The fruit of sycamore with one ball is called "Sycamore with one ball", and the fruit with three balls is called "Sycamore with three balls".
这二者的杂交，产生了“二球悬铃木，简称”悬铃木“。The hybrid of these two, produced "two ball sycamore, short for" Sycamore."
那为什么叫“法国梧桐“呢？因为它的确与法国有些渊源。Why is it called " plane "? Because it does have something to do with France.
1872年，一位法国传教士在南京的石鼓路栽下了第一棵梧桐树。In 1872, a French missionary planted the first plane tree on Shigu Road in Nanjing.


新鲜事儿（Anecdote）

南京的梧桐树

Listening to some new words on your way home or on your way to work

English My Way

New Words

A girl named Sunlight buys things she doesn't need, just in case. She wants to be prepared for anything. 

Written by me in 2020.

Vocabulary: 
hoarder: someone who keeps and collects a lot of items
ailment: a sickness
doomsday: the end of the world (has a negative view)
April Fool's Day: a holiday on April 1st when people play jokes on other people

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The Master Hoarder

Some things that seem unbelieveable about bananas.

The Social Evolutionary

Crazy facts about bananas!

Bonjour à toi, cher étudiant ! Aujourd'hui, je t'emmène dans une aventure culinaire inoubliable. Installe-toi confortablement et prépare-toi à découvrir l'histoire du "Festin Inattendu."

Il était une fois, deux amis passionnés de cuisine, Antoine et Sophie, étudiants de niveau DELF B1. Un jour, ils décidèrent de partir à l'aventure à la recherche de la meilleure bouffe de leur ville natale, Paris. Armés de leur curiosité et de leur appétit insatiable, ils sillonnèrent les rues pavées à la recherche de saveurs extraordinaires.

Après des heures de déambulation, Antoine et Sophie découvrirent un petit bistro caché au coin d'une rue. Là, le chef, un homme jovial nommé Pierre, préparait une cuisine française authentique. Ils décidèrent de s'asseoir et de goûter les plats qui sortaient de la cuisine.

Les premières bouchées furent une révélation pour nos deux amis. Une soupe à l'oignon gratinée qui fondait en bouche, suivie d'un coq au vin tendre à souhait. Les saveurs se mélangeaient dans une symphonie gustative. Antoine et Sophie étaient aux anges.

Après ce festin inoubliable, Antoine et Sophie se tournèrent l'un vers l'autre et réalisèrent qu'ils avaient trouvé bien plus qu'un repas délicieux. Ils avaient découvert une passion commune pour la bonne cuisine et décidèrent de suivre des cours de cuisine ensemble pour approfondir leurs connaissances.

Et voilà, cher étudiant, l'histoire du "Festin Inattendu" se termine. Antoine et Sophie sont devenus des chefs accomplis, et leur aventure gastronomique les a rapprochés plus que jamais. 

Alors, n'oublie jamais que la bonne bouffe peut non seulement ravir tes papilles, mais aussi changer le cours de ta vie !

(La version parlée est au PRÉSENT pour simplifier) 

French Koala

La BONNE BOUFFE : Le Festin Inattendu (The GOOD FOOD: The Unexpected Feast)

Detta avsnitt handlar om mina upplevelser och känslor om att ha kommit tillbaka till Sverige under jul och nyår och känslorna kring att komma tillbaka Australien. Det var vackert och bättre än väntat att uppleva det vackra landet som jag växte upp i. Svenskarna var också förvånansvärt varma och tillmötesgående vilket jag saknar nu. 

Tankar på svenska

Tankar på svenska: mina erfarenheter av att ha återvänt till Sverige

Let's practice Japanese pronunciation with 日本語初歩. You can get it with the following link. Today's lesson is Chapter 3, P24/428.

はつおんの練習🗣Pronunciation Practice!!

Let's practice Japanese pronunciation with 日本語初歩 Chapter 3 (ここにでんわがあります)

Crowds of people queued up at Australia's Royal Sydney Botanic Garden on January 23, with some people waiting as long as three hours.

And for what?

A very smelly flower.

The titan arum, known as the "corpse flower," is a tall, pointed plant that releases an unpleasant smell when it blooms. The smell has been likened to things like decaying flesh, gym socks or rotting garbage.

The endangered plant is only found in the Sumatran rainforests in Indonesia, where there are thought to be fewer than 300 of them. It only blooms every 7 to 10 years in its natural habitat.

"The fact that they open very rarely, so they flower rarely, is obviously something that puts them at a little bit of a disadvantage in the wild," said Sophie Daniel from the Royal Sydney Botanic Garden. "When they open, they have to hope that another flower is open nearby, because they can't self-pollinate."

The flower at the botanic garden is the first to bloom there in 15 years, and she's been named Putricia — a combination of "putrid" and "Patricia" — by her fans.

Putricia's online fandom grew quickly and globally. A 24/7 live stream established by the botanic garden drew close to a million views in under a week, and people on social media planned to hurry to the garden as the plant opened. In just 24 hours, Putricia's bloom — and her stench — would be gone.

As she opened, the plant heated to 37 degrees Celsius to better spread her scent. In the wild, the smell tricks pollinators into landing on what they think is rotten meat and spreading pollen between flowers.

Up to 20,000 people filed past for a moment in her pungent presence, leaning in for a sniff or taking selfies.

It was difficult to say why the flower attracted such a following — but perhaps the answer lay in the "reverence" viewers felt in the presence of "such an amazing living being," Daniel said.


