A：你好，想要什么？
B：我要两杯拿铁，大杯，冰的。
A：好的，一起五十六块。
B：可以用手机支付吗？
A：可以，微信还是支付宝？
B：微信。
A：那扫这个二维码。
B：付好了，你看一下。
A：收到了，谢谢！


日常中文口语｜Daily Spoken Chinese

Order Coffee in Chinese 2

"茶好客常来“means "if the tea is good ,guests will often come".uesd metaphorically to indicate that good stuff will surely be liked by customers.

Ruby's HSK

HSK3  words （三）

Did you know butterflies can smell each other from miles away?

Did you know?

Butterfly

Whether you live to work or you work to live, having a healthy work-life balance is good for both you and your employer.

Here are just a few ways to keep your balance healthy!

Plan
It can help to plan your time, making sure to include social activities in those plans, says Allaya Cooks-Campbell from job coaching website BetterUp.

Even scheduling a night in front of the TV is enough — it will give you a bit of time to switch off.

If you're able to, you could also plan to take short breaks during the day, and perhaps even use them to take a walk or read a few pages of a book.

Use apps to help
Cooks-Campbell also suggests using an app to block distracting websites during the work day — which might include things like social media.

You can then do the same in the evening and block work apps, if you find it difficult to stop checking them.

Be kind to yourself
It's important to be realistic about your work-life balance, and not to get too stressed if you don't follow your plan. That's according to Kate Eby from work management company Smartsheet.

Being kind to yourself, she says, can help you improve your mental health.

Talk to your boss
If you're finding it difficult to get your work-life balance right, speaking to your manager may be a good idea — although not everyone will feel comfortable doing this.

It may be that you have been given too much work to do, or there is a better way to do it — and talking to your boss could help you work smarter, not harder.

However, Cooks-Campbell says different things work for different people — so you have to find what's right for you!

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Plan, Be Kind: Tips for a Healthy Work-Life Balance

Learn about the force that keeps us all tied to Earth. This presentation is for students studying for the Test of English as a Foreign Language.

Download a free worksheet with TOEFL style questions and tips here: https://lovelangwri.com/2022/06/14/newtons-universal-law-of-gravitation-toefl-study/

For the Love of Language and Writing

Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation | TOEFL Study

¡En este episodio te reto a practicar trabalenguas en español conmigo!

Este es el ultimo episodio de Spanish Shortcut, nos vemos en la proxima temporada con más contenido y nuevos temas interesantes!!!!

Spanish Shortcut

EP 30. TRABALENGUAS PARA MEJORAR ESPAÑOL

As a pessimist, you might view language learning as hard work—and you’re not wrong.
Language acquisition requires effort, repetition, and managing confusion.

Here’s the beautiful part: Pessimists tend to manage disappointment better than idealists.
When you anticipate difficulty, you're less likely to be devastated by it.

In psychological terms, this creates cognitive resilience—the ability to stay in the game even when things go wrong. You expect challenges. You face them head-on. You recover faster because you weren’t expecting ease.

You might never say, “I’m going to be fluent in a year.” That’s okay.
But you might say, “I’m going to keep learning, even if progress is slow.”
And that is the spirit of persistence.
Don’t try to change who you are. Just learn to steer with it.
Pessimism doesn’t mean you’re giving up—it means you’re prepared to endure.
And that, my dear listener, is what long-term success looks like.


💃🏻111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 65 - How Pessimism Builds Resilience in Language Learning

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F9H7gjFoar1GZUzSwpooUnky3KR2lmJb/view?usp=drivesdkmac

Teacher Joseph's Podcast

Harrod's Bags (with transcript)

This a commentary I made of the wedding back  in 2018. I have edited it and uploaded for you to enjoy.