FLO TALKS 

PRIVACY IS POWER

Beberapa waktu lalu, ibuku bilang dia sedang mencari jepit rambut untuk membuat sanggul. Hmm.. jepit rambut ini bagusnya kita beli dimana ya? Oya, kita coba cari di toko online yuk! 
Wah yang mana ya yang harus aku beli. Disini ada beraneka macam jenis dan warnanya. Hmm.. oke deh aku coba pilih yang warna netral saja supaya ibuku bisa mudah mencocokan dengan warna pakaian dan tasnya nanti. Oke ini saja! Warna coklat tua dan biru tua. Ya, ibuku pasti sangat senang dengan hadiah kecil ini. 

Wah barangnya sudah datang, yuk kita bungkus kadonya supaya lebih cantik. Ibuku suka warna merah, jadi aku membeli kertas kado warna merah. Mari kita bungkus sama-sama..tada.. Sudah jadi deh! Sekarang kita simpan kado ini di tempat yang aman sampai minggu depan ya. Jangan sampai ibuku melihat hadiah ini. Supaya bisa jadi kejutan untuknya. 

Oke sekarang kita siapkan barang berikutnya. Apakah itu? Tentu saja.. kue ulang tahun! Untuk beli kue ulang tahun ini, sebaiknya kita pergi ke toko fisik. Di dekat rumahku ada toko kue dan roti. Disana ada aneka macam kue ulang tahun dengan harga yang bervariasi. Yuk kita pergi bareng-bareng dan lihat ada apa saja di sana. Wow.. di sini ada kue brownies, kue black forest, kue red velvet, kue keju atau yang biasa sering disebut cheese cake, kue tiramisu, dan masih banyak lagi. Hah Aku jadi bingung mau beli yang mana. Coba aku telepon kakakku dulu ya. 

“Halo, Kak! Ini aku sedang ada di toko kue. Kira-kira mama suka kue rasa apa ya untuk perayaan ulang tahun hari ini?” “Wah… Oke baik kalau gitu. Rasa apapun ya, asalkan tidak terkandung bahan kopi. Sip deh kalau gitu. Kita beli yang kue red velvet saja. Terima kasih. Sampai jumpa nanti. Dadah!” 

Nah, temen-temen! Sekarang kue ulang tahunnya juga sudah siap! Kita beli lilinnya juga sekalian ya. Umur ibuku tahun ini adalah 63. Jadi kita beli angka 6 dan angka 3. Oya, jangan lupa kita keluarkan hadiah yang sudah disiapkan minggu lalu. 

Oke deh, semuanya sudah siap! Terima kasih ya sudah menemaniku!

Bahasa with Ira - Beginner

Podcast 1 - Ulang Tahun Ibuku

紙婚式（かみこんしき）

私は先月（せんげつ）結婚（けっこん）１周年（いっしゅうねん）を迎（むか）えた。去年（きょねん）東京オリンピックが開幕（かいまく）する頃（ころ）あたりに結婚し、あっという間（ま）に１年（いちねん）が経（た）った。母から「あんたたちは“紙婚式”だね」と言われた。「銀（ぎん）婚式」や「金（きん）婚式」は聞いたことがあったが、紙婚式は聞いたことがなかった。これらの記念日（きねんび）は、海外（かいがい）から入ってきた風習（ふうしゅう）らしい。「紙婚式」には紙に関（かん）する物（もの）をパートナーに贈（おく）るそうだ。とても素敵（すてき）だと思うが、私たち夫婦（ふうふ）は物は贈り合（あ）わないことにしている。私たちにとって、2人（ふたり）で旅行（りょこう）に行くことの方（ほう）が何よりの幸（しあわ）せなのだ。

izm's room

紙婚式

The Nordic countries of Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden are regularly top scorers in world happiness rankings. These countries have placed in the top 10 of the World Happiness Report (WHR) every year since 2013 — so what's their secret?

These five countries score well in all six of the things considered in the WHR: GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity and corruption.

But the WHR has noted that there might be another thing these countries have more of than others — trust.

Trust is very important, says WHR editor John F. Helliwell, a former professor at the University of British Columbia. And he developed a study to test how community trust is linked to better well-being.

In Helliwell's study, he looked at how likely people thought it would be for a lost wallet to be returned to them, and he compared this to their life satisfaction score from zero to 10.

He found that those who expected their wallet to be returned had a higher life satisfaction score.

"We find people are much, much happier if they feel they're in an environment where people are going to watch their back," Helliwell told Euro News.

In a 2023 experiment by Reader's Digest, wallets were actually left for people to find in cities around the world. And where was a lost wallet most likely to be returned? In Helsinki, the capital of Finland.

The WHR has noted that a high level of trust may be among the things that explain Nordic happiness.

However, as Forbes has suggested, it may not be so much about big-smile "happiness" as quieter "contentment."

Rather than always trying for something better, people in Scandinavian countries are more often content with what they have. As a result, few of them will say they are unhappy — which helps these countries do well in world happiness rankings.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

What's the Secret to Nordic Countries' Happiness?

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This might be a little too difficult or fast, but Im talking in the real life casual japanese in this episode.
This is the most casual japanese version of my podcasts season 2 episode 1 "Coffee"

Thank you so much for listening😉

Super Casual Japanese with Teppei

Fast Japanese Challenge 1 - S2E1 : "Coffee”

Transcripción:
Mi forma de aprender es kinestésica y tengo un gran superpoder procesar de manera profunda todo lo que perciben mis sentidos. Todo esto hace que tenga necesidades muy particulares y que lo convencional habitualmente no sea atractivo para mi. Estas características me exigen explorar nuevas formas de hacer las cosas y en lo referente a aprender un idioma he descubierto que necesito de mucha interacción humana, involucrarme en actividades de mi interés y que el aprendizaje sea práctico y se sienta ligero. 


1 MINUTO en Español

Mi forma de aprender

Jag och min kompis Matilda ska åka på semester! Till Cypern! Lyssna lite till våra planer, och hur vi planerar.

Easy Swedish with Viktoria

Ep. #11 - Att planera en resa

Podcast by italki American English teacher Carl.
Book a lesson with me: https://teach.italki.com/teacher/1947582 
Welcome back to another episode of Streetwise English. I'm your host, Carl. Today, I want to talk about how to take better photos with your cell phone, with your mobile phone. Now, it doesn't matter if you have an iPhone or an Android phone, like a Samsung or Google Pixel or whatever Android phone you have. These techniques will all apply and they will all help you take better photos.

So let's begin. Number one, make sure that you have enough storage on your phone so that you can take photos. Now, I know that I have this problem all the time. I don't have enough storage space and so then I don't take the photo because I don't want to take up space. So do yourself a favor and back your photos up to the cloud or back up to an external device and make sure you have enough space to take the photo in the first place.

Number two is to carry a portable battery charger. So if your phone doesn't have power, you can't take photos. So carry just a little USB charger with your phone. All right. We're almost ready to actually begin taking photos.  So here we go for the actual taking photos. Clean your lens. So your phone lens will get oils off of your finger.
And that will make the images less clear and more blurry. So clean your lens. It can be with a t- shirt or whatever, but always, always, always clean your lens before you take photos with your phone.


Number two, when you take a picture, choose the hero of your photo. So that doesn't even if it's just taking a picture of your food where you've had what you're having for dinner. Choose whatever is the most important item on the plate. And make that your hero. So if that's your steak or if it's a piece of asparagus, make that the center of attention for the video.
It doesn't have to be in the dead center, but it should be the main subject. And that's also with a person. Sorry text count limit















Streetwise English

SWE11 Take better pictures with your phone

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