In this episode I'm going to teach you how to ask "what is your name" and how to answer. 

Serbian language journey

What is your name - in Serbian

最近、ドイツのスーパーでは小麦粉や油、パスタが売り切れになっています。油については揚げ物に使うひまわり油は売り切れていますが、オリーブオイルはあります。小麦粉や油を置いている棚には「1人２個まで」と書いた紙が貼ってあります。
この状況がなぜ起こっているのか、私には詳しい理由がわかりません。戦争のせいでウクライナやロシアから商品が来ていないからかもしれないし、緊急の場合に備えて買いだめをしている人が多いからかもしれません。
２年前にパンデミックが始まった時にも小麦粉とトイレットペーパーが売り切れになりました。
幸い、私の家には去年イタリアでもらったオリーブオイルとパスタがたくさんあるので困っていません。
みなさんの国ではどうですか？

小麦粉：こむぎこ　flour
油：あぶら　oil
ひまわり：sunflower
売り切れ：うりきれ　sold out
棚：たな　shelf
棚に紙が貼（は）ってあります：a paper is stuck on the shelf, there is a paper on the shelf
状況：じょうきょう　situation
詳しい：くわしい　detailed
理由：りゆう reason
戦争：せんそう　war
商品：しょうひん　product
緊急：きんきゅう　emergency
備（そな）えて：prepare
緊急の場合に備（そな）えて：in case of emergency
買（か）いだめする： hoard , stock up on
幸（さいわ）い：fortunately

Nihongo Short Story by Noriko

ドイツでは小麦粉と油が売り切れになっています（Flour and oil are sold out in Germany)

躺平 literally means “to lie flat.” But in modern Chinese, it’s more than just lying down—it’s about choosing to take a break from stressful competition. People use 躺平 to describe a relaxed or even lazy attitude toward life, especially when they feel overwhelmed by pressure.

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2. 躺平

There is an old theory that eating cheese before bed causes bad dreams, although scientists don't have much evidence to prove it.

But if cheese can't make us dream, new research from the US says that perhaps an app could — and they don't have to be bad dreams!

Researchers experimented with an app that they designed to encourage people to have lucid dreams. These are dreams that feel vivid and real.

During lucid dreams, people know that they're dreaming and may even be able to control what happens in the dream.

Not everyone has lucid dreams. It's thought that about half of us will have them during our lives, but some people may have them regularly.

Lucid dreams may be useful for us: experts think they could encourage creativity and problem-solving, or help us with nightmares.

The app in the study used a method called "targeted lucidity reactivation" that is supposed to make people more likely to experience lucid dreams.

This is usually done in a laboratory, but the researchers wanted to see how effective an app used at home could be.

They did two experiments to see if the app could increase the frequency of participants' lucid dreams.

The first experiment included 19 participants. Before going to sleep, they did a 20-minute activity that encouraged them to enter a "lucid mindset" when they heard certain sounds.

These same sounds were then played during the night. The frequency of the participants' lucid dreams more than doubled during the week of the experiment.

Fifty people completed the second experiment. They were put into three groups, with one group using the targeted lucidity reactivation method.

The people in this group reported that they had experienced more lucid dreams during the week of the experiment than those in the two control groups.

The researchers said these results suggest that apps like this could help people to use sleep for "personal benefits" including "spiritual and personal growth."

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App Could Help People to Have Lucid Dreams

莎莎的肚子很神奇，总是会咕噜咕噜叫……
Salsa's stomach is amazing and always growling...  

CHINESE STORIES

莎莎的肚子咕噜咕噜叫

Ovatko suomalaiset rehellisiä? Suomalaiset ovat suorapuheisia ja rehellisiä ihmisiä, ainakin niin sanotaan. Tässä podcastin jaksossa pohdin onko se totta ja olenko itse rehellinen. 

Easy suomi Anna-Marian kanssa

Easy suomi: 7.jakso Rehellisyys

In this episode, we explore one of the most common December questions in Italy:
Is it better to choose a real Christmas tree or a synthetic one?
This podcast explains the Italian tradition, environmental reasons, cultural habits, and vocabulary in clear, slow Italian suitable for A2–B1 learners.
You will learn:
🌲 The difference between real and synthetic trees
🌍 Ecological impact
🎄 Italian traditions on December 8th (Immacolata) and January 6th (Epiphany)
✨ Useful Italian vocabulary related to Christmas
If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe, leave a like, and comment what Italian tradition you want to learn next!

Daya's language corner (ITALIAN)

L’abete di Natale in Italia – Real vs Synthetic A2

In this episode, I’ll help you tell the difference between “知道”、“了解” 、“理解”and “认识”~

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“知道”VS“了解”VS“理解”：They All Mean "Know"?

【北海道Hokkaido生活】
4月18日月曜日　天気/くもり　気温/10℃ 

札幌市/さっぽろし
・サッポロ割/さっぽろわり…コロナのせいで、ホテルが困ってるので、札幌市が支援
・札幌市のホテルに5000円以上で泊まると3000円割引、2000円分のクーポンがもらえる。
・年4回
・1回目、今日昼12時から予約始まる。
・ほかにも「どうみん割」がある。


［単語］
支援/しえん…助ける
割引/わりびき…安くなる
クーポン/くーぽん…切符のようなもの。これを使うと、安くなったり、良いことがある。
