Today we're talking about why you perhaps shouldn't use "difficult" at work, and why you might want to use "challenging" instead. I hope you find it useful!

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DAILY Business English VOCABULARY builder

This is a very difficult podcast

* Más pistas de qué comí en el capítulo anterior ¿haz adivinado
* No tengas miedo de hablar en tu segundo idioma
* ¿Sabes lo que es una "palabra dominguera" o "palabra rebuscada"?
* Te comparto una anécdota de pánico escénico

Chat & eat 🌮 Charlar y comer ⚡ Monday & Wednesday 

CAPITULO 3 : ¿Sigues teniendo miedo a hablar en tu segundo idioma? 

What if ancient wisdom could make your language learning calmer, stronger, and more sustainable?

In Episode 95 of 111 Tips for Learning a Language, we explore how Stoic philosophy can guide you through grammar, speaking, writing, listening, and more. With Stoicism, you stop fearing mistakes, accept challenges as training, and focus only on what is in your control—the effort itself.

Which Stoic principle do you need most in your language learning?

Discipline with grammar rules?

Courage to speak despite mistakes?

Acceptance when listening feels difficult?

Clarity of thought through writing?

Episode 95 shows how Stoicism can enrich both language learning and life. Grammar becomes training in discipline, pronunciation becomes freedom from others’ judgments, reading becomes practice in accepting difficulty, speaking becomes an act of courage, writing becomes a path to clarity, and listening becomes an exercise in equanimity. Stoic philosophy reminds us that obstacles are not barriers but the very path itself. By learning with calm determination and focusing on what you can control, you gain not only fluency but also resilience, patience, and wisdom.

💃🏻111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 95 - How Stoicism can help you learn a language

🎧Este es un ejercicio de comprensión auditiva de nivel nativo. 
Escucha el audio de 42 segundos y después intenta responder las siguientes preguntas:

¿Quién estaba estudiando? ¿Fulanita o sutanita?
¿Qué tipo de película vieron fulanita y sutanita?
¿A dónde fueron después del cine?
¿Quién se estaba cuajando de frío?
¿A quién te pareces? ¿A fulanita o a sutanita?

Mucho que decir

🎧Fulanita y Sutanita

In this episode Martín and I talk about the minimum wage in Mexico and about some curious facts about our country regarding this topic. 
We would love to know what is the minimum wage in your country :)


DE TODO UN POCO 

Minimun wage in México

Uyghurche Learning FM/ئۇيغۇرچە تىل ئۆگىنىش

Cardinal Numbers (1-10) 

Aprenda a falar sobre os seus passatempos de forma divertida

Portuguese Audios for Beginners A2 -Áudios em Português para Principiantes A2

O Passatempo

A fun trip to Mongolia in the summer of 2020.

layover - a short stay in a place that you make while you are on a longer journey to somewhere else
reasonable - if you say that the price of something is reasonable, you mean that it is fair and not too high
to go with something -  to choose or accept something
packed - filled to capacity; full
to see smth with your own eyes - see something yourself, especially when it is something that you would not believe to exist or be true if you did not see it
to make a buck - to earn money
a nomad -  is a member of a group of people who move from one place to another rather than living in one place all of the time
portable - something that is portable is light and small enough to be easily carried or moved, like a portable speaker 
exhausted - extremely tired
to scam - to trick someone into giving you money, usually in an illegal way

Enjoy :)

All-Weather English

My trip to Mongolia

Explanation of the idiom: “To pull someone’s leg”  

You can write down an example with this idiom to remember it better👇🏻🫶🏻
