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Chillchat (Learn Chinese and Chill)

Retirement, Investment, Company Benefits in Chinese!

This episode is about Dari language and a very very short information about it.

Kalim Karimi

Short information about Dari Language

Today, in the “Serbian to go” podcast, you will hear 24 useful phrases that you can use while doing sightseeing.  Let’s start. 
Срећно учење! / Srećno učenje!


SERBIAN TO GO

Корисне фразе Тема: Разгледање - Korisne fraze Tema: Razgledanje – Useful phrases Topic: Sightseeing (B1 and above)

The next creepy installment of this fantastic Roald Dahl story. Enjoy!

Stories to Stimulate!

The landlady part 3

Ciao a tutti e benvenuti all'episodio di oggi 🎉 Oggi vediamo insieme un’espressione molto curiosa e utile da conoscere: arricciare il naso. Avete mai pensato a quanto questo gesto sia ricco di significati, sia letterali che figurati? Allora preparatevi a scoprire come questa piccola espressione possa svelare emozioni, opinioni e persino qualche “non detto”. Pronti? Allora, cominciamo!

Italiano espresso

Espressioni idiomatiche in italiano: arricciare il naso 

listen to the sounds and find out the differntces

ADEL ALBANNA: A PROFISSIONAL ARABIC TEACHER

similar sonds in the Arabic Alphapets

In this episode we will talk about 【Chinese wine culture】, you will learn how to say 【brew beer,propose a toast】 ect.
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It is recommended that you study in the following ways:
1st time: listen without looking at the text.
2nd time: look at the text and write down the new words, later look up the dictionary. 
3rd time: listen again without looking at the text.
4th time: repeat after it without looking at the text.
大家好，我是Yuli。欢迎收听我的播客。
今天想和大家聊一聊【中国的酒文化】。
中国的酒文化博大精深。一壶美酒从千百年前传承到现在，酒已经成了生活中必不可少的饮品。酒的酿造,在我国有着相当悠久的历史。三四千年前，勤劳的祖先就发明了酿酒技术。
在古代，主人和宾客一起饮酒时，要相互跪拜。晚辈在长辈面前饮酒，通常要先行跪拜礼，然后坐入次席。长辈让晚辈饮酒，晚辈才可举杯；长辈酒杯中的酒尚未饮完，晚辈也不能先饮尽。
到了现代则没有那么复杂，一般是由主人说一些祝酒词；由晚辈倒酒以示尊敬；敬酒时要按顺序来，不能这一个那一个。
细数整个历史，中国的文学艺术家和酒有着很大的缘分。李白是唐代伟大的浪漫主义诗人。他每逢作诗作词必定要酒相伴,不喝就写不出来，越喝写诗词越顺畅，诗词越美。
与酒有关的诗句也有很多。例如“酒逢知己千杯少”，意思是指酒桌上遇到知己，喝一千杯酒都还嫌少。形容性情相投的人聚在一起总不厌倦。还有“何以解忧，唯有杜康”，意思是：有什么可以排解我的忧愁，那就只有美酒了。（相传酒是杜康发明的，所以常常会用杜康这个人名来指代美酒）。还有一句“醉翁之意不在酒”，比喻一个人做一件事的本意不在此，而在别的方面。
你们国家的酒文化是什么样的？留言告诉我吧。我们下期见。
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博大精深 	bó dà jīng shēn	broad and profound
传承	chuán chéng	inherit
酿造	niàng zào	brew (beer, etc.)
悠久	yōu jiǔ	long (history)
行跪拜礼	xíng guì bài lǐ	Curtsey of kneeling down
次席	cì xí	second seat
祝酒词	zhù jiǔ cí	toast
敬酒	jìng jiǔ	propose a toast
细数	xì shǔ	to run through
浪漫主义	làng màn zhǔ yì	romanticism
每逢	měi féng	whenever
顺畅	shùn chàng	smooth
性情相投	xìng qíng xiāng tóu	congenial
厌倦	yàn juàn	tired of
排解忧愁	pái jiě yōu chóu	eliminate sorrow

Yuli's Chinese Channel

中国酒文化 Chinese wine culture （Intermediate and advanced level）

TikTok has announced it will block young users on the social networking platform from using certain beauty filters on photographs.

The filters allow users to edit photos and do things like make people's skin look clearer, their eyes a little bigger or their lips a little fuller.

Some filters also allow users to change their skin color, and it can be hard to see when a photograph has been edited in this way.

People under the age of 18 will be blocked from using these filters, some of which are created by users and others that are made by the app.

TikTok announced the changes after a report by Internet Matters, a children's online safety organization. The organization found that these beauty filters could be damaging to children's mental health because they put young people under pressure to look a certain way.

This can damage children's self-esteem and cause anxiety, experts say.

Christine Grahn from TikTok said on LinkedIn: "If our users don't feel safe, they won't bring their true selves to TikTok and the platform just wouldn't be the same."

One TikTok user told The Guardian in 2022 that she had considered getting cosmetic surgery after a period of using beauty filters on the app.

Fun filters that allow children to add dog noses or rabbit ears to images will still be available to use.

One problem with the ban is that not all users enter their real ages when signing up to TikTok. The company said it would soon be trying out new machine learning systems that could help find out when users had entered the incorrect age.

TikTok is under pressure to stop under 13s from using the platform by giving false dates of birth.

Children's safety charities want all social media sites to do more to make the platforms safe spaces for young people.