Listen to me reading a news article from 2019 about tourism from my Conversational English course.

A Thai beach made famous in a movie called 'The Beach' is to remain closed following a sharp rise in visitor numbers which severely damaged the environment.

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News article: Thai beach closed temporarily due to tourism

Dietro questa parola si nascondono moltissimi significati. In questo podcast vediamo i tre più diffusi.

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一昨年、コーチングを受けた話です。コーチングを受けた私にどんな変化があったのか？お話ししています。

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#3 コーチングを受けた話

“Cuidando Nuestro Planeta: Reciclaje y Upcycling”

En este episodio, exploraremos la importancia del cuidado del medioambiente, centrándonos en dos prácticas fundamentales: el reciclaje y el upcycling. Desde cómo podemos contribuir como individuos hasta las iniciativas globales, ¡prepárense para aprender cómo podemos marcar la diferencia juntos!

Cita con el Español

Cita con el Español - Ep. 3

Two corvesations: 

1- Planes de fin de semana

2- La feria estatal

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Learn Spanish Conversation

Learn Spanish Conversation parte 24

This week I will be focussing on New Year’s traditions.
By the time you listen to this podcast, the new year will be behind you. How did you celebrate the solar new year? Join me in this brief foray into the new year’s traditions we celebrate in our home.

Philosophical Friday

New Year’s episode of Philosophical Friday

Ollie Gamblin, 33, from the UK, and Lavinya Scholl, 35, from Germany, met in 2017 while cherry picking in Tasmania. Their mutual love for adventure took the pair all around Australia together — and seven years later, it took them all around the world, even earning them a Guinness World Record.

The pair recently became the youngest duo to circumnavigate the world on a motorcycle while riding pillion — which means one person driving and the other riding on the back. They visited 39 countries across five continents, riding 75,000 kilometers in 589 days.

"We wanted to see the world!" Ollie told us when we asked what their inspiration for the trip was. The idea of trying for a Guinness World Record came from the couple's friend, who had attempted a similar challenge.

"It made a good structure to the trip, a mission that we could aim for," Ollie added.

Beginning in London, the pair headed into France and Spain before crossing over into Morocco. They then rode south to Senegal before shipping their bike to Brazil.

The journey wasn't without its challenges — one being the pair's lack of motorcycle experience.

"We always go by the phrase 'learn by doing,'" Ollie told us. Reflecting on an oil slick that nearly sent them off a mountain road in Peru, he added: "Sometimes we truly believe that we must have had angels watching over us."

One of the biggest highlights for the pair was the generosity shown by the strangers they met, including an occasion in Nicaragua where a local man repaired their bike for free.

After riding around the bottom of South America and all the way up to Canada — stopping in Las Vegas to get married — they flew the bike to South Korea.

They then traveled west through Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, then through nine more countries in Europe to get back to the UK.




Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Duo Youngest to Circumnavigate Globe on a Motorcycle

In questa puntata vedremo la storia dell'aperitivo, tradizione italiana che col tempo si è diffusa anche all'estero. 
Di seguito una parte del testo trascritto.


Breve storia dell’aperitivo
Ogni giorno non soltanto in Italia ma in tutto il mondo, molte persone prima di cena, hanno l’abitudine di bere l’aperitivo al bar. L’aperitivo è amato molto dagli stranieri che visitano l’Italia perché è un momento rilassante e divertente da passare con gli amici, casomai seduti fuori a un tavolino del bar in una piazza. L’aperitivo in teoria ha un’origine lontana e risale all’antica Roma. Infatti la parola “aperitivo” viene dal latino “aperitivus” che vuol dire “aprire”, con riferimento allo ‘stomaco’. L’aperitivo quindi servirebbe per “far venire fame”. Tuttavia l’aperitivo ‘moderno’ nasce invece nel 1786, quando Antonio Benedetto Carpano inizia la sua produzione di vermouth, un vino aromatizzato con erbe che ottiene subito un grande successo. Siccome la bottega (shop) di Carpano si trovava proprio vicino al Palazzo Reale, allora Carpano ha l’idea brillante di inviare delle bottiglie di vermouth al re. ......

Italiano espresso

Breve storia dell'aperitivo 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12oSzHqDgN64xZJbo0asAR8apWTNH5D_r/view?usp=drivesdk