Harriet Rich moved to Valladolid, Mexico from the US, when she retired, about 15 years ago. I stayed at the Airbnb she has there, in 2023. It feels like a blessing to say we’ve been friends ever since. 

These days, we’re playing around with podcasting. Here we are, talking about writing and publishing and more!

Hear and There

10. An interview with Harriet Rich, a self-published fiction writer 

Hello and welcome to another episode of Engine English. Today's episode is part two of my 21 essential business English idioms. People still seem to have doubts about the differences there are between general and business English.  Although there’s substantial overlapping, there are some clear differences. I will give you 11 useful idioms that you can use in the office with examples that will help you understand how you can use them.

If you would like to download my 21 Business English idioms as a PDF, please complete my email contact form below to access it:

https://mailchi.mp/6e1e2f376673/businessidioms

Engine English

Episode 5: 21 Essential Business Idioms Part 2

A story about two twins and their long drive on the way to the zoo

Storytime with Teacher Lauren

Are We There Yet?

speaker: 
        刘亦菲Liú Yìfēi 华裔美籍的女演员, 2020年从迪士尼《花木兰》真人版电影试镜中脱颖而出，成为花木兰一角的饰演者. 
 Chinese-American actress.In 2020, Yifei became known to international audiences for starring as the titular character in the Disney live-action film Mulan.
script:
   你不是你的情绪，你不是你的认知，你不是你的过去，你也不是你的将来。那...你是什么？其实就是一个非常好的一个课题。我相信对任何一个人也是，每一个人都会有开心的时候，有难过的时候，其实他的这样的一个方式，其实让你在很轻松的一种状态里面能够跳出来，可能你会找回一些更多属于自己的力量。有时候犯个小小的错误也挺好挺可爱的，这就是人生吧。
力量   lì liang ；power ,strength
犯错   fàn cuò ；make a mistake
translation:
You are not your emotions, you are not your cognition, you are not your past, and you are not your future. So... what are you? It's a very good subject actually. . . I believe that it suits anyone. Everyone has happy times and sad times. In fact, this allows you to jump out of a very relaxed state of mind. Maybe you will gain more strength within yourself. Sometimes it's nice and cute to make some small mistakes. This is life,isn’t it?


One Minute Chinese—— Celebrity speeches & interviews with Chinese & English script

03.刘亦菲：活出自己 Liu Yifei: Live your own life

In dieser Episode von Vietnam: Fakten und persönliche Erfahrungen, spreche ich mehr über die schönsten Strandgebiete des Landes.

Vietnam: Fakten und persönliche Erfahrungen 

Episode 6: Die schönsten Strände in Vietnam

안녕하세요. Hello~ 
한국어 듣기 수업 시작해요. Let's start with the Korean listening class. 
선생님 읽어요. I read it. 
잘 들으세요. Please listen well.

I posted the sentences on my blog. 
https://blog.naver.com/laramcraft/222968494816
https://youtu.be/9DtqRDnK6zo
The basics are important.
It is also good to check the basics of 한글 Hangeul before this listening class.
1-1. Korean alphabet - Vowels 모음 - What is Hangeul?
https://youtu.be/0YzhJ9p2lcs
2-1. Korean alphabet - Consonants 자음 -what are the consonants 자음?
https://youtu.be/lckgvQ_vreA
3-1. Korean alphabet - Final Consonants 받침 - What are the final consonants 받침?
https://youtu.be/sLlFmG30fNI

This is a class to listen to Korean conversational sentences.
In this voice recording for listening, 
After reading many sentences with Korean grammar in Korean conversations sentences, 
Check out how much you understand the sentences with a voice recording. 
Never look at the sentences when listening to the voice recording. 
And Listen to the sentence repeatedly until you hear it completely. 

You are listening to the Sejong Korean conversation. (세종학당)
There are four books in total. (Korean conversation, 1, 2, 3, 4.)
It consists of 1st and 2nd courses for beginners and 1st and 2nd courses for intermediate.
Each course is conducted in 14 units. (2 grammar - for each unit.) 
This listening class you are taking is Korean Conversation 3. (Intermediate 1) 
Please listen carefully.

Korean Listening Class 한국어 문장 듣기 - Korean teacher, Grace

Korean Conversation 3. (Intermediate 1) - Lesson 6. Part 1 -아도/-어도/-여도 되다,  Part 2 -으려고(요)/-려고(요)

・東北地方の山形県の方で使われる恋愛系方言「好きだず」「デートさちぇっでけろ」の紹介
・意味と使用例の紹介
・山形県のある地域では語尾に「ず」をつける　例「んだ」⇒「んだず」（そうだ）
・「ちぇっでけろ」⇒「連れて行って」
・まとめ


Nihongo tokidoki Inaka hougen with Megumi Na

「好きだず」「デートさちぇっでけろ」山形県の方で使われる恋愛系方言　Learning the Tohoku dialect

On the Italian island of Budelli, visitors like to look at a place called Spiaggia Rosa, a beautiful beach where the sand is pink.

But those visitors can only look — they can't touch the sand.

That's because the authorities want to preserve the beach. In the past, people have been seen taking the sand home with them.

Anyone who breaks the rules will be punished, as a Brazilian influencer has found out.

The travel influencer, who has more than 35,000 Instagram followers, took videos of herself walking on the beach and posted them online.

Italian websites said the woman had taken a boat to the beach so she could walk on the sand.

Tourists can visit the island and walk on a path behind the beach, but no one has been allowed on the sand or in the water around it since the 1990s.

Italians weren't happy when the influencer's videos were seen online.

While she had already left the island, the authorities were able to find her in Dubai, where she lives, and they fined her almost $2,000.

About $300 of the fine was for walking on the beach, and the rest was for using a boat that wasn't allowed to travel to the island.

Authorities say there are signs telling people they cannot enter the area.

No one lives on the island, which is just north of the large island of Sardinia.

However, a man whose boat broke down nearby lived on the island for more than 30 years until he was told to leave in 2021.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Influencer Fined for Walking on Italian Beach

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hr6yhWV-pLIBQl9-lkulWU6Bq2Ab5Il8/view?usp=drivesdk