こんにちは、あかりです。6月7日〜10日にポーランドであったMystic Festivalについて話(はな)します！

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Slow Japanese

Episode #58 - Mystic Festival 2023

Full script with Furigana: https://japanesemayuna.com/

はい、こんにちは。今回はポッドキャストの17回目です。先月は色々なことがありました。いくつか新しい仕事をしました。スニーカーやマットレスが壊れました。新しいかばんと、スニーカーと、マットレスパッドを買いました。マットレスパッドは、マットレスの上に置いて使うマットです。私が好きなボンネルコイルのマットレスは売り切れだったので、一週間後にオンラインで買いました。

Hello, this is episode 17 of season 2 of my podcast. A lot has happened in the last month. I worked on some new projects. My sneakers and mattress broke. I bought a new bag, sneakers and a mattress pad. A mattress pad is a mat that you put on top of your mattress. The bonnell spring mattress I like was sold out, so I bought it online a week later.

最近、デジタルデトックスをしている人が多いです。一人の生徒さんは、ベッドの近くにスマホを置かないようにするために、アナログの時計を買ったそうです。他の生徒さんは、SNSで有名人をフォローしないようにしているそうです。有名人のアカウントはニュースが多すぎるからです。パソコンを使う時間を決めて、なるべくパソコンを使わないようにしている生徒さんもいます。私も、最近SNSのアプリをアンインストールしました。SNSは便利ですが、ずっと見ていると時間を無駄にしてしまうからです。

Many people have recently gone on a digital detox. One of my students bought an analogue clock to keep his phone away from his bed. Another student says he tries not to follow celebrities on social networking sites. This is because celebrity accounts have too much news. Another student decides when to use the computer and tries to avoid using it as much as possible. I also recently uninstalled my social networking apps, because social networking sites are useful, but if you look at them all the time, you waste time.

買い物もそうですね。お店に行くと、時間も限られているし、あまり選択肢がありません。だけど、インターネットで見るとたくさんの商品を一度に比べることができるので、なかなか決められません。また、買おうと思った商品でも、悪いレビューがあると気になってしまいます。「買わない方がいいかな」と思ってしまいます。商品を決めた後も、値段を比べることができると、買うお店やタイミングについて考えてしまいます。買った後にセールでもっと安くなると、残念な気持ちになります。だけど、こういうことを気にするのは、時間がもったいないですね。


Japanese Lessons with Mayuna

S2 Ep17. デジタルデトックス

In questo episodio vedremo insieme la storia della carbonara insieme a riferimenti ad altri piatti famosi della cucina italiana. 

Italiano espresso

Livello B2/C1: La storia della carbonara

Hi, and welcome back to Captain Seasalt and the ABC Pirates with Teacher Alyse!
Today, we’re going on an adventure to learn words that start with the letter D. Are you ready? Listen carefully, repeat after me, and then try reading them on your own.

dragonfly, dandelions, duck, dolphin, dirt, dog biscuits, donkey, dalmation, dock, dice, drum

Great job! Keep practicing, and if you’d like free flashcards to follow along, send me a message. You can also watch this Super Simple Songs Captain Seasalt video on YouTube to learn even more!
See you next time—bye for now!

Captain Sesalt & The ABC Pirates

Letter D

¿No te ha pasado que estás hablando español, leyendo y te preguntas el origen de la palabra que estás usando o que leíste? A mí sí me ha pasado. Algo que muchos saben, es que el origen de las palabras, particularmente en español proviene del latín, del griego, del árabe, en fin, muchas tienen orígenes llamativos y a mí siempre me ha gustado saber el porqué de las cosas. Escucha, al final puedes comentarme si este origen lo sabías o que creías de la palabra. Suscríbete, comenta para dejar tu opinión, comparte con otros estudiantes de español y hablemos de esto en clase. 

Español con todo 

LA HISTORIA DE LAS PALABRAS

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/musk-twitter-uebernahme-auf-eis-100.html

Die 44 Milliarden Dollar schwere Übernahme von Twitter durch Elon Musk liegt auf Eis. Das teilte der Tesla-Chef am Freitag mit. 

Tech-Milliardär Elon Musk hat seinen Deal zum Kauf von Twitter an diesem Freitag für vorläufig ausgesetzt erklärt. Musk begründete das mit ausstehenden Informationen zur Zahl der Spam- und Falschkonten bei dem Kurznachrichtendienst aus den USA. Es müsse erst nachgewiesen werden, dass diese weniger als fünf Prozent der Nutzer ausmachten.

German News Reading with Tingting

ep1. Musk legt Twitter-Übernahme auf Eis 

1 minutes listening practice 1分钟听力练习

CHAO's HSK Listening Capsule（Beginner）|A Daily Dose to Sharpen Your Ears|CHAO的HSK听力胶囊（初级）

CHAO‘s HSK Listening Capsule（Beginner）HSK1-4 今天天气很好The weather is quite good

🎧 Io e te – Niccolò Ammaniti

In questa puntata vi parlo di Io e te di Niccolò Ammaniti, un romanzo breve e intenso che racconta l’adolescenza, la solitudine e il bisogno di sentirsi accettati.
Lorenzo ha quattordici anni, non ha amici e preferisce restare solo. Ma un giorno decide di mentire ai genitori per vivere una settimana “normale”. Solo che le cose non vanno come aveva immaginato. La sua solitudine viene interrotta dall’arrivo inaspettato di Olivia, la sorellastra maggiore, che ha problemi di droga e cerca rifugio proprio lì, nella sua tana segreta.

💬 Lessico utile dell’episodio

Sentirsi fuori posto → sentirsi diverso, non adatto alla situazione
Fingere → comportarsi come se qualcosa fosse vero, anche se non lo è
Mentire → dire una bugia
Sentirsi accettato → quando gi altri ti fanno sentire incluso
Solitudine → stato di chi è solo o si sente solo
Settimana bianca → vacanza in montagna sulla neve
Fingersi → comportarsi come se si fosse qualcun altro
Imitare i più pericolosi → cercare di somigliare a chi ha più forza o sicurezza
Mi ha guardato come se mi fosse cresciuta la coda → espressione ironica per dire “mi ha guardato come se avessi detto qualcosa di assurdo”
Tirare su col naso → gesto tipico di chi sta piangendo
Mi sono messa a piangere come una cretina → modo colloquiale per dire “mi sono emozionata molto”

📖 Ti è mai successo di sentirti “fuori posto”, diverso dagli altri?
Ti è mai capitato di mentire per non far stare male qualcuno?
Se fossi al posto di Lorenzo, avresti confessato la verità o avresti continuato a fingere?

👉 Vuoi leggerlo anche tu?
Leggere in lingua originale può sembrare difficile, ma se lo fai con una guida diventa molto più semplice, e alla fine la soddisfazione è enorme.
Prenota il tuo posto nel bookclub e leggi con me romanzi autentici!

🎙️ Io sono Elisa, ti ringrazio per l’ascolto e… alla prossima puntata!

BookClub e Cappuccino: libri italiani contemporanei

03. Bookclub & Cappuccino: Io e te, Ammaniti

If you're looking to make a good first impression on a dating app, from your POV, you might think it would be a good idea to send a text using lots of abbreviations to make it seem like you're BFFs with the person you're texting.

But FWIW, according to a recent study from Stanford University and the University of Toronto, nobody likes receiving text abbreviations — not even young people.

Don't know those abbreviations? "POV" means "point of view," "BFF" means "best friend forever," and "FWIW" is "for what it's worth"!

Researchers studying the use of such abbreviations did a number of studies with several thousand people, and they found that texts using abbreviations were less likely to get replies. And writers using abbreviations were more likely to be seen as insincere.

Of course, we all use abbreviations — in one survey, it was found that 99% of people said they used them. But the researchers found that people don't like receiving texts with abbreviations, because rather than making them feel closer to the other person, it felt like the other person wasn't putting much effort into the conversation.

And while young people are even more likely to use abbreviations, they still felt that people who used them were insincere. Young people were also less likely to reply to such messages.

Lead researcher David Fang said we often put different amounts of effort into our conversations to show how important the other person is to us.

So it might be fine to put little effort into, say, a quick message to a delivery driver. But Fang said his team's results are especially important for people who really want to make a good impression — like at the beginning of a relationship!