"Have you ever been told 'Chanto shite!' and thought, 'Specifically, what should I do?!' 🤯
In this episode, Maiko Sensei — a professional Japanese teacher with over 450 lessons experience — breaks down one of the most convenient yet confusing words in Japanese: CHANTO.
In this episode, you will learn:
The 3 Faces of Chanto: From holding chopsticks to stable jobs.
Maiko's Secret: Why it's okay to ask for specifics when someone says 'Chanto shite.'
The Strawberry Mystery 🍓: Why Maiko's mom says 'Chanto shita Ichigo' and why it's grammatically weird but okay!
Real Talk: How language is alive and why rare cases are fun.

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Ep6: What does "CHANTO" actually mean? The most vague word in Japan 🧐

Herkese merhaba.Bu gün harika bir şiir ile Türkçe’de “if clause” cümlelerini
öğreneceğiz. Hadi başlayalım!
Koşul veya şart kelimeleri İngilizce’de “condition” demek.
Türkçe’de if clause yani koşul cümlesi kurmak aslında çok kolay: sadece if
clause cümlesinin sonuna -sa/-se koşul ekini getiriyoruz. Şu örneğe bakalım :
Yağmur yağar > It rains
Dışarı çıkmam. > I don’t go out.
Koşul cümlemiz “ yağmur yağar”.Yani bu cümlenin sonuna -sa /-se ekini
getiriyoruz.
Yağmur yağarsa dışarı çıkmam. > It means “If it rains ,I won’t go out.”

Melih Cevdet Anday’ın “ Çok güzel şey” şiirinde birçok if clause yani koşul
cümlesi var. Hadi inceleyelim.

Yaşamak güzel şey doğrusu, - In fact , it’s a good thing to be alive
Üstelik hava da güzelse, - Additionally if the weather is nice
Hele gücün kuvvetin yerindeyse - especially if you’re strong
Elin ekmek tutmuşsa bir de - plus if you earn your bread
Hele tertemizse gönlün - especially if your heart is pure
Hele kar gibiyse alnın - especially if your forehead is like snow
Yani kendinden korkmuyorsan - So if you’re not afraid of yourself
Kimseden korkmuyorsan dünyada - if you’re not afraid of anyone in the world
Dostuna güveniyorsan - if you trust your best friend
İyi günler bekliyorsan hele - especially if you expect good days
İyi günlere inanıyorsan- if you believe in good days
Üstelik hava da güzelse- additionally if the weather is nice
Yaşamak güzel şey - It’s a good thing to be alive
Çok güzel şey doğrusu! - It’s a very beautiful thing , actually.

Şiirden bazı deyimler :
gücü kuvveti yerinde olmak: (lit)someone’s power is on its place.
It means one is still physically avaliable to do daily duties or one is still


The music : from my heart
Musician : bdksonic
energetic.
alnı kar gibi olmak: this comes from “alnı ak olmak”. :According to the
understanding, if you haven’t done anything bad to be ashamed of, if you’re
honorable, your forehead is white / bright. 

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" Çok güzel şey " şiiri ile koşul cümlelerini öğrenmek. / Learning conditional sentences with the poem "It's a nice thing" "

Modern Chinese(時代華語)B1- Reading(短文)

You use a hammer to bang a nail into the wall to hang a picture on
You use a drill to make a hole .A hammer and drill are tools.
You use a needle, pins, scissors and cotton when you're sewing
You use string or rope to tie things together.
You use tape or glue to stick things together.


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Које језике говорите? 🌍
What languages do you speak? 🌍

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日本のクリスマス🎁について話しました。みなさんの国ではクリスマスに何をしますか？🎄🍷

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Ep.63 日本人はクリスマスに働きます🎄👩‍💻

Nel primo episodio vi ho parlato della Fontana di Trevi . Nell'episodio di oggi vi porterò ancora una volta in Italia per parlarvi del turismo nel mio paese. L'Italia ha tanti turisti? Quali sono i posti più visitati? L'impatto del turismo ha solo aspetti positivi o anche negativi? Scopriamolo in questo nuovo episodio. Puoi completare l'ascolto con un quiz di comprensione e se hai bisogno del testo puoi mandarmi un messaggio in qualsiasi momento. 

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ヨーロッパではサマータイムが始まりました。時間が1時間進んだので日本とドイツの時差は7時間になりました。
サマータイムとは太陽が出ている明るい時間を有効に使うための制度です。
しかし、サマータイムに対する反対意見もたくさんあり、EUは2021年でサマータイムを廃止することにしました。しかし、なぜか今年もサマータイムを続けるそうです。
私は海外にいる生徒とのオンラインレッスンがあるので、サマータイムが始まる前は時間がずれていないかどうかとても心配になります。ヨーロッパに住んでいる人の中には「ここ数日寝不足です」という人もいるかもしれません。私も昨日と今日よく眠れませんでした。
みなさんはサマータイムについてどう思いますか？

時差：じさ　time difference
~を有効（ゆうこう）に使（つか）う：make good use of~, make the most of ~, use effectively
反対意見：はんたいいけん　opposite opinion
廃止（はいし）する：abolish
なぜか：for some reason
時間がずれる：time doesn’t match up
寝不足：ねぶそく　lack of sleep

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There is an old theory that eating cheese before bed causes bad dreams, although scientists don't have much evidence to prove it.

But if cheese can't make us dream, new research from the US says that perhaps an app could — and they don't have to be bad dreams!

Researchers experimented with an app that they designed to encourage people to have lucid dreams. These are dreams that feel vivid and real.

During lucid dreams, people know that they're dreaming and may even be able to control what happens in the dream.

Not everyone has lucid dreams. It's thought that about half of us will have them during our lives, but some people may have them regularly.

Lucid dreams may be useful for us: experts think they could encourage creativity and problem-solving, or help us with nightmares.

The app in the study used a method called "targeted lucidity reactivation" that is supposed to make people more likely to experience lucid dreams.

This is usually done in a laboratory, but the researchers wanted to see how effective an app used at home could be.

They did two experiments to see if the app could increase the frequency of participants' lucid dreams.

The first experiment included 19 participants. Before going to sleep, they did a 20-minute activity that encouraged them to enter a "lucid mindset" when they heard certain sounds.

These same sounds were then played during the night. The frequency of the participants' lucid dreams more than doubled during the week of the experiment.

Fifty people completed the second experiment. They were put into three groups, with one group using the targeted lucidity reactivation method.

The people in this group reported that they had experienced more lucid dreams during the week of the experiment than those in the two control groups.

The researchers said these results suggest that apps like this could help people to use sleep for "personal benefits" including "spiritual and personal growth."