Here is my latest blog post.  You can find a text and an audio version on my site.  I talk about ways in which automatic translators can go wrong.  Enjoy!

https://www.difficultenglishexplained.com/translations-gone-wrong-how-automatic-translators-can-fail-you/

Difficult English Explained

Translations Gone Wrong: How Automatic Translators Can Fail You

The story text plz check it on my YouTube channel

Learning Chinese by reading picture book

Learning Chinese  by reading picture book

中国文化

谢谢

当我还只有六岁的时候，在一本描写原始森林的名叫《真实的故事》的书中，看到了一副精彩的插画，
Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest.
画的是一条蟒蛇正在吞食一只大野兽。
It was a picture of a boaconstrictor in the act of swallowing an animal.
页头上就是那副画的摹本。
Here is a copy of the drawing.
这本书中写道：“这些蟒蛇把它们的猎物不加咀嚼地囫囵吞下。”
In the book it said: “Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it.

然后就不能再动弹了；它们就在长长的六个月的睡眠中消化这些食物。
After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion.

当时，我对丛林中的奇遇想得很多。
I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle.
于是，我也用彩色铅笔画出了我的第一副图画。
And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing.
我的第一号作品。
My Drawing Number One.



它是这样的：我把我的这副杰作拿给大人看，我问他们我的画是不是叫他们害怕。
It looked like this:I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.

他们回答我说：“一顶帽子有什么可怕的？”
But they answered: “Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?”
我画的不是帽子，
My drawing was not a picture of a hat.

是一条巨蟒在消化着一头大象。
It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
但由于大人们无法理解它,我做了另一个图:
But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it,I made another drawing:
于是我又把巨蟒肚子里的情况画了出来，以便让大人们能够看懂。
I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly.
这些大人总是需要解释。
They always need to have things explained.  
My Drawing Number Two looked like this:
大人们劝我把这些画着开着肚皮的，或者闭上肚皮的蟒蛇的图画放在一边，
The grown-ups’ response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors,
还是把兴趣放在地理、历史、算术和语法上。
whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar.

就这样，在六岁的那年，我就放弃了当画家这一美好的职业。
That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter.

小王子-The Little Prince-Read in Chinese

小王子第一章-当个画家

In this episode you will learn how to pronounce all the letters in the Spanish alphabet. 

Note: There are some extra letters that aren't in the English alphabet; these letters are CH, LL, and Ñ. 

Spanish For Beginners

The Alphabet In Spanish

Learn Family  Names in Tigrinya and English 
Like አዶ = mother 
         አቦ = Father 

Happy Life 

Family 

"Ich suche" ist ein Satz, der uns in ganz verschiedenen Situationen weiterhilft. Hier zeige ich euch an mehreren Beispielen, wie ihr mit einfachen Mitteln eure Kommunikation verbessern könnt und diejenige Hilfe und Informationen findet, die ihr braucht (und manchmal auch etwas, was ihr nicht braucht ;)))

Deutsch mit Sonia

Sind wir nicht alle Suchende ? 

In this episode we will talk about 【微信 Wechat】, you will learn how to say 【Social media,like,comment】 ect. The material helps you get used to different voice and accent. 
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It is recommended that you study in the following ways:
Step 1: Gist listening. Listen to get the main idea. (more times if necessary)
Step 2: Read the text to find out words you didn't get, then look up the dictionary. 
Step 3: Listen and imitate as much as you can without looking at the text.
Step 4: Write down what you hear if you want to practise writing.
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大家好，我是Yuli。欢迎收听我的播客。
今天想和大家分享一些【社交媒体】相关的词。
国外社交媒体平台有:Facebook（脸书）、Instagram（ins）、Twitter（推特）等等。中国用得最多的社交软件有微信（wechat）、微博（MicroBlog）、抖音（Tik-tok）等等。
我们先来看看跟微信有关的词。在中国，几乎每个人都有微信。微信可以用来发信息，发语音（信息），打语音电话，打视频电话。除了一对一聊天，还有很多微信群，家人群，朋友群，工作群。我们还可以用微信来付款，转账，发红包。付款的时候可以你扫商家的二维码，或者商家扫你的付款码。所以买东西的时候经常会听到这样的话：“我扫你，还是你扫我？”转账的金额可以比较高，每天最高可转账20万元。发红包的金额最高是一个200块，一般用在朋友和家人间。例如我朋友生日的时候，我会给他发一个188.88的红包，因为8在中国是一个幸运的数字。
认识一个新朋友的时候，我们一般会加微信。扫对方的二维码就可以添加好友，对方通过后你们就是微信好友了。你可以根据关系把他分组，例如家人，朋友，同事。如果你不想和一个人再聊天了，可以删他(的)微信，甚至是拉黑他。
微信还有一个功能叫朋友圈。我们可以在朋友圈发文字，图片，视频。你的微信好友可以给你点赞，评论。如果你发的朋友圈只想给一部分人看，那就设置分组可见，只有你选择的组可以看到你发的朋友圈。
微信的功能还有很多，公众号可以看文章，视频号可以看视频，小程序可以快速地使用很多常见的手机软件。点外卖，购物，医院挂号等等都可以通过微信。可以说，我们的生活根本离不开微信了。
你用过微信吗？你最喜欢什么功能？留言告诉我吧。我们下期见。
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社交媒体	/	shè jiāo méi tǐ	/	Social media
平台	/	píng tái	/	Platform
语音	/	yǔ yīn	/	Voice
视频	/	shì pín	/	Video
微信群	/	wēi xìn qún	/	WeChat Group
付款	/	fù kuǎn	/	make payment
转账	/	zhuǎn zhàng	/	Transfer money
发红包	/	fā hóng bāo	/	Send Red Envelope(lucky money)
扫	/	sǎo	/	scan
商家	/	shāng jiā	/	merchant
二维码	/	èr wéi mǎ	/	QR Code
金额	/	jīn é	/	Amount
添加好友	/	tiān jiā hǎo yǒu	/	Add Friends
分组	/	fēn zǔ	/	divide into groups
删	/	shān	/	delete
拉黑	/	lā hēi	/	black out
朋友圈	/	péng yǒu quān	/	Moments
点赞	/	diǎn zàn	/	Like
评论	/	píng lùn	/	Comment
小程序	/	xiǎo chéng xù	/	mini program
挂号/guà hào/outpatient registration

Yuli's Chinese Channel

微信 Wechat（Intermediate level）

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oDzKW0xwl6JftIPcKagVUkrji14b3trp/view?usp=drivesdk

I'm guessing this is where we get the name "maple tree" from.

