[About This Episode]
What does a typical morning look like in Japan? In this episode, I share my personal morning routine—from the soothing habit of drinking Sayu (warm water) to the daily struggle of waking up my children.

I also compare my current life with my past experiences as an international flight attendant and my time living in the United States. You'll hear about the surprising differences between American and Japanese laundry habits!

[Key Vocabulary in This Episode]

Sayu (白湯): Plain hot water, often drunk for health benefits.

Nidone (二度寝): The act of going back to sleep after waking up once.

Drum-shiki sentakuki (ドラム式): Front-loading (drum-type) washing machine.

にほんごのへや｜Haruna’s Japanese Room

朝の習慣　Morning Routine

In this episode we will talk about learning a foreign language and common misconceptions and mistakes that usually accompany it. As well as what you can do and try to make the learning process easier, smother and more efficient!

Vlad's teaching tales

Learning a foreign language

En este episodio exploramos el lunfardo: su origen en Buenos Aires, sus palabras más típicas y por qué es clave para entender la cultura argentina y el español rioplatense.

Spanish from the South

El lunfardo

第四课   她总是笑着跟客人说话
Lesson 4  She always smiles when talking to a customer

第一部分   part 1
第1-5题：听对话，选择与对话内容一致的图片
Questions 1-5: Choose the right picture for each dialogue you hear.

例如：example
男：喂，请问张经理在吗？
女：他正在开会，您半个小时以后再打，好吗？

1. 女：你去做什么？
男：我去看足球比赛。
2. 男：那两个笑着看照片的女孩是谁？
女：那是我妹妹和她的好朋友。
3. 女：我太饿了，我想吃块儿蛋糕。
男：别吃了，我们去吃饭吧。
4. 男：你怎么总是站着？快坐吧。
女：我吃了两块蛋糕，现在不想坐着。
5. 女：我记得那家超市的西瓜又甜又新鲜，我们去看看吧。
男：好，走吧。

第二部分   part 2
第6-10题：听句子，判断对错
Questions 6-10: Decide whether the statements are true or false based on the sentences you hear.

例如：为了让自己更健康，他每天都花一个小时去锻炼身体。
★他希望自己很健康。
今天我想早点儿回家。看了看手表，才5点。过了一会儿再看表，还是5点，我这才发现我的手表不走了。
★那块儿手表不是他的。

6. 这几天你总是不爱吃东西，是不是不舒服啊？
★这几天他吃得很少。
7. 他又聪明又努力，老师的问题他都会回答。
  ★他学习很好。
8. 你知道我手机里还有多少钱吗？还有一元一角一分，三个一。
  ★他手机里钱不多了。
9. 妈妈很热情，总是帮助人，所以大家有问题，都会来找她。
  ★妈妈现在有问题。
10. 同学们，谁能告诉我这个句子是什么意思。
★他在请人回答问题。


hsk3   第四课 1   她总是笑着跟客人说话

I sitdown with Carl Honoré is a bestselling author, broadcaster and two-time TED speaker. He is also the voice of the Slow Movement. 

After working with street children in Brazil, Carl covered Europe and South America for the Economist, Observer, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, National Post (Canada), Time and other publications. 

His first book, In Praise of Slow, chronicles the global trend toward putting on the brakes in everything from work to food to parenting. The Financial Times said it is “to the Slow Movement what Das Kapital is to communism”.

Carl’s second book, Under Pressure explores how to raise and educate children in a fast world and was hailed by Time as a “gospel of the Slow Parenting movement”.

Carl’s third book, The Slow Fix, explores how to tackle complex problems in every walk of life, from health and relationships to business and politics, without falling for superficial, short-term quick fixes.

His fourth book, Bolder: How To Age Better And Feel Better About Ageing, is a spirited manifesto against ageism.

Carl recently published his first children’s book, It’s The Journey Not the Destination
Published in 36 languages, Carl has landed on bestseller lists in many countries. 

In Praise of Slow was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and the inaugural choice for the Huffington Post Book Club. It also featured in a British TV sitcom, Argentina’s version of Big Brother and a TV commercial for the Motorola tablet. 

Under Pressure was shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust Award, the top prize for non-fiction in Canada. 

Bolder was also a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week as well as a Reader’s Digest (UK) Book of the Month.

Carl featured in a series for BBC Radio 4 called The Slow Coach in which he helped frazzled, over-scheduled people slow down. He also presented a television show called Frantic Family Rescue on Australia’s ABC 1.

Carl lives in London. While researching his first book on slowness he was slapped with a speeding ticket.

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Carl Honoré  (Best-selling author) "The Slow Movement" 

O R no início da palavra tem o som é gutural que é o da garganta ra – re – ri – ro – ru Trava-línguas O rato roeu a roupa do rei de Roma! Romeu riu no rio do Rio! Para quem fala espanhol, o som é similar com a letra J (José) Para quem fala inglês, o sim é similar com a letra H (hot) O som de dois erres, é igual ao som do R no início da palavra, o som gutural, ou chamamos também de R forte. Cachorro – socorro – arrogante Eu não mexi a minha língua para pronunciar nenhum desses erres, nem o r do início da palavra, nem o som de dois erres. O R entre duas vogais, você vai colocar a língua em direção ao céu da boca quando for pronunciar o R entre vogais. Cara – pera – geladeira – Você percebe que a sílaba tônica não é a sílaba que tem o R, então o R será fraco. Carro = R forte – som da garganta Caro – R fraco – som do céu da boca O carro é caro. Carrinho = R forte diminutivo de carro Carinho = R fraco O menino trata o carrinho dele com carinho. O R depois de consoante também é fraco, a língua vibra no céu da boca tocando nos dentes da frente. ra – re – ri – ro – ru = com a boca mais fechada, usando a língua. Graduação – Trabalho – preto – cobra – fronha O R antes de consoante ou no final das palavras é fraco, mas é aberto. Porta – arma - colher – mulher - Muitas vezes, na linguagem informal do dia a dia, o R no final das palavras é praticamente inexistente, como: “vamos fala” / “vamos come”/ “vamos abri”. Palavras com R fraco e Forte Horror Quando eu falo aberto, você continua a emitir o som! Alguns verbos no futuro do pretérito também terão os dois sons do R, como: eu correria / eu erraria / eu me arrependeria. R forte é o som do fundo da garganta/ o fraco é a vibração da língua no céu da boa pegando os dentes da frente. O Brasil possui diversos sotaques, o R varia muito dependendo da sua região. Eu sou de São Paulo da Capital, então minha explicação foi com o sotaque da cidade.

Brasileiríssimo

O som do R 

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The number of couples getting married in South Korea increased by almost 15% between 2023 and 2024.

That's the biggest percentage increase in marriages since the government began collecting this data in 1970.

More than 222,000 couples got married in South Korea in 2024. That's good news for a country with one of the world's lowest birth rates.

The government has been trying to encourage people to get married and have children to help boost the country's shrinking population.

It may just have worked. However, not all young people are convinced that marriage is the right thing for them.

According to The South China Morning Post, many young people in the country are still choosing an "unmarried lifestyle" for personal and financial reasons.

Some said that getting married and doing things like buying a home and having children are too expensive.

Others felt they would be more likely to find happiness on their own.

The government data also showed that the number of marriages between South Koreans and foreign nationals has increased for the third year in a row.

There were almost 21,000 of these marriages last year. That's an increase of more than 1,000 from 2023, although still not quite as high as it was before the coronavirus pandemic.

Almost three out of 10 foreign husbands were from the US. And about a third of foreign wives were from Vietnam, while many others were from China and Thailand.

The number of divorces among couples of different nationalities also decreased last year, according to Yonhap News Agency.