En este nuevo episodio vamos a escuchar a Enrique, un minero del municipio de Muzo, Boyacá, quien nos cuenta sobre su vida y su trabajo con las piedras preciosas más deseadas en Colombia, las esmeraldas. 
Remember this episode is a dictation activity, listen to it as many times as you need and write what you understand; when finished check the document with the transcription, you will find it in the following link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F6-7SdhK0PzuD3gRG1XmhRf7FT3eeRXwgVI6SccX-xw/edit?usp=sharing

Real Spanish Podcast

Dictado: La vida de un minero

Make a self-introduction, have a small talk, give a short answer, public speaking is everywhere to see in life.
How do you feel when you hear nervous people presenting?
How to cope with anxiety symptoms?
This episode will offer you a hand.

Build Your English Thinking

20 Tips for Public Speaking Anxiety

Part 1 of 5. 

Inside a dusty workroom, an old craftsman held up a chess piece to the window. He rotated it in the sunlight and inspected its every detail. 

“Perfection,” said the craftsman. 

He added it to the set he had been building. Sixteen grey pieces sat on his worktable, all handmade and almost ready for sale. 

The craftsman felt very satisfied with his designs. He was ready for the final stage of the process. He picked up one of the pawn pieces and said, “What about you, my little friend? What colour would you like to be?” 

He reached for his paint brush, dunked it into glass of water and then into a container of paint. The grey pawn received a heavy coating of shiny white paint.

Fast-forward several years into the future. After repeated use and abuse, that little pawn’s proud white colour had faded. Areas of his original grey were visible. Because of this, whenever players assembled their chess set, they left this little grey-white pawn to the side. 

“Uhm, is that yours or mine?” said the white player. 

“It doesn’t matter. Put it back in the box and choose from the others,” said the black player. 

This little plastic pawn’s name was Gary. 


Being a Cloud

Gary the Chess Piece

If you listen to how i talked about and described the movie, you should be able to notice that i did not go into much detail on what the movie was about. This can be a very difficult thing to do in any language, and can also lead to problems with cohesion which will of course lower your band score. This is an example of where you need to learn to talk around topics, and remember that part 2 is still about you.

IELTS 85 Speaking

Describe a movie you enjoyed - IELTS speaking part 2 topic.

Poema de Federico García-Lorca del Romancero Gitano

POEMAS DE FEDERICO GARCÍA-LORCA

ROMANCE DE LA GUARDIA CIVIL

Netflixドラマ【First Love 初恋】は見ましたか？
【First Love 初恋】の撮影の場所は北海道です。
北海道に住んでいる私が、撮影の場所を紹介したいと思います。
北海道のこと、文化についても話します。

【話にでてくる言葉】
ライラック/らいらっく
札幌市/さっぽろし
ファイターズ/ふぁいたーず
宇多田ヒカル/うただひかる
姪っこ/めいっこ
大丸/だいまる
告白/こくはく
ロータリー/ろーたりー
旭川市/あさひかわし


北海道へようこそ【First Love 初恋】from Netflix

1.リラの花咲く頃【First Love 初恋】from Netflix

1. ¿Hablas español?

2. Relaciones primero

3. La importancia de la familia

4. "América" and "americanos"

5. Disminuye la velocidad

Remember that I teach Spanish on italki, you can book a class for more information you can look at it on my profile :)

Colombia

10 cosas que los extranjeros encuentran difíciles de manejar cuando hacen negocios en Latinoamérica

In this episode we are going to learn a Real Chinese Conversation【Buying milk tea】. 
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Step 1: Listen and catch the words you know already, have a guess about the content.
Step 2: Check the script to learn one by one. 
Step 3: Listen and repeat after it.
Step 4: Practice until you can perform the dialogue. 
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店员/diànyuán/clerk; 顾客/gùkè/customer

店员: 欢迎光临。请（在）这边点单。
huān yíng guāng lín 。 qǐng （ zài ） zhè biān diǎn dān 。
Welcome. Please order over here.
顾客: 有什么推荐的吗？
yǒu shén me tuī jiàn de ma ？
Do you have any recommendations?
店员: 您喜欢喝奶茶还是果茶？
nín xǐ huān hē nǎi chá hái shì guǒ chá ？
Do you prefer milk tea or fruit tea?
顾客: 奶茶吧。
nǎi chá ba 。
Milk tea.
店员: 茉莉奶绿是我们的招牌，您可以试一下。
mò lì nǎi lǜ shì wǒ men de zhāo pái ， nín kě yǐ shì yí xià 。
Jasmine Milk Green（tea） is our specialty. You can try it.
顾客: 是加了茉莉花和绿茶吗？
shì jiā le mò lì huā hé lǜ chá ma ？
Is it with jasmine and green tea?
店员: 是的。
shì de 。
Yes, it is.
顾客: 那来一杯吧。
nà lái yì bēi ba 。
I'll have a cup.
店员: 您要热的还是冰的？
nín yào rè de hái shì bīng de ？
Would you like it hot or iced?
顾客: 冰的，可以少冰吗？
bīng de ， kě yǐ shǎo bīng ma ？
Iced. Can I have less ice?
店员: 没问题。您要大杯、中杯还是小杯？
méi wèn tí 。 nín yào dà bēi 、 zhōng bēi hái shì xiǎo bēi ？
No problem. Would you like a large, medium or small?
顾客: 中杯。
zhōng bēi 。
Medium.
店员: 我们有全糖、7分糖、5分糖、3分糖，也可以去糖。
wǒ men yǒu quán táng 、qī fēn táng 、wǔ fēn táng 、sān fēn táng ， yě kě yǐ qù táng 。
We have full sugar, 70% sugar, 50% sugar, 30% percent sugar, or without sugar.
顾客: 7分糖吧。
qī fēn táng ba 。
70% sugar.
店员: 要加珍珠吗？
yào jiā zhēn zhū ma ？
Add tapioca?
顾客: 要的。
yào de 。
Yes.
店员: 好的。在这儿喝还是打包？
hǎo de 。 zài zhè ér hē hái shì dǎ bāo ？
Okay.Drink it here or takeaway?
顾客: 打包。
dǎ bāo 。
Takeaway.

Yuli's Chinese Channel

买奶茶 Buying milk tea （Beginner）

Došla je JESEN – AUTUMN is here!🍁🍂 Why don't you learn some AUTUMN VOCABULARY in Serbian? You will hear 13 autumn words along with sentence examples! Let’s start!
Срећно учење! / Srećno učenje!📚
If you like this podcast, please contact me for the transcript.📃
See you in class!👋
