In the late 1970s, a naive young secretary abandons her hometown in Cleveland for San Francisco, and heads into a brave new world of strange and wonderful characters, in this cult classic novel by the Charles Dickens of San Francisco Armistead Maupin. Maupin writes in a simple, but creative way to blend together the lives of some of the city's most-eccentric inhabitants; which makes the story highly accessible for language learners*.

*Suitable for adults over the age of 18.

Audiobooks with Pip

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin: Chapter 1

En este episodio especial de No Hay Tos, hablamos sobre los llamados "Backwards Verbs" o verbos similares al verbo "gustar".

No Hay Tos

Backward Verbs (Verbs like Gustar)

Pretérito de HACER. 

Yo hice este episodio
tú hiciste
Ella hizo, él hizo
nosotros hicimos
ustedes hicieron
ellos hicieron


conjuguemos y conjugamos 

Capítulo 8 HICE - I DID

・東北地方の方言の特徴語尾につける「～べ」「～だべ」について紹介
・「おめ、はなこさみずこやってけだべな?」の意味の説明「花に水をやった？」
・「おめ」⇒「あなた」
・単語の後ろに「こ」を付ける(東北地方一部地域)
・語尾に「～べ」「～だべ」をつける(東北地方広域)
・まとめ

Nihongo tokidoki Inaka hougen with Megumi Na

「～べ」「～だべ」の使い方。What do you mean in the Tohoku dialect?「おめ、はなこさみずこやってけだべな？」

Let's see what {Take it from me}  means : 

It means: 

Listen to me 

Listen to my  experience because I've already experienced this  

What you will do is what I already did !! So, Listen to me ! Take my piece of advice !!

English for Work with James

Episode  8 :  Take it from me 

Transcript here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-PSR1dGgYqfa1OKO1xdJOT9wAFii1der/view?usp=sharing

Schedule a class with me here: https://teach.italki.com/teacher/12103910



Lisa's Podcast

Benefits of online learning 

Do you find it harder to be nice and cooperative when you're tired? You're not alone — and there's actually science behind that feeling.

Researchers in Italy looked at how being tired affected people's brains and the decisions they made.

They looked at a total of almost 450 people. The participants all started by doing a set of similar tasks for about 45 minutes — but for one group, the tasks were made much more difficult to make the participants mentally tired.

For example, the mentally tired group was given more difficult quiz questions to answer. And while everyone watched funny videos, the mentally tired group was told to try not to smile or laugh.

Participants then played several economic games that asked them to make decisions that would give different benefits to themselves and others, like deciding how to share points in a group.

It was found that mentally tired participants were much less likely to make cooperative decisions in the games. They were also more likely to choose "antisocial" and "spiteful" options — where they could, say, choose to use some of their own points to reduce someone else's points instead of using them to help themselves or the group.

Why did this happen?

Among the mentally tired group, the researchers found a much stronger increase in "slow-wave" activity in parts of the brain used for things like planning, paying attention, controlling emotions and understanding others. These "slow waves" are similar to the ones seen in our brains when we sleep.

The researchers said this increase in slow waves may explain tired participants' less cooperative decisions.

So when you're tired after a long day, you may be less nice because the parts of your brain you need to help you cooperate are actually going to sleep!

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Science of Spite: Why We're Meaner when We're Tired

Here you will learn some phrases to use for the topic "free time".

I wish you alot of fun with it :)

A1-Niveau

06_Freizeitaktivitäten

A story in our media about older people and loneliness in the UK.

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pnBi3dFkGDQWEj_A0Av_sFINfI-rBKLMEU_t2q4l3Rs/edit?usp=drive_link
