Today we are talking about the changes in standard of living throughout the past several decades in China, all the way from the 50s to the current days. What has changed in terms of people’s salary and methods of payment? Let’s go!

Note: This podcast is intended for language learning ONLY. Not for promoting or criticizing any political party or ideology. Let’s keep it friendly and accessible to all :)

Also, all of the experiences are the hosts’ own experiences so please do your own research if you need more information.

Chillchat (Learn Chinese and Chill)

Generations of Change: Income & Standard of Living

A short story about gender in professions. Many professions have a masculine and a femenine form (Medico, Medica). In this Podcast we will learn the use of the femenine and the masculine in a simple way.

Spanish conversation made easy

En este episodio vas a escuchar la historia "El campeón de ajedrez". El objetivo es practicar la pronunciación de las letras G y J (a veces son confusas) y tu comprensión auditiva.

In this episode you are going to listen to "El campeón de ajedrez" story to practice the letters G and J (sometimes are confusing) and your listening comprehension.

Español con Patty Basic Level A2

Lecturitas: Letra G y J| Spanish Phonetics with Mexican accent

I’ve listed 5 adjectives with examples of where each word can be placed in a sentence.
I said them twice at a slow speed and a normal speed.
I hope you find it useful! 

Learn Thai with Shelby 

5 Adjectives With Examples [Intermediate]

En el Episodio 07 de "Segurola y Habana", el Podcast donde el idioma de los argentinos es explicado por argentinos, hoy les traemos el término "Un Pettinato". ¿Qué es un un Pettinato? Argentinos responden en su idioma.


Segurola y Habana Podcast

7 - Un Pettinato

For the second year in a row, Taylor Swift has been named Spotify's most-played artist.

The streaming service has released its annual overview of individual listening trends as well as trends from around the world — called Spotify Wrapped.

Users can now see their top artists, songs, genres, albums and podcasts, as well as uncover which artists had the biggest year on the platform.

Swift was 2024's most-streamed artist globally, ranking in more than 26.6 billion streams. She was followed by The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Drake and Billie Eilish.

Swift also earned the title of most-streamed album in 2024, with The Tortured Poets Department, while Sabrina Carpenter had the most-streamed song both in the US and globally this year, with her summer hit "Espresso." It was streamed more than 1.6 billion times.

For users who want to look back at their listening habits over the year, there were some new features to explore on Spotify Wrapped.

These include a new data story called "Your Music Evolution," which shows three distinct musical phases for each user, and a personalized playlist based on them.

People like to share their Spotify Wrapped data on social media, although this year some complained that the roundup was missing certain features they'd previously enjoyed.

Streaming now accounts for most of the money generated by the music industry — 84% in the United States, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, and 67.3% around the world, according to a 2024 report by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which tracks global sales.

Spotify is the largest platform of all with a reported 626 million users and 246 million subscribers.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Spotify Users Look Back on Year of Listening Habits

Swedish furniture company IKEA has opened a new store.

There's nothing strange about that. But wait a minute — the new store is inside a video game. And it's paying real people to work there!

IKEA advertised for 10 positions in a virtual store it has opened in Roblox — and got more than 178,000 applications!

Roblox is a popular online gaming platform that lets users play games and create their own.

IKEA has created The Co-Worker Game on the platform. And it needed some employees.

At the start of June, IKEA began looking for people aged 18 and over in the UK and Ireland to work as paid members of staff at the in-game store.

It said staff would help customers, and would be able to get promoted and move departments, just like in real life.

The company said it wanted to show that it does things a little differently.

Wes Davis from technology website The Verge called it a "weird" but "harmless" idea.

He said he'd never heard of other companies paying people to work in a game, but added that US company Walmart has already created a game on Roblox.

IKEA said its employees would be paid a little over $16.50 per hour during their work-from-home shifts, which is about the same as the company's other workers get paid in the UK.

The store opened on June 24. It's not clear how long the workers will be employed for, although the company said the positions would be on a "limited contract."

It also said anyone who didn't get a job could still experience the virtual store and win in-game prizes.

IKEA Pays People Real Money to Work in Video Game

Happy 4th of January,2024. Today, I will share some tips about skin care. These are tips that both men and women can learn something valuable.
It's time for that Glow Up.

KRISTEL TALKS

It's the GLOW UP SEASON: 2024 SKIN CARE

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

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

