She spoke fluent English, but still got rejected for jobs. It wasn’t her grammar. It was the way that she spoke  — fast, tense, unfriendly. This episode reveals what helped her.

Real English Skills

She Thought Her English Was Good — Until She Moved to California

How to introduce yourself? 介绍自己
How to talk about your interests? 我的爱好
Describing your city 我的城市
Sharing your phone number and email 电话号/电邮

New Words 生词：
старый - old，旧/老；
уютный - cozy，暖和；
особенно - especially，尤其；
фильмы - movies，电影；
давайте общаться - let's keep in touch，让我们谈谈。

Пряник

Как тебя зовут?

１２年前の東日本大震災で私が経験したエピソードを話しています。

日本語でおしゃべり　podcast for Japanese learners

＃16 12年前の東日本大震災の話

In this episode we will talk about the two main good luck traditions for the new year´s eve.

Leggende e tradizioni italiane

Capodanno

English & Japanese Bilingual Podcast for fun!!

日本語🇯🇵とEnglish🇺🇸のポッドキャスト🎙 Japanese and English Bilingual Podcast for fun!!

Pilot: Talk about Discord

Hey guys! 你好, Welcome to Veronica's Chinese Channel！ In today’s lesson, we are going to learn how to say “how are you” and how to answer it in Chinese.

Veronica's Chinese Channel

 How are you? 你好吗？

Today I share my personal experience with mindfulness and meditation.

Matcha & Meditation

Mindfulness

Tea and the Industrial RevolutionA Cambridge professor says that a change in drinking habits was the reason for the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Anjana Abuja reports

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Alan Macfarlane, professor of anthropological science at King’s College, Cambridge has, like other historians, spent decades wrestling with the enigma of the Industrial Revolution. Why did this particular Big Bang – the world-changing birth of industry-happen in Britain? And why did it strike at the end of the 18th century?

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Macfarlane compares the puzzle to a combination lock. ‘There are about 20 different factors and all of them need to be present before the revolution can happen,’ he says. For industry to take off, there needs to be the technology and power to drive factories, large urban populations to provide cheap labour, easy transport to move goods around, an affluent middle-class willing to buy mass-produced objects, a market-driven economy and a political system that allows this to happen. While this was the case for England, other nations, such as Japan, the Netherlands and France also met some of these criteria but were not industrialising. All these factors must have been necessary. But not sufficient to cause the revolution, says Macfarlane. ‘After all, Holland had everything except coal while China also had many of these factors. Most historians are convinced there are one or two missing factors that you need to open the lock.’

C and D parts will be added below.