We're starting something new today. From now on, we'll be introducing one new English idiom per episode. We'll cover the grammar, meaning and emotional nuance of the expression before providing a few realistic examples.

Today's idiom is "the ball is in my court".

Brentoni's English Podcast

022 - "the ball is in my court"

In this episode，you will learn some basic sentences about how to introduce yourself.
在這裡，你會學到一些關於“自我介紹” 的簡單句式。

Episode1: 
1.你好，我叫做Sam. ( Hello, I’m called Sam.)
néih hóu, ngóh giu jouh Sam.（Yale）
nei5 hou2, ngo5 giu3 zou6 Sam. (Jyutping)

你好，我係Sam.（Hello, I'm Sam.）
néih hóu, ngóh haih Sam.
nei5 hou2, ngo5 hai6 Sam.

2.我係美國人。（I‘m American.）
ngóh haih méih gwok yàhn.
ngo5 hai6 mei5 gwok3 jan4.

中國人jūng gwok yàhn/zung1 gwok3 jan4（Chinese）
英國人yīng gwok yàhn/jing1 gwok3 jan4(British)
日本人yaht bún yàhn/jat6 bun2 jan4（Japanese）
巴西人bā sāi yàhn/baa1 sai1 jan4 (Brazilian）
西班牙人sāi bāan ngàh yàhn/sai1 baan1 ngaa4 jan4（Spanish）
澳洲人 ou jāu yàhn/ ou3 zau1 jan4（Australian）

3.我係一名老師。（I‘m a teacher.）
ngóh haih yāt mìhng lóuh sī.
ngo5 hai6 jat1 ming4 lou5 si1.

律師leuht sī/leot6 si1（lawyer）
醫生yī sāng/ji1 sang1（doctor）
學生hohk sāang/hok6 saang1（student）
護士wuh sih/wu6 si6（nurse）
商人sēung yàhn/soeng1 jan4（businessman/businesswoman）
文員màhn yùhn/man4 jyun4（office clerk）
工程師gūng chìhng sī/gung1 cing4 si1（engineer）

Penny and penny lay up will be many，keep trying! 不積跬步無以至千里，加油吧！

Daliy Conversations for Cantonese (粵語會話）

Introduce yourself（自我介紹）part1

In this episode, you will listen to a phone call with a travel agent and learn how to buy a ticket. Enjoy your podcast!
<<< Don't forget to solve the related quiz after listening to the podcast.

Turkish Conversations from Zero to Hero

Episode 3 : A Phone Call With a Travel Agent - Bilet Alıyorum... 

Learn about business and profession stereotypes, most notably artists, and about everything that goes on behind the scenes.
Best for intermediate and advanced students!

New English US

Business English: Behind the scenes (stereotypes, artists, hustle, creative work)

Aviator Races to Photograph the World's Glaciers
Garrett Fisher is traveling the world in his little blue-white "Super Cub" airplane, as he tries to document every remaining glacier on Earth.

The 41-year-old Fisher does it for a simple reason: "Because I love them."

However, he does it for another purpose too — the climate is changing, and the planet's glaciers are melting. Fisher believes documenting, archiving, and remembering these changes is important.

According to Fisher, the melting glaciers are the first indication that we're losing something because of climate change. "In 100 or 200 years, most of them will be gone," he says.

That's why Fisher is building an archive of his glacier photos. He believes any record he makes before the glaciers melt could be very valuable to future generations.

In 2021, Fisher started the Global Glacier Initiative, an organization to support and show his work, and he plans to open his archive to the public for research.

Many glaciers are hard to get to or photograph — so Fisher has to make some dangerous journeys. Why does he do it?

He's looking for the perfect picture; one so beautiful it can make people and policymakers act. And if one image isn't enough, then maybe a whole archive will make people come and look, get close and pay attention.

"We can live without [glaciers]. We will live without them," Fisher says. "However, it hurts us to lose them."

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Aviator Races to Photograph the World's Glaciers

안녕하세요. Hello~
한국어 듣기 수업 시작해요. Let's start with the Korean listening class.
선생님 읽어요.  I read it.
잘 들으세요. Please listen well.

I posted the sentences on my blog. 
https://blog.naver.com/laramcraft/222920061502
https://youtu.be/bNTmoeXDlHA

The basics are important.
It is also good to check the basics of 한글 Hangeul before this listening class.
1-1. Korean alphabet - Vowels 모음 - What is Hangeul?
https://youtu.be/0YzhJ9p2lcs
2-1. Korean alphabet - Consonants 자음 -what are the consonants 자음?
https://youtu.be/lckgvQ_vreA
3-1. Korean alphabet - Final Consonants 받침 - What are the final consonants 받침?
https://youtu.be/sLlFmG30fNI

This is a class to listen to Korean conversational sentences.
In this voice recording for listening, 
After reading many sentences in Korean conversations sentences, 
Check out how much you understand the sentences with a voice recording. 
Never look at the sentences when listening to the voice recording. 
And Listen to the sentence repeatedly until you hear it completely. 

You are listening to the Sejong Korean conversation. (세종학당)
There are four books in total. (Korean conversation, 1, 2, 3, 4.)
It consists of 1st and 2nd courses for beginners and 1st and 2nd courses for intermediate.
Each course is conducted in 14 units. (2 grammar - for each unit.) 
This listening class you are taking is Korean Conversation 2. (Beginner 2)
Please listen carefully.

Korean Listening Class 한국어 문장 듣기 - Korean teacher, Grace

Korean Conversation 2 - Lesson 12. Part 1 -​은 지/-ㄴ 지,  Part 2 -는데, -은데/-ㄴ데  (Beginner 2)

The Step Pyramid of Djoser

A

The pyramids are the most famous monuments of ancient Egypt and still hold enormous interest for people in the present day. These grand, impressive tributes to the memory of the Egyptian kings have become linked with the country even though other cultures, such as the Chinese and Mayan, also built pyramids. The evolution of the pyramid form has been written and argued about for centuries. However, there is no question that, as far as Egypt is concerned, it began with one monument to one king designed by one brilliant architect: the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara.

B

Djoser was the first king of the Third Dynasty of Egypt and the first to build in stone. Prior to Djoser’s reign, tombs were rectangular monuments made of dried clay brick, which covered underground passages where the deceased person was buried. For reasons which remain unclear, Djoser’s main official, whose name was Imhotep, conceived of building a taller, more impressive tomb for his king by stacking stone slabs on top of one another, progressively making them smaller, to form the shape now known as the Step Pyramid. Djoser is thought to have reigned for 19 years, but some historians and scholars attribute a much longer time for his rule, owing to the number and size of the monuments he built.

C

The Step Pyramid has been thoroughly examined and investigated over the last century, and it is now known that the building process went through many different stages. Historian Marc Van de Mieroop comments on this, writing ‘Much experimentation was involved, which is especially clear in the construction of the pyramid in the center of the complex. It had several plans … before it became the first Step Pyramid in history, piling six levels on top of one another … The weight of the enormous mass was a challenge for the builders, who placed the stones at an inward incline in order to prevent the monument breaking up.’

Part 2 will be added later today. Stay tuned.


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Cambridge IELTS Reading & Comprehension

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