Nick tells you what to expect on this new podcast!

IELTS with Nick - World Knowledge 

Introduction

En esta autobiografía la autora relata con una prosa excepcional las diferentes etapas de su vida. Su niñez y adolescencia en las montañas de Idaho con su familia mormona. Los cuales se preparaban para el fin del mundo. Tara no asistió a la escuela y en cambio tuvo una mínima educación en casa. A los 17 años, imaginando un futuro diferente, tocó las puertas de una educación que sin que ella lo imaginara la llevaría a cuestionarse quién en realidad era ella.

El Librero de la Flaska 

Una educación de Tara Westover

in this story we have hens and their gossiping . 
hope you enjoy it 

English stories

the feather 

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/222775612267
https://youtu.be/ruVcnKzAUwg

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 with Korean grammar in Korean conversation 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 1. (Beginner 1)

Korean Listening Class 한국어 문장 듣기 - Korean teacher, Grace

Updated-Korean Conversation 1. (Beginner 1) - Lesson 10. - Beginner 1  Part 1 -으시-/-시-  Part 2 -으러 가다/-러 가다 

English with Uncle Billy

Christmas

Aprende dos palabras nuevas y expresa de manera formal una idea que parece básica 

Alberto The Interview Coach — Entrenamiento para Entrevistas en Inglés... Sin Estrés 

En busca, y personificación: palabras útiles en entrevistas

こんにちは、あかりです。日本の料理(りょうり)はこれがあれば大丈夫(だいじょうぶ)！

Usage of Slow Japanese:
STEP 1. Listen to the episode without seeing the scripts.
STEP 2. Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠mochifika.com/podcast/⁠⁠⁠⁠ and check "Key vocabularies of this episode", and listen again to the episode while seeing the list.
STEP 3. Check the whole script, it'll fill the gap in your understanding.

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Slow Japanese

Episode #71 - Japanese meal Tips!

TikTok has announced it will block young users on the social networking platform from using certain beauty filters on photographs.

The filters allow users to edit photos and do things like make people's skin look clearer, their eyes a little bigger or their lips a little fuller.

Some filters also allow users to change their skin color, and it can be hard to see when a photograph has been edited in this way.

People under the age of 18 will be blocked from using these filters, some of which are created by users and others that are made by the app.

TikTok announced the changes after a report by Internet Matters, a children's online safety organization. The organization found that these beauty filters could be damaging to children's mental health because they put young people under pressure to look a certain way.

This can damage children's self-esteem and cause anxiety, experts say.

Christine Grahn from TikTok said on LinkedIn: "If our users don't feel safe, they won't bring their true selves to TikTok and the platform just wouldn't be the same."

One TikTok user told The Guardian in 2022 that she had considered getting cosmetic surgery after a period of using beauty filters on the app.

Fun filters that allow children to add dog noses or rabbit ears to images will still be available to use.

One problem with the ban is that not all users enter their real ages when signing up to TikTok. The company said it would soon be trying out new machine learning systems that could help find out when users had entered the incorrect age.

TikTok is under pressure to stop under 13s from using the platform by giving false dates of birth.

Children's safety charities want all social media sites to do more to make the platforms safe spaces for young people.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

TikTok to Ban Under 18s from Using Beauty Filters

En un estado pintoresco del corazón de México, donde la historia se entrelaza con la pasión por la cocina, nació una de las joyas culinarias más emblemáticas del país: los chiles en nogada. Este exquisito platillo ha cautivado paladares durante siglos y es una verdadera obra maestra de la gastronomía poblana.
Su origen se remonta a los días tumultuosos de la independencia mexicana en el siglo XIX, cuando el país luchaba por su libertad. La historia cuenta que estos chiles rellenos fueron creados por primera vez en 1821, un año trascendental para la nación mexicana.

La leyenda cuenta que las monjas agustinas del Convento de Santa Mónica cocinaron los chiles en nogada en honor al Ejército Trigarante y al líder insurgente Agustín de Iturbide, quien había regresado a Puebla triunfante en ese año. La ocasión coincidió con la festividad de Santa Mónica, lo que hizo que el plato fuera aún más especial. Desde entonces, este platillo ha estado asociado a la celebración de independencia del país.
Otra versión señala que la receta de los chiles bañados en salsa de nuez existía desde 1714. La noche en la que fueron preparados en honor a Iturbide, quien se convirtió en emperador, únicamente surgió la decoración con los colores patrios que se conserva hasta ahora.
Los chiles en nogada consisten en chiles poblanos rellenos de picadillo, una mezcla de carne de res y cerdo, sazonada con pasas, almendras, frutas como pera y manzana, especias y condimentos. Pero lo que les otorga su carácter distintivo es la nogada, una salsa cremosa a base de nuez de Castilla, que aporta un toque de exquisitez a la mezcla de sabores.

Por último, se espolvorean con granos de granada, creando un contraste de sabores y texturas que deleitan los sentidos, y unas ramitas de cilantro. Actualmente existe un debate sobre si los chiles van capeados o no.
