Intermediate Chinese Listening：帮助睡眠的食物  The food that helps sleep

Intermediate Chinese Listening

Everything you need to know about the articles (A, An, and The) in English.
How we use them. The General Rules. Special Rules. And Pronunciation.
https://youtu.be/kxftIzuFFtA?si=1OwtCtGEYTktzN95

English Syndicate

English Grammar Lesson: The articles in the English language 📖

Godisavsnittet-Swedish candy!

Vad vet du om svensk godis? 

Vi fortsätter språkresan mot flytande svenska med lite nostalgi om svensk godis!! Här får du veta mer om godis i Sverige och varför det smakar så läckert gott med mjukt lösgodis.      

Prata Flytande Svenska/Speak Swedish Fluently  

Godisavsnittet

Listening&Speaking Boost. Elementary Level.

Units 1-2

KDYŽ JDETE NA NÁKUP:
Máte nákupní seznam, nebo kupujete všechno, co vidíte?
Máte strach mluvit s prodavačem?
Máte vztek, když je něco v akci, ale regál je prázdný?
Napište mi do komentářů nebo si zarezervujte lekci! Těším se! 

Všední den v Čechách - Everyday life in the Czech republic

Jak jsem byla nakupovat A2

الكلمات المتشابه في الصوت

ADEL ALBANNA: A PROFISSIONAL ARABIC TEACHER

皆さんの国に方言はありますか。
日本には地域によって多様な方言があります。
今回は、北海道出身のフミと佐賀県出身のアヤがお互いの方言について話します。

Are there any dialects in your country?
In Japan, there are many different dialects depending on the region. 
This time, Fumi from Hokkaido and Aya from Saga talk about our dialects. 

♤ キーワード
・標準語（ひょうじゅんご：standard language）
・ぽろっと（slip out accidentally）
・自発的な（じはつてきな：spontaneously）
・気取る（きどる：act snobbish）
・〜色に染まる（〜いろにそまる：to be absorbed in…）
・平安時代（へいあんじだい：The Heian period：At the end of the 8th century, the capital was moved to present-day Kyoto. The Heian period designates a span of roughly 400 years until the 12th century.）
・十二単（じゅうにひとえ：a twelve-layered kimono worn by noblewomen during the Heian period）

♧ 理解度チェッククイズ
1. 佐賀県の方言「ぞろびく」はどういう意味？
2. 北海道と佐賀県の方言で「さようなら」はそれぞれ何と言う？

♢ 前回のクイズの答え
1. フミが最近気になっている言葉は？ 
→ 界隈（かいわい）
2. それはどういう意味？ 
→ 〜の人たち、〜をする人たち
3. 元々どこで使われていた言葉？
→ インターネット上でスラングとして使われていた

BGM special thanks：MusMus

アヤさんとフミさんの日本語雑談（Aya and Fumi’s Japanese Chit-Chat）

Episode 30：日本の方言

La Semana Santa es una celebración popular en España. De hecho, esta época del año ha dado lugar a diferentes expresiones que los españoles usamos todo el tiempo, no solo durante estas fechas. 

En el episodio de hoy comento algunas de estas expresiones relacionadas con la Semana Santa y su significado. 

Como siempre, espero que disfrutes el episodio y aprendas algo nuevo. Después de escucharlo no te olvides de dejar una valoración a este podcast.


Blanca to go 

82 – Expresiones relacionadas con la Semana Santa

Working from home and avoiding the journey to and from the office is saving many of us at least an hour every day, according to a 2023 study.

But we're not always using that saved time for ourselves — we're actually spending a lot of that time working.

The US-based National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) did a survey that looked at how workers in 27 countries used their time when working from home.

On average, the daily time saved by working from home was found to be 72 minutes.

Workers in China saved 102 minutes per day, while in Japan it was 100 minutes, and in India it was 99.

But the study also found that, on average, 40% of that saved time was spent working — either on the worker's main job or on an additional one.

Workers in Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan said they used more than half of their saved time to work.

So what happened to the rest of that extra time?

According to the study, an average of 34% was used as leisure time — with people in Germany and Austria using almost half of their extra time for leisure.

And 11% — about eight minutes per day — was spent looking after children or other family members.

The NBER said children had gotten a better deal with parents working from home — but that the big winners were employers, who got extra work time from their employees.

