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25. Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节

Learn in this IELTS Speaking Episode lots of vocabulary, idioms and collocations to describe people, their personality traits, what they look like, how they are, and what they do. This is a great IELTS topic for learning the best idioms and phrases to Hack IELTS speaking questions on talking about people. If you would like to book a class with Carlita, ask her a question and she will respond!

IELTS Speaking Preparation

Episode 3 - Describing People 

This podcast explores Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42891/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening

Poem of the Day

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost

Czech Easily: Slow & Easy

5. Sladké Česko plné včel

In this episode, we’ll explore the difference between “责任” and “负责”, two Chinese words that are closely related but often confusing for Chinese learners.
Although both words are connected to responsibility, they are used in very different ways in real-life Chinese. I’ll introduce a simple technique to help you clearly understand their meanings, sentence patterns, and usage contexts.

Learn Chinese and Have Fun!

A Simple Technique to Differentiate “负责” from “责任”

At what age do we become "old?"

This is a question a team of European researchers has been asking.

The age at which people think old age begins has moved in time, according to a new study.

Many people also like to believe they haven't yet reached old age, even as they get older.

The research team looked at data from the German Ageing Survey, which included more than 14,000 participants.

The participants were born between 1911 and 1974, and answered survey questions over a 25-year period between 1996 and 2021.

They were aged between 40 and 85 when they began answering the questions, and more participants joined the survey in time.

People were asked a lot of questions, including: "At what age would you describe someone as old?"

The researchers found that when people born in 1911 got to the age of 65, they thought old age began at 71.

But when those who were born in 1956 got to 65, they thought old age began at 74, on average.

However, the study also found that people's perceptions of old age changed as they got older.

At the age of 64, the average participant said old age began at about 75. But at the age of 74, the average participant said old age began at about 76.

Study author Markus Wettstein said he wasn't sure if this meant people had a positive or negative view of old age.

Better health care and increased life expectancy in recent years may also have affected people's perceptions, he said.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

When Does 'Old Age' Begin? People Can't Decide

Hoy conoceremos algunos tragos típicos de América Latina, aprenderemos un poco más del origen, proceso, curiosidades y hasta procedimiento para hacer algunos. Continúa por aquí

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Tragos típicos de América Latina 

Two native speakers, CAMILA (I) from Argentina and JESSIE from the USA, meet in this amazing podcast with updated IDIOMS for you to use in both languages! 

Jessie's profile: https://www.italki.com/teacher/11670783  , who is a teacher here in ITALKI, too!


Nos juntamos, junto con Jessie desde EEUU, para traerte las expresiones idiomáticas más frecuentes y actuales en ambos idiomas. NO QUERES PERDERTE ESTO!

Perfil de Jessie: https://www.italki.com/teacher/11670783 , que también es profesora en Italki!


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Idioms in English and Spanish / Expresiones idiomáticas en Inglés y Español

Princess Kate Keen to Visit the Olympic Games