This week we discuss the idiom: 

to catch a break

Brentoni's English Podcast

032 - to catch a break

[ — Audio description, listen and read along for greater understanding. — ]

— Oi! Como você está?

— Oi! Estou bem, e você?

— Estou bem também. E o trabalho como está?

— Ah, está indo. Estou cansada mas nada fora do normal. E você?

— Eu saí do meu antigo emprego. Estou procurando um novo. Você tem alguma dica?

— Sim, você pode procurar online. Sites como LinkedIn costumam ter boas vagas de emprego.

— Boa ideia. Vou dar uma olhada. Obrigado!

— De nada! Boa sorte na busca e me diga se precisar de ajuda!

— Pode deixar!


PORTUREAD - Listen to small texts and conversations samples in portuguese!

Como está o trabalho? — SMALL TALK IN PORTUGUESE (A1-B1 LEVEL)

小猫拉车   （岸冈）
小猫拉车，老鼠不坐。
黄鼠狼拉车，小鸡不坐。
灰狼拉车，山羊不坐。
老虎拉车，谁也不坐。

Read Rhymes With Shirley

小猫拉车

KEYS:
по́езд
клие́нт
нет
э́рос
её
экра́н
Ева
я е́ду
он е́дет
мы е́дем
мы пьём
мы поём
он идёт

Want to sound great in Russian? Sign up for my pronunciation course BREAK THE CYRILLIC CODE. Until May 2, you can study for free. Here is your COUPON: https://www.udemy.com/course/break-the-cyrillic-code/?couponCode=FF8A23A875D0B3E557BC


Write dictations in Russian

Write Russian words with iotized vowels Е, Ё

For the next 6+ episodes we're going to be going into details about Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions. This research changed my life when I first learned about it over 10 years ago, giving me a true sense of what culture is, and what the subtle differences in culture are between countries at the fundamental level. More than just knowing that one country or culture does something 'this' way and another does it 'that' way, learning about Hofstede's dimensions can help you to truly understand the WHY.

More Than English Podcast

Introduction to HOFSTEDE'S CULTURAL DIMENSIONS | More than English Podcast #009

Último episodio de la trilogía de los gauchos. En este les contaré sobre el libro El guacho Martin Fierro de Oscar Fariña y su vínculo con El gaucho Martin Fierro de José Hernández. También leeré algunos de sus versos para que puedan conocer esta llamativa obra.
En este episodio se retoman temas charlados previamente en "Cumbia argentina" y por supuesto en las dos primeras partes: "Los gauchos: ¿realidad o ficción?" y "El Martin Fierro"

Porteña

El guacho Martin Fierro

Ссылка на текст👇 Link to the text
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-bxY6sBj5AOxbq3S0cWHcW14qebb4-aOHCL8_8hGKYk/edit?usp=sharing

Лёгкий иврит

Fashion in Hebrew | Мода на иврите

Herkese merhaba.Bu gün harika bir şiir ile Türkçe’de “if clause” cümlelerini
öğreneceğiz. Hadi başlayalım!
Koşul veya şart kelimeleri İngilizce’de “condition” demek.
Türkçe’de if clause yani koşul cümlesi kurmak aslında çok kolay: sadece if
clause cümlesinin sonuna -sa/-se koşul ekini getiriyoruz. Şu örneğe bakalım :
Yağmur yağar > It rains
Dışarı çıkmam. > I don’t go out.
Koşul cümlemiz “ yağmur yağar”.Yani bu cümlenin sonuna -sa /-se ekini
getiriyoruz.
Yağmur yağarsa dışarı çıkmam. > It means “If it rains ,I won’t go out.”

Melih Cevdet Anday’ın “ Çok güzel şey” şiirinde birçok if clause yani koşul
cümlesi var. Hadi inceleyelim.

Yaşamak güzel şey doğrusu, - In fact , it’s a good thing to be alive
Üstelik hava da güzelse, - Additionally if the weather is nice
Hele gücün kuvvetin yerindeyse - especially if you’re strong
Elin ekmek tutmuşsa bir de - plus if you earn your bread
Hele tertemizse gönlün - especially if your heart is pure
Hele kar gibiyse alnın - especially if your forehead is like snow
Yani kendinden korkmuyorsan - So if you’re not afraid of yourself
Kimseden korkmuyorsan dünyada - if you’re not afraid of anyone in the world
Dostuna güveniyorsan - if you trust your best friend
İyi günler bekliyorsan hele - especially if you expect good days
İyi günlere inanıyorsan- if you believe in good days
Üstelik hava da güzelse- additionally if the weather is nice
Yaşamak güzel şey - It’s a good thing to be alive
Çok güzel şey doğrusu! - It’s a very beautiful thing , actually.

Şiirden bazı deyimler :
gücü kuvveti yerinde olmak: (lit)someone’s power is on its place.
It means one is still physically avaliable to do daily duties or one is still


The music : from my heart
Musician : bdksonic
energetic.
alnı kar gibi olmak: this comes from “alnı ak olmak”. :According to the
understanding, if you haven’t done anything bad to be ashamed of, if you’re
honorable, your forehead is white / bright. 

a.cup.of.Turkish  /  podcasts with their transcripts ✨

" Çok güzel şey " şiiri ile koşul cümlelerini öğrenmek. / Learning conditional sentences with the poem "It's a nice thing" "


Beyoncé has now won more Grammys than any other artist in history, having brought her total to 32 at the award ceremony on February 5. That's one more than late conductor Georg Solti, who previously held the record.

Beyoncé won best R&B song for "Cuff It," best dance/electronic music recording for "Break My Soul" and best traditional R&B performance for "Plastic Off the Sofa." She then won best dance/electronic music album for Renaissance, which was also nominated for album of the year.

However, that top award went to British singer-actor, Harry Styles, for Harry's House.

Lizzo won record of the year — a category that awards all of the contributors on a single song — for "About Damn Time," giving a speech that brought many in the audience, including Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Adele, to their feet.

"I wanted to make the world a better place, so I had to be that change to make the world a better place. Now, I look around and see these songs are about loving your body and feeling comfortable in your skin and feeling good."



Sam Smith and Kim Petras won best pop duo-group performance for their song "Unholy." Petras said Smith wanted Petras to make the acceptance speech because "I'm the first transgender woman to win this award."

Petras also thanked friend and Grammy-nominated musician Sophie, who died after an accidental fall in Athens, Greece in 2021.

"Thank you so much for your inspiration, Sophie. I adore you, and your inspiration will forever be in my music," she said.

An Iranian singer, who is facing possible prison time for his music, won the award for best song for social change.

Shervin Hajipour couldn't be at the Los Angeles ceremony to receive his award for "Baraye" — which means "For." But he appeared stunned by his win in a video shared online.

"Baraye's" lyrics list the reasons many young people in Iran have been protesting in recent months, ending with the popular slogan, "For women, life, freedom."