Teacher Joseph's Podcast

Verbs in the Coffee Shop

Today's episode is about focusing. This topic interests me greatly as I get constantly distracted. I share some top tips to help you focus.

Matcha & Meditation

Focus

I invite you to check out 3 more Russian tongue twisters! 
Give it a shot and try repeating after me. I'll read each one twice: first slowly, and then closer to normal speed.

мАма мЫла мИлу мЫлом, мИла мЫло не любИла. (м,л) 

Ехал грЕка чЕрез рЕку, вИдит грЕка – в рекЕ рак. сУнул грЕка рУку в рЕку, рак за рУку грЕку – цап! (р,к)

былА у фролА, фролУ на лАвра навралА, пойдУ к лаврУ, на фролА лаврУ наврУ. (ф,л,в)

These tongue twisters focus on various Russian sounds. Try to articulate them as clearly as possible. Let's focus on accuracy rather than speed. Good luck!


Russian with Elina

Russian tongue twisters - part 4

A flight attendant approaches Matt to offer him a drink.


Flight Attendant
Would you like something to drink? We have soda, coffee and tea as well as alcoholic beverages.


Matt
Sure, how much are the drinks?


Flight Attendant
Non-alcoholic beverages are free of charge. Alcoholic drinks are five dollars each.


Matt
Ok. I'd like to have a cup of coffee, please. Are meals going to be served on this flight?


Flight Attendant
Dinner will be served halfway through the flight. I will also bring you a snack with your beverage.


Matt
Can we choose what we will have for dinner?


Flight Attendant
Certainly. I will be bringing the menu for you to choose from. We have chicken, fish, and beef.


Matt
Is a vegetarian meal available?


Flight Attendant
Yes, but only if you have requested a special meal when you booked your flight. If not, I will try to find some extra servings of vegetables for you.


Matt
That would be great. Thank you very much.

English Conversation/Dialogue

Airline Food Services

There is an old theory that eating cheese before bed causes bad dreams, although scientists don't have much evidence to prove it.

But if cheese can't make us dream, new research from the US says that perhaps an app could — and they don't have to be bad dreams!

Researchers experimented with an app that they designed to encourage people to have lucid dreams. These are dreams that feel vivid and real.

During lucid dreams, people know that they're dreaming and may even be able to control what happens in the dream.

Not everyone has lucid dreams. It's thought that about half of us will have them during our lives, but some people may have them regularly.

Lucid dreams may be useful for us: experts think they could encourage creativity and problem-solving, or help us with nightmares.

The app in the study used a method called "targeted lucidity reactivation" that is supposed to make people more likely to experience lucid dreams.

This is usually done in a laboratory, but the researchers wanted to see how effective an app used at home could be.

They did two experiments to see if the app could increase the frequency of participants' lucid dreams.

The first experiment included 19 participants. Before going to sleep, they did a 20-minute activity that encouraged them to enter a "lucid mindset" when they heard certain sounds.

These same sounds were then played during the night. The frequency of the participants' lucid dreams more than doubled during the week of the experiment.

Fifty people completed the second experiment. They were put into three groups, with one group using the targeted lucidity reactivation method.

The people in this group reported that they had experienced more lucid dreams during the week of the experiment than those in the two control groups.

The researchers said these results suggest that apps like this could help people to use sleep for "personal benefits" including "spiritual and personal growth."

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

App Could Help People to Have Lucid Dreams

こんにちは、Atsushiです。
今日の天気は、晴れ。
気温は25℃。

今日はマンガについて話します。
みなさんは日本のマンガは好きですか？


どんなマンガを知っていますか？
よく海外の方から名前を聞くのは、
ワンピース
ナルト
進撃の巨人
などよく聞きます。


私はマンガがとても好きです。大好きです。
本当に小さい時から読みました。
大人になって読んでいるのは、

キングダム
宇宙兄弟
ゴールデンカムイ
ブルーピリオド
ドラゴン桜
インベスターz
ブルージャイアント
昭和元禄落語心中(しょうわげんろくらくごしんぢゅう)

ちょっとマニアックなものもありますね。


私がマンガを好きな理由は、
単純におもしろいから
そして、とても勉強になるから
です。

マンガを読むことは、本を読むことに似ていると思います。
小さい時はおもしろいだけで読んでいましたが、大人になると、マンガを読んでいろいろ新しいことを知ったり、考えることも好きになりました。

みなさんはどんなマンガが好きですか？
よかったら、ぜひ一緒にレッスンで話しましょう！

それでは！


Atsushi のJapanese podcast (travel/news /文法・漢字・語彙/Osaka/Hokkaido/🇹🇷🇬🇪🇦🇲🇪🇸🇵🇹)

18 マンガについて

The word "Eccentric".

Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wsGDwebvjdJJbmupHwDhhdDSpnxueTwI/view?usp=drivesdk