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# 7 Short story 'She will be a teacher'  (+transcription)


Gùkè: 	Wǒmen 	xiǎnɡ 	mǎi 	yí 	ɡe 	xiǎo 
顾客： 	我们 	想 	买 	一 	个 	小 
bīnɡxiānɡ, 	nǎ 	zhǒnɡ 	zhìliànɡ 	hǎo? 
冰箱， 	哪 	种 	质量 	好？ 
Shòuhuòyuán: 	Zhìliànɡ 	dōu 	búcuò. 
售货员: 	质量 	都 	不错。 
Gùkè: 	Zhè 	zhǒnɡ 	yǒu 	shénme 	bùtónɡ? 
顾客： 	这 	种 	有 	什么 	不同？ 
Shòuhuòyuán: 	Zhè 	zhǒnɡ 	zàoyīn 	tèbié 	xiǎo. 
售货员： 	这 	种 	噪音 	特别 	小。 
Gùkè: 	Yào 	zhèɡe. 
顾客： 	要 	这个。 


日常用语

商场   market

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Welcome back to another episode of Streetwise English podcast. My name is Carl. Today I want to talk about breaking the ice. So breaking the ice means meeting someone new that you don't know for the first time. So when you go to a party or you go to a new workplace or a new school, you're always going to have the occasion where you need to meet people for the very first time.


And sometimes this can be awkward and you can feel embarrassed about talking to someone if you don't know them and they don't know you and you're not friends yet. So I just wanted to talk really briefly about some advice that I have for you to meet people for the first time in any environment. And this is especially true if you are not a native speaker of their language.


So the first tip I have is to simply smile. Make your face look friendly and welcoming and give eye contact to the person that you want to talk to. It sounds really simple and obvious, but if you missed this step um, you know, this is a very important step and this is half the battle. So make sure that you look approachable yourself and you smile And you might even make a slight hand gesture, like, uh, a mini wave of some sort.  And the next thing is to simply say hello.


You don't have to come up with any kind of clever saying or pick up line or joke just simply saying hello. And you can see if the other person is interested in having a conversation with you.


And another tip is that you can be observant of what the person looks like or what clothes they're wearing and use that as a clue um, to tell you about who they are. For example, if the person is wearing very nice running shoes you kind of have the idea that this person likes to run or this person may be a runner or if you notice that the person has, um, cauliflower ears, you know, scarred ears from wrestling OK, this guy is probably a fighter. (please subscribe to the Streetwise English Podcast)





Streetwise English

SWE17 How to Break the Ice?

私の2024年の目標です。みなさんも目標があればおしえてください。

ゆかのにほんごカフェ

#1 2024年の目標

拼音

Nouns and verbs we can use when describing work tasks.

The English Toolbox

Work Vocabulary

For the second year in a row, Taylor Swift has been named Spotify's most-played artist.

The streaming service has released its annual overview of individual listening trends as well as trends from around the world — called Spotify Wrapped.

Users can now see their top artists, songs, genres, albums and podcasts, as well as uncover which artists had the biggest year on the platform.

Swift was 2024's most-streamed artist globally, ranking in more than 26.6 billion streams. She was followed by The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Drake and Billie Eilish.

Swift also earned the title of most-streamed album in 2024, with The Tortured Poets Department, while Sabrina Carpenter had the most-streamed song both in the US and globally this year, with her summer hit "Espresso." It was streamed more than 1.6 billion times.

For users who want to look back at their listening habits over the year, there were some new features to explore on Spotify Wrapped.

These include a new data story called "Your Music Evolution," which shows three distinct musical phases for each user, and a personalized playlist based on them.

People like to share their Spotify Wrapped data on social media, although this year some complained that the roundup was missing certain features they'd previously enjoyed.

Streaming now accounts for most of the money generated by the music industry — 84% in the United States, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, and 67.3% around the world, according to a 2024 report by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which tracks global sales.

Spotify is the largest platform of all with a reported 626 million users and 246 million subscribers.