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Business and life lessons from Jack Ma

In questo episodio parlo di com'è in genere la colazione in Italia, buono ascolto a tutti!!!!!

The Italian Miscellaneous Podcast🖐 

Cosa come e quanto mangiano gli italiani: La Colazione

Ciao amici! Vi descrivo brevemente Pia, il mio animaletto. Che animale sarà?

L'italiano con Mimi 

Il mio animale domestico

Listen to this funny conversation between a mother and their children. Pay attention to the vocabulary of the family and the relationship between each member of the family. 

Aprende árabe con Radia 

The family 

Man 1: Several years ago, I was in a car accident that left me with a back injury. As a computer programmer, I am still able to do my job, but I often have to take painkillers. When the pain gets particularly bad, I sometimes have to lie down on my back for a while until it goes away because sitting up really hurts. When we were in the office, I would worry that my colleagues would see me taking pills. Since we’ve been working from home, it has been much better. I can go and see my physical therapist more often too. I don’t have to worry as much and if I need to lie down for a little while to help my back, I can. When we were in the office, I’d sometimes be in a lot of pain but didn’t feel like I could say anything.

Woman: I have suffered from depression for a long time. Most of the time I manage it, but I often feel very nervous. Working in an office was really hard as I was always scared that I might panic and my colleagues would wonder why I was acting strangely. Working at home has been so much better for me as I don’t have to talk to so many people and I can have a relaxed environment and play peaceful music. Management is talking about going back to the office soon and I can already feel a lot of anxiety about it. I’m worried that I will not be able to hide that I’m depressed and people will judge me.

Man 2: I’m quite deaf in one ear. I don’t like to mention it when I’m at work because I feel as though there is often a stigma around disabilities. I worry that people will treat me differently. The problem is, sometimes I don’t hear when people are talking to me and then they think I’m ignoring them or I’m not listening. Working at home has been great for me because all of our communication has been online or video calls and I can wear headphones like everyone else. I’m not looking forward to going back to the office and I don’t see the point as I can do my job perfectly well from home.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Living With Disabilities 

To day we're talking about the word "virtually" and "practically". I hope you find this vocabulary useful! These are both words that we can use to say that something is almost completely true.

Don't forget that I'm a full time English coach and tutor, right here on iTalki. So if you use English as a second language at work and you'd like to improve your professional communication skills then feel free to book some of my time and let's get to work!

DAILY Business English VOCABULARY builder

I do this virtually every day

In Zen philosophy, non-duality emphasizes the dissolution of boundaries. You are not separate from the task you’re doing; you are the task. Applied to language learning, this means letting go of the struggle and resistance that often arise when we view learning as something external to conquer. Instead of thinking, “I need to learn this grammatical rule,” shift your mindset to, “The exploring of how this rule expresses ideas is entering this very moment in time.” Instead of seeing a vocabulary list as a hurdle, see it as the vocabulary becoming immersed with your very being.

Non-duality teaches us to embrace the process fully, without judgment or the pressure of results. When you sit down to study, there is no "you" trying to learn the language; there is only learning happening. This mindset helps dissolve resistance and makes the process more intuitive.


111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 55 - How to enter the Zone or Flow State through Non-Duality 

In last week's podcast episode, How to Use Informational Interviews to Land Your Dream Job, I said informational interviews are the best-kept secret in networking. 

That means they're great, but many people don't know it. So, they don't include informational interviews in their networking efforts. 

Tune in to this week’s episode to more about using “best-kept secret” and five more English phrases and idioms. You'll also get some homework at the end so you can continue to improve your English communication skills. Tune in to continue building your English vocabulary with new idioms and phrases! 

Original theme music by Lucas Knutter 

Read the transcript at https://www.express-to-impress.com/english-idioms/.

See infographics for this episode at https://www.pinterest.com/ExpresstoImpress/_created/.

Episode originally published on October 30, 2020.

Express to Impress

Best Kept Secret and Other English Idioms

1 ， zhì liànɡ 
1 ， 质  量    --quality
wǒ xiǎnɡ mǎi zhì liànɡ hǎo de yī fu 
我 想    买  质  量    好  的 衣 服 
zhè ɡe bēi zi de zhì liànɡ hěn hǎo 
这  个 杯  子 的 质  量    很  好  


2 ， shū fu 
2 ， 舒  服 --comfprtable
wǒ xǐ huɑn chuān piào liɑnɡ hé shū fu de yī fu 
我 喜 欢   穿    漂   亮    和 舒  服 的 衣 服 
nǐ de chuánɡ zhēn shū fu ！ 
你 的 床     真   舒  服 ！ 


3 ， mǎ 
3 ， 码 --meausre word for size
wǒ chuān 37 mǎ de xié zǐ 
我 穿    37 码 的 鞋  子 
wǒ de mā mɑ chuān 30 mǎ de kù zi 
我 的 妈 妈 穿    30 码 的 裤 子 


4 ， ɡènɡ +adj
4 ， 更   +adj--more
jiě jie de tóu fɑ ɡènɡ chánɡ 
姐  姐  的 头  发 更   长    
láo bǎn de qián ɡènɡ duō 
老  板  的 钱   更   多  
