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12. Chinese Variety Shows (Part2) 中国综艺节目（下）

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不被看见的需要

小张辞职后做起了自媒体。有一天，她准备坐高铁，忽然想到可以录一段怎么坐高铁的视频。她拿出手机，面对镜头仔细地讲解着坐高铁的每一个步骤。没想到视频发布后，很多网友留言，说：“没有坐过高铁，真的很有用。”更让她惊讶的是，原来她的账号不到18万粉丝，发布这个视频两周后粉丝量就突破了百万，迅速“破圈”。
这么普通、日常的内容，怎么就火了呢？事实给出了答案。不仅有人想知道“如何坐高铁？”，还有人想知道“如何坐飞机？”“如何叫网约车？”“如何办护照？”等等。
因为年龄、地域、受教育程度不同，很多看起来很常识性的事情，就是有人不知道。一个人习以为常的每件小事，都可能是另一个人的生活盲区。看见不被看见的需要，不仅是对别人的一种帮助，而且也可能是你成功的机会。

网络词语：
1.自媒体 We Media
2.录视频 Record Video
3.镜头 camera
4.发布 release,publish
5.网友 netizen, internet user
6. 留言 comment
7.账号 account, ID
8. 粉丝 fans
9.破圈 cross-circle, break the circle
10.火hot

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边听边说 More than Chinese Listening

第十二集 不被看见的需要

In questo podcast parlero del viaggio che ho fatto questa estate sulla West Coast americana, comincerò con alcune cose importanti prima del viaggio come prendere i biglietti in anticipo, prenotare dove dormire, quante cose portare, il noleggio della macchina e l'assicurazione sanitaria tra le altre cose, poi farò una descrizione della mia prima tappa del viaggio: Santa Barbara, com'è la cittá, la spiaggia, il molo, ecc. Come tempi verbali: passato prossimo e passato remoto, imperfetto e presente.

Vivendo tra due lingue

Podcast # 10, Viaggio sulla West Coast americana, prima parte

Picture this: you’re standing at the coffee machine and a colleague comes over. You don’t know him very well. You both say hello and then you can’t think of much to say. You mumble* something about the weather (if you are British this is a sure thing. We love to talk about the weather) and then… nothing. 

Your mind goes blank* and you stand awkwardly looking at the coffee, wondering why it is taking so long to make…

Or picture this: you’ve joined a meeting online and there are one or two colleagues already there. You’re waiting for others to join and you have to pass the time. But the same thing happens … you can’t think of anything interesting to say and there is awkward silence….

In these situations we need small talk.

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Episode 7: Small talk at work: an English learner’s guide

In the 1920s the boss of the Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford, attempted to build a huge rubber plantation in the Amazon jungle. It didn't quite go to plan…

English Learning for Curious Minds

Fordlandia

¿Cuál es tu película favorita? Hablemos sobre eso en este nuevo episodio de hablar por hablar 

Hablar por hablar (Listening)

¿Vemos una pelí? (Listening) 

In this episode we are going to learn a Real Chinese Conversation【Buying milk tea】. 
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Step 1: Listen and catch the words you know already, have a guess about the content.
Step 2: Check the script to learn one by one. 
Step 3: Listen and repeat after it.
Step 4: Practice until you can perform the dialogue. 
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店员/diànyuán/clerk; 顾客/gùkè/customer

店员: 欢迎光临。请（在）这边点单。
huān yíng guāng lín 。 qǐng （ zài ） zhè biān diǎn dān 。
Welcome. Please order over here.
顾客: 有什么推荐的吗？
yǒu shén me tuī jiàn de ma ？
Do you have any recommendations?
店员: 您喜欢喝奶茶还是果茶？
nín xǐ huān hē nǎi chá hái shì guǒ chá ？
Do you prefer milk tea or fruit tea?
顾客: 奶茶吧。
nǎi chá ba 。
Milk tea.
店员: 茉莉奶绿是我们的招牌，您可以试一下。
mò lì nǎi lǜ shì wǒ men de zhāo pái ， nín kě yǐ shì yí xià 。
Jasmine Milk Green（tea） is our specialty. You can try it.
顾客: 是加了茉莉花和绿茶吗？
shì jiā le mò lì huā hé lǜ chá ma ？
Is it with jasmine and green tea?
店员: 是的。
shì de 。
Yes, it is.
顾客: 那来一杯吧。
nà lái yì bēi ba 。
I'll have a cup.
店员: 您要热的还是冰的？
nín yào rè de hái shì bīng de ？
Would you like it hot or iced?
顾客: 冰的，可以少冰吗？
bīng de ， kě yǐ shǎo bīng ma ？
Iced. Can I have less ice?
店员: 没问题。您要大杯、中杯还是小杯？
méi wèn tí 。 nín yào dà bēi 、 zhōng bēi hái shì xiǎo bēi ？
No problem. Would you like a large, medium or small?
顾客: 中杯。
zhōng bēi 。
Medium.
店员: 我们有全糖、7分糖、5分糖、3分糖，也可以去糖。
wǒ men yǒu quán táng 、qī fēn táng 、wǔ fēn táng 、sān fēn táng ， yě kě yǐ qù táng 。
We have full sugar, 70% sugar, 50% sugar, 30% percent sugar, or without sugar.
顾客: 7分糖吧。
qī fēn táng ba 。
70% sugar.
店员: 要加珍珠吗？
yào jiā zhēn zhū ma ？
Add tapioca?
顾客: 要的。
yào de 。
Yes.
店员: 好的。在这儿喝还是打包？
hǎo de 。 zài zhè ér hē hái shì dǎ bāo ？
Okay.Drink it here or takeaway?
顾客: 打包。
dǎ bāo 。
Takeaway.

Yuli's Chinese Channel

买奶茶 Buying milk tea （Beginner）

Some people love to brag. They might brag about where they live, the money they make or how great they are at sports.

In fact, some people even brag about how busy or stressed they are.

And it's becoming quite common.

It's called "busy bragging" or "stress bragging" — and people find it just as annoying as any other bragging.

You may have heard it at your workplace, when people tell everyone about how much work they have to do, or say things like: "You have no idea of the stress I'm under."

They might be doing this to show others that they're important or working hard.

However, a study from the US found that the colleagues of stress braggers find those people less likable and less competent because of their bragging.

And colleagues were found to be less likely to help stress braggers.

The study also found that colleagues may even begin to feel stress themselves because of the effect of people stress bragging.

Study author Jessica Rodell said: "People are harming themselves by doing this thing they think is going to make them look better to their colleagues."

However, Rodell said sharing workplace stress with others is not a bad thing to do: it's only when people brag about their stress that it causes negative feelings.

"It's not the being stressed part that's a problem," she said. In fact, the study found that if your colleagues think you're stressed, they do think you're more competent.

You just can't brag about it.