ROMANCES DE RAFAEL DE LEÓN

ROMANCE DE LA LIRIO

PATTY: I’m really excited for Aunt Mary’s surprise birthday party
this afternoon! Aren’t you?
SUSAN: Yeah! How old is she?
PATTY:  She’ll be 55 on May 14 [fourteenth].
SUSAN: Wow! I didn’t know that my mom was older — she’s going
to be 57 on September 2 [second]. Anyway, Aunt Mary’s 
going to be so surprised to see us all here!
PATTY: I know! But we still have to get all the food set up before 
she gets here … OK! We’re all ready now. Shh! She’s here!
ALL: Surprise!


LANGUAGE NOTES
• I’m really excited … Notice the emphasis on “really.” “Really” is used to emphasize the 
adjective “excited” here.
• Birthday party Notice that the normal stress for a compound noun falls on the first 
element of the compound.
• Aren’t you? This negative tag is used to show that the speaker expects a positive 
answer. Patty assumes that Susan is also looking forward to the party.
• She’ll be 55 Notice that “55” is stressed here. This detail answers the question “How 
old is she?”
• Fourteenth Notice that we use “th” for ordinal numbers, starting with 4 [but first, 
second and third]. The stress is on the second syllable [fourTEENTH]. Compare this with 
“fortieth: 40th” [FORtieth].
• She’s going to be ... Notice how this is pronounced like “gonna be.” Instead of four 
syllables “go/ing/to/be” there are three syllables “ga/na/be.”

English Conversation practice (30-day challenge)

Day 20: Birthdays

Recommended to listen repeatedly until you understand. 
Key words and Commonly used phrases, Please read after me. You can record the phrases you read and send it here, I'll correct the pronunciation for you. Follow me ,you will learn more Chinese. 

Key words: 
运动、天气、学习、自行车、星期、每天、手机、考试、医生、点、晴天、起床、房间、跑步、唱歌
Common phrases:
喝牛奶、踢足球、向左走、有意思、买水果、上个月5号、介绍一下儿、在医院、看报纸、洗衣服、这本书、下雪了、已经十点了、听不懂、别说话


Merry's Channel（HSK 二）

HSK二 Key words and common phrases (1) , Please read after me

Vocabulary in English from Card games

Special thanks to Viviana for joining me today

The Jerome Meadows Experience

Cards on the Table

大器物派小用场，表示使用不当。比喻才能很高的人屈就于低职位，不能充分发挥其才智。亦指人事安排不恰当而屈才。材，也作“才”。

成语故事 Idiom story

大材小用

Hi everyone!  I talk about Japanese music in this episode. 

Keywords:
・種類(しゅるい)　　　　kind, type
・魅力(みりょく)　　　　fascination, attraction, charm
・お年寄り(おとしより)　old people

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たつきのにほんご

Japanese Music (Beginner Level)

Hello, Everyone. This is a continuation of my previous post. The alphabet is very important. Because after knowing how to pronounce the letters of the alphabet correctly, you will be invited to practice simple reading. In this context simple reading is like: reading colors and numbers. In reading practice, you must know the syllables so that you can read correctly. 

Learning Bahasa (Complete Beginer)

After Learning Alphabeth

¡Bienvenidos a Maria y Pablo Spanish! Hoy vamos a aprender palabras relacionadas con la ropa que usamos en invierno o cuando hace frío, y cómo las llamamos en Perú y Colombia. En esta ocasión les contaremos dos historias distintas, cada una incluye cinco palabras propias de nuestros países y ustedes al final del episodio deberán identificar cuáles fueron estas palabras. 

Te invitamos a conocernos más en: 
📍María: https://linktr.ee/spanishwithmariap  
📍Pablo: https://linktr.ee/pabloalejos 

Maria & Pablo Spanish

12. ¿Qué prenda usarías tú: una chompa o un suéter? What to wear when visiting Colombia or Perú?

“One city that I really find so interesting is Venice, which I think has to be one of the most amazing, and fascinating cities in the world. Venice is located in… I think….the north of Italy, on the coast,and is one of the most popular tourist destinations… not just in Italy but, anywhere in the world today.

 

Venice is known as the city of canals, and there are so many things Venice is famous for including its beautiful bridges, gondola rides, historical buildings…. interesting old streets…..Oh! and also the Venice carnival, which looks like so much fun.

 

I remember I first learned about Venice back when i was in high school, and we studied the Shakespeare play “The merchant of Venice……. I can still remember my English teacher showing us a short video showing all the sites of Venice……… I remember thinking…..wow! This has to be one of the most amazing cities i’ve ever seen, and decided this is a place i must visit in the future.

 

Venice with all of its magnificent….. historical buildings, ancient bridges and water really looks like no other city in the world today. It almost looks like something from a movie set, and it’s amazing to think that this is actually a real place, that still remains and looks the same as it did hundreds of years ago. I think that’s what really makes it so interesting in my mind.

 

There are no ugly modern or high rise buildings, which again just makes it such an interesting city compared to other popular tourist cities.

 

  I really think there are no other cities that can be compared to Venice, and it is truly a unique city, with more interesting and fascinating sites than you can imagine.”

 

Thank you……