Japanese Channel with Momoko

Japanese proverb 猫に鰹節（ねこにかつおぶし）

This episode is all about job interviews and we will be looking at the most typical questions as well as the best words and phrases to use in your answers. To help us with this topic, Miss Finesstocrat will be telling us of her traumatic experience in her first ever job interview.
After her monologue, I will explain the key vocabulary and grammar of the topic covered, so that you will be able to use them in your own speaking and writing with the same finesse and confidence as Miss Finesstocrat herself.

You can also follow us on Instagram where we will be providing videos, quizzes and new vocabulary as supplement material for every episode in our podcast.

ENGLISH IN A TEACUP

ENGLISH IN A TEACUP: JOB INTERVIEWS (B2-C1)

Let's talk today about how to give feedback at work, especially if you use English as a second language in the workplace and are not a native English speaker.

Giving feedback to your colleagues, your staff, and your managers, is an essential part of a great team. However, so few people actually do it! We often think of feedback as a scary thing that is reserved for end of year performance reviews and appraisals. However, the best teams in the world make both negative and positive feedback a key part of their company culture.

Today we’re going to hear some tips and ideas for how to give feedback to your colleagues. We’ll hear some great natural and native sounding vocabulary that we can use to do this, and then we’ll finish off with some challenges for you. Including a speaking challenge and a vocabulary quiz to see what you’ve remembered from today’s podcast. 

Breakout Business English

How to GIVE FEEDBACK to your colleagues at work - Business English lesson

¡Bienvenidos a Maria & Pablo Spanish! 

En los episodios 7 y 8 de Consejos de la abuela para tener buena suerte, hablamos de diferentes supersticiones de nuestras familias y en esta ocasión les traemos otras más, pero teniendo en cuenta las creencias y costumbres de varias culturas del mundo. Esperamos que disfruten el episodio y nos digan qué les parecieron estas supersticiones y si creen en ellas.

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

Maria & Pablo Spanish

22. Supersticiones del mundo (Parte 1)

Ollie Gamblin, 33, from the UK, and Lavinya Scholl, 35, from Germany, met in 2017 while cherry picking in Tasmania. Their mutual love for adventure took the pair all around Australia together — and seven years later, it took them all around the world, even earning them a Guinness World Record.

The pair recently became the youngest duo to circumnavigate the world on a motorcycle while riding pillion — which means one person driving and the other riding on the back. They visited 39 countries across five continents, riding 75,000 kilometers in 589 days.

"We wanted to see the world!" Ollie told us when we asked what their inspiration for the trip was. The idea of trying for a Guinness World Record came from the couple's friend, who had attempted a similar challenge.

"It made a good structure to the trip, a mission that we could aim for," Ollie added.

Beginning in London, the pair headed into France and Spain before crossing over into Morocco. They then rode south to Senegal before shipping their bike to Brazil.

The journey wasn't without its challenges — one being the pair's lack of motorcycle experience.

"We always go by the phrase 'learn by doing,'" Ollie told us. Reflecting on an oil slick that nearly sent them off a mountain road in Peru, he added: "Sometimes we truly believe that we must have had angels watching over us."

One of the biggest highlights for the pair was the generosity shown by the strangers they met, including an occasion in Nicaragua where a local man repaired their bike for free.

After riding around the bottom of South America and all the way up to Canada — stopping in Las Vegas to get married — they flew the bike to South Korea.

They then traveled west through Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, then through nine more countries in Europe to get back to the UK.




Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Duo Youngest to Circumnavigate Globe on a Motorcycle

https://www.loom.com/share/3d99dc66ecd64bd0a2bcd33db4b9aa96　　　ショートストーリー『湖になりなさい』

みじかい ものがたりを読もう📖 Read a short story

湖になりなさい

I share a story of an experience I had trying to visit Osaka castle in Japan. 

You can read the transcript here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pp0yIH4MvNIXwfu6QhTd7CBlbGHVZ5-V/view?usp=sharing

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T.E.A. Time with Tayvin Bayless 

Journey to the castle

Ayer 10 y hoy 11 de julio trascurren las fiestas patronales del pueblo donde vivo. Ahora se llaman “Fiestas Mayores” pero hace pocas décadas se llamaban patronales porque se celebran en honor al patrón de cada población. El patrón no es un jefe o un empresario, ni un narcotraficante no, usamos la acepción religiosa.

AUDIO-ARTÍCULOS (Nivel B2-C1)

Fiesta Mayor...

In this podcast you will know about some Colombian legends and myths.

La Llorona (Tolima Grande)

El Sombrerón (Cundinamarca y Boyacá)

La Madremonte (Tolima Grande)

El Silbón (Santanderes)

Juan Machete (región Orinoquía)

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