English Learning for Curious Minds is a podcast for intermediate to advanced English learners who want to learn weird and wonderful things about the world at the same time as improving their English. Find more episodes at leonardoenglish.com.

English Learning for Curious Minds

If you're doing online dating in the English-speaking world, you might see people talking about their "icks."

This is a slang word — icks are things that give you "a sudden feeling that you dislike someone" or are no longer attracted to them, according to the Cambridge Dictionary.

Icks are not always really big things. Being rude to an employee at a store, for example, might be an ick for someone, or eating with your mouth open.

People will often say they "got the ick" when they noticed something about a person that made them feel they were no longer attracted to them.

If they get to that point, it may be hard for them to feel attracted again!

If you're looking through dating profiles on an app, the most common ick is people who are negative or bitter.

That's according to a survey for Forbes Health. One thousand Americans who had used a dating app in the last year were asked about their dating habits.

And about 70% said people who are negative or bitter in their bios, perhaps about a previous relationship, give them the ick.

Other common icks include people with edited photos, people who are too interested in their possessions, and people with bad spelling or grammar.

And when using the apps, daters often make their decisions quite quickly.

According to the survey, the average person takes about two-and-a-half minutes to make a decision about whether they like a person or not.

So what makes daters attractive to others? Having a profile that shows a good sense of humor is a good thing, according to 80% of people.

The same number said they like people who have hobbies and interests, while many others like people who are interested in travel — or who show a pet in their photo!

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

A Sudden Dislike: The Most Common Dating 'Icks'

So you have answered the SIX KEY QUESTIONS from episode 2. Well done. Now do this.

In this episode I talk about the importance of thinking about key situations and activities from your adult life and how most people simply don't consider them to be important or relevant to their job search.

In many aspects of life (school, university, charity work, work experience and sports clubs) we have found ourselves in situations where we have used key skills which are useful in the workplace.

I talk about categorizing these experiences into People, Project and Profit. And I suggest lots of questions to ask yourself to get you thinking about these situations and how important they are.



How to create an awesome job application strategy: Advice on careers, CVs, cover letters, interview planning

Episode 3: Too many people do NOT do this simple piece of planning before looking for new jobs

In this episode I read a passage from the book risky business for listening practice.

Books for Bilinguals

Risky buisness pt. I

Hola a todos/as! En este nuevo podcast quiero proponerles una práctica específica que tiene que ver con mi acento en español, cuyo nombre es RIOPLATENSE (por la presencia del RIO DE LA PLATA) en la región donde se habla.

Mi acento, como todos, tiene sus propias características específicas (podes encontrar más información sobre ellas en distintos podcast!) - Hoy quiero proponerte que practiques conmigo COMPRENDERME cuando leo algunas oraciones en voz alta. Las voy a leer en distintas velocidades. Todas contienen palabras de vocabulario específico que se usa en Buenos Aires, y también las características del acento: EL VOSEO, LA 'S' ASPIRADA Y LOS SONIDOS DE LAS CONSONANTES 'LL' Y 'Y' CUANDO ESTÁN SEGUIDAS DE VOCALES.

¿Estás listo/a para testear tu listening?

DALE PLAY!

Disfruta de aprender

Practica Tu Español con mi Acento Rioplatense

¿Qué opinas de la salud mental?

Aquí te dejo mi opinión sobre salud mental, no soy una experta ni nada parecido. Solo te dejo algo sobre mi experiencia en el tema. 

🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

Hablar por hablar (Listening)

¿Qué opinas de la salud mental?

Was bedeutet es, einen Kater zu haben? Nächstes Mal: Was ist ein Angsthase?

German Idioms with Deshira

Tierisch Verrückt: Folge 2 - einen Kater haben

EMBRACE THE REALITY THAT EVERYTHING  GREAT STARTS WITH SELF LOVE

FLO TALKS 




lesson on italki 
https://www.italki.com/ja/teacher/9451959/japanese

https://linktr.ee/atsushi_japanese

こんにちは！
Japanese daily life podcast のAtsushiです。
このPodcastは、日本語を勉強しているみなさんに向けたPodcastです。

昨日の話ですが、北海道に来て、はじめて、雪ですべってこけました！しかも3回も！笑

冬になってから、雪が降っている時は、いつもこけないように気をつけていました。

昨日もいつも通り、気をつけていましたが、こけました。
おとといの夜に、つもって凍った雪の上に新しい雪がふりました。それで、いつもとちがう状況になったので、いつもよりすべりやすくなったんだと思います。

昨日久しぶりにこけて痛かったので、気をつけようと思います。

冬の北海道に旅行に来るみなさん、ぜひスノーブーツは用意してきてくださいね！結構すべりますよ！


ということで、今回も最後まで聞いていただき、ありがとうございます！

ではまた！

