It's polite to explain why you are unable to accept an invitation or offer.
For example:
I'd love to but I'm busy, I'm visiting my sister this weekend. 

Everyday English with Teacher Alyse

Not Accepting an Invitation

Crystal的日语碎碎念

3、すみません、お手洗いはどこですか。＝不好意思，洗手间在哪儿？

Aprenda a descrever a sua aventura de campismo

Portuguese Audios for Intermediate Advance B2 -Áudios em Português para Intermédios Avançados B2

O Acampamento

La domanda che spesso accompagna le mie prime lezioni è “che cosa fai nel tempo libero?”
Ma oggi non parliamo delle attività che svolgiamo per passione, come leggere, correre, suonare uno strumento, cucinare, e via dicendo.
Oggi vi voglio parlare del “terzo posto”.
Il primo posto credo che sia la casa dove abitiamo.
Il secondo dovrebbe essere il luogo di lavoro – che può coincidere con la casa qualche volta.
Quindi: casa e luogo di lavoro sono, convenzionalmente e realisticamente, quei posti dove passiamo la maggior parte del tempo.
E il terzo qual è? Dove andiamo quando non siamo a casa o al lavoro?


la Rubrica di Simona

la rubrica sociale

（📝C1↑）
最近賞を受賞したジブリの最新作「君たちはどう生きるか」を見てきました🎥

SeikaのPodcast🎧

Ep.70 📝ジブリの最新作をみてきました👘🍃

【北海道Hokkaido生活】
〈#146〉1月7日土曜日　天気/雪　気温/-4℃ 

・あけましておめでとうございます！
・お正月に家族と温泉
・層雲峡温泉/そううんきょうおんせん
・JRに乗って、バスに乗る
・吹雪で1時間くらいJRが止まった
・バスに乗れなかった
・二泊三日
・温泉では、マンガを読んだり、You Tubeを見たり
・吹雪が続いた
・帰りも1時間くらい止まった


［単語］
JR/じぇいあーる…電車の会社
乗り換え/のりかえ…ちがう乗り物に乗ること
吹雪/ふぶき…強い風と雪
二泊三日/にはくみっか…２日泊まって、３日いること。

レッスン待ってます♪


北海道Hokkaido生活 for Japanese learners

〈#146〉1月7日土曜日　雪で電車がとまった！！

Parrots are known for being able to copy some of the sounds that people make — they might squawk "hello" or "how are you?" if they get used to hearing words and phrases like these. They might even say some rude things!

Some birds are also able to learn the names for objects — and identify them.

And a 5-year-old parrot in the US has been recognized by Guinness World Records after correctly identifying 12 objects in three minutes.

That record-breaking bird is an African gray parrot named Apollo, who lives in Florida. He can identify things like books, bugs and socks.

He's become popular on TikTok, where he has about 3 million followers. He also has around 1.5 million subscribers on his YouTube channel called "Apollo and Frens."

And a TikTok video of Apollo asking questions from 2023 has been watched 66 million times.

Apollo actually broke the record in 2023 but he's among the stars in the Guinness World Records book that was released in September.

The parrot is owned by a couple named Dalton and Victoria Mason. They're content creators and they've been working hard to train the bird.

The owners say they teach Apollo as if he were a child of preschool age.

"We teach him as much as we can," the couple told Guinness, adding that they focus on things that Apollo wants to focus on.

Researchers have found that some African gray parrots are able to do better at some cognitive tasks than 5-year-old children.

And Apollo's owners plan to keep teaching the bird to see how much he can learn and how many more records he can break.




Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Record-Breaking Parrot Can Identify and Name Objects

Story learning Chinese with Annie

funny chinese stories for beginners no.1

In this episode, you will learn how to say someone did something for a period of time, has been doing something for a period of time, and stopped doing something.
