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Made Chinese easy!

Want to grow your vocabulary? Tune into the latest Express to Impress Podcast episode to learn 5 English expressions for a conversation. 

This episode is a follow-up to the previous episode, How to Prepare for an Internal Job Interview.

Learning to recognize and use phrases and idioms in English will allow you to communicate better with native English speakers. You won’t feel confused when you hear the phrases and idioms and will keep up with the conversation. 

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Episode originally published February 18, 2022

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Express to Impress

Bring Your A-Game and Other English Expressions

The gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger very quickly.
Angela reads the basic text from this lesson, (transcript available when you take this lesson).

This topic is also available for intermediate and higher-level learners.


English with Angela -  conversation 

TASK 22 - THE RICH DON’T PAY THEIR TAXES

In this episode we are going to learn 【I’m busy】in Chinese. 
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As a beginner, there're some vocabularies that you didn't learn before, and native speaker's speed seems too fast to understand. But don't worry, let's do it step by step. 
1st time: listen and catch the words you know already, have a guess about the content.
2nd time: look at the text to check if you guessed it right. 
3rd time: listen one more time, repeat after it.
4th time: practice until you can speak as the normal speed without looking at the text. 
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我的工作很忙。
wǒ de gōng zuò hěn máng 。
My work is very busy.
星期一到星期五我要上班。
xīng qī yī dào xīng qī wǔ wǒ yào shàng bān 。
I need to work from Monday to Friday.
7点前能下班，我就和朋友吃饭。
qī diǎn qián néng xià bān ， wǒ jiù hé péng yǒu chī fàn 。
If I can get off work before 7 o'clock, I will have dinner with my friends.
7点前不能下班，我就不能和朋友吃饭。
qī diǎn qián bù néng xià bān ， wǒ jiù bù néng hé péng yǒu chī fàn 。
If I can't get off work before 7 o'clock, I can't have dinner with my friends.
星期六和星期日我不用上班，可以和朋友见面。
xīng qī liù hé xīng qī rì wǒ bú yòng shàng bān ， kě yǐ hé péng yǒu jiàn miàn 。
I don't have to go to work on Saturdays and Sundays, can meet up with friends.
明天星期六，可是我要加班，不能和朋友见面了。
míng tiān xīng qī liù ， kě shì wǒ yào jiā bān ， bù néng hé péng yǒu jiàn miàn le 。
Tomorrow is Saturday, but I have to work overtime, can't meet my friends.

Yuli's Chinese Channel

我很忙 I‘m busy（Beginner）

1. Mẹ ơi, Mẹ có yêu con không? Vậy nếu bố con và con cùng rơi xuống nước mẹ sẽ cứu ai?
2. Mẹ ơi, con từ đâu đến vậy? Thế con chui ra kiểu gì? Là như thế nào? Con chưa hiểu? Mẹ giải thích cho con! Con có thể xem được không?
3. Mẹ ơi, mẹ ơi, sao mình mua đồ đã trả tiền rồi mà vẫn phải nói cảm ơn ạ?

Vietnameseonlineclass.com

Luyện nghe Tiếng Việt 

Lisset CT - Español para escuchar

El salto del fraile

Imagina un plato suculento, repleto de sabores, colores y aromas. Ummmm… ¿a quién le provoca? ¡A mí sí! ¿A ti no?. La verdad es que la variedad de alimentos que se encuentran en el continente facilita el proceso de poder dar a conocer el podcast de hoy. Platos que han traspasado fronteras y que se conocen internacionalmente, hoy veremos algunos de ellos. Conoceremos ingredientes, alguna curiosidad asociada al plato y regiones donde se consume. ¡Comencemos! ¡Sigue escuchando!

Español con todo 

PLATOS FAMOSOS DE AMÉRICA LATINA

Positive thoughts for the New Year!
This is from a blog post I wrote at the start of 2021, but I think it is still really important now.

The Social Evolutionary

Last year was bad? Let's remember the good things.

People who spend a lot of time sitting down might reduce their health risks by drinking coffee, a new study suggests.

Researchers from China wanted to look at the health effects of coffee drinking and time spent sitting.

They looked at health data for nearly 11,000 people in the US and followed them for up to 13 years.

During the period of the study, 945 people died, including 284 from heart disease.

The research team found that people who sat for over eight hours a day were almost 50% more likely to die from all causes, and nearly 80% more likely to die from heart disease.

That's compared to people who sat for fewer than four hours per day.

Sitting for a long time has been linked to increased risks of diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and more.

The researchers also found that people who drank the most coffee — three or more cups per day — reduced their risk of death from all causes by over 30% compared to those who drank no coffee. And they were more than 50% less likely to die from heart disease.

And drinking coffee even seemed to protect people from the health risks of sitting down: coffee drinkers could sit for more than six hours a day and still have about the same risk of death as non-coffee drinkers who sat for less than six hours.

However, the researchers said they didn't look at the effects of different types of coffee on our health, so they couldn't be sure which type was best.

They wrote that more research would be needed on this "miracle" drink.