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Teacher Joseph's Podcast

Holidays or Vacations (with transcript)

Full transcript: https://japanesemayuna.com/

はい、こんにちは。今回はポッドキャストの20回目です。寒い日が続いていますが、近所の公園では桜が満開です。桜が咲くと、公園に人が増えます。桜は綺麗ですが、咲いている期間がとても短いです。桜の花は、１年の間に２週間ぐらいしか見ることができません。咲き始めてから１週間経つと、だんだん花が散っていきます。寒い日や、天気の悪い日が続くと、もっと早く散ってしまうこともあります。せめて１ヶ月ぐらい咲いていてほしいですね。

Hi, this is the podcast episode 20. It's been cold, but the cherry blossoms are in full bloom in my neighbourhood park. When the cherry blossoms bloom, more people come to the park. Cherry blossoms are beautiful, but they are in bloom for a very short time. The flowers can only be seen for about two weeks during the year. After a week of blooming, the flowers gradually fall off. If the weather is cold or bad, they may fall even faster. I would like to see them in bloom for at least a month.

春になると、スーパーにいろいろな果物が置かれます。この時期に一番目立つ場所にあるのは、いちごです。最近、白いいちごもよく見かけます。「見かける」とは、見るつもりがなくても、見ることです。白いいちごは、品種改良によって作られています。「品種改良」とは、人間が植物や動物の新しい種類を作ることです。いちごは、アントシアニンという成分によって赤くなります。白いいちごは、品種改良でアントシアニンが消されています。日本では、色の他にも、サイズを大きくしたり、味を甘くしたりするために、果物の品種改良が行われています。

In spring, a variety of fruits are placed in supermarkets. Strawberries have the most prominent place at this time of year. Lately, white strawberries have also Mikakeru frequently. “Mikakeru” (see) means to look at them even when you don't intend to. White strawberries are the result of Hinsyu-kairyou. “Hinsyu-kairyou” (breeding) is the process by which humans create new varieties of plants and animals. Strawberries turn red because of anthocyanins. White strawberries have anthocyanins removed by Hinsyu-kairyou. In Japan, in addition to colour, fruit Hinsyu-kairyou has also been done to increase size and sweeten the taste.

春なので、環境が変わる人も増えていますね。ずっと一緒に勉強してきた生徒さんが、テストに合格したり、日本で新しい仕事が決まった話を聞くので、とても嬉しいです。言語の勉強で一番大事なことは、使い続けることだと思います。文法や単語を覚えることも大事ですが、毎週一緒に会話ができる人がいると、自信がつきます。自信がつくと、いろいろなチャンスに出会えます。まだオンラインで授業を受けたことがない人は、ぜひ始めてみてください。私は最近、新しいレッスンのアイデアを考えています。記事は４月から再開する予定です。

Japanese Lessons with Mayuna

20. 桜と白いいちご

For beginner level learners✨　
わたしのいろいろなはなし　Extra special edition 　

「ぼうねんかいを しています」year-end party

▶ぼうねんかい year-end party
▶「ことしのかんじ」は　なんですか。Let’s talk about the Kanji character that symbolizes your life in 2022!!

2) 日曜日（にちようび）「日（にち）」、試験（しけん）の「試（し）」[5：52]


Extra special edition ぼうねんかいを　しています　Year-end party
1)[6：02]戦争（せんそう）・挑戦（ちょうせん）「戦（せん）」、病気（びょうき）「病（びょう）」
2)[5：52]日曜日（にちようび）「日（にち）」、試験（しけん）の「試（し）」
3)[9：19]困（こま）る「困（こん）」、好き嫌い「嫌（いや）」、「愛（あい）」
4)[5：37]順調（じゅんちょう）「順（じゅん）」　
5)[7：37]散歩（さんぽ）「散（さん）」散（ち）らかる、呪術廻戦（じゅじゅつかいせん）「呪（じゅ）」

Japanese! わたしの いろいろな はなし

ぼうねんかいを しています (2)

Hi, so you want to improve your business English skills. In order to speak like and understand native speakers, it's important to understand the business idioms which native speakers use on a daily basis. In this podcast I will use 11 business idioms. See you if you can spot them. When you hear an idiom pause the podcast and write it down, then, next to the idiom, write the word or phrase which corresponds to the meaning of the idiom. Your task is to match the idioms to their meanings. I will do the first one for you as an example. In order to organize my tasks every day I have to get my ducks in a row. So the first idiom you should write down is 'get my ducks in a row'. The word you should write next to it is 'organize.' Now, let's get down to business.

Business English

10 Business Idioms

Today I present you some basic Serbian greetings such as:
ЗДРАВО / ЋАО - ZDRAVO/ĆAO = Hello!
ДОБАР ДАН - DOBAR DAN = Good afternoon!
You have a couple of conversations to test your understanding of what you have learned.
Срећно учење! / Srećno učenje! / Happy learning!


SERBIAN TO GO

Osnovni pozdravi – Basic greetings in Serbian (A1 level)

*This episode is about " Kish" a resort island in Bandar Lengeh County, Hormozgan Province, off the southern coast of Iran in the Persian Gulf. The island constitutes the city of Kish.

****Feel free to send me message if you have any questions

**** You can find more stories in Farsi in my channel on Spotify : https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yas-omidvar

Persian Podcasts / پادکست فارسی 

Kish Island جزیره کیش

En el episodio de hoy hablo sobre un fenómeno presente en muchos idiomas, la repetición de palabras o conceptos. En este episodio te cuento porque usamos la repetición en español, qué tipos de redundancias existen y comparto algunas redundancias muy comunes, que es posible que incluso hayas escuchado (o usado) en algún momento.

Es un tema muy interesante que espero que disfrutes.

No te olvides de decirme qué opinas tú sobre el tema en los comentarios o visitando mi Instagram, ¿te habías dado cuenta de este fenómeno en español? ¿Tú usas las redundancias?

También me encantaría que me dijeras si en tu país existe este tipo de repetición.


Blanca to go 

23 - La redundancia en español

El Poira es un espíritu que, según la leyenda, habita en los ríos, especialmente en las regiones cercanas a la Amazonía. Es descrito como un ser mitad hombre y mitad pez, similar a una sirena masculina. El Poira es conocido por atraer a las mujeres jóvenes y bellas que se acercan a los ríos a bañarse o lavar ropa. Aparece como un hombre atractivo y encantador, con una sonrisa hipnótica.

Las jóvenes que caen bajo su hechizo son llevadas al fondo del río, donde desaparecen para siempre. A pesar de su apariencia seductora, el Poira es un ser peligroso que sólo busca robar las almas de las mujeres. Las madres de los pueblos cercanos advierten a sus hijas que no se acerquen solas a los ríos, especialmente al atardecer, cuando el Poira suele aparecer.

Colombian Legends

El poira

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.