Folktale Fridays will be an exploration of folktales. Aimed at students of all levels to follow along as I read, transporting us to distant lands, learning English vocabulary along the way. 

Folktale Friday

In this short episode, I discuss a few interesting studies about language learning that you might enjoy. :)

Learning Strategies for Success with Tyler Teacher

3 *Fun* Facts about Learning Languages (Episode 5)

안녕하세요. Hello~
한국어 듣기 수업 시작해요. Let's start with the Korean listening class.
선생님 읽어요. I read it.
잘 들으세요. Please listen well.

I posted the sentences on my blog.
https://blog.naver.com/laramcraft/223046641391
https://youtu.be/e4f-0oNzcRE

The basics are important.
It is also good to check the basics of 한글 Hangeul before this listening class.
1-1. Korean alphabet - Vowels 모음 - What is Hangeul?
https://youtu.be/0YzhJ9p2lcs
2-1. Korean alphabet - Consonants 자음 -what are the consonants 자음?
https://youtu.be/lckgvQ_vreA
3-1. Korean alphabet - Final Consonants 받침 - What are the final consonants 받침?
https://youtu.be/sLlFmG30fNI

This is a class to listen to Korean conversational sentences.
In this voice recording for listening,
After reading many sentences with Korean grammar in Korean conversations sentences,
Check out how much you understand the sentences with a voice recording.
Never look at the sentences when listening to the voice recording.
And Listen to the sentence repeatedly until you hear it completely.

You are listening to the Sejong Korean conversation. (세종학당)
There are four books in total. (Korean conversation, 1, 2, 3, 4.)
It consists of 1st and 2nd courses for beginners and 1st and 2nd courses for intermediate.
Each course is conducted in 14 units. (2 grammar - for each unit.)
This listening class you are taking is Korean Conversation 4. (Intermediate 2)
Please listen carefully.

Korean Listening Class 한국어 문장 듣기 - Korean teacher, Grace

Korean Conversation 4. (Intermediate 2) - Lesson 3. Part 1 -아/-어/-여 가지고, Part 2 -다(가) 보면

Today we're talking about an idiom that you can use when something has advantages and disadvantages. I hope you find it useful!

DAILY Business English VOCABULARY builder

We're going back in time a few hundred years in today's podcast!

Essentials/ Things we use in everyday life/ 日常生活用品

Ну смотрите! - Look!， 看吧！
наушники - earphones; 耳机；
банковские карточки - bank cards; 信用卡；
пенсионер - pensioner; 退休者；
макароны - pasta; 面；
колбаса - sausage; 火腿肠；
сыр - cheese; 奶酪；
сахар - sugar; 糖；
бумага - paper; 纸张；
планы и проекты - plans and projects; 图纸
идеи - ideas，想法。

Пряник

Что у тебя в сумке?

I'm pleased to provide you a podcast that will give you an idea and glance about the use of the expression 'I can't - لا أستطيع أن' in Arabic language and how it is pronounced and spelled. In this audio I will present 8 different patterns that started with the expression 'I can't - لا أستطيع أن' with clear simple everyday life examples.

Arabic expressions with ArabicLights - Aymaro

Learn Arabic Expressions 4 - (I can't 2 - لا أستطيع أن) with examples in less than 80 seconds

Buen lugar. Peligroso si andas descuidado, pero bello, colorido y hermoso. Aquí os cuento mi primer día en este maravilloso estado de México.
¿Te vienes?


La vida de Héctor (Spanish Podcast)

¡Chiapas! ¿El mejor estado de México?

Today's episode focuses on the grammar around using countries as adjectives. I have a great rule for you to follow when thinking about describing people with the name of their country. I hope you find it useful!

Americans are friendly, but we can't say this about British!

If you want to say HELLO, it depends on the time of day.
If it's morning, it's better to say ДОБРОГО РАНКУ.
If it's afternoon, it's ДОБРИЙ ДЕНЬ
If it is evening - then ДОБРИЙ ВЕЧІР or ДОБРОГО ВЕЧОРА
If it's night -- ДОБРОЇ НОЧІ
If you want to wish someone good night, you can use the previous phrase or ДОБРАНІЧ
It is also possible to say ВІТАЮ, but this word has two meanings: HELLO or Congratulations
These are formal greetings.
However, if you're talking to a friend, it's okay to say ПРИВІТ.

So how to say goodbye or bye? 
Goodbye is до побачення. By the way, побачення means “a date” and до in this context means “till”, but this phrase still means “goodbye”.
If you want to say “see you”, you can say “до зустрічі”. 
These are kind of formal ones.
And if you are talking to a friend and want to say “bye”, you can say:
– па-па (bye bye)
– бувай (bye)
So we can say it like “Як справи”.
“Як ти” – which is informal.

And what should we answer? 
We can say: 
Добре – which means good.
Дуже добре – very good 
Нормально – normal
Не дуже – not much. As I have said before, дуже – means very. So we literally say “not very”.
Чудово – great
Погано – bad
It is also possible to say “непогано” which means “not bad”
