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Confusing words - intermediate 

To avoid getting rusty, and to keep up your skills, you should hear and speak English every day.  This can be expensive.  Here are some free ways to keep up your English skills between classes. 

How to keep up your English level 

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Confusing words  (A2 - Elementary)

Success at work!
Vocabulary to help your career.  
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English for Business

A2 - B1  
Conversation Class Preparation.
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(book a class to see the text).

English with Angela -  conversation 

With 26 letters, (but 44 different sounds), and not many rules, English pronunciation is sometimes difficult.
Sometimes, reading a word, does not help you to say it.  Here is some help.


Pronunciation 

एकपटक चतुरे कामको खोजीमा हिँड्यो। ऊ घुम्दै फिर्दै राजदरबारमा पुग्यो। संयोगबस उसले दरबारमा काम पायो। सजिलैसँग काम पायो, त्यो त राम्रै भयो; तर काम थियो तबेलाको। चतुरेले तबेलाकै भएपनि काम गर्न मन्जुर गर्यो किनभने उसले कहिल्यै राजालाई देखेको थिएन । उसको राजालाई देख्ने धोको थियो । 
चतुरेको सोचाइ थियो दरबारमा काम गरे राजालाई सजिलै देख्न पाइन्छ। तर संयोग मिलेन, महिनौ काम गर्दा पनि उसले राजालाई देख्न पाएन ।...............................................................


SIMPLE AND SHORT STORIES IN NEPALI

#1 अचम्मको दाँत (Amazing teeth )

En este episodio aprenderá diferentes técnicas para aprender de manera más efectiva y facil nuevo vocabulario en español

Spanish Shortcut

EP 27. TÉCNICAS PARA APRENDER VOCABULARIO MÁS RAPIDO

The newest Express to Impress Podcast episode will give you tons of new English vocabulary. Tune in to learn fun idioms like Burn a Bridge.

This episode is part two of 4 Tips for How to Negotiate a Job Offer. Learning to detect and use English idioms in use will allow you to communicate better with native English speakers. You won’t feel confused when you hear English idioms and phrases and will keep up with the conversation. 

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Episode originally published August 5, 2021.

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Express to Impress

Burn a Bridge and Other ESL Idioms

Short story 「はなこさんの夏休（なつやす）み《 Hanako’s summer vacation 》ep1」
This is an original story I created.
This episode is JLPT-N5 level.

I created a quiz on this episode.
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Please use this audio for listening and shadowing practices.

☆Words☆
毎年（まいとし / maitoshi）：every year
 遠い（とおい / tōi）：far
新幹線（しんかんせん / shinkansen）：bullet train 
甘い（あまい / amai）：sweet
お土産（おみやげ / omiyage）：souvenir
辛い（からい / karai）：spicy
切符（きっぷ / kippu）：ticket
席（せき / seki）：seat
笑う（わらう / warau）：laugh, smile
→masu-form：笑います（わらいます / waraimasu）
～号車（～ごうしゃ / ～gōsha）：classifier for naming train cars
ex）１号車（いちごうしゃ / ichigōsha）、２号車（にごうしゃ / nigōsha）･･･

☆Grammar☆
・masu-form（present / past）
・～たいです：want to do

☆Script for this episode
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Simple Japanese Listening with Meg（めぐ）Smile

#19  Short story /  Hanako’s summer vacation ep1 / storytelling // N5 Level

Il conte Gastaldi è sicuro che uno dei suoi quattro domestici è una spia e che la sua vita è in pericolo. Toccherà all' ispettore Malvisi sventare la minaccia e assicurare il colpevole alla giustizia.

Se io fossi Sherlock Holmes

Caccia alla spia per l'ispettore Malvisi

[Conversation 1]

A : 남대문시장에 어떻게 가요?
B : 지하철을 타세요.
A : 몇 호선을 타야 돼요?
B : 이 호선을 타세요. 그리고 사당역에서 사 호선으로 갈아타세요.

A : Would you tell me how to get to Namdaemun Market? 
B : Take the subway.
A : What line should I take?
B : Take line number 2. And transfer to line 4 at Sadang Station.

[Conversation 2]

A : 어디에서 내려야 돼요?
B : 회현역에서 내려야 돼요.
A : 여기에서 얼마나 걸려요?
B : 사십 분쯤 걸려요.

A : Where should I get off?
B : You shuld get off at Hoehyeon Station.
A : How long does it take from here?
B : It takes about 40 minutes.

[Grammar points]

N에서 N(으)로 갈아타다.
When expressing transferring, the verb '갈아타다' is used.
'(으)로' comes after the mode of transportation one transfer to.
'에서' follows the place where one transfers.

ex : 명동에서 버스로 갈아탔어요.
     I transferred to a bus at Myeong-dong.
A : 어디에서 갈아타요?
B : 교대역에서 삼 호선으로 갈아타세요.

A : Where should I transfer?
B : Transfer to line 3 at Seoul Nat' I Univ. of Education Station.     

[Additional Expressions]

학교 앞에서 세워 주세요 / 내려 주세요.
Please stop in front of the school.

똑바로 가 주세요.
Go straight, please.

좌회전해 주세요.
Turn left, please.

우회전해 주세요.
Turn right, please





Reading Korea.

Transportation

Did you know elephants spend 80 percent of their day eating?

Did you know?

Elephant thing

Tea and the Industrial RevolutionA Cambridge professor says that a change in drinking habits was the reason for the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Anjana Abuja reports

A    

Alan Macfarlane, professor of anthropological science at King’s College, Cambridge has, like other historians, spent decades wrestling with the enigma of the Industrial Revolution. Why did this particular Big Bang – the world-changing birth of industry-happen in Britain? And why did it strike at the end of the 18th century?

B     

Macfarlane compares the puzzle to a combination lock. ‘There are about 20 different factors and all of them need to be present before the revolution can happen,’ he says. For industry to take off, there needs to be the technology and power to drive factories, large urban populations to provide cheap labour, easy transport to move goods around, an affluent middle-class willing to buy mass-produced objects, a market-driven economy and a political system that allows this to happen. While this was the case for England, other nations, such as Japan, the Netherlands and France also met some of these criteria but were not industrialising. All these factors must have been necessary. But not sufficient to cause the revolution, says Macfarlane. ‘After all, Holland had everything except coal while China also had many of these factors. Most historians are convinced there are one or two missing factors that you need to open the lock.’

C and D parts will be added below.