I share my stories as a person, student, and teacher. I had an extraordinary experience to be interviewed by Voice of America about my exchange journey to the US and how I started my career in iTalki.

I AM DENA MANDALA

Let's go for a walk in Saint-Petersburg. I'll tell you about my favorite places and places you should visit if you're there for the first time. 

If you've been there before, you can remember your time in Peter and leave your comment what's your favorite place there. 

All episode is in Russian. Good for B1-B2 level

Russian Fluency

Walking in Saint-Petersburg

Convergent Thinking vs. Divergent Thinking: Why Planning Isn’t Always the Right Thing to Do

You’re overseeing a project and have all the pieces in place.

Your detailed timeline is mapped out. You’ve set expectations with leaders and team members. You’re prepared to keep all the deliverables organized.

Halfway through the project, a team comes to you with a suggestion—they think they’ve found a better way to handle a piece of the process.

Your stomach drops into your shoes. You’re the taskmaster. The organizer. The keeper of the schedule. This change in direction will only throw a wrench into the flawless plan you spent hours agonizing over. Even if it is a better way to go, you’re cringing at the idea of straying from your beloved system.

Sound familiar? It’s a common scenario for project managers. When you’re the one who’s solely responsible for keeping everything on track, it’s understandable that you’ll white-knuckle your tried and true processes.

But, think about this: You may be limiting the wiggle room team members need to take that project to the next level. By planning away every last inch of flexibility, you’re making it that much tougher to adapt to new information and evolving demands.

So, what do you do? It’s time for project management professionals to not only think of themselves as the keepers of plans, but also the ones responsible for pulling the very best out of teams.

To do so, they need to encourage and enable both pieces of the creative problem-solving process: divergent thinking and convergent thinking.

The Habits of Highly Effective English Communicators

Listening&Comprehension - Improving Project Management Professionals. The podcast is about pulling the very best out of teams.

¿Te cuesta aprender vocabulario?
Pues acompáñanos en este nuevo episodio, en el cual hablaremos sobre cuatro estrategias que han sido propuestas desde el campo de la psicolingüística y la educación.  
Recuerda que en el siguiente enlace puedes encontrar el documento del episodio: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qoAD2FN18R15uJkadTDCvLabSGvbVDVSZcKU1iv4PZg/edit
 

Real Spanish Podcast

Vocabulario: estrategias de aprendizaje.

刻舟求剑[kè zhōu qiú jiàn]：mark/boat/find/sword to mark the boat in order to find the lost sword.
乘船chéng chuán：take  a ship/boat
渡江dù jiāng：cross a river
佩剑pèi jiàn：a double-edged sword;walking sword
记号jì hào：mark;sign signal;symbol
This idiom satirizes those who instead of taking changed circumstances account

乐读中文 (Lè Dú Zhōngwén) - "Joyful Chinese Stories"

刻舟求剑[kè zhōu qiú jiàn]

Joy to Our World

Ouch! Better safe than sorry. 

CHISTES MEXICANOS

MALOS PENSAMIENTOS.

・BTSの日本語曲を引用し、東北弁で表現しよう！
・主に北東北で使われる方言に置き換えて紹介
・「すごく」の色々な東北弁の紹介
・まとめ
