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Nihongo Hiyori | Japanese Podcast

[EP082] 年末年始🎍 | End of The Year and New Year 

In this episode I will tell you my story of my missing cat Bug, what I did to try and find him and what I have learnt. I did cry a bit in this episode. I miss my cat Bug so very much. Have you had a pet go missing? What did you do? How did you feel?

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All About Cats

Missing Cat

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Bedside Italian

Bedside Italian #26 - Finalmente ho guardato "Titanic".

Gloria is an street vendor in Bogotá, Colombia. Let's listen to her and practice Simple Present, when do we need to use it and how do we conjugate it.

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Real Spanish Podcast

The Street Vendor

日常中文（Daily Chinese）

I'm not picky about food  我不挑食 

In dieser Episode von Business-Deutsch leicht gemacht dreht sich alles um Small Talk am Telefon. Ich erkläre, warum Small Talk im beruflichen Umfeld wichtig ist, besonders bei Telefongesprächen, wo Körpersprache fehlt. Du erfährst, welche Themen sich gut für Small Talk eignen – wie Wetter, Reisen oder berufliche Neuigkeiten – und bekommst praktische Tipps, um das Gespräch locker und professionell zu gestalten. Außerdem stelle ich dir typische Redewendungen vor, mit denen du deine Telefonate freundlich und souverän einleiten kannst.

Business-Deutsch leicht gemacht

Small Talk am Telefon - Wie du im Business-Deutsch punktest!

Textile waste is an urgent global problem, with only 12% recycled worldwide, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a fashion sustainability nonprofit.

Nowhere is the problem greater than in China, the world's largest textile producer and consumer, where more than 26 million tons of clothes are thrown away each year, according to government statistics. Most of it ends up in landfills.

The country's clothing industry is dominated by "fast fashion" — cheap clothes made from unrecyclable synthetics. And Chinese e-commerce brands Shein and Temu make the country one of the world's largest producers of cheap fashion, selling in more than 150 countries.

Currently, only about 20% of China's textiles are recycled, according to the Chinese government. And many Chinese consumers are unwilling to buy used items anyway.

Still, among younger Chinese, there is a growing awareness of sustainability and some "remade" clothing businesses have emerged.

Designer Zhang Na's fashion label, Reclothing Bank, sells clothes, bags and other accessories made from materials such as plastic bottles, fishing nets and flour sacks.

The items' labels have QR codes that show their composition, how they were made and the source of the materials.

Reclothing Bank began in 2010 to give "new life to old things," Zhang said of her store in Shanghai. A large used clothes deposit box sits outside the entrance.

Zhang said she has seen sustainability consciousness grow since she opened her store, with core customers in their 20s and 30s.

But recycled garments sold at stores like Reclothing Bank cost much more than fast-fashion brands due to their production methods.

And that's the real problem, said Sheng Lu, professor of fashion and apparel studies at the University of Delaware.

"Studies repeatedly show consumers are not willing to pay higher for clothing made from recycled materials" he said.




Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

26 Million Tons of Clothes Discarded in China Each Year

In this episode I talk about popular English web acronyms like AMA IRL WYD FOMO ETC.
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