The Fluency Podcast is a Spanish podcast designed to help you improve your Spanish skills through natural discussions between online Spanish tutors.

The Fluency Podcast

The Fluency Podcast is a Spanish Podcast designed to help you improve your Spanish Skills through Natural Discussions between Online Spanish Tutors.

Transcript: https://www.patreon.com/posts/zhong-wen-shi-95740701?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Lily's Chinese 对话

20240227高尔基致罗曼罗兰的信

Let's delve into the word Calm. We will continue with a Q and A, followed by five different sentence variations. Namaste. 

Joy to Our World

I am calm! 

Transcript by italki teacher Carl:
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Streetwise English Podcast - Pink Floyd
Welcome back to another mini episode of Streetwise English podcast. You can search for Streetwise English Podcast on other platforms and find full length episodes, but these are just mini podcasts. Today I'd like to talk about music, and specifically I'd like to talk about an English band called Pink Floyd. So Pink Floyd was big back in the 1970s. And I remember as a kid my dad had the album The Dark Side of the Moon, and the cover Art of the Dark Side of the Moon was a prism, like a triangle.
And then on the right side of the prism was a rainbow. So the spectrum of colors in light and this album was groundbreaking at the time because it was kind of a new genre of music. It was psychedelic rock, so there were soundscapes and they were using synthesizers and electric instruments in ways that people had never done before. And I looked, I Googled it, checked on the Wikipedia page, and it says that The Dark Side of the Moon is the eighth studio album of the English rock band Pink Floyd released on March 1st 1973 the record was conceived as an album that focused on the pressures faced by the band during their arduous lifestyle. And dealing with the apparent mental health problems suffered by former band member Syd Barrett, who was a part of the group in 1968.
So in my research, um, my brief research here on Pink Floyd I learned about Syd Barrett and that he was the founding member of the band who left the group and I guess he had some kind of mental illness and experimented with a lot of psychedelic drugs. Um, and he kind of disappeared from the band, but it seems like he was probably maybe the most talented one and the original member of the band and kind of helped form, form their style of exploring sonic soundscapes and free flow of consciousness and the way that he would create the lyrics and...



Streetwise English

SWE #10 Pink Floyd- Psychedelic Rock

En español hay nombres que además de un plural, tienen un nombre colectivo que hace referencia a un conjunto o agrupación de cosas. Estos nombres colectivos hacen referencia a algo plural pero irónicamente son gramaticalmente singulares.

En el episodio de hoy te explico los nombres colectivos y hablo de algunos de ellos.

Espero que disfrutes el episodio.  Después de escucharlo no te olvides de decirme 

-si conocías los nombres colectivos que menciono en el episodio

-y, si conoces algún otro.


Blanca to go 

57 – nombres colectivos

皆さんはカルチャーショックを受けたことがありますか。
日本は南北に長い国なので、地域によって気候や文化などが違います。
今回は北海道で生まれ育ったフミが道外で感じたカルチャーショックについて話します。

Have you had any experience with feeling culture shock?
Japan is a long country that extends north to south, so even within Japan, the climate and the culture differ depending on the region. 
This time, Fumi, who was born and grew up in Hokkaido talks about his experience.

♤ キーワード
・ショックを受ける（ショックをうける：be shocked）
・柑橘類（かんきつるい：citrus fruit）
・庭木（にわき：garden tree）
・街路樹（がいろじゅ：roadside tree）

♧ 理解度チェッククイズ
1. フミさんが道外で感じたカルチャーショックは？
2. アヤさんのおばあちゃんの家の庭には何の木があった？

♢ 前回のクイズの答え
1. 今年、桜の開花が一番早かったのはどこ？
→ 福岡
2. アヤさんが春を感じるきっかけは？
→ 桜の開花

BGM special thanks：MusMus

アヤさんとフミさんの日本語雑談（Aya and Fumi’s Japanese Chit-Chat）

Episode 02：カルチャーショック

Según un reporte de BBC titulado "Mexicanos en Estados Unidos: las cifras que muestran su verdadero poder económico"

Se dice que: 
"De una población de casi 57 millones de latinos en EE.UU., más del 63% es de origen mexicano, es decir, más de 36 millones de personas."

Medical Spanish🎧🏥
Escucha esta cápsula informativa sobre la diabetes.

Medical Spanish

La Diabetes 🎧🏥

In this episode of Ctrl+Speak, we explore the concept of Access Points (APs) in networking. Learn what an AP is, why it's important, and how it works in real-world scenarios. From definitions and role-play examples to practical tips, this episode has it all. Perfect for tech enthusiasts and IT professionals alike! Subscribe now and stay tuned for more tech talk made simple.

CTRL+SPEAK

Episode 2: AP - Access Point

Мене звати Олексій. Мені тридцять чотири роки. Я живу у невеликому місті в центрі країни. В мене є дружина і дві дитини: хлопчик і дівчинка. Моїй дружині двадцять дев'ять років. Моєму сину одинадцять років, а моїй доньці три роки. А скільки років вам?
Ми живемо у невеликому будинку, де є два поверхи. В будинку шість кімнат: три спальні, одна велика вітальня, кухня та дві ванні кімнати. Нашому будинку вже п'ятнадцять років. Його площа двісті квадратних метрів. У нас також є тераса, вишневий садок і маленький басейн.
Ми завжди раді бачити гостей. Приїжджайте до нас у гості!