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How do children learn to read? Why should we show words to the children? How do we know if a child is ready to start learning phonics? Why is the British curriculum introducing the phonics so early, as opposed to other languages and countries? How important is proprioception for good pronunciation? Why do we as Early years teachers giving so much importance to rhyme and alliteration?

Language Tales

Phonetical awareness in Early years

Estamos ante un verbo peculiar por varios motivos: mismo verbo, dos estructuras y usos diferentes, y tres significados. ¿Lo estás usando bien?

Curiosidades sobre el español y su cultura

El verbo entretener/entretenerse

Full transcript: https://japanesemayuna.com/

はい、こんにちは。今回は、ポッドキャストのシーズン２の３回目です。今月の終わりから大学の授業が始まります。今日はレッスンがなかったので、下見に行きました。「下見」とは、行き方や場所の様子を調べるために実際に行くことです。

Hello. This is episode 3 of season 2 of my podcast. My university lessons start at the end of this month. I didn't have any lessons today, so I went for a Sitami. 'Shitami’ (Preview) means actually going to the location beforehand to find out how to get there and what the place looks like.

大学は京都にあるので、大阪から電車で１時間半ぐらいです。大学に行くまでに大阪駅と京都駅を通ります。大阪駅と京都駅はいつも人がいっぱいで、とても疲れます。今年の10月から日本に観光客が入れるようになったので、外国人もたくさんいました。京都にはヨーロッパ系の観光客が多いですが、最近は東南アジア系の観光客も増えている気がします。「〜系」は人種を表します。たとえば、国籍がブラジルで親が日本人の人を日系ブラジル人といいます。大学は駅からバスで10分ぐらいでした。山の近くにあってとても静かでした。

The university is located in Kyoto, which is about an hour and a half by train from Osaka. I pass through Osaka and Kyoto stations on my way to the university. Osaka and Kyoto stations are always full of people, and walking through them is always tiring. Since October this year, tourists have been allowed into Japan, so there were many foreigners. There are many European Kei tourists in Kyoto, but recently I feel that there are more and more South-East Asian Kei tourists. ‘-Kei (-descent)' denotes ethnicity. For example, people whose nationality is Brazilian and whose parents are Japanese are called Nikkei Brazilians. (The "ni" in nikkei is the first character of Japan). The university was about 10 minutes by bus from the station. It was very quiet near the mountains.

Japanese Lessons with Mayuna

S2 Ep3. 和牛ステーキ

ストレスの度合いを図ることができる物質が発見された話題を取り上げます。
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/k10012049031000/k10012049031000.html

いっしょにNHK News Web Easyを読もう📢Reading News Articles

大阪おおさか大学だいがく　ストレスを測はかることができる物質ぶっしつを見みつける

今期邀请左两位软件工程师上来倾下佢地入行嘅过程同感受，对话内容可能稍偏技术向但绝对欢乐

夠鐘煲粥 Congee Time

EP36.對話軟件工程師

In this lesson, we cover the use of future tenses using compound verbs (2 verbs, one being the auxiliary one) in relation to plans and projects for the future.

Super Basic Spanish

Learn Basic Spanish: Planes y proyectos (plans and projects)

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Man Fired for Keeping Webcam Off Awarded $73,000
A remote worker who was fired for refusing to keep his camera on while working has been awarded about $73,000 by a Dutch court.

The man, whose name was not made public, had been working for the US software company Chetu in the Netherlands since 2019. On August 23, 2022, while working remotely, he was told by his employer that he should keep his webcam on all day for online training.

The employee said he didn't feel comfortable being monitored on camera for nine hours, and refused to do so. He added that the company could already see all activities on his laptop and that he was also sharing his screen.

But Chetu said that having a camera on was no different from being watched in an office. And the company fired him.

Finding this unfair, the man took the company to court in the Netherlands. He told the court that he hadn't been given clear enough reasons for being fired, and that asking him to keep his camera on for the whole workday was against his right to privacy.

And the court agreed. Chetu now must pay the man about $73,000.

While using a webcam to check on employees may not be very common, computer programs that monitor employee activity have become popular.

A survey from 2021 found that 60% of US companies with remote workers were using employee monitoring software, and 81% of those companies found that their workers were more productive while being monitored.