In this short episode, I discuss a few interesting studies about language learning that you might enjoy. :)

Learning Strategies for Success with Tyler Teacher

3 *Fun* Facts about Learning Languages (Episode 5)

zěn me 
怎  么   + verb：How to

dàn ɡāo zěn me zuò ？ 
蛋  糕  怎  么 做  ？ 
zhè ɡe hàn zì zěn me xiě ？ 
这  个 汉  字 怎  么 写  ？ 
nǐ de mínɡ zi zěn me dú ？ 
你 的 名   字 怎  么 读 ？ 
miàn bāo yònɡ fá yǔ zěn me shuō ？ 
面   包  用   法 语 怎  么 说   ？ 
nǐ zěn me qù ɡōnɡ sī ？ 
你 怎  么 去 公   司 ？ 
zhè zhǒnɡ shuí ɡuǒ zěn me chī ？ 
这  种    水   果  怎  么 吃  ？ 

JOJO CHINESE

怎么+verb：How to

“ I actually just finished a wonderful engrossing book just last week, which I couldn’t put down for a moment, and read from cover to cover in just two days. The book was an autobiography on a very famous musician and member of one of the most famous rock bands in history, the Rolling stones….

 

It was one of my friends who is also interested in music recommended the book to me, as he knew I am a huge fan of the Rolling Stones. That evening I checked out reviews for the book online and everyone was giving it a 5 star rating, so it was off to the bookshop for me to pick up a copy as quickly as I could. 

 

The book basically tells the life story of a music legend from his time growing up as a young child in England in the 1950s to becoming a rock legend, and a founding member of one of the biggest rock bands of all time. It really gave an incredible insight into his life, from a very humble beginning to becoming a megastar. It certainly was not heavy reading, and the author’s sense of humour actually made it light reading.

 

The reasons I really loved this book so much apart from being a lifetime fan of the central character, were firstly…. It gave me an amazing insight into the real life of a rockstar, which was actually very thought provoking…….I also found it very inspiring and uplifting….to discover how this young boy from a very normal background believed in his dreams, and stopped at nothing to achieve them….and of course the crazy journey of a rock star along the way…So….yes…..It really was one of those books that i just couldn’t put down, and would have no hesitation in recommending  to anyone.

IELTS 85 Speaking

Describe a book you enjoyed - IELTS speaking part 2 topic.

En el Episodio 07 de "Segurola y Habana", el Podcast donde el idioma de los argentinos es explicado por argentinos, hoy les traemos el término "Un Pettinato". ¿Qué es un un Pettinato? Argentinos responden en su idioma.


Segurola y Habana Podcast

7 - Un Pettinato

안녕하세요. Hello~ 
한국어 듣기 수업 시작해요. Let's start with the Korean listening class. 
선생님 읽어요. I read it. 
잘 들으세요. Please listen well.

I posted the sentences on my blog. 
https://blog.naver.com/laramcraft/222960912359
https://youtu.be/xl3Ip1HhSPQ

The basics are important.
It is also good to check the basics of 한글 Hangeul before this listening class.
1-1. Korean alphabet - Vowels 모음 - What is Hangeul?
https://youtu.be/0YzhJ9p2lcs
2-1. Korean alphabet - Consonants 자음 -what are the consonants 자음?
https://youtu.be/lckgvQ_vreA
3-1. Korean alphabet - Final Consonants 받침 - What are the final consonants 받침?
https://youtu.be/sLlFmG30fNI

This is a class to listen to Korean conversational sentences.
In this voice recording for listening, 
After reading many sentences with Korean grammar in Korean conversations sentences, 
Check out how much you understand the sentences with a voice recording. 
Never look at the sentences when listening to the voice recording. 
And Listen to the sentence repeatedly until you hear it completely. 

You are listening to the Sejong Korean conversation. (세종학당)
There are four books in total. (Korean conversation, 1, 2, 3, 4.)
It consists of 1st and 2nd courses for beginners and 1st and 2nd courses for intermediate.
Each course is conducted in 14 units. (2 grammar - for each unit.) 
This listening class you are taking is Korean Conversation 3. (Intermediate 1) 
Please listen carefully.

Korean Listening Class 한국어 문장 듣기 - Korean teacher, Grace

Korean Conversation 3. (Intermediate 1) - Lesson 5. Part 1 -은/-ㄴ 적이 있다/없다,  Part 2 -아서/-어서/-여서 그런지

En este episodio, exploraremos algunas expresiones en español y su traducción al inglés.

Comencemos con una expresión común de saludo: "¡Hola! Mucho gusto", que se traduce como "Hello! Nice to meet you".

Ahora, pasemos a una situación en la que necesitamos pedir ayuda. Una expresión útil es "¿Me puedes echar una mano?", que se traduce como "Can you give me a hand?".

Siguiendo con la interacción en clase, una expresión para solicitar aclaraciones al profesor podría ser "¿Podría explicarme nuevamente cómo se hace esto?", que se traduce como "Could you explain to me again how to do this?".

Hablemos ahora sobre el trabajo en equipo. Una expresión útil es "Dos cabezas piensan mejor que una", que se traduce como "Two heads are better than one". Recuerda aprovechar la colaboración y diversidad de pensamiento en tu grupo de estudio.

Finalmente, la expresión de gratitud. Cuando alguien te ayude, asegúrate de expresar tu agradecimiento. Una forma común de decir "gracias" en español es "Muchas gracias", que se traduce como "Thank you very much".

Recuerda practicar estas expresiones en tu vida diaria para mejorar tus habilidades lingüísticas y culturales.

¡Gracias por escuchar y nos vemos en el próximo episodio!

Expresiones en Español: Aprende mientras escuchas

Episodio 1

Today we discuss the topic of jobs and the process of preparing and applying for a job.

Everyday English with David

Ep10

Today, we're going to learn 7 fun idioms for talking about money. It doesn't matter whether you're made of money, if you feel like a million dollars, or if you think that money doesn't grow on trees, these idioms will help you to understand native speakers whenever you hear them talking about money. Just make sure that you don't 'pick up the tab' at the end of the evening! 

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Idioms about money

There is an old theory that eating cheese before bed causes bad dreams, although scientists don't have much evidence to prove it.

But if cheese can't make us dream, new research from the US says that perhaps an app could — and they don't have to be bad dreams!

Researchers experimented with an app that they designed to encourage people to have lucid dreams. These are dreams that feel vivid and real.

During lucid dreams, people know that they're dreaming and may even be able to control what happens in the dream.

Not everyone has lucid dreams. It's thought that about half of us will have them during our lives, but some people may have them regularly.

Lucid dreams may be useful for us: experts think they could encourage creativity and problem-solving, or help us with nightmares.

The app in the study used a method called "targeted lucidity reactivation" that is supposed to make people more likely to experience lucid dreams.

This is usually done in a laboratory, but the researchers wanted to see how effective an app used at home could be.

They did two experiments to see if the app could increase the frequency of participants' lucid dreams.

The first experiment included 19 participants. Before going to sleep, they did a 20-minute activity that encouraged them to enter a "lucid mindset" when they heard certain sounds.

These same sounds were then played during the night. The frequency of the participants' lucid dreams more than doubled during the week of the experiment.

Fifty people completed the second experiment. They were put into three groups, with one group using the targeted lucidity reactivation method.

The people in this group reported that they had experienced more lucid dreams during the week of the experiment than those in the two control groups.

The researchers said these results suggest that apps like this could help people to use sleep for "personal benefits" including "spiritual and personal growth."