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Motivation Monday

Natural Nihongo Chat

がんばってね！という言葉

¡La inmersión está sobrevalorada! Mientras le proveamos a nuestro cerebro de 3 cosas (con estrategia y calidad), el proceso de adquisición tendrá lugar. Déjame explicarte.

Preguntitas (sobre el aprendizaje de idiomas)

Ep. 4 - ¿Es posible alcanzar el nivel C1 viviendo en un país que no habla ese idioma? 

Vocabulario:
Se aconseja el consumo de:
Verduras
Carne blanca
Pescado
Fruta
No se aconseja el consumo de:
Alimentos fritos
comida preparada
postres
Carne roja

My language learning voyage (Español)

Consejos para una dieta sana (vocabulario)

yǒu yì tiān wǎn shang，	
有一天晚上，
yì qún hóu zi zài jǐng biān de shù shang wánr。
一群猴子在井边的树上玩儿。
tū rán，yì zhī xiǎo hóu zi hǎn qi lai：	
突然，一只小猴子喊起来：
“bù hǎo la，yuè liang diào dào shuǐ li le！”		
“不好啦，月亮掉到水里了！”
dà hóu zi yí kàn，yě jiào le qi lai：	
大猴子一看，也叫了起来：
“bù hǎo la，yuè lianq zhēn de diào dào shuǐ li le！”
“不好啦，月亮真的掉到水里了！”
yì qún hóu zi kàn le hòu dōu gēn zhe shuō：
一群猴子看了后都跟着说：	
“shì a，	yuè liang zěn me diào dào shuǐ li le？”
“是啊，月亮怎么掉到水里了？”

dà hóu zi shuō：“wǒ men bǎ yuè liang lāo shang lai ba!”	
大猴子说：“我们把月亮捞上来吧！”
yú shì，hóu zi men pá dào shù shang，yì zhī lā zhe yì zhī，	
于是，猴子们爬到树上，一只拉着一只，
yì zhí jiē dào shuǐ li。
一直接到水里。
guà zài zuì xià mian de xiǎo hóu zi shēn shǒu qù lāo yuè liang。
挂在最下面的小猴子伸手去捞月亮。
tā de shǒu gāng pèng dào shuǐ，yuè liang jiù bú jiàn le。
他的手刚碰到水，月亮就不见了。
hóu zi men jué de hěn qí quài。
猴子们觉得很奇怪。
zhè shí，dà hóu zi tái tóu yí kàn，
这时，大猴子抬头一看，
tū rán jiào le qi lai：“yuè liang bú shì hái zài	tian shang ma？”
突然叫了起来：“月亮不是还在天上吗？”

CHINESE STORY中文故事

猴子捞月亮

Sit Less, Move More, Live Longer, Says Study
As a new year begins, many of us have been making plans for the months ahead — things we want to do, places we want to go, and parts of our lives we want to change.

And one study from 2022 has some simple advice to share that we might be able to use in 2023: sit less, move more.

Okay, so it's not a new message, but the researchers found that the results of their large study provide more evidence that long periods of sitting are bad for our health.

This is true across the world, but especially in lower-income countries, they said.

The researchers followed more than 105,000 adults — aged between 35 and 70 — for an average of around 11 years.

They looked at how much time the participants — who were from 21 different countries — spent sitting down each day.

And they also wanted to know about their health as the years passed. In total, there were more than 6,200 deaths and almost 5,700 cases of serious heart problems during the study.

Using this information, the researchers found that people who said they sat for eight or more hours per day were at a much higher risk of early death or serious heart disease.

These people were increasing their risk by as much as 20%, according to the researchers, but they added that doing exercise could help reduce these risks.

Scott Lear, who was one of the study's authors, said: "It's a global problem that has a remarkably simple fix. Scheduling time to get out of that chair is a great start."

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

 Sit less, Move More

In today's podcast, Cambridge David recommends a very good website for improving your listening ability. Elllo.org allows you to listen to speakers from different countries using English, and at the end you can read the script and do practice exercises to help check your understanding. Best of all, it's absolutely free. 
*please note that I'm not paid anything from elllo.org - I'm purely recommending it because I believe in sharing good learning tools, wherever we may find them. What are your favourite language learning tools (apart from italki)? Please let me know, and I'll pass your recommendations onto other listeners.

Learn English with Cambridge David

A very useful website - www.elllo.org

今天的播客Karen和柏威介绍了和房地产、买房有关的表达。


Chillchat (Learn Chinese and Chill)

(Intermediate) 聊聊房地产 Let's talk about real estate!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12oSzHqDgN64xZJbo0asAR8apWTNH5D_r/view?usp=drivesdk