Scotland is the UK’s 🇬🇧 second biggest country  I want to teach you some culture and history about my city and country. I hope you find it interesting and you learn some new words 😀.

All about Scotland 

Hello and welcome to my Chinese Channel. Today let's take a look at how to express the different nationalities, such as I am Chinese. And how to ask which country do you come from? Are you ready?

Veronica's Chinese Channel

你是哪国人？which country do you come from?

主要介绍1.往好里说…往坏里说… 2.钻牛角尖 3.跟…过不去 的意思及用法。

A Course in Chinese Colloquial Idioms

How To Use 1.往好里说…往坏里说… 2.钻牛角尖 3.跟…过不去 in Chinese Colloquial Idioms

A look at how the brain creates memories, so we can understand how to remember new words better.

The Social Evolutionary

The Science of Learning Vocabulary

Like many other grandmothers, Daisy likes to knit, and she isn't very good with technology.

Or, at least, that's what she might tell people on the phone.

Daisy also describes herself as "your worst nightmare." But don't worry, she's not talking to you — she's talking to phone scammers.

That's because Daisy is actually an AI chatbot. She was created by UK phone company Virgin Media O2 to speak to scammers on the phone and make them believe they're talking to a real person.

Older people are very vulnerable to scams. In July, a UK study found that about 67% of people over the age of 75 were victims of at least one scam attempt in the six months before the study — with almost 75% being phone scams.

Enter Daisy, who has been trained to have conversations with phone scammers and waste their time.

Virgin Media O2 worked with Jim Browning, a YouTuber who has spent years "scambaiting" — that is, pretending to be a clueless victim to waste scammers' time.

And that's the whole point — Daisy can't stop scammers, but she can slow them down.

"Whenever she's on the phone with a scammer, your parents, your grandparents, your relatives, are not being scammed," Browning told Sky News.

The company says Daisy is already "wasting hundreds and hundreds of hours of scammers' time," and has shared real-life conversations the chatbot has had with scammers.

Some conversations last nearly an hour. She talks about her cat, Fluffy, and people in her family. In some conversations, she gives the scammers what they want — bank details. But of course, they're not real.

Murray Mackenzie from Virgin Media O2 said Daisy is also a reminder that the person you're speaking to on the phone might not always be who they say they are.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Meet the AI Grandma Wasting Scammers' Time

Reading a book in Japanese/Relaxing reading 

''Buying Mittens'' #10　(Written by Nankichi Niimi)
『手袋を買いに』(てぶくろを かいに）
新美南吉・著　第十話
It's a heartwarming story with
beautiful winter portrayal.

You can practice shadowing, and repeating with
this reading and the text below.📚
Also, it's a relaxing story reading for sleep🌛
📚My lessons: https://www.italki.com/ja/teacher/6185061

「お母さんは、人間は恐ろしいものだって
おっしゃったが　ちっとも恐ろしくないや。
だって僕の手を見てもどうもしなかったもの」

と思いました。
けれど子狐は いったい人間なんてどんなものか見たい
と思いました。
ある窓の下を通りかかると、人間の声がしていました。
何というやさしい、何という美しい、何と言う
おっとりした声なんでしょう。

「ねむれ　ねむれ
　母の胸に、
　ねむれ　ねむれ
　母の手に――」

子狐はその歌声は、きっと人間のお母さんの声に
ちがいないと思いました。
だって、子狐が眠る時にも、やっぱり母さん狐は、
あんなやさしい声で ゆすぶってくれるからです。


【漢字】

お母さん・・・おかあさん
人間　　・・・にんげん
恐ろしい・・・おそろしい
僕　　　・・・ぼく
手　　　・・・て
見て　　・・・みて
思いました・・おもいました
子狐　　・・・こぎつね
窓の下　・・・まどのした
通り　　・・・とおり
声　　　・・・こえ
何という・・・なんという
美しい　・・・うつくしい
母　　　・・・はは
胸　　　・・・むね
眠る　　・・・ねむる


朗読クラブ📚Reading to Japanese language learners 

朗読 『手袋を買いに』第十話 Buying Mittens #10 

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This is a vert famous story in Chinese history. It's a story about a calligrapher who visited his friend in a snowy night.