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Inside a dusty workroom, an old craftsman held up a chess piece to the window. He rotated it in the sunlight and inspected its every detail. 

“Perfection,” said the craftsman. 

He added it to the set he had been building. Sixteen grey pieces sat on his worktable, all handmade and almost ready for sale. 

The craftsman felt very satisfied with his designs. He was ready for the final stage of the process. He picked up one of the pawn pieces and said, “What about you, my little friend? What colour would you like to be?” 

He reached for his paint brush, dunked it into glass of water and then into a container of paint. The grey pawn received a heavy coating of shiny white paint.

Fast-forward several years into the future. After repeated use and abuse, that little pawn’s proud white colour had faded. Areas of his original grey were visible. Because of this, whenever players assembled their chess set, they left this little grey-white pawn to the side. 

“Uhm, is that yours or mine?” said the white player. 

“It doesn’t matter. Put it back in the box and choose from the others,” said the black player. 

This little plastic pawn’s name was Gary. 


Being a Cloud

Gary the Chess Piece

今週（こんしゅう）
英語: "this week"
スペイン語: "esta semana"
ドイツ語: "diese Woche"
タイ語: "สัปดาห์นี้"

会（あ）う
英語: "to meet"
スペイン語: "encontrarse" / "reunirse"
ドイツ語: "treffen"
タイ語: "พบเจอ"

疲（つか）れる
英語: "to get tired"
スペイン語: "cansarse"
ドイツ語: "müde werden"
タイ語: "เหนื่อย"

東京（とうきょう）

わたしのいえから東京（とうきょう）まででんしゃで1時間（いちじかん）です。
今週（こんしゅう）は3回（さんかい）もとうきょうに行（い）きました。
せいとさんにあったり、ともだちにあったりしました。とてもたのしかったです。でも、ちょっとつかれましたから、来週（らいしゅう）はとうきょうに行（い）きたくないです。


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東京（とうきょう）

In Zen philosophy, non-duality emphasizes the dissolution of boundaries. You are not separate from the task you’re doing; you are the task. Applied to language learning, this means letting go of the struggle and resistance that often arise when we view learning as something external to conquer. Instead of thinking, “I need to learn this grammatical rule,” shift your mindset to, “The exploring of how this rule expresses ideas is entering this very moment in time.” Instead of seeing a vocabulary list as a hurdle, see it as the vocabulary becoming immersed with your very being.

Non-duality teaches us to embrace the process fully, without judgment or the pressure of results. When you sit down to study, there is no "you" trying to learn the language; there is only learning happening. This mindset helps dissolve resistance and makes the process more intuitive.


111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 55 - How to enter the Zone or Flow State through Non-Duality 

Всем привет!
Hello, everyone!
Salut, les amis!

Being a French language learner I am always eager to make an order in a restaurant myself without any help of a menu in English (if such exists). Moreover, I need to be very precise about a terrible allergy I have. Otherwise… no more learning, or teaching, or going to restaurants for your teacher Elena 😊. 

1-minute Survival Russian for Travelling (A1-A2)

Как делать заказ в ресторане_How to make an order in a restaurant

San Fermín es una de las fiestas más famosas de España y del mundo entero pero ¿cómo comenzó esta tradición? En este episodio te cuento la historia de la mundialmente conocida Running of the bulls y qué actividades hay (¡no solo tenemos toros!)

Escríbeme un mensaje si necesitas las notas del podcast

Se armó la Marimorena - Spanish Podcast

Running of the bulls o San Fermín: Historia de la fiesta (¡no solo hay toros!)

Here are different tricks and techniques to impress the hiring manager with your CV and today we'll look through some of them.

Most of them you know but for the benefit of improving your listening and enhancing your knowledge - this recording is for you.

So there are 5 areas we'll look into in this recording:

1. Tailor your CV to the job description
2. Making it visually appealing and well-structured
3. Making your achievements quantifiable
4. The right use of industry-specific keywords
5. How to illustrate your transferrable skills.

Embrace the ongoing journey of self-improvement, but above all, take action on the ideas shared in the recording to refine and enhance what you already possess, thus maximizing your chances of securing the role!

If you feel there is a need to improve your English for a job interview, prepare your CV & go through commonly asked questions as well as preparing your mental state for success - send me a job interview class preparation now.

Job Interview Preparation | CEO Interview Strategies From Diverse Business Sectors!

5 tips on How to impress HR manager with your CV.




こんにちは！
Japanese daily life podcast のAtsushiです。
このPodcastは、日本語を楽しく勉強しているみなさんに向けたPodcastです。

ぼくの日常生活の話を聞くことで、日本語のリスニングをよくしたり、新しい言葉を知ってもらえたらいいなと思います。

みなさんお元気でしょうか。
今日もトルコからPodcastを録っています。


今日は、N3の漢字をやります！
両をやります！　

音読み　りょう
訓読み　ふたーつ　送り仮名はつ

意味は、ふたつ、双方、などがあります。

例えば、

・両手ーりょうて　右と左の手

・両方ーりょうほう　双方どちらも

・両親ーりょうしん　父と母　



こんな感じですね。
これを使って例文を作っていきましょう！

・とっさに両手で受け止めた

・日本語も英語も両方勉強しています

・両親にはとても感謝しています



こんな感じです。

今回も最後まで聞いていただき、ありがとうございます！
ではまた！


Atsushi のJapanese podcast (travel/news /文法・漢字・語彙/Osaka/Hokkaido/🇹🇷🇬🇪🇦🇲🇪🇸🇵🇹)

#419 N3 漢字"両"について

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