All levels of English students get this wrong -- a lot! Get it right.

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The Present Simple Tense -- Do You Really Know It?

O português teve a língua árabe como uma boa influenciadora na sua formação. Essa realização aconteceu duas vezes… A primeira foi entre os séculos VIII e XV durante a ocupação dos Mouros na Península Ibérica, os Árabes levaram muita cultura à população, o problema era que pouquíssimos locais sabiam ler e escrever latim e a maior parte da população falava o chamado latim vulgar que depois viria a ser o português, então quem se aventura a conhecimentos acadêmicos, além de ter que saber Latim, tinha que saber Árabe, ou seja, ser bilíngue, dessa forma, uma mistura das duas línguas seria totalmente espontâneo com o passar das décadas - e também, os Árabes eram a maioria, sendo cultos ou não, assim…
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Palavras de origem Árabe no Português

聊中西文化，也聊很多东西！
第十期，终于要来聊一聊学外语，和我做播客的原因了。

聊聊东西 - Talk to Me in Chinese

010. 聊聊学语言和为什么做播客 How to learn languages - ttmiChinese

The "th" sound is the hardest sound for everybody. You need to give it special attention.

Tongue twisters with “th”
		The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
		
		I thought a thought. But the thought I thought Wasn’t the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought, Had been the thought I thought, I wouldn’t have thought I thought.
		
		Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug – although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty-year-old thug thought of that morning.
		
		Thirty-three thousand feathers on a thrushes throat.


The th Sound in English

The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
Chapter 18 To Make a Long Story Short 
Chapter 19 Back to School
In this chapter we learn how George and Harold turn Captain Underpants back to Mr. Krupp.
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The Adventures of Captain Underpants

Chapter 18 To Make a Long Story Short and chapter 19 Back to School

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castle, crab, coral reef, clownfish, clam, cowfish, camel, cave, coconut, cow, cotton candy, capybara, carrots, cardinal

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Captain Sesalt & The ABC Pirates

Letter C

Do you get tired in the afternoon? Experts say that's normal. The body has a natural rhythm that includes two drowsy periods every 24 hours, one at night and another between about 2 and 4 p.m.

So why not take a nap?

Experts say that taking a nap for less than 30 minutes — a so-called "power nap" — allows the brain to rest in a way that makes you more alert when you wake up. Research has also shown other benefits.

"We know it's an easy, helpful way to quickly boost your alertness, your concentration, your productivity, your creativity and your mood." says James Maas, who spent 48 years studying sleep as a Cornell University professor.

However, people shouldn't nap for too long, as they will fall into a deeper sleep, which is harder to wake up from.

Shorter naps are helpful for alertness and memory, says Sara Mednick, a sleep researcher at University of California-Irvine. Her research has found that naps work better than caffeine to improve brain function.

For a good nap, find a quiet, dark and cool space and set an alarm for 15 or 20 minutes.

Even if you feel like you haven't slept, you still get benefits, Mednick said. People often don't feel like they are asleep until they have reached a deeper sleep.

Short naps don't interfere with nighttime sleep, as long as they're not too late in the day. Try to take a nap at the same time every day, around 6 or 7 hours after waking up.

The only people who should avoid napping are those who have trouble sleeping at night, Maas says. Older people should be careful because they tend to nap for too long during the day.

And if you don't like napping? Research has shown that napping is not for everyone. And Mednick's advice for people who really don't like to nap is: "Listen to your body."

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Tired in the Afternoon? Try Taking a Power Nap

In questo episodio parleremo del "borsalino", un cappello inventato in Italia e usato dagli italiani (ma non solo). 




Italiano espresso

Lettura livello B1: Il cappello usato dagli italiani: il borsalino

Platiqué con Jennifer, una profesora tica, sobre la simbiosis entre la población costarricense y la biodiversidad.