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Maria & Pablo Spanish

Level N3-N1 
日本の使える文房具についてお話しています。
Beginners 使える！文房のレベルアップバージョンです。

Nihongo_Hanaso（N3+）

N3+ 使える！文房具/ぶんぼうぐ

01.02.2023
Astăzi am terminat de citit ,,Lecții de chimie”, o carte ce mi-a fost dăruită de @radioseven și pentru care le mulțumesc foarte mult! 
  Cred că dacă ești femeie, e imposibil ca această carte să nu te impresioneze: când vezi cât de puține drepturi aveau femeile, cum erau tratate ca niște persoane inferioare bărbaților, cum nu aveau dreptul de a fi ceea ce își doresc și cum nu erau auzite de nimeni atunci când încercau să strige nedreptățile la care au fost supuse.
 Și atunci mă întreb: e clar că acum am făcut un progres enorm față de anii ‘60 - drept dovadă, eu studiez medicina- dar oare am scăpat de toate nedreptățile la care sunt supuse femeile? Oare nu am auzit de foarte multe ori chiar și în zilele noastre: ,, Ea este femeie, ea trebuie să facă mâncare, curățenie!”. Sunt conștientă că unele diferențe dintre sexe sunt naturale și că trebuie să existe în continuare, dar a face curățenie, mâncare, a fi atent la nevoile celui de lângă tine, cred că nu ține de apartenența la un anumit sex. 
O carte plăcută, ușoară, dar care m-a tulburat și pe care am savurat-o! O recomand cu căldură! ♥️📚

Ce a mai citit Adriana?

,,Lecții de chimie”- Bonnie Garmus

speaker: 
        刘亦菲Liú Yìfēi 华裔美籍的女演员, 2020年从迪士尼《花木兰》真人版电影试镜中脱颖而出，成为花木兰一角的饰演者. 
 Chinese-American actress.In 2020, Yifei became known to international audiences for starring as the titular character in the Disney live-action film Mulan.
script:
   你不是你的情绪，你不是你的认知，你不是你的过去，你也不是你的将来。那...你是什么？其实就是一个非常好的一个课题。我相信对任何一个人也是，每一个人都会有开心的时候，有难过的时候，其实他的这样的一个方式，其实让你在很轻松的一种状态里面能够跳出来，可能你会找回一些更多属于自己的力量。有时候犯个小小的错误也挺好挺可爱的，这就是人生吧。
力量   lì liang ；power ,strength
犯错   fàn cuò ；make a mistake
translation:
You are not your emotions, you are not your cognition, you are not your past, and you are not your future. So... what are you? It's a very good subject actually. . . I believe that it suits anyone. Everyone has happy times and sad times. In fact, this allows you to jump out of a very relaxed state of mind. Maybe you will gain more strength within yourself. Sometimes it's nice and cute to make some small mistakes. This is life,isn’t it?


One Minute Chinese—— Celebrity speeches & interviews with Chinese & English script

03.刘亦菲：活出自己 Liu Yifei: Live your own life

Hoy hablaremos de algo esencial en cualquier idioma: los saludos y las despedidas. Estos son puntos de partida en cualquier conversación y, al dominarlos, podrás dar una excelente primera impresión.

Español en Acción

Temporada 1 Episodio 2 Saludos y Despedidas en Español

In this episode we are going to learn how to talk about【Weekend plan】. 
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As a beginner, there're some vocabularies that you didn't learn before, and native speaker's speed seems too fast to understand. But don't worry, let's do it step by step. 
1st time: listen and catch the words you know alreay, have a guess about the content.
2nd time: look at the text to check if you guessed it right. 
3rd time: listen one more time, repeat after it.
4th time: practise until you can speak as the normal speed without looking at the text. 
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明天是星期六。天气很好。
míng tiān shì xīng qī liù 。 tiān qì hěn hǎo 。
Tomorrow is Saturday. The weather is good.
我想和朋友一起出去。
wǒ xiǎng hé péng yǒu yì qǐ chū qù 。
I want to go out with my friends.
早上9点我们去麦当劳吃早饭。
zǎo shàng jiǔ diǎn wǒ men qù mài dāng láo chī zǎo fàn 。
At 9 o 'clock in the morning we go to McDonald's for breakfast.
上午我们在图书馆看书。
shàng wǔ wǒ men zài tú shū guǎn kàn shū 。
We read books in the library in the morning(A.M.).
中午我们去吃中国菜。
zhōng wǔ wǒ men qù chī zhōng guó cài 。
At noon we go to have Chinese food.
下午我们在公园聊天。
xià wǔ wǒ men zài gōng yuán liáo tiān 。
In the afternoon we chat in the park.
晚上7点我们去吃日本菜。
wǎn shàng qī diǎn wǒ men qù chī rì běn cài 。
At 7:00 in the evening we go to eat Japanese food.
8点半我们去看电影。
bā diǎn bàn wǒ men qù kàn diàn yǐng 。
We go to the cinema at 8:30.
10点半我们回家。
shí diǎn bàn wǒ men huí jiā 。
We go home at 10:30.

Yuli's Chinese Channel

周末计划 Weekend plan（for beginner）

In this episode, Karen and Baiwei chatted about some interesting concepts and practices in traditional Chinese medicine.

TED-Ed video about Yin and Yang:
https://youtu.be/ezmR9Attpyc


Chillchat (Learn Chinese and Chill)

Fire In The Body? Amazing Traditional Chinese Medicine Theories 神奇的中医理论

Textile waste is an urgent global problem, with only 12% recycled worldwide, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a fashion sustainability nonprofit.

Nowhere is the problem greater than in China, the world's largest textile producer and consumer, where more than 26 million tons of clothes are thrown away each year, according to government statistics. Most of it ends up in landfills.

The country's clothing industry is dominated by "fast fashion" — cheap clothes made from unrecyclable synthetics. And Chinese e-commerce brands Shein and Temu make the country one of the world's largest producers of cheap fashion, selling in more than 150 countries.

Currently, only about 20% of China's textiles are recycled, according to the Chinese government. And many Chinese consumers are unwilling to buy used items anyway.

Still, among younger Chinese, there is a growing awareness of sustainability and some "remade" clothing businesses have emerged.

Designer Zhang Na's fashion label, Reclothing Bank, sells clothes, bags and other accessories made from materials such as plastic bottles, fishing nets and flour sacks.

The items' labels have QR codes that show their composition, how they were made and the source of the materials.

Reclothing Bank began in 2010 to give "new life to old things," Zhang said of her store in Shanghai. A large used clothes deposit box sits outside the entrance.

Zhang said she has seen sustainability consciousness grow since she opened her store, with core customers in their 20s and 30s.

But recycled garments sold at stores like Reclothing Bank cost much more than fast-fashion brands due to their production methods.

And that's the real problem, said Sheng Lu, professor of fashion and apparel studies at the University of Delaware.

"Studies repeatedly show consumers are not willing to pay higher for clothing made from recycled materials" he said.




Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

26 Million Tons of Clothes Discarded in China Each Year

In this week's  lesson, I share experiences from my childhood with competitive sport.