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Being a Cloud

    Nǐ shì lǎoshī ma？
A：你  是   老师   吗？
    Wǒ bú shì lǎoshī, wǒ shì xuéshenɡ.
B：我 不  是   老师，  我  是    学生。


HSK Standard Course Level 1 Audio of the textbook

Lesson 3 text 2

Easy News📺
I introduce Japanese news in easy Japanese.
Today’s Theme is “ポテトチップスの袋《Plastic Bag of potato chips》”.
This episode is JLPT-N4 level.

I created a quiz on this episode.
After listening, please take the quiz!

Please use this audio for listening and shadowing practices.

☆Words☆
紙（かみ / kami）：paper
プラスチック（ぷらすちっく / purasutikku）：plastic
環境（かんきょう / kankyō）：environment
～を守（まも）る（～o mamoru）：protect
カルビー（かるびー / karubi-）：Calbee（Confectionery Company in Japan）
空気（くうき / kūki）：air
薄（うす）い（usui）：thin
商品（しょうひん / shōhin）：products
親指（おやゆび / oyayubi）：thumb

☆Grammar☆
・～ために：in order to
・～そうです：heard
・～（よ）うと思う：be going to（This sentence pattern is used to talk about the speaker’s determinations or plans.）

☆Script for this episode
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☆Quiz for this episode
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Simple Japanese Listening with Meg（めぐ）Smile

#35  Easy News / ポテトチップスの袋《Plastic Bag of potato chips》 // N4 Level /Japanese listening

What is the difference between and English teacher and a teacher that teaches communication skills?

Listen to a small recording on that.

Want more listening practice? Check my podcasts - you'll find plethora of them for you!



The Habits of Highly Effective English Communicators

What is the difference between...?

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

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Numbers 1-10 (English--Hindi--Tamil)

In today's podcast, I talk about shadowing and it's importance as well as giving some demonstrations of how you can join the words together to sound better. 

I also talk about the chef Gordon Ramsay who made a very strange pizza as well as our Prime Minister who got into trouble by refusing the #Englishbreakfast when it was offered to him. 


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Accent Reduction: Shadowing

Soundclips of the Queen and older family members.