Positive thoughts for the New Year!
This is from a blog post I wrote at the start of 2021, but I think it is still really important now.

The Social Evolutionary

Last year was bad? Let's remember the good things.

En este episodio, Jon (Madrid) y Joan (Barcelona) cuentan las aventuras y anécdotas más divertidas e interesantes de su experiencia ERASMUS, un programa europeo de intercambio de estudiantes que da la oportunidad de vivir y estudiar en otro país por un tiempo.  ¡Relájate y escúchanos!

¡Qué Pasa! Podcast en Español

LA VIDA DE ESTUDIANTE EN OTRO PAÍS - ERASMUS Parte 1

Good day, Students, today we are going to learn an example of conjugation tense in this short phrase in Spanish.
[First, we are going to hear this Example of the paragraph in Spanish]
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Esta es la historia de Annie, Ella es una niña con ojos azules, cabello largo y dulce sonrisa. Ella estudia en una hermosa escuela con sus amigas. 
Ella tiene muchas amigas en la escuela y los profesores son muy buenos con ella. En la escuela son buenos con ella porque ella es muy especial. 
Los muchachos siempre quieren regalarle rosas y chocolates a ella y todos la admiran 
Sus padres trabajan todo el día y la abuela cuida la casa. La madre tiene una tienda de caramelos cerca de la escuela y su padre trabaja en una famosa empresa de video juegos.
Su casa es la más bonita del vecindario y tiene un hermoso jardín con un gran árbol de manzana. 
En vacaciones, ellos visitan muchos lugares interesantes del país y a veces compran recuerdos del viaje. También ellos traen regalos a los vecinos y familia. 
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 [And now it´s time to hear the English version] 
This is the story of Annie. She is a little girl with blue eyes, long hair and a sweet smile. She studies at a beautiful school with her friends.
She has many friends at school and the teachers are very good to her. At school they are good to her because she is very special.
The boys always want to give her roses and chocolates and everyone admires her.
Her parents work all day and the grandmother takes care of the house. The mother has a candy store near the school and her father works at a famous video game company.
Their house is the prettiest in the neighborhood and has a beautiful garden with a big apple tree.
On vacation, they visit many interesting places in the country and sometimes buy souvenirs from the trip. They also bring gifts to the neighbors and family. 

Podcast Learn Spanish

LISTENING AND COMPREHENSION OF SPANISH PARAGRAPH 

En este episodio presentamos la pregunta de una usuaria que tiene dificultades para atreverse a hablar en los idiomas que aprende. Para responder hablaremos un poco del error y su papel en el proceso de aprendizaje de idiomas y comprenderemos que las emociones son una parte central del proceso de aprendizaje (no lo digo yo, lo dice la ciencia). ¡Comenzamos!

Preguntitas (sobre el aprendizaje de idiomas)

Ep. 1 - ¿Cómo puedo perder la pena a hablar un nuevo idioma?

日本の小学生の必需品ランドセルについての話です。ラン活をみなさんは知っていますか？

日本語でおしゃべり　podcast for Japanese learners

＃20 ランドセルの話

Note: This podcast is intended for language learning ONLY. Not for promoting or criticizing any political party or ideology. Let’s keep it friendly and accessible to all :)


Also, all of the experiences are the hosts’ own experiences so please do your own research if you need more information.

Chillchat (Learn Chinese and Chill)

聊聊失败 Chatting about Failure!

In today's episode, we learn why it's wrong to say that the food was 'very delicious', or that the weather was 'very freezing'. The reason is all to do with the fact that some adjectives are GRADABLE - we can make them stronger or weaker by using intensifiers such as 'very' or 'fairly', for example 'she's very pretty' or 'the weather is very hot'. But other adjectives are UNGRADABLE, which means that they're already at the very top (e.g., 'amazing') or the very bottom (e.g., terrible). But how do we stress these adjectives, if we can't use 'very'? Learn how in today's podcast, and manage to avoid one of the most common mistakes made by students of English. 

Learn English with Cambridge David

Avoiding common mistakes - Ungradable Adjectives

Controversies around the World Cup football competition in Qatar.

The transcript is here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1INxNOEZlYSlHou3k9OQFYTDFPXSuOkqK/view?usp=drivesdk

Teacher Joseph's Podcast

World Cup [with transcript for study]

Christmas 2022

Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TB2rxASJVWthGZzwtnvoP5RIy6vblsTr/view?usp=drivesdk