Happiness and fulfilment rarely come from selfish pursuits, but almost always come from doing good deeds for others. By helping others we help ourselves. 



Short Stories with Rose 

The Pursuit of Happiness

小明问妈妈：“先人是什么意思？”
妈妈说：“先人是对死去的人的称呼”
小明说：“那去世的奶奶是不是要叫“鲜奶”？

Xiao Ming asked his mother: what does "xian ren" means?
Monm: Ancestors are the names for the dead.
Xiao Ming:Is the dead grandma going to call :xiān nǎi" ?

xiān ren:Ancestors    xiān nǎi:fresh milk

开心一刻 Jokes

先人与鲜奶 xiān rén yǔ xiān nǎi

こんにちは！今日(きょう)は変(へん)な校則(こうそく)について話(はな)します。
Usage of Slow Japanese:
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Slow Japanese

Episode #82 - Pointless rule in schools

「教師（きょうし）」（＝先生）が「走る（はしる）」と書いて「師走（しわす）」と読みます。昔、12月をこう呼びましたが、今でも使われています。いつもは落ち着いている先生が走るくらい、忙（いそが）しい月だという意味です。今も昔も忙しいのは変わりません。なぜなら、12月は日本全国、そうじの季節だからです。本当にそうじしなければ、だめなんですって！日本人とそうじの、深（ふか）～い関係（かんけい）をご紹介（しょうかい）します。

スクリプトと文法は言葉のリストはこちら。
https://chivalrous-wallaby-f5c.notion.site/40-ed0cb4c5f97f422ebccfc8585f3005fa

楽しみ方はこちらを見てください。
https://chivalrous-wallaby-f5c.notion.site/116c436c16ed4055a68ddb2c4624cd96

ちなみに、私は1年中走っている、日本語の先生です。はは。
忙しすぎて死（し）なないようにしなきゃ。
「心」が「亡くなる（死ぬ）」と書いて「忙しい」と読みます。

じゃあ、またね。

すずまりの日本語「ききみみ」ずきん

第40話　そうじと日本人

Practise Czech genitive.
Example: Salzburk --> Pojedu do Salzburku.
etc.

Czech Drills

Genitiv singular

To express your daily routine in Chinese, to say time and  4 skills to learn a language

Basic communication conversations

第六课 听说读写  lesson 6 listening, speaking, reading, writting

This episode is a companion to Chapter 2 of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This short podcast highlights some of the themes and vocabulary from this chapter, and it also shares a fun quote.

Here are the vocabulary words from this chapter covered in this episode:

1. isolated (adj.) – not near to other places or people
2. thunderstruck (adj.) – amazed or surprised
3. apparition (n.) – a ghost or ghostlike image of a person
4. cumbersome (adj.) – large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use;
unwieldy
5. indulgently (adv.) – in a way that allows someone to have or do what they
want
6. acquaintance (n.) a person that you have met but do not know well

If you would like to join the The Little Prince book club, please feel free to DM me and I will be happy to share more information! 🌟

Book Club: The Little Prince

Let's Explore The Little Prince: Chapter 2

The internet is full of things that are not true.   Fake news is everywhere!
Angela reads the basic text from this lesson, (transcript available when you take this lesson).

This topic is also available for intermediate and higher-level learners.


English with Angela -  conversation 

TASK 42 - FAKE NEWS AND THE INTERNET

안녕하세요. Hello~ 
한국어 듣기 수업 시작해요. Let's start with the Korean listening class. 
선생님 읽어요. I read it. 
잘 들으세요. Please listen well.

I posted the sentences on my blog. 
https://blog.naver.com/laramcraft/223015094502
https://youtu.be/x6CB181v-rU

The basics are important.
It is also good to check the basics of 한글 Hangeul before this listening class.
1-1. Korean alphabet - Vowels 모음 - What is Hangeul?
https://youtu.be/0YzhJ9p2lcs
2-1. Korean alphabet - Consonants 자음 -what are the consonants 자음?
https://youtu.be/lckgvQ_vreA
3-1. Korean alphabet - Final Consonants 받침 - What are the final consonants 받침?
https://youtu.be/sLlFmG30fNI

This is a class to listen to Korean conversational sentences.
In this voice recording for listening, 
After reading many sentences with Korean grammar in Korean conversations sentences, 
Check out how much you understand the sentences with a voice recording. 
Never look at the sentences when listening to the voice recording. 
And Listen to the sentence repeatedly until you hear it completely. 

You are listening to the Sejong Korean conversation. (세종학당)
There are four books in total. (Korean conversation, 1, 2, 3, 4.)
It consists of 1st and 2nd courses for beginners and 1st and 2nd courses for intermediate.
Each course is conducted in 14 units. (2 grammar - for each unit.) 
This listening class you are taking is Korean Conversation 3. (Intermediate 1) 
Please listen carefully.