Gauge your listening comprehension with this simple story of a trip to Mombasa

Jifunze kusikiliza na hadithi hii kuhusu safari ya kuenda Mombasa 

Swahili With Shaz 

Safari Ya Mombasa | Trip To Mombasa 

Nick discusses ideas about which is better, single sex or mixed sex schools.

IELTS with Nick - World Knowledge 

Single-sex vs mixed schools

بَلّش عَصْر الإِنْتَرْنِت بالسِّتِينَات أو السَبْعِينَات خِلَال الحَرْب البَارْدِة بَين رُوسْيَا وأمْرِيكَا.
طَبعًا بَلّش بالجَيش الأَمْرِيكِي وكَان الهَدَف هو التَوَاصُل مَع الوُزَارَات.
بِشَكِل عَام, الإِخْتِرَاعَات أول شِي بِتْبَلِّش بِالجَيش وبَعْدَين بْتِنْتِقِل للنَاس.
بِالتْمَانِينَات صَار الإِنْتَرْنِت مَسْمُوح بَين النَاس.
وبِالتِسْعِينَات إِنْتَشَر الإنترنت وصَار كتير نَاس يِسْتَخْدِمُوه.
وبِبِدَايِة القَرْن الحَالِي الإِنْتَرْنِت وِصِل لأَغْلَب البْلَاد تَقْرِيبًا.
حَالِيًا, الإِنْتَرْنِت صَار مَوجُود بِكِل بَيت ومُهِم كتير للحَيَاة اليَومِيِة.
وبَعَد كُورُونَا كْتِير نَاس صَارُوا يِسْتَخْدِمُوه مْشَان الشِغِل.

Levantine Dialect (Level 2)

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In this episode we are going to learn how to 【Introduce my Chinese teacher】. 
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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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我的中文老师叫Yuli。
wǒ de zhōng wén lǎo shī jiào Yuli。
My Chinese teacher is called Yuli.
她是广东人。
tā shì guǎng dōng rén 。
She is from Guangdong.
广东省在中国的南方。
guǎng dōng shěng zài zhōng guó de nán fāng 。
Guangdong Province is in the south of China.
她会说中文、英语和日语。
tā huì shuō zhōng wén 、 yīng yǔ hé rì yǔ 。
She speaks Chinese, English and Japanese.
她也会说广东话和潮汕话。
tā yě huì shuō guǎng dōng huà hé cháo shàn huà 。
She also speaks Cantonese and Chaoshanese.
潮汕话是她老家的方言。
cháo shàn huà shì tā lǎo jiā de fāng yán 。
Chaoshanese is the dialect of her hometown.
她很喜欢学外语。
tā hěn xǐ huan xué wài yǔ 。
She likes learning foreign languages very much.
现在她在泰国学习泰语。
xiàn zài tā zài tài guó xué xí tài yǔ 。
Now she is studying Thai in Thailand.
她也喜欢运动。
tā yě xǐ huan yùn dòng 。
She also likes sports.
她经常去公园练瑜伽。
tā jīng cháng qù gōng yuán liàn yú jiā 。
She often goes to the park to practice yoga.
她在学泰拳，每个星期上两次课。
tā zài xué tài quán ， měi gè xīng qī shàng liǎng cì kè 。
She is learning Muay Thai and takes classes twice a week.
她很喜欢美食，中国菜和泰国菜她都喜欢吃。
tā hěn xǐ huan měi shí ， zhōng guó cài hé tài guó cài tā dōu xǐ huan chī 。
She loves food, she likes both Chinese and Thai food.
她很友好，也很有耐心，我很喜欢和她上课。
tā hěn yǒu hǎo ， yě hěn yǒu nài xīn ， wǒ hěn xǐ huan hé tā shàng kè 。
She is very friendly and patient and I enjoy taking lessons with her.

Yuli's Chinese Channel

我的中文老师 My Chinese teacher (Beginner)

Today’s episode is “こうもり の ともだち？（kōmori no tomodachi?）”《Who is the bat's friend?》.
This is from Aesop's Fables.
This episode is JLPT-N5 level.

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

Please use this audio for listening and shadowing practices.

☆Words☆
こうもり（kōmori）：bat
森（もり / mori）：forest
鳥（とり / tori）：birds
動物（どうぶつ / dōbutsu）：animals
けんかをする（kenka o suru）：get in a fight 
言う（iu）：say
空（そら / sora）：sky
飛ぶ（とぶ / tobu）：fly
牙（きば / kiba）：fang, tusk
爪（つめ / tsume）：nail
強い（つよい / tsuyoi）：strong
弱い（よわい / yowai）：weak
王様（おうさま / ōsama）：king
翼（つばさ / tsubasa）：wing
暗い（くらい / kurai）：dark
洞窟（どうくつ / dōkutsu）：cave

☆Grammar☆
・～ことができます（～koto ga dekimasu）：can ～
・～たら（～tara）：if ～

☆Script for this episode
The scripts (URL) are listed in the overview section of the channel.

☆Quiz for this episode
https://www.italki.com/quiz/set/7550?utm_source=copylink_share&utm_medium=share_content&utm_campaign=share_quiz

Simple Japanese Listening with Meg（めぐ）Smile

#34 Short story / こうもりの ともだち？《Who is the bat's friend?》/ Aesop's Fables  // N5 Level / Japanese listening

MARK: Excuse me. Could you tell me where the library is?
NANCY: Yes, it’s that way. You go three blocks to Washington Street, 
then turn right. It’s on the corner, across from the bank.
MARK: Thanks! I’ve only been in town a few days, so I really don’t 
know my way around yet.
NANCY: Oh, I know how you feel. We moved here a year ago, and 
I still don’t know where everything is!



LANGUAGE NOTES
• Could you tell me … is slightly more polite than “Can you tell me …?”
• Could you tell me where the library is? Notice that “library” is stressed here because 
it is the word with the important information. This is an indirect question, so the subject 
(the library) comes before the verb (is). The word order is reversed in a direct question 
(Where is the library?).
• Yes, it’s that way. Notice the stress on “that.” The speaker is pointing in a certain 
direction and wants to emphasize that direction.
• I know how you feel is a way of saying “I understand.” Notice the emphasis on “feel.” 
The speaker wants to show empathy and understanding.
• I still don’t know where everything is! Notice the word order of where “everything 
is.” The subject (everything) comes before the verb (is). This word order is different from 
the direct question (Where is everything?)

English Conversation practice (30-day challenge)

Day 12: Asking for directions

LOS CHILES MEXICANOS 2.
EL Chile no es sólo un condimento extraordinario, quizá el más versátil de cuantos existen; es, también, un alimento de gran valor nutritivo.

Es rico en vitaminas: el vegetal con mayor concentración de ácido ascórbico que se conoce (el descubrimiento de esta sustancia en la pulpa del chile le valió al doctor húngaro Albert Szent-Gyürgyi el otorgamiento del Premio Nobel de fisiología y medicina en 1937).

Los chiles frescos contienen más del doble de vitamina C que el limón y la naranja y casi seis veces más que la toronja; los secos, por su parte, contienen vitamina A en una proporción mayor que, las zanahorias, por ejemplo. Los chiles poseen además cantidades significativas, aunque menores, de vitaminas E, P y B, y de algunos minerales.
Si bien su consumo excesivo puede provocar diversas molestias, como gastritis o úlceras, comer chile resulta esencial para una dieta balanceada. Y entre los mexicanos todavía más: se ha comprobado que el chile induce una alta digestibilidad de las proteínas del maíz y del frijol, de modo que, como dice José lturriaga, 
“el chile no es para los mexicanos solamente un complemento alimenticio, sino un multiplicador nutricional”.

La interdependencia que se ha conservado en la típica tríada alimenticia mexicana: maíz, frijol y chile, integra un complejo de componentes altamente alimenticios que se equilibran y refuerzan entre sí. Un taco de frijoles con salsa no es solamente sabroso sino nutritivo.

Adicionalmente sus usos industriales son cada vez mayores. El chile rojo en polvo, rico en capsantina (ingrediente que determina la cantidad de pigmento en un chile), se emplea en la avicultura como alimento para las gallinas, con objeto de obtener una intensa coloración amarilla, muy apreciada, tanto en las yemas de los huevos como en la piel de los pollos.


Spanish México

LOS CHILES MEXICANOS 2

En este episodio aprenderas dichos y frases  en español que se relacionan con partes del cuerpo. ¿Conoces estas frases y dichos?