Chat & eat 🌮 Charlar y comer ⚡ Monday & Wednesday 

CAPITULO 2 : ¿Sabes que estoy comiendo? // CHAPTER 2: Do you know what I'm eating?

The system of Chinese characters is a language system with the longest history, and is used by the largest population in the world. Chinese characters are something akin to an art form or a magic cubic puzzle. Many people from other countries may find Chinese characters study a formidable task. This audio will help you to get know about what Chinese characters are, and I hope this will stimulate your interest in learning Chinese.

Learning Chinese culture with Miss Zhang

Chinese characters 1

<キーワード>
前回：ぜんかい　last time
今回：こんかい　this time
治安がいい：ちあんがいい　safe
治安が悪い：ちあんがわるい　not safe
スリ：pickpolet
強盗：ごうとう robbery
持ち物：holdings
含める：ふくめる　include


みなさんこんにちは! 前回のエピソードではブリュッセルの好きなところをお話ししたので今回はブリュッセルの嫌いなところをお話しします。
一つ目は、治安があまりよくないところです。ブリュッセルではスリや盗難がたまにあります。特に観光地や電車の中では、持ち物に気をつけなければいけません。
二つ目は、物価が高いところです。特にレストランや外食は、日本と比べるととても高く感じます。そのため、外食は特別な日にだけにすることが多いです。
三つ目は、天気が悪いところです。ブリュッセルではくもりや雨の日が多く、冬は日が短いので、少し悲しい気持ちになることもあります。でも、そんなときはおいしいケーキや温かい飲み物で元気を出すようにしています。
こんなふうに、ブリュッセルには好きなところも嫌いなところもありますが、どちらも含めて楽しく暮らしています。みなさんも、もしブリュッセルに来ることがあったら、ぜひ私の好きなところを体験してみてくださいね。
それでは、また次のエピソードでお会いしましょう！


Nihongo Short Story by Noriko

ブリュッセルの好きなところと嫌いなところ（２）

・世界で一番短い会話？「け」「く」の紹介
・「け」の意味、「く」の意味
・使い方の紹介
・東北地方の方言の特徴について
・まとめ

Nihongo tokidoki Inaka hougen with Megumi Na

Is this a conversation?「け」「く」世界で一番短い会話？Enjoy learning Tohoku dialect!

Bu kadar kolay kaybolma. Yön sor ve hemen yardım al.

İngilizçe - selamlar

Nerede

🍟Do you frequently eat fast food? Do you know the name McDonald in Taiwanese? Do you want to understand the terms "globalization" and "localization" in Mandarin? Don't miss out on this episode's discussion.

🍟你常吃速食吗？你知道台湾人怎么叫「Mcdonald」吗？想知道中文怎么说「globalization」「localization」吗？ 不要错过今天的节目讨论喔！

来源：
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEPLStqc0cktNSJ4hKIxMLAAqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowk7j0CjCY4qIDMMKL4gY?uo=CAUiPWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmNoaW5hdGltZXMuY29tL3JlYWx0aW1lbmV3cy8yMDIyMTExMDAwMjE0OS0yNjA0MDXSAQA&hl=zh-TW&gl=TW&ceid=TW%3Azh-Hant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGW2gD3DjOA&t=41s

News with zhe

#34 麦当劳纸袋印「麦当当」3字

Enjoy the twentieth first episode of Culture To Grow, which allows you to travel the world from the comfort of your home, your car, or if you are still half asleep in your bed.

In this episode, we will be wishing my sister a HAPPY BIRTHDAY and also learn about  the wonderful ways birthdays are celebrated in different corners of the world. You will also learn about two unique traditions that my family does for each person's birthday.

Some of my guests who will be sharing their own unique cultures with all of you are  from Somalia, China, Vietnam, Sudan, and Japan. 

Somalia - [00:01:38]
China -  [00:02:25]
Vietnam - [00:03:04]
Sudan - [00:03:47]
Japan - [00:04:47]

Culture To Grow

Episode 21: Birthday Culture Around the World Part 2

Unlike her grandmother's generation, Chloe's age group is spending so much time on their phones at home that they are missing out on spending time with their friends in real life. Sheila, on the other hand, has made contact with old friends from school she hasn't heard from in forty years. 'We use Facebook to arrange to meet all over the country,' she says. 'It's changed my social life completely.'

Teenagers might have their parents to thank for their smartphone and social media addiction as their parents were the early adopters of the smartphone. Peter, 38 and father of two teenagers, reports that he used to be on his phone or laptop constantly. 'I was always connected and I felt like I was always working,' he says. 'How could I tell my kids to get off their phones if I was always in front of a screen myself?' So, in the evenings and at weekends, he takes his SIM card out of his smartphone and puts it into an old-style mobile phone that can only make calls and send text messages. 'I'm not completely cut off from the world in case of emergencies, but the important thing is I'm setting a better example to my kids and spending more quality time with them.'

Is it only a matter of time until the generation above and below Peter catches up with the new trend for a less digital life?

The Habits of Highly Effective English Communicators

Digital habits across generations P2

From fast-food counters to Michelin-starred restaurants, the hamburger is much loved in the Western diet, but where did it come from?

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a hamburger as both "ground beef" and "a sandwich consisting of a patty of hamburger" on a bun. Although these might be the simplest forms of a hamburger, the sandwich is often eaten with other things added, such as lettuce, cheese, sauces and even other meats.

But this popular food didn't start out with all the extras. In fact, it's thought that one of the earliest forms of the hamburger was closer to a steak tartare — raw minced steak mixed with egg.

While a recipe from the Roman Empire suggests the earliest version of this meal, some believe that it came from Mongolian horsemen, who would place beef under their saddles while riding, so that by the end of the day it was tender enough to eat raw.

However, others say these riders placed meat under their saddles only to help heal their horses' sores, and any meat prepared this way would be too dirty to be edible.

A later version is thought to have come from the German city of Hamburg, where chefs around the 17th or 18th century cooked minced beef with onions and breadcrumbs. This came to be known in English as the "Hamburg steak," and made its way to the US during the 19th century, where it was later called the "hamburger."

Although it isn't known who first thought to put this minced meat on bread, adding a bun made the hamburger popular as a sandwich in the US. The first fast-food hamburger chain — named White Castle — was opened in 1921, and still sells its famous square-shaped hamburgers to this day.

Now, hamburgers can be found worldwide thanks to popular American fast-food restaurants such as McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's. In 2012, PBS reported that an estimated 50 billion hamburgers are eaten in the US alone every year.