Ever heard someone being described as savvy?  Are you savvy in anything?  Find out what we mean when we use this word in the fourth episode.

An Elephant In The English Room

Episode Four: Savvy

Dear students! It is my joy to introduce you to the founder of Berezovska School, a Lithuanian teacher from Ukraine, Katerina Berezovska.

Today, Katerina and I have talked about her experience in learning Lithuanian, the Lithuanian language and constitution exams, why some students have difficulties learning Lithuanian and some potential ways of how to solve them.

If you want to download the episode’s transcript, you can do so on my Conttribe. There you will find all the podcast's transcript, exclusive episodes, and other relevant learning material.

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Timeline:
00:00 - Intro
02:57 - Learning Lithuanian
08:23 - Becoming a teacher
10:25 - Exams
17:07 - Difficulties in learning
25:00 - Plans for the future

Gero klausymo! 🎓

Lithuanian with Paulius

Advice for Slavic Speakers on Learning Lithuanian (Guest: Katerina)

Would you like to learn how to greet people in the UK? This episode focuses on British English greetings specifically, but many of them can still be used when speaking English all over the world. Let's talk about them now...

Words & phrases used in this episode:
- Hello! / Hi! 
- Morning! 
- Y'alright? (A combination of 'you' and 'alright')
- How are you? 

Conversational English With Josh 

British English Greetings

A : Bonjour, madame, je voudrais un beau morceau de cantal, s'il vous plaît.
B : Voilá, monsieur, et avec ceci ?
A : Mettez-moi aussi un petit pot de crème fraîche.
B : Voilà. Ce sera tout ?
A : Oui, merci.

Vocabulaire :
un fromager, une fromagère : queijeiro(a), cheesemaker
une fromagerie : queijaria, cheese monger
un fromage : queijo, cheese
un beau morceau = un morceau généreux
500 grammes de : 500 gramas de, 500 grams of
mettez-moi : coloque pra mim, give me
aussi : também, also
et avec ceci ? : mais alguma coisa?, anything else?
ce sera tout ? : só isso?, is that all?
une tranche de : fatia de, slice of

Professeur Maxime : dialogues

Chez le fromager

My wife and I discuss our three favorite American states. We give recommendations for travel activities as well, so if you're thinking of taking a trip to the US, this podcast could give you some ideas!

Brentoni's English Podcast

001 Our Favorite American States

No todo es color de rosa para los inmigrantes. 

El otro lado de la moneda

El lado oscuro de la inmigración

В этом выпуске мы поговорим о глаголах «слушать» и «слышать» и посмотрим, в чём разница. Текст подкаста: https://goo.su/zlymv. 


Lera teaches Russian

#6. Слышать и слушать — What’s the difference?

Pizza is one of the world's most popular fast foods. It's believed that over 5 billion pizzas are sold around the world every year. In the US alone, people buy about 3 billion pizzas each year, which is about 46 slices per person!

But it wasn't always as popular as it is today — in fact, it used to be looked down on, even by Italians!

The modern pizza we know today started in Naples, Italy, in the 18th century. Poor people in the city needed cheap food that was easy to eat as they looked for work. Street vendors sold them pizzas with simple toppings like garlic and tomatoes.

For a long time, pizza was looked down on as food for the poor, and visitors to Naples thought it was dirty and unappealing.

But this changed in 1889, when Queen Margherita of Italy tried pizza and loved it. The pizza with tomatoes, mozzarella and basil was named after her, and pizza started to become a national dish in Italy.

Pizza became a favorite in the US after Italian immigrants brought it with them. It became especially popular in cities like New York, and new styles like Chicago deep dish and Hawaiian were invented.

And it became even more popular with the invention of frozen pizza, which let people make their own pizzas at home.

Today, pizza is enjoyed around the world, with many different toppings and styles. But its basic form hasn't changed very much from all those years ago.



Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

From Poverty to Popularity: The History of Pizza

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こんばんは！
Japanese daily life podcast のAtsushiです。
このPodcastは、日本語を勉強しているみなさんに向けたPodcastです。

今日もN2です！
〜だけまし、やります。
良くないけど、他よりまだいい、と言う時に使います。

例文いきます！

・車とぶつかって、バイクは壊れたし、骨折もしましたが、死ななかっただけましです。

・このホテルの部屋は大きくないけど、安いだけましです。

・この会社は休みは少ないけど、給料が高いだけましです。

・最近暑いけど、蒸し暑くないだけましです。

・めっちゃ雨が降ってきたけど、駅に近かっただけましです。


こんな感じですね。
良くないことがありました。でもこんなことかあったので、まあ良いかな、みたいな時に使います。

こういう話はよくあると思いますので、みなさんもぜひぜひ使ってみてくださいね！

ということで、今回も最後まで聞いていただき、ありがとうございます！ではまた！