Learn to improve your vocabulary in a fun way with funny, amusing, cheeky and wacky news!


Aprenda Português Com Notícias Insólitas e Malucas -Learn Portuguese With Crazy Isoteric News 

All texts are recorded in European Portuguese, but some are written in Brazilian Portuguese. So it is possible to hear differences in vocabulary and grammar

Portuguese Audios for Beginners A2 -Áudios em Português para Principiantes A2

Neste podcast vão ouvir 60 histórias que marcaram as infâncias de muitos portugueses

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 Portuguese Audios for Intermediate B1 -Áudios em Português para Intermédios B1

Um canal feito em especial para alunos mais avançados. Onde teremos entrevistas com nativos, mas também com alguns alunos! Onde iremos falar de uma variedade de temas. 

Conversações pelo Mundo

Portuguese Audios for Intermediate Advance B2 -Áudios em Português para Intermédios Avançados B2

In this episode I read a passage from the book risky business for listening practice.

Books for Bilinguals

Risky buisness pt. I

数年前の節分に起きた悲劇の話です。私の家族に起きた悲劇とは何だったでしょうか？

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

#5 節分に起きた悲劇の話

Odyssea meets Hadessa and Persephonus, the rulers of the Underworld.

https://saracasalino-books.weebly.com/blog/the-adventures-of-odyssea-ch-3-hadessa

Learn English with Stories

The Adventures of Odyssea: Ch 3.3 - Hadessa

In this American English language podcast I talk about how I almost had a heat stroke in Las Vegas. https://italki.com/teacher/1947582 Thanks for listening! Visit my website for more of my podcasts (Streetwisenglishdotcom)

Streetwise English

SWE32 What is a heat stroke?

There's a video on TikTok in which a user takes a jar of seasoning called "Everything But the Bagel" and carefully separates the ingredients into small piles to find out the secret to the recipe.

The video has been viewed almost 2 million times — a sign of just how popular this seasoning mix, made by US company Trader Joe's, has become.

People like to put it on top of bagels and use it in lots of different meals.

However, fans of the mix have been finding out that it's not welcome everywhere in the world.

Signs have been posted at Incheon Airport in Seoul, telling passengers they can't bring jars of the seasoning into the country.

The reason is that one of the ingredients is banned in South Korea.

The mix contains things like sesame seeds, dried garlic, dried onion and salt — but poppy seeds are the problem.

Poppy seeds are banned in South Korea because they are narcotic-related items, according to the airport. The ban is not new but travelers have said that airports are now cracking down on the seasoning mix.

The seeds are also banned in a number of other countries, including Saudi Arabia and Singapore.

The poppy plant is used to make drugs like heroin and morphine, although the seeds don't contain any opiates.

However, the country worries that the seeds could be contaminated by opiates.

In fact, in the US, members of the armed forces have been advised not to eat products containing poppy seeds in case they affect the results of drug tests.

Drug tests can be very sensitive but experts say that it would be almost impossible to eat enough poppy seeds to feel any narcotic effect.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

South Korea Cracks Down on Popular Seasoning Mix

第五课  她女儿今年二十岁

一、听力  第一部分
1.女儿    
2.75岁    
3.五口人 
4.40岁
第二部分
5.男：你女儿今年几岁了？
女：她今年5岁了。
6.男：你们的汉语老师今年多大了？ 
  女：她今年33岁了。
7.男：你家有几口人？ 
女：我家有6口人。
8.女：您今年多大了？ 
男：我今年80岁了。
第三部分
9. 李老师的女儿今年4岁了。
   问：谁今年4岁了？
10.他是我的汉语老师，他今年45岁。
   问：我的汉语老师今年多大？
11.他是我的中国朋友，他家有3口人。
问：谁家有3口人？
12.他叫大卫，他是美国学生，他今年22岁。
问：大卫今年多大？

HSK1  第五课  她女儿今年二十岁

🎃Tonight is Halloween, so “trick or treat”! 🍬However, we are about to read some heartbreaking news from South Korea. This episode introduces vocabulary that is frequently used in news and social incidents. In addition, I introduce some self-defense techniques in this episode in Chinese, if the situation arises. Have a safe and happy Halloween!

🎃万圣夜到了，不给糖🍬就捣蛋，但是今天我们要看的新闻很令人难过，是南韩发生意外的新闻。在这一集节目当中，可以学习到跟社会案件、还有新闻常用的一些词，也会介绍你自救方法。祝你们万圣节快乐、平安。

[00:00] introduction
[02:31] explanation
[10:01] discussion & share 

Source ： https://www.sohu.com/a/601102775_115362?scm=9010.8000.0.0.6634&spm=smpc.channel_114.block3_77_O0F7zf_1_fd.73.16671458793458JnxpW2_1524
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Q2NYU2DLY&t=506s

News with zhe

#26 直击韩国梨泰院踩踏事故

What do you do if you see an object in a plastic bag lying around at a bus stop?

Most people would say: "Don't touch it!"

That's very good advice — most of the time.

But an object that was once found in a plastic shopping bag at a bus stop has just sold for $22.3 million at auction.

It was a painting by a great artist from Venice known as Titian. It's called The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, and it has a long and interesting history.

Although it's thought of as a masterpiece, it's one of the artist's smaller paintings. In fact, it's only 46 centimeters high and 63 centimeters wide.

Titian painted it early in the 16th century, when he was 20.

The painting, which depicts Jesus, Mary and Joseph from the Bible, has been owned by a number of rich and famous Europeans, including Austrian emperors.

It was taken from Vienna in 1809 by French soldiers, although it was later returned to the Austrian capital.

Later, it was bought by a British collector, but it was stolen in 1995.

And for seven years it was lost. After a reward of almost $130,000 was offered to anyone who could find the painting, it turned up at a London bus stop.

It had no frame when it was found by a well known art detective, but it was in quite good condition.

It had been expected to make between $19 million and $32 million at auction in London. The final amount was a new record for a Titian painting.

But that still might not be a good enough reason to go looking in plastic bags at bus stops!