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Dear Russian language students and teachers!

Here is another 1-minute audio for your better understanding of a common situation as doing grocery shopping in a supermarket. It comes in handy when you are in a Russian supermarket where staff usually don't speak English or any other foreign language.

Good luck!

Elena.

1-minute Survival Russian for Travelling (A1-A2)

Как покупать продукты в супермаркете_How to do a grocery shopping in a supermarket

成也萧何败也萧何是一句成语，即事情的成功和失败都是由同一个人造成的。对于韩信来说，好事与坏事都让萧何做了，因此注定他的个人成败，有了“成也萧何败也萧何”一说。当然，这里所说的“好事”与“坏是”只是相对于韩信而言。

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中华成语典故--成也萧何

In this episode Boris describes his boss in a meeting and then he walks around his neighbourhood

Easy stories and texts for beginners

Boris tiene una reunión de trabajo y luego pasea por su barrio

la salade : alface, lettuce
une pomme de terre : batata, potato
une carotte : cenoura, carrot
les petits pois : ervilhas, peas
une aubergine : beringela, eggplant
une courgette : abobrinha, courgette
un oignon : cebola, onion
un haricot vert : vagem, green bean
un radis : rabanete, radish
un poireau : alho-poró, leak
un poivron : pimentão, pepper
un concombre : pepino, cucumber
un champignon : cogumelo, mushroom
un chou-fleur : couve-flor, cauliflower
un brocoli : brócolis, broccoli
L’épinard : espinafre, spinach
L’ail : alho, garlic
Le céleri : aipo, celery
un navet : nabo, turnip
une betterave : beterraba, beetroot
une asperge : aspargo, aspargus
un potiron : abóbora, pumpkin
une tomate : tomate, tonato
un artichaut : alcachofra, artichoke
une patate douce : batata doce, sweet potato
une endive : endívia, endive
un cornichon : pickles, pickle
Le maïs : milho, corn
un avocat : abacate, avocado
un chou : couve, cabbage
les lentilles : lentilhas, lentils
une échalote: tipo de cebola cumprida, shallot
Le fenouil : funcho, fennel
un chou de Bruxelles : couve de Bruxelas, Brussels sprout


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The Nordic countries of Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden are regularly top scorers in world happiness rankings. These countries have placed in the top 10 of the World Happiness Report (WHR) every year since 2013 — so what's their secret?

These five countries score well in all six of the things considered in the WHR: GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity and corruption.

But the WHR has noted that there might be another thing these countries have more of than others — trust.

Trust is very important, says WHR editor John F. Helliwell, a former professor at the University of British Columbia. And he developed a study to test how community trust is linked to better well-being.

In Helliwell's study, he looked at how likely people thought it would be for a lost wallet to be returned to them, and he compared this to their life satisfaction score from zero to 10.

He found that those who expected their wallet to be returned had a higher life satisfaction score.

"We find people are much, much happier if they feel they're in an environment where people are going to watch their back," Helliwell told Euro News.

In a 2023 experiment by Reader's Digest, wallets were actually left for people to find in cities around the world. And where was a lost wallet most likely to be returned? In Helsinki, the capital of Finland.

The WHR has noted that a high level of trust may be among the things that explain Nordic happiness.

However, as Forbes has suggested, it may not be so much about big-smile "happiness" as quieter "contentment."

Rather than always trying for something better, people in Scandinavian countries are more often content with what they have. As a result, few of them will say they are unhappy — which helps these countries do well in world happiness rankings.

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What's the Secret to Nordic Countries' Happiness?

All of us are guilty of pondering on the past, wondering what could, would or should have happened.... In different areas of our life, some more than others.

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