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Words from Melvin

Words from Melvin Introductory Episode

I’ll introduce Japanese culture in easy Japanese.
Today’s Theme is “七五三の歴史《The history of Shichi-go-san》”.
This episode is JLPT-N3 level.

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☆Words☆
七五三（しちごさん）：Shichi-go-san is an annual Japanese festival to celebrate the growth of children. It takes place on or around November 15. The festival is for boys aged three and five, and girls aged three and seven. That’s why it is called shichi-go-san (seven-five-three).
お祝（いわ）い：celebration
成長（せいちょう）：growth
中旬（ちゅうじゅん）：middle of a month
江戸時代（えどじだい）：Edo period (1603-1868 CE)
剃（そ）る：shave
袴（はかま）：man's formal divided skirt
帯（おび）：belt (e.g. of a kimono)
千歳飴（ちとせあめ）：longevity candy, long red-and-white stick candy
On shichi-go-san, children eat long red-and-white stick candy, called chitose ame. Chitose means “one thousand years.” It symbolizes health and longevity.

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Hey Guys, this is Chinese teacher Cara, welcome to my Channel, today we’ll go through some useful expressions about covid. 嗨大家好，我是Cara, 欢迎收听我的频道，今天想跟大家一起讨论关于新冠病毒的一些常用表达。
So we already know covid in Chinese is 新冠xīn guàn.In Chinese we have two verbs to pair with covid when we talk about it.

Have 得dé / catch感染gǎn rǎn

I have covid.我得了新冠。wǒ dé le xīn guàn。/我感染了新冠。wǒ gǎn rǎn le xīn guàn。

I hasn't gotten covid yet: 我还没有感染新冠。wǒ hái méi yǒu gǎn rǎn xīn guàn。

I am well now./ I’m over it.我现在好了。wǒ xiàn zài hǎo le。

But in daily life we have more colloquial expression, you can use the vocabulary 阳。

I have covid. 我阳了。（colloquial）

I had covid last month. 我上个月阳过了。（过means sth you‘ve experienced in the past）

I hasn't gotten covid yet.我还没有阳。（colloquial）

I am well now. 我阳康了。wǒ yáng kāng le。（colloquial，康is 康复recover）

We’ll talk about symptom in the next show. I hope you everthing goes well. If you have any question ,feel free to message me or we can talk about it in the class.Thanks for listening. I look forward to see you in the next show.

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4.关于新冠的一些表达Useful expressions of covid

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Parrots are known for being able to copy some of the sounds that people make — they might squawk "hello" or "how are you?" if they get used to hearing words and phrases like these. They might even say some rude things!

Some birds are also able to learn the names for objects — and identify them.

And a 5-year-old parrot in the US has been recognized by Guinness World Records after correctly identifying 12 objects in three minutes.

That record-breaking bird is an African gray parrot named Apollo, who lives in Florida. He can identify things like books, bugs and socks.

He's become popular on TikTok, where he has about 3 million followers. He also has around 1.5 million subscribers on his YouTube channel called "Apollo and Frens."

And a TikTok video of Apollo asking questions from 2023 has been watched 66 million times.

Apollo actually broke the record in 2023 but he's among the stars in the Guinness World Records book that was released in September.

The parrot is owned by a couple named Dalton and Victoria Mason. They're content creators and they've been working hard to train the bird.

The owners say they teach Apollo as if he were a child of preschool age.

"We teach him as much as we can," the couple told Guinness, adding that they focus on things that Apollo wants to focus on.

Researchers have found that some African gray parrots are able to do better at some cognitive tasks than 5-year-old children.

And Apollo's owners plan to keep teaching the bird to see how much he can learn and how many more records he can break.


