Hi. In my first podcast, will look at the following expressions:

TOWERING
PATRONISE
DRINKING HOLE
INTIMATION 
PESKY MUTT
GAUCHE 
TO CLEAVE 

Enjoy!

English Gym for Word Nerds

EPISODE 1 

Preparing the map. To share. With all the students and new students. To show all the different countries that we're teaching in.

Can I Say - Can I Do

The Map

In this episode we will continue to learn about "birthday "

HSK2

Made Chinese easy

Alguém se lembra do Artur? O Artur mudou de casa como vimos no Ep "A Casa do Artur" e hoje vamos ter a continuação. 

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

A casa do Artur 2

There are 6 tones in Cantonese, tone 1 to 6, let's split them into 3 groups.
Group 1: tone1/ Group 2: tone2 and 5/ Group 3: tone3, 4 and 6
Group 1:
Tone 1 is the easiest tone to find, it equals to stressed syllables in English or other Western languages, for example, father has 2 syllables, one is fa, the other is ther, the first one fa is stressed, because it's higher in pitch, this sound exactly equals to tone 1 in Cantonese.For example I want to pronounce: tik1 (means tick in Cantonese), let's pronounce ticking first, ticking has 2 syllables, the first is stressed, so ti is tik1.
Group 2:
Tone 2 and 5 are both rising tones and are the same in question tones, like WHAT? WHERE? WHO? So to find these 2 tones, you just need to pronounce "WHAT?" then you got the correct tones!
However, what are the differences between tone 2 and 5? Well, you want to be very strict, tone 2 is relatively higher compared to tone 5, but actually when local people are speaking, to speak faster, they will omit details while talking in conversations, so you can just treat these 2 tones as the same tone.For example, if you want to pronounce hou2 (means good in Cantonese), we pronounce WHAT? first, then use the pitch of WHAT? you can find hou2 very easily.
Group3:
Similarly, just like tone 2 and 5, because these 3 tones are so close to each other and quite familiar too, so when talking in conversations, they sound just like the same tone. These 3 tones are just like our unstressed syllables, let's take father as the example again. The second syllable ther is not stressed, and this equals to tone 3, 4 or 6 in Cantonses.For example, if you want to pronounce daap3 (means take transportation in Cantonese), you can produce Linda first, Lin is stressed and da isn't, here da is our tone 3 for daap.
try below: 生活 saang1 wut6 Life/的士 dik1 si6 Taxi/啤酒 be1 zau2 Beer/學生 hok6 saang1 Student/老師 lou5 si1 Teacher/屋企 nguk1 kei5 Home/公司 gung1 si1 Company/酒吧 zau2 baa1 Bar/餐廳 caan1 teng1 Restaurant

Ms. NG Cantonese Learning Resources

How to find correct Cantonese tones

Cada 16 de Septiembre los mexicanos celebramos nuestro día de la independencia, 
¿pero cómo que no es el 5 de mayo?, pues no, la independencia de México ocurrió un 16 de septiembre, escucha este episodio y aprende un poco más acerca de esta fecha.

Con un ojo al gato

¡Viva México señores!

This is a quick episode so you can get to know me, your host, a little bit more! To trust someone, you have to know them, so this episode is here to give you a little background about my experience, where I live, and what I like to do. Have any questions? Leave them for me in the comments! Also, please introduce yourself to me as well!

Stairway to English: Short easy to understand episodes to improve your English grammar and fluency

A short introduction of your Stairway to English host!

こんにちは！
Japanese daily life podcast のAtsushiです。
このPodcastは、日本語を楽しく勉強しているみなさんに向けたPodcastです。


今日は、N3の漢字をやります！
失をやります！　

音読み　しつ
訓読み　うしなーう

意味は、うしなう、もれる、まちがえる、にげる、とかそんな感じです。

例えば、

・失望ーしつぼう　がっかりしたこと

・損失ーそんしつ　お金をうしなうこと、財産、利益など

・紛失ーふんしつ　ものをなくすこと

・失言ーしつげん　言ってはいけないことを言ってしまうこと

・失敗ーしっぱい　方法などがわるく、目標が達成できないこと


こんな感じですね。
これを使って例文を作っていきましょう！

・彼には本当に失望した。とても期待していたのに残念だ。

・株の運用で大きな損失を出してしまった。

・会社の鍵を紛失してしまった。

・この会議は大切な会議です、失言しないように気をつけてください。

・彼に任せたことが失敗だった。

こんな感じです。

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！

Atsushi のJapanese podcast (travel/news /文法・漢字・語彙/Osaka/Hokkaido/🇹🇷🇬🇪🇦🇲🇪🇸🇵🇹)

#390 N3 漢字"失"、について！

Today's phrase is "to be rigged" which means something has been set up to operate in some kind of unfair way. 

Today's phrase is to be rigged. Now when something is rigged, it is believed that it's operated using some kind of dishonest behaviour to promote a desired outcome. Now, let me just give you some examples to show you what I mean:

So, if we say, for example, 

The job vacancy has been advertised in the newspaper but I believe it's been rigged. We all know who's going to win.

 The football match was definitely rigged. I don't think the football players were playing in their usual way today. 

The competition to win a holiday in the local newspaper has been won by an employee of that newspaper. That was definitely rigged.

The full transcript is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EAOtcKX3LOgmTEWRU5SaEV4pLLDDtzx9/view?usp=drivesdk