Elementary level：Common expression
You will spend seven days (six days of study, one day of review) to learn the most basic Chinese sentence patterns.




Rachel's Weekly Chinese Podcast

Reading common audiobooks at a slow speed helps you improve your Chinese listening skills in the interesting way.

Audiobook reading

How do we use the articles (a, an, and the) in the English language? The general rules.

English Syndicate

A, An, and The - How do we use them? The articles in English

One minute speaking challenge. Episode 20. Weather.

Again, today is another episode to help you communicate in English on regular basis.

You now have no excuses but to succeed with English :)

Today's topic is 'Weather'. Let me add some relevant words of B1 level and B2 level so you can use them in your story-telling exercise.

B1: Blizzard, Boiling, Centigrade, Cloudy, Cool, Cold, Degrees, Drought 
B2: To flash, Humidity, Airless, Seasonal, Falling, Rising, Changeable, Cloudless  

Lets hear your stories (you can use chat GPT if you like but it's best to come up with your own story).

Let me know how I can assist your development in English (I help students with confidence building&teaching students to think in English, prepare for job interviews in English and preparing IELTS speaking test takers.

Glad to assist your development in these areas.

One minute speaking challenge - Challenge yourself to speak English daily!

One minute speaking challenge. Episode 20. Weather

1）在过去，农村的人们通过什么方式来了解国内外大事？
     A 读书         B 看报纸       C  看电视        D  听广播

2）关于休闲方式的变化趋势，以下哪一项不正确？
    A 由少变多     B 由单调变丰富       C 由户内到户外       D  由国内到国外

3）以下哪一项不是政府在每年的“五一”、“十一”放七天长假的原因？
   A 鼓励人们多走出家门               B  促进经济发展
   C  让人们得到足够的休息          D鼓励人们在家工作

4） 这篇文章主要讲的是：
     A  农村与城市的差别                 B  为什么要放假
    C  休闲方式的种类                      D  休闲方式的变化

Merry's voice (HSK五）

HSK五：中国人的休闲方式

Did you know?

Airplanes

Bienvenidos al podcast "aprende español hablando". En este podcast y en lo siguientes, hablaremos del significado y de la importancia de las expresiones idiomáticas. En cada podcast, aprenderemos el significado de 4-5 expresiones idiomáticas con ejemplos prácticos y fáciles.

Aprende español con Manu

Expresiones idiomáticas en español

Dear listeners, students, and friends. I am glad to introduce you to the second episode of my Lithuanian podcast for non-native speakers. 

In today's episode, you will learn more about one of my favorite Lithuanian celebrations - Užgavėnės. In 2024, Užgavėnės is going to be celebrated on the 13th of February, so I encourage you to learn a bit more about it's traditions, meaning and significance.

I suggest turning on the subtitles for a more comfortable listening experience. Install Language Reactor to translate the Lithuanian titles into your native language.

Also, if you wish to receive the full transcript of this episode, please head to my Contribee. There you will find all the podcast's transcripts, longer format Lithuanian with Paulius recordings and more.

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Lithuanian with Paulius

#2 - Užgavėnės: The Most Exciting Lithuanian Winter Festival

Some animals have been known to use tools such as sticks, rocks and even bait to hunt for food. And humpback whales have been found using their own unique tool to hunt — bubbles.

A study published in Royal Society Open Science in August observed the hunting behaviors of more than 70 humpback whales in Stephens Passage in southeast Alaska, documenting how the whales blow bubbles to catch more prey.

Humpback whales hunt for krill — small, shrimp-like creatures that are around the same size as a paperclip, and which swim in swarms.

Whales can take in large amounts of krill in one mouthful. And to make this easier, humpback whales trap swarms of krill in "bubble nets" before feeding on them.

The whales create these "nets" by releasing air from their blowhole as they swim in circles below the surface of the water. The bubbles rise in a spiral pattern, which, from above the water's surface, looks more like artwork than a tool for hunting.

The rising bubbles create "curtains" of air around the krill that they are reluctant to swim through, although researchers aren't yet sure why this is. The whales then swim up through the "net" with an open mouth to eat the trapped krill.

The study data showed that as a whale swam in tighter circles and the "net" got smaller, the krill caught inside became, on average, more than seven times denser. This allowed the whales to catch more krill in a single mouthful.

A whale doesn't have to move very fast to create a net or eat trapped krill, allowing it to get more food without using any more energy.

While not many other animals create their own tools to catch prey like the humpback whale, there are examples of animals using other tools to hunt.

For example, chimpanzees have been observed using sticks to dig for bugs, while sea otters use rocks to open mussels. Certain species of heron have even been found to use food as bait to attract fish.