The Spanish have lots of yummy food. But when you see what their name means, it doesn't sound so good.
I wrote a romantic comedy novel about bad translations. "Loosely Translated", by Simon Wheeler, is on Amazon, as a digital book.

The Social Evolutionary

Spanish Food Translates Badly!

in this podcast you will learn many useful vocabularies in daily life to show your feelings, what make you dislike.  i hope you enjoy listening Chinese with no stress. 

Story learning Chinese with Annie

Story learning Chinese with Annie------ 10 things i hate

En este episodio les cuento los mitos y leyendas que circulan alrededor de dos estaciones de subte de la línea A, Pasco y Alberti, y una experiencia particular que tuve durante una noche solitaria en un vagón

Argentina en carne propia

Episodio 12 - El fantasma de la Línea A del Subterráneo

お酒好きな人！！！
毎日お酒飲みますか？笑
私は2-3年前までは、毎日夜お酒を飲んでいましたｗ

さ、明日もゆるーくがんばろうね。

お疲れちゃんラジオ

#2　みんな毎日お酒飲む？

There are many types of dairy alternatives on the market today, often made from things like nuts and soybeans.

But have you heard they're now making butter from air?

A US startup called Savor is working on a range of dairy alternatives made using something that exists all around us: carbon.

Fats are made from chains of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Savor's process involves taking carbon — from, say, carbon dioxide — and adding heat and hydrogen to create chains that are combined with oxygen from air.

This results in fat molecules, like the ones found in dairy and other animal products.

Now, regular butter is about 80% fat — the rest is mostly water. So to make butter from its synthetic fat, Savor just adds water, as well as an emulsifier that keeps the liquids from separating, and rosemary oil for flavor and beta carotene for color.

What does it taste like?

"I couldn't believe I wasn't eating real butter," Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote in a blog post earlier this year. Gates is one of Savor's investors.

He wrote that "it tastes really good — like the real thing, because chemically it is."

Savor has already run informal taste tests with small groups of people, and is working to get regulatory approval for its product in the US.

But why butter?

A 2021 study estimated that food production makes up about 35% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions — and Savor estimates that about 7% of greenhouse gas emissions are just from producing fat.

But Savor's process, Gates wrote, doesn't release any greenhouse gases. He added that it uses no farmland and "less than a thousandth of the water that traditional agriculture does."

Savor is focusing on butter to start with partly because its high price point makes it easier to compete on cost. But the startup later hopes to develop other products like milk, ice cream, cheese — even meat.





Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

US Startup Makes Butter from Carbon Dioxide

Episode Title Translation: Bored at the airport

In this episode you will learn some airport travel vocabulary.

Vocabulary: 
aeropuerto (Airport)
tan (so)
ejemplo (example)
ido (gone)
había (there was)
manejar (to drive)
alrededor (around)
decir (to say)
Japonés (Japanese)
entender (to understand)
puerta (gate)
vuelo (flight) 
descanso (rest)
Estilo (style)
feo (ugly)
usualmente (usually)
ciudad (city) 
visto (seen)
se ve (it looks)
jardín (garden)
cascada (waterfall)
juego (game)
pared (wall)
escalar (to climb)
obra de arte (work of art)
adentro, dentro (inside)
afuera (outside)
estacionamiento (parking lot)
divertido (fun)
avión (plane)
volar (to fly)
azafata (flight attendant) 

Las Aventuras De Miss Jacy

Aburrida En El Aeropuerto

大家好，我是Honglin老师，好久不见，欢迎来到我的汉字频道。
这是我的第五条推送。今天要和你们分享的是“病“字，生病的病，病人的病。

这个字我们需要把它拆成两部分来看。从上到左， 半包围着的病字旁，和右下角表示发音的“丙“。病这个字，最开始是没有右下角这个”丙“字的，只写做” 疒“，读nè。它是什么呢？是一个人躺在床上出汗的样子。左边竖着的是一张床，右边竖着的是有三个点的“人”字，代表着人在流汗，也有人认为是在流血。后来在右下角加了一个“丙”字，发音也和“丙”一样。所以，“病”字又是象形字，又是形声字。

那“病”是个很常见的字，大家可能已经学过，生病，病人。那今天我们来学一个新的，“公主病”。公主是国王的女儿，那公主病，就是说一些太过自信，想得到像公主一样的待遇的女性，经常向别人提出一些无理的要求。比如，你有个室友，老是以自我为中心，不打扫公寓卫生，还经常让你帮她做饭买菜洗衣服，但自己从来不做这些事。你就可以说，“我那个室友有点公主病”。如果是个男性，你就可以说有“王子病“。

好啦，这就是这一期的全部内容，“病”和“公主病”。你学会了吗？

（在网页版italki点击👇网址查看“病”字字形图片）
大家好，我是Honglin老师，好久不见，欢迎来到我的汉字频道。
这是我的第五条推送。今天要和你们分享的是“病“字，生病的病，病人的病。

这个字我们需要把它拆成两部分来看。从上到左， 半包围着的病字旁，和右下角表示发音的“丙“。病这个字，最开始是没有右下角这个”丙“字的，只写做” 疒“，读nè。它是什么呢？是一个人躺在床上出汗的样子。左边竖着的是一张床，右边竖着的是有三个点的“人”字，代表着人在流汗，也有人认为是在流血。后来在右下角加了一个“丙”字，发音也和“丙”一样。所以，“病”字又是象形字，又是形声字。

那“病”是个很常见的字，大家可能已经学过，生病，病人。那今天我们来学一个新的，“公主病”。公主是国王的女儿，那公主病，就是说一些太过自信，想得到像公主一样的待遇的女性，经常向别人提出一些无理的要求。比如，你有个室友，老是以自我为中心，不打扫公寓卫生，还经常让你帮她做饭买菜洗衣服，但自己从来不做这些事。你就可以说，“我那个室友有点公主病”。如果是个男性，你就可以说有“王子病“。

好啦，这就是这一期的全部内容，“病”和“公主病”。你学会了吗？

（在网页版italki点击👇网址查看“病”字字形图片）http://qiyuan.chaziwang.com/pic/ziyuanimg/E79785.png

跟着Honglin学汉字(CHINESE CHARACTERS WITH HONGLIN )

五：”病“字里有一张床？&”公主病“

English with Serena

Episode 1 - How to think in English. Let's get started!

In this episode we are going to learn how to 【Do a self-introduction】. 
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As a beginner, there're some vocabularies that you didn't learn before, and native speaker's speed seems too fast to understand. But don't worry, let's do it step by step. 
1st time: listen and catch the words you know alreay, have a guess about the content.
2nd time: look at the text to check if you guessed it right. 
3rd time: listen one more time, repeat after it.
4th time: practise until you can speak as the normal speed without looking at the text. 
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大家好！
dà jiā hǎo ！
Hello, everyone.
现在我来介绍一下自己。
xiàn zài wǒ lái jiè shào yí xià zì jǐ 。
Now let me introduce myself a bit.
我姓郑，我叫郑旭冰。大家可以叫我Yuli。
wǒ xìng zhèng ， wǒ jiào zhèng xù bīng 。 dà jiā kě yǐ jiào wǒ Yuli。
My family name is Zheng. My name is Zheng Xubing. You can call me Yuli.
我今年30岁，属羊。
wǒ jīn nián sānshí suì ， shǔ yáng 。
I am 30 years old and was born in the year of the Sheep.
我是中国人。现在我住在广州。
wǒ shì zhōng guó rén 。 xiàn zài wǒ zhù zài guǎng zhōu 。
I'm Chinese and I live in Guangzhou now.
我来广州6年了。
wǒ lái guǎng zhōu liù nián le 。
I have been in Guangzhou for 6 years.
我现在在italki教汉语。
wǒ xiàn zài zài italki jiāo hàn yǔ 。
I am now teaching Chinese in Italki.
很高兴认识大家！
hěn gāo xìng rèn shi dà jiā ！
Nice to meet you all!