Episode 1 of The Malta Podcast provides a very basic overview of Malta. In future episodes, I will tackle certain aspects of Maltese culture and society in more detail.

The Malta Podcast

An Overview of Malta - Episode 1

I heard a lot that the Russian side of TikTok is super funny (i can agree) – so here is a phrase from here!
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https://youtu.be/xzf8djQGR_U – original
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/мда-треш – TikToks with this sound

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Russian Daily with Yaroslava

Ep7 Мда треш (exploring Russian tiktok trends)

Hey guys, this is Aneleh, your favorite Portuguese tutor. In today’s podcast we’ll talk about: Portuguese/English false friends part 4.
Before I start, everything that I say here will be in the podcast description for you to read, you just need to click on this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HQcAKEsxna6MkgvtF17Xv1DJyFP2tFB1Hg3CkGE-yCM/edit?usp=sharing
And if you’re an advanced student you can skip directly to the Portuguese part at one minute and twenty seconds. 
Let 's go? 

Portuguese Drops 

Portuguese/English false friends (4)

Ao que parece um homem farto de aturar a mulher comete crime para ser preso...

Aprenda Português Com Notícias Insólitas e Malucas -Learn Portuguese With Crazy Isoteric News 

Homem Comete Crime Para Ir Preso

"It is only with heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye"
If you want to reminisce the nostalgic innocence of childhood, this is you go-to book. 
A young prince meets a pilot whose plane crashed in the desert who begins to tell him all the wonders he saw and the planets he visited.

Word Wizardry

The Little Prince

こんにちは。お話している今日（きょう）、日本では映画（えいが）「シン・ウルトラマン」が公開（こうかい）されました。"公開"とは「みんなにオープンにすること」、映画の場合（ばあい）は今日から映画館（えいがかん）で、上映（じょうえい）が始まったことを意味（いみ）します。

2016年に、「シン・ゴジラ」という映画が日本で公開されています。見たことがありますか？どうしてどちらの映画にも、「シン」という言葉（ことば）が付いているのでしょう。

「シン」とカタカナで書いていますが、漢字（かんじ）で書けば「新」、「新しい」という意味になります。「新しいゴジラの映画」、「新しいウルトラマンの映画」という意味ですね。

しかし「真」、「まことの、本当（ほんとう）の、本物（ほんもの）の」という意味の漢字で書くこともできます。「これが、本物のウルトラマンの映画だ！」という意味にもなります。

また「神」、「神（かみ）、神様（かみさま）」を意味する漢字で書くこともできます。「神様のように凄い（すごい）ゴジラだ、ウルトラマンだ！」という意味にもなります。

このようにカタカナで書いた「シン」から、日本人は漢字で書いた場合（ばあい）の、色々（いろいろ）な「シン」を想像して、様々（さまざま）なイメージを持つことができるのです。

日本語で何かを書く場合（ばあい）、ある意味を与える（あたえる）ためにカタカナで書いたり、漢字で書いたりする場合があります。面白い（おもしろい）ですね。

興味（きょうみ）ある映画や怪獣（かいじゅう）、ヒーローを通じて（つうじて）日本語を勉強（べんきょう）しませんか。それでは、さようなら。


Ken先生の映画・歴史・カルチャートーク

【第1回】映画「シン・ウルトラマン」が公開されました。

Il podcast del modenese!

Introduzione

「みんなのにほんご」２かのごいです。
Let's practice the vocabulary of Minna no Nihongo Lesson 1.
Write down the vocabulary you hear.

本	　ほん	　book
辞書	じしょ	dictionary
雑誌	ざっし	　magazine
新聞	しんぶん	　newspaper
ノート	のーと	　notebook
手帳	てちょう　	pocket notebook
名刺	めいし	　business card
カード　	かーど	　card
鉛筆	えんぴつ	　　pencil
ボールペン　	ぼーるぺん　	ballpoint pen
シャープペンシル	　しゃーぷぺんしる	mechanical pencil
鍵	かぎ	　key
時計	とけい	watch, clock
傘	かさ	umbrella
かばん	かばん	bag, briefcase
テレビ	　てれび	　television
ラジオ	　らじお　	radio
カメラ	　かめら　	camera
コンピューター	こんぴゅーたー	computer
車	　くるま　	car
机	　つくえ	　desk
椅子	いす	chair
チョコレート	　ちょこれーと	chocolate
コーヒー	　　こーひー　　	coffee


ごいのれんしゅう

みんなのにほんご_２か‗ごい

They say you can't have too much of a good thing — but according to a new study, maybe you can!

Researchers from the University of Toronto in Canada found that people are feeling more bored than in the past, even though there are endless types of entertainment available.

Could this endless entertainment actually be causing increased feelings of boredom?

Possibly, the researchers say.

In their study, published in Communications Psychology, Katy Tam and Michael Inzlicht looked at data from 2009 to 2020. They also looked at the relationship between digital media and reported feelings of boredom.

They found that people are reporting higher levels of boredom than ever before, with young people and college students feeling bored more often.

Many people reported feelings of boredom after engaging with digital media, leading Tam and Inzlicht to believe this type of entertainment is increasing feelings of boredom.

Digital media, they explain, is highly stimulating, which could cause people to be less interested in activities with lower stimulation, like reading a book.

And with technology offering so many distractions, people find it more difficult to focus on a single activity and take enjoyment from it, the researchers added.

For example, looking at your phone while watching television makes it difficult to focus on what you're watching on TV, which makes it more difficult to enjoy the show.

There's also so much information available online that people often engage with quick, unrelated pieces of media, instead of longer, more meaningful information, which can leave people feeling unsatisfied and bored.

Earlier research by Tam and Inzlicht supports this idea, after it showed that switching between short videos resulted in increased feelings of boredom.

The researchers said we may need to become more comfortable with feeling bored — since not everything in life is meant to be constantly interesting!