Bedside Italian

Bedside Italian #10 - Le Cicale.

¿Cuánto sale festejar un cumpleaños? Cuánto dinero!! 

Argentina en carne propia

El cumpleaños de mi hija

Amanda: Hi Maria!
Maria: Oh, hi Amanda.
Amanda: You look a bit worried, are you all right?
Maria: I’m exhausted. Yesterday’s homework took me all evening. It’s probably going to double next year, isn’t it?
Amanda: Probably. My older brother has to write long essays for his English literature course. But we’ll have fewer subjects to study. Have you chosen your courses yet?
Maria: No, when’s the deadline?
Amanda: We have another month, but the school emailed us all the list the other day. I have it on my phone.
Maria: Ooh, let’s have a look, then.
Amanda: Here it is. Oh, look, the Spanish and biology timetables clash. I won’t be able to do both.
Maria: Would you do that, though? Languages and science don’t go together, do they?
Amanda: Well, you wouldn't think so, but actually, my aunt is a research scientist, and a lot of European universities work together on projects. She’s working on a project with a university in Rome, one in Germany, and one in Portugal.
Maria: Is it a biology project?
Amanda: No, she’s a chemist. They’re working on a solution to clean up deadly pollution in rivers and lakes.
Maria: That sounds so cool and really fascinating.
Amanda: It really is. She gets to visit colleagues in different cities sometimes, and she gets her work translated into lots of different languages. She wishes she had learned some German, though, so she could communicate better with her German research partners. She understands Portuguese and Italian, but German, not so much.
Maria: When did she learn Portuguese and Italian?
Amanda: I think she did some of her university degree in Lisbon and some in Rome.
Maria: Studying chemistry in different languages?
Amanda: Yes, she loved it!
Maria: So, you’re kind of following in her footsteps, then. Science and languages. You could be a biologist in Spain.
Amanda: Yep, or at least study there, or South America.
Maria: So, what are you going to do about the timetable clash?
Amanda: I think I’ll talk to the dean. 

English Conversation/Dialogue

Science For All

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qMD8JaxpDPk_wIqma6Xv8_ygjWTcZ5kA/view?usp=sharing

Consejos para mis estudiantes e invitados.

Cómo vencer el miedo y la vergüenza al cometer errores al hablar español (con transcripción).

There are many factors that influence language learning such as a student's age, personality and environment. In today's podcast, we will talk about three factors that affect a student's language learning progress namely motivation, learner's environment and and student's personality.

FLO TALKS 

FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE  LANGUAGE LEARNING

Good day, Students, today we are going to learn an example of conjugation tense in this short phrase in Spanish.
[First, we are going to hear this Example of the paragraph in Spanish]
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Esta es la historia de Annie, Ella es una niña con ojos azules, cabello largo y dulce sonrisa. Ella estudia en una hermosa escuela con sus amigas. 
Ella tiene muchas amigas en la escuela y los profesores son muy buenos con ella. En la escuela son buenos con ella porque ella es muy especial. 
Los muchachos siempre quieren regalarle rosas y chocolates a ella y todos la admiran 
Sus padres trabajan todo el día y la abuela cuida la casa. La madre tiene una tienda de caramelos cerca de la escuela y su padre trabaja en una famosa empresa de video juegos.
Su casa es la más bonita del vecindario y tiene un hermoso jardín con un gran árbol de manzana. 
En vacaciones, ellos visitan muchos lugares interesantes del país y a veces compran recuerdos del viaje. También ellos traen regalos a los vecinos y familia. 
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 [And now it´s time to hear the English version] 
This is the story of Annie. She is a little girl with blue eyes, long hair and a sweet smile. She studies at a beautiful school with her friends.
She has many friends at school and the teachers are very good to her. At school they are good to her because she is very special.
The boys always want to give her roses and chocolates and everyone admires her.
Her parents work all day and the grandmother takes care of the house. The mother has a candy store near the school and her father works at a famous video game company.
Their house is the prettiest in the neighborhood and has a beautiful garden with a big apple tree.
On vacation, they visit many interesting places in the country and sometimes buy souvenirs from the trip. They also bring gifts to the neighbors and family. 

Podcast Learn Spanish

LISTENING AND COMPREHENSION OF SPANISH PARAGRAPH 

I use this text to describe the importance of speaking casually without hesitating.
Listen to this:
I went to the sea...to the beach two weeks...ummm..ago.  My brother and I...we...ummm...we wanted to...go inside the...to go swimming.  It was very...really, really, really hot.

It is also important not to speak too quickly.  We use pauses but not long ones and not too often.
Listen to this:
I went to the sea to go to the beach two weeks ago.  My brother and I wanted to go swimming.  The weather was ... quite hot.  The water was very relieving.

Practice your speaking speed and fluency with these questions and others.  Record your voice and listen for which of my recordings you sound like.
1). What did you do last weekend?
2). What kind of books do you like to read?
3). What do you usually like to cook for yourself?


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CAPITULO 5 : ¿Qué comen los muertos? 💀👻 CHAPTER 5: What do the dead eat?

In this episode we are going to listen to a conversation between two mothers.

瑞英：阿姨您好！

阿姨：你好，瑞英你好！唉呀，你家几口人呐？

瑞英：我家里有五口人，我老公，还有两个儿子，还有小姑娘，您认识的。

阿姨：儿子大的有多大啦？

瑞英：啊，老大八周岁了。

阿姨：老二呢？

瑞英：老二六周岁。

阿姨：她，小的三四（岁）？

瑞英：小的刚刚三周岁。

阿姨：哇，那个累不累啊？

瑞英：还好，不算太累！

阿姨：三个小孩在我眼里就觉得很辛苦了！

瑞英：还好了，其实习惯了。老大他们都会互相玩儿，他们玩儿得特别好，所以基本上不
需要我怎么照顾

阿姨：就是小的要陪一下？

瑞英：小的也其实，等到有了，有了哥哥们回来，都在一起玩儿！