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Celebrate Episode 50 with essential verbs that capture the essence of life, care, and connection! From existing and loving to looking after others, these versatile verbs bring meaning and action to your daily conversations.

🔹 Live (to exist) – 活着 (Huózhe) 🌍
🔹 Loan – 贷款 (Dàikuǎn) 💵
🔹 Look after – 照顾 (Zhàogù) 🧑‍⚕️
🔹 Look for – 寻找 (Xúnzhǎo) 🔍
🔹 Love – 爱 (Ài) ❤️

For more practice, check out:
📘 C(50) Vocabulary Flash Cards: Visualize and Memorize – Make today’s verbs stick with helpful visual reminders!
🎯 C(50) Verbs Quiz: Test Your Knowledge – Challenge yourself and see how well you know these verbs!

5 Verbs a Day. 每天学习五个动词。

C (50) Verbs Set : Live (to exist) Loan Look after Look for Love

Although I'm from the UK, I lived in China for 15 years, teach a large number of Chinese students, and even have a Chinese girlfriend. In this episode, I share some of my thoughts on the main differences I've noticed between the two cultures. These affect the way we approach education, the way we interact with our friends, and even how we eat our food and choose what to wear.
So what do you think? Do you agree with me? Are there any other differences that you've noticed? I'd love to read your comments.

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Cultural Differences between the UK and China

A new podcast just came out! Today we will read the story of Princess Aurora, Sleeping Beauty.

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🧚🏾‍♀️ STORIE PER BAMBINI #QuickItalianWithMara

😴  AURORA (Sleeping Beauty)

In this chapter Mrs. Frisby saves a crow named Jeremy and rides on its back to safety. Jeremy tells Mrs Frisby she can call on him for help in the future.  

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Mrs Frisby looked again at the sun and saw that she faced an unpleasant choice. She could go home by the same roundabout way she had come, in which case she would surely end up walking alone in the woods in the dark — a frightening prospect, for at night the forest was alive with danger. Then the owl came out to hunt, and foxes, weasels and strange wild cats stalked among the tree trunks. The other choice would be dangerous, too, but with luck it would get her home before dark. That would be to take a straighter route, across the farmyard between the barn and the chicken house, going not too close to the house but cutting the distance by half. The cat would be there somewhere, but by daylight — and by staying in the open, away from the shrubs — she could probably spot him before he saw her.
The cat: He was called Dragon. Farmer Fitzgibbon’s wife had given him the name as a joke when
he was a small kitten pretending to be fierce. But when he grew up, the name turned out to be an apt one. He was enormous, with a huge, broad head and a large mouth full of curving fangs, needle sharp. He had seven claws on each foot and a thick, furry tail, which lashed angrily from side to side. In colour he was orange and white, with glaring yellow eyes; and when he leaped to kill, he gave a high, strangled scream that froze his victims where they stood.

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 

Chapter 3 The Crow and the Cat

Sympathy holds a huge part in daily conversations in English. Learn the right type of expressions to take your verbal skill to the next level!

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Aquí les cuento un poco de qué va esta canción que me gusta mucho 😊

Canciones en español que me gustan 😊

🎼🎵🎤🎶😊Canción que me gusta mucho 😊 "BESO" de Rosalía y Rauw Alejandro (2023)🎶🎤🎵🎼

If you're looking to make a good first impression on a dating app, from your POV, you might think it would be a good idea to send a text using lots of abbreviations to make it seem like you're BFFs with the person you're texting.

But FWIW, according to a recent study from Stanford University and the University of Toronto, nobody likes receiving text abbreviations — not even young people.

Don't know those abbreviations? "POV" means "point of view," "BFF" means "best friend forever," and "FWIW" is "for what it's worth"!

Researchers studying the use of such abbreviations did a number of studies with several thousand people, and they found that texts using abbreviations were less likely to get replies. And writers using abbreviations were more likely to be seen as insincere.

Of course, we all use abbreviations — in one survey, it was found that 99% of people said they used them. But the researchers found that people don't like receiving texts with abbreviations, because rather than making them feel closer to the other person, it felt like the other person wasn't putting much effort into the conversation.

And while young people are even more likely to use abbreviations, they still felt that people who used them were insincere. Young people were also less likely to reply to such messages.

Lead researcher David Fang said we often put different amounts of effort into our conversations to show how important the other person is to us.

So it might be fine to put little effort into, say, a quick message to a delivery driver. But Fang said his team's results are especially important for people who really want to make a good impression — like at the beginning of a relationship!