Hi everyone! How was your Christmas? I hope you received wonderful gifts! In this episode, I introduce how Japanese people spend New Year's Day in N5 Japanese. Have fun and Happy New Year to you all!

たつきのにほんご

Japanese New Year's Day (Beginner)

Wall Street Journal Headlines for the weekend of March 2nd and 3rd. Sign up for business class today, one thing I do is send a weekly Wall Street Journal article to those who purchase packages. Here is a link to my profile: https://www.italki.com/en/teacher/8543771

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Wall Street Journal Headlines 1

你会爱上机器人吗？

假如有一个机器人完全是按照你的喜好制造的，他/她会为你做饭，帮你做家务，每天逗你开心，他/她了解你所有的需求，能满足你的所有要求，而且长得还很帅或者很漂亮，完全就是你的梦中情人，你会爱上他吗？

但是他/她可能没有心跳，没有人类的正常需求，不用吃饭，不用上厕所，也不需要睡觉。但是他会唱歌，也可能会跳舞，甚至上知天文，下知地理，你不会的事情问一下他就可以了。但是他/她可能没有荷尔蒙，不知道他/她会不会让你心动呢？

或者他/她可以成为很好的朋友？也可能是一个很危险的人物，如果他被病毒入侵了。你期待拥有一个机器人吗？

Notes:

上知天文，下知地理：意思是一个人知道很多。

荷尔蒙：hormone

病毒：virus

入侵：invade


CloverChinese

Level 4: 你会爱上机器人吗？Will you fall in love with a robot?

Halo, apa kabar semua? Kembali lagi di podcast saya.
Bagaimana akhir minggu kalian? 

Besok, tanggal 14 Februari adalah hari Valentine, atau disebut juga hari kasih sayang. Biasanya apa yang kalian lakukan di hari itu? Euforia hari Valentine ini sudah terlihat di supermarket, mal yang penuh dengan dekorasi berbentuk hati, berwarna merah, merah muda, dan lainnya. 
Banyak orang yang habiskan waktu bersama dengan orang-orang tercinta di hari kasih sayang ini, memberi hadiah, coklat, bunga atau juga mengirim kartu valentine. Mereka melakukan semua ini sebagai rasa terima kasih seribu untuk orang-orang tersayang. "Terima kasih seribu(1000)" artinya adalah "sangat terima kasih". Di Bahasa Inggris, "a thousand thanks", dan di Bahasa Jepang artinya " 本当にありがとうございます". Terima kasih seribu kepada kalian ya, karena selalu mendengarkan podcast saya! :) 

Apa kalian sudah punya rencana untuk besok? 
Selamat menikmati hari kasih sayang dengan keluarga, teman baik dan orang-orang yang kalian cintai ya! Selamat hari Valentine! 





Akhir minggu

Terima kasih seribu

The seasons and types of weather in Damascus are one of the most discussed topics in our daily lives. Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of Damascus while expanding your vocabulary, mastering verbs, and uncovering intriguing cultural insights.
I hope you enjoy it! :)

(Note: If you want the PDF of this podcast, you can contact me and I will send it immediately.)

Dive into Syrian Dialect

Weather in Damascus

我想小王子大概是利用一群候鸟迁徙的机会跑出来的。
I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a lock of wild birds.
在他出发的那天早上，他把他的星球收拾得整整齐齐，
On the morning of his departure he put his planet in perfect order.
把它上头的活火山打扫得干干净净。
He carefully cleaned out his active volcanoes.
他有两个活火山，早上热早点很方便。
He possessed two active volcanoes; and they were very convenient for heating his breakfast in the morning.
他还有一座死火山。
He also had one volcano that was extinct.
他想，“说不定它还会活动呢！”
But, as he said, "One never knows!"
他也把它打扫干净。
So he cleaned out the extinct volcano, too.
打扫干净了，它们就可以慢慢地有规律地燃烧，而不会突然爆发。
If they are well cleaned out, volcanoes burn slowly and steadily, without any eruptions.

火山爆发就象烟囱里的火焰一样。
Volcanic eruptions are like fires in a chimney.
当然，在我们地球上我们人太小，不能打扫火山，
On our earth we are obviously much too small to clean out our volcanoes.
所以火山给我们带来很多很多麻烦。
That is why they bring no end of trouble upon us.
小王子还把剩下的最后几颗猴面包树苗全拔了。他有点忧伤。
The little prince also pulled up, with a certain sense of dejection, the last little shoots of the baobabs.
他以为他再也不会回来了。
He believed that he would never want to return.
这天，这些家常活使他感到特别亲切。
But on this last morning all these familiar tasks seemed very precious to him.
当他最后一次浇花时，准备把她好好珍藏起来。
And when he watered the flower for the last time, and prepared to place her under the shelter of her glass globe,
他发觉自己要哭出来。
he realised that he was very close to tears.
“再见了。”他对花儿说道。
"Goodbye," he said to the flower.
可是花儿没有回答他。
But she made no answer.
“再见了。”他又说了一遍。
"Goodbye," he said again.

小王子-The Little Prince-Read in Chinese

小王子第21章：再见了

안녕하세요. Hello~
한국어 듣기 수업 시작해요. Let's start with the Korean listening class.
선생님 읽어요. I read it.
잘 들으세요. Please listen well.

I posted the sentences on my blog.
https://blog.naver.com/laramcraft/223075084467
https://youtu.be/M7vbp157rKE

The basics are important.
It is also good to check the basics of 한글 Hangeul before this listening class.
1-1. Korean alphabet - Vowels 모음 - What is Hangeul?
https://youtu.be/0YzhJ9p2lcs
2-1. Korean alphabet - Consonants 자음 -what are the consonants 자음?
https://youtu.be/lckgvQ_vreA
3-1. Korean alphabet - Final Consonants 받침 - What are the final consonants 받침?
https://youtu.be/sLlFmG30fNI

This is a class to listen to Korean conversational sentences.
In this voice recording for listening,
After reading many sentences with Korean grammar in Korean conversations sentences,
Check out how much you understand the sentences with a voice recording.
Never look at the sentences when listening to the voice recording.
And Listen to the sentence repeatedly until you hear it completely.

You are listening to the Sejong Korean conversation. (세종학당)
There are four books in total. (Korean conversation, 1, 2, 3, 4.)
It consists of 1st and 2nd courses for beginners and 1st and 2nd courses for intermediate.
Each course is conducted in 14 units. (2 grammar - for each unit.)
This listening class you are taking is Korean Conversation 4. (Intermediate 2)
Please listen carefully.

Korean Listening Class 한국어 문장 듣기 - Korean teacher, Grace

Korean Conversation 4. (Intermediate 2) - Lesson 7. Part 1 간접 인용 2 -는대요/-ㄴ대요/-대요/이래요/래요,  Part 2 -을/-ㄹ 만하다

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!