In this weeks episode we learn about the importance of pronunciation. 

If you're ready to take your Spanish to the next level do get in touch to book a trial lesson here: https://teach.italki.com/teacher/2112111

Spanish in the Workplace

#4: Spanish Pronunciation Part 1 (Spanish)

nside a dimly lit cave, a group of people sit huddled around glowing amphoras. These vessels are no ordinary pottery; they're meticulously painted with images of legendary wrestlers, engaged in eternal combat. The flickering light from a small fire casts these images onto the walls, animating the wrestlers in a primitive, captivating dance of shadows.



The cave's inhabitants watch these images, interpreting the epic battles as the ultimate expression of wrestling. They debate the techniques, celebrate the victories, and mourn the defeats, all from the moving images on the amphoras. To them, these representations are the entirety of wrestling—there is no world beyond the wrestlers on the pottery.


Nikostratos, ever the curious and skeptical cat, notices a sliver of light peeking through a crack in the cave wall. The murals and their tales don't satisfy his curiosity. One day, driven by a particularly pungent smell of the outside world—a mix of fresh earth and sweat—he finds a loose stone and wiggles his way through the crack.

Everything Zenified 

Wrestling, skeptical Cats, and Allegory of the Cave

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/223053639611
https://youtu.be/El7q4B2EFBs

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 4. Part 1 얼마나 -는지/-은지/-ㄴ지 모르다,  Part 2 -았던/-었던/-였던

In this episode I talk about the soothing sounds of the ocean. Here is Carl's italki teacher profile: https://italki.com/teacher/1947582 Thanks for listening! Visit my website for more of my full-length podcasts . https://www.streetwisenglish.com

Streetwise English

SWE 81  🌊Soothing sounds of the ocean⛱️

Isaw, kwek kwek, fish balls, adidas, betamax, balut, at iba pa. Ano ba ang mga ito? Ano pa ang ibang mga sikat na pagkain sa kalye sa Pilipinas?


[FREE] Ito ang ⁠⁠⁠⁠libreng transcript⁠⁠⁠⁠ para sa'yo.
tiny.cc/tagalogtranscripts

Comprehensible Tagalog Podcast

#148 - Mga Street Food sa Pilipinas

Hola, soy Jania y soy mexicana. 

El día de hoy Martín y yo presentamos un episodio sobre el ejercicio físico, ¿Qué actividad física practicamos? ¿Qué beneficios hemos tenido? y mucho más.
Visiten a Martín: https://www.italki.com/teacher/5211013/spanish

Spanish with Jania

Workout

Velar consonants are sounds you make with the back of your tongue touching the soft palate, also called the velum. It's the fleshy bit at the back of the roof of your mouth, near your uvula (the little dangly thing).

Production:
Raise the back of your tongue up to touch the velum. Airflow is blocked completely for a moment.

Examples in English:
/k/: This is the voiceless velar plosive, the sound at the beginning of "kit" or "cat."
/g/: This is the voiced velar plosive, the sound at the beginning of "game" or the "g" in "going."
/ŋ/: This is the velar nasal, the sound at the end of "sing" or "long." Notice how air can flow out your nose while making this sound.

Other interesting facts:
The sound /k/ is actually one of the most common consonant sound across all human languages! Velar consonants can be influenced by nearby vowels. They might move slightly forward in the mouth (called "fronting") before front vowels like /

i:/ or /ɪ/ or move back (called "retraction") before back vowels like /u/ or /ʊ/.

Some practice tongue twisters:
Kate keeps giving up in the morning
My gran’s going to see the king in the Congo
Can a king conquer a sinking kangaroo
Kick the giggling goblins guarding the gold
Kevin clung to the clinging kangaroo

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Target: British Accent 

Velar Consonants 

우리 벌써 산 중턱까지 올라왔네. 먼저 좀 쉬고 음식 좀 먹고 다시 올라가자.
咱们已经爬到半山腰了。先歇会儿吃点儿东西再爬吧。	

좋은 생각이야, 너희 뭘 가져왔어?
好主意, 你们都带了什么?	

난 단백질 보충할 찐 계란하고 신선한 오이 가져왔어.
我带的是补充蛋白质的蒸鸡蛋和新鲜的黄瓜。	

난 주먹밥 가져왔어, 우리 같이 먹자.
我带了饭团, 咱们一起吃吧。	


산 허리, 산 중턱.  半山腰 
쉬다, 휴식하다 歇 
보충하다 补充 
찐 계란 蒸鸡蛋
신선하다 新鲜
주먹밥 饭团 

[YOON] 1분 한국어

난 주먹밥 가져왔어, 우리 같이 먹자. 我带了饭团, 咱们一起吃吧。	

今日は、私が最近（さいきん）気に入って見ているアニメとドラマについて話します。一つは遠藤達哉さんのTVアニメ「スパイファミリー」、もう一つはTVドラマ「正直不動産」です。どうして、私がこれらのドラマをおもしろいと思っているのかを話しています。
I will talk about my recent favorite TV anime and TV drama today. One of them is TV anime "SPY&FAMILY" written by Tatsuya Endo.  The other is TV drama "Shoujiki fudousan(An honest real estate agent)".   I'm talking about why they are interesting and funny. 