In this brief retelling of the fairy tale about Six Brothers under a magical spell and made to live as Swans, we look at a few different kinds of commonly used phrases so that we can understand them in context.

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The Six Swans

晚上您得把我保护好。
At night I want you to put me under a glass globe.
你这地方太冷。
It is very cold where you live.
在这里住得不好，我原来住的那个地方。
In the place I came from.
但她没有说下去。
But she interrupted herself at that point.
她来的时候是粒种子。
She had come in the form of a seed.
她哪里见过什么别的世界。
She could not have known anything of any other worlds.
她叫人发现她是在凑一个如此不太高明的谎话，她有点羞怒，
Embarassed over having let herself be caught on the verge of such a naive untruth,
咳嗽了两三声。她的这一招是要小王子处于有过失的地位。
she coughed two or three times, in order to put the little prince in the wrong.
屏风呢？
The screen?
我这就去拿。可你刚才说的是
I was just going to look for it when you spoke to me.
于是花儿放开嗓门咳嗽了几声，依然要使小王子后悔自己的过失。
Then she forced her cough a little more so that he should suffer from remorse just the same.
尽管小王子本来诚心诚意地喜欢这朵花，可是，这一来，却使他马上对她产生了怀疑。
So the little prince, in spite of all the good will that was inseparable from his love, had soon come to doubt her.
小王子对一些无关紧要的话看得太认真，结果使自己很苦恼。
He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
有一天他告诉我说：“我不该听信她的话，绝不该听信那些花儿的话，”

"I ought not to have listened to her," he confided to me one day. "One never ought to listen to the flowers."
看看花，闻闻它就得了。
One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance.
我的那朵花使我的星球芳香四溢，
Mine perfumed all my planet.
可我不会享受它。
But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.
关于老虎爪子的事，本应该使我产生同情，却反而使我恼火
This tale of claws, which disturbed me so much, should only have filled my heart with tenderness and pity.
他还告诉我说：“我那时什么也不懂！”
And he continued his confidences: "The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything!"
我应该根据她的行为，而不是根据她的话来判断她。
I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words.
她使我的生活芬芳多彩，
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me.
我真不该离开她跑出来。
I ought never to have run away from her.
我本应该猜出在她那令人爱怜的花招后面所隐藏的温情。
I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little strategems.
花是多么自相矛盾！
Flowers are so inconsistent!
我当时太年青，还不懂得爱她。
But I was too young to know how to love her.

小王子-The Little Prince-Read in Chinese

小王子第20章：温情

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みんなの日本語、第ニ課15ページ、かいわより。 リスニングとリーディングのれんしゅうです。私が言った後、リピートしてください。 
It‘ｓ for your practice of listening and reading. Repeat after me without reading みんなの日本語１、evern though you have the textbook. 
もしあなたが中級（ちゅうきゅう）でも、いいれんしゅうになると思います。 
If you are intermidiate level student, it should still be good practice. 

【Thank you in advance for your kindness】

Ichiro Yamada: Yes, who is it？

Santos: Hello, I‘m Jose Santos. I`ve just moved in here. (lit: Thank you in advance
for your kind ness.) Nice to meet you.

Ichiro Yamada: Pleased to meet you, too.

Santos: Here`s some coffee for you. (lit: Umm… this is coffee. Please take it)  

Ichiro Yamada: Thank you very much. 
	


【これから おせわに なります】

やまだ いちろう：はい。どなたですか。

サントス：408のサントスです。


サントス：こんにちは。サントスです。これから おせわに なります。どうぞ よろしくおねがいします。

やまだ いちろう：こちらこそ よろしく おねがいします。

サントス：あのう、これ、コーヒーです。どうぞ。

やまだ いちろう：どうも ありがとう ございます。


ようへい先生　　N4,N5チャンネル

みんなの日本語2課　Chapter two

        要说贵州最著名的景点，那一定是黄果树大瀑布了。The most famous scenic spot in Guizhou must be the Huangguoshu Waterfall.
        黄果树大瀑布景区是五A景区。它以黄果树大瀑布为中心，分布着雄、奇、险、秀风格各异的大小18个瀑布，形成了一个庞大的瀑布家族，被大世界基尼斯总部评为世界上最大的瀑布群，列入世界吉尼斯记录。Huangguoshu Waterfall Scenic Area is A Five A scenic area, with Huangguoshu Waterfall as the center, it is distributed with 18 waterfalls of different sizes, including majesty, miraculous, dangerous and beautiful styles, forming a huge waterfall family, which is rated as the largest waterfall group in the world by the Great World Ginis headquarters and listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.

新鲜事儿（Anecdote）

黄果树大瀑布

This video is for advanced learners. 
Here me and my wife talk about the book which is written by Hermann Hesse. 
There are also three suggestions for reading, watching and listening.
Hope you enjoy it.

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Mental blockers in job interviews, IELTS speaking or communication as a whole.

Have you heard of such a thing as a mental blocker? Or psychological filtering?

Most techers never talk about this because they care too much on helping you with the language (grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing). There is nothing wrong with it but why 60-90% of language learners aren't satisfied about their spoken language performance?

Mental blockers or filtering is when we focus too much on the bad things and ignore the good things. 

This can make us only see the negative parts of a situation and not notice the positives. It's like when you only pay attention to one mean comment and ignore all the nice ones. 

This can make us feel bad about ourselves and not appreciate the good things around us.

Have you found yourself in it? We all do it, I do too in various aspects and my student Savi inspired me to help you become aware of it and deal with it and succeed as the result.

Take your time listening to it as it is the first time in your life you came across this topic and again - it's not what English teachers talk about so please meditate on my thoughts, let yourself grow and come to my vip 1-1 training to ask questions and be helped.

You can do it!