Tips, tricks and vocabulary to help you with your Business English. Intermediate level. 

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In this podcast I talk about the most common mistakes in English and how you can avoid them! 


STOP making these mistakes......

       Lǐ lǎoshī duō dà le?
A：李老师多大了？
   Tā jīnnián wǔshí suì le. 
B：她今年50岁了。
   Tā nǚ’ ér ne? 
A：她女儿呢？
   Tā nǚ’ ér jīnnián èrshí suì.
B：她女儿今年20岁。

HSK Standard Course Level 1 Audio of the textbook

Lesson 5 text 3

Script
おはようございます。
日本語だんだんポッドキャストのゆかりです。

今日は私の"なまり"についての話です。

日本語には、地域によって色々な、なまりがあります。

英語にもありますね。

同じ英語でも、少しずつちがいます。

アメリカの英語とイギリスの英語は少しちがいます。
カナダ、オーストラリア、シンガポール、の英語もそれぞれちがいます。

私は大阪の出身です。

生まれてから、25歳まで、大阪に住んでいました。

なので、関西のなまりがあります。

関西弁を話します。

ちなみに、関西とは、大阪府、京都府、滋賀県、奈良県、和歌山県のことです。

まとめて関西と呼ばれています。

私は日本語の先生です。

いまはできるだけ、関西弁にならないようにしています。
関西弁で話すと、アクセントが全然ちがいます。

例えば、ありがとうございます。

これを、私のなまりで話すと、

ありがとうございます、です。

ほかにも、私の好きな食べ物はお寿司です。

これを、私のなまりで話すと、

私の好きな食べ物はお寿司です。

となります。

どうでしょうか？

言葉は同じです。

全然違うように聞こえますか？

私はこのような、なまりが好きです。

人それぞれ、ちがったような話し方があると思います。楽しいですね。

それでは、今日も最後まで聞いてくれて、だんだん、です。

また明日。


-Today's Keyword-

□なまり
accent

□関西(かんさい)
Kansai is the term for the Kansai region, which includes areas around Osaka and Kyoto.
A similar term is Kanto, referring to the area around Tokyo.

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Muchas personas piensan que los españoles somos muy religiosos. Y aunque la mayoría de nuestras fiestas están relacionadas con el catolicismo, las cosas han cambiado un poco en los últimos 50 años. En este episodio comento como han cambiado la perspectiva y la actitud de los españoles hacia la Iglesia y la religión en los últimos años. 

Sé que este tema es un poco diferente y puede ser un poco polémico, pero espero que te parezca interesante. Después de escuchar el episodio, como siempre, espero tu opinión. Visita mi Instagram y dime qué te ha parecido.

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Reducing the time we spend on our smartphones outside of work could help improve satisfaction and motivation in the workplace, according to a new study.

Spending less time on our phones doing non-work tasks like scrolling social media or watching videos could also have an impact on our mental health, researchers said.

A research team from Germany wanted to find out about easy ways companies could improve the motivation and well-being of their employees.

Almost 280 volunteers were put into four groups.

For one week, people in the first group reduced their daily smartphone use by one hour.

People in the second group didn't change their smartphone use, but did 30 minutes more exercise per day.

Participants in the third group did both of these things. And the fourth group didn't make any changes at all.

The volunteers took surveys about their work satisfaction, motivation and mental health before starting the experiment. They took the surveys again after the experiment ended, and then again two weeks later.

The researchers found that participants in both of the groups that reduced their smartphone use saw significant improvements in their mental health and workplace satisfaction. People in these groups also felt that their work-life balance was better.

And those in the first three groups — including the exercise-only group — all said they felt a greater sense of control over their lives.

The researchers said companies could think about encouraging employees to make small changes like these to their daily lives. When employees are happier at work, they're likely to be more productive, they added.

And the good thing for companies is that there's no cost to encouraging changes like these!