Today we're looking at a common mistake when using the words "luck" and "lucky", and a higher level piece of vocabulary, "fortuitous". I hope you find it useful!

DAILY Business English VOCABULARY builder

It's so fortuitous that you found this podcast!

Oi gente, aqui é Aneleh, sua tutora de português favorita. No podcast de hoje falaremos sobre algumas gírias cariocas. Se você é iniciante e está se sentindo perdido, pode pular direto para a parte em que explico tudo isso em inglês em um minuto e cinquenta segundos. 
E se quiser acompanhar a descrição do episódio é só clicar nesse link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/129N0EWNSuxUgsAC_vY_g4zES8ok-zQLvJzgG2NjEHwA/edit?usp=sharing 
Vamos lá?
If you are a beginner and feel lost, you can skip straight to the part where I explain all this in English at one minute and fifty seconds. 
And you can also check the podcast description by clicking on this link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/129N0EWNSuxUgsAC_vY_g4zES8ok-zQLvJzgG2NjEHwA/edit?usp=sharing
Let's go?

Portuguese Drops 

Gírias 3 

This episode talks about how we notice what we need to learn. 

Learning to Learn 

Noticing the Gaps 

Today's podcast will either be "awfully" good or "pretty" bad!
Yes, English is confusing. Sorry!

The Social Evolutionary

Weird Words in English

La motivación, la determinación y el entusiasmo son emociones que ayudan y mucho al aprendizaje de idiomas. ¿Cuál es la tuya? Escucha este audio y a lo mejor te ayuda a encontrarla o encontrarlas...

AUDIO-ARTÍCULOS (Nivel B2-C1)

¿Cuál es tu motivación?

le mois dernier : o mês passado, last month
l’année dernière : o ano passado, last year
demain : amanhã, tomorrow
demain matin : amanhã de manhã, tomorrow morning
demain après-midi : amanhã à tarde, tomorrow afternoon
demain soir : amanhã à noite, tomorrow evening
la semaine prochaine : a semana que vem, next week
le mois prochain : o mês que vem, next month
l’année prochaine : o ano que vem, next year
dans un mois : em um mês, in a month
à l’avenir : no futuro, in the future


Professeur Maxime

Les adverbes de temps (3)

This is a short conversation between  a student and a teacher.
 The script is as follows:
M: Hello, teacher, how are you? sà-wàt-dee kráp kroo bpen yang ngai bâang kráp
T: Hello, fine and you Meng? sà-wàt-dee kâ · sà-baai dee · láew Meng lá kâ
M: Life is fine. I have been to Thailand for 2 days. (ago)
      chee-wít sà-baai · sà-baai kráp · maa bprà-têt tai sŏng wan láew 
T: Are you coming for a visit, right?  maa tîieow châi măi?
 M: Not at all. I moved to work  here. mâi châi loiie kráp  pŏm yáai maa tam ngaan têe nêe
T: Very good. Tomorrow Thailand will have an important festival.
     Dee mâak · prûng-née bprà-têt tai jà mee têt-sà-gaan săm-kan
M: What is the festival? I've never been to Thailand in this period.
      têt-sà-gaan à-rai kráp · pŏm mâi koiie maa bprà-têt tai  chûuang née
T:   Songkran, do you know ?  sŏng-graan · róo jàk măi
M:  I've never heard,  what is it?  mâi koiie dâai yin · keu à-rai kráp
T: Thai New Year's Day Tourists know that Songkran is a water play day for Thai people.
       wan bpee mài tai · nák tông tîieow róo jàk sŏng-graan keu wan lên náam kŏng kon tai
M: Very interesting, I'm glad to be able to visit Songkran Festival.
      nâa sŏn jai mâak · pŏm dee jai têe jà dâai tîieow têt-sà-gaan sŏng-graan
T: not just play with water. We have many activities such as going to the temple to make merit. release the bird, release the fish,  visit family , pay respect to parents and elders and carry sand into the temple
   mâi châi kâe lên náam · rao mee gìt-jà-gam lăai yàang · chên · bpai tam bun têe wát · bplòi nók bplòi bplaa · bpai yîiam krôp kruua · wâai pôr mâe láe pôo sŏong aa-yú láe kŏn saai kâo wát
M: Really excited! Tomorrow I will go to the city and temple to see the Songkran atmosphere.
     róo sèuk dtèun dtên jing jing · prûng-née pŏm jà bpai nai meuuang láe wát · pêuua doo ban-
     yaa-gàat
     Sorry, I have to go. I have an appointment with my boss.
     kŏr tôht kráp · pŏm dtông bpai láew · pŏm mee nát gàp jâo naai kráp

Learning Thai with Kru Tarntawan

Conversation about Songkran Festival

In this episode you will listen about George's misadventures in a kindergarten. Don't forget that you've got a quiz after the podcast for additional practice.

What if...?

Wonders G4 Week 2 Vocabulary

On the Italian island of Budelli, visitors like to look at a place called Spiaggia Rosa, a beautiful beach where the sand is pink.

But those visitors can only look — they can't touch the sand.

That's because the authorities want to preserve the beach. In the past, people have been seen taking the sand home with them.

Anyone who breaks the rules will be punished, as a Brazilian influencer has found out.

The travel influencer, who has more than 35,000 Instagram followers, took videos of herself walking on the beach and posted them online.

Italian websites said the woman had taken a boat to the beach so she could walk on the sand.

Tourists can visit the island and walk on a path behind the beach, but no one has been allowed on the sand or in the water around it since the 1990s.

Italians weren't happy when the influencer's videos were seen online.

While she had already left the island, the authorities were able to find her in Dubai, where she lives, and they fined her almost $2,000.

About $300 of the fine was for walking on the beach, and the rest was for using a boat that wasn't allowed to travel to the island.

Authorities say there are signs telling people they cannot enter the area.

No one lives on the island, which is just north of the large island of Sardinia.

However, a man whose boat broke down nearby lived on the island for more than 30 years until he was told to leave in 2021.