Why do we say "Cheese" when we get our photo taken?

The Social Evolutionary

Smile and say "Cheese"... or "Potatoes"?

this episode is a kind of story that shows how laziness is bad thing and you should avoid it . it shows this through a story . hope you  enjoy that and improve your Farsi with that 

قصه های فارسی Persian stories 

تنبلی laziness 

Today’s Whiteboard きょうのホワイトボード

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🔗Japanese cedar pollen hay fever season begins in Tokyo

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/k10013487011000/k10013487011000.html

🔗 Japanese cedar pollen hay fever season begins in Tokyo

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220218/p2a/00m/0na/002000c#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20statement%2C%20pollen,days%20later%20than%20in%202021.

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Japanese cedar pollen hay fever season begins in Tokyo

Więcej was tu matka nie miała? Co to znaczy? Jaka matka? Skąd miała tyle dzieci i dlaczego nas to obchodzi?! W tym odcinku dowiecie się, co oznacza to popularne, ale bardzo potoczne wyrażenie.
Inspiracją do tego odcinka stało się pewne hiszpańskie wyrażenie, które wydaje mi się idealnym odpowiednikiem (éramos pocos y parió la abuela).
Miłego słuchania!



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Po polsku_003_Więcej was tu matka nie miała?

in this episode we wii learn about greeting  different people

Setswana Lessons

Greetings

Meaning: Where is…?

Formation:
(place)　は どこですか。

日本語 / にほんご / Japanese
(1)地下鉄はどこですか。
(2)トイレはどこですか。
(3)博物館はどこですか。
(4)渋谷駅はどこですか。
(5)郵便局はどこですか。

英語 / えいご / English
(1)Where is the subway?
(2)Where is the bathroom?
(3)Where is the museum?
(4)Where is Shibuya station?
(5)Where is the post office?

ひらがな　/　Hiragana
(1)ちかてつは どこ ですか。
(2)といれは どこ ですか。
(3)はくぶつかんは どこ ですか。
(4)しぶやえきは どこ ですか。
(5)ゆうびんきょくは どこ ですか。

ローマ字　/ Roman letters
(1)Chika-tetu wa doko desuka.
(2)Toire wa doko desuka.
(3)Hakubutsu-kan wa doko desuka.
(4)Sibuya eki wa doko desuka.
(5)Yûbin-kyoku wa doko desuka.

Japanese Right Now！

【JLPT N5★ …はどこですか…wa doko desuka　（Where is…?)】

En este episodio hablo acerca de quien es mi persona favorita, mi abuela, hablo de mi niñez, de las cosas que hacía con ella y de como su figura fue importante, la importancia de la figura de la abuela a nivel cultural en Colombia y otras cosas que hacen parte del tiempo libre en la infancia. Utilizo como tiempos verbales los tiempos del pasado como pretèrito imperfecto, pretèrito indefinido, tambièn elementos de descripción.  

Viviendo entre dos lenguas 

Mi persona favorita, mi abuela

What do you think is the most expensive place in the world to live? New York? London? Maybe Tokyo?

While Japan has long had a reputation as an expensive place to live, its cities have been getting cheaper in recent years — with some big changes coming just in the last 12 months.

American consulting company Mercer recently released its 2024 Cost of Living City Ranking, which compares the costs of over 200 items in 226 cities around the world. The results are based on a March 2024 survey, and include things like housing and transportation, as well as food, clothing and entertainment.

All five of the world's most expensive cities are unchanged from last year, with Hong Kong and Singapore again in first and second place. These two Asian cities are followed by three Swiss cities: Zurich, Geneva and Basel.

Bern, another Swiss city, has risen from seventh to sixth place, while New York City has fallen one place to seventh.

However, Tokyo has dropped 30 places to 49th — putting it right after San Juan in Puerto Rico. And Osaka has dropped 53 places to 146th — just ahead of Wuhan in China.

However, the biggest drop since last year was for Lagos in Nigeria, which fell 178 places to 225th. And the least expensive city is now Abuja, Nigeria's capital, at 226th.

Mercer wrote that many big drops were caused by changes in exchange rates. Japan's yen dropped to a 34-year low against the US dollar in March — and hit a 38-year low in early July.

The ranking was also affected by inflation — especially in housing prices — as well as increasing political uncertainty around the world.

Mercer says it's important for companies to look at its cost of living ranking when thinking about sending staff to live abroad.




Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Japan Tumbles on Expensive Cities Ranking

Even the most famous people struggled to get their work going at the beginning of their career. Like Sir James Dyson who gave us those vacuum cleaners as well as Steven Spielberg.