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我的家
6月1号，星期三，天气很好。
我是一只小猫，我的名字叫“小九”。今天，我的爸爸在商店看见我，带我回家了，我的新家在中国北京。家里有三口人，爸爸、妈妈、他们的孩子，还有一只大狗。
在我的家，桌子上有电视、电脑、水果。我喜欢在沙发上睡觉。每天上午八点，爸爸妈妈去工作，孩子去学校。下午两点，我和妈妈一起去医院，医生是个漂亮的小姐，她常常给我苹果，可是我是小猫，我不喜欢苹果，我喜欢鱼。 
今天天气很热，我很想睡觉。孩子在做作业，他每天有很多的作业。明天，妈妈要和朋友去饭店，我也想一起去。

Wǒ de jiā 
6 yuè 1 hào ， xīngqī sān ， tiānqì hěn hǎo 。 
Wǒ shì yì zhī xiǎomāo ， wǒ de míngzi jiào " Xiǎojiǔ " 。 jīntiān ， Wǒ de Bàba zài shāngdiàn kànjiàn wǒ ， dài Wǒ huíjiā le ， wǒ de xīn jiā zài Zhōngguó Běijīng 。 jiā lǐ yǒu sān kǒu rén ， Bàba 、 Māma 、 tāmen de háizi ， háiyǒu yì zhī dàgǒu 。 
Zài wǒ de jiā ， zhuōzi shàng yǒu diànshì 、 diànnǎo 、 shuǐguǒ 。 Wǒ xǐhuan zài shāfā shàng shuìjiào 。 Měitiān shàngwǔ bādiǎn ， Bàba、Māma qù gōngzuò ， háizi qù Xuéxiào 。 Xiàwǔ liǎngdiǎn ， Wǒ hé Māma yìqǐ qù Yīyuàn ， yīsheng shì gè piàoliang de xiǎojiě ， Tā chángcháng gěi wǒ píngguǒ ， kěshì wǒ shì xiǎomāo ， wǒ bù xǐhuan píngguǒ ， wǒ xǐhuan Yú 。  
Jīntiān tiānqì hěn rè ， wǒ hěn xiǎng shuìjiào 。 Háizi zài zuòzuōyè ， tā měitiān yǒu hěnduō  zuòyè 。 Míngtiān ， Māma yào hé péngyou qù fàndiàn ， wǒ yě xiǎng yìqǐ qù 。 


Learn Chinese through stories - HSK1  （more podcast：https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk_Q-vfEdpBJCRJviEEY0KQ）

My family

La mouette rieuse.
Bonjour, je suis Rieuse, la mouette rieuse. C’est mon vrai nom. Je vis surtout à la mer. J’adore jouer avec les vagues, en poussant des cris perçants ! En hiver, je préfère les villes et le bord des fleuves. On me jette du pain et des restes de repas. Je suis très gourmande.
Ce matin, j’ai rencontré une souris. J’allais l’attraper quand elle a crié:
- Je suis la souris verte, une souris magique. Si tu me manges, tu seras transformée en corbeau !
Moi, la mouette rieuse, changée en corbeau ? J’ai préféré quelques vers de terre pour mon dîner. Pourtant, je crois que cette souris verte était une farceuse. Qu’en penses-tu?

Des Milliers D'histoires

Histoire 37 - La mouette rieuse

arrator: Elvis Presley was born to a very poor family in Mississippi in the south of the United States in 1935. His twin brother died at birth, and he was an only child. The family moved to Memphis, Tennessee thirteen years later. As a teenager, Elvis was interested in all kinds of music and wore colorful clothes with a distinctive hairstyle that he kept for much of his life.
Narrator: In 1954, Sam Phillips, a music producer at Sun Records in Memphis, asked Elvis to come in for an audition. When he played a song that he had composed himself, Phillips recognized the young man’s talent. He offered Elvis a contract and put together a three-piece band for him. They played blues and country music that they knew from the radio, night clubs and churches with both black and white members. The band had a big hit later that year with a cover of a song by Arthur Crudup called, “That’s All Right,” using a style called rockabilly. Their popularity took off in the southern states as people saw them perform in local venues and even heard them on national radio programs.
Narrator: In 1956, Elvis met Colonel Tom Parker, who became his manager and organized a contract with RCA Records in New York. As the hits kept on coming, he changed over to a more rock and roll sound and performed in numerous TV shows and in films.
Narrator: However, in 1958, Elvis was drafted into the army and gave up performing for a couple of years. When he finished his military service, he returned to his music career and during the 1960s he made more than thirty movies and recorded lots of songs. He also married and had a daughter.
Narrator: In 1968, Elvis performed in a Christmas TV special, which boosted his popularity for a while. Between 1969 and 1976, he also put on hundreds of shows in Las Vegas, with tickets regularly selling out. However, in the 1970s, his career started to go downhill, partly because of his lifestyle. He was living in Graceland, a mansion in Memphis that he had bought in 1957.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Elvis Presley

People who travel a lot will know the feeling — you've just landed in a country on the other side of the world, ready to explore and see the sights, but you're too tired to do anything!

Jet lag is usually linked with travel and changing time zones. But a new study has found that even small changes to our daily schedules can change our sleeping patterns.

And it's not just sleep that gets affected by a disrupted schedule — our bodies work differently when our daily patterns change.

The study, published in iScience, looked at how our bodies respond to a five-hour time change — similar to the kind of jet lag you'd feel after traveling from New York to London, for example.

It looked at people's circadian rhythm — our body's natural clock that controls when we sleep, when different hormones are released, and how our bodies use energy.

During the study, scientists observed 14 people in a lab for eight days.

On the first two days, the participants followed their normal daily schedules. But from the third day, the participants' meals, sleep and light exposure were changed to five hours later than normal.

The researchers tested the participants' blood and checked their digestion, energy use, and levels of melatonin — a hormone that helps control sleep by making you feel tired when it gets dark — to see how their bodies reacted to the time change.

The results showed that the five-hour time change made digestion slower, changed blood sugar levels, and affected how the body used fat. The body also burned less energy from food.

These things started to go back to normal after two or three days as the body adjusted to the new schedule.

One of the study's researchers, Jonathan Johnston, told StudyFinds this shows how sticking to a regular schedule can make a big difference to our health.

How Jet Lag Affects More than Just Your Sleep

Do you see bridges more as strong or elegant? This question does not make much sense in English, but it does in some languages.
In our first ever episode we explore the question of how language influences thought. In this video, we present you with a short example of how this occurs.

The Age of Humans

Episode 1: Linguistic relativity (How object gender influences the way you perceive it)

Halo semua! 
Hari ini, kita akan membahas sesuatu yang dekat banget dengan keseharian kita.

Mungkin bagi orang asing, rutin memeriksa gigi adalah hal yang biasa. Tapi, bagi orang Indonesia, pergi ke dokter gigi adalah sesuatu yang sering dihindari. Bukan karena mahal atau tidak ada waktu, tapi karena... takut! Ya, takut sama suara bor, takut sama rasa sakit. Akhirnya, banyak orang yang lebih memilih minum obat penghilang rasa sakit daripada langsung pergi ke dokter gigi.

Pasti kalian juga pernah dengar orang bilang, "Aduh, mendingan sakit hati daripada ke dokter gigi, deh!" Nah, gimana menurut kalian? Lebih baik sakit gigi atau sakit hati?

Kalau saya sih, sejujurnya, dua-duanya tidak enak! Tapi kalau disuruh memilih, saya mungkin lebih memilih sakit gigi. Setidaknya, kalau sakit gigi, kita bisa pergi ke dokter gigi dan masalah selesai. Tapi kalau sakit hati? Aduh, masalahnya jadi panjang! Susah 'move on', bisa berlarut-larut dan butuh waktu lama untuk sembuh. Hahaha…

Jadi, ayo mulai sekarang, jaga gigi sebelum harus jaga hati yang terluka ya :p 
Sampai bertemu lagi di episode berikutnya, dada!