Elementary level：Common expression
You will spend seven days (six days of study, one day of review) to learn the most basic Chinese sentence patterns.




Rachel's Weekly Chinese Podcast

Reading common audiobooks at a slow speed helps you improve your Chinese listening skills in the interesting way.

Audiobook reading

Welcome to another pod for A1 and A2 learners. 

Learn to describe your daily routine in Swedish by listening and repeating key words.   

Lär dig att beskriva din dagliga rutin genom att lyssna och repetera viktiga ord.  

Just Started Learning Swedish/A1 Svenskan  

Min Dagsrutin/My Daily Routine 

主要介绍 “1.说白了 2.打不起精神来 3.拖…后腿”在汉语口语习惯语中的意思和用法。

A Course in Chinese Colloquial Idioms

How To Use 1.说白了 2.打不起精神来 3.拖…后腿 in Chinese Colloquial Idiom

In dieser Episode von Deutsch durchdacht spreche ich über Reisen. 
Diesmal limitiere ich mein Skript und spreche so frei wie möglich. 
Ich hoffe es gefällt euch! 

Deutsch durchdacht 

Episode 8: Reisen

Preguntas / Questions
1) ¿Que estaba el león haciendo al principio?
2) ¿Porque el león dejo ir a el ratón?
3) ¿Qué hizo el león después de ser atrapado en la red del cazador?
4) ¿Que hizo el ratón para ayudar a el león?
5) ¿Qué le dijo el león a el ratón?
[make a pause and try to answer these questions before continuing]
Respuestas / Answers

1) El león estaba durmiendo en un bosque
2) Porque él pensó, El ratón era gracioso.
3) El rugió y rugió, el intento salir, pero no pudo escapar
4) El ratón corto la red con sus afilado dientes.
5) Gracias, pequeño Ratón. Tu salvaste mi vida


Podcast Learn Spanish

El cuento del león y el ratón (Listen and comprehension)

Welcome to this episode of Everyday Italian! In this episode, we’re focusing on essential phrases you can use when you need someone to repeat what they said or explain something better.

Learning Italian can sometimes be challenging, and it’s completely normal not to understand everything in a conversation. Being able to ask for clarification will boost your confidence and help you engage more fully in your interactions.

In this episode, we’ll cover:

	•	Come? (What?)
	•	Puoi ripetere, per favore? (Can you repeat that, please?)
	•	Non ho capito. (I didn’t understand.)
	•	Cosa significa? (What does that mean?)
	•	Puoi parlare più lentamente, per favore? (Can you speak more slowly, please?)

These phrases are practical and easy to use, ensuring you can communicate effectively while learning. Remember, asking for clarification is a natural part of the language learning process!

Italian Everyday

 Ask for Repetition or Clarification in Italian!

"Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life."

A 30-day positive affirmation journey with Rose

Day 8

What does it mean to be innovative in business?

In order for a business to survive in today's world, it is important that we regularly review what we are doing and how we are doing it. By considering new ideas and new ways of doing things, and trying to innovate, we can improve on our products/services, increase sales, reduce costs and make our processes more effective and efficient. Innovation is key to increasing profits.

There are several ways a company can be innovative with their products and services. Today we will look at four of them.

1. Using the latest technology to improve your product/service

When we think of innovation, we often think of new technologies. While they might be impressive, we should not use new technologies just because they are available. It is important to consider how the technology can improve our product/service and make a difference to our customer. Companies that produce cars, toiletries, household appliances, etc. often have a large R&D department to work on making their products better.

2. Responding to customer demands by changing what is on offer

By listening to customer feedback, we can get their opinions on how we are doing and find out about what it is that they want. We also need to be aware of changes in customer demands and keep up with the times. When fast-food restaurant McDonald's realised that the market wanted healthier choices, they introduced fruit and salads, while removing the 'super-size' option from their menus.

The Habits of Highly Effective English Communicators

Innovation in business

NASA has given SpaceX an $843 million contract to build the vehicle that will help to destroy the International Space Station (ISS).

Space X, a company that's controlled by Elon Musk, will build the vehicle but the mission will be led by NASA.

The ISS was launched in 1998 and it's likely that it will have to be removed from space in the next few years.

The station is operated by space agencies from the US, Europe, Japan, Canada and Russia. All the countries involved have said they'll operate the station until 2030 except Russia, which has said it will operate it until 2028.

Teams of astronauts have been living in the space station since 2000. During that time, they have done more than 3,300 experiments in space.

It's expected that the SpaceX vehicle will pull the ISS through space before landing it in the sea. Both are likely to break apart as they re-enter Earth's atmosphere.

NASA said that it will be focusing on "commercially owned space destinations closer to home" as life on the ISS comes to an end.

The contract is seen as another vote of confidence for the company that Musk founded in 2002.

But experts say it won't be easy bringing such a large space station back to Earth safely.

Meghan Bartels from Scientific American said it will be a "delicate" challenge.

She said it took 42 different launches to send the ISS into space, where it was put together in orbit.

She added: "The orbiting laboratory contains about as much internal space as a six-bedroom house spread over an area the size of a football field," and that it weighs almost as much as three blue whales.

It's not yet known what the vehicle will look like or exactly when the mission will take place.