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Teacher Michelle's Learn English with Story

                  秋天
天气凉了，树叶黄了。
一片片叶子从树上落下来。 
天空那么蓝，那么高。
一群大雁往南飞，一会儿排成个“人”字，一会儿排成个“一”字。
啊！秋天来了！ 

生词words：
qiū  qì  le  shù   yè    piàn    dà     fēi   huì   gè
秋   气  了  树     叶      片       大     飞    会      个

Iris读课本—— Original Chinese Textbook Reading（first to third grade）

课文一：秋天  Text 1: Autumn

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1.城市还是乡村

This short episode highlights phrases that mean the same thing. It will be highlighting the context in which these words can be used

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Phrases that mean the same thing

아들! 엄마 칼슘 보충제 좀 사줄 수 있어?
儿子! 可不可以帮妈买点儿补钙品啊? 

그럼요, 또 필요한 것 있으시면 언제든지 저에게 말해주세요.
当然可以, 还需要什么随时跟我说。

그럼, 사는 김에 종합 비타민도 좀 사줘.
那么, 顺便再给我买个综合维生素吧。 

네, 오늘 주문하면 내일이나 모레 받을 수 있을 거예요.
行, 今天下单的话, 估计明天或者后天能收到。 

칼슘 보충제 补钙品
언제든지, 언제나 随时
-하는 김에 顺便
종합 비타민 综合维生素

[YOON] 1분 한국어

아들! 엄마 칼슘 보충제 좀 사줄 수 있어? 儿子! 可不可以帮妈买点儿补钙品啊? 

みなさん、こんにちは。
今日の東京は久しぶりの雨です。少しうれしいです。暑いジリジリと照り付ける太陽から少し解放（かいほう）された感じです。
今日は、朝から空はどんよりとした黒い雲に覆（おお）われていて、少し前から、ぽたぽたと雨が降り始めました。今はしとしとと雨がふっている感じです。だんだんと雨足（あまあし）が強くなってくるかもしれません。
娘が帰ってくる時間帯に、ざあざあと激しく雨が降らなければいいのですが。
雨がふると、湿度が高くなり、むしむし、じめじめとしてきます。
まあ、しょうがないですね。

先週末、娘は塾のテストでした。小学4年生です。でも東京の子供の多くは、塾へ通っています。
で、帰るなり「国語が難しかった。しかも慣用句！！『うそをつく友人とは手を（なんて）』いうの」って。
あー、もう「うそをつく友だちとは『関わらない』ってことだよ。『手をきる』っていうんだよ」といいながら、娘と二人で慣用句の勉強をしました。
手を使う慣用句、たくさんあるんですよ。
例えば、「困っている人に『手を出す』」と言えば「助けることです」。ついつい子供のことには手を出してしまう私です。過保護（かほご）すぎるとよく注意されています。
ほかにも色々ありますが、「めんどくさいので『手をぬく』」というと、適当にやることです。
息子は、常に学校の先生や私含め親から「手をぬかない」「手をぬきすぎ」「もっとまじめにやりなさい」って怒（おこ）られています。
一方で娘は、とてもまじめな性格なので、「もう少し手をぬいていいんだよ」と言いうほどです。

今日はオノマトペと「手」を使った慣用句をたくさん使ってみました。

オノマトペ：
ジリジリ
しとしと
ざあざあ
むしむし
じめじめ

手を使った慣用句
手をきる
手を出す
手をぬく


「のぞみ」の日記

雨（オノマトペ）

An online quiz might tell you that you're more outgoing if you like hip-hop, or that you're more conservative if you like classical music.

But is it true?

A number of studies have looked into this over the years.

For example, a 2010 study from Scotland's Heriot-Watt University asked over 36,000 people about 104 different types of music from around the world.

It found some connection between people's personalities and their musical tastes — in particular, creative people were more likely to enjoy classical music.

However, connections for other personality types weren't so strong. Instead, people's gender, income and age had more connection to their musical taste — with older people more likely to enjoy folk and jazz, and less likely to enjoy dance music, for example.

In fact, when researchers in Germany compared the results of 30 different studies in 2017, they found nearly no connection between musical taste and personality. Instead, they noted that age seemed to be the most important factor — since people tend to have the strongest connection to the music they heard as teens and young adults.

However, these results haven't satisfied everybody.

In 2022, for example, researchers in Israel, the UK and the US looked at data from nearly 360,000 people across six continents. And they said they did find connections between music and personality.

Creative people were again found to prefer classical music — as well as jazz, opera and dance music. Outgoing people preferred things like hip-hop and reggae. And empathetic people preferred country and gospel — as well as pop.

So that's it, right?

Well, not exactly.

Other studies have found different results — for example, that empathetic people prefer gentle music like soft rock and R&B, or that outgoing people enjoy folk and country.

So what does your taste in music say about you?

Well, it depends on which study you trust — and it might just tell people how old you are!