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Many people always feel like their English speaking ability is not improving and often say they need to improve their confidence. Well, in this video I share a practice you could do in the comfort of your home. 

Language Bootcamp

How To Talk about Anything Confidently

摆烂 (bǎi làn) literally means “to let things rot” or “to give up.” It’s a slang term used to describe a passive attitude when someone gives up trying to fix a difficult situation and just lets it go.

Learn Chinese with Hot Topics

摆烂 (bǎi làn)

These days, there is a rise of women pursuing their own success in career and in my country there are women reaching not just millionaire status but also billionaire status. What does it take for a man to be with these kinds of women.

FLO TALKS 

What does it take for a man to be with a high value woman?

There are many types of dairy alternatives on the market today, often made from things like nuts and soybeans.

But have you heard they're now making butter from air?

A US startup called Savor is working on a range of dairy alternatives made using something that exists all around us: carbon.

Fats are made from chains of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Savor's process involves taking carbon — from, say, carbon dioxide — and adding heat and hydrogen to create chains that are combined with oxygen from air.

This results in fat molecules, like the ones found in dairy and other animal products.

Now, regular butter is about 80% fat — the rest is mostly water. So to make butter from its synthetic fat, Savor just adds water, as well as an emulsifier that keeps the liquids from separating, and rosemary oil for flavor and beta carotene for color.

What does it taste like?

"I couldn't believe I wasn't eating real butter," Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote in a blog post earlier this year. Gates is one of Savor's investors.

He wrote that "it tastes really good — like the real thing, because chemically it is."

Savor has already run informal taste tests with small groups of people, and is working to get regulatory approval for its product in the US.

But why butter?

A 2021 study estimated that food production makes up about 35% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions — and Savor estimates that about 7% of greenhouse gas emissions are just from producing fat.

But Savor's process, Gates wrote, doesn't release any greenhouse gases. He added that it uses no farmland and "less than a thousandth of the water that traditional agriculture does."

Savor is focusing on butter to start with partly because its high price point makes it easier to compete on cost. But the startup later hopes to develop other products like milk, ice cream, cheese — even meat.





Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

US Startup Makes Butter from Carbon Dioxide

In this chapter I introduce the podcast and give some thoughts to the degree of difficulty of Spanish. Is Spanish easy to learn? It's an "accessible" language for those who learn it as a second language? 

Duration: 10 minutes 

En este capítulo presento el podcast y reflexiono sobre el grado de dificultad del idioma español. ¿El español es un idioma fácil de aprender? ¿Es un idioma "accesible para quienes lo aprenden como segunda lengua?

Duración: 10 minutos. 

Español con voz

¿El español es un idioma fácil de aprender?

In this episode we are going to listen to a conversation abour siblings. Let's start now!
A：你家就你一个孩子啊？

B：不是啊，我有个妹妹呢。

A：好巧啊，我也有个妹妹。你妹妹多大了？

B：我妹妹十六岁，比我小三岁呢。你妹妹呢？

A：哦，我妹妹也比我小三岁。她俩都十六啊。咱们班同学大部分都有兄弟姐妹啊。

B：嗯，咱们班同岁的好像独生子女比较少呢。

A：嗯，我觉得有兄弟姐妹挺好的。

B：我也是这么觉得呢。
A  ： nǐ jiā jiù nǐ yí ɡè hái zi ā ？  

B： bú shì ā ， wǒ yǒu ɡè mèi mei ne 。  

A： hǎo qiǎo ā ， wǒ yě yǒu ɡè mèi mei 。 nǐ mèi mei duō dà le ？  

B： wǒ mèi mei shí liù suì ， bǐ wǒ xiǎo sān suì ne 。 nǐ mèi mei ne ？
  
A： ò ， wǒ mèi mei yě bǐ wǒ xiǎo sān suì 。 tā liǎnɡ dōu shí liù ā 。 zán men bān tónɡ xué dà bù fen dōu yǒu xiōnɡ di jiě mèi ā 。  

B： èn ， zán men bān tónɡ suì de hǎo xiànɡ dú shēnɡ zǐ nǚ bǐ jiào shǎo ne 。  

A： èn ， wǒ jué dé yǒu xiōnɡ di jiě mèi tǐnɡ hǎo de 。 

B： wǒ yě shì zhè me jué dé ne 。 


Story Chinese

有兄弟姐妹挺好的 having siblings is good(elementary level)

Don't do this if want to be a better speaker!!!

I started off by wanted to talk about my previous podcast - One Minute Challenge - Birthdays. 

I wanted to give my own answer to my own questions for you to see how to develop a story but...

I got carried away and started to share things that are of INCREDIBLE importance ..

Over 50 years of teaching combined in that podcast so you'll gain a lot.

Be prepared for unexpected as it'll blow you away.

To Your Success!

The Habits of Highly Effective English Communicators

Don't do this if want to be a better speaker!!!

I am talking about my favorite Nepali food. Which is Momo & Dal Bhat.