在中国，为了表示对长辈的尊重，是不可以直呼其名的，有时候连同音字都要避免使用。阿九的儿媳是个非常聪明且孝顺的人，为了表示对阿九的尊重，她从来不说“九”，甚至连“jiu”的同音字也不说。这一天，来了两位老人，他们要考验阿九的儿媳是否真的可以不说“jiu”这个音……

Learning Chinese culture with Miss Zhang

汉字小故事-同音词-《阿九的故事》

Zoznámte sa s príbehom Štefana Baniča, slovenského vynálezcu padáka. Tento podcast, nahovorený pomaly a jednoduchou slovenčinou, je ideálny pre študentov. Vypočujte si zaujímavý skutočný príbeh a zlepšite svoju slovenčinu!

Learn Slovak Through Stories

Príbeh slávneho Slováka o ktorom ste nikdy nepočuli

Sometimes Simplifying Life helps us to know what are the most important things for us, what were thought to be, but not...

Blabla Chinese 

07. Simplifying Life 断舍离

1. One second
2. It depends
3. Really?
4. Ok, then
5. Over there
6. Got you 
7. Forget it / Never mind
8. You ok?
9. Sorry?
10. Sounds good
11. Sure
12.  We’ll see
Please tell me in the comments if you’ve passed this challenge or not

chinesewithserana

Can you translate these everyday English phrases into Chinese?

Today I'm talking about evening shower, which we call it "Yuudachi".
It is heavy rain with thunder. It suddenly comes and suprises us.
I'll try to express yuudachi by its sounds.  Please listen to today's podcast! Thank you!

回　ポッドキャストをアップしてから　ちょっとご無沙汰してしまいました。
みなさん、お元気でしたか？
夏休みは　どこかに旅行にいきましたか？

私は特にどこかに行くということもありませんでした。
したことといえば、朝５時半からのウオーキングとラジオ体操。それから　週１，２回の水泳ぐらいです。少しは運動不足を解消できたのではないかと思います。

ところで、私の住んでいる関西エリアでは　お盆を過ぎてから、毎日のように夕立がありました。今日が８月２７日ですから、かれこれ１週間ほど　毎日です。
夕立とは　夕方に降る雨のことです。
だいたい夏の夕方に、雷とともに降り出す雨です。
どんな感じかというと、まず、空に黒く分厚い雲があらわれ、小さくごろごろごろごろと雷の音が聞こえ始めます。その雷の音が少しずつ近づき、だんだん音が大きくなってきます。
しばらく、ごろごろと音が続いた後に、ポツ、ポツっと小さな雨粒が　降ってきます。
このぐらいの間に屋根があるところに　逃げなければいけません。
そして、５分もすると、ザアーっといっきに　シャワーを全開にしたように雨が降り出します。
そして、ピカっと空が光ったかと思うと、ものすごい大きな音の雷が　バリバリバリ　とすぐ近くで鳴ったりします。正直、めちゃくちゃ怖いです。
テレビをつけていると、雷の影響を受けて　映像がぐにゃぐにゃと変にゆがんだりすることもあります。
では、夕立を音で最初から表現します。
ごろごろ　ごろごろ
ポツ　ポツ　　　　ポツ　ポツ
ごろごろごろごろごろ
ポツポツポツポツポ
ぴかっ！
ごろごろ！
ザアー
ぴか！
バリバリバリバリ
ざあー！！！！
夕立の音でした。みなさんも急な雨と雷には気を付けてくださいね。　



やさしい日本語（にほんご）

夕立（ゆうだち）evening shower

it's all Greek to me!

Verb: to have (past) 

New York is known for its yellow taxis. They're everywhere: pushing through the busy streets like bees.

They are a symbol of the city and there are more than 13,500 of them buzzing around the "Big Apple."

That's a lot of taxis. But there are some other things buzzing around the city and they aren't always quite so easy to see — millionaires.

The city of yellow taxis is also the city of millionaires, and according to a new report there are about 26 times more millionaires in New York than there are taxis!

The 2024 World's Wealthiest Cities report, by investment company Henley and Partners, says New York has almost 350,000 millionaires.

That number grew by 48% between 2013 and 2023, and there are also 60 billionaires in the city.

But like so many wealthy cities, the gap between the rich and the poor in New York is big, and it's getting bigger.

According to 2023 data, the top 20% of earners in the city make almost six times as much as the bottom 20% of earners.

New York is also the world's second most expensive city to live in.

There are 11 US cities in the top 50 wealthiest cities in the world.

The Bay Area, which includes San Francisco and California's tech area of Silicon Valley is second in the list. More than 300,000 millionaires live there, along with 68 billionaires.

Tokyo is third with 298,000 millionaires, although the Japanese capital has seen a small decrease in the number of millionaires over the last 10 years.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

The Big Golden Apple: The World's Richest City

In today's podcast, I talk about shadowing and it's importance as well as giving some demonstrations of how you can join the words together to sound better. 

I also talk about the chef Gordon Ramsay who made a very strange pizza as well as our Prime Minister who got into trouble by refusing the #Englishbreakfast when it was offered to him. 


Teacher Joseph's Podcast

Accent Reduction: Shadowing

I order a decaf latte and an egg mayo sandwich. It is interesting that the brown bread is still "frozen" so she only has white bread available. That says a lot about how we treat food here.