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Es la True

Che cosa facciamo noi italiani dopo il Natale?
Fra il natale e il capodanno?
Venite a scoprirlo in questo free podcast.

Buone Feste a tutti voi e alle vostre persone care.

Vi aspetto alle mie lezioni!
Luca Sensei

Brief vocabulary:
Natale = Christmas
Vigilia di Natale = Christmas eve
Capodanno, anno nuovo, fine anno = New year
Veglione = dinner parties in clubs
La befana wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befana
Spumante, prosecco = sparkling wine usually dry
Moscato = sweet sparkling wine for dessert during Christmas and New Year ONLY!


I Podcast Secondo San Luca

Cosa fanno gli italiani dopo Natale?

皆さんは、生まれ変わったら何になりたいですか？
多くの人は人間と答えるでしょうか。
今回は、フミが生まれ変わったらなりたい生き物について話します。

What would you want to be if you could be born again?
Most people would answer «human»?
This time, Fumi talks about what would he want to be in the next life.

♤ キーワード 
・生まれ変わる（うまれかわる：be born again）
・深海（しんかい：deep sea） 
・生態（せいたい：ecology）
・今世（こんせ：this life）
・徳を積む（とくをつむ：accumulate good karma）

♧ 理解度チェッククイズ 
1. フミが生まれ変わったらなりたい生き物は？ 
2. それになりたい理由は？

♢ 前回のクイズの答え
1. 今年の立冬は何月何日？
→ 11月7日
2. アヤが冬の訪れを感じるのはどんなとき？ 
→ スーパーに鍋の素が並び始めたとき

BGM special thanks：MusMus

アヤさんとフミさんの日本語雑談（Aya and Fumi’s Japanese Chit-Chat）

Episode 18：生まれ変わったら？

Explores the ways these two modal verbs are the same in some ways and different in other ways.

The English Toolbox

Must vs. Have to

Accidents happen, let's find out how Herman Sherman dealt with one in this week's story.

Comprehension Questions:
- Where was the man injured?
- How serious was his injury?
- What was he doing when he was injured?
- What did Sherman say was the only problem? 
- What did he refuse?
- What happened to the employee?

Wyn's Way to English

Wyn's Way to English - Listening Practice "Man Injured at a fast food place"

Français avec Cathy

épisode numéro 1  " Le guide du routard "

 Amir-Hushang Ebtehaj AKA  A.H.Saye. A Contemporary Iranian poet who recently passed away at the age of 94, Aug 10, 2022. 
امیر هوشنگ ابتهاج ملقب به سایه. شاعر معاصر فارسی که در سن 94 سالگی در 10 آگوست 2022 چشم از جهان فرو بست. 

متن اصلی شعر هرگز:
 
خانه دلتنگِ غروبی خفه بود
مثلِ امروز که تنگ است دلم
پدرم گفت چراغ
و شب از شب پُر شد
من به خود گفتم یک روز گذشت
مادرم آه کشید؛
«زود بر خواهد گشت.»
ابری آهسته به چشمم لغزید
و سپس خوابم برد
که گمان داشت که هست این همه درد
در کمینِ دلِ آن کودکِ خُرد
آری، آن روز چو می رفت کسی
داشتم آمدنش را باور
من نمی دانستم
معنیِ «هرگز» را
تو چرا بازنگشتی دیگر؟
آه ای واژه ی شوم
خو نکرده ست دلم با تو هنوز
من پس از این همه سال
چشم دارم در راه
که بیایند عزیزانم، آه

the poem's English translation 

The home was like a suffocated sunset,
like today that I miss you,
my father said light and then suddenly the night became full of night (darkness),
I said to myself one day passed,
my mother sighed "she'll come come back soon",
a cloud slowly slipped into my eyes and then I fell sleep,
who would've thought there were such pains in the ambush of the heart of that poor child?
in those days if anyone left me, I believed they'd come back,
I did not know the meaning of "never"... why didn't you come back, though?,
oh ominous word (never),
my heart isn't used to you yet,
after all these years,
my eyes are still on the way to see my loved ones.

Farsi (Persian) pods

Amir-Hushang Ebtehaj AKA  A.H.Saye

Book my class!  https://teach.italki.com/teacher/1947582
Welcome back to another episode of Streetwise English podcast. My name is Carl. Today I want to talk about breaking the ice. So breaking the ice means meeting someone new that you don't know for the first time. So when you go to a party or you go to a new workplace or a new school, you're always going to have the occasion where you need to meet people for the very first time.


And sometimes this can be awkward and you can feel embarrassed about talking to someone if you don't know them and they don't know you and you're not friends yet. So I just wanted to talk really briefly about some advice that I have for you to meet people for the first time in any environment. And this is especially true if you are not a native speaker of their language.


So the first tip I have is to simply smile. Make your face look friendly and welcoming and give eye contact to the person that you want to talk to. It sounds really simple and obvious, but if you missed this step um, you know, this is a very important step and this is half the battle. So make sure that you look approachable yourself and you smile And you might even make a slight hand gesture, like, uh, a mini wave of some sort.  And the next thing is to simply say hello.


You don't have to come up with any kind of clever saying or pick up line or joke just simply saying hello. And you can see if the other person is interested in having a conversation with you.


And another tip is that you can be observant of what the person looks like or what clothes they're wearing and use that as a clue um, to tell you about who they are. For example, if the person is wearing very nice running shoes you kind of have the idea that this person likes to run or this person may be a runner or if you notice that the person has, um, cauliflower ears, you know, scarred ears from wrestling OK, this guy is probably a fighter. (please subscribe to the Streetwise English Podcast)



