On this channel I'm having conversations with interesting German learners at different proficiency levels (A2, B1, B2,..).

Talkin' Deutsch

¿Te gusta la historia de las lenguas? Muchas lenguas tienen femenino, masculino y neutro. El español tiene algunas palabras que vienen del género neutro. Te lo cuento aquí. 

Curiosidades sobre el español y su cultura

El latín y el género neutro en español

En esta lección no aprendemos gramática nueva, pero practicamos las cosas más importantes de las tres primeras clases. -Verbos regulares -Preposiciones -Preguntas -Vocabulario básico. Escucha y repite las siguientes frases. Escribe en un papel las frases ¿Comprendes todo? ¿Quieres la transcripción? ¡Contacta conmigo! :)

A1.1. Español básico para principantes. 

Clase 4. Frases simples 4.

In this podcast you will know some reasons why Colombia does not have
 the four climatic seasons.

Remember that I teach Spanish on italki, you can book a class for more information you can look at it on my profile :)

Colombia

Por qué en Colombia no hay cuatro estaciones como en otros países

This episode introduces three idioms that use the word beans. Listen to the examples to hear how to use them. Please send me a message if you would like a copy of the audio script.

Idiom Corner

Beans

这里是one minute Chinese, 中文一分钟，每天都不同！ 我们一起听一分钟，想一分钟，说一分钟，今天的话题，中国人的开门七件事。
在中国，有句俗话说：开门七件事，柴米油盐酱醋茶（chai2 mi3 you2 yan2 jiang4 cu4 cha2, lit. Firewood,rice,oil,salt,vinegar,soy and tea）。柴是柴火，有了他就可以生火取暖，做饭。米就是大米这些粮食(liang2shi, grain)，油和盐，都是为了做饭可以更香，酱和醋呢，是中国人发明的调料(tiao2liao4,flavouring)，他们发现细菌(xi4jun1,germ)和粮食在一起，发酵(fa1jiao4,ferment)后，会变成各种好吃的东西。有了他们，中国菜才会那么好吃。 最后一样，茶，过去，这可是只有客人来了才能拿出来的东西，不便宜的。回头一看，中国人早上起床打开门最重要的七件事，全部都和吃有关系，看来吃是中国非常重要的文化了。 

One minute Chinese

The first 7 things of Chinese people. 中国人开门七件事。

CHISTES MEXICANOS

UN HOMBRE CÍNICO.

Fewer young people in the US are vaping this year than at any point in the last decade, government officials have reported.

The latest survey numbers show the teen vaping rate fell to under 6% this year, down from 7.7% in 2023. More than 1.6 million students aged between 11 and 18 reported vaping in the previous month — about one-third the number in 2019, when underage vaping peaked.

Brian King from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said the decline was good news but added: "There's clearly more work to do to further reduce youth use."

It is illegal for a retailer to sell any tobacco product to anyone aged under 21.

King and other officials noted that the drop in vaping hasn't led to an increase in the use of other tobacco industry products, such as nicotine pouches.

Sales of small, flavored pouches like Zyn have increased among adults. The pouches come in flavors like mint and cinnamon and slowly release nicotine when placed behind the lips. This year's US survey shows 1.8% of teens are using them, which is about the same percentage as last year.

The survey involved more than 29,000 students, who completed an online questionnaire in the spring.

Officials from the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attributed the big drop in vaping to recent age restrictions and more aggressive enforcement against retailers and manufacturers, including Chinese vaping companies who have sold their e-cigarettes illegally in the US for years.

Use of the most popular e-cigarette among teens, Elf Bar, fell 36% in the wake of FDA warning letters to stores and distributors selling the brightly colored vapes, which come in flavors like watermelon ice and peach mango.

Nearly 90% of the students who vape used flavored products, with fruit flavors the most popular.

In 2020, FDA regulators banned fruit and candy flavors from reusable e-cigarettes like Juul. 