Eavesdrop on authentic conversations like if you were in a café, on the streets, or any other place in a Spanish-speaking country.

Thank you for listening!

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Hello friends! Today in our Farsi podcast, we’re stepping up to an intermediate level and learning new words and sentences together. First, we’ll improve our social conversations with phrases like “I’m happy you’re here” and “What’s up?” Then, we’ll introduce key vocabulary such as “restaurant,” “library,” and “hospital" and make some sentences.

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Farsi with Ali

intermediate Farsi vocabulary

Anyone visiting Paris for this summer's Olympic Games may have to pay a little more than usual for hotels, trains and food and drink.

But here's one thing that won't cost them anything: a ride in a flying taxi.

That's right: it might sound like the most expensive way to get around, but it has been announced that visitors will be able to take new electric-powered flying taxis without paying.

They're called flying taxis, but if you're hoping for a car with wings you might be disappointed! They look like small helicopters, but with a "loop" on top with 18 small rotors instead of one large set of blades.

In Paris, they can land on a special "vertiport" — a place for vertical takeoff and landing — on the River Seine.

Made by a German company called Volocopter, the taxis can take one person at a time from the Seine, close to Austerlitz train station, to four places around Paris, including two airports.

The trips are free because the flights are being called "demonstrations" — since the taxis have not yet been certified by the European Union's Aviation Safety Agency.

There is also a limit of two flights per hour between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m, and a limit of 900 flights over the whole year.

This has been called a "trial period" for the taxis, but some people in Paris are unhappy that they're coming at all.

They're worried about the taxis' environmental impact, and the noise they might make.

Volocopter says its taxis are much quieter than normal helicopters, as well as being very safe and better for the planet. In future, the company hopes to make larger taxis that could also be used as flying ambulances.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Paris Welcomes Flying Taxis for Olympic Games

¡FELIZ AÑO NUEVO! En este episodio te hago un resumen rápido del primer día del año en España. 
¡Todo lo mejor para el año!


Blanca to go 

Especial Navidad 7-Año Nuevo 

Poema 18, del libro Espantapájaros (1932), de Oliverio Girondo


Llorar a lágrima viva. Llorar a chorros. Llorar la digestión. Llorar el sueño. Llorar ante las puertas y los puertos. Llorar de amabilidad y de amarillo.

Abrir las canillas, las compuertas del llanto. Empaparnos el alma, la camiseta. Inundar las veredas y los paseos, y salvarnos, a nado, de nuestro llanto.

Asistir a los cursos de antropología, llorando. Festejar los cumpleaños familiares, llorando. Atravesar el África, llorando. Llorar como un cacuy, como un cocodrilo… si es verdad que los cacuyes y los cocodrilos no dejan nunca de llorar.

Llorarlo todo, pero llorarlo bien. Llorarlo con la nariz, con las rodillas. Llorarlo por el ombligo, por la boca.

Llorar de amor, de hastío, de alegría. Llorar de frac, de flato, de flacura. Llorar improvisando, de memoria. ¡Llorar todo el insomnio y todo el día!


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Sonidos de Buenos Aires: poema de Oliverio Girondo

Comentario sobre la película alemana "El salón de profesores" (2023), dirigida por Ilker Çatak y protagonizada por Leonie Benesch.

El kinetoscopio

Episodio 6: El salón de profesores

夏は好きです。でも、湿度は嫌いです。
湿度が好きな人、いますか？
I like summer. But I don't like humidity. Who likes humidity?

Plain Japanese Podcast やさしい にほんご ポッドキャスト

#14 湿度 Humidity

EP 35 Learn Thai _ How to say _Yes_ vs _No_ in Thai _ ใช่ vs ไม่ใช่ #learnthai #Thai #Speakthai #TALKTHAI

Thai for Everyone with Kru Robert

In questo breve racconto, parlerò della mia città natale, Civitanova Marche, che si trova nelle Marche e si affaccia sul mare Adriatico. Il livello consigliato per questo podcast è B2-C2.