My first pod, just to say hello and tell you what I am going to be doing here...I will be adding transcripts on my website when I finally get it up and running..

Kev's English Podcast

Kev's English Podcast: Episode 1, about me...

Making suggestions is an essential skill when you want to offer advice or ideas to someone. So, 
let's dive right in and explore these five useful ways to make suggestions.

And there you have it, five useful ways to make suggestions in English. Let's do a quick 
recap:
1. "How about…?" for proposing new ideas or alternatives.
2. "Why don’t you… ?" for offering suggestions to someone who's unsure.
3. "Maybe we should… ." for collaborative and friendly proposals.
4. "I’d recommend… ." for advice based on personal experience or expertise.
5. "Have you thought about… ?" for introducing new ideas or options.

Learn Persian with Kimiya - w/script 

"5 Ways to Make a Suggestion"

En este episodio hablamos acerca de la Coca-Cola: ¿Por qué culturalmente en México se consume mucho?, ¿Por qué nos gusta?, las consecuencias de consumirla en exceso, remedios caseros y una reflexión final.

Apapachando en Español

Episodio #5. La Coca-Cola en México

En este episodio estudiamos el verbo "creer" con varios ejemplos

Natural Spanish Fluency

5/100 CREER 🧠 Los 100 verbos más importantes en español

Listen to me reading a short news extract on why people are forced to leave their homes and seek to move to another country, as part of my Conversational English course 

Listen to English with Pip

Seeking asylum

Hoy me ha venido a la mente una escena que me ocurrió hace poco más de un año, quizás bastante más porque con la pandemia, el concepto del tiempo lo tenemos un poco nubloso. Resultó que cuando una vieja amiga valenciana me visitó a casa, al observar una foto mía, de hará poco más de tres años, que estaba en la puerta de la nevera, me dijo: “¡qué diferente estás en esa foto! no parece que seas tú”. Hoy, al abrir la nevera y volverla a ver, la voz de ella ha resonado en mis tímpanos y honestamente, por más que miro esa foto no puedo ver “eso” tan peculiar que ella vio de diferente en mí y que yo soy tan obtuso de seguir sin poder verlo.

AUDIO-ARTÍCULOS (Nivel B2-C1)

Oírse no ¡Escucharse sí!

الف  as in  آدم  /aadam/ = human
ب    as in  برادر /baraadar/ = brother
پ    as in  پدر   /pedar/   = father
ت    as in  ترس  /tars/   =fear
ث    as in   ثانیه  /sanie/  = second
ج     as in   جان  /jaan/  = life
چ     as in    چشم  /cheshm/  = eye
ح     as in   حس   /hes/   =feeling/sense
خ     as in    خشم /khashm/ =anger
د     as in    درس   /dars/ =lesson
ذ     as in    ذهن    /zehn/ = mind
ر      as in    راز     /raaz/ = secret
ز      as in   زن     /zan/  =woman
ژ      as in    ژرف  /zharf/  =  deep
س   as in    سفید  /sefid/ = white
ش   as in     شعر  /she'r/  =poem 
ص   as in     صبر  /sabr/ = patience
ض   as in     ضعف  /za'f/ = weakness
ط     as in     طلا     /talaa/ = gold
ظ     as in      ظریف  /zarif/ = fragile
ع       as in     عشق  /eshgh/= love
غ       as in     غم    /gham/ = sadness
ف     as in     فکر    /fekr/ = thought
ق      as in     قصه   /ghesse/ = story
ک      as in     کوه   /kooh/ = mountain
گ      as in     گرم   /garm/=  warm
ل      as in      لب    /lab/  = lip
م      as in      مادر  /maadar/ = mother
ن      as in      نفس  /nafas/ = breath
و      as in       وقت  /vaght/ = time
ه      as in       هوا   /havaa/ = air
ی      as in      یار     /yaar/ = friend


ث/ص/س = /S/ as in sense
ز/ذ/ظ/ض = /Z/ as in zebra
ط/ت         = /T/  as in tear
ح/ه            = /H/ as in hello
ق/غ           =  /GH/ as in [r] in French

Farsi (Persian) pods

Persian [Farsi] Alphabet

2分くらい⏳
こんにちは、なぎさです。
朝から、ずっと雨がふっているなーと思っていたら、梅雨入りが発表(はっぴょう)されました。

話したこと🗣
こんにちは、なぎさです。
6月6日、関東甲信地方で梅雨入りしたと発表されました。
梅雨は、「ばいう」ともいいます。梅雨は6月にたくさん雨がふることです。梅雨入りは、梅雨の季節に入ること、梅雨がはじまることです。
梅雨には雨がたくさんふります。せんたくもの🧺が乾(かわ)きません。こまります。
でも、梅雨の季節には、紫陽花(あじさい)と花菖蒲(はなしょうぶ)という花がさきます。どちらも、きれいな花です。
みなさんは、梅雨に何をしますか？
雨がふりますから、家の中で本を読んだり、勉強したりするのもいいかもしれません。
でも、逆に、お気に入りの傘(かさ)をもって、おでかけするのはどうでしょう？紫陽花や花菖蒲を見に行くのもいいと思います。
それでは、またね～。

なぎ先生の のんびり日本語

梅雨入り(つゆいり) しました！☔

As the US navigates what some experts have described as a loneliness epidemic, employers and employees across the country are trying to address what for many people is a lack of real friendships at work.

It's not a new thing, but remote work has only intensified the problem, says leadership expert Michael Bungay Stanier.

"People have this desire to be seen and be heard," Bungay Stanier says, but on video calls, the group gets right down to business rather than having the natural, informal interactions of a real room. It reduces people to "little heads in squares."

It's not easy to talk about this lack of friendship at work "because it feels like a shameful confession," Bungay Stanier says. But his clients are beginning to bring up the subject.

Awkward as it may be, these are conversations worth having, according to psychology professor Laurie Santos.

At-work friendships are good for employers, too. Santos says research shows that workplace friendships and a sense of belonging are vital to employees' happiness — and companies' success.

We assume that friendships at work are "a nice-to-have, not a need-to-have," she said.

But "maybe one of the reasons we're all so disengaged at work ... is that we're actively not investing in the thing that might matter the most for our happiness at work, which is our connection with other people," Santos said.

Some large companies began paying more attention to employee health long before the pandemic, often focusing on physical health.

Today, more employers are looking at ways to really improve people's mental health and well-being.

And experts say there is a lot that companies can do, even rethinking physical spaces in the offices with relationships in mind.

More than anything, remember the importance of everyday greetings at work — even if they make you a bit uncomfortable. A simple hello, Bungay Stanier says, could be the beginning of the end of loneliness.