聊东西文化，也聊很多东西！
第八期，我们来聊一聊要不要和外国人谈恋爱。你有什么样的经验？

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008. 要和外国人谈恋爱吗？Will you date a foreigner? - ttmiChinese

听神话故事 - 精卫填海，回答问题。
用简单的故事练习自己的听力

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听力测试

First we subtract accent, and then we add. I cover how to take on the American sound.

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Accent Acquisition 

8_Plastik – SEGEN ODER FLUCH?

(A)  In den 60er Jahren hielt Plastik Einzug in den Alltag der Menschen. Hatte man eine Tragetasche aus Plastik ergattert, war man glücklich. Sie war HALTBAR, leicht, wasserdicht und man bekam sie – es war einfach unglaublich – kostenlos im Supermarkt. 
(B)   In den 80er Jahren begann sich das öffentliche Bewusstsein zu ändern. Plötzlich HIESS ES, dass Plastik ein GEFÄHRLICHES Umweltproblem darstellte. Die Menschen begannen sich zu fragen, was eigentlich mit dem leeren Joghurtbecher passierte, nachdem man ihn in die Mülltonne geworfen hatte. 
(C)   Heute wissen wir, dass Plastik BEI ALLER NÜTZLICHKEIT ein problematisches Material ist. Verbrennen wir es, erzeugen wir GIFTIGE Dämpfe. Werfen wir es auf die Müllhalde, dann liegt es dort Hunderte von Jahren bis es zerfällt. Es kann auch im Ozean enden, wo Meerestiere es verschlucken und QUALVOLL daran sterben. Recycling ist auch eine Möglichkeit, allerdings ist das aufwendig und teuer.
(D)   Es existieren einige vielversprechende neue Methoden zur Lösung des Problems. Die beste Idee ist aber, Plastik nur dann zu verwenden, wenn man es wirklich braucht.


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8_Plastik - Segen oder Fluch

Word final devoicing

Voiced consonants at the end of words are pronounced voiceless. 

We write:               We say:
Чехов                      Чехо[ ф ] 
джаз                        джа[ с ] 
гараж                      гара[ ш ] 
сноб                        сно[ п ] 
маркетинг              маркетин[ к ] 
Мадрид                   Мадри[ т ]

Voiced-voiceless assimilation 

When voiced and voiceless consonants are adjacent to each other, the nature of the second consonant dictates the nature of the first. To put it more succinctly, when two consonants go walking, the second one does the talking: 

в Киеве               [ф К]иеве 
субтитры            су[пт]итры 

 voiceless + voiced voiced + voiced 
 
 баскетбол          баске[дб]ол 

 Питсбург            Пи[дзб]ург 

 вас зовут             ва[ з з ]овут 

Russian Pronunciation wilth Lubov

Basics. Word Final Devoicing and Voiced-Voiceless Assimilation. Listen and Repeat.

In this short episode, you will learn the meaning of  {  Typical } 

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Lesson 3 word 1 (  Typical ) 

The Democratic vice president Kamala Harris began the first — and possibly last — TV debate before the US presidential election with a power move, walking across the stage to shake Donald Trump's hand.

The two candidates had never met before the September 10 debate in Philadelphia, aired by ABC News.

"Let's have a good debate," Harris said.

"Nice to see you. Have fun," the former Republican president responded.

The exchange set the tone for the 90-minute debate to come: Harris controlled the conversation at times, tackling Trump on economic policy, crime, abortion rights, his refusal to concede his 2020 election loss and even his performance at his rallies.

Trump was measured at the start but grew more annoyed as the night went on.

Harris took the fight to Trump in a way that Joe Biden could not.

"You did in fact lose that election," Harris said of the 2020 race that Trump lost to Biden but still insists he won. "Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people," she said, referring to Biden's winning vote total.

A smiling Harris frequently shifted her message from Trump back to the American people.

"You will not hear him talk about your needs, your dreams and your needs and your desires," Harris said. "And I'll tell you, I believe you deserve a president who actually puts you first."

Trump was often on the defense, but he did push the main message of his campaign: inflation and immigration are causing Americans to suffer.

As he often does in his rallies and on social media, he made several false or unproven claims about migrants — including a debunked rumor that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are hunting and eating pets. Officials in Springfield say they have no evidence of this happening.

"Talk about extreme," Harris said after Trump talked about dogs and cats being eaten.

Trump also tied Harris to Biden, falsely claiming the Biden-Harris administration caused the "worst inflation" the country has had.

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Trump and Harris Face Off in Presidential Debate

Aviator Races to Photograph the World's Glaciers
Garrett Fisher is traveling the world in his little blue-white "Super Cub" airplane, as he tries to document every remaining glacier on Earth.

The 41-year-old Fisher does it for a simple reason: "Because I love them."

However, he does it for another purpose too — the climate is changing, and the planet's glaciers are melting. Fisher believes documenting, archiving, and remembering these changes is important.

According to Fisher, the melting glaciers are the first indication that we're losing something because of climate change. "In 100 or 200 years, most of them will be gone," he says.

That's why Fisher is building an archive of his glacier photos. He believes any record he makes before the glaciers melt could be very valuable to future generations.

In 2021, Fisher started the Global Glacier Initiative, an organization to support and show his work, and he plans to open his archive to the public for research.

Many glaciers are hard to get to or photograph — so Fisher has to make some dangerous journeys. Why does he do it?

He's looking for the perfect picture; one so beautiful it can make people and policymakers act. And if one image isn't enough, then maybe a whole archive will make people come and look, get close and pay attention.

"We can live without [glaciers]. We will live without them," Fisher says. "However, it hurts us to lose them."