Today we're talking about an idiom that you can use to say that you understand something really well and that you have a detailed knowledge of it. This is the idiom, to know something like the back of your hand. I hope you find it useful!

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How well do you know your hands?

这儿的中国菜地道吗？
你的口味怎么样？
我爱吃甜的，请多放糖。
我们要两碗米饭，谢谢。

zhè ér de zhōnɡ ɡuó cài dì dào mɑ ？ 
nǐ de kǒu wèi zěn me yànɡ ？ 
wǒ ài chī tián de ， qǐnɡ duō fànɡ tánɡ 。 
wǒ men yào liǎnɡ wǎn mǐ fàn ， xiè xiè 。

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Daniel se réveille à l’hôtel. En sortant de sa chambre, il voit un camion. Le camion appartient au
restaurant « La Ratatouille folle ». Daniel trouve le transporteur. Il lui demande s’il peut voyager à l’intérieur du camion qui va à Marseille. Le transporteur lui dit oui. A l’intérieur du camion il se
retrouve avec un vieil homme. Lui aussi va à Marseille. Il veut retrouver son fils, Arnaud. L’homme est le père de l’ami de Daniel, Arnaud.

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Books are there to give you concepts and sentence structures, as well as ideas but I always caution students that overdoing textbook English will make you sound robotic during a normal conversation. You can memorize all the advanced vocabulary but when you talk to people in a social setting, it is a different matter. You will sound like someone reading something.

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In this episode we'll learn a Internet word-躺平。
Do it just mean lying flat on the ground? Let's find out!

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Very few textbooks teach 'euphemisms', but they're an essential part of English life. An euphemism is a mild or indirect word / expression that takes the place of something that is considered too blunt when referring to something embarrassing. For example, the phrase 'a correctional facility' is an idiom that we use instead of the word 'prison'. Or we say that a person is 'big boned', instead of the word 'fat'. So the next time you hear somebody saying that they have to 'powder their nose', or you learn that someone has a 'negative cash flow', use this podcast to know exactly what they mean. 
* By the way, have you ever wondered where the expression 'a bucket list' comes from? Well it comes from the euphemism 'to kick the bucket', which means 'to die'. Your bucket list is the list of all the things you want to do before you 'kick the bucket'. On my bucket list is to learn how to play the guitar. What's on yours?

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we will use the pronouns in a simple sentence, so we will know more vocabulary like ..... teacher, doctor, student ... etc. 

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Today I will read out an article that I came across and found very interesting. Its an article by Chiara Leone-Ganado. It discusses three studies that show that we are less willing to help others when we do not get good sleep. I always talk about how sleep is connected to all aspects of health and wellness but who knew it could affect our sense of generosity?

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Script

おはようございます。

日本語だんだんポットキャストのゆかりです。
私はいま、トルコにいます。

トルコでは、毎日(まいにち)よく歩きます。

あたりまえですが、
今は車(くるま)をもっていません。
日本に住んでいたときは
車や電車(でんしゃ)をつかっていました。

今は毎日よく歩きます。

電車にも、のりますが・・

本当によく歩いています。

ちょっと大変(たいへん)なのが、
トルコは坂道(さかみち)がおおいことです。

ふつうの道とちがって、
とてもしんどいです。

トレーニングみたいです。

日本にも、坂道がおおい街(まち)がありますね。

たとえば、神戸(こうべ)や広島(ひろしま)などです。

神戸や広島に行ったことがある人は、

坂道におどろきませんでしたか？

あなたの住んでいるところはどうですか？

坂道がおおいですか？

では、今日も最後まで聞いてくれて、だんだん、です！
また明日。
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Today's Keywords

□坂道(さかみち)
hill road