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忘年会　1年間の苦労を忘れるためにする宴会のこと
私にとっての忘年会は、周りの人や無事に過ごせた1年への感謝の会です。
おいしい料理やおいしいお酒をたくさん食べます。
今年は3回忘年会をしました。一つは　第九を歌う会の忘年会、もう一つは中学時代の友だちとした忘年会、そして　３つめは　いつものメンバーとする忘年会。これは私の家でします。
会社員だったころの忘年会は、会社の人や取引先の人としていました。これは、1年間お世話になりました。仕事、大変でしたね。お疲れ様でした。来年もよろしくお願いしますという感じの忘年会でした。
今年はもう一つ、ちょっと違う「ぼうねんかい」がありました。それは、忘れる忘年会ではなく、望む「望年会（ぼうねんかい）」でした。来年はどんな年にしたいかという望みを話す会でした。その願いが叶ったとして話をする面白い会でした。

忘年会（ぼうねんかい）: Year-end party
宴会（えんかい）: Banquet / Party
苦労（くろう）: Hardship / Struggle / Effort
お世話になる（おせわになる）: Be indebted to / Be helped by / Be taken care of
感謝（かんしゃ）: Gratitude / Appreciation
ワイワイ: Cheerfully / With lively chatter / Excitedly
がやがや: Noisily / Clamorously / With bustling noise
接骨院（せっこついん）: Osteopathic clinic / Bone-setting clinic
居酒屋（いざかや）: Japanese-style pub / Izakaya
持ち寄り（もちより）: Potluck / Bring-your-own (items or food)
出席する（しゅっせきする）: Attend / Be present
取引先（とりひきさき）: Business partner / Client
～という感じで: In the way of ～ / With the feeling of ～ / Something like ～
親しく（したしく）: Closely / Intimately / In a friendly manner
望年会（ぼうねんかい）: "Hopeful year-end party" (A play on 忘年会 to focus on hope for the new year)
望み（のぞみ）: Hope / Wish / Desire
想像する（そうぞうする）: Imagine / Visualize
達成する（たっせいする）: Achieve / Accomplish
叶った（かなった）: Fulfilled / Came true

やさしい日本語（にほんご）

Episode74 忘年会（ぼうねんかい）Year-End-Party2024　　

This episode is about saying NUMBERS FROM 1 TO 99 in Japanese... please check below for the grammar notes and important Japanese vocabulary I have mentioned in the podcast. 

1 -10

1                                     いち　
2                                      に　
3                                    さん　
4                                    よん／し　
5                                   ご
6                                  ろく　
7                                   なな／しち
8                                  はち　
9                                 きゅう／く　
10                              じゅう

11 - 19

１１　                           じゅう　いち　　　
１２　                          じゅう　に
１３                              じゅう　さん　
１４                             じゅう　よん
１５                              じゅう　ご
１６                              じゅう　ろく
１７                                じゅう　なな
１８                                じゅう　はち
１９                               じゅう　きゅう

20 - 90

２０　　　　　　　　　に　じゅう　
３０　　　　　　　　　さん　じゅう
４０　　　　　　　　　よん　じゅう　　
５０　　　　　　　　　ご　　じゅう
６０　　　　　　　　　ろく　じゅう
７０　　　　　　　　　なな　じゅう
８０　　　　　　　　　はち　じゅう
９０　　　　　　　　　きゅう　じゅう


86 　　　　　 はちじゅう　ろく
73                     ななじゅう　さん
54                    ごじゅう　よん


Mandakini Munasinghe

Learning Japanese (JLPT N5)- 2nd Lesson - Numbers 1-99

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IELTS Preparation & Sample Band 8/9 Answers. Part 1 - Watching Films/Movies.

Q. What are the most popular types of films in your country?
Q. What is the difference between watching a film in the cinema and watching a film at home?
Q. Do you think cinemas will close in the future?

What was useful this time? How can you take this usefulness and include in your answers?

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IELTS Preparation & Sample Band 8/9 Answers. Part 1 - Watching Films/Movies.

最近日本では、「ルフィ」が悪いニュースのトップになっています。あれは、私たちの「ルフィ」じゃない。だから許せない。だって、私は「マンガの子」だから。マンガといっしょに育った、マンガの子だから。コロナ1年目の春に、鬼（おに）の出てくるマンガにハマったのは、私です。コロナ2年目の春に、巨人（きょじん）と人間が戦（たたか）うマンガを読むため、どんどんお金を払（はら）ったのも、私です。コロナ3年目の冬に、ウイルスと体が戦うマンガを読んで、医者の専門用顔（せんもんようご）が少しわかるようになったのも、私です。そして今は、江戸時代（えどじだい）の将軍（しょうぐん）に詳（くわ）しい人になっています。みなさんは、マンガから何をもらっていますか。
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「チェーンソー」も「ヒロアカ」も、日本でブームが来る前に、海外の日本語学習者から教えてもらいました。マンガと日本語で、私たちはつながってるよ！
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第48話　マンガが私にくれたもの

There are many types of dairy alternatives on the market today, often made from things like nuts and soybeans.

But have you heard they're now making butter from air?

A US startup called Savor is working on a range of dairy alternatives made using something that exists all around us: carbon.

Fats are made from chains of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Savor's process involves taking carbon — from, say, carbon dioxide — and adding heat and hydrogen to create chains that are combined with oxygen from air.

This results in fat molecules, like the ones found in dairy and other animal products.

Now, regular butter is about 80% fat — the rest is mostly water. So to make butter from its synthetic fat, Savor just adds water, as well as an emulsifier that keeps the liquids from separating, and rosemary oil for flavor and beta carotene for color.

What does it taste like?

"I couldn't believe I wasn't eating real butter," Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote in a blog post earlier this year. Gates is one of Savor's investors.

He wrote that "it tastes really good — like the real thing, because chemically it is."

Savor has already run informal taste tests with small groups of people, and is working to get regulatory approval for its product in the US.

But why butter?

A 2021 study estimated that food production makes up about 35% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions — and Savor estimates that about 7% of greenhouse gas emissions are just from producing fat.

But Savor's process, Gates wrote, doesn't release any greenhouse gases. He added that it uses no farmland and "less than a thousandth of the water that traditional agriculture does."

Savor is focusing on butter to start with partly because its high price point makes it easier to compete on cost. But the startup later hopes to develop other products like milk, ice cream, cheese — even meat.





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US Startup Makes Butter from Carbon Dioxide

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The app in question is called Forest, and the main idea, as well as setting it up is as easy as pie. You open the app, and say you want to plant a tree,and then you put the phone down. If you lift your phone or open another app after this your tree will die. However if you can last 25 minutes, your tree will live, and you can then aim to build a whole forest.




As simple as this app is, I have found it to be a massive help in improving my concentration, as well keeping me from being distracted by my mobile. It has definitely made me become more productive in my studies, and I now get my assignments finished on time, without having to stay up all night burning the midnight oil. This very simple app has really been a godsend and I would have no hesitation in recommending it to anyone who finds their mobile a distraction. 