There are days that you can go easy on yourself. 
Adjust your learning to suit your daily life challenges. 

111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 18 - A little is better than none.

Here you will listen to words related to the kitchen.

ROMANIAN

Bucătăria

Try these tips during awkward silences or when you don't know what else to talk about.

1.   Don't reject your own ideas thinking that they are not worth sharing. When you filter most of your stories and experiences you have fewer topics to talk about. 
 
2.   Don't list your points, instead elaborate on each point using examples or personal experiences. This also gives the opportunity to the listener to add to the topic or share their own experiences making it a two-way conversation.
 
3.   Speak at the right pace. If you speak too fast, you end the conversation very quickly. It’s usually because the listener doesn’t understand you and therefore can’t keep the conversation going.  
 
4.   Learn to ask smart questions to keep the conversation going. Ask open-ended questions such as, “what do you think about …?” with follow-up questions “why do you think …?”. This helps you build up on the information that you received.
 
5.   Practise thinking critically so you always have something to say. When you practice critical thinking and ask yourself counter-questions, you are able to spontaneously think of ideas and form arguments using your background knowledge. You can easily connect the dots and be eloquent while talking to people.
 
6.   Learn a few speech frameworks such as Past - Present - Future, Problem – Solution - Benefit, or other storytelling formats such as ‘the mountain’. When you have a structure, you don’t lose your chain of thoughts and you don’t run into dead ends. Your listeners are also able to understand you better and remember what you said.
 
7.   If you are using a second language to communicate such as English, then simplify your complex thoughts in your native language first and then translate them to English. Lots of times when translation is tough, we give up and change the topic. But this practice helps you make the translation process easy. 
 
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Tips for not running out of things to say

In this podcast we are going to learn how to respond to the question 'What do you like to do in your free time?'
Transcript:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BgphzmLCX0Hl-fkKqcdB2KEoXuOuSmJJ2eev_jIh6rc/edit?usp=sharing



Hungarian Speaking Practice

What do you like to do in your free time?

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Thai for Everyone with Kru Robert

EP. 4 How to say beautiful and handsome in Thai 

You will know some Christmas traditions in Colombia

1. En Colombia, ¡la época navideña dura más de un mes!

2. Se realiza la tradicional ceremonia: la Primera Comunión

3. La Novena de Aguinaldos, única en Colombia

4. Los regalos de navidad los entrega el Niño Dios

5. La navidad no sólo se celebra con buñuelos

6. La carne estrella de los platos navideños colombianos: el pollo

7. Juegos de aguinaldos: la diversión colombiana en epocas dicembrinas

8. Fin de año: Muñeco año viejo

9. Gran importancia a los personajes biblícos

emember that I also teach Spanish on italki, in case you want to book a class with me :)

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9 situaciones que hacen que la Navidad en Colombia sea única

In this episode, I am talking about online shopping. This episode is perfect for beginners who just embarked on their German language journey. This podcast series will help you to get used to the German language and is suitable for A1-B1 level. Make sure that you also check out my future episodes. 

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Slow German Podcast for Beginners / Episode 30 online bestellen(A1-B1)

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Whether you live to work or you work to live, having a healthy work-life balance is good for both you and your employer.

Here are just a few ways to keep your balance healthy!

Plan
It can help to plan your time, making sure to include social activities in those plans, says Allaya Cooks-Campbell from job coaching website BetterUp.

Even scheduling a night in front of the TV is enough — it will give you a bit of time to switch off.

If you're able to, you could also plan to take short breaks during the day, and perhaps even use them to take a walk or read a few pages of a book.

Use apps to help
Cooks-Campbell also suggests using an app to block distracting websites during the work day — which might include things like social media.

You can then do the same in the evening and block work apps, if you find it difficult to stop checking them.

Be kind to yourself
It's important to be realistic about your work-life balance, and not to get too stressed if you don't follow your plan. That's according to Kate Eby from work management company Smartsheet.

Being kind to yourself, she says, can help you improve your mental health.

Talk to your boss
If you're finding it difficult to get your work-life balance right, speaking to your manager may be a good idea — although not everyone will feel comfortable doing this.

It may be that you have been given too much work to do, or there is a better way to do it — and talking to your boss could help you work smarter, not harder.

However, Cooks-Campbell says different things work for different people — so you have to find what's right for you!