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At the Railway Station (with transcript for study)

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The Youth in Asia
"THAT'S IT," MY MOTHER SAID AFTER HAVING SADIE PUT TO SLEEP. "MY CAT DAYS ARE OVER."

In the early sixties, during what my mother referred to as the "tail end of the Lassie years," my parents were given two collies they named Rastus and Duchess. We were living in upstate New York, out in the country, and the dogs were free to race through the forest. They napped in meadows and stood knee-deep in frigid streams, costars in their own private dog-food commercial. According to our father, anyone could tell that the two of them were in love.

Late one evening, while lying on a blanket in the garage, Duchess gave birth to a litter of slick, potato-sized puppies. When it looked as though one of them had died, our mother placed the creature in a casserole dish and popped it into the oven, like the witch in "Hänsel and Gretel."

"Oh, keep your shirts on," she said. "It's only set on 200. I'm not baking anyone; this is just to keep him warm."

The heat revived the sick puppy and left us believing our mother was capable of resurrecting the dead.

Faced with the responsibilities of fatherhood, Rastus took off. The puppies were given away, and we moved south, where the heat and humidity worked against a collie's best interests. Duchess's once beautiful coat now hung in ragged patches. Age set in and she limped about the house, clearing rooms with her suffocating farts. When finally, full of worms, she collapsed in the ravine beside our house, we reevaluated our mother's healing powers. The entire animal kingdom was beyond her scope; apparently, she could resurrect only the cute dead.

The oven trick was performed on half a dozen peakish hamsters but failed to work on my first guinea pig, who died after eating a couple of cigarettes and an entire pack of matches.


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The Youth in Asia

Video Podcast~♬
Japanese Podcast for Beginners|| オーロラ✨を まって | VERY VERY EASY Native JAPANESE!

♯１６
オーロラの ニュースを みました。
わたしも オーロラが みたくて、それで、よぞらを みながら、オーロラを まちました。

📖きょうの おはなし
「オーロラを まって」
00:00 オープニング
00:24 ゆうやけ
00:56 ２１じ４０ごろ
01:15 ２２じごろ
01:36 よなか
02:33 ネコの ゲンブガンちゃん

Q．みなさんの ところでは オーロラ✨が みられましたか。

🦔🍎　ちょっと　むずかしい　ことば・ぶん　🍅🦔
It is useful to copy and paste words you don't understand into the translation‼Microsoft Translator / Google Translator: You can also check the reading of kanji‼‼

１））オープニング 00:00 
・夜
・空
・夜空
・オーロラ（aurora）
・待つ

【grammar check!】
①かもしれない ②そうだ〈I hear〉


２））ゆうやけ 00:24
・向こう（向こうにV）
・赤い
・光
・夕焼け
・真っ暗
・暗い
・早い

【grammar check!】
①そうだ〈I hear〉 ②く／に なる ③てから


３））２１じ４０ごろ 00:56 
・さっき
・明るい

【grammar check!】
①より ②なければいけない


４））２２じごろ 01:15 
・大体
・やっと

【grammar check!】
①になる ②reasonて、emotion ③てしまう ④ので ⑤ことにする


５））よなか 01:36 
・夜中
・目が覚める
・戻る
・カメラ
・SがOを動かす
・Sが動く
・変な
・窓
・網戸（screen window? window screen?）


【grammar check!】
①てくる ②てみる ③Aと、B 〈When A, B will always happen〉


６））ネコのゲンブガンちゃん 02:33 
・時計

【grammar check!】
①ことにする ②"what you did"と、"Something you noticed" ③reasonて、emotion ④Plain form の 〈noun phrase〉 


Japanese Podcast for Beginners
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オーロラを まって

안녕하세요, 여러분! 오늘은 한국의 독특한 전통 음식, 미역국에 대해 이야기해 볼게요. 혹시 한국 사람들이 생일날 꼭 미역국을 먹는 이유를 들어본 적 있나요? 이 음식은 단순한 국이 아니라, 깊은 문화적 의미와 역사를 담고 있답니다.

먼저, 미역국의 기원을 살펴볼게요. 옛날, 삼국시대 때 고구려 사람들이 고래가 출산 후 미역을 먹는 모습을 관찰했다고 해요. 고래들이 미역을 통해 건강을 회복하는 것을 보고, 사람들도 출산 후에 미역을 먹기 시작했죠. 미역은 철분과 칼슘이 풍부해서 산모의 회복을 돕는 음식으로 자리 잡았습니다.

그런데 이 전통이 발전하면서 생일 문화와도 연결되었어요. 생일날 미역국을 먹는 건 자신을 낳아주신 어머니를 기리고, 그분의 희생에 감사하는 의미예요. 그래서 한국 사람들에게 생일날 미역국은 꼭 먹어야 하는 상징적인 음식이 되었죠.

재미있는 점은, 미역국과 관련된 속어도 있다는 거예요. 한국에서는 "미역국을 먹다"라는 표현이 실패를 뜻하기도 해요. 미역이 미끄러운 식감을 가지고 있기 때문에, 기회가 미끄러지듯 사라졌다는 의미에서 나온 표현이죠. 그리고 아주 독특한 욕도 있는데요, 바로 “너네 엄마가 널 낳고 먹은 미역국이 아깝다”라는 말이에요. 이건 "엄마의 고생이 헛되었다"는 뜻인데, 절대 사용하지 않는 게 좋겠죠? 😅

여러분의 나라에도 생일이나 출산 후 먹는 특별한 음식이 있나요? 아니면 실패를 표현하는 독특한 말이 있다면 공유해 주세요!

[ㅇㄱㄹㅇ 덕후 톡] Real Deok-hu Talk Straight from K-media

Why Do Koreans Eat Seaweed Soup on Birthdays? 🥣

Money Money Money, Always funny 🎵
Today, we are going to talk about an Economic news.
Recently, USD price is really high. Let's take a look on the news of how it effect China.
今天我们就来谈谈钱～ 谈谈经济～🎵
最近美金涨很多，对中国有什么影响呢？
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生词
人民币 Rénmínbì
美元 Měiyuán
兑 duì
汇率 huìlǜ
破 pò
百姓 bǎixìng

来源：https://www.sohu.com/a/586093540_121123709?scm=1101.topic:475520:110061.0.2.0-1101_topic:475520:110061&spm=smpc.topic_147.tpl-pc-top-feed.1.1663518109937KznKrsA_475520

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Dona Terezinha e Seu Carlos se encontram na rua:

Dona Terezinha: Boa tarde, Seu Carlos! Como o senhor está?
Seu Carlos: Olá, Dona Terezinha! Boa tarde! Eu estou bem, obrigado! E a senhora?
Dona Terezinha: Estou bem também! Obrigada!
Seu Carlos: Estou um pouco apressado hoje  porque preciso buscar minha neta na escola. Foi um prazer vê-la! Até logo!
Dona Terezinha: Igualmente! Seu Carlos! Até logo!


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Sadiq Khan becomes London's Mayor again
Prince Andrew may get evicted,
Joanna Lumley will announce Britain's Eurovision Scores.
Shoplifters to be banned from stores.
Frankie Valli gets a place on the Hollywood Walk of Fame


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