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Your favourite summer dessert/sweets

My favourite summer treat is halo-halo. It's a Filipino dessert made with fruits, ice, ube, milk an...

Gelato has taken over

Photo byJenna Day onUnsplash Over the past few years, gelato has gained a lot of popularity here in...

My Favourite Summer Dessert.

My Favourite Summer Dessert. This week looks like a fairly simple topic but, as usual, there may be...

My favorite summer dessert is…

Summer...Berries...Sweetness...Dessert... What is my favorite dessert in the summer? And, of course...

Have you ever experienced "culture shock"?

Culture shock is a feeling of surprise or shock when you experience something unfamiliar in a diffe...

(本当の優しさ）Real Gentleness will give us hope and warm place to be

My latest broadcasting below:https://stand.fm/episodes/62dce6d784d636c582daa7bcHello, everyone! How...

Which which? (どれのWHICH?)

Did you know there are several ways to use which in English?   In Japanese, どれ can mean which in En...

Culture shock and blending in

According to MacMillan dictionary, culture shock is defined as "the nervous or confused feeling tha...

Culture shock. Ukraine. School

How did our ancestors learn to write or How to learn grammar online?     I have been working at the...

How did our ancestors learn to write or How to learn grammar online?

How did our ancestors learn to write or How to learn grammar online? I have been working at the sch...

196年ぶりに、

196年ぶりに鷹山が、祇園祭に戻ってきた。For the first time in 196 years the Takayama has returned to the Gion Festival.

Culture shock in Japan

Most of the Japanese students that I went to school with in Germany and later Australia had a few t...

TRAVEL -- June ( IZU ) and July ( SOUTH NAGANO) trips

We`ve gone on a few trips over the last couple of months -- We had a nice trip to Shimoda, IZU in J...

In the news: ‘Young people should not drink’

Photo byJon Parry onUnsplash Bad news for me and anyone else under 40 who enjoys beer, wine, or ot...

Latin Language

I do invite you to study Latin language. If you like to understand European languages better, you s...

Classics' Time

I do invite you to study Classics, i.e. Latin and Ancient Greek. If you like to understand European...

Check out Extraordinary Attorney Woo on Netflix!

Hello Cafetalk Community!How are you? I hear it is scorching hot weather in Japan now. I'm sure the...

Applying Phrasal Verbs on Food and Drinks

Phrasal Verbs are quite frequently used in conversation and learning as many phrasal verbs as possi...

WHAT IS THE SECRET TO REMEMBERING NEW WORDS IN ENGLISH?

How can you remember all the new words you read and listen to in English? I have the answer. And ...

Culture shock

Most of my knowledge of culture shock comes from conversations with international students who stud...

Coming Home is the Biggest Culture Shock

The Cambridge Dictionary says that culture shock (noun) is a feeling of confusion felt by someone v...

Have you ever experienced the so called "culture shock"

I have lived in four different countries - Canada, Philippines, Japan and New Zealand. I would say ...

The melody of English

Did you know that languages can be compared to music? Each language has its own melody and rhythm. ...

July 19 is my first day - Day with Cafetalk.

In Today is my first day - Day with Cafetalk. Thank you, my dear friends, for being with me) Than...

There are many words for tea in England

イギリスでは紅茶は大切なので、Teaにはたくさんの名前があります。

Have you ever experienced the so-called culture shock?

Have you ever experienced the so-called culture shock? Yes, I definitely have experienced Culture ...

How to get to the top of the mountain or why should you be a leader?

Hoverla is the highest peak of the Ukrainian Carpathians and the highest point of Ukraine, its heig...

英語のあいづち (Or why you should say “Yeah” more often!)

英語のあいづち (Or why you should say “Yeah” more often!)   When I started learning Japanese, they taught ...

PART 2 : Favorite books read from Jan - July 2022

PART 2 : recommended reads from my list of 240 books read so far this year .   SCIENCE FICTION : Kl...

Learning something new -- PRIME TIME -- entering the midway of the 2nd stage of life

I am now 40 years old -- and almost half way through the second stage of life -- I am newly learnin...