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Hiromi Ito: The Thorn Puller

I love Japanese literature, especially contemporary writers. Of course, needless to mention that Ha...

My eternal age versus my consumed age

Learn Chinese with Lu Podcast主题系列#53 来自中国的问候 Greetings from China

Seize the Day

Back in the student heydays, my battle-cry was "Seize the day!" This was when nothing was impossibl...

Subject-verb agreement

Subject-verb agreement is usually pretty simple, but it can be confusing sometimes. Subject-verb a...

Good night's sleep

Hello, everyone. How's it going? This is Teacher Asuka.I recently read an interesting article about...

FORMAL & INFORMAL GREETINGS

Happy Friday from Indonesia GMT+7. Today I will discuss how to say greetings in Indonesian. What yo...

5 material nouns with crazy usage as verbs!

Creating the verb forms of a noun is a fairly simple task. Although, some verbs have meanings far f...

Currently Reading: The Precipice

I have been slowly and steadily reading this book for a while now. It's a very deep and detailed re...

Recent Reading

Hello everyone.  It’s been a while since I wrote a blog as I have been so busy with my new job and ...

Being Bilingual & Growing up in Vancouver

Happy May!A couple of weeks ago, I made a video of my interaction at the Tim Hortons drive thru.Def...

Take Command of your English Speaking Goals

Free talking can be useful but not everyone wants to learn English this way especially if you have ...

中国汉语普通话和北京话的区别(The difference between Mandarin Chinese and Beijing dialect)

普通话和北京话的区别 普通话的定义是“以北京语音为标准音，以北方话为基础方言，以典范的现代白话文著作为语法规范”。 然而北京话的土语，吃字较多，儿化音没想像的那么多。记得大学时，有的同学要学北京话，...

Help Me to Fill Out the Questionnaire

Today I'm not going to talk about Indonesian lessons. But I want to know what kind of Indonesian le...

榮登熱門講師排行榜第2名 No.2 on the popular Chinese teachers ranking list

我很榮幸地登上熱門中文講師排行榜上的第2名，非常感謝各位朋友和Cafetalk的的支持！以后我會更加努力地幫助喜歡學習和需要學習中文的朋友，提高中文水平，更好地運用在日常生活和工作中。謝謝您們！I ...

Even more good tunes

I'm not really sure who my favourite music groups are these days, so I took a look at what I've lis...

Curtain Call for Book Depository

Many of you may have received this notification from Book Depository (see image). I wonder if like ...

DIPHTONGS AND COMBINED VOCALS

DIPHTONGS AND COMBINED VOCALS.   In Indonesian, there is a vocabulary formed from diphthongs and a ...

“She’s gone to London.” “She’s been to London.” どう違うんでしょう？

“She’s gone to London.”   “She’s been to London.”   これらの文章には注意が必要です。似ているようでいて、意味は全く違います。 Be careful...

Math in Music

It is interesting to know that the applications of Math are all around us! Have you ever looked at ...

Facing a struggle with communication at work meetings and discussions

Workplace communication can sometimes be a struggle for some of us especially when we feel we are n...

Meeting an Old Friend After 5 Years

Yesterday, I went to Tokyo to meet a friend whom I hadn't seen for a long time. We used to work tog...

Semana Santa 聖週間

スペインの今年の聖週間は4月の1週目でした。スペインでの聖週間は学校もお休みになり、多くの人々が旅行に出かけます。ただ、毎年聖週間は日日が変わるにもかかわらず、雨が降るのです。ですから、私は基本旅行...

"Pretty as a Picture" どういう意味？

イギリス人は「Pretty as a Picture」とよく言います。意味を知っていますか？もしこの大人気のイデオムに興味があったら、動画を見てみてください。

READING PRACTICE IS IMPORTANT

As a beginner level language learners, you can study reading in a simple word. But, simple words li...

Loving Masala Chai

I had my first sip of masala chai in India. Specifically, I was exploring the streets of Manali, a ...

Learn Chinese with Lu Podcast主题系列#52 无主题闲聊2

台灣人聽得到的東西，日本人聽不到

正在學習日文的你是不是曾有這樣的疑問呢？わ「た」しあな「た」我聽到的明明就是「da」的音啊，可是怎麼沒有點點？相信這是一開始學習日文的人就會產生的疑問，可能也有一些同學學了一段時間還是不曉得為什麼，...

Easter in Canada

Easter is a religious holiday for Christians/Catholics. It celebrates the ressurection of Jesus Chr...

I'm all ears! - 10 idioms using body parts

There are lots of English idioms that use body parts like hand, foot, neck and so on. The example i...