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È l'aperitivo italiano per eccellenza! E, a proposito, che cosa significa "per eccellenza"?Scopri questo e altre curiosità sullo spritz, ad esempio: sai che lo spritz è nato quasi per caso? E che il suo nome viene dal tedesco?Questa puntata è anche l'occasione per imparare qualche espressione in lingua italiana, esercitarti nell'ascolto e nella comprensione…. Cosa aspetti?

English: It's been 1000 years since the coronation of Bolesław Chrobry! Learn about this first Polish king in this episode of my podcast. Enjoy listening! :)Polski: Minęło 1000 lat od koronacji Bolesława Chrobrego! Dowiedz się więcej o tym pierwszym polskim królu w tym odcinku mojego podcastu. Miłego słuchania!You can find a full transcript of this episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/125524271My blog: https://ioannesoculus.com/FB Polish With John: https://www.facebook.com/polishwithjohnInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/polishwithjohn/Twitter: https://twitter.com/polishwithjohnIn the podcast, I used "Sing Swing Bada Bing" Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions; source: https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music (attribution not required)

How is your Japanese learning journey going? Do you struggle with Katakana words? I recently came across a Katakana word that I hadn't noticed was strange before. Now, it's part of my ‘strange word' group. Check it out!   This episode's vocab list: カタカナ語に苦労する to struggle/challenge with Katakana words 英語のような発音 pronunciation that sounds like English 通じません。It's not understood /It isn't coming through. 英語以外の言葉 languages other than English フランス語 French ポルトガル語 Portuguese ドイツ語 German オランダ語 Dutch その中でも特に変なのは The especially strange ones among them are ブランド名 Brand name ３つとも all three 使い始めました。They began using カタカナ語の由来 the origin of that katakana word ただの偶然かもしれません。It might be just a coincidence. 部品 parts of the product

Deutsch: Es war Marias erste Woche im selbstständigen Leben, wie ist es gelaufen? Über uns: Ich (Jonny) habe Maria 2019 in Kambodscha getroffen. Wir sind gemeinsam durch Vietnam gereist, haben uns verliebt, und ich bin nach Österreich gezogen, um Maria zu besuchen – und bin nie wieder gegangen.Jetzt arbeite ich hier in Österreich als Vollzeit-Content-Ersteller, und Maria hat einen Job im Marketing. Wir leben beide in Salzburg und lieben es hier. English: It was Maria's first week in self employed life, how did it go? About us: I (Jonny) met Maria on in Cambodia back in 2019. We travelled through Vietnam together, fell in love and I moved to Austria to visit Maria, I never left. Now I work full time as a content creator here in Austria and Maria works in a marketing job. We both live in Salzburg and love it here. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Instagram (@austriankiwipodcast) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/austriankiwi/message

Deutsch:Es ist FRÜHLING, und wir sind total glücklich darüber! Diese Folge widmet sich den ersten Anzeichen des Frühlings sowie einem zusätzlichen Spiel von 'Beende den Satz'. Über uns:Ich (Jonny) habe Maria 2019 in Kambodscha getroffen. Wir sind gemeinsam durch Vietnam gereist, haben uns verliebt, und ich bin nach Österreich gezogen, um Maria zu besuchen – und bin nie wieder gegangen.Jetzt arbeite ich hier in Österreich als Vollzeit-Content-Ersteller, und Maria hat einen Job im Marketing. Wir leben beide in Salzburg und lieben es hier. English:It's SPRING, and we're super happy about it! This episode is dedicated to the first signs of spring, as well as an extra game of 'Finish the Sentence'. About us:I (Jonny) met Maria on in Cambodia back in 2019. We travelled through Vietnam together, fell in love and I moved to Austria to visit Maria, I never left. Now I work full time as a content creator here in Austria and Maria works in a marketing job. We both live in Salzburg and love it here. Our Instagram (@austriankiwipodcast) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/austriankiwi/message

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Episode #15 (Français/French). Enregistré à Soorts le 7 septembre 2023. (English version below) Invité : Fred Basse (Rip Curl/Eurosima) Impossible de retracer l'épopée de la surf-industry européenne sans évoquer le nom de Fred Basse. Champion de France de surf puis professionnel de windsurf à la fin des 70's et au début des 80's, Fred a contribué aux fondations même de cette industrie à travers le lancement de Quiksilver Europe puis de Rip Curl aux côtés de François Payot. L'explosion du surf, la croissance fulgurante du business et l'efficacité redoutable du duo Payot-Basse propulsent rapidement Rip Curl parmi les acteurs incontournables du Vieux-Continent. Fred sera par ailleurs à l'origine de la célèbre braderie Rip Curl, rapidement copiée par tous ses concurrents et qui participera indirectement au développement de la zone de Pédebert (Soorts-Hossegor) considérée par l'intéressé comme “le plus grand centre commercial des sports de glisse à ciel ouvert du monde“. Pendant ce long entretien, Fred raconte le développement de Rip Curl et des autres marques européennes dans les années 90 et 2000, mais aussi les mutations de l'industrie ou encore la crise de 2011 et la manière dont elle a alors été gérée en interne. Il revient aussi sur sa présidence de l'Eurosima de 2008 à 2017 : cinq mandats consécutifs pendant lesquels il a su porter en haut lieu les intérêts de la filière, fédérer l'ensemble de ses acteurs dans les moments difficiles et insuffler un dynamisme reconnu de tous. D'un point de vue plus personnel, Fred nous raconte sa vision du management - et comment celle-ci a évolué au fil des années - ou encore l'équilibre qu'il a réussi à maintenir entre vie professionnelle, familiale et sportive. On évoque bien sûr Belharra, dont il fut l'un des pionniers, ainsi que sa vision du surf de grosses vagues actuel. Désormais retiré de l'industrie, il continue de suivre de près ses évolutions et partage son regard et ses analyses sur les enjeux à venir, depuis les fusions-acquisitions de groupes jusqu'au défi de l'éco-conception ou encore des piscines à vagues. Un épisode de plus à ne pas manquer. Production éditoriale : EUROSIMA Animation : Romain Ferrand / Rémi Chaussemiche Réalisation technique : Fred de Bailliencourt Photo : Stéphane Robin Suivez Inside Eurosima sur Instagram, Facebook et Linkedin. Retrouvez nos podcasts sur Insideurosima.com et sur Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify, Google Podcasts et Deezer. /// English It is impossible to fathom telling the epic story of the surfing industry in Europe without mentioning the name Fred Basse. A French surfing champion and pro windsurfer in the late 70's and 80's, Fred helped lay the foundations of the industry with the launch of Quiksilver Europe and later Rip Curl, alongside François Payot. The combination of a boom in surfing, incredible growth of the business and the formidable efficiency of the Payot-Basse duo, quickly established Rip Curl as one of the major players on the Old continent. In this long interview, Fred tells us the story of how Rip Curl and other European brands emerged and grew in the 90's and 2000's. He also discusses the mutations he's witnessed in the industry, including the 2011 crisis and how it was dealt with internally. He will also tell us about his years as EuroSIMA President from 2008 to 2017: five consecutive terms through which he carried the industry's interests to the highest levels of institutions, federated all its players through hard times and managed to infuse an energy that is widely recognised. Though he is now retired from the industry, Fred still follows its evolutions and will share his take and analysis on upcoming challenges, taking the time to have a look at the past since the era of mergers and acquisitions of groups to then dive into the future and examine the challenges of things like eco-design or wave pools. This episode is one you do not want to miss.

Sure, here ar 1. **God/Allah (الله)**: - Arabic: الله هو واحد. - English: Allah is one. 2. **Prophet (نبي)**: - Arabic: محمد هو نبي الإسلام. - English: Muhammad is the prophet of Islam. 3. **Prayer/Salah (صلاة)**: - Arabic: يجب أداء الصلاة خمس مرات في اليوم. - English: It's obligatory to perform Salah (prayer) five times a day. 4. **Mosque/Masjid (مسجد)**: - Arabic: نذهب إلى المسجد لأداء الصلاة. - English: We go to the mosque to perform the prayer. 5. **Holy Book/Quran (القرآن الكريم)**: - Arabic: نقرأ من القرآن يوميًا. - English: We read from the Quran daily. 6. **Fasting/Sawm (صوم)**: - Arabic: نصوم خلال شهر رمضان. - English: We fast during the month of Ramadan. 7. **Charity/Zakat (زكاة)**: - Arabic: يجب على المسلمين إخراج الزكاة للفقراء. - English: Muslims are required to give Zakat to the needy. 8. **Pilgrimage/Hajj (حج)**: - Arabic: أدى المسلمون الحج إلى مكة. - English: Muslims performed the pilgrimage to Mecca. 9. **Heaven/Paradise/Jannah (جنة)**: - Arabic: المؤمنون يتمنون دخول الجنة. - English: Believers aspire to enter Paradise (Jannah). 10. **Hellfire/Hell/Jahannam (جهنم)**: - Arabic: تخوف المؤمنين من دخول جهنم. - English: Believers fear entering Hellfire (Jahannam). These are just a few examples of religious vocabulary in Arabic and English. If you need more words or explanations, feel free to ask! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ezenglish/support

00:00.00 Max Shank All right? Welcome back to Monday morning with max and Mike we're talking about launch pads. We're talking about ramps. We're talking about Trebuches. We're talking about flinging things a mighty distance this applies to both physics and also business That's what I'm excited about. I don't want to go out there and go fishing. You know one pole at a time I want to be able to deliver a tremendous payload at a great distance. You know what I mean and have it create a very massive effect. But in order to do that. You got to spend a lot more time with the building of it. It's like fishing pole pretty easy to build water wheel significantly harder to build but greater impact lot more work ahead of time and then you take it all the way to something like a rocket which can or a power plant. Can deliver a tremendous amount of power but it requires a huge amount of upfront work and because I've done a lot of biz coaching with people I feel like that that is the number None thing that. Separates people who create an exponential growth in their business is the ones who are willing to do the setup time to make something that is a more sophisticated leverage and force multiplier. You know what? I'm saying. 01:27.51 mikebledsoe Yeah I Think the None thing you got to consider in that case is does what you want to build actually solve a problem and um I think a lot of people you know think I think a lot of people start businesses based on something they Like. Or something you know around what it is that they want to do which works sometimes because they figured out. They've solved some problem for themselves and they they can help other people through a product or service. Um, but I'm a big fan of of seeing if it's the right Poll. Before I go launch a hundred of them like I don't want to put the wrong bait on my hook I could be I could be catching the wrong fish or I could be catching no fish at All. So I would use one pole make. 02:16.13 Max Shank I like I like the fishing analogy. The fishing analogy is good because people are about as smart as fish. 02:24.18 mikebledsoe Ah, it's true. Ah so no, but like it's good to put figure out if if it you know test with one poll or maybe test with 20 polls all with different bait. What um, keeps popping off is now we're pulling the hooks out and we're replacing all them with that one Bait I think that. That's like the I've been thinking about the business as ah, especially like a coaching business as a triangle at the bottom you have you have your offer and then one of the sides is marketing and the other sides is the fulfillment. The coaching aspect. Find that most people and the way this would work is like what are you selling? How do you market it and then how do you fulfill on it whether it's a coaching business or not and. 03:12.98 Max Shank Ah, right? How do you? How do you educate them about it and how do you get it to them. So like the bottom is what is it and then one side is how do you tell the right people about how do they know about it and then how do you get it to them I like it. 03:19.16 mikebledsoe Right. 03:25.32 mikebledsoe Exactly exactly so but I find them I know you do triangles are the best sturdy pointed can penetrate well and super hard to tip over. 03:31.46 Max Shank Also I like triangles. 03:36.87 Max Shank So I mean they're not hexagons. But they're really cool. 03:44.95 mikebledsoe Ah, so well depends on what kind of time go with oh let's hear it. 03:46.11 Max Shank You know my favorite ah Buckminster Fuller joke he's ah he goes ah is well. It's more of a statement I guess he goes. Ah why do architects build square houses. So engineers can put triangles in them. 04:08.49 mikebledsoe I I like it I like it. Yeah yeah, tons of triangles. Yeah, None of triangles. Yeah yeah, without that your shit's going to get fucked up. So um. 04:10.73 Max Shank And if you you've done a bunch of house framing and stuff like that too before right? So you have these rectangle boxes that are just full of triangles. You better have those fuckers in there. 04:28.22 mikebledsoe Well, it just won't even look right. 04:31.44 Max Shank No oh it's going to go over without some triangles in there. Yeah. 04:32.86 mikebledsoe Just kind of push it over Ah yeah, so I like thinking about this because I more often than not when I bump into an entrepreneur either a new entrepreneur or an entrepreneur suffering None times out of None It's the the bottom. Part of the pyramid. It's the offer. It's the it's the what they're selling. Um, yeah, yeah sand at the beach. Yeah, and so so somebody you know it's like somebody has these air things people think that it's a marketing problem. 04:55.12 Max Shank Sand at the beach like why would you want to do that to yourself. Ah yeah. 05:10.66 mikebledsoe And I'm like it's not a marketing like does anyone want what you're selling in the None place when it's not a marketing problem like your offers should be the thing you're offering should be an obvious solution if it's not obvious solution then there's more work to be done there. Um, some people in business would say that the development of the offer is a function of the marketing department. Which I don't necessarily disagree disagree with but so is the fulfillment. They kind of all bleed into each other. Yeah, So so if you so if you nail down a solid offer and then you just. 05:33.74 Max Shank I Think marketing marketing is part of the offer for sure. Yeah. 05:49.30 mikebledsoe Funnel as many people towards that that one offer not now you got a winning formula. 05:53.48 Max Shank Well, and even even better. Is you you set up your shop within a current flow of consciousness directed at that specific thing and I mean Youtube has been a game changer in this because. There's just such a bigger library of things that are searchable if you have questions that need solving and if you if you meet people where they're at and you match their pace. They don't notice that you're a fisherman. Basically you just kind of enter the conversation that they're already having. 06:16.72 mikebledsoe Yeah. 06:31.96 Max Shank And the the finesse of that offer is really.. It's the same as seduction for the most part. That's why so many of these great copywriters were like pickup artist stuff before then because it's all about getting someone from I don't know. To yes, right? And so however, you craft that that story that is entering that person's mind is going to guide their next decisions. 07:02.20 mikebledsoe Yeah, what are we talking about toy forgot about our topic since you made it you may you you made it up. Ah oh yeah, oh. 07:09.95 Max Shank Triangles we were talking about lot. No no, we were talking talking about launch pads launch pads rocket ships trebute none fishing from fishing poles to ah nuclear power plants. Ah we're we're just trying to eat and fuck right. That's really what it comes down to we want to make sure that we're safe. We want to get enough calories. We want to continue our genes we we insist that the genes get carried forward every animal and plant is like None sure about that part of the equation like definitely more of us and we just that's life baby more of us. Ah so it's all about energy. It's all about conserving calories. It's always it's also about um, expanding the mass. 07:49.71 mikebledsoe That's life. Yeah I. 08:05.26 Max Shank Of the tribe which is also like a stored energy kind of calorie thing. It's like ah it's like the size of the tribe is your energy bank and actually in dune they talk about how the tribe shares the water ah like everybody shares all the water and then if 1 guy dies they suck the water out and like it's all about. 08:07.27 mikebledsoe Yeah, um. Yeah, about if. 08:23.63 mikebledsoe Well, it's ah yeah I mean unless you have a tribe where half of the tribe ah is useless Now that's a drain on the energy. 08:24.97 Max Shank Just ah pooling those re pooling those resources. 08:36.65 Max Shank True but that has happened for a long time I mean we we ah well and it's and it's ah it's uncertain of what the utility is in some of those cases like ah, there's that grandmother idea where there's the wisdom that. 08:40.64 mikebledsoe I Know that's why I bring it up. 08:56.24 Max Shank Passed on like why would I'm not saying this to be crude, but like why would a lady stay alive and go through Menopause like why would they stop being able to bear children and maybe it's ah like physical. Ah. Power but I think ah that is only exhibited and I think like Orcas and elephants. There aren't that many creatures that go through Menopa and maybe chimps. Also I can't quite remember exactly but it's this idea that there's a ah huge value to. 09:25.88 mikebledsoe Um. 09:33.55 Max Shank Them teaching the next generation how to do stuff and with orca they have different hunting techniques based on where they live they have different languages between these different pods. So there's a utility that's not strictly. Ah, hunting gathering or procreating. But I know what you're talking about too. It's like the bigger the percentage of freeloaders are the heavier. The wagon gets and it's still and a simple energy equation right? If you have one ah hundred kilograms in the wagon and you have None guy pulling. It's. Totally fine. But if you suddenly have ten Thousand Kilograms unless it's very ah, good piece of machinery that None guy won't be able to move it. 10:15.94 mikebledsoe Yeah, it feels like that's where we're at now. So a bunch of people are just jumping in the wagon and not pulling it. But I'm not yeah and um, while'm not blaming them I get it I get it. Well here's the thing. Ah if you lack if you lack. 10:25.46 Max Shank Um, hard to blame hard to blame. Yeah yeah, who would very few wouldn't do that. 10:35.90 mikebledsoe If you lack the skills to demand a certain amount of money I mean this is what happens we're in inflation right now and but like. 10:42.82 Max Shank Oh God here we go again. It's all it's all just about show me a better offer. That's what it's about because if so to be a freeloader to be a freeloader. It's got to be a better offer than the other thing that you are thinking about doing. 10:48.50 mikebledsoe It. It's It's exactly right. 10:55.85 mikebledsoe Exactly always goes back to incentives with you as well. But the thing is what we have is ah the cost of living is outpacing salaries. So it's not like people's salaries are inflating at the same rate that that's historically. 11:00.75 Max Shank Totally. 11:14.28 mikebledsoe Been untrue. So like what is true is that the salary state. You know you'll get a 1% raise and you get your dopamine hit and you stick with it but inflation is 10% and so your lifestyle keeps decreasing the people at the top get more money and then so I think a lot of people are just like. 11:15.00 Max Shank Right? ah. 11:29.48 Max Shank Right? Well if. 11:34.22 mikebledsoe Why I can't pay my bills at Fifteen Twenty dollars an hour I can't pay my bills so why work you know it's so I get it. 11:38.50 Max Shank Right? right? Don't totally I there's like ah a Bob Newhart joke from like a really long time ago where he talks about working at the ah unemployment office and. He it didn't take him too long before he realized that he was handing out these $60 checks and he was only getting fifty bucks a week and he had to he had to be there all week I mean this has been going on for a long time and the thing that has increased people's quality of life has been technology and maybe quality of life is actually a stretch because I think that you can perhaps live a much higher quality of life with some lower tech. 12:26.57 mikebledsoe Well ah, technology technology allows us to leverage its leverage to increase power. So if you put the if you put power in somebody's hand who's going to make choices that don't take them towards a higher quality of life. They're actually going to go to a lower quality life. 12:29.52 Max Shank Even though you know there are people you know what I mean exactly more leverage. 12:45.88 mikebledsoe Much faster and because there's dopamine that's associated with the tool the technology the dopamine will create the illusion that their lifestyle is improving because now they got a fancier phone or whatever the fuck or more people like their their photo today. 13:01.21 Max Shank Um, well they're using that tool but they're just using it at a very like low level way. 13:05.46 mikebledsoe Ah, and so so like they think they think that having the tool They think that having the tool is the increase in quality of life when it's the thing that can increase the quality of life exactly. 13:20.52 Max Shank It's not the tool. It's what you do with it. That's what like all like every every girl I've ever met has always said that to me, it's not about the tool itself. It's what you do with it. But. 13:26.56 mikebledsoe Um, and making you feel better. How the yeah so that's it's not the size of your tool max. 13:33.14 Max Shank Ah, yeah I don't know I don't know why I Assume it's ah like this with everybody. That's what I've been told I've been told that so much so much I Wonder if it is though if they're just saying that like. I Just meet all of the most considerate ladies ever. Is there a common denominator here that I haven't considered who so so we're talking we're we're we're talking. 13:54.66 mikebledsoe Ah, oh he's going into reflection folks. Ah, we'll see him back in a week absolutely 14:05.93 Max Shank We're talking money though. Also right and the size of your wallet is way more important than the size of your genitals fellows for the record fat guys with tiny cocks fat old guys with tiny cocks are out there right now with the most beautiful women in the world If that's your if that's your thing. 14:11.11 mikebledsoe When it when it comes to getting getting and having ladies. 14:23.98 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 14:25.19 Max Shank You know Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But the truth is how you do professionally and how you ah carry yourself is going to be way more important and that kind of leads us back to the launch pads. It's this. It's the same kind of thing. Can you defer the gratification. 14:33.11 mikebledsoe Yeah, you know I um. 14:43.72 Max Shank To build what is necessary so that it has its its own momentum without you pushing it all the time and I think that's what what everybody wants or at least everybody I think maybe should want is something that. 15:00.25 mikebledsoe Yeah, there's um, man see if I can find it real quick. Nope Um I was thinking about the ah the myth of it takes money to make money. There's like that that famous phrase. 15:00.60 Max Shank Can sustain itself. 15:16.61 mikebledsoe It's a meme that floats around in in our culture and it's It's not true. It's ah you need resources to make money and money is also a byproduct of using those resources well and ah you are your primary resources. 15:16.79 Max Shank Um, yeah. 15:36.53 mikebledsoe Um, are basically your ability to observe critically think and problem solve and most people I bring that up because I don't want people to get stuck in the way of thinking that oh I need to have money before I can make money because I think a lot of people. Or or in that mentality by that's exactly right? It's exactly right? So I think that there are certain common phrases out there that are almost intended to keep people from being successful and that's one of them. 15:56.89 Max Shank I Need to lose some weight before I join the gym. 16:09.15 Max Shank Oh almost or certainly I mean there's mind control everywhere um depends how deep you want to go down that rabbit hole. But even just ah like let's say regular Tv especially as a dude. 16:12.46 mikebledsoe Most certainly? yeah yeah. 16:27.99 Max Shank It's like how many Tv shows have you seen in your life where the father was a powerful figure with a good set of values and a good. It's ah it's never that it's like some whiny bitch. It's like some whiny bitch like. 16:39.83 mikebledsoe Not since the early sixty s. 16:47.15 Max Shank Who's always like oh can we have sex wife and the wife never wants to and the guy always does and in reality and in reality in reality. It's like as soon as you get to that age. It's the exact fucking opposite. Are you kidding me like None 50 year old ah in a couple. 16:50.10 mikebledsoe That is interesting I never thought about that. 17:06.69 Max Shank It's not going to be the guy who's like scrounging for it all the time he's done. It's just it's just a funny ah example where it's not just the commercials. It's just it's not like those rap videos and all that stuff That's ah mind controlling us. It's even um. 17:09.82 mikebledsoe Yeah. 17:26.61 Max Shank Like a Tv show where that's your model that you see and believe and now you think oh that's normal. Not this other thing and whatever you think is normal. That's what you're going to like reinforce. 17:32.32 mikebledsoe Yeah I've thought I've thought about this is I remember the first movie I went and saw in a theater I was five years old I don't remember seeing it but my mom told me that the first movie I saw was bambi and. 17:49.51 Max Shank Ah. 17:51.43 mikebledsoe And like I remember growing up and hunting and then people were like oh but you're going to kill bambi you know and I and I was always like well yeah I mean and I think that ah Disney movies are probably primarily responsible for veganism. At this point. 17:58.67 Max Shank If yeah. 18:09.57 Max Shank What whoa somebody saved that clip Jesus What a claim is off the wall I Love it go on. 18:09.76 mikebledsoe Is and. 18:13.35 mikebledsoe Well but it's well I mean so if we're talking about mind control and programming how many Disney films have talking animals that have the consciousness of human beings right? And so now what you have is a bunch of adults that think that the animals. Are equal to humans and there's nothing different about the 2 of us and they're people too and these are the types of things that you would most people would never be able to come to that conclusion unless they were None None 3 4 5 none watching animals talk and. This and that I'm not saying that animals don't think and don't have feelings and all that stuff but they're not us. 18:57.89 Max Shank I think the main difference is the talking thing I was thinking about this the other day like for example, it's okay, in some cultures to to eat ah a dog right? and and here it's totally okay to eat a pig. And right now that's fine. But if you were to have sex with a pig people would I think that's illegal I think it's ah or at least frowned upon if it's not illegal if it's not illegal. It's at least frowned upon in today's day and age it's because there are a lot of bigoted people out there who are discriminating against the yeah. 19:22.57 mikebledsoe I Think it's too legal. 19:36.84 Max Shank Beastie Alllet Tours I don't know whatever now picture this tomorrow tomorrow. You know what really grinds my gears is that Ah now imagine tomorrow Switch flipped pigs can speak english. 19:38.39 mikebledsoe Got a bone to pick max. Um. 19:52.54 mikebledsoe Ah. 19:56.22 Max Shank My guess is that the rules would exactly flip I think if pigs could speak English It would be perfectly legit to have sex with them and not okay to eat them anymore I think it's all about whether they can communicate. 20:08.35 mikebledsoe Well that that falls right in line with the Disney thing if you're witness lobsters having conversations with squirrels then you know like I can see what could happen for you anyways. 20:23.13 Max Shank Which one was the lobsters and the squirrels. 20:27.16 mikebledsoe Yeah I was mixing up my movies. So the back to the triangles and fishing poles the the max and I were talking about right before the show is we we would like to put together something. People are listening to this show. They like it I've gotten a few dms of people offering to send us money which we still haven't set up the donation page yet, but it'll get up eventually and um, watch should be None of those things where. 21:00.56 Max Shank Please please I'm hungry Please I'm hungry I'll eat I'll eat food. 21:02.10 mikebledsoe Thousands of dollars start rolling in and I'm like ah I should have set this up max is he's he's losing weight a pound a week right now he's gonna be nothing here by by Christmas and. 21:18.89 Max Shank I'm going on a food strike until those donations start rolling in. There's no way I'm doing that. Ah, okay, so we got the triangle We got the offer. 21:22.57 mikebledsoe No, ah so ah so I'm curious I'm curious about what it is that people people want I'm always curious about what is it that people want. Yeah oh well, a I look both. 21:36.60 Max Shank Our listeners or or all people. Okay I'll tell you what they want it goes back to um my my 3 levels theory here lizard mammal wizard people. 21:41.99 mikebledsoe Both So okay, let's go. 21:56.32 Max Shank In Lizard mode. They just want to be safe. They just want food. That's it. They're stuck and if you don't get out of that lizard Brain Mode. You're fucking lizard and you might thrash Around. You might have some sharp fangs and claws. But you're not going to fuck around with love or self-actualization which are the. Higher orders of thinking right? you go to the None tier which is the Mammalian brain the mammal wants to be loved So the lizard wants to be safe. The mammal wants to be loved and of course people will try to substitute ah food for love if they can't find it. At that level. So Let's just go back a step and so if people can get love I'm just always shoveling ice cream trying to fill the void in my heart with frozen cream out of a cow. Ah I Love it. Okay, so. 22:36.72 mikebledsoe This explains your ice cream habit. 22:54.55 Max Shank You get love as a mammal.. That's what you want and if you can go even beyond that your Self-actualization. You're following your Bliss. You're finding the intersection between doing what you feel totally blissed out doing you're in a flow state and it's good for the tribe. And you're safe. All that stuff is happening. You feel like you are expressing your most authentic or unfiltered self that feels good and of course in order to get to that point you usually need to be safe so secure The lizard Love the mammal. Free The Wizard. That's what people want and the form it takes can be different. Um you know sex and food and whatnot. 23:39.39 mikebledsoe Yeah, that's what they that's what people want they want they want safety love and after that it's yeah, um, be their best self. 23:48.30 Max Shank Self self actualization legacy. Maybe yeah. 23:53.72 mikebledsoe Find a lot of people hit self-actualization and want to help other people get the self- actualualization but don't There's not enough people. It's like we've had ah we've hit a tipping point or like ah we've slid back in society a bit good correct. Yeah enough people. There's not enough people that are. 24:03.22 Max Shank What do you mean? there aren't enough people who are trying to self-actualize or. 24:13.44 mikebledsoe At that point I think with the last couple years. Ah people slid back into survival and so a lot of a lot of the ah lot of people stopped spending money on things that were more in alignment with self-actualization and started. 24:15.61 Max Shank Ah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah. 24:31.61 mikebledsoe Buying more toilet paper now now we're in a depression. 24:32.70 Max Shank Word totally and it's interesting. How the word so closely mirrors the way that people feel when they're um, less Expressive. I Really hone in on that juxtaposition or that comparison between um, shoot I Just lost my train of thought depression expression. Yeah, exactly so being able to fully express yourself like I have a little note Card. It's just a. 24:53.33 mikebledsoe A. 24:58.85 mikebledsoe Depression expression. 25:09.97 Max Shank A small list. It's in ah, a copy of the doubtaging. It's like pocketsized and I realized a while ago for business for fitness the the list of of stuff should be pretty short overall like the general list that you follow through on and for me, it's like. Have sing I have dance I have climb I have swing like a sword or a rope or something like that. So I Just have these like little bullet points. Basically for what I want to do on a daily basis and the more I sing and dance the more expressive I feel and the less. Feel like filtered or damped down and the word expression itself is all about standing out. So It's like to stand and to be like expressed and it's um, it's important to harmonize that I think with. 25:50.59 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 26:07.40 Max Shank A feeling of oneness So like the exact opposite of expressing this expressing this unique ah sensation of an individual self and sync back in to the all-encompassing soup. 26:20.92 mikebledsoe Yeah, it can be done takes practice hold both. Um. 26:27.51 Max Shank Oh yeah, you were talking about how we're in a depression now and I don't know if it's that far yet. It's not ah I'm like. 26:35.24 mikebledsoe Yeah, well, there's there's more jobs available than there are people willing to work the jobs and. 26:42.56 Max Shank Now that that sounds like Greece a few years ago where it was like 50 I don't know if there's exact statistics but it was like just an overwhelming amount of people who were working in the government and an overwhelming amount of people who were just getting paid by the government and there was like nobody left who wanted to work. 26:57.69 mikebledsoe Yeah, well there I think it's just this. Ah this is one of those and this is just one of those times where you're. 27:02.23 Max Shank And I get it. 27:09.65 mikebledsoe In in business you have to be really good at having that solid offer you actually need to be solving a problem because I think yeah luxury items luxury services be the first to go. 27:18.50 Max Shank The less necessary. It is the sooner. It goes gone depending on the demographic. Yeah, and then it almost never changes for them. 27:28.50 mikebledsoe Um, unless unless you're serving the 1% and never changes well people. 27:36.40 Max Shank It's more individual changes. It's like ah individuals slide in and out of the 1% but as a group the 1% is always there. They're always super wealthy and it always has been since alpha males. 27:44.64 mikebledsoe Um, yeah, in fact, even during it during it during a downturn. They become even more wealthy and that's. 27:52.55 Max Shank Yeah, because they have the dry powder to be able to build rocket ships while you're just fishing furiously in the stream with your one pole because you're like fuck I I need to catch None fish today to feed my family I ain't got time to be building a fucking water wheel or a rocket ship or any of that. So you're just furiously swinging your pole in the water and what about him. 28:12.36 mikebledsoe This makes me think about ah Jeff Bezos talk about a guy talk about a guy who like set the plan in place. He may not have known he was gonna do what he's doing now but he was a online bookstore. 28:23.60 Max Shank Did. Amazing! amazing. 28:29.75 mikebledsoe That just slowly added more and more categories of shit to sell and now oh no, they they probably dwarf any other retail. There's no retailer that stands a chance against them. So. 28:36.26 Max Shank Here. 28:45.27 Max Shank Um, they're so there's they have such incredible economies of scale because they can provide such a crazy value now right? They have that bulk. 28:52.97 mikebledsoe Well I think I point that out because I think people think about scale before they think about solving the 1 problem he solved the 1 problem which is you can't find a book at your local bookstore right? once he once he crushed that then he had the ability to to scale. Both. 29:00.25 Max Shank I see. Right. 29:12.87 mikebledsoe Vertically and horizontally. 29:14.64 Max Shank Yeah I mean I remember him saying once people never want something to arrive slower. They never want it to be more expensive and he's like we just basically focus on that and it's not quite like Youtube. Um, but he's connected the buyers and the sellers in a marketplace he is the marketplace and he's got such a huge market share and the delivery. So actually one of the sides of the triangle you were talking about which is the delivery. 29:37.87 mikebledsoe Yeah, um. 29:53.11 Max Shank Of that offer or that good or service to the person is I mean what's better. What's better. You can get it same day. You can get it 2 day for free and usually it's a pretty seamless process to return that shit like you go into a coles you fuck. They. 29:56.77 mikebledsoe Yeah, the feature. 30:11.78 Max Shank You print out a label 1 ne-click ordering I mean there's a lot of utility there and it's all software based for the most part that's what's so great because we know that's outrageous leverage and of course Youtube has created um, created a marketplace. Right? A media marketplace where the creators like you and I and the advertisers also like you and I but usually different things can ah basically work together to use that flow of consciousness. So. It's really, a. 30:43.30 mikebledsoe Yeah Youtube Google Facebook Instagram yeah. 30:48.56 Max Shank Oh my god Youtube is such a home run. That's like the most insane I'm so hot on Youtube as a user and as a creator because like the videos I've put up five plus years ago are still getting lots of views and those views a small. 31:01.50 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 31:07.84 Max Shank Percentage converts into people who buy something from me and they're just there they're they're there like I don't even have to pay to have those things there like speaking of you don't need ah money to make money. Of course it's better to have more. It's easier to make money when you have a lot. 31:14.20 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, um. 31:25.63 Max Shank Like that's always been the case you know so. 31:26.60 mikebledsoe Yeah I want to go back to that the Amazon you're talking about people don't want things never want anything slower um in ah Alex hormose's hundred million dollar offers book which is one of the best books on offers I've ever read. Um, if if you're a coach. It's probably the. Like it. It very fits our industry but he talks about getting the 2 things that make something more valuable is speed and effort so less effort faster. An example that he uses in the book is. Why will so why would somebody spend $20000 on liposuction but have a hard time spending a couple thousand dollars on a trainer even though like it's obvious to everyone listening why you wouldn't want to get liposuction. But why can they charge that amount of money and there's. 32:20.79 Max Shank The speed and the ease. 32:22.67 mikebledsoe No, yeah, there's no um, shortage of people getting their fat rearranged by a surgeon. So. 32:31.97 Max Shank Well, it's like a different value system for that individual right? So they think their time is valuable. They don't think that um the cost of having their body sliced open is too high right. 32:47.11 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 32:50.25 Max Shank And they think and they believe the cost of exercising for a long time is is too high So simple cost right? It's simple cost benefit and when we talk about cost um calories in time are almost synonymous right? because without calories you're dead. 32:54.63 mikebledsoe It's too expensive. 33:07.83 Max Shank But you could also think of time as the resource and actually it's a little more practical to think of it that way like how many hours per day you can invest you have a fixed amount Yada Yada and then you have dollars and as far as. Investing is concerned mean your your stuff and your time is basically all you got right. 33:31.11 mikebledsoe Yeah, so two things I've been thinking about in regard to offers recently I've been asking myself None questions. The none question entered my mind. Um as I was talking to a buddy who's in the cosmetics industry and he found. He found a product that if he walked into a room 80% of the women wanted his product and that got me thinking I go wow what is a product that if I walked in a room more than half the room would want it. So. 34:07.38 Max Shank Just start hanging out with me. But um. 34:10.20 mikebledsoe That's right, that's right? Ah, but there's there are certain products. Um you know, 80% of the people are using toilet paper 80% of the people drink water you know at least um at least 80% but yeah so like ah. 34:18.16 Max Shank Wait only 80% do the ah I mean I guess some people use the wet wipes but like in America at least a lot of people wipe their ass with their hands. 34:29.50 mikebledsoe Learnings We got bad days and wet wet wipes. Yeah in hand. Yeah yeah. 34:35.80 Max Shank Also that yeah and hand for talking global. It's better to just focus on North America or America for the sake of these conversations right? That's where our audience is. 34:47.50 mikebledsoe Most of them I think we had someone listening from Chad someone from Chad was listening yesterday I'll show you the stats. Yeah so Chad um the ah so I was thinking about like what is what is it that. 34:51.27 Max Shank I apologize to all of our audience in Sudan fucking from from Chad no way that's funny. Ah. 35:06.49 mikebledsoe That almost everybody wants to have and then and then a couple months ago I started asking myself the question of like how would I add a zero to every time I sell something how would I how do I make it 10 times more valuable. So. 35:22.97 Max Shank Oh. 35:24.76 mikebledsoe Some people may hear that and go how do I make it 10 times more expensive. No 10 times more valuable at least so valuable that someone had to have it so those are like 2 thought experiments I've had around offers I think that you know. 35:38.73 Max Shank You have. 35:42.60 mikebledsoe 1 is what's the total addressable market. So how many people out there want or need yours and also looking at how many people are offering the same exact thing that also impacts the total addressable market. So if you can offer something that's truly unique. Your marketing doesn't even have to be that good that truly solves a problem. 35:51.67 Max Shank 9 36:01.49 mikebledsoe And ah, a lot of people want it. It doesn't have to be that great and then um I think it's also much easier to create good marketing when you have that really special unique offer. Um and then also the thought experiment. I really like to do is the the 10 x how do I make this None times more valuable. What would what would that product or service look like for those people or what are those people spending that much money on. So if I go okay, what do people spend none on the majority of the market that spends that kind of money. 36:31.00 Max Shank Oh. 36:39.37 mikebledsoe Usually a home wine. Yeah so ah anyways, and then and then the other experiment too is what would your? what would your offer look like if it was a None of the price. 36:40.35 Max Shank Wine. 36:47.13 Max Shank Individual bottles. 36:55.47 Max Shank Yeah I like the decimal. The decimal imagination is pretty good across the board for any of those like can we get it 10 times faster to them. Can we get the results 10 times faster can we make the experience last 10 times as long, you know all that. 36:56.65 mikebledsoe What could you deliver. 37:11.80 mikebledsoe Yeah, um, yeah. 37:14.78 Max Shank Is ah it's a clean visualization for some reason it it expands way more than thinking of doubling it I mean of course mathematically. 37:19.44 mikebledsoe Well doubling doesn't work doubling doubling doesn't work because people I believe that people's minds will start gravitating towards working twice as hard. It's It's a lot easier to work twice as hard that if I say. 37:32.10 Max Shank Oh here. 37:38.36 mikebledsoe the the 10 x thinking is a governor on how much work you can do because you can't work 10 times more than you're already working I mean unless you're only working an hour a da hour then then you could shut up max. But then. 37:46.62 Max Shank Yeah I mean I could. 37:54.70 Max Shank Ah, hey this is work is my work for the day. 37:55.57 mikebledsoe But then um, yeah, there you go? Ah so so the 10 x thinking really does force people into a high leverage way of thinking. It's a higher order of thinking. 38:05.42 Max Shank I agree. You also said something that I was just talking about yesterday which is huge is you don't want to identify with suffering I mean you can if you want to but I feel like it is a major inhibitor in the results you get. Because instead of your ah result being proportional to the result itself your your metric is how much you suffered and the ratio of how much you suffered to what you produced and I think that um holds a lot of people in a. 38:38.16 mikebledsoe Um, yeah. 38:44.92 Max Shank Really diminished state because the the value that they were taught either implicitly or explicitly is that suffering is the value. Not the value is the value and hey that's fucked and I'm sorry if that's you ah. But you can change your mind if you want to. 39:06.58 mikebledsoe Ah, you're you're spot on. Yeah there there was a period of time where I didn't yeah. 39:13.72 Max Shank That's what I learned I mean full disclosure. That's what I learned like if you suffer more you're more good and the reality is ah like that's kind of true historically like when we tell stories if a guy suffers a lot. We're like man that Martyr was a real badass. He got. Drawn and quartered for what he believed in or this guy got crucified for what he believed in I mean crazy right? So you don't want to identify with suffering. It's way it's way more It's kind of a ah weird selfish thing. 39:34.23 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, yeah, wild. 39:49.29 Max Shank And if you really focus on solving a problem for somebody else. You'll recognize that your suffering is totally irrelevant except for the fact that if you suffer more you'll probably be able to produce less. So so. 40:00.32 mikebledsoe Yeah, the um ah in my in my trainings a lot of times I have students they do a journaling about how about the the collapse distinction of sacrifice and service and. 40:16.62 Max Shank Oh shit. That's a good one I hope you have that written down. It's nice. 1 40:19.67 mikebledsoe Yeah, So there's yeah, there's there's this it happens a lot with people with military Backgrounds Blue Colar Backgrounds I mean such as max and I come come from these types of backgrounds and the idea is that. Sacrifices and service are like intermingled constantly in the language. So as you're getting older because here's the thing we learn definitions of words through context we don't sit Down. We weren't taught each word and sat down and. Go Oh Let's look at the dictionary so we learn everything through context and so unconsciously a lot of us when when people hear about service their mind automatically translate that to be associated with sacrifice as Well. And so. 41:12.82 Max Shank Get right. 41:14.92 mikebledsoe What ends up happening I see this a lot with mothers is if they like they they can't enjoy themselves because the moment they start enjoying themselves. They're not being a good mom. Yeah, exactly exactly So this. 41:18.34 Max Shank Oh yeah, the Sufferin mama. 41:27.80 Max Shank They're a bad mom. You're a bad mom. What are you fucking enjoying yourself bad mom. 41:34.74 mikebledsoe This idea So I have everyone journal out you know, ah the definition of each go look it up just go look it out and write it down now. Can you have service without sacrifice. Can you have sacrifice without service. Yes, on both. So. 41:40.86 Max Shank M. 41:50.24 Max Shank Depends on how you define sacrifice 1 of the definitions I think for sacrifice is just ah like what are you? What are you paying right? I'm sacrificing this in exchange for this. So it really depends on the. 41:53.71 mikebledsoe Um. 41:57.89 mikebledsoe Yeah, well my friend Jesse just yeah well Jesse Elder defined the sacrifice is that you the difference between sacrificing and investing is. 42:07.32 Max Shank The definition. So what you said is right? You just have to have it there. 42:16.53 mikebledsoe A lot of times people use the word sacrifice when they're talking about giving up something now for something greater later and that's yeah and that's technically an investment. Not a sacrifice sacrifice is when you give up something for a lesser value. So that's. 42:21.74 Max Shank Like in a chess game when you do a sacrifice for a gambit. 42:35.33 mikebledsoe That's a distinction that he's created that I that I find to be really useful that may not necessarily be true, but it's a really useful way to think possible. What. 42:39.58 Max Shank Um, you know I don't even know if it's possible to sacrifice something for a lesser value because in that moment you are making a value estimation. On what you're going to get out of this behavior. So I think you are always ah basically gambling. Um, it kind of is similar to yeah I think I mean people always do what they think is going to get them. 43:04.90 mikebledsoe Ah, sometimes people know that they're gonna I don't know it's hard to say I. Well, let's get out. 43:15.94 Max Shank The the most for the least if we want it if we want to simplify it down people want the most for the least and sometimes what they give up is not worth as much as what they got is like my friend Rob says is the fucking you're getting worth the fucking. You're getting. 43:32.52 mikebledsoe Um, or going like this. Yeah. 43:33.84 Max Shank Ah, ah what you made me think of you. What me? what you made me think of though um was why I think ah tolerance is the worst thing in the world I think being able to I think. 43:48.85 mikebledsoe Dude you live in California you're supposed to be tolerant of everything everybody all the time you you should have a flat flat set of values. Everything should be the same value all the time. 43:52.76 Max Shank No okay so go go ahead and lump lump me in lump me in with tens of millions of people in a sweeping generalization because I'm such a normal such ah because I'm such a normal fucking dude in the None place right. 44:02.66 mikebledsoe I Just did I. 44:11.11 mikebledsoe Ah. 44:12.38 Max Shank Jesus fucking Christ so being able to tolerate physical forces. That's good. That's athletic, right? But when people tolerate something. Ah let's say psychologically or relationship. Wise it's ah it's one of the worst things you can do because you're not what you should do is you should reject it or you should accept it and I think people make the mistake of they tolerate. Which is like they're being wounded constantly and they build this resentment from this little barbed wound so you should either accept it fully or reject it but you should never tolerate never tolerate behavior you don't want accept it. Let it go or reject that shit. 45:02.91 mikebledsoe Ooh. 45:07.80 Max Shank Don't fucking tolerate. It's the work tolerant. You heard it here first. Tolerance is the worst thing for a relationship. That's what's up. 45:13.70 mikebledsoe I Love it I Love it. You're right I like the acceptance or reject it. Tolerance tolerance is like I don't want to make a choice I don't want to. It's a lack of responsibility in the context your. 45:25.60 Max Shank Um, yeah, no, it's even worse. It is a choice. It is a choice I'm gonna I'm gonna watch I'm gonna watch this thing that a person does and I'm not gonna like it and I'm gonna Harbor resentment because of it. 45:32.42 mikebledsoe Well, every non-choice is a choice. 45:45.00 Max Shank And it's going to feel like and it's going to feel like a perpetual cost is's going to feel like ah, a perpetual suffering. It's going to feel like a sacrifice. That's what made me think of it is like you're you're you're now in a psychological energetic debt because you are tolerating instead of accepting. 45:51.37 mikebledsoe Ah. 46:02.80 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah. 46:04.66 Max Shank And it's like that French phrase to know all is to forgive all like you know full acceptance is going to allow that energy to flow full rejection is going to allow you to flow your energy elsewhere but Tolerance is just this like parasitic energy leakage where nobody's winning. Out of that Deal. Tolerance sucks. 46:24.55 mikebledsoe I Really I Really like that perspective. That's that's brand new for me I'm gonna write some things down. But I think that's just gonna be the title of the show is tolerant sucks. 46:41.64 Max Shank I knew I stumbled onto something good here. This is a new thing for me too. It's when within the last week some headline shit. Yeah. 46:42.95 mikebledsoe Yeah, some headline shit. Oh yeah, yeah, what did you? What did you? What caused you to stumble across this one. What we got you thinking on this. Do you remember you might be like me, you just wake up and you're like ah. 46:55.54 Max Shank So my my my special lit I mean I'm kind of like Richard Feynman in that sense where like I just get a kick out of thinking about things I like to dance around with sticks and ropes and clubs and swords and that kind of shit. But. 47:06.10 mikebledsoe Ah. 47:14.72 Max Shank I also get a real kick out of just sitting in a big comfy chair and thinking about shit you know, but this time ah I was talking with my special lady friend. None of her friends. Ah, just recently broke up with her boyfriend right? And so. She went to go console this friend. She told me a little bit about what's going on nothing like no grizzly details or anything like that just in um, you know generalities. How do you interact and relate to another person and. You realize that it's ah it's rarely something like all at once that sends it to hell there is a straw that breaks the Camel's back but there's always something in the background that is being tolerated. That's the problem is like something has been tolerated instead of accepted or rejected. Accepted boom floodgates are open rejected boom the gates are closed and so as far as like ascribing fault to None party or the other like the the alleged offender or the one who's just quietly suffering those offenses. It's like. You got to take away that resentful tolerance and accept everything whole heart as it is or you got to reject it a little bit more forcefully and the longer those boundaries get ah, blurred and fuzzy and. You move your boundaries in and you feel resentment because now you're not really comfortable because your boundaries aren't where you'd like them to be um, it. It just seems so clear to me now even looking back at all my past relationships and I've never felt better about that. Personally because you just learn something from everybody and you appreciate the time for what it was and it's it's very easy to become ah resentful and I think that's ah all because of tolerance instead of acceptance or rejection. 49:21.30 mikebledsoe Love it. Love it. Thank you for that one all right? What's have do with ah fishing poles. Yep. 49:24.63 Max Shank And yeah, man, Thank you, You want to know so people often ah resent their circumstances and they tolerate their circumstances but they don't fully accept them either. And that's like having a big chip on your shoulder. Ah and and you're stuck in this ideology rather than just accepting where where you are here and now and realizing that what you have is here and now and whatever you have. That's what the fuck you have. And if you're like but that other guy has more. It's like Okay, yeah, yeah, he does so like a thousand years ago. The guy who had. 50:08.62 mikebledsoe What are you gonna do about it anytime anyone complains about something I ask them? What are you gonna do about it and a lot of time that throws people off. 50:19.83 Max Shank Um, well look. You should either be ah like asking for help or offering help Really if you're not sure what to do like ask for help or offer help You're not going to get anywhere. 50:29.63 mikebledsoe Yeah. 50:35.87 Max Shank By complaining unless you go into politics then you can get a tremendous amount you can actually get more power and money than anyone else in the world If you just come That's professional level complaining. 50:43.67 mikebledsoe Could you imagine if if ah could you imagine? ah like ah a Ceo going out in the world and complaining for his marketing just going out there and complaining about shit. 50:59.28 Max Shank Ah, Amazing. You can only complain as part of your marketing If. You're complaining about the state of the market I Can't believe how horrible this market is. That's why I came in here to change the game with my new and improved version of what this market is lacking like there's a., There's ah, there's a place for it for sure. But yeah I I think ah, you don't want to tolerate your situation you fucking accept it or you reject it and you come up with a new one. But I think I Really think Tolerance is like ah a really bad value. Ah, in the sense that we're talking about and in the sense of physical forces. It's one of the best ever means you can tolerate a huge amount of force without ah deform ah plastic deformation right? without breaking or deforming. So That's that's a good thing physically and then energetically acceptance not tolerance but acceptance so I think that applies to where people are in their lives. Professionally I think Also I think a lot about. A lot of acceptance is about seeing things for what they truly are and when it comes to putting an offer together. It's like it's great if you like something but it doesn't mean that other people have to like it and the same thing is true for like a solution that worked for you. It. It may not be the solution that everybody else wants and I think that's ah, that's how a lot of people get sucked into some sort of weird fanaticism or zealotry I'm trying to think of a less fancy word but they get they get really hyper about something. Because it really worked well for them and then they start basically using a hammer to bash down every screw that they find because they don't know the difference in what is being presented in that other person versus what happened to them. They're like oh my God I did hamstring curls and it cured my life. Everyone's doing hamstring curls and I've I've attended maybe 50 weekend seminars in my life. No. Well I mean as a student I've taught like 200 but I I would ah I would notice it in myself. I'd go to a seminar I'd come back and I would just be like parroting that shit I couldn't help it you know and as I started teaching more seminars I made more and more of a point to remind people to not just like brain dump. 53:31.78 mikebledsoe Yeah. 53:46.65 Max Shank Everything I told them on their new clients and think that you know it's a 1 ne-size fits all approach to everything. 53:50.90 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, yeah I had a ah talk with a guy the other day where I told him just that in his marketing is focus on the benefits. Not the features. He had all these features it was revolutionary for him. 54:05.10 Max Shank Revolutionary Revolutionary Revolutionary The features just need to be a bullet point to justify the price I think unless it's part of the story. 54:08.55 mikebledsoe But it's well this is this is the problem. Well None problem is people are focused on the people people know the features and they think that if I they tell other people the features they're going to get the value of it but they need to hear the benefit they're going to get from the features. But the other thing is is going back to being in touch with reality I'm not sure. There's you know I think there's some coaches out there that are telling other coaches that you know they can make a million dollars you know following their their bliss type of thing. But. 54:45.90 Max Shank Some of them some of them. Yeah. 54:47.64 mikebledsoe Some of them some of them can and I think part of it is like some of them did and then they turn around tell people do the same thing but that doesn't always work. So for instance, yeah. 54:56.64 Max Shank It's like multi-level marketing. It's like multi-level marketing like 90% of the people. Ah, it didn't have what it takes in the none place and did nothing with it and then a small percentage are like fucking rock stars and they're like. What is this an electric dildo some fancy antioxidant berry juice I'll sell None of them this month I'm on it. You know what? I mean it doesn't it doesn't matter even what it is. There's just that crew that will always do well. But. 55:14.20 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. But I get for instance I'll get a I'll get a coach as I'm like um I'm like okay, what are your goals. Oh I want to be able to make x amount of dollars. I was like okay your business needs to make this amount if you want to take this amount home and there and then it's kind of like a oh shit and I'm like okay who's your who's your client like what type people are you serving is like well mma fighters in their early twenty s trying to go pro. 55:32.25 Max Shank Well. 55:50.50 mikebledsoe And I go Well do those guys have money. Do they have and and do they valueate? Yeah I mean and well I think most guys trying to go pro and mate don't have money I I. 55:54.28 Max Shank Do they want this I mean a lot of them may have money but do they want it. 56:05.48 Max Shank My experience is the same I used to want to train those guys like my gym at the very beginning because I was into all that shit I was like a fucking retarded testosterone out 21 year old when I started my gym I was I was fighting in the cage. 56:08.46 mikebledsoe Okay, yeah. 56:25.37 Max Shank Was like I am a tough motherfucker and I'm gonna fill this gym full of guys just like me and you know what those guys didn't pay a God damn thing those guys suck Those guys are those guys are always about like. 56:30.30 mikebledsoe Yep. 56:39.51 Max Shank Ah, dude I'll tweet you bro and I'm like oh Jesus fucking. It didn't take long for me to head down to the country clubs and swoop up some of the 45 to 65 range there are easier businesses and hard businesses. Let's just say it that way. 56:41.49 mikebledsoe I'm great people. 56:46.79 mikebledsoe Exactly exactly? Yeah, so like what I. 56:59.15 Max Shank There are easier businesses. There are things that people already want and there are things that are a tough sell. 57:01.69 mikebledsoe Yeah, well here here's the thing I I do 2 things for free. So I get.? Yeah yeah I did 2 things I have 2 offers for free that I give people and both of them tap into my expertise that I normally get paid for or at least used to get paid for and I am he ruined it as. 57:11.61 Max Shank I'm excited by whatever these 2 things are going to be by the way. Ah. 57:25.76 Max Shank Is it prostate massage is that one of them. Sorry. 57:31.23 mikebledsoe Um, so I give these things away and I and I love it because I don't charge a dime for it whereas a bunch of other people are trying to figure out how to charge what I'm doing when I'm offering for free and the only reason I can offer it for free is because I have. Paying customers somewhere else people that actually do have money. 57:50.81 Max Shank Oh shit, he's flexing on y'all right now I give away better stuff for free may maybe better. You don't always get what you pay for, but it's because you are so confident. 57:57.60 mikebledsoe Well not yeah, probably but like maybe better you don't always get me pay for it. 58:08.12 Max Shank In your ecosystem right? that you have created that once they experience something you've given them for free. You got None of value down the road right? no. 58:15.17 mikebledsoe Well well here's the thing is thinking about like um, well yeah, maybe but actually I don't have a plan for it at all with the 2 things I like I have no plan for either None of these things to ever make money and these are. But types of thing people want to help people who it's charity. That's not really it's not it's not really charity um oh no, what? what? I give away for free is I do a Tuesday night workout for a handful of my buddies at my house. 58:32.25 Max Shank Um, so it's so it's marketing. No fuck you. It's not char you it's marketing a free book is great marketing. 58:48.71 Max Shank Oh that's nice. Yeah, that sounds great. 58:51.82 mikebledsoe Right? And then we grill some meat afterwards and we kick it and they get world-class training. You know most of them never been exposed to like a coach that's been exposed to things I've been exposed to so they're getting their minds blown. They're learning more about their bodies for an hour once a week and. 59:09.18 Max Shank I dig it. 59:10.76 mikebledsoe I and I never care to train pay you know accept money for for physical training. So I do that So I give that away for free and then I give away which I give that to people who don't know that they could get training right? like they don't even know to go get it but because. 59:25.58 Max Shank Right. 59:29.20 mikebledsoe My friends I'm like come over to my house I'll I'll I'll treat you and then on Thursday mornings I have I meet with these guys who are blue collar and these guys could can't afford me for for the types of of advice and. Coaching that I would give but if they can figure out a way to make time out of their day at None a m on Thursdays I meet with them at the park. We kick it for an hour and I just help them with whatever it is. That's going on in their life. Well I just kept on coming across all these guys so like ah it was like I was getting like all these blue collar guys like. 59:59.36 Max Shank No kidding How do you set this one up. 01:00:08.40 mikebledsoe I'd be at a cafe student just couldn't stop talking to me so I was like I Well I guess I'm not supposed to work' going to supposed to talk to this guy. So I talked to this guy I'm like oh you start sharing his problems with me is like I don't know why I all a sudden look like a a target for other people's problems. But then. 01:00:16.86 Max Shank Ah. 01:00:26.97 mikebledsoe I Got a guy that came to saw saw me solar and you know the the conversation turned and he needed some help so I was able to give him some help and then another guy I met ah you know at the at the gym same thing like you know he's he's. Somehow what opens up to me and starts talking and then so I got these guys and I'm like look if you have any of your other friends that you know and some of these guys are dealing. You know they're dealing with some heavy like legal stuff and all sorts of crazy shit and so I'm meeting with them and. For most of them the benefit they get is just understanding that whatever they're experiencing internally other guys are experiencing that same thing internally too. I mean that that by itself is just so healing because most of these guys they screwed up something we Well we all screwed up. 01:01:14.37 Max Shank Ah. Lost Boys their lost boys. 01:01:23.26 mikebledsoe We we all screw up in our life. Yeah, we all screw up in our life At some point right? and then we then we judge our s ourselves for having screwed up and most guys they just clam up and never share that with anybody because they think that their situation is truly unique. 01:01:33.28 Max Shank Often. Talk about suppressing right? I mean who suppresses more than dudes with their feelings. Ah. 01:01:41.70 mikebledsoe Yeah, yeah, So um, so just just the act of getting out and hanging out and talking about it and then realizing that other dudes have the same problems and then and then I'll obviously also offering strategies for dealing with. These things. Yeah, so these are 2 things that I like to I just do for for free that I know other people are trying to charge for and if you're trying to sell coaching to somebody that doesn't have money like I don't have any interest in trying to sell something. 01:02:02.70 Max Shank It's like a feeling of a community. It sounds like. 01:02:18.38 mikebledsoe To the blue collar I'm not gonna go sell coaching to the blue collar community one. They're not really looking for it. Um, and ah because they don't know it exists. They just don't even know it exists. Yeah. 01:02:22.90 Max Shank But now. 01:02:31.73 Max Shank You're talking about using the right bait for the right fish basically and the fact that not everything has to be ah, a monetary exchange because my guess is you get a tremendous amount out of these experiences every week otherwise you would not do them. 01:02:38.25 mikebledsoe Not everything. 01:02:44.47 mikebledsoe I Absolutely so but the only reason I can do them is because I am using the right bait with the right fish somewhere else that feeds me it pays my bills it. 01:02:53.96 Max Shank Exactly you got a crew of guys out on a fleet of boats. They're catching fish you're shooting the breeze with the guy at the diner and if you don't free up your time. Ah, you're always stuck with the pole. 01:03:02.32 mikebledsoe Exactly. 01:03:11.21 Max Shank In the River You don't have a chance to tell other guys about fishing. You don't have a chance to just relax on the beach yourself. Um, yeah, that's a really interesting way to use our resources right? It's like you're using your resources to get something that. 01:03:29.84 mikebledsoe Yeah, well, ah, there's ah this this actually happens in like a lot of the the medicine world like I learned about this from Ashley she's psychotherapist and they have this thing called a sliding scale. So you know they may charge. 01:03:31.12 Max Shank Ah, you can't purchase. 01:03:49.28 mikebledsoe Two hundred bucks, two hundred and fifty three hundred bucks an hour as as a psychotherapist to their clients. But if someone comes in There's a certain number of spots they have allotted that they're allowed to go down in a sliding scalells like you know I'm only in charge you a hundred bucks because I know you can't afford it in this and that and I look at it I go man. Ah, sliding scale is too narrow I want a sliding scale where I'm charging this person $3000 per hour and then I'm giving this person the thing for twenty bucks an hour or five bucks an hour or free ends. 01:04:20.22 Max Shank Well, that just means you're good at drawing a boundary of what you feel comfortable with my my thing is people pay full price. Ah for what I'm doing or they pay nothing and I I I like that I like that idea better. 01:04:31.70 mikebledsoe Yeah, that's that's pretty much I don't I don't do discounts either. You know. 01:04:39.83 Max Shank Because um, when I was when I was coming up when I was just a young book coming up I was ah you know started out coaching people

In today's episode, we will learn 10 popular French idioms. Connect with me: https://wa.me/message/G4EXB23HGD2CO1. What are idioms? 1. Ça marche Literal translation: it walks. Figurative translation: 'it functions', but also 'got it' or 'okay' Être dans la lune Literal translation: to be in the moon Figurative translation: to daydream, to pay zero attention. This is easy to guess, right? Sometimes, French also use this for the same meaning: être tête en l'air - which literally means 'head in the air,' but actually means 'to be distracted'. Est-ce que tu as compris ce que je viens de te dire? Y: Quoi? Désolée, j'étais dans la lune. X: Do you understand what I just told you? Y: What? Sorry, I was daydreaming. 3.Ça coûte un bras Literal translation: It costs an arm. Figurative translation: It's super expensive. I know, there's an identical idiom in English - It costs an arm and a leg. Who copied whom? Ex. ça coûte les yeux de la tête (it costs the eyes in the head) This car was extremely expensive. 4. Faire la grasse matinée Literal translation: to do a fat morning. Figurative translation: to stay in bed until late in the morning. Chaque samedi, j'aime bien faire la grasse matinée. Every Saturday, I like staying in bed until late. 5. Coup de foudre Literal translation: a lightning strike. Figurative translation: to fall madly in love at first sight. Did you guess it right? Use it if you feel like you've been hit by a lighting bolt when you see someone for the first time. If it's only a 'moderate' love at first sight, this is what you use: coup de coeur. C'était un coup de foudre entre lui et moi. We fell madly in love at first sight, him and me. 6. Être sage comme une image Literal translation: to be reasonable like an image. Figurative translation: it's usually used to define kids who are very calm. Les enfants que je garde sont sages comme des images. C'est un travail facile et je suis très content. The kids I babysit are very calm. It's an easy job, and I'm so glad. 7. Boire comme un trou Literal translation: to drink like a hole. Figurative translation: well, you can guess, I think (hint: the picture of Kermit above). Vous devrez le conduire chez lui, il boit comme un trou. You'll have to drive him home; he's drinking heavily. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/easyfrenchwithmedinat/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/easyfrenchwithmedinat/support

**Podcast in slower and understandable English** It has been a while since I uploaded an episode so in this episode I wanted to talk about a few things that have happened in my life - an update - some good news and some bad news. In the second half of the episode I talk about language learning and motivation to learn languages. Link (as mentioned) to international suicide hotline: International Suicide & Emergency Hotlines email: enquiries.rjc.tutoring@gmail.com Instagram: @simple_english_with_reuben iTalki (1:1 English tutoring available): ID 10575081 Many thanks for listening, you guys are the best :))

On the Brink of WW3 with RUSSIAN POW AUDIO - VIDEO IN RUSSIAN DUBBED in ENGLISH -It's at the end of the PODCAST. VOLUME NEEDS TO BE TURNED UP. Thank you. The Lord said, 'It's not going to be how anyone expects!' So, in this podcast/video I prophecy in part and know in part. God may very well save Ukrainians and Russians and move with a mighty army of God. (Some prophetic words about this and even Putin being saved.) Is that possible? IDK? With God I guess He says all things are possible.

Più che uno sport, è uno stile di vita. Francisco Porcella ci racconta di quanto sia importante avere paura per salvarsi la pelle quando si cavalca un’onda di 20 metri e del senso di libertà che si prova quando si fa uno sport estremo a contatto con la natura, dalla Sardegna fino ai Hawaii. Segui Francisco su Instagram a @franciscoporcella. Segui Francesca su Instagram a @francesca_laz. Segui Lemonada Media su Twitter, Facebook e Instagram a @LemonadaMedia. Clicca qui per una lista dei sponsor e i codici di sconto per questo programma e altri di Lemonada: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors. Per una trascrizione di questa puntata sia in italiano che in inglese, vai a https://www.lemonadamedia.com/show/ingiroconfra poco dopo la data di pubblicazione. Show Notes (in English): It’s more than a sport… it’s a lifestyle. Francisco Porcella talks to us about the importance of fear when riding a 20-meter wave from Sardinia to Hawaii, and the sense of freedom he feels during extreme sports that are in contact with nature. Follow Francisco on Instagram at @franciscoporcella. Follow Francesca on Instagram at @francesca_laz. Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and all other Lemonada series: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors. To follow along with a transcript in Italian and English, go to https://www.lemonadamedia.com/show/ingiroconfra shortly after the air date.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sh. Moutassem Al Hameedi The Dua: Arabic - حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، سَنَةَ إِحْدَى وَثَلاَثِينَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، فِي سَنَةِ خَمْسٍ وَتِسْعِينَ وَمِائَةٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ فِي مَجْلِسِ الأَعْمَشِ مُنْذُ خَمْسِينَ سَنَةً حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ مُرَّةَ الْجَمَلِيُّ فِي زَمَنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ الْمُكْتِبِ عَنْ طَلِيقِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ الْحَنَفِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ كَانَ يَقُولُ فِي دُعَائِهِ ‏ "‏ رَبِّ أَعِنِّي وَلاَ تُعِنْ عَلَىَّ وَانْصُرْنِي وَلاَ تَنْصُرْ عَلَىَّ وَامْكُرْ لِي وَلاَ تَمْكُرْ عَلَىَّ وَاهْدِنِي وَيَسِّرِ الْهُدَى لِي وَانْصُرْنِي عَلَى مَنْ بَغَى عَلَىَّ رَبِّ اجْعَلْنِي لَكَ شَكَّارًا لَكَ ذَكَّارًا لَكَ رَهَّابًا لَكَ مُطِيعًا إِلَيْكَ مُخْبِتًا إِلَيْكَ أَوَّاهًا مُنِيبًا رَبِّ تَقَبَّلْ تَوْبَتِي وَاغْسِلْ حَوْبَتِي وَأَجِبْ دَعْوَتِي وَاهْدِ قَلْبِي وَسَدِّدْ لِسَانِي وَثَبِّتْ حُجَّتِي وَاسْلُلْ سَخِيمَةَ قَلْبِي ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ الطَّنَافِسِيُّ قُلْتُ لِوَكِيعٍ أَقُولُهُ فِي قُنُوتِ الْوِتْرِ قَالَ نَعَمْ ‏.‏ English - It was narrated from Ibn 'Abbas that : the Prophet (saas) used to say in his supplication: "Rabbi! A'inni wa la tu'in 'alayya, wansurni wa la tansur 'alayya, wamkurli wa la tamkur 'alayya, wahdini wa yassiril-huda li, wansurni 'ala man bagha 'alayya. Rabbij'alni laka shakkaran laka dhakkaran, laka rahhaban, laka muti'an, 'ilayka mukhbitan, 'ilayka awwahan muniba. Rabbi! Taqabbal tawbati, waghsil hawbati wa ajib da'wati, wahdi qalbi, wa saddid lisani, wa thabbit hujjati, waslul sakhimata qalbi (O Lord! Help me and do not help others against me, support me and do not support others against me, plan for me and do not plan against me, guide me and make guidance easy for me, and help me against those who wrong me. O Lord! Make me grateful to You, make me remember You much, make me fearful of You, obedient to You, humble before You and turning to You. O Lord! Accept my repentance and wash away my sins, answer my supplication, guide my heart, make my tongue speak the truth, make my proof firm and remove resentment from my heard)." (Sahih) (One of the narrators) Abul-Hasan At-Tanafisi said: "I said to Waki': 'Shall I say it in the Qunut of Witr?' He said: 'Yes.'" Reference: Sunan Ibn Majah 3830 In-book reference: Book 34, Hadith 4 English translation: Vol. 5, Book 34, Hadith 3830 ______________________________________________________________________________________ Servants of the Most Merciful playlist: https://goo.gl/MHrBMx The Beneficial Means to a Happy Life Playlist: https://goo.gl/j6ejeX The Evolution of Fiqh playlist: https://goo.gl/VGeDaH In their stories, there are lessons playlist: https://goo.gl/qdBU9M

Sh. Moutassem Al Hameedi The Dua: Arabic - حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، سَنَةَ إِحْدَى وَثَلاَثِينَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، فِي سَنَةِ خَمْسٍ وَتِسْعِينَ وَمِائَةٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ فِي مَجْلِسِ الأَعْمَشِ مُنْذُ خَمْسِينَ سَنَةً حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ مُرَّةَ الْجَمَلِيُّ فِي زَمَنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ الْمُكْتِبِ عَنْ طَلِيقِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ الْحَنَفِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ كَانَ يَقُولُ فِي دُعَائِهِ ‏ "‏ رَبِّ أَعِنِّي وَلاَ تُعِنْ عَلَىَّ وَانْصُرْنِي وَلاَ تَنْصُرْ عَلَىَّ وَامْكُرْ لِي وَلاَ تَمْكُرْ عَلَىَّ وَاهْدِنِي وَيَسِّرِ الْهُدَى لِي وَانْصُرْنِي عَلَى مَنْ بَغَى عَلَىَّ رَبِّ اجْعَلْنِي لَكَ شَكَّارًا لَكَ ذَكَّارًا لَكَ رَهَّابًا لَكَ مُطِيعًا إِلَيْكَ مُخْبِتًا إِلَيْكَ أَوَّاهًا مُنِيبًا رَبِّ تَقَبَّلْ تَوْبَتِي وَاغْسِلْ حَوْبَتِي وَأَجِبْ دَعْوَتِي وَاهْدِ قَلْبِي وَسَدِّدْ لِسَانِي وَثَبِّتْ حُجَّتِي وَاسْلُلْ سَخِيمَةَ قَلْبِي ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ الطَّنَافِسِيُّ قُلْتُ لِوَكِيعٍ أَقُولُهُ فِي قُنُوتِ الْوِتْرِ قَالَ نَعَمْ ‏.‏ English - It was narrated from Ibn 'Abbas that : the Prophet (saas) used to say in his supplication: "Rabbi! A'inni wa la tu'in 'alayya, wansurni wa la tansur 'alayya, wamkurli wa la tamkur 'alayya, wahdini wa yassiril-huda li, wansurni 'ala man bagha 'alayya. Rabbij'alni laka shakkaran laka dhakkaran, laka rahhaban, laka muti'an, 'ilayka mukhbitan, 'ilayka awwahan muniba. Rabbi! Taqabbal tawbati, waghsil hawbati wa ajib da'wati, wahdi qalbi, wa saddid lisani, wa thabbit hujjati, waslul sakhimata qalbi (O Lord! Help me and do not help others against me, support me and do not support others against me, plan for me and do not plan against me, guide me and make guidance easy for me, and help me against those who wrong me. O Lord! Make me grateful to You, make me remember You much, make me fearful of You, obedient to You, humble before You and turning to You. O Lord! Accept my repentance and wash away my sins, answer my supplication, guide my heart, make my tongue speak the truth, make my proof firm and remove resentment from my heard)." (Sahih) (One of the narrators) Abul-Hasan At-Tanafisi said: "I said to Waki': 'Shall I say it in the Qunut of Witr?' He said: 'Yes.'" Reference: Sunan Ibn Majah 3830 In-book reference: Book 34, Hadith 4 English translation: Vol. 5, Book 34, Hadith 3830 ______________________________________________________________________________________ Servants of the Most Merciful playlist: https://goo.gl/MHrBMx The Beneficial Means to a Happy Life Playlist: https://goo.gl/j6ejeX The Evolution of Fiqh playlist: https://goo.gl/VGeDaH In their stories, there are lessons playlist: https://goo.gl/qdBU9M

[ 100% English ] It was a hard week at work for both Vi and Alex. After listening to her favourite TEDtalk video: What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | Robert Waldinger, Vi decided to express how grateful she is to have good relationships in life. By the way, we have a new microphone arm hovering just above our bed, which is believed to make the recording experience more comfortable before bed.

 I went back after over 10 years to the Ashram in Amritapuri/Kerala…I was meditating the whole day as usual in the presence of my Guru Amma.Then I went swimming, the Arabian Ocean was calm and no wave. Somehow, we should not go swimming, but the older devotees like me did that always. Beside that I am an excellent swimmer/certified rescue swimmer/lifeguard.It was Sunday late afternoon; we had many buses full of Indian devotees in the Ashram… I swam my 30 minutes… good for my body… And again, I meditated for 4 hours…In the night my roommate told me, shortly after I left the water; a baby went in the water, when his mother was going to get a ticket for the Guru…  There had been about 200 Western and Indian devotees on the beach… Nobody cared for that baby and guess… My roommate jumped in the water, when he heard that there is a baby drown in the water of the ocean.First, he undressed his white cloth… The Ashramites were complaining and then he tried his best to find the baby… NO CHANCES!All of these so holly Ashramites didn’t like to help, they watched the sun set and hindered my roommate to find that baby! … In Germany these Ashramites would go to jail, because they didn’t help or prevented the baby to get drowned! IT IS A CRIME!Next morning, they put in English everywhere signboards on the beach that nobody should swim.99% of the Indians CANNOT swim and 99% of the Western people can swim. For what reason they put a signboard in English: “It is dangerous to swim”? That is not true! I went swimming every day for 10 years when I was living in the Ashram! Most of all Indians cannot read English nor swim!Even it is everywhere forbidden in Kerala for the Indians to go swimming because they cannot swim… For Western people it is allowed to go swimming. My situation was terrible, because people could blemish me that I have inspired the mother with the baby to go swimming. Then I had to defense myself and to tell the truth… Would never be good, the people would hate me! I could not stand the whole situation of dishonesty and I left immediately the Ashram when I saw the signboards. It was Christmas, so I went to Varkala, it is close to the Ashram.A half year later I read the book “Holly Hell” by Gayatri about our Ashram and the Guru… Gayatri was one of the best Sanayasin of our Guru Amma and the personal servant of Amma. She wrote terrible stories about Amma and our Ashram… The book became a bestseller!In India it is forbidden to criticize a Guru. If you abuse a Guru then the devotees should kill you, after the Indian scriptures (Srimati Bhagavatam). In our Ashram we had to idealize the actions done by the Guru and to rationalize the wrongdoing. So that everything was perfect… The suicide rate was so high that the government wanted to close the Ashram!   Because we should not speak/care to other people. Everybody should stay isolated.If you needed help, for sure it was very difficult to get help… There were a lot of signboards in the Ashram that Western people should not speak or to be together with Indian people!? But I had a lot of Indian friends, so again I didn’t care. Regardless what a Guru is doing it is divine…? Because he/she is an embodiment of selfless love…?I surrender my life to God and I don’t need for that to be perfect! For me is God perfect, and that is enough. And I am happy that God has shown me again that this Ashram is not the place, where I should be! My Video: Episode 25 my last day at the Ashram https://youtu.be/3rf39AQs0x4My Audio: https://rudizimmerer.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/6/Episode+25+my+last+day+at+the+Ashram.mp3Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connection or reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×

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Sometimes people say there are many more negative emotions than there are positive emotions. Perhaps it's just because we haven't yet charted our internal universes, discovering exactly what it is to feel, what colors are available for our emotional paintbrushes. In Latin America, you might show someone a picture of your pet and they say “que lindo” - “how lovely”, or you ask about their favorite town and they say “es un pueblo muy bonito” - “it's a very pretty town”. When they say it, you can easily hear in their voice that they are emotional about it. Perhaps we might call this emotion “enchantment”, just as we sometimes say in English “It's enchanting to meet you.” What does it feel like to be enchanted? What enchants you? And can you be more open to being enchanted? For transcript go to: Enchanted to Meet You A Beautiful Thought --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beautiful-thought/message

(English) It is not what we call ourselves or are titled. It is how we feel about it. Humility doesn’t come with a very humble title; it comes from within. When we realize that we are all children of God, and we and the Father are One, that is where true humility begins. Many people do not call themselves”The Supreme” but they feel”supreme”all the same. Any how , they rightly do so; we all have the supreme power inside. Whenever we pray using the name of God, or we happen to come across any name that ...

Do you ever use the wrong word in English? It's a very common problem - and it affects students at all levels, from beginner to intermediate to advanced. These mistakes are especially common when the two words appear very similar - like "interfere" and "intervene" or "relation" and "relationship" - or when they seem to have the same meaning, like "problem" and "trouble" or "staff" and "employees." Today I'm going to teach you the differences between all these super-confusing words I just mentioned, as well as a few more. I hope this lesson has helped clarify these super-confusing words! If you have any words that confuse you, let me know and I'll add them to my list for a future lesson. But you might find many of your questions answered inside my 600+ Confusing Words E-Book. You can see exactly what's covered in that e-book when you click on this list of all 600 words you'll learn.

Visit SpeakEnglishWithTiffani.com/Episode67 for show notes and the LIVE video link of this podcast episode.In today’s episode, you are going to hear my conversation with Julie. She is from Canada, but she currently lives in Dubai. She has been an English teacher for 10 years and she is passionate about teaching English. I know that you are going to enjoy this interview. Let’s get started with the interview.EPISODE NOTES===========================================IntroductionFrom Canada Currently living in Dubai Has been a freelance English teacher in Dubai for a year and a half CopywriterWhy did you become an English teacher and how long have you been an English teacher?Graduated with a degree in “Human Resources" She was just looking for things to do Taught kids in China Initially, it was just an excuse to travel Realized that she was actually good at teaching She decided to stay in Dubai for so long because she fell in love with Dubai Can you tell us about your first teaching experience?She was a bit nervous She was not prepared The kids were 4-5 years old As a teacher, what have you noticed are the three best qualities of a good English student?Have to be dedicated Be realistic with their expectations Have a positive attitude Bonus: Be flexible Did you ever have a favorite student? Tell us about him/herClicks with certain students more than others What are the hardest things about teaching English?Finding a topic that is applicable to the entire group (During conversation time) What do you enjoy most about teaching English?It’s very fulfilling She works with IELTS, Business, and Interview prepSeeing their progress Do you speak another language? Tell us about it.Studied French in school, but didn’t study hard Do you know any good English resources?Articles and Podcasts Book “How to be brilliant" Netflix “How I met your mother" Advice for other 2nd language teachers, students, and teachersBe patient and be persistent Do a little bit every single day - “Consistency is key" Instagram // @EnglishTeacher_Julie

This week, we explore the dark territory of gaming...interactive cinematic gaming. Yes, it's a genre! Yes, Sony decided to give it to us for free! No, Adrian and Alex were not forced to play it but did spend 2 hours of their lives in the world of Erica. We talk about that, plus, Alex gets all nostalgic in CrossCode! Finally, we discuss the difficulties of translating Japanese to English~ It's a short, but sweet episode you're going to love! Now to head back to the normal web to listen^^ 1. Intro 2. Erica, Sayonara Wild Hearts, CrossCode 3. Topic: Localization in Gaming 4. Gaming News 5. Closing Announcements Send us a voice message, give us a shout on Twitter @UGP_cast, or subscribe and leave a review on iTunes^^ YouTube & SNS links: http://streamerlinks.com/ugp_cast Music Credits from OC Remix: Opening: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars "Super Mega Ultra Pipe House" by DDRKirby(ISQ) Ending: Pokémon Diamond Version "Knowing Your Roots" by Arceace --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ugpcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ugpcast/support

Dr. Corsi has just published a new eBook - COVID-20: The Coming Killer Coronavirus Available exclusively at corsination.com What if COVID-19 was a “warm-up” act involving the release of a bioengineered virus that combined an AIDS attack on the immune system with a SARS attack on the lungs. We will demonstrate that with the addition of one more element from the HIV-1 disease pathogen, the AIDS component of COVID-20 will be unstoppable by available anti-viral medications and vaccines. The resulting COVID-20 will kill quickly, with the AIDS attack knocking out the immune system, such that the body remains defenseless against a SARS attack on the lungs that will progress regardless what medications the patient is given. The official narrative of governmental health authorities worldwide, parroted by lap-dog government-funded and government-controlled mainstream media worldwide, is that COVID-19 is not a bioweapon created in a laboratory with the intent to kill millions of people across the globe. What if COVID-19 was a “warm-up” act involving the release of a bioengineered virus that combined an AIDS attack on the immune system with a SARS attack on the lungs. We will demonstrate that with the addition of one more element from the HIV-1 disease pathogen, the AIDS component of COVID-20 will be unstoppable by available anti-viral medications and vaccines. The resulting COVID-20 will kill quickly, with the AIDS attack knocking out the immune system, such that the body remains defenseless against a SARS attack on the lungs that will progress regardless what medications the patient is given. That is the premise of this eBook. HCQ breakthrough: ICMR finds it’s effective in preventing coronavirus, expands its use https://theprint.in/health/hcq-breakthrough-icmr-finds-its-effective-in-preventing-coronavirus-expands-its-use/427583/ Three studies find that hydroxychloroquine reduces chances of contracting Covid, so ICMR allows more frontline workers to take it as a preventive drug. Meanwhile, the darkness fights back... The Guardian: WHO halts hydroxychloroquine trial for coronavirus amid safety fears https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/25/who-world-health-organization-hydroxychloroquine-trial-trump-coronavirus-safety-fears New York Post: China’s ‘bat woman’ researcher warns coronavirus is just ‘tip of iceberg’ https://nypost.com/2020/05/25/chinese-researcher-warns-coronavirus-is-just-tip-of-iceberg/ The New England Journal of Medicine: Remdesivir for the Treatment of Covid-19 — Preliminary Report https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007764 Conclusions in English: It's better than nothing, but at least it's expensive and makes BIG PHARMA rich. https://www.nejm.org/action/cookieAbsent Zero Hedge: The Remdesivir Study Is Finally Out: Drug Only Helped Those On Oxygen, Finds Mortality Too High For Standalone Treatment https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/remdesivir-study-finally-out-drug-only-helped-those-oxygen-finds-mortality-too-high Conservative Treehouse: 12:45pm Tomorrow (Today) – President Trump Participates in a Ceremonial Swearing-in of the Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe… https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/05/25/1245pm-tomorrow-president-trump-participates-in-a-ceremonial-swearing-in-of-the-director-of-national-intelligence-john-ratcliffe/#more-192725 Tune in Monday through Friday at 11:00am EDT for another show. Visit our sister website, http://www.theprayerfulpatriot.com dedicated to faith and prayer. https://www.patreon.com/jeromecorsi/ https://www.subscribestar.com/jerome_corsi/

Ecommerce growth strategy sounds too abstract to get round to. In fact it's often the critical differentiator as Amazon hacks lose effect. eCommerce Growth strategy with Brad Moss  Brad is CEO OF Product Labs, one of the largest Amazon consulting and technology companies in the world. They aim to be the "McKinsey of eCommerce". Former Business Lead of Amazon Seller Central Platform and the creator of the Amazon Seller App. What is eCommerce strategy in plain English? It means planning for the future. Especially for the unknown. Like chess - Brad used to think “you need to know every move that your opponent could make” In reality - after trying to teach chess - he realised that it’s about keeping options open. "I may not know what’s going to happen but if I take this step, it will open four opportunities. Whereas that step will open only one." How does an eCommerce growth strategy translate into action for 7 or 8 figure sellers? Brad uses statistics to back up everything. Brad at Amazon wasn’t just operating businesses - he was also creating new businesses for Amazon. Ask the right Questions What do you look at? How do you structure the metrics? Is it healthy? Is it going to be $100 million business? He got a lot of hands-on action  - no training!  - but experience. eCommerce Growth Strategy is not just about current product sales You don’t just look at - sales this week were $30K, how do I get to $35K next week? You look at last year’s metrics say $4M, and then look forward - set =goals then reverse engineer- eg I  want to do $8M dollars next year. What’s a realistic growth rate in my category? Do I put new products in? Look at the failure rate too. You might say, expect 50% fail, 20% do really well, launch within 6 months, that would mean $4M in the following year. What mistakes do you see your clients making? Relying on one method is risky. There’s a lot of people who have a lot of success with one method and swear by that. Brad learned still at Amazon - you could use the same method on two products - one works, one doesn’t! Jumping to conclusions and over-simplifying is not going to work. Failure to plan: You’ll pull the ads back because of profit The next month you’ll look at lower sales and change over In the early days, you didn’t have to do anything like this. IN the early days, you could take a picture with a cellphone. The land grab has happened - now you need to do the real estate development. You need to start thinking longer term. Plan longer term You need a  3-year plan as well as a 12-month plan What’s the product group makeup? How could I pivot if needed? If this happens, what’s my backup plan?   DOWNLOAD THE PDF FRAMEWORK HERE: https://www.amazingfba.com/framework   How do plans interact with improvisation and growth strategy? Examples of pivots Example - product not selling as expected. You might think it’s reviews - but it might be about the images. You need to look into the customers - segmenting into groups can be important. Marketing and images pivots The Squatty Potty - it’s about a silly unicorn in a video - it’s genius in how they changed the dynamic of marketing the product. Amazon has infinite shelf space so you need to think it being more interesting in the lifestyle image Eg is it a couple on the beach vs. Something more integrated in people’s life. Pricing pivots Apple products are made for a cost-effective price but the multiples are high because the brand is so strong. There may be room for a premium brand in your space. Typically they come in high but they can’t be premium Product not good enough Images not good enough The consumer doesn’t perceive this How do you actually get premium pricing? You have to be REALLY good at branding. Images You need to involve agencies for top photos. It’s a 10-20% difference. If someone comes in with something REALLY good. EBC and presentation

Featuring ABDULAZIZ YUSUFJANOV It a video producer and writer for his own YouTube channel The PODCAST is produced by Vmedia Arts Abdulaziz Is a Uzbekistan immigrant who has relocated with family to Fort Collins Co He is a high rated international Youtuber. Abdulaziz has put his Colorado High School - on the international map as viewers tune is to see his vlog and short films that he captures for his fans. The daily activity of a 2019/20 immigrant Gen Z. This is a clip from an interview; Abdulaziz arrived in Fort Collins in 2012 when he was 9 and spoke little or no English: “It was the diversity of the people here, for example before we came here, I had never seen a man of color before; a black person. And we saw them at the airport, and they were helping us, and we saw people from all other countries, we saw people from China, people from Mexico, people from Japan and Korea. In Uzbekistan, you almost never see anyone that’s not from Uzbekistan.” “July 4, 2018. That was my first official vlog and it’s pretty easy to remember when it was because it was on July 4, and that’s the day that I uploaded it.” This interview was featured in 2019 on an international Podcast heard worldwide: A teenager's view on YouTube Released Feb 03, 2019 In this episode of DIGITAL ARTS NERD Abdulaziz Yusufjanov, a YouTuber from Uzbekistan who lives in Colorado talks about M vs Z with his co producer friend BRAIDEN PATRICK Link to Video version of this conversation https://youtu.be/wiZ8QqtyD_8 Link to the interview Podcast below; https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-teenagers-view-on-youtube

Launching in Amazon Japan  Expanding internationally -what's the process? Are you looking into expanding and launching in Amazon Japan? Know the differences, the similarities, and the pitfalls when exploring the Japanese market. The process is just the same Do research before you start, same as do it for Japan. Keep eyes open Try to offset risk before starting. Market Research Definitely start with market research before you start sending inventory. Most of the usual research tools don't work well there You have to do the research manually really when you are launching in Amazon Japan. JS etc. doesn't work there. Amazon research - (answering Q is there a market for your product?)  Sometimes there's an inconclusive answer from research If not many people buying a product, what does that tell you? Research can't give you the answer in the end - you have to be prepared to take a risk. DIY research Process? Look at your product Work out best search term Translate into Japanese Look at 2-3 variations Look in category ranking for that listing. Brings up category best-sellers list - what kind of products doing well. See identical/similar products for sale/how to do well. Google translate is the key!  Potential pitfalls would be Can display the content of listing in English But that's reliant on the seller putting fields in English It's not actually a translation So it might not look like there's any content You're better off pasting the Japanese product details into Google Translate What is the basic process for keyword research manually? Don't be intimidated by how it looks! Google translate for research is actually quite good. Don't do big long sentences - target individual words when launching in Amazon Japan. Look for product main keyword search term - type that into Amazon.jp - get a feel for what's going on. How would you make a decision to go into this area or not? Check reviews, images Check the review stars. Check the images. Content - size of description, bullet points. A lot of listings in Japan have enhanced content - didn't use to have to be registered to get that. What are the similarities between  Amazon Japan and Amazon UK or USA? Fulfilment side works exactly the same. PPC pretty much same. All similar - interface is similar - can use English What are the differences between Amazon Japan and Amazon UK?  Japan Amazon is just oversize of UK Amazon but the population is double Also, Japan Amazon has just 20% of the e-commerce market. That has increased from just 12% a few years ago. So Amazon's market share of e-commerce in Japan is growing fast. It's easier to get to the top of the markets when the market is smaller - so now is a great time to get selling in Amazon Japan. John's Background and Foundation of Rising Sun Commerce In 2005 John lived in London and worked as a programmer. He met a Japanese girl who wanted to move back to Japan. He went to Japan for 5 years and married the girl! Moved back to the UK in 2010. Met business partner Neil, who runs a PL brand, who wanted to grow his business. He was interested in Japan. They teamed up and sent a batch of his products to Japan. They went well. They thought other businesses would have a similar need so they created an agency about 2 years ago. Cultural differences? (Products? Marketing?) Japan is in some ways technologically advanced but in other ways not. Had to fax timesheet in 2010. But very fast trains. In 2005 had tv and internet on phone. Ecommerce differences Most people overthink it! The one difference is that Q4 is not as big as in the USA, Europe. Christmas related products are not really a thing. Also, Japanese consumers like high-quality products. It's quite a high population density, especially big cities, so they tend to buy quality products rather quantity. Income levels of consumers 

There are three reasons for experiencing a lack of results at the gym, and they have almost nothing to do with willpower, procrastination, or hard work.   Yes, those are all important but, by far, they are not the most significant reason you fail to get the results you want.   The most significant reason is that your strategy is not compatible with your goals.   What does that mean in plain English? It means that, for the most part, you're not doing the things that will get you the result you want.   No matter how much scientific data, anecdotal evidence, and even personal experience show you, the widespread consensus still is that cardio produces weight loss, and to tone, you need to do low weight, high reps.   The second reason is the lack of consistent intensity. Your body adapts to the stress you place on it. Most people, when joining a gym, experience great results but then plateau and never improve. The improvement occurs because your body gets used to what you're doing. If you want to keep improving, you need to change what you're doing and the rate and intensity at which you're doing it.   And the third, which is closely related to the second, is periodization. Periodization means changing your tempo, exercises, and volume to both allow for adaptation, but also avoid a long term plateau.   Yes of course, a coach or a great gym will be able to provide all this for you. However what if you don't live close to a great gym or can't afford to go? What can you do?   What We Covered An overview of general physiology, the importance of diet and the training effect. How does a lack of structure, intensity, and periodization negatively affect you? What a good program looks like and the necessary features for it's success.   Stuff From The Episode: CLICK HERE to Download the FREE Move By Design Manual   Stuff From The Episode: CLICK HERE to Download the FREE Move By Design Manual

En este primer episodio de Ponte a hablar en inglés me gustaría presentarme y contarte por qué he decidido crear este podcast. Pero además hoy mismo te voy a explicar cómo decir en inglés “mi hijo mayor” o “mi hermano mayor”. ¿Cómo lo dirías en inglés? ¿Qué utilizarías: big, bigger, small, little, younger, etc.?   Si sientes curiosidad te lo explico todo en este primer episodio de nuestro recién estrenado podcast “Ponte a hablar en inglés”. In this first episode I would like to introduce myself and tell you why I decided to create this podcast. But, that's not all, I am also going to explain to you how to say in English “mi hermano mayor” or “mi hijo mayor”. Do you know how to say this in English? It seems easy, right? Maybe you are already doing it correctly, that’s great! But just in case, let's check it out! Ah, y por cierto, no te pierdas la video-clase gratuita sobre presentaciones en inglés en: https://www.ponteahablar.com/clase/

::Episode 09 - Correct Your Own Mistakes ––– ::Description:: Does making mistakes improve your English? It can, but only if you know you are making a mistake and you correct it. That's why you need to learn how to correct your own mistakes. You need to learn how correct English sounds. You can't trust native speakers to correct your mistakes. English Rewind is an easy to listen to podcast for English learners. Basic grammar and vocabulary is used as much as possible. Each episode also comes with a PDF transcript which you can study. This is real spoken English, not textbook English. Improve your listening and comprehension today. ––– ::PDF Transcript:: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gpVUsJ6ptW9nAbiSEeZxKlK_7ZBdfElA ––– ::Apple Podcasts:: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/english-rewind/id1461778148 ::Spotify:: https://open.spotify.com/show/7nqPFVr6o8L0LQI6Gg1xBL ::Podcast Website:: https://soundcloud.com/englishrewind ––– ::Music:: Dreams by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/VF9_dCo6JT4

What do we mean by the word "love" in English? It means so many different things that it seems meaningless. In Japanese and Spanish, love means something much more specific.

In today's episode, Cody and Justin bring you a truly optimistic outlook on getting fired. Rob from Getting Canned walks us through his story of losing his job at one of the worst times in history, in 2008 during The Great Recession. Rob's struggles lead to finding an amazing income source and international travel opportunity all in one. Rob moves to Taiwan where he would teach English for three years and make some fantastic memories while the economy recovered. Tune in this week to see yet another showcase at how financial independence is possible for all. Episode Summary Recently lost his job after working there 4 years He was placed on a performance improvement plan prior to getting fired Started a blog to be a resource for people who had lost their job Created a checklist of all the things to do when you find out you may be getting fired He talks about filing for unemployment and rolling over your 401k as really important parts of the checklist Had gotten fired in 2008 and went unemployed for 2 years Decided to go to Taiwan to teach English It was an amazing experience for him and feels that it's a great option for “Barista Fire” He was paid $20/hr working 20 hours per week His first job actually came with free room and board He stayed in Taiwan for 3 years with one 6 month break in between 2008-2010, during his unemployment, he met a lot of frustrations with applying for jobs He talks about how unemployment can prepare you for your FI lifestyle He got in the best shape of his life during that period Rob got the idea of moving to Asia to teach came from meeting someone randomly who had done it. He considered Japan, China, and Taiwan He did a Skype interview where he had to do a practice teaching session The main requirements were to speak with an American accent and a college degree He got a tourism VISA for 60 days that the employer then helped them change it to a work VISA which was good for a year His first apartment was a studio in new and in a nice neighborhood for under $400/mo He used their great public transportation system The medical care was what he found to be the biggest savings At one point he to go to the emergency room to get stitches with anesthesia was $30 He mentions the odd type of side jobs that are possible in those unique situations One was being approached to be an actor in a short because he stood out so much in Taiwan The primary language there is Chinese He learned a little bit just to “survive” He talks about how knowing English opens you up so much for travel One certification he recommended was TEFL which helps with getting some of these jobs He also recommends Upwork and Fiverr, and Wyzant as good resources for gig economy especially in times of unemployment Rob also implores people to diversify their income streams and go through the thought process of what it would be like if you lost your job tomorrow Key Takeaways Resourcefulness is a superpower: We see this all the time. Whether it's keeping grocery bills low, finding free furniture, or finding work. Resourcefulness and flexibility are these amazing superpowers that make financial independence almost unstoppable. It is ok to ask for help: I thought it was really humbling to hear Rob talk about taking unemployment. It can feel like you have failed but everyone has moments that they need help and it's likely you paid your fair share into programs like unemployment anyways. The world isn't so scary: This is the biggest takeaway for sure. The world can seem massive and scary but if you can read this, then you probably know English and as English speakers, we often take for granted just how accessible this world is to us. Rob barely learned any of the language and still survived just fine. He worked there for several years and even made a trip to the ER. So what's stopping you from stepping out into some unfamiliar territory?...

Using the zero conditional English grammar tense is a good way to improve your English, make longer sentences, and speak more like a native. How do you form the zero conditional tense in English? It requires us to construct a sentence in two parts. We can make a zero conditional sentence with two present simple verbs — one in the ‘if clause’ and one in the ‘main clause’: If / when + present simple base verb, …. present simple base verb. You can also think of it this way: — IF this, THEN that. This tense is used when the result will generally always happen. So, if water reaches 100 degrees, it always boils. It’s a fact. The result of the ‘if clause’ is always the main clause. However, we can create sentences in either order: — If + present simple, … present simple OR — Present simple… if + present simple. Notice in the second example, we don’t need a comma to separate the two parts of the sentence but in the first one we do. The ‘if’ in this conditional can usually be replaced by ‘when’ without changing the meaning. For example: If water reaches 100 degrees, it boils. (It is always true, there can’t be a different result sometimes). If I drink milk, I feel very sick. (This is true only for me, maybe, not for everyone, but it’s still true that I’m sick every time I drink milk). Also, here are some more examples of the zero conditional English grammar tense: If you eat too much, you gain weight. If you go swimming, you get wet. If ice melts, it becomes water. Register for my Complete English Course, Fluent Communication, at https://gonaturalenglish.com/course Next episode, you will get this English tip about the first conditional to learn about the difference between the first and the zero conditionals. The first conditional is about a specific situation, but the zero conditional tense is talking in general.

Pronouns replace nouns! Pronouns are just one part of the eight parts of English:) It's time to think about why we really use pronouns. Study English with Billgreen54!

【公众号】铁蛋英语   【微博】铁蛋儿Tyler谢谢你们的支持！！！FOCUS WORDS·      foam 奶泡·      espresso 浓缩咖啡·      steamed 蒸的Fundamentally, these drinks are defined by their texture, which is determined by the ratio of ingredients: A cappuccino has more foam by volume than a latte does. A latte tends to comprise mostly of gently steamed milk with a kiss of foam on top, just enough so that it's mostly gone after a sip or two. One really easy way to remember this is to translate the word latte from the Italian to the English: It simply means “milk.” (In fact, in Italy, if you simply order a latte they will give you a glass of milk; a caffe latte is actually what you want.)The term cappuccino has disputed origins, but many repeat the legend that the drink is named for the Capuchin monks, an order of Catholic brothers who wore brown cowls and shaved their heads bald. If you look down on a properly poured cappuccino, it has a design on it called a “monk's head,” a ring of brown espresso circling a thick white ball of foam—just like an aerial view of one of these monks, or so it goes. (Just think of a “cap” as a hat, or a topping, of foam—that should help you remember the difference.) 

    Andy Couturier moved to Japan in mid twenties with his partner Cynthia to teach English. Their plan was to save money then come back to the US and buy some land. After returning, they built a house in California using only hand tools, developing a piece of raw land into a functioning rural homestead. Andy has studied Buddhist meditation and many other Asian philosophical systems. He has been a researcher for Greenpeace and has taught writing for more than twenty years. In this episode, we discuss: Andy and his partner built a cabin using only hand tools If you give yourself time, a lot of things are enjoyable Making sure you're enjoying the process The misery of too many things going on Putting buffers in so you're not rushing from one thing to the next Making time to look at how you operate Andy's flip phone and how it helps him slow down The tools you use craft who you become What is efficiency getting you? Moving to Japan in his mid twenties with his partner Cynthia, to teach English It's a precious opportunity to think for yourself What does it mean to be alive? The origins of Andy's draw to nature Our health depends not just on ourselves but also on our community and being connected to people Making time for contemplation each week A day in the life of Andy The modern predicament is a puzzle we all need to figure out Assess, be/think critical, and choose what is true for you Going deep into things Show sponsors: Four Sigmatic

Does the whole world speak English? It seems so when you travel to big cities and stay in major hotels. It seems so when you visit popular tourist destinations. But what about in corporate conference rooms? Like when you’re trying to sell something? That, as you’ll hear in this episode, can be a different story. Lois Melbourne studied French in school but didn’t get all that far. In other words, she is a typical monolingual American. But Lois is not typical in other ways. Andrew Simmons is the opposite of a typical monolingual American. He’s American for sure, but only a few people in the world speak more languages than he. Listen to Episode 5 to hear what happened when these two Americans, a CEO and a polyglot, joined forces. America the Bilingual is part of the Lead with Languages campaign of ACTFL--The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. This episode was written by Steve Leveen, and producer Fernando Hernández who also does sound design and mixing. Our editorial consultants are Maja Thomas and Mim Harrison, research assistance from Stanford undergraduate Alma Flores-Perez. Graphic Arts are created by Carlos Plaza Design Studio. Music in this episode by Kevin Macleod, Andy G. Cohen, Nuno Adelaida, and Captive Portal. All thanks to the Free Music Archive directed by WFMU. Additional music courtesy of Francisco Penilla. Music in this episode, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License, by: Jason Shaw - Tennesee Hayride http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_Shaw/Audionautix_Acoustic/TENNESEE_HAYRIDE_____________2-33 Kevin Macleod - Beach party http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Global_Sampler/Beach_Party Kevin Macleod - Quasi motion http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Global_Sampler/Quasi_Motion Josh Armistead - Bongo Man http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Armistead/Meadows/ Milton Arias - Poldoro http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Milton_Arias/64Antes_del_Fin/Poldoro Andy G Cohen - Land Legs http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Andy_G_Cohen/MUL__DIV_1198/Andy_G_Cohen_-_MULDIV_-_02_-_Land_Legs Jason Shaw - Mountain Sun http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_Shaw/Audionautix_Acoustic/MOUNTAIN_SUN_____________________2-33

Have you ever been shy about participating in a meeting in English? It can be really hard to think of the right phrases in a professional situation, when everyone is watching you. Some English learners prefer to stay quiet. But I want to help you speak up confidently - so in today's lesson, you'll learn 82 practical English phrases to use in meetings. This is a free sample lesson from the Business English Course, which will teach you useful vocabulary and phrases for working in an English-speaking company. I've just finished updating and expanding the course - I improved the audio quality and added 10 NEW lessons on management, sales, networking, work safety, and more!  Lesson text: https://www.espressoenglish.net/english-phrases-for-meetings/

Chris asks: "How should I start learning Cantonese, given that I already speak Mandarin?" Episode Summary: Cantonese is to Mandarin what Cockney is to English It's a highly developed, unique language that is considered a spoken language When Cantonese speakers write things down, they normally use standard Chinese So what does this mean for a Mandarin speaker who wants to learn Cantonese? At the risk of oversimplifying, your major task is to learn a large amount of Cantonese-specific vocabulary, including the different pronunciation and more tones While there is more to it than that (different grammar structures, sentence particles etc), the two languages are close enough that your existing knowledge of Mandarin will transfer very well, help you notice any differences and slowly adjust You won't have many new linguistic concepts to learn, it's more a question of getting use to the specific ways Cantonese speakers express themselves It's not the same task as learning a Chinese dialect from scratch as a foreigner What about the practical considerations? Because you're going to get so much "for free", you should start by doing a lot of listening and let time do the work Use resources where the audio comes with written Cantonese, so you can start associate the characters you already know with new sounds I've been told the best Cantonese resources are written in Mandarin, so if you can cope, go with those! Given your experience, I would spend a few months simply working through textbook dialogues and noticing as much as possible To master the language, you'll need to arrange your life in a way that allows you to speak regularly (see episode 153) - your progress is going to depend on your ability to make those lifestyle changes Resources Mentioned In This Episode: https://youtu.be/3QRVpNbNzK8 Start speaking today: I’d like to thank iTalki for supporting the show. To claim your free lesson and start speaking today, visit: http://iwillteachyoualanguage.com/italkishownotes  Do you have a question? Ask me your language learning questions by clicking here, and I’ll do my best to feature it on the show! Also, please subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. Thanks so much for listening to this episode of the podcast! If you’ve got any comments about the show then please leave them in the “comments” section below! If you’d like to help me out, then I’d love it if you could… Share the episode using the social media buttons around you Leave an honest review and rating of the podcast on iTunes (click here to do that) iTunes reviews in particular really help the rankings of the podcast and help me to reach other aspiring language learners out there! See you in the next episode of the I Will Teach You A Language podcast! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/iwillteachyoualanguage/message

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

So we had a snow day. Holy crap did we have a snow day. Really it was a snow couple of days, though only one day involved the city shutting down. Snow is common here but not snow days. To put it in some perspective we have lived here, on and off for 14 years. We've had one snow day. If you'd like to see a video of the storm, here's one. So we got 55 cm of snow over a couple of days, and that wasn't really the issue as much as the wind which caused severe drifting. Isabelle spent the week in Jon's classes, shadowing him. It was exhausting. Remember those grants Isabelle wrote back in the summer? Well, one of them came through. Have you ever noticed that nobody is named 'Jesus' in English? It is common in Spanish. I wonder why not in English, or French for that matter.

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Es un espacio de una hora de duración en formato “in the mix”, en el que se dan cita los estilos más punteros de la música “club” en una sesión dinámica, contundente y de selección musical variada. Grandes producciones, bootlegs o bien grandes clásicos del house, tiene cabida en “Dancing Radio”. “English” It is an area of one-hour format "in the mix", which brings together the most cutting-edge styles of club music in a dynamic session, strong and varied musical selection. Big productions, bootlegs or classics of house, has place in "Dancing Radio".

Past Perfect Simple and Continuous with Mike Hardinge - AIRC91 If you are a new listener to this award-winning podcast, welcome! I'm Craig. I’m Reza. With over 40 years of teaching between us, we'll help you improve your English and take it to the next level.Welcome Mike! [44 years, so that totals 84 years of teaching experience between us!]   Más podcasts para mejorar tu ingles en: http://www.inglespodcast.com/  More podcasts to improve your English at: http://www.inglespodcast.com/  In this episode: The past perfect simple and continuous with special guest Mike Hardinge What is the Past Perfect? Use: The Past Perfect is the past before the past. When we are already talking about the past and we want to talk about an earlier past time.It can be in a Simple or Continuous/Progressive form. PAST PERFECT SIMPLE Something that happened before another action in the past. It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past.Focus tends to be on the completion of the action/state, not the continuity of it. Form: had/ ’d + past participle (had eaten, had been, had forgotten, had seen etc) Let’s see where the past perfect simple fits in. To do this we have to look at a much more ‘important’ tense ‘the past simple’.The past simple forms the basis of a narrative; it gives us a sequence of events: Maybe last night (1) you stayed up (didn’t go to bed) to watch a film and (2) went to bed too late. In the morning, (3) you didn’t hear your alarm. (4) You woke up late. (5) You got dressed in an awful hurry, (6) didn’t have breakfast and (7) rushed out of the house. Then (8) you realised you HAD FORGOTTEN your keys. The verbs in the story have a ‘fixed’ order, except for ‘had forgotten’, which takes us back to before or during when (5) you got dressed - maybe you put on another jacket or before (7) you rushed out of the house - you didn’t check to see if you had your keys. Past perfect simple usually takes us back to a previous stage of a narrative. It is very useful for giving reasons: You couldn’t get back into your house (why?) because you HAD FORGOTTEN your keys.or obviously it could be a negative action, an action not taken, which is the case here:you couldn’t get back into your house because you HADN'T TAKEN your keys. If you had gone to bed at the right time, none of this would have happened. Examples: When Mike arrived, we had already recorded a podcastI’d never seen such an excellent system for learning phrasal verbs before I saw Mike’s CD.After she’d studied Mike’s phrasal verb CD, she understood the subject much better.We’d had our old printer for 8 years before we bought that new one. (two ‘hads’. “ ’d” = “had”) Question:(different word order) Had you ever won an award before you won in Manchester last year?Negative: (with NOT) I hadn’t/had not studied Spanish, before I came to Spain. Reza arrived late. By the time he arrived, we had already ordered our food from the waiter. As soon as he’d lit/he had lit his cigarette, the bus arrived at the stop. No sooner had he lit (OBLIGATORY INVERSION) his cigarette than the bus arrived at the stop.Reza and Craig spoke about INVERSION in episode 78 ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2015/11/22/sentence-inversions-airc78/ ) PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS Use: Focus tends to be on the continuity of the activity/process. Something that started in the past and continued up to a particular time in the past.Can be used for more temporary actions/situations or a repeated action or a longer action interrupted by another action. Often there’s evidence that the action had been continuing more or less up to point. I HAD LIVED in Salamanca for two years before I came to Valencia. (use simple to stress the completed action)I HAD BEEN LIVING in Salamanca for two years before I came to Valencia. (use continuous to stress the continuity of an action that may, or may not, be unfinished) Present perfect simple: I HAVE READ fifteen books this year. (focus on the number of books completed)Present perfect continuous: I'VE BEEN READING the last Harry Potter book and I can't understand a word. (focus on the continuous action) Past perfect simple: Valencia HAD BEEN PLAYING very well before the new manager.Past perfect continuous: Valencia HAD WON 15 games before the new manager. Form: had/ ’d been + -ing form of the verb Back to MIke's forgotten keys story. You can’t have a bare narrative with no description and maintain interest, so: Last night....(1) you stayed up (didn’t go to bed) to watch a film. IT WAS A REALLY GREAT FILM ABOUT DRAGONS AND MONSTERS AND HEROES WERE FLYING ABOUT ALL OVER THE PLACE. As a result, (2) you went to bed too late. THE BED WASN’T MADE BUT YOU WERE TOO TIRED TO WORRY. In the morning, (3) you didn’t hear your alarm. THIS WAS HARDLY SURPRISING. (4) You woke up late. (5) You got dressed in an awful hurry, THE ROOM WAS IN A TERRIBLE MESS, THINGS WERE LYING EVERYWHERE. (6) You didn’t have time for any breakfast and you(7) rushed out of the house, like a bat out of hell. It was only after you HAD CLOSED the door that (8) you realised you HAD FORGOTTEN your keys. Description with WAS, WERE, HAD or PAST CONTINUOUS makes the narrative more palatable (rico/a, apetitoso/a). The past perfect continuous can add to this description. YOU HAD BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD AND WANTED TO GIVE YOURSELF A TREAT, so you stayed up to watch a film….you didn’t hear your alarm. You woke up late. ACTUALLY YOU HADN'T BEEN SLEEPING VERY WELL RECENTLY...YOU HADN’T BEEN LIVING IN THE FLAT FOR VERY LONG. The past perfect continuous is very useful for giving background description to a story, in a similar way as the past continuous tense. Compare: When I woke up yesterday it was raining. - The rain was falling when I woke upWhen I woke up yesterday it had been raining. - The rain wasn’t falling when I woke up. It had (recently) stopped. The ground was still wet.   Use the past perfect in 3rd conditional 'if' sentences: If I hadn't drunk so much whisky on Saturday night, I wouldn't have felt so bad on Sunday morning. If Craig HAD GOT MARRIED when he was 22, he'd have had a family at a very yound age.If Reza HADN'T STAYED in Valencia, he might have gone to Sardinia.If Mike's parents HAD TAKEN him abroad when he was really young, he would have learnt another language.If Mike HADN'T BROUGHT his daughter to Spain, she wouldn't have learnt Spanish.   ITALKI AD READ   The past perfect is also used in reported speech: "I HAD never MET Mike before I started working at the school." - Craig said that he HAD never MET Mike before he started working at the school. It's often ok to use the past simple instead of the past perfect, especially when there is a time expression: Bill had been married twice before he met Susan. (past perfect) - Bill was married twice before he met Susan. (past simple) Time expressions Mike's Basque Beret (boina) "I haven't seen Mike's beret before." / "I haven't seen Mike in a beret before." "It's the first time I have seen Mike's beret." / "It's the first time I have seen Mike in a beret." Looking back, and talking about the past, you could say, "It was the first time I had seen Mike's beret." / "It was the first time I had seen Mike in (or wearing) a beret." It's three months since I spoke English / It's three months since I've spoken English. It was three months since he had spoken English. More time expressions often used with the past perfect: by the time, before, after, as soon as, no sooner.....than....., up to then/that moment and 'because' for giving reasons: "He was very dirty BECAUSE he had just been walking in the rain." Craig went to bed early last night because he'd been exercising and he was very tired. Practice Tell a story and use the past perfect. Craig: You are a Zombie.Reza: You woke up naked on a park bench this morning. (to cut a long story short - "en resumen", "resumiendo", "y te la hago corta".....)Mike: You started speaking fluent Chinese for no apparent reason. (the long and the short of it is....."en resumen", "resumiendo", "y te la hago corta".....) Thanks Mike! You can find Mike's website and his CD on how to learn phrasal verbs at: http://mikehardinge.com/ ...and now it's your turn to practise your English. We want you to practise the past perfect and record yourself saying 4 or 5 sentences using the past perfect. Mix it up with past perfect simple and past perfect continuous and make sure the sentences are true for you. Or tell us a real or imaginary story similar to ours. Send us a voice message at speakpipe.com/inglespodcast (90 seconds - need an app for mobile) Send us an email with a comment or question to craig@inglespodcast.com or belfastreza@gmail.com. Please show us some iTunes love. Write a review, give us some stars on iTunes.If you do that, we become more visible and more people can find us. Show us some love.   Más podcasts para mejorar tu ingles en: http://www.inglespodcast.com/  More podcasts to improve your English at: http://www.inglespodcast.com/  The music in this podcast is by Pitx. The track is called 'See You Later'  

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Monday marks the start of the second half of the Sochi Winter Games. How do the Russian people view the Olympics held at home? Our Olympics correspondent Ding Lulu has the story. Report: (Act 1, spectators cheering for Russia, phase out) In every stadium of the Olympic Park, you can hear chanting whenever there's a Russian team or athlete playing. Russian spectators who poured into the stadium expressed that they couldn't help but feel proud about hosting the Winter Games in Sochi. (Act 2, two males in English) "It's a great moment for us and an honour for our people. We are really excited about it and everything was fine." Statistics show that over a million tickets have been sold for the games in Sochi. With a week to go, Sochi's sales figures are already higher than that of the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics. Even Russia's most beloved athlete and two-time gold medalist, Evgeni Plushenko was overwhelmed by the cheering crowd. (Act 3, male in Russian, Plushenko) "When I was with my team, I couldn't hear the spectator's cheering clearly, but when I stood in the middle of the ice rink, I was instantly overwhelmed by the enthusiastic applause throughout the whole stadium. I didn't realize my fans are so passionate." But the crowd went silent when Plushenko stumbled with a back injury that marked the end of his figure skating career. Whilst some mourn the exit of Plushenko and express dismay at the loss of the potential of wining a gold for Russia, Leila, a local citizen of Sochi says, winning gold medals isn't the most important thing about the Olympics. She describes the transformation of the city because of the Games as victorious. (Act 4, female in English, Leila) "The Olympic village. that place was a great field, farm; during the summer, we worked with our pupils to gather cabbage, tomatoes, and so on. Now there's a wonderful Olympic village. We are surprised it was built in seven years. We are very much proud of it. It seems to me this is the great victory that we built our city on and now a lot of people can come here for the Winter Olympic Games." According to Russia's pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva, besides the new roads, train stations and airport, the Olympics has left Russia with something more valuable--a better future in winter sports.. (Act 4, female in English, Isinbayeva) "Before Sochi, we didn't have any conditions to given to try it (practice winter sports) here in Russia, but I think after the Olympics Games it will help the next generation, the new and young Russian national team for the next Winter Olympic Games well-prepared." Russia spent a record 51 billion US dollars on the games, which is 11 billion dollars more than China spent on the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Las notas del episodio Did Reza make and keep his New Year's resolution to learn something new? Feedback, news and questions: We are still waiting for a recipe for dulce de leche. Thanks to Emilse (Argentina) and Daniel (Mexico) for their messages.   Gramática:  some and any Craig brought Reza some salt from Chile (positive sentence) He didn't bring him anything from Argentina (negative) Have you got any souvenirs from Laos (question) Can I have some food? (Use 'some' for requests) Reza would like some fish Would you like something to eat? (a more closed, specific offer) Would you like anything to eat? (an open offer) Craig likes some classical music (not all classical music) Craig likes any jazz music (all jazz music) Pick any card Craig likes anything with chocolate He likes some fruit desserts   Pronunciación: Nice to meet you - Pleased to meet you What are you doing? = Watcha doin'? "Whatcha!" (In London) "'Boutcha!" (in Belfast)   Phrasal verb: get (a)round Craig really gets around - he goes to many places Craig's mum finds it hard to get around these days (moverse, desplazarse) It has got around that the French president is said to be having an affair. At Christmas dinner, families get around the table. There's no getting around the fact. = you can't avoid it. Sportsmen and women try to get around the rules. I'll get that parcel round to you = to deliver Reza never gets around to decorating his flat.   Vocabulary Corner: money ganar = to earn/to win win a competition, win a game, win at the casino, win the lottery earn a salary, earn respect, earn money borrow (from) = tener prestado / lend (to) = prestar A bank lends money to you. You borrow money from the bank. a loan = un prestamo   Good luck getting a bank loan in Spain these days! pay for - I'll pay for the drinks - It's my treat (te invito) It's on me I'll get it It's my shout (British colloquial English) It's my round   Reza's Top Tip: Presentations Have good notes Check your English (spelling and grammar) on slides and visuals Practise in front of the mirror Speak to a family member, pet dog or cat Check body language as you present practice, practice, practice! Use (small) note cards, but don't read a full text. Make eye contact Smile a lot!   Contact Reza at belfastreza@gmail.com for help with translations and presentations. Send us an email, or a sound file (mensaje de voz en mp3) with a comment or question to mansionteachers@yahoo.es or belfastreza@gmail.com. Puedes darnos estrellas y una crítica en iTunes. The music in this podcast is by Pitx. The track is called See You Later - licensed by creative commons under a by-nc license at ccmixter.org.      

第7回目のテーマは「Seiyū | 声優」 「声優」は英語でどのように説明しますか？ How do you explain "Seiyu" in English? It's a voice actor or narrator for anime. Patrick explains it and Bartholomew asks some questions. We also learn about one of the top seiyu actresses 釘宮理恵. However, Patrick still has not taught us what "kugyu" means!  http://weblish.co.jp Special thanks to Brightcove for bandwidth and support! Weblish_otaku72.mp4