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Resolvemos gravar para essa semana um texto do Pico Iyer sobre o ato de viajar. É uma descrição linda sobre experiências e o que ele aprendeu com o tempo. Hoje Foster corrige todos os erros da Alexia!

**http://picoiyerjourneys.com/index.php/2000/03/why-we-travel/

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again — to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. The beauty of this whole process was best described, perhaps, before people even took to frequent flying, by George Santayana in his lapidary essay, “The Philosophy of Travel.” We “need sometimes,” the Harvard philosopher wrote, “to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.”

I like that stress on work, since never more than on the road are we shown how proportional our blessings are to the difficulty that precedes them; and I like the stress on a holiday that’s “moral” since we fall into our ethical habits as easily as into our beds at night. Few of us ever forget the connection between “travel” and “travail,” and I know that I travel in large part in search of hardship — both my own, which I want to feel, and others’, which I need to see. Travel in that sense guides us toward a better balance of wisdom and compassion — of seeing the world clearly, and yet feeling it truly. For seeing without feeling can obviously be uncaring; while feeling without seeing can be blind.

Yet for me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle. In that regard, even a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet (in Beijing) or a scratchy revival showing of “Wild Orchids” (on the Champs-Elysees) can be both novelty and revelation: In China, after all, people will pay a whole week’s wages to eat with Colonel Sanders, and in Paris, Mickey Rourke is regarded as the greatest actor since Jerry Lewis.

If a Mongolian restaurant seems exotic to us in Evanston, Ill., it only follows that a McDonald’s would seem equally exotic in Ulan Bator — or, at least, equally far from everything expected. Though it’s fashionable nowadays to draw a distinction between the “tourist” and the “traveler,” perhaps the real distinction lies between those who leave their assumptions at home, and those who don’t: Among those who don’t, a tourist is just someone who complains, “Nothing here is the way it is at home,” while a traveler is one who grumbles, “Everything here is the same as it is in Cairo — or Cuzco or Kathmandu.” It’s all very much the same.

But for the rest of us, the sovereign freedom of traveling comes from the fact that it whirls you around and turns you upside down, and stands everything you took for granted on its head. If a diploma can famously be a passport (to a journey through hard realism), a passport can be a diploma (for a crash course in cultural relativism). And the first lesson we learn on the road, whether we like it or not, is how provisional and provincial are the things we imagine to be universal. When you go to North Korea, for example, you really do feel as if you’ve landed on a different planet — and the North Koreans doubtless feel that they’re being visited by an extra-terrestrial, too (or else they simply assume that you, as they do, receive orders every morning from the Central Committee on what clothes to wear and what route to use when walking to work, and you, as they do, have loudspeakers in your bedroom broadcasting propaganda every morning at dawn, and you, as they do, have your radios fixed so as to receive only a single channel).

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Resolvemos gravar para essa semana um texto do Pico Iyer sobre o ato de viajar. É uma descrição linda sobre experiências e o que ele aprendeu com o tempo. Amanhã, Foster vai corrigir aquilo que a Alexia errou durante a leitura. Espero que gostem!

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again — to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. The beauty of this whole process was best described, perhaps, before people even took to frequent flying, by George Santayana in his lapidary essay, “The Philosophy of Travel.” We “need sometimes,” the Harvard philosopher wrote, “to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.”

I like that stress on work, since never more than on the road are we shown how proportional our blessings are to the difficulty that precedes them; and I like the stress on a holiday that’s “moral” since we fall into our ethical habits as easily as into our beds at night. Few of us ever forget the connection between “travel” and “travail,” and I know that I travel in large part in search of hardship — both my own, which I want to feel, and others’, which I need to see. Travel in that sense guides us toward a better balance of wisdom and compassion — of seeing the world clearly, and yet feeling it truly. For seeing without feeling can obviously be uncaring; while feeling without seeing can be blind.

Yet for me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle. In that regard, even a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet (in Beijing) or a scratchy revival showing of “Wild Orchids” (on the Champs-Elysees) can be both novelty and revelation: In China, after all, people will pay a whole week’s wages to eat with Colonel Sanders, and in Paris, Mickey Rourke is regarded as the greatest actor since Jerry Lewis.

If a Mongolian restaurant seems exotic to us in Evanston, Ill., it only follows that a McDonald’s would seem equally exotic in Ulan Bator — or, at least, equally far from everything expected. Though it’s fashionable nowadays to draw a distinction between the “tourist” and the “traveler,” perhaps the real distinction lies between those who leave their assumptions at home, and those who don’t: Among those who don’t, a tourist is just someone who complains, “Nothing here is the way it is at home,” while a traveler is one who grumbles, “Everything here is the same as it is in Cairo — or Cuzco or Kathmandu.” It’s all very much the same.

But for the rest of us, the sovereign freedom of traveling comes from the fact that it whirls you around and turns you upside down, and stands everything you took for granted on its head. If a diploma can famously be a passport (to a journey through hard realism), a passport can be a diploma (for a crash course in cultural relativism). And the first lesson we learn on the road, whether we like it or not, is how provisional and provincial are the things we imagine to be universal. When you go to North Korea, for example, you really do feel as if you’ve landed on a different planet — and the North Koreans doubtless feel that they’re being visited by an extra-terrestrial, too (or else they simply assume that you, as they do, receive orders every morning from the Central Committee on what clothes to wear and what route to use when walking to work, and you, as they do, have loudspeakers in your bedroom broadcasting propaganda every morning at dawn, and you, as they do, have your radios fixed so as to receive only a single channel).

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Dando continuidade ao assunto saúde, hoje falamos sobre como dizer que está se sentindo mal, doente, com dor disso ou daquilo. São pequenos detalhes que fazem toda a diferença. Saber falar inglês nessas situações é essencial!

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Como vocês já sabem, o Foster machucou o dedo dele cortando umas cenouras. E dessa vez resolvemos falar sobre ir ao hospital, como você deve perguntar e responder certas coisas em inglês. Afinal, temos que saber nos virar em situações de emergência, né?

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“I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Fannie Lou Hamer. Foster hoje trás uma história que ele lembrou para esse episódio. Iniciamos uma mini série sobre como se portar quando está doente e as perguntas que você deve esperar responder ou até perguntar para a outra pessoa. Lembrando que sempre falamos muitas coisas importantes durante o episódio e é ótimo para você realmente prestar muita atenção. Então, press play!

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Vamos experimentar nossa primeira Festa de São João no Porto. É uma mistura de Carnaval com Ano Novo para eles. Se a chuva deixar, vamos sair pelas ruas e experimentar todas as comidas, danças e realmente aproveitar. Mas, você sabe o que São João significa para os Portuenses?

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Hoje temos mais um episódio sobre acrônimos em inglês. Neste episódio, falamos sobre como usar acrônimos em Business English. MBA, CEO, CFO, DIY? Se você realmente quer melhorar seu inglês com respeito aos negócios, são coisas que você precisa saber. Vamos lá.

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Hey guys! Hoje eu e Alexia falamos sobre Acronyms! Se você não sabe o que são, você precisa escutar esse episódio. Se você sabe o que são, então você vai rir muito! De qualquer forma, você precisa escutar esse episódio. It's entertaining. Informative. Fun. Ok, stop reading this and listen to the episode!

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Hoje falamos sobre a dublagem e como isso pode afetar o seu aprendizado da língua inglesa. Você foi acostumado a assistir filmes dublados quando era criança? E hoje em dia? Vem cá escutar e entender os nossos pontos sobre esse assunto.

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Dando continuidade ao nosso debate sobre o inglês em Portugal, hoje, o Foster apresenta os motivos que ele pensa que proporcionam um melhor ensino da língua inglesa para os portugueses. E aí, concorda?

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