Snack-Sized Languages

In this episode of the podcast, we focus on learning how to greet someone in French and you'll learn the phrases for "hello," "how are you," "I'm well," and how to greet someone in a casual way. Wondering how to how to say hello in French? You'll learn how with these French phrases in this week's snack-sized lesson.

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In This Lesson, You Learned:

"Hello" in German - hallo

"How are you" in German - Wie geht's?

"I'm well" in German - Mir geht es gut

Forma; greeting in German - Wie geht es Ihnen?

Featured Trade Secret:

When you first start learning a new language, especially one like German, pronunciation is key to being understood and understanding others. A great way to start grasping this is to increase your listening in the language. Can you find a German show, movie, music, or podcast to listen to? Even a German YouTuber you follow can work wonders! The more you listen, the better you'll be able to speak and understand the cadence of the language. Thankfully, German has fairly consistent pronunciation, so once you get the basics, you'll be ready to go!

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In this episode of the podcast, we talk about exercise and how it relates to language learning — both in combining it and using it as a general lifestyle choice.

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In This Lesson, You Learned:

Shannon's perspective on fitness and a few practices you can try out:

Featured Trade Secret:

You use similar parts of your brain when you learn as when you move and so combining the two has a good chance of improving neural connections.

So even if sport or fitness aren't your thing, try adding some sort of physical motion or movement to your language learning to one of your study sessions this week. It can be doing a walk around the room as you listen to a podcast, or one squat between each prompt/question on Duolingo.

However you want to go about it is up to you.

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In this episode of the podcast, we focus on learning how to greet someone in Russian and you'll learn the phrases for "hello," "how are you," "I'm well," and how to greet someone in a casual way. Wondering how to how to say hello in Russian? You'll learn how with these Russian phrases in this week's snack-sized lesson.

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In This Lesson, You Learned:

"Hello" in Russian - Здравствуйте (zdravstvuyte).

"How are you" in Russian - как дела (kak dyela)

"I'm well" in Russian - хорошо (khorosho)

Casual greeting in Russian - Привет (privyet)

Featured Trade Secret:

When you first start learning a new language, especially one like Russian, pronunciation is key to being understood and understanding others. A great way to start grasping this is to increase your listening in the language. Can you find a Russian show, movie, music, or podcast to listen to? Even a Russian YouTuber you follow can work wonders! The more you listen, the better you'll be able to speak and understand the cadence of the language.

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In this episode of the podcast, we focus on learning how to greet someone in Spanish and you'll learn the phrases for "hello," "how are you," "I'm well," and a second phrase you can use to greet someone in Spanish. Wondering how to how to say hello in Spanish? You'll learn how with these Spanish phrases in this week's snack-sized lesson.

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In This Lesson, You Learned:

"Hello" in Spanish - hola

"How are you" in Spanish - como estas ?

"I'm well" in Spanish - bien

Another way you can greet someone in Spanish is with - buenos días

This literally means "good day" or "good morning"

Featured Trade Secret:

When you first start learning a new language, especially one like Spanish, pronunciation is key to being understood and understanding others. A great way to start grasping this is to increase your listening in the language. Can you find a Spanish language show, movie, music, or podcast to listen to? Even a Spanish speaking YouTuber you follow can work wonders! The more you listen, the better you'll be able to speak and understand the cadence of the language.

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In this episode of the podcast, we talk about Korean numbers. You'll learn how count in Korean in this week's snack-sized lesson.

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In This Lesson, You Learned:

These numbers can be stacked together to create bigger numbers. So eleven if just 10 + 1: sibil. 12, sibi, and so on. When you get to 20, it becomes 2 + 10: isip. All the way up to 100 which is 백, baek.

Featured Trade Secret:

Since Korean has two number systems, it can sometimes be confusing to know when you should use the numbers we learned today. But an easy thing to remember is that these numbers, the Sino-Korean numbers, are used for all bigger numbers past 100. That's because the other number system, the Native Korean numbers, only go up to 100. And you can use the numbers we learned today to talk about most things except age and hours of the clock.

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In this episode of the podcast, we talk about mindfulness in language learning and how to slow down.

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In This Lesson, You Learned:

Shannon's perspective on mindfulness and a few practices you can try out:

Featured Trade Secret:

There's a technique called grounding that I really love. It's where you focus on doing something to relieve anxiety or stress and bring your mind back to the present moment. It's often about focusing on your senses and the action you're doing. For example, counting your breathes, noticing how the air is cooler coming in than out, how the ground feels under your feet, etc. You can also do this with movement: noticing how your body feels as you stretch, focusing on one specific part of the body, and so on.

Why does this matter? Because if you approach language learning with stress, anxiety and a cluttered mind, it's hard to focus and absorb what you learn. Practicing mindfulness before you start learning will help your mind ease into it and remember things more efficiently.

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In this episode of the podcast, we focus on Chinese numbers and how to count to 10 in Chinese. Wondering how to how to count in Chinese? You'll learn how by learning the numbers 1-10 in Chinese in this week's snack-sized lesson.

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In This Lesson, You Learned:

SK: One in Chinese - 一 yī

Two - 二 èr (there are actually two ways of saying two in Chinese, but we won't get into that for now. To keep things simple, we'll just focus on the word for two you use when counting)

Three - 三 sān

Four - 四 sì

Five - 五 wǔ

Six - 六 liù

Seven - 七 qī

Eight - 八 bā

Nine - 九 jiǔ

Ten - 十 shí

Featured Trade Secret:

So one of the things I like to do to practice numbers is do all my counting in the language I'm learning. For example, if I'm working out, I count my reps in the language. If I'm working on a recipe, I count the measurements in the language. If I'm walking up the stairs, I count the steps! You get the picture! As you do countable things this week, do your counting in your language. It will reinforce your counting and numbers!

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In this episode of the podcast, we focus on how to count in Japanese. You'll learn how to count to 10 in Japanese in this week's snack-sized lesson.

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In This Lesson, You Learned:

So in Japanese, there are two ways to read four, seven, and nine. And while both ways are used depending on the word, it's more common to use yon, nana, and kyuu. Why? Because of Japanese superstitions! The word shi can also be the word for "death" (死), and ku is the reading for the kanji character for "suffering" (苦). Because of this, 4 is an unlucky number, and the readings shichi and ku are slightly less common.

Featured Trade Secret:

So in Japanese, there are two ways to read four, seven, and nine. And while both ways are used depending on the word, it's more common to use yon, nana, and kyuu. Why? Because of Japanese superstitions! The word shi can also be the word for "death" (死), and ku is the reading for the kanji character for "suffering" (苦). Because of this, 4 is an unlucky number, and the readings shichi and ku are slightly less common.

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In this episode of the podcast, we focus on French numbers and how to count to 10 in French. Wondering how to how to count in French? You'll learn how by learning the numbers 1-10 in French in this week's snack-sized lesson.

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In This Lesson, You Learned:

One in French - un

Two - deux

Three - trois

Four - quatre

Five - cinq

Six - six

Seven - sept

Eight - huit

Nine - neuf

Ten - dix

Featured Trade Secret:

One hack I used to memorize numbers is... I counted down with my microwave when cooking food. This helped me practice larger numbers, and also get out of the habit of memorizing numbers by order. It's easy to remember 1, 2, 3, etc., when you're used to the order they come in. But can you easily recall the number 12 without counting up to it? Counting backwards is great practice to break that habit and get used to the numbers.

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In this episode of the podcast, we focus on learning how to greet someone in Chinese and you'll learn the phrases for "goodbye," "bye," and how to tell someone you will see them at a later time. Wondering how to how to say hello in Chinese? You'll learn how with these Chinese phrases in this week's snack-sized lesson.

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In This Lesson, You Learned:

"Goodbye" in Chinese - 再见 zài jiàn

"Bye" in Chinese - 拜拜 bài bài! (it's an English loanword you'll hear used)

See you... - ...见 *...*jiàn

And this can be preceded by a ton of things. Until tomorrow is à míngtiān jiàn. Until Monday is xīngqíyī jiàn. Until next week is xià ge xīngqí jiàn. And until later is huítóu jiàn.

Featured Trade Secret:

Now that we've learned how to say "hello" and "goodbye", you know how to start and end your conversations in Chinese. Now it's time to start using it! Finding a Chinese friend you can chat with will be super helpful on your journey to learn Chinese. Whether you find a language exchange partner online through an app, a Chinese tutor on a site like iTalki, or even just finding a Chinese community of Instagrammers to chat with (yes, that's a thing!) — find someone to start talking with in Chinese.

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