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A Trio Treat

  What made you smile today?  I chanced upon these adorable creatures at Pier 39 and they just made...

I've passed 500 lessons and am now listed as "Popular"!!

Hello everyone! みなさんこんにちは！I want to announce that I have completed over 500 lessons on Cafetalk!! I...

How to accelerate your bike with knowledge?

How to accelerate your bike with knowledge? What worries me? This is the only question worth asking...

Writing to help achieve Fluency - Part 1

Writing can be a great way to improve your fluency and confidence in English. Writing is, unfortuna...

「ALMOST」と言わないで！

How do you say "ほとんどのイギリス人は紅茶を飲む" in English? You maybe surprised!

Summer Sweets? I miss Japan!

In the UK we don't really have a great variety of sweet treats to eat in the summer. Don't get me w...

My favourite summer treat

By Ripe Raspberries by Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1...

Unstoppable Sweet Tooth

I often hear and read something that says 'money can't buy happiness, but it can buy ice cream whic...

Your favourite summer dessert/sweets

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

Gelato has taken over

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

My Favourite Summer Dessert.

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

My favorite summer dessert is…

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

Have you ever experienced "culture shock"?

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

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

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

Which which? (どれのWHICH?)

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

Culture shock and blending in

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

Culture shock. Ukraine. School

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

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

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

196年ぶりに、

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

Culture shock in Japan

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

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

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

In the news: ‘Young people should not drink’

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

Latin Language

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

Classics' Time

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

Check out Extraordinary Attorney Woo on Netflix!

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

Applying Phrasal Verbs on Food and Drinks

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

WHAT IS THE SECRET TO REMEMBERING NEW WORDS IN ENGLISH?

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

Culture shock

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

Coming Home is the Biggest Culture Shock

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

Have you ever experienced the so called "culture shock"

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