【一起闲话英语】异性之间存在纯洁友谊吗？-Can men and women be best friends?

Lindsay / United States speaker Yes, I think opposite sex can be best friends. My best friend happens to be a male and is not my husband. Of course, my husband is one of my best friends, but the person that I rely on for friendship is a male, and I d

【一起闲话英语】婚前同居-Living together before marriage

Toni / Mozambique speaker I think people should live together because by living together, you tend to find out, like the qualities in the partner that you want. And before marriage, it's important to confirm those qualities by living together. Antoin

【一起闲话英语】喜欢做饭还是打扫卫生- Cooking or Cleaning

Paul / England speaker I prefer cooking because I enjoy the creative aspect of cooking, the idea of bringing together a number of ingredients, and you know, cooking is something that's going to taste good. And for these reasons, I enjoy cooking to cl

【一起闲话英语】照看宠物-Animal Care

Kat / Germany speaker Hey, I have a favor to ask. I'm going to be out of town for two days, and I was wondering if you could take care of my hamsters. You just got to come in and feed them. I'll leave the key in the box. Thank you. Warren / Canada sp

【一起闲话英语】奥运会的新运动项目-What should be an Olympic sport?

Tim / United States speaker I think the Olympics focus a little too much on physical strength and prowess, so I would like to see something that is more skilled-base. So, if you could have a type of craft that people would work on, so have competitiv

【一起闲话英语】什么样的科技会被淘汰？-Techno Obsolete

Warren / Canada speaker As much as I like to read, I don't think books are going to be around forever. They take up a lot of space, and they use up a lot of material, a lot of natural resources. These days, we can already just have everything on an i

【一起闲话英语】最喜爱的餐馆-Favorite Restaurant

Sarah / England speaker My favorite restaurant would have to be a chicken restaurant called Nando's. The menu is predominantly chicken and it's Portuguese style, so it's spicy. You can choose a spice and you can have it in the form of chicken on the

【一起闲话英语】想要拥有的技能-Talent Wish

Lindsay / United States speaker I wish that I was a ballet dancer. I think that would be really awesome to be able to stand on my tiptoes and be a beautiful ballerina dancer, like a swan. Matt / United States speaker If I could choose one talent over

【一起闲话英语】糟糕的发型-Bad Hair Day

Rese / Botswana speaker The worst haircut I ever had was when I cut my- completely bald actually, because my eyes started to pop out and my nose looked bigger. And especially because I had that haircut in winter, so it was really cold and my head was

【一起闲话英语】公共交通-Public Transport

Kat / Germany speaker I don't use public transportation too often. When I still lived in my home town, it was just too small to have public transportation. Nowadays, I like to ride my car. I think public transportation is a great idea, but I really l

【一起闲话英语】给自己的国家提出意见-Country Criticism

Sunny / Korea speaker I'm from Korea, and it's developed very recently in a rapid pace, so I think competition is the one thing that people always have in mind, and I hope Korea can be a little slow-paced and relaxed. Tim / United States speaker In A

【一起闲话英语】第一份工作-First Job

Eucharia, Ireland speaker My first part-time job was washing dishes in a restaurant. It wasn't a very glamourous job, but I really wanted it because I wanted to pay for horse-riding lessons, so every Saturday night I went to this restaurant and worke

【一起闲话英语】什么是生物化学—What is Biochemistry?

Passage Transcript biochemistry is a very specific area of chemical science which, studies the interactions of biological systems with chemical components, and which also determines, which chemical components and, how interacts with the human body an

【一起闲话英语】采访游泳运动员-Interview with a swimmer

Transcript: Interviewer: Hello, Dan. Dan: Hi. Interviewer: Can you tell me about a typical day in your life for the school magazine? Dan: Yeah, sure. Interviewer: So, what time do you get up? Dan: Oh, I get up very early. I get up every day at 5 oclo

【一起闲话英语】去取身份证—Getting an ID card

Transcript: Admin worker: International Student ID card? Student: Yes, thats right. Admin worker: Have you got the form? Student: Yes, here it is. Admin worker: OK, lets see. Name Ahmed, surname Saeed, age 14, address ... (pause) ... oh, whats your a

【一起闲话英语】去学校的第一天

Transcript: Tania: Hi. Im Tania. Whats your name? Jing: Hello. My names Jing. Tania: Nice to meet you, Jing. What class are you in? Jing: Im in class 1B. And you? Tania: Me too. Im in Class 1B too. Jing: Whos our teacher? Tania: Mr Smith. Jing: And w

【一起闲话英语】描述别人—Describing people

Transcript: Aurelia: Whos that boy over there, Hannah? Hannah: That? Er, thats my brother, Jem. Aurelia: Your brother? Hannah: Yes, and thats his girlfriend Lucy. The pretty girl with the long, brown hair. Aurelia: Oh right. So, youve got a brother?

【一起闲话英语】乐队试音—Band auditions

Transcript: Boy: Ah, band auditions. Great! Id love to be in a band! ... Hi. Is this the band audition? Girl: Hello. Yes. So, you'd like to be in our band? Boy: Yes, I love music. Girl: Well, we need a singer, a guitarist and a drummer. Boy: Oh, I lo

【一起闲话英语】如何才能在晚上休息好-A good night's sleep

Transcript: Host: At exam time it is important to sleep well. Today we have Doctor Baker with us in the studio and he is going to give us five top tips for getting a good nights sleep. Welcome to the show, Doctor Baker. Dr Baker: Thank you. Its great

【一起闲话英语】越南的食物—Vietnamese Food

Passage Transcript i want to talk about Vietnamese cuisine. and, to many of you, it may sound just like Chinese cuisine or Indian cuisine, it doesn't matter. but in that part of the world where i come from, Vietnam, China, Korea, um each country has