Language Culture

This is introducing Japanese traditional culture such as "SUMO," "KABUKI," and "ZAZEN."

There are many events and festivals throughout Japan all over the year. It is introducing its charm and history.

Im Februar wird Malta erkundet und es gibt einen Streifzug durch die bewegte Geschichte der sonnenverwöhnten mediterranen Inselgruppe...

In Business Spotlight Audio 02/2023 für Februar hören Sie Artikel und Interviews aus der Welt des Business-Englisch. Mit Übungen verbessern Sie Ihre sprachlichen und kommunikativen Kompetenzen. Sie erhalten Tipps für eine bessere Kultur am Arbeitsplatz und den respektvollen Umgang mit den Werten anderer im Team. In einem Interview berichtet eine ehemalige Konzernchefin und heutige Karriereberaterin über ihren beruflichen Wechsel.

A World of Beauty: Tales from Pavlysh contains 19 charming little tales about the beauty of the natural world, and how nature supports all living creatures. A chicken hatches some duck eggs. A rowan tree welcomes some beautiful crested birds to feed on its berries. A blade of grass slumbers through the winter and awakens to joyfully greet the spring. In some of the stories, people engage with this beauty. A child admires the magic beauty of a snowflake, “a six-pointed star, so beautiful and shiny, that a fairy-tale master might have cut it from a plate of silver”.

Business Japanese [1] with parallel text is the most rewarding and effective method to learn a language. Existing vocabulary is refreshed, while new vocabulary is instantly put into practice. Our stories evolve around business, making the terms and phrases easier to remember in the learning process. Recommended for beginners with a good basis of Japanese, intermediate-level learners, and as a refresher course, these stories keep the listeners' attention and are fun to listen to and learn through motivation.

When Japan moves into summer, festivals are held all over the country.

Among the Bon Odori performed in various parts of Japan in summer, one of the most famous is the Awa

Mando-e, the Buddhist Lantern Festival is a traditional summertime event in Japan. It is usually hel

The Gion Matsuri, held over one month in July every year in Kyoto, is one of the three biggest festi

Along with the Gion Matsuri, one of the events representing the summer in Kyoto is Gozan Okuribi (th

In Japan, they say that the stars "Orihime" (Vega) and "Hikoboshi" (Altair), which face each other a

The event known as "obon" is like a memorial service for ancestors and people who have passed away.

Suwa Taisha Shrine in the Suwa district of Nagano Prefecture is one of the oldest shrines in Japan.

Fireworks festivals are a summer tradition in Japan and so when it becomes summer numerous fireworks

America meant "freedom" to the immigrants of the early 1900s - but a freedom very different from what they expected. Cities were crowded and jobs were scare. Children had to work selling newspapers, delivering goods, and laboring sweatshops. In this touching book, Newberry Medalist Russell Freedman offers a rare glimpse of what it meant to be a young newcomer to America.

Many people came to America in the early 1900s looking for jobs, opportunity, and freedom, and a lot of them were kids. But what happened to all these immigrant children after they passed inspection at New York’s Ellis Island - that is, if they passed inspection? Life was not easy for immigrants. Large families lived in small, one-room tenement apartments with failing plumbing and few windows. Children had to go to school with kids from different countries and learn to read and write a new language.

Butterflies bloom as delicately as flowers in this magnificent story of beginnings, middles and ends: eggs, caterpillars, and finally butterflies.

Copying Buddhist sutras is called shakyo and in Japan it typically refers to copying the Hannya Shingyo (The Great Heart of Wisdom Sutra).

Japan is the only country in the world that uses a seal registration system.