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[Immersive English Listening Training]! Spend just half an hour a day with carefully selected short dialogues and scenario-based exercises, combined with Chinese dubbing for easier understanding. Male and female voice comparison sharpens your listening sensitivity, and progress is clearly visible! With scientific breakdowns and intensive sentence-by-sentence listening, you can finally say goodbye to the struggle of 'not understanding'. Below is some immersive English listening content organized by qicai.com.

One, I'm Jessica, and I have a confession to make. Until six months ago, my kitchen was basically a very expensive storage room for take-out containers. I mean, who needs to cook when you live in New York City, right? There's amazing food on every corner. But let me tell you about how my weekends completely changed my relationship with cooking, and maybe they can change yours too. I'm a 25-year-old software engineer, and like many people in tech, I lived on coffee, pizza, and whatever food delivery app was offering the best deals. My refrigerator had three things, leftover Chinese food, energy drinks, and something green that I think used to be lettuce. Pretty embarrassing, I know. But then something happened that changed everything. One Saturday morning, I was scrolling through social media, probably avoiding doing laundry, when I saw my friend Emma post the most beautiful homemade pancakes. They looked fluffy, golden, and absolutely perfect. I felt this sudden urge to create something with my own hands instead of just typing code all day. That's when I decided to start my weekend cooking adventures.

Let me start with my first cooking attempt, which was, well, let's call it a learning experience. I thought making pancakes would be simple. I mean, how hard could it be? You mix some stuff together and pour it onto a pan, right? Wrong. I didn't have any ingredients, so my first weekend cooking adventure actually started at the grocery store. Starting through those aisles, I felt like an explorer in a foreign land. I spent 20 minutes just staring at different types of flour. Who knew there were so many options? All-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, almond flour, it was overwhelming. I finally grabbed what seemed like basic ingredients, flour, eggs, milk, and something called baking powder. Back home, I found a recipe online and got to work. The first problem was that I didn't have a mixing bowl. I used a large coffee mug instead. The second problem was measuring. The recipe called for one cup of flour, but I only had a coffee cup. Close enough, I thought. Twenty minutes later, my kitchen looked like a flour bomb had exploded. There was white powder everywhere on the counter, on the floor, somehow even on the ceiling. And my pancakes, they looked more like flat, sad cookies. They were tough, dense, and honestly pretty terrible. But you know what? I was proud of them because I made them myself. That first cooking disaster taught me something important. Cooking is about the process, not just the result.

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  • extract

    noun

    1. a passage selected from a larger work

    e.g. he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings

    Synonym: excerptexcerptionselection

    2. a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)

    Synonym: infusion

  • attitude

    noun

    1. a theatrical pose created for effect

    e.g. the actor struck just the right attitude

    2. the arrangement of the body and its limbs

    e.g. he assumed an attitude of surrender

    Synonym: positionposture

    3. a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways

    e.g. he had the attitude that work was fun

    Synonym: mental attitude

    4. position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion)

  • communication

    noun

    1. something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups

    2. the activity of communicating
    the activity of conveying information

    e.g. they could not act without official communication from Moscow

    Synonym: communicating

    3. a connection allowing access between persons or places

    e.g. how many lines of communication can there be among four people?
    a secret passageway provided communication between the two rooms

  • confident
  • panic

    noun

    1. an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

    Synonym: terroraffright

    2. sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events

    e.g. panic in the stock market
    a war scare
    a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building

    Synonym: scare

  • patient

    noun

    1. the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

    Synonym: affected rolepatient role

    2. a person who requires medical care

    e.g. the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly

  • register

    noun

    1. a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions
    […]nbsp;[…]nbsp;[…]nbsp;[…]nbsp;used in shops to add up the bill

    […]nbsp;[…]nbsp;[…]nbsp;[…]nbsp;Synonym: cash register

    2. a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device

    3. an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room

    4. (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind

    5. (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments

    6. an official written record of names or events or transactions

    […]nbsp;[…]nbsp;[…]nbsp;[…]nbsp;Synonym: registry

    7. a book in which names and transactions are listed

  • aroma

    noun

    1. any property detected by the olfactory system

    Synonym: olfactory propertysmellodorodourscent

    2. a distinctive odor that is pleasant

    Synonym: fragranceperfumescent

  • passionate

    adj

    1. having or expressing strong emotions

  • encouragement

    noun

    1. the act of giving hope or support to someone

    Synonym: boost

    2. the expression of approval and support

    3. the feeling of being encouraged

  • talented

    adj

    1. endowed with talent or talents

    e.g. a gifted writer

    Synonym: gifted

  • embarrassed

    adj

    1. made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride

    e.g. too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street
    humiliated that his wife had to go out to work
    felt mortified by the comparison with her sister

    Synonym: humiliatedmortified

    2. feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious

    e.g. felt abashed at the extravagant praise
    chagrined at the poor sales of his book
    was embarrassed by her child's tantrums

    Synonym: abashedchagrined

  • intimidating

    adj

    1. discouraging through fear

    Synonym: daunting

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