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Home » Spanish Learning Tips » 16 Spanish Tongue Twisters to Improve Your Pronunciation Fast Tongue twisters, or trabalenguas, are an excellent tool to improve your Spanish pronunciation. Repeating tongue twisters can also help speed up your speech and improve overall fluency. Let’s get started on twisting your tongue around some trabalenguas. Contents Download: This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that you can take anywhere. Click here to get a copy. (Download) Beginner Spanish Tongue Twisters 1. Tres tristes tigres tragan trigo en un trigal. English: Three sad tigers swallow wheat in a wheat field.…

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Adelaide City Kayak Tour with Earth Adventure – Review by Carla Caruso View the CBD from the River Torrens / Karrawirra Parri and paddle past riverbank icons along the way on this scenic, guided tour. The River Torrens is as quintessentially South Australian as the Mall’s Balls and FruChocs. But how close have you ever really got to it? Well, we got super-up-close and personal recently during a 90-minute, guided Adelaide city kayak tour with Earth Adventure.  The company offers all sorts of outdoor adventures, from rock-climbing and abseiling to snorkelling and surfing. Experiences range from half-day adventures to day…

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/ Shows / Eye on Africa Issued on: 09/05/2023 – 23:47 13:45 In tonight’s edition: The number of Sudanese uprooted by war has doubled over the last week. Some 30,000 people have arrived in Chad. And in an exclusive investigation our correspondents take a look inside of one of Guinea Bissau’s only rehab centres. In DRC, after an earthquake shook the city of Kisany 20 years ago, three Belgian women created a small company where 200 women have been trained in luxury embroidery to turn their lives around. Read more on related topics:

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For most of her life, the Ghanaian Scottish architect and educator Lesley Lokko, curator of the forthcoming Venice Architecture Biennale, has moved between worlds. She grew up in both Accra, the capital, with its two seasons and hot steady climate, and cool coastal Dundee. “Scotland was shiver,” she recalled. “Ghana was sweat.”Her ability to inhabit and interpret multiple worlds is a talent that Lokko, 59, the Architecture Biennale’s first curator of African descent, is bringing to “The Laboratory of the Future,” an ambitious exploration of Africa’s impact on the globe — and vice versa. More than half the Biennale’s 89…

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Book Review of Cloudy with a Chance of MeatballsThe Children’s Book Review Written by Judi Barrett Illustrated by Ronald Barrett Ages 4+ | 32 Pages Publisher: Antheneum Books for Young Readers | ISBN-13: 9780689707490 What to Expect: Humor and Friendship The story has to be entertaining when it’s set in a town called Chewandswallow. There is a Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs movie based on the book, but it’s quite a bit different. Chewandswallow appears to be like any other town. What makes it unique is that the weather comes three times a day. Once for breakfast, once for lunch,…

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Giant Swing, Climbing Adventure Tower & SA’s Longest Zipline This trio of aerial adventures is perfect for thrill seekers including kids above 120cm and weighing more than 25kg. Expect 90 minutes of jaw-dropping action starting with a rock wall climb to the top of a 15m adventure tower (the highest artificial climbing wall in South Australia), then fly through the air on a giant swing and conquer South Australia’s longest zipline at a massive 324 metres! You’ll find Mount Lofty Adventure Hub nestled within the grounds of Woodhouse Activity Centre’s 54 hectares of beautiful Adelaide Hills land. If you haven’t…

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National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia. The dates for NRW remain the same each year – 27 May to 3 June. These dates commemorate two significant milestones in the reconciliation journey— the successful 1967 referendum, and the High Court Mabo decision respectively. Reconciliation must live in the hearts, minds and actions of all Australians as we move forward, creating a nation strengthened by respectful relationships between the wider Australian community, and Aboriginal and…

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NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC is celebrated not only in Indigenous communities, but by Australians from all walks of life. The week is a great opportunity to participate in a range of activities and to support your local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. The 2023 National NAIDOC Week theme is For Our Elders. Across every generation, our Elders have played, and continue to play, an important role and hold a prominent place in our communities and families. They are cultural…

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Book Review of LegendbornThe Children’s Book Review Written by Tracy Deonn Ages: 16+ | 512 Pages Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books | ISBN-13: 9781534441606 What to Expect: Magic, Racism, Arthurian Legend, Black History, Black Womanhood Legendborn is a powerful, gripping fantasy that resituates Arthurian legend within the context of US race relations and the legacy of slavery.  Bree wants nothing more than to attend UNC’s Early College Program. However, her world is shattered when her mother dies in a car accident on the same day she tries to forbid her daughter from enrolling. Flooded with guilt and anger, Bree attends anyway,…

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Claire Della and the Moon A tender and beautiful production with puppetry, music, striking visuals and poetic storytelling. Join Claire and space dog Laika in the perfect show for these trying times. Using puppetry, music and poetic storytelling, Claire Della and the Moon offers young audiences a metaphoric vocabulary to positively manage their own mental health.  Claire Della and the Moon – By Ellen Graham and Jamie Hornsby Performances: Saturday 20 May 2023 | 2pm & 5pm  Tickets: $25.00 | Family of 4 (Admits 4) $80.00 | Concession $20 Duration: 55 mins Recommended for ages: Ages 9+  For more information and…

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