051 GG I'm Good

1195. This week, we talk to Dr. Maria Loconsole from the University of Padua about her research into the bouba-kiki effect, the near-universal tendency to associate round shapes with "bouba" sounds and spiky shapes with "kiki" sounds. We look at what her experiments with newly ha ...  Show more

1194. This week, we look at weather forecast terminology, including why "mostly sunny" and "partly cloudy" aren't the same thing, what "oktas" are, and how terms like "breezy," "scattered," and "likely" are officially standardized by the National Weather Service — even if your fa ...  Show more

Dialogue: A: Hallo Monika B: Hallo Max, wie geht es dir heute? A: Mir geht es gut, danke, und dir? B: Mir geht es auch gut, danke. Vocab Hallo = hello Monika = [name] Max = [name] wie = how es geht = it goes dir = you (dativ) wie geht es dir? = how are you? heute = today mir = I ...  Show more

What word do you use when you want to say something is very good or very bad? 

To greet people we say: Hola or ¿Qué tal? (Informal), Buenos días (in the mornings), Buenas tardes (in the afternoon), Buenas noches (at night time), To say goodbye we say: ¡Hasta la vista!, hasta luego or adiós. 

Most of us want to be good people–but what even makes a person “good?” And is our fixation on whether or not we ARE good holding us back from becoming even better? Dolly Chugh is an author and social psychologist who studies the psychology of good people. In this episode, she exp ...  Show more