Some homegrown businesses and neighborhood restaurants flourish in Burma, thanks for the power of viral posts and social media. But fake news of levitating monks and strange omens also spread online, like wildfire. While not exactly fake news, inaccurate news and old news also tend to resurface from time to time, stirring up racial tension or raising false hopes. In this episode of Learn Burmese from Natural Talk, my cohost Mol Mol from BLAY (Burmese Language Academy of Yangon) and I discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly sides of social media. (Photo by Lanlao, licensed from Shutterstock. Music courtesy of Pixabay) Vocabularyကောင်းကျိုး benefitsဆိုးကျိုး negative impactမီးပုံးပျံ aerial balloon ရင်တထိတ်ထိတ် anxiously (adverb, literally, with the heart beating fast)လူမှုရေးကွန်ရက် social networkလူမှုရေး socialကွန်ရက် / ပိုက်ကွန် networkသတင်းမှား fake newsကောလာဟလ rumorsပွဲဆူအောင် to stir up thingsပဋိပက္ခ riot, conflictဆဲလဖီ ဆွဲတယ် to take selfieဆဲလဖီ တင်တယ် to post selfieဆဲလီ celebrityဝေခွဲလို့မရဘူး cannot determineဈာန်ကြွတယ် to levitate, to float by spiritual meansGoogle ခေါက်တယ် to search in GoogleGoogle လိုက် go ahead and use Googleနှလုံးရောဂါ heart disease သုံးသပ်တယ် to analyzeချဉ်းကပ်တယ် to approachစကားချိုသွေးတယ် to sweet-talk ဂျင်းမိတယ် to be deceived, to be taken advantage of (slang)ဂျင်းထည့်တယ် to deceive, to take advantage of (slang)ပေါက်သွားတယ် to become popular, to go viral online (slang)ကျမ်းကိုးကျမ်းကား cited sourcesငွေသား cash, moneyပိတ်ပင်တားဆီး to forbid Have a question about a Burmese word or phrase you heard here? Send us a message.

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