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[Assistant] I have a proposal. Will you help me destroy the Salamandra?


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[Assistant] Amphisbenes? Dragonflies? Watercreepers? No.


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[Assistant] I see. The lake's safe. While we're talking.


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[Assistant] Berengar, I'm not about to get killed by a few Bruxay, if that's what you were hoping for. Let's talk. Who said I wanted to talk? You gonna force me? I hadn't intended to. I was thinking. That since we're both witchers, somehow we'd come to an agreement? To me, you're no better than that scoundrel, the Professor. You're just a bigger hypocrite. So you worked with Salamandra after all. I never said that. Shit. Like we're done here. Can we talk?


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[Assistant] You mentioned a suit of armor. You don't know the legend? I thought every little witcher had heard it. Tell me. The legend, as legends do, tells of a great warrior.


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[Assistant] Yes. I know Witters are inhumanly effective. And for coin, they'll undertake any task.


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[Assistant] Don't deny it. Perhaps you don't fancy me?


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[Assistant] Prove yourself to me. I want a piece of some monster.


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[Assistant] My husband's away. Care to visit?


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[Assistant] Duet, I know who stands before me. We know each other, do we not, Witcher?


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[Assistant] Back to our lovers ambulating about the room. You see, Witcher,


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[Assistant] Politics is not unlike a tryst. It begins with foreplay, glances, conversations,


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[Assistant] Finally, one is left with sad, passionless copulation. Velorad and Duet, for instance.


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[Assistant] Open up in the name of King Foltest and the Flaming Rose! It's to wet.


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[Assistant] Siegfried! I know you're associating with that witch! You're finished! Triss, can you transfer us now? Is that wise?


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[Assistant] Alina, the village chief's daughter, will soon marry. For gold, mother says.


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[Assistant] Yes, sometimes those evil fish people creep out of the water and drive off the funny fisherman. I hide under the fisherman's hut.


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[Assistant] Journey to the West, Chapter 62, The Goldfish in the Basket.


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[Assistant] Wukong landed on Mount Podolaka. A young man was meditating in the garden.


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[Assistant] Said the man. He glanced up at the monkey.


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[Assistant] Guan Yin came over holding a basket. Hello Wukong.


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[Assistant] The Bodhisattva used a rope to lower the basket into the river. She recited a spell and then waited.


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[Assistant] After a moment she pulled the basket out of the water.


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[Assistant] Now that the goldfish was gone, so was its magic.


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[Assistant] The monkey smashed the rocks with his iron bar and went inside.


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[Assistant] When the travelers returned, the villagers cheered.


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[Assistant] The villagers held a feast for the travelers that evening. By the time everyone went to sleep, it was late.


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[Assistant] The next morning, the travelers woke to the sound of chopping.


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[Assistant] Ask the Tang monk. They went to the river and found a very busy scene. Several men were chopping down trees. Other people carried tools.


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[Assistant] Said the monk. He and his companion sat down by the water to wait.


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[Assistant] My name is Katherine and today we have an elementary level lesson for you.


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[Assistant] Well, Chicago definitely has a snowy season, so I'm very familiar with these things. So let's jump right into today's dialogue. We'll be hearing it one time and in a minute we'll be back to talk about it.


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[Assistant] Well, we need to keep our fingers warm, okay? So there are two kinds of, uh, ways to keep your fingers warm and the way in this dialogue that the boy keeps his fingers warm is with mittens.


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[Assistant] Okay, gloves have special places for each finger. One, two, three, four, five on each hand. Right. And mittens, there's two spaces. One for your thumb, and one for all your other fingers. Okay. Okay, so that means you can't really hold things.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you look like a, yeah, exactly, like a penguin. And it's mostly for children. Adults don't wear mittens because adults need to hold things like keys and phones and car steering wheels.


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[Assistant] Okay, this first phrase, as I said before, has to do with the mum and the boy saying goodbye to each other. So he says, alright, see ya. See ya. Yuh.


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[Assistant] So this is a very spoken language way of saying you. So we could say see you later, but if you want to make it shorter, you can say see ya.


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[Assistant] Exactly. It's very casual. So you cannot say, hold. That doesn't make sense. You have to use these two words together. Hold on. So like I said before with Marco, who wants to go fast, I could say, hold on. Hold on. Wait a second.


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[Assistant] A cold is when you, you know, when you cough, you have a sore throat, it's starting to get cold outside and you don't feel well. Okay, so you have a runny nose. It's a, it's a illness. And most people get this every year.


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[Assistant] Exactly, so remember present tense, I...


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[Assistant] Catch a cold. Passants, I caught a cold last week.


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[Assistant] Okay, so when do we hear this phrase? The mother says to the boy, put these on. Here we go. So she's doing something with him. She's helping him put his earmuffs on. And here we go is a way to say, okay, I finished.


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[Assistant] That's right, and uh, it's funny because I remember being a small child and my mother doing this to me. Putting on snow pants.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I have very strong memories of all of this, putting them on, taking them off, and just being warm all the time.


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[Assistant] Exactly, so I hope that no one out there catches a cold, but if, if you want some suggestions, wear a scarf, cover your neck, that's the most important, your head and your scarf are the most important.


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[Assistant] I heard a story of a Noon Wraith who wouldn't wed a Nilfgaardian, but I don't remember how it ended.


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[Assistant] She came to possess a rare and powerful Nehilenia's mirror, which once served oracles and prophets. Alina consulted her mirror quite frequently.


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[Assistant] Lost souls of the dead show a far greater sensitivity than those of the living.


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[Assistant] I am Sun Wu Kong, said the monkey, and you should be ashamed of yourself. What kind of monster eats children?


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[Assistant] My punishment is over, said the monkey. I'm traveling to the western paradise with the Tang Monk. The demon's eyes lit up.


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[Assistant] But I believe the demon now wants to capture the Tang Monk. So in the morning we must find a boat and leave.


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[Assistant] Wukong scratched his head. Why is it so cold anyway? It's spring!


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[Assistant] Once you were above me, I cracked the ice over.


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[Assistant] Привет, мой дорогой друг! Добро пожаловать на курс Русский для начинающих!


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[Assistant] Hello, my dear friend! Welcome to the Russian for Beginners course!


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[Assistant] And today we will talk about animals and verbs of the first conjugation in the present tense.


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[Assistant] хлеб, rice, рис, egg, яйцо, meat, мясо, chicken, курица, pork, свинина,


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[Assistant] tea, чай, sugar, сахар, honey, мёд, I want, я хочу, and, и


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[Assistant] Also, let's refresh the rule related to the modification of consonants in Russian.


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[Assistant] In Russian, some consonants have voiced or unvoiced counterparts. There are 6 pairs. The first pair is БП, then ВФ, ГК, ДТ, Ж, Ш, З.


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[Assistant] So, the Russian voiced consonants can be in a weak position, and because of the specifics of Russian articulation, voiced consonants in a weak position can be modified.


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[Assistant] The voiced consonant is pronounced like the corresponding to it voiceless sound.


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[Assistant] The modification takes place in two cases. If the voiced consonant is in the end of a word or if it is before voiceless consonants.


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[Assistant] Okay, great, let's move on to the first part of our lesson. Animals in Russian is ЖИВОТНЫЕ.


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[Assistant] Животные. Животные. Let's start. A cat in Russian is кот. кот.


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[Assistant] This word ends with the consonant т. That's why it's masculine. Next word.


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[Assistant] And again, this word ends with the vowel A, so it's feminine.


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[Assistant] elephant, slon, slon, elephant, slon


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[Assistant] A line in Russian is LEF, LEF.


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[Assistant] Please note that the voiced consonant V at the end of this word sounds like the paired voiceless consonant F. Okay, let's move on.


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[Assistant] Similarly to the previous word, the voiced consonant Д sounds like the paired voiceless consonant Т. Медведь. Медведь. A bear in Russian is медведь. The next word is horse. A horse in Russian is лошадь. Лошадь. Лошадь.


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[Assistant] It's feminine. Tiger. It's the masculine gender.


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[Assistant] A sheep in Russian is овца, овца, sheep овца, and it's feminine as well.


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[Assistant] And the last animal for today is a duck. Utka. Utka. A duck in Russian is utka. It's feminine.


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[Assistant] I hope you wrote these words down in your dictionary so that you remember them better. Or maybe you have a perfect memory and you don't need it, who knows?


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[Assistant] Anyway, we are moving on and I hope that you are ready to make out the second part of our lesson. Namely, we will talk about the verbs of the first conjunction in the present tense in Russian. Ready? Okay, let's get started.


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[Assistant] And first of all, I want to start with the good news.


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[Assistant] In Russian, there is only one present tense. Only one.


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[Assistant] The bad news is that in the present tense the endings of the verbs change depending on person and number. Each person has its ending.


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[Assistant] Next point worth mentioning. Russian verbs in the infinitive form usually end with Т.


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[Assistant] And answer to the question What to do? Что делать? What? Что do делать? Что делать?


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[Assistant] In Russian, exist two conjugations of verbs. Usually, the first conjugation in the infinitive form ends with АТЬ.


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[Assistant] АТЬ or ЯТЬ. ЯТЬ. As an example, I indicated the following verbs. The verb TO DO. ДЕЛОТЬ. ДЕЛАТЬ. It ends with АТЬ. TO WORK. РАБОТАТЬ. РАБОТАТЬ. Next example. TO WALK. ГУЛЯТЬ.


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[Assistant] It ends with ЯТЬ. ДЕлать, РАботать, ГУЛЯТЬ.


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[Assistant] The second conjugation in the infinitive form ends with ИТЬ, ИТЬ, and sometimes with ЕТЬ, ЕТЬ.


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[Assistant] And the first example of the second conjugation verb is the verb to speak. Говорить. Говорить. It ends with ИТЬ. Next example, the verb to watch. Смотреть. Смотреть. Next example, помнить. To remember. Говорить. To speak. Смотреть.


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[Assistant] To watch, помнить, to remember, говорить, смотреть, помнить.


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[Assistant] This is a general scheme for distinguishing the conjugation of verbs. However, there are exclusions, of course, but we will talk about it later.


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[Assistant] In this lesson we will learn forming the present tense of the first conjugation. So, using the verb of the first conjugation, we take the infinitive form and change


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[Assistant] To the corresponding personal ending, which you find in this table.


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[Assistant] Second person, singular. The ending. Yesh. Yesh.


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[Assistant] Yet. Pay attention that the pronouns он, она, оно, he, she, it, third person have a common ending. Yet.


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[Assistant] Yet. Okay. First person plural. The ending. Yehm.


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[Assistant] Yem, second person plural. The ending – yeti, yeti.


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[Assistant] 3rd person plural, the ending ют, ют. Please write down the scheme.


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[Assistant] So, one more time. Using the verb of the first conjugation ending with АТЬ or ЯТЬ, it's necessary to replace the ending ТЬ with the corresponding personal ending, which you can find in this table.


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[Assistant] To practice, let's start by learning a few basic verbs of the first conjugation. Get ready to write down and repeat after me. And the first verb is TO RUN БЕГОТЬ БЕГОТЬ TO RUN БЕГОТЬ


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[Assistant] As you can see, this verb ends with АТЬ. АТЬ. БЕГОТЬ. This is the verb of the first conjugation. To run. БЕГОТЬ. Next verb. To walk. ГУЛЯТЬ. ГУЛЯТЬ. To walk. ГУЛЯТЬ.


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[Assistant] This verb ends with ЯТЬ. This ending tells us that this is the verb of the first conjugation.


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[Assistant] Which tells us that this is the verb of the first conjugation. To jump. Let's summarize. To run. To walk. To jump.


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[Assistant] Okay, now let's practice and see how the verbs will change depending on which pronoun we use them with. But first let's remember the pronouns in Russian. I. Я. Я. You. Ты. Ты. He. Он. Он. She. Она. Она. It.


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[Assistant] So, in order to say I run, for example, we need to take the infinitive form of our verb БЕГОТЬ to run БЕГОТЬ and change ТЕ


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[Assistant] With a vertical line so that you understand which part of the word remains unchanged and which will be replaced.


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[Assistant] If you want to say you run in Russian, you need to change ть to the ending еш. БЕГОТЬ changes to БЕГАЕШ. You run. Ты БЕГАЕШ.


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[Assistant] Next group. He runs, she runs, it runs. The pronouns он, he,


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[Assistant] Она – she and Оно – it have the common ending yet. He runs. Он бегает. Он бегает. She runs. Она бегает. Она бегает. It runs. Оно бегает. Оно бегает.


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[Assistant] Okay, let's move on. First person, plural.


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[Assistant] And we take the infinitive form of our verb and change


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[Assistant] To the corresponding personal ending ЕМ. Мы бегаем. We run. Мы бегаем. Мы бегаем. Second person plural. You run. The ending ТИ changes to the ending ЕТИ. You run. Вы бегаете. Вы бегаете. You run. Вы бегаете.


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[Assistant] He runs. Он бегает. She runs. Она бегает. It runs. Оно бегает. We run. Мы бегаем. You run. Вы бегаете. They run. Они бегают.


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[Assistant] I understand that this is probably very difficult, but let's continue to practice to make it easier. And our next verb is the verb TO WALK.


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[Assistant] The ending for the first person singular is U.


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[Assistant] The ending to change to the ending you. I walk. You walk.


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[Assistant] The ending tch changed to the ending yesh. You walk.


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[Assistant] The ending for the third person singular is yet, so we will change the ending to the ending yet. He walks. Он гуляет. Он гуляет. She walks. Она гуляет. Она гуляет. It walks. Оно гуляет. Оно гуляет. We walk. Мы гуляем. Мы гуляем.


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[Assistant] We walk. You walk. They walk. And let's practice with our third verb to jump.


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[Assistant] Great job. Really. We have more practice ahead, so I'm sure you will master it. You'll master it perfectly. And now let's add two adverbs to your vocabulary.


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[Assistant] The most part of Russian adverbs has the ending О. And here's the first adverb for you. Fast. Быстро. Быстро. Fast in Russian is Быстро. The second adverb is Slowly. Медленно. Медленно. Slowly in Russian is Медленно.


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[Assistant] Here you can see the verbs studied today. However, pay attention to their endings, which indicate that a specific kind of pronoun or noun is used with them. Your task is to form sentences using pronouns and animal names you know. Also, you can add adverbs. Take your time, and then I will show my version. Okay?


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[Assistant] But let me remind you that there is only one present tense in Russian. Therefore, these sentences can also mean the present continuous action.


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[Assistant] It all depends on the context. So we can translate the first sentence.


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[Assistant] As I walk slowly or I'm walking slowly.


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[Assistant] A horse runs fast or a horse is running fast. A cat jumps or a cat is jumping. Okay.


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[Assistant] Take another look at this pivot table to remember which endings are used according to person and number.


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[Assistant] And the final part of today's lesson is the repetition of new words. Повторение. Repeat after me. Animals. Животные.


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[Assistant] Tiger – tigr. Boo – byk. Turtle – cherepacha.


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[Assistant] Excellent! Great job, my friend! That's all for today! See you in the next lesson, where we will continue to learn new verbs in the present tense. Пока-пока!


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[Assistant] My coat and my umbrella, please. Here is my ticket. Thank you, sir.


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[Assistant] Here's your umbrella and your coat. This is not my umbrella. Sorry, sir.


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[Assistant] Is this your umbrella? No, it isn't.


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[Assistant] Okay, so let's look at this holiday in today's vocabulary preview.


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[Assistant] Exactly. So this is a, this is a holiday that we don't actually celebrate in America. It's celebrated in what are called commonwealth countries. That means countries that used to be a part of Great Britain or that are a part of Great Britain. So England, Scotland, Canada, Australia. And this is a day where


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[Assistant] It has, it's a day when everyone goes to the sales after Christmas to return things or to buy new things. Uh, so we're gonna hear about this right away in today's dialogue and when we come back we'll be talking about some of the phrases and words that you've heard.


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[Assistant] Well, I think it's very common to hear fights around the holidays. People are very stressed out.


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[Assistant] Okay, these first two words are words that the wife uses in talking about some of these clothes that she got as presents. So she says, well she asks her husband, is this too flashy?


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[Assistant] It's too noticeable, too bright, too loud. So for example, a black shirt is not flashy. Mhmm, but an orange shirt. An orange shirt with buttons and bells and black.


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[Assistant] So hideous is an ugly word and it means ugly.


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[Assistant] Well, yap is a sound like, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. So yapping, to yap on about means to continue to talk and talk and talk about something. Okay. Because he's watching the football game on TV and she's talking and talking and talking and he's annoyed. So this is rude, you say.


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[Assistant] To blabber, to blabber on about means to talk about something but to not really make sense. Okay, so it's just worthless talk.


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[Assistant] Exactly, and so uhm, sometimes we make fun of people who blabber on about things because they're not important to us or they sound stupid.


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[Assistant] Okay, so this first phrase is very closely related to the days after Christmas, especially here on Boxing Day. We've got someone who's talking about going to the stores, to the sales, to exchange her gifts for better gifts.


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[Assistant] Alright, so this, like you said, doesn't make sense alone, but uhm, some cultural context might help. In English, we often say, uhm, say this phrase to mean


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[Assistant] Oh no, you didn't just say that. Oh, you didn't just insult my team. He's saying, I can't believe you just said that. He's upset because what she said was rude or mean. Okay. Okay, so I could say, you know Marco, I think Ecuador sucks.


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[Assistant] Uhm, why don't you just, just go and return all of those stupid clothes and not come back until much later. And she says, hmph.


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[Assistant] Okay, so that's a way to say, what you said, I might do that, and I'm threatening you.


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[Assistant] Exactly. So, if you have any special boxing day traditions, I'd be very curious to hear them. Again, not a holiday related to the sport boxing. It's spelled the same way and it looks the same.


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[Assistant] It's true, I'm not suited to converse with kings. Done. Dandelion, wait for me at the king's camp. Geralt, do what you must.


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[Assistant] Nonsense, Velorad. This is my city, the capital of my kingdom. Damn it, I rule this land, and I refuse to creep around its corners.


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[Assistant] Duet has been the princess's adjutant for the past half year. Velorad has known Ada since her childhood.


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[Assistant] Consult them and think upon this matter. We shall speak about it again soon. As you wish, your highness.


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[Assistant] Witcher, imagine returning home from an excursion against a monster, a Kikimor for instance, only to discover your home, a whorehouse. Your highness. I'm not finished. Those you left in charge failed you.


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[Assistant] Farewell. Your highness. No need for titles. Speak freely. You've had time to think.


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[Assistant] My daughter dealt with them, stupid girl.


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[Assistant] I regret I ever departed. To your credit, Velorad said you thinned their ranks considerably. I trust you shall finish the matter.


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[Assistant] You must know that I hardly did this out of lewd curiosity. My spies report that you are romancing Merigold. I need to know if there is anything more to it.


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[Assistant] Oh man, I've been starving myself for days now and I haven't lost an ounce.


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[Assistant] Yeah, my friend is getting married next month and I'm supposed to be a bridesmaid. I have to fit into my dress and look nice for her wedding, but I haven't lost any weight. Look at these love handles!


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[Assistant] If I do all of this, you think I can lose twenty pounds in four weeks?


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[Assistant] Journey to the West, Chapter 64, Magnificent Silk Vests.


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[Assistant] Do you two believe there are demons up there?


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[Assistant] It would be nice to get out of this cold, said the Tang Monk.


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[Assistant] Again there was no answer. Bajie looked at his companions.


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[Assistant] He opened the door and stepped inside. The monastery was dark and silent.


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[Assistant] Bright sunlight was streaming through a window and onto a table.


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[Assistant] A voice shouted. A demon with one big horn rushed over.


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[Assistant] A gift from the gods. Shani told us about you. We met at Saint Lebiodas Hospital in the temple quarter.


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[Assistant] Yes, I doubt those butchers would have spared us.


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[Assistant] What good is this war if decent citizens of Vizima suffer the most?


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[Assistant] Most of the city folk care neither for the order nor the elves, they just want peace.


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[Assistant] Can we help you? We have much work, but we'll find time for you should you ask. But not now. Shani would kill us.


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[Assistant] I'm very well, thank you. And you?


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[Assistant] He's fine, thanks. How's Emma?


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[Assistant] Nice to see you too, Stephen. Goodbye!


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[Assistant] That's right, we are going to talk about food, but specifically we're going to talk about a family barbecue.


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[Assistant] Alright, we're back, so probably a couple of words you didn't really understand, so let's take a look at those now in Language Takeaway.


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[Assistant] Right. And actually, as you mentioned, it's something that you do a barbecue, you have a family barbecue, but it's also a verb. To barbecue something, so to cook meat on a barbecue. So that's cooking meat, not in a stove, not with gas. Usually it's under a fire or very warm, intense heat coming from coals.


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[Assistant] Okay, so to marinate something or which is, so to marinate something which is a verb or the steaks and chickens are marinated which is an adjective.


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[Assistant] So basically means that you have added spices and maybe some lemon juice, different herbs or salts to the meats in order to give it flavor before you cook them.


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[Assistant] Very good. Alright, so we've marinated our food, our, our chicken, our, our steaks, but also we have hamburgers, so we need hamburger buns. What are buns?


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[Assistant] Alright, so remember, if you wanna have a hot dog, you need to buy hot dog buns. So people know already that you're talking about bread. And if you wanna buy a hamburger bread, you say a hamburger bun.


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[Assistant] Okay, or you can say half a dozen, that means


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[Assistant] Okay, very good. So a dozen hot dogs and they are also getting kebabs. What are kebabs?


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[Assistant] So, yeaah, those are very common. For example, in the Middle East, right, you have kebabs, sticks of meat, and also maybe some vegetables, uh, put on it, and you grill them.


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[Assistant] Alright, so why don't we listen to our dialogue again, and we'll come back shortly to look at some more words.


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[Assistant] Alright, we're back, so now why don't we go to a second part of Language Takeaway and take a look at five more words.


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[Assistant] Alright, the first word that we're gonna look at is lawn furniture. So we're gonna have lawn furniture outside.


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[Assistant] So it's usually not gonna be made out of wood, for example, because if it rains, it might get ruined, right? So usually it's either plastic or maybe even rock or stone.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we mentioned that you grill chicken or you grill steaks, but it's also a noun, a grill. So a grill, what is that?


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[Assistant] Okay, perfect. So that is a grill. And if you're going to cook, uh, foods or vegetables in this way, so you're going to grill them. Alright. And, uh, well, just in case it gets hot and you want to hide from the sun, we are going to set up a tent.


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[Assistant] Right, so as you mentioned, a tent is something that you set up temporarily made out of cloth or plastic to protect you from the sun or rain, or if you're going camping, you sleep in one. Alright, and now that they have all the food, they need cups, and then they mention this strange word, it kinda sounds French, serviettes.


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[Assistant] Okay, so you can say napkins, or if you wanna sound a little bit more fancier, you can say serviettes.


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[Assistant] Right, so usually you would place it in a refrigerator, but if you're outside or you're going camping, you wanna keep them cold or you wanna keep something hot. You place it in a cooler.


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[Assistant] Right, so it's usually made to keep something cool, but as I said, if you want to keep something warm, you can also keep it in the cooler. It keeps the temperature of the foods.


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[Assistant] Right. Alright, so that's all the words for today. Why don't we listen to our dialogue for the last time?


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[Assistant] Right, and well you have all your friends over, so you're having a couple of beers and you're having some meat. And it's actually a really nice way of just having something at home with good friends and family, right?


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[Assistant] Actually, well, I was in Chile, I noticed that as well, near their, uh, their festivities for their independence, which is September 18th. A lot of people get together and have barbecues and it's so, so popular that pretty much every house in the neighborhood you can smell somebody barbecuing on the weekend.


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[Assistant] Which glasses? These glasses?


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[Assistant] Hello everyone and welcome back to EnglishPod, my name is Marco.


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[Assistant] For me as well, I don't understand very well what this is about. We're gonna be talking about time zones and a little bit about daylight savings time.


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[Assistant] Alright, so the phrase is daylight savings time. Okay, so we're trying to save daylight. Pretty much.


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[Assistant] Okay, so everything is earlier, starts earlier. Yes. And that's basically to take advantage of the daylight, right? That's why it's called daylight savings time.


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[Assistant] Okay, so it, it sounds kind of complicated. Many countries don't have daylight savings time. They don't change their clocks at all. But we're gonna be talking about this in a little bit more, so why don't we listen to our dialogue for the first time.


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[Assistant] Alright, we're back. So that was a pretty clear explanation of why we do these things, but maybe there are a couple of words that you didn't understand, so let's take a look at those now in Language Takeaway.


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[Assistant] Okay, so the earth rotates. What does that mean if it rotates?


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[Assistant] To the car. To the car. Right. So this is one of the reasons why we need to compensate our clocks because of the rotation of the earth.


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[Assistant] And compensation would be the noun. Now in this case we're talking about time, so how can we compensate time?


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[Assistant] Okay, so we're compensating time. Now, related to daylight savings and this whole time thing is time zones. We have time zones all over the earth and you've probably noticed this if you've traveled, you have to change your clocks or many times you see in hotels what time it is in London, in Hong Kong, in Berlin, etc.


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[Assistant] Right. So most countries actually have different time zones throughout their country unless they're small that they don't really need to compensate any change.


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[Assistant] Or, for example, China. Just to unify everything. It's a big country, but they have one time zone. It's China Standard Time.


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[Assistant] Right. Alright, so that's time zone and now related to time zone is time difference.


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[Assistant] So the time difference would be more or less 12 hours.


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[Assistant] Right, okay. I think that's pretty clear. I think we should go back and listen to our dialogue again, and we'll be back soon with Fluency Builder.


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[Assistant] Alright, we're back, so now let's take a look at three key phrases in Fluency Builder.


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[Assistant] So to take advantage of something is to use it efficiently, right? Or to take better advantage. So for example, if you drive to work every day and your neighbor drives to work every day and you work at the same place, you could take better advantage of your car and the cost by sharing the same car to work.


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[Assistant] Right. Or many mothers say, take better advantage of your time and read something instead of playing those video games.


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[Assistant] That's right, and now when we talked about what Daylight Savings Time means or GMT, what that stands for, this is an interesting phrase, it stands for...


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[Assistant] Right. So we use this a lot when we are defining words or when we are defining an acronym, like GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time or for example, USA stands for United States of America.


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[Assistant] Cool, alright, and well now talking a little bit more about time, you've maybe seen the movie Back to the Future, and this is what it's all about, to go back in time.


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[Assistant] Right. So to go back in time, you usually use it like this. Now, what if I wanted to say to go into the future? Could you say, go forward in time?


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[Assistant] Right, go into the future. So remember, if you wanna talk about going back in time, it's usually traveling to the past.


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[Assistant] Alright, so that's all the phrases we have. Why don't we listen to the dialogue for the very last time.


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[Assistant] Alright, we're back and now this is actually something that really does happen, right? If you take off in an airplane from Beijing, you fly for a certain amount of hours and you reach California and it's still the same time. You reach it in the same day.


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[Assistant] And then what happens is when you do the opposite, you go from Chicago to Shanghai, then you go into the future pretty much, right? Because you left on a Sunday, but you arrive on a Tuesday.


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[Assistant] Right, right. So when you go back or when you come, it all evens out. You, you, you recover.


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[Assistant] You, you get those hours of your life back pretty much. They're not gone forever.


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[Assistant] Alright, so if you guys have any questions, any doubts, you can send us an email at EnglishPod at PraxisLanguage.com or come to our website EnglishPod.com.


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[Assistant] It is hot. Maybe we should take a break.


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[Assistant] It's impossible to pass! We'll go around it.


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[Assistant] All the land around the mountain is covered in flames! The land stretches far to the north and the south! It's impossible to go around!


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[Assistant] The flames are magical. There is just one spirit who can put them out. Who?


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[Assistant] She has a special fan that can put out the flames. It's made from a plantain leaf.


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[Assistant] Come and meet our employees, Mr. Richards. Thank you, Mr. Jackson. This is Nicola Gray. And this is Claire Taylor. How do you do? Those women are very hard working. What are their jobs? They're keyboard operators. This is Michael Baker.


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[Assistant] And this is Jeremy Short. How do you do? They aren't very busy. What are their jobs? They're sales reps. They're very lazy. Who is this young man? This is Jim. He's our office assistant.


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[Assistant] Lesson 35. Our village. This is a photograph of our village.


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[Assistant] Here is another photograph of the village. My wife and I are walking along the banks of the river.


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[Assistant] We are on the left. There is a boy in the water. He is swimming across the river


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[Assistant] Here is another photograph This is the school building It is beside a park


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[Assistant] Some children are coming out of the building.


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[Assistant] Some of them are going into the park.


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[Assistant] This is terrible. Now I'll never reach the western paradise with the Tang Monk. I wanted to earn forgiveness.


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[Assistant] Master, you wait here while Barjay and I find a village.


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[Assistant] I'm Sha Wujing. We were traveling to the west together. I'm going to the west, but not with you.


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[Assistant] Journey to the West. Chapter 81. Help from a Dragon.


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[Assistant] But the two symbols would not come apart.


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[Assistant] The monkey was about to strike the cymbals again when he heard a voice.


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[Assistant] Please hurry said Wukong. Slowly the dragon's horn poked through.


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[Assistant] Said the monkey. Wukong turned his iron bar into a drill.


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[Assistant] then he made himself tiny and climbed into the hole


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[Assistant] the monkey jumped out of the hole and returned to his normal size


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[Assistant] cried the dragon. Wukong shrugged.


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[Assistant] The cloth wrapped around Wukong and the dragon, and then became very small.


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[Assistant] The Tang Monk, Bajie, and Wu Jing were also in the room. Their bags were lying in a corner.


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[Assistant] Wait here, I'll go back in and get them.


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[Assistant] The monkey quietly hurried back to the room and grabbed the bags.


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[Assistant] Alright, we're back. So now we have a couple of different jobs for people that are working specifically in emergency situations. So let's take a look at those now in Language Takeaway.


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[Assistant] Alright, so they're talking about professions, and some of the kids dressed up as different, uh, as different people. The first one was a fireman.


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[Assistant] Oh, very good. So a fireman puts out fires. Now, apart from a fireman, we also have a police officer.


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[Assistant] So officer is for both genders, right? A man or a woman could be a police officer.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we have a fireman, a police officer, a medic. Now what is this medic?


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[Assistant] Okay, so a medic is not really a doctor, he's more of a specific person that can help you if you have maybe some cuts or bruises or will help you out.


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[Assistant] Okay, and our last profession is a lifeguard.


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[Assistant] Okay, very good. So you have a lifeguard. Now this is for men and women as well, right? A lifeguard.


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[Assistant] Okay, so interesting professions, why don't we listen to our dialogue again, and we'll be back shortly.


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[Assistant] To telephone someone, to dial. So you can dial 911 or dial my office number.


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[Assistant] Now, you can call 911 for many different situations or emergency. One of the kids said, well, if my grandpa had a heart attack.


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[Assistant] Okay, very good. So that's a heart attack. Now another possible emergency situation is if the fire alarm goes off.


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[Assistant] Okay, now there's an interesting phrasal verb that is used along with this word, fire alarm. We say the fire alarm goes off or the fire alarm went off. So that means it started to sound, to emit a sound.


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[Assistant] So usually you have to use force. For example, if I forget my keys inside my car and I have to break into my own car, that means maybe I have to force the door open or maybe break the window.


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[Assistant] I always wanted to be a pilot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I wanted to be a jet pilot. Actually, I collected, uh, books about it. I read up about it. So even till now, I probably still remember like, uh, the capacity of, of certain jets or, uh, what types of weapons they have. I was really, really into it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's hard and usually what, what you want to be as a kid, uhm, you don't do it when you're older. I couldn't do it because of my vision. I, I didn't have 20-20 vision to actually join the Air Force, so.


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[Assistant] Journey to the West, Chapter 28, Wukong Leaves His Body.


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[Assistant] Bajie looked out the kitchen window. Wukong and Wu Jing were outside talking.


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[Assistant] The monkey went behind the abbey and found the giant ginseng tree. The fruit sparkled in the sunlight.


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[Assistant] He handed Bajie and Wu Jing each a ginseng fruit. Wu Jing took a bite.


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[Assistant] Bajie opened his mouth wide and threw his ginseng fruit in. Gulp.


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[Assistant] Said Wukong. You didn't even CHOO!


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[Assistant] At that moment, the two priests were walking past the kitchen.


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[Assistant] The two priests ran outside and searched the ginseng tree. Three pieces of fruit were gone.


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[Assistant] Wu Jing wipes some juice from the side of his mouth.


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[Assistant] The two priests yelled and yelled. They called Wukong and his companions all sorts of terrible names.


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[Assistant] Finally, he took out his iron bar and struck the tree.


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[Assistant] I think you made a mistake, said the monkey with a big smile.


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[Assistant] How, kak, it?


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[Assistant] Mama, mama, mama, mother, mama.


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[Assistant] Father, papa, papa, papa.


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[Assistant] Papa, father, papa, son, sin, sin.


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[Assistant] Journey to the West, Chapter 66, Help from Heaven.


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[Assistant] One horned buffalo went back into his cave and slammed the door shut.


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[Assistant] The monkey shot into the sky and soon arrived at the southern gate of heaven. He told the guard everything that had happened.


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[Assistant] The messenger returned quickly with a warrior. The warrior held a large sword.


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[Assistant] One horned buffalo held up the metal ring and WHOOSH! The warrior's sword flew into it!


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[Assistant] A fire god joined Wukong and the warrior. The god held a large flaming spear.


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[Assistant] The three of them went down to earth and landed on the mountain. The fire god stood in front of the cave door. He held up his fire spear and shouted,


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[Assistant] The cave door opened and the demon stepped outside.


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[Assistant] The fire god threw the flaming spear at the demon. But once again the demon held off the metal ring. The spear was gone. The demon returned to his cave.


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[Assistant] Back down on Earth, Wukong watched as the Thunder God approached the cave door.


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[Assistant] The cave door opened, and one horned buffalo stepped outside.


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[Assistant] One horned buffalo held up the metal ring and whoosh! The thunderbolt was gone! The demon looked around at everyone and laughed.


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[Assistant] I am the great immortal. You destroyed my ginseng tree.


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[Assistant] My name is Catherine and today we're talking about a dream home. So building the home of your dreams.


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[Assistant] So stay tuned, we'll be talking about very specific things having to do with building a home and home remodeling. And so we'll hear this dialogue one time, but when we're back in just a minute here we'll be talking about what those things mean.


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[Assistant] I've been to your house, I know. Anyway, we've got a lot of great words here in Language Takeaway, so let's take a peek at some of those.


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[Assistant] Okay, so minimal is a style, minimalist actually, and minimal landscaping is this kind of style of, well, designing your lawn or your garden. Okay. So minimal means not having adornments or decorations.


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[Assistant] Exactly, so minimal architecture could be very simple, lots of clean lines, not much decoration. It's the opposite of something that's baroque and highly ornamented.


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[Assistant] Point is sometimes, well, it's usually kind of a bad thing.


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[Assistant] A gable, uh, is a thing, right, and it's, it's almost like an extension of the roof in certain parts. For example, on a traditional Cape Cod style house, you have windows in the front that they're, they're not a part of the roof, they're an extension, they come out.


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[Assistant] Exactly, they're coming out like eyes, and so the roof, obviously you need a roof on top of those windows, so that kind of roof, that little extension, that's called a gable.


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[Assistant] And so there's a wonderful book that's famous in American history called The House of Seven Gables.


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[Assistant] That means that on this roof of the house, there are seven different parts that come out.


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[Assistant] And so a picket, uh, is, is I think the pointed part. So a picket fence is thin pieces of wood that stand in the ground and are connected to protect your property from other people coming inside.


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[Assistant] A fad. So a fad is something that is passing. It's something that's popular for a short time, but then it goes away. It's not popular anymore.


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[Assistant] One of my favorite fads of the 1980s were those shirts that would change color if the room temperature changed color. So if you go outside and it's hot they would become bright pink, but if you're in a cold room they would go blue and green. It was really fun, but they're definitely out of fashion these days.


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[Assistant] Vintage, well some people think that vintage is a fad. Uhm, a lot of people really enjoy buying vintage furniture or vintage clothing. Vintage means old.


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[Assistant] It's not from today's styles, it's an old style. Or you could even call, you know, those big flowing dresses from the 1970s, vintage clothing. So vintage furniture would be furniture that comes from a different time, a different era. And it's popular now.


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[Assistant] So the reason this dialogue is very funny is because we have these two people who are clearly in disagreement about the kind of furniture and house they want, but they're, they're being so nice to each other. They have these cute names for each other. So it's really, I don't know, it's really funny.


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[Assistant] Sweetums. So obviously the main part of this word is sweet. Sweetum. Sweetums. And this is a way to say hey sweetie. Sweetums.


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[Assistant] It's the sweet. So sweetie pie. We could say honey pie.


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[Assistant] So these are all cute. And you know, the nice thing about these kind of pet names, these cute names is you can change them if you want. Um, and they're yours. So you could say, um, honey pie, sugar bun, you know, they're silly, but there's no real rule, but these are the most common. So sweetums and sweetie pie. Okay.


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[Assistant] Also in the movie, the Princess Bride was the character of Princess Buttercup.


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[Assistant] And so this is a sweet, you know, obviously a sweet thing. I think a buttercup is a flower. Oh really?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and so uhm, these are all words you can use, names you could use with men and women, but Buttercup is mostly women. I think the other ones are more, more general.


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[Assistant] I, I love the look of minimalism, but as a place to live, it's not comfortable. Right? And so when I think of an aesthetic that I like, you know, a look that I like, I really like


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[Assistant] No, not dark. I like things to be open. Uhm, and I like a lot of natural light, but I also like oversized, kind of heavy furniture and really luscious, uhm, fabrics and things like that. So, that's my...


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[Assistant] Cool, well let us know what you guys like because everyone has their own opinion on what a beautiful house is and if you have any pictures, feel free to share them with us on our website, EnglishPod.com.


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[Assistant] Hello, Father. I'm sorry I haven't visited you until now. Who are you?


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[Assistant] I married Princess Hundred Flowers thirteen years ago.


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[Assistant] I found her in a forest just as a tiger was about to attack her. I saved her life and chased away the tiger.


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[Assistant] That was very brave. Yes, it was very brave.


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[Assistant] However, that tiger has wanted revenge ever since.


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[Assistant] Some time ago it became a spirit. Now it disguises itself as a monk.


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[Assistant] I don't believe you. I'll prove it.


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[Assistant] Why don't you go find us some food? Wu Jing and I will wait here.


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[Assistant] So let's take a look at vocabulary preview and find out just exactly what this phrase means.


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[Assistant] Right, so this is actually a noun, aid is help. So we're applying first aid, this means we're the first person to come and help someone. So for example, if someone is bleeding, the first aid is to stop the bleeding.


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[Assistant] Alright, so first aid, we're gonna learn all about this, take a listen to today's dialogue, and we'll be back in a moment.


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[Assistant] Well, starting us out here in Language Takeaway, we have the name of an organization that's not for profit, that's very, very, very famous. This is called the Red Cross.


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[Assistant] But the Red Cross will take this and it will help other people, people who have been in disasters or wars. And so uhm, maybe the Red Cross office near you will have blood banks and blood donations, but really they help people, they provide aid to people who are unhealthy or sick or have been in a war.


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[Assistant] So in this dialogue, the two people are discussing real emergencies, and one person says he went along with some paramedics. So a paramedic is a person.


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[Assistant] Okay, so a paramedic, you might hear the word medic, it's the same thing. A paramedic is like a nurse. They're not a doctor, but they're usually the first person to help when there's been an accident or a disaster.


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[Assistant] Great. Well after that we have finally some of the injuries that a paramedic might see. The first injury is usually associated with the head. This is called a concussion.


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[Assistant] That's right. So a concussion is really when your brain hits your skull. That's the bone that protects your brain. So really you're, you're, you're hitting your head really, really hard. And usually this can have some bad side effects like you lose your memory or you're a little bit confused. It's very common with football players.


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[Assistant] That's right. So this is, this can be very serious and obviously should be looked at by a paramedic. Uh, we also have another situation that is similarly serious. It's called a compound fracture.


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[Assistant] But you could also say, I fractured my arm. This is the more medical term. But of course there are different ways to break something. And so in medicine we have a compound fracture.


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[Assistant] Or a hairline, which means that there's a little thin part where it's not, it's broken, but it's not really serious.


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[Assistant] Do you do this? No. No, me neither. Well some people when they see blood they feel very very uncomfortable or sick. And so to faint is to fall down on the ground. It's almost like you're falling asleep. But it's not sleep.


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[Assistant] Twice in my life. Uhm, one time I fainted because of heat. It was very very very hot. And I couldn't breathe for a moment and then I woke up on the ground.


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[Assistant] Alright, so quiz, Marco. What is the first thing that a paramedic does when he or she finds a body at an emergency?


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[Assistant] The pulse is the rhythm, that's the sound of your heart pumping blood. And you can feel someone's wrist or their throat. So to check for a pulse means to check and make sure their heart is pumping blood.


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[Assistant] Well, if there's a very serious emergency and the paramedic needs help to give aid to the person who is injured, then they will rush that person to the hospital.


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[Assistant] Alright, so to rush someone or to rush someone to the hospital means to take someone or to go with someone very, very quickly.


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[Assistant] Okay, so let's give an example. I could say, listen, Marco, I don't want to rush you, but I really need the report done.


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[Assistant] Okay, I tend to. I tend to is a really great verb that describes a normal or habitual behavior. That's like saying, uhm, I tend to faint when it's very very hot outside. That means


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[Assistant] I often faint when it's very, very hot outside. It's something that happens normally. So it's a tendency. Right, but it's not for everyone. It's for me. So I tend to, uhm, what's something that you tend to faint when you see?


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[Assistant] Could be a good thing, could be a bad thing. Uh, obviously you can try and use some of the vocabulary you heard in today's lesson about health and safety and you might get some extra points from us for doing that.


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[Assistant] Don't put it there, Sam. Put it here, on this shelf.


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[Assistant] Ayi means aunt in Chinese. Hi, I'm your cousin Brian.


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[Assistant] Our room costs nine hundred and ten.


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[Assistant] But many people here enjoy singing Japanese songs.


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[Assistant] The next song is New York, New York.


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[Assistant] Okay, everyone, stand over there.


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[Assistant] We can hike. Yes, we can hike to some waterfalls.


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[Assistant] There are some easy trails and some hard trails.


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[Assistant] One trail is not far from here. It goes to the Eternal Spring Shrine.


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[Assistant] No will walk in the dark. It will be an adventure.


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[Assistant] We'll take another hike. Are you tired of hiking yet?


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[Assistant] It's also an easy hike, but that trail is now called Sakadang Trail.


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[Assistant] I'm hot. Let's go swimming! No, sorry. Swimming here is too dangerous.


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[Assistant] Well, I've seen enough scenery for one day. Let's go to the bridge.


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[Assistant] Here, let's, uh, where are we starting?


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[Assistant] Wukong, I am the spirit of these mountains.


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[Assistant] Please forgive me. I tried to stop that demon from taking my mountains, but he was too powerful.


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[Assistant] Where do you come from? I come from Greece. What's the climate like in your country? It's very pleasant


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[Assistant] What's the weather like in spring? It's often windy in March.


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[Assistant] It's always warm in April and May, but it rains sometimes.


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[Assistant] It's always hot in June, July and August. The sun shines every day. Is it cold or warm in autumn?


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[Assistant] It's always warm in September and October.


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[Assistant] It's often cold in November and it rains sometimes. Is it very cold in winter? It's often cold in December, January and February. It snows sometimes.


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[Assistant] Max, I'm fixing this really great car.


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[Assistant] So, what are your plans for the extra day on Friday?


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[Assistant] Giving me more gifts to help me plan my finances. Thank you, Rich.


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[Assistant] Rich. This card is useless in small town. We don't have any cash card machines.


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[Assistant] You have a great life. Yes, I do. She's better than all the money in the world.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure, Betty. I looked at the battery and it's fine. But, you know, this phone is pretty old.


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[Assistant] Then it's really old. Technology changes every few months. Why don't you get a new phone?


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[Assistant] Here, look at mine. It can take pictures. Smile!


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[Assistant] Well, decide what features you want and how much you want to spend.


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[Assistant] Yes. So, ask people what they like about their cell phones. Read reviews online too. Then decide.


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[Assistant] It's raining. It's raining? It's pouring.


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[Assistant] I just heard the weather report. A typhoon is coming!


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[Assistant] Tomorrow. Are you serious? Well...


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[Assistant] It will rain cats and dogs for the rest of the day. Cats and dogs will pour from the sky!


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[Assistant] Hello my beautiful wife. Hello Max. So, I'm not beautiful? No, but it's a beautiful day today. It's sunny and there is a cool breeze.


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[Assistant] We'll have a beautiful day today. It's sunny and- You already toldeth that!


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[Assistant] Max takes the directions out of the box. He doesn't look at them. He takes everything out of the kit. Sarah reads the directions. Max puts some parts together, but they fall apart. Max gets a screwdriver. Sarah stops him. She shows him the directions.


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[Assistant] Then they work together on the tricycle.


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[Assistant] I am. Walking those dogs is a lot of work.


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[Assistant] This new dog walking job is perfect for me. Except for the dogs.


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[Assistant] I used to like dogs before I went to the park today.


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[Assistant] Well, I had to clean up after the dogs.


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[Assistant] Yes, but he's not a puppy. He's just a very small dog.


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[Assistant] When Barkie saw a cat, he started barking.


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[Assistant] That's right. And I couldn't hold all five leashes.


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[Assistant] The dogs chased the cat and I chased the dogs. I finally caught them all and came here.


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[Assistant] Oh, I need to take the dogs back to their owners. Hey, Simon.


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[Assistant] Could you wash my cockroaches for me? I guess so. At least I won't need to walk them.


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[Assistant] If it will help my allergies, I'll try anything.


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[Assistant] Are you serious? You really think Can't Buy Me Love is the best Beatles song?


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[Assistant] I'm fine. I'm organizing the jukebox's CDs a little. It has a lot of different kinds of music. I forgot about that.


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[Assistant] It's just fine. I finished organizing the CDs. There are some great CDs in there. There really are. I like almost every album in there. You do, huh? What about the boy band albums? Do you like them?


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[Assistant] I thought so. That's a cool feature, isn't it?


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[Assistant] But then you can't hear anything else. You didn't hear me come in.


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[Assistant] So, uh, did you find my package?


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[Assistant] I didn't know you knew about these technologies.


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[Assistant] Me too! Baseball is my favorite sport. I'd love to go to the...


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[Assistant] We need more players for soccer. We could play tennis!


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[Assistant] Easy. I can eat and watch at the same time. And you know hot dogs are part of the baseball experience. That's true. Food is part of any great


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[Assistant] Hey, don't answer my question. And you are wrong. Vancouver is in Canada. The USA. Canada!


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[Assistant] I dunno. I don't know, but Sarah knows.


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[Assistant] I know you two are going out to a movie tonight, but if you ever want to rent a movie, here you go.


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[Assistant] Like what? Well, most of the day was okay.


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[Assistant] Yes, they live in Chicago, and they always like to come to the diner without telling us.


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[Assistant] Mr. Lewis was mad and asked about our cockroach problem.


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[Assistant] Or he thought so. But it wasn't a cockroach, it was just some food.


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[Assistant] Then, Mrs. Lewis just laughed and laughed.


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[Assistant] They write every week! Why are you so excited this time?


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[Assistant] Spices, flour, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, red beans. Hi Max. Where's my wife? She's in the back.


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[Assistant] Didn't you just go to Chicago a few weeks ago? Yes, but I didn't have time to get any supplies. I see.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think so. Why? Well, do you and Renee want to go with me?


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[Assistant] Yes, I like to get an early start when I go to the city.


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[Assistant] Let's take one car. Parking in the city is expensive. Okay.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Is it good? It's delicious. Do you want to try it? I know a great restaurant in the city. I can make reservations for us.


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[Assistant] I'm going to follow the pig. I want to make sure he really searches the mountain.


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[Assistant] It's safe. Did you see any demons or monsters?


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[Assistant] How about woodpeckers? Ask the monkey. Did you see any of them?


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[Assistant] You took a nap! You didn't search the mountain at all!


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[Assistant] Wukong can't charge into the palace and attack the Daoist.


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[Assistant] People will think the monkey is evil, attacking a king for no reason.


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[Assistant] Wukong frowned. He probably went back to sleep. I should have followed him again. Let's keep walking, said Wu Jing. We'll find Bajie along the way. We must stay alert though, said Wukong. We still don't know if there are any demons on this mountain. The group headed up the mountain.


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[Assistant] I know you're really a demon. The monkey whispered. And I know you want to eat the Tang monk.


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[Assistant] So you're going to use magic tricks to trap me under a mountain?


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[Assistant] Well, let me tell you, Buddha himself once trapped me under a mountain. And I was able to lift it.


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[Assistant] Now that the Tang Monk isn't around, I should clobber you with my iron bar!


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[Assistant] The Tang monk introduced himself to the prince and then waved toward the others.


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[Assistant] The Tang monk introduced himself to the prince and then waved toward the others.


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[Assistant] Don't worry, said Wukong. We'll get rid of that fake king.


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[Assistant] I know where there's treasure. The monkey lied. Bajie's eyes popped open.


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[Assistant] The treasure is in this well, said the monkey, pulling the lid off. Bajie peered down into the darkness.


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[Assistant] Angry, Bajie dived down deeper and deeper until he arrived at a palace.


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[Assistant] The next morning, the Tang monk looked at the king's body.


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[Assistant] Right away, Wukong made himself tiny and escaped.


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[Assistant] Once he was outside, he returned to his normal size. He banged on the cave door.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's too bad, said Wukong, pretending to feel bad.


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[Assistant] He plucked a hair and made it look almost exactly like himself. There was just one difference. The fake Wukong had no legs. Next Wukong made a hair look like a puddle. He placed the fake Wukong on the puddle.


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[Assistant] The gourd shut out light as Golden Horn removed the cap. The tiny Wukong leaped out unseen.


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[Assistant] Goldenhorn laughed again and closed the gourd. He put the gourd down and started eating.


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[Assistant] Said Goldenhorn, Wukong picked up the gourd.


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[Assistant] Wukong changed back into himself and then banged on the cave door again. Goldenhorn threw the door open.


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[Assistant] He's the monkey spirit who rescued Sha Wujing and me earlier. We can never thank you enough, said the Queen.


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[Assistant] You and your friends have made us very happy. It was nothing at all, said Wukong with a laugh.


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[Assistant] The large size please. Do you have any writing paper?


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[Assistant] Arctic animals. Written by Sarah Gusan. Focus question. Which animals live in the Arctic?


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[Assistant] The Arctic is one of the coldest places on Earth.


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[Assistant] Hairs live in the Arctic. They turn white in the winter.


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[Assistant] Snowy owls live in the Arctic. They hunt in the day.


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[Assistant] Foxes live in the Arctic. They have thick fur.


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[Assistant] Wolves live in the Arctic. They hunt in packs.


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[Assistant] Caribou live in the Arctic. They are good swimmers.


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[Assistant] Moose live in the Arctic. They fight with their antlers.


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[Assistant] Harp seals live in the Arctic. They have white fur as pups.


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[Assistant] Orcas live in the Arctic. They hunt many sea animals.


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[Assistant] Polar bears live in the Arctic.


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[Assistant] Moms stay with their cubs for years.


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[Assistant] connections, writing, choose two animals from this book.


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[Assistant] Write about how they are the same and how they are different. Science


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[Assistant] The Tang Monk is here to see you. He says his companions can defeat demons.


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[Assistant] His majesty is very upset. If you can help him, please do.


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[Assistant] The Taoist had vanished. Wukong ran outside and shot into the air.


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[Assistant] Which one of you is the real Tang Monk?


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[Assistant] I am, said one. The other monk glared at the first one. No, I am.


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[Assistant] Then he sighed. But it is a good idea. Bajie and Wujing stood near the monks.


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[Assistant] Master, recite the tight headband spell, said Wukong.


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[Assistant] Both monks began sleeping, and Wukong fell to the floor.


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[Assistant] Get him! shouted Wukong. He and his companions chased the lion. Outside the lion leaped into the air. Wukong and the others shot after him.


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[Assistant] Wukong pulled out his iron bar and raised it to strike. Just then, a deep voice called out.


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[Assistant] The bodhisattva and the lion disappeared above the clouds.


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[Assistant] That night, the King of the Black Rooster Kingdom hosted a feast. During the feast, he turned to the Tang Monk.


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[Assistant] Weeks passed, and the travelers continued west.


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[Assistant] One day, Wukong saw a mysterious red cloud over the mountains ahead. Stop walking, he said quietly.


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[Assistant] Wukong saw the red cloud again. He held up his hand for the others to stop.


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[Assistant] Walking in the jungle. Walking in the jungle. We're not afraid. We're not afraid. Walking in the jungle. Walking in the jungle. We're not afraid.


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[Assistant] Jumping in the jungle, jumping in the jungle. We're not afraid. We're not afraid. Jumping in the jungle, jumping in the jungle. We're not afraid.


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[Assistant] Journey to the West, Chapter 88, The Priest Plan.


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[Assistant] Poof! The women vanished. Wukong ran into the house.


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[Assistant] Those women are gone now, said Wukong. Then he smirked. Bajie scared them away. The pig was a real hero.


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[Assistant] Bajie was on the ground, still struggling to get out of the webs. He pretended to laugh.


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[Assistant] The road left the forest and headed up a mountain. The travelers arrived at a Daoist abbey.


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[Assistant] Said Wu Jing. The group entered the abbey. An old priest was inside mixing a potion.


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[Assistant] Said Bage. The priest stood up and left the room.


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[Assistant] Ask the Tang Monk. I'm just being careful, said the monkey. We shouldn't tell everyone we meet that you're the Tang Monk. Wu Jing nodded. Wukong is right, Master.


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[Assistant] He was looking for rice when he realized he wasn't alone.


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[Assistant] The three young women stood nearby and they looked angry.


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[Assistant] But we had to flee our house said another woman. A monkey and a pig attacked us said the third.


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[Assistant] An evil smile flashed across the priest's face.


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[Assistant] The first woman now looked worried. But how will we defeat the monk's companions? That monkey is powerful!


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[Assistant] The monk Wu Jing and Bajie were already sipping their tea.


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[Assistant] After all, Bajie, you're a large talking pig. Wujing, you're big and purple. And Wukong, you're scary sometimes.


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[Assistant] I'm wondering if you could spare some food for my companions and me.


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[Assistant] I, uhm, I'm going to the western paradise to-


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[Assistant] That was close. I guess when I laughed I broke my concentration. That must have made my disguise vanish.


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[Assistant] Don't worry master, said Wukong. We won't let those demons harm you. But we do have to destroy them before we cross the mountain. It's good that we discovered their plan before we went up the mountain.


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[Assistant] You, the elephant, and the raptor must leave this mountain at once!


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[Assistant] I know you're planning to capture and eat the tang monk.


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[Assistant] I believe you, he said. Do you know who the lizard is?


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[Assistant] What can I do for you? Why did you let your nephew take over the Black River?


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[Assistant] Your nephew, a lizard demon, took over the Black River, said Wukong. And now he's planning to eat the Tang Monk!


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[Assistant] Welcome, said the monkey. But we still need to cross your river.


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[Assistant] Orcas are mammals. Orcas are big dolphins.


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[Assistant] Orcas breathe air. Orcas are big dolphins.


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[Assistant] Orcas are called killer whales. Orcas are strong hunters.


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[Assistant] Orcas have sharp teeth. Orcas are strong hunters.


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[Assistant] Orcas eat other animals. Orcas are strong hunters.


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[Assistant] Orcas have big fins. Orcas are strong hunters.


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[Assistant] Orcas are called wolves of the sea. Orcas are strong hunters. Connections Writing and art


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[Assistant] I started doing the Harry Potter, uh, impression challenges, and it turned out people were a big fan of my Professor McGonagall. So, from there, it's turned into a whole thing. And when people tell me that it's really good, I do have to say, we thank you for that assessment, Mr Weasley.


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[Assistant] Well, it may look like a common garden rat, but I think that that might be Scabbers slash Peter Pettigrew.


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[Assistant] We forgive you. The Squire was a kind man. His death is a terrible tragedy.


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[Assistant] Wukong brought the king of the black rooster kingdom back to life. He turned to the monkey. The sage, Laozi, helped you that time. Will you ask him for help again?


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[Assistant] The Squire may return to Earth until it's time for him to come back here.


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[Assistant] When your life is over, you will return to your job here.


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[Assistant] I got rid of the army. Now I'll deal with the three demon leaders.


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[Assistant] I wonder what happened to Bajie, though. I hope he's okay.


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[Assistant] After you chased him down the slope, he returned and... Where's Master?


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[Assistant] You're right! That monster must have a cave nearby.


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[Assistant] Why are those monks pushing that cart? Thought Wukong. And why are they scared of the Daoists?


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[Assistant] People from different religions can still get along.


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[Assistant] That's terrible, said Wukong. Those Daoists can't get away with this.


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[Assistant] I've heard of Sun Wukong, and it's true that he's very powerful. Did Venus tell you what he looks like?


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[Assistant] Lady Ku grew angry. You monks are ungrateful. We have fed you and taken care of you. Yet you can't wait to leave.


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[Assistant] We can't go to jail. We're making an important journey to visit Buddha.


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[Assistant] Buddha doesn't allow killers in the western paradise. Killers?


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[Assistant] Journey to the West, Chapter 103, The Land of the West.


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[Assistant] Inside the coffin, the Squire's body was grey and lifeless.


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[Assistant] Wukong leaned over the coffin and recited a spell.


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[Assistant] said Wu Jing. The Squire is coming back to life! said the Tang Monk. Bajie licked his lips.


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[Assistant] Squire Ku sat up and smiled. Thank you, Wukong.


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[Assistant] He climbed out of the coffin and turned to his wife.


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[Assistant] tears filled her eyes. The two embraced.


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[Assistant] That night, Squire and Lady Ku held a feast to thank Wukong.


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[Assistant] The Tang monk and his companions traveled for many more months.


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[Assistant] Through rain and snow, heat and cold, they slowly continued west.


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[Assistant] One day the road went into a beautiful land. There were flowers and magnificent trees. People smiled at the travelers and offered food. The Tang monks stared in amazement.


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[Assistant] Said Wu Jing, pointing to a row of tall buildings.


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[Assistant] at the gate the monk got down from his horse a young man greeted them


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[Assistant] Said the monk. He waved toward the rest of the group.


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[Assistant] Servants filled tubs with warm perfumed water, and the travelers took baths.


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[Assistant] After their baths, the Tang monk put on the Buddhist robe Guanyin had given him.


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[Assistant] Then the travelers enjoyed a large meal with the immortal.


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[Assistant] Servants brought trays loaded with noodles, vegetables, tofu, and steamed buns.


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[Assistant] The road continued west, through a land even more beautiful and magical.


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[Assistant] Birds sang as animals leaped playfully through the flowers.


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[Assistant] A smile spread across the monk's face. The travelers thank the immortal.


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[Assistant] Filled with energy now, they hurried down the road.


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[Assistant] The steep slopes of the Spirit Mountain towered over them.


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[Assistant] I'll ask that man what sort of danger is up ahead.


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[Assistant] Thanks for the warning, Venus. But I'm not worried about three silly demons.


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[Assistant] There's an army of demons, but I'm not worried.


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[Assistant] You're right. We can't let the demons harm Master.


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[Assistant] I'll check out the mountain to see how big the Demon Army is.


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[Assistant] One of the, uhm, frustrating parts about


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[Assistant] Beginning to think more carefully and more systematically about


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[Assistant] What you really mean by success is that even when you


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[Assistant] Uh, and I think it's really important to realize that one other, uh,


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[Assistant] sort of habit that a successful person has is


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[Assistant] Uh, they realize that they're likely to, uh, need things to help them remember, uh, who they really are and where they're going. And they have, uh, processes that they've adapted and sort of created, uh, uniquely for themselves.


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[Assistant] To help them remember, it's not an accident, it's not a coincidence that most major religions have services on a regular basis, every week, sometimes every day, and that the reason is that the religious values that they're teaching


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[Assistant] Are also hard to remember and easy to forget.


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[Assistant] And so people come back to the sanctuary or to the sermons or to the symbols of a religion and they need to renew that connection over and over in order for them to keep those values front and center of their lives.


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[Assistant] And the same is true of success values that you devise for yourself.


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[Assistant] There are four different ways that I want to talk about how you can help yourself remember.


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[Assistant] Uh, what your success values are and each of them is, uh,


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[Assistant] Both a journey, uh, of your imagination as well as sometimes a journey back to the past.


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[Assistant] We'll have a couple of assessments that will help you think about these. And the first of these four is the use of a metaphor. Uhm, the, uhm,


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[Assistant] Imagine, think, associate, uh, with the use of metaphors and images. And the most frequently used image or metaphor for success is a ladder.


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[Assistant] Uh, the latter is so ubiquitous as a metaphor for success that people


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[Assistant] Often forget that that's what they're actually working with.


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[Assistant] Uh, and simply start speaking in terms of this metaphor and they're completely unconscious of it. So people talk about getting to the next step in the ladder of success. They talk about getting to the next level.


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[Assistant] They talk about climbing, uh, metaphors. They talk about, uhm, you know, where they are, uh, on the ladder. And, uh, basically the ladder is a metaphor for status.


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[Assistant] Uh, and status is an important part of the outer life, so it's not irrelevant to success, but you have to understand the limits of the metaphor, uh, if you're going to be able to take some ownership and control over it. So take a look at this picture, uhm, uh, of a ladder and a person climbing it, and, uh, see if you can figure out


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[Assistant] Any limits that this picture implies. There's something missing from this picture. There's something that feels incomplete about this image as a


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[Assistant] Uh, sort of metaphor for a successful life. When I, when I conduct programs, uh, for executives and students, and I show this image,


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[Assistant] Very often people immediately identify a number of things. We'll see how many of them that you picked up on. Uhm, first, there are many ladders. And, uh, so which one is this person on and why?


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[Assistant] And I think it's the case that the image of a ladder is pretty arbitrary. You know, you may have just started up a ladder at some point in your life and you stop thinking about all the other options that you might have explored and simply just keep climbing the one you're on.


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[Assistant] Uh, and when you look at it, uhm, from a little bit of a distance, you may appreciate that maybe the best move for this person is to actually climb down the ladder they're on.


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[Assistant] And to move to another one that might be more suitable for them. Uh, people also notice that the ladder, uh, just sort of ends. And what happens when you get to the top?


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[Assistant] There's no, the metaphor doesn't help you much. You get to the top of your ladder.


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[Assistant] What are you supposed to do next? Uh, doesn't have any continuity. So uhm, so maybe you're supposed to jump to another one or maybe you're supposed to like wave at people and celebrate yourself.


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[Assistant] But, uh, nothing much there in the metaphor to help you, uh, with that.


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[Assistant] Most importantly, probably, uh, people tend to eventually notice that this person is all by themselves and there's just one person climbing a ladder and


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[Assistant] I think if you think about your own life for even a short amount of time, you'll realize that this is a fundamentally false image of how life works. Nobody ever does anything alone.


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[Assistant] Uh, you, uh, began in a family of some sort. You lived in a community. You went to schools where teachers were helping you. You have mentors and coaches and all the other people that had, uh, kind of bolstered you along the way and energized you and motivated you and helped you find your direction. And none of those people are in this picture. So if this picture were going to be a little more realistic, you would have this throng of people


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[Assistant] All around this person climbing, cheering and providing help and, uh,


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[Assistant] Uhm, so it's really important to remember the social context of any kind of, uh, satisfying, uh, human life, and this image does not have any of that.


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[Assistant] So maybe the latter is not such a good metaphor. So another common metaphor is a race.


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[Assistant] Uh, we, uh, certainly a lot of students that come to the Wharton School are very competitive. Uh, they, they want to win. They won.


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[Assistant] Uh, the race in high school, they've won, uh, the race, if they're MBA students, they've won some sort of race in college. Uh, they're trying to win a race, uh, to find, uh, the best jobs and employment.


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[Assistant] And many people model success as essentially victory, uh, winning.


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[Assistant] And there's nothing wrong with that. Competitive energy is really powerful if you can channel it well.


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[Assistant] Uh, it can, uh, get you up in the morning and, and add some zest and urgency to the activities that you engage in, uh, and give you, make it kind of fun. Uh, so, I'm not saying competition is bad, but again, if you take a look at this picture as a metaphor and take two steps back and look at it,


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[Assistant] Uh, you may notice, uh, there's some problems with this as a theory of success, uh, that is the overriding theory that you might want to base a life on.


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[Assistant] Uh, again, when I show this to executives and students,


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[Assistant] Almost immediately, they recognized that for someone to win, a lot of people had to lose.


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[Assistant] And, uh, so, uh, is that really a necessary condition of your success that you, uh, you know,


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[Assistant] Defeat and beat a bunch of other people, uh, and many people when they think about it say, well, not really, uh, I like winning but, uh, but, uh, but it doesn't have to be that others lose in order for me to win.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's another problem of course with this, it's similar to the latter problem, and that is, which race do you choose to be in?


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[Assistant] Uhm, and if you're, uhm, you know, a miler or you're a marathon runner or you're a sprinter.


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[Assistant] Uh, you better pick the right race to use your personality, to use your skills, your...


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[Assistant] Uhm, endurance, your passions, uh, or you're gonna find yourself, uh, being very frustrated.


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[Assistant] So picking the race is important. And then finally, if you don't have some perspective on competition and all you do is win at any cost, you're going to destroy a lot of relationships. Uh, you're going to leave a lot of people injured.


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[Assistant] Uh, and you're going to create a fair amount of resentment around you, and that's really not the optimal conditions, uh, for a successful life, I don't think.


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[Assistant] You have to have a perspective where the winning is something that's more of a game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. The people you're racing with are equally engaged and have an equal attitude that, uh, it's more for the fun and for the energy than it is for any comment on their worthiness as a human.


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[Assistant] Uh, whether they win or lose. Uh, so add those dimensions to this metaphor and maybe it begins to be helpful. But you can see if you're not aware of the fact


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[Assistant] That you're motivated, uh, almost entirely by a metaphor of winning, uh, it can get in your way and you can find yourself in places you don't want to be.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so uhm, another metaphor, I'm just going to give you three because really your problem is to find one for yourself. I just want to inspire you with a few different thoughts on how people think about this. It's this image. It's a pond and someone's just dropped a pebble into it and as a result there are these


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[Assistant] Concentric circles that are spreading out from the source of the impact of the pebble in the pond.


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[Assistant] And this might be an image for someone who thinks of success as the number or the measure of positive influences that they're having on the people around them. And that every positive influence they have on someone then creates a condition for that person to have a positive influence on someone else.


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[Assistant] And so these rings can spread, uhm, you know, pretty far.


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[Assistant] If you set in motion a positive influence, uh, by helping, mentoring, uh, providing information or inspiration.


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[Assistant] Uh, being able to comfort people, uh, when they're suffering or when they're, uh, down and bringing them to a place where they can come back to be more productive again. Little different than a ladder, uh, you don't, it's not like you're going up or down, uh, you're just, uh, spreading.


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[Assistant] It's a lot more energy implied in this continuous motion than just winning a race and then lying down exhausted.


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[Assistant] So over the years, as I've taught this subject to many different audiences, uh, and I've had