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And you can use that as a sort of little listening exercise or listening test, see if you understand everything in the story, and especially things like how the characters feel and exactly what happened.
872. The Birthday Party (Learn English with a Short Story)She said that the man had a round face, glasses, and he had a sort of self-satisfied look on his face.
872. The Birthday Party (Learn English with a Short Story)you've planned something and it goes so wrong, it probably not only makes you feel unhappy in that moment, but I imagine she's feeling very sad and depressed and it makes you wonder about the state of their marriage and whether this woman is trapped in a sort of a loveless marriage, despite the fact that she's trying her best, she's making efforts.
872. The Birthday Party (Learn English with a Short Story)Kaufmo went through a sort of Kaufmosis and abstracted! -Kaufmo abstracted? [exaggerated] Why didn't anybody tell me? [boing!] [whoop!] [bonk!] [Kaufmo growling] -And into the cellar you go. [Water lapping] [Eerie low rumbling] [Zooble]: Man, I can't believe Kaufmo just gave up like that.
THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS: PILOTBut something more than that, that there was a sort of a secondary industry of Byron stuff, you know, that there were Byron neckties, people wanted to look like Byron.
BOX SET: 6 Minute English - 'Entertainment' English mega-class! 30 minutes of new vocab!It has formed a large crater of sand, so it's impacted on the ground, pushing all the sand, uh, you know, to to the sides, creating a sort of sand pit.
734. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells [Part 1] Learn English with StoriesA grayish, a big grayish rounded bulk a bulk is a sort of a large round kind of heavy shape the size perhaps of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder as it bulged up.
734. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells [Part 1] Learn English with Storiesthere's a subp part of what it is to live well which is has to do with how you treat other people not everything about living well has to do with how we treat others we have our own projects we have we need to look after ourselves as well to live well but um but there is a there's a sort of sub set of questions about how to live well that has to do with how what we owe to other people and I would use the word morality for that I
The Past and Future of Ethics and Identity | Kwame Anthony Appiah | Institute for Advanced Studymistake. There are some mistakes that are yours to make, and that's a sort of broadly liberal thought. And I think that's a very deep insight, and it's an insight that doesn't really belong to any particular global tradition. I think all around the world there are people who have acquired the thought that the state has a place, a very important place, but that in managing one's own life, I am the boss of me.
The Past and Future of Ethics and Identity | Kwame Anthony Appiah | Institute for Advanced StudySo it could be a sort of processing overload that you can't find the word because you spent so much energy trying to remember what order the words are supposed to go in.
Does your mind go blank when you speak English? 😩 Here's what to do | Beating Speaking AnxietyA sort of refuge, a distraction.
Team Feature: Argentina | The Power And The Passion Of A NationThe goal of the project was to create a sort of time capsule encapsulating our thoughts and feelings about modern love and and also to kind of reintroduce the idea of a love letter, which was something we did, you know, hundreds of years ago that has been lost in the modern world.
ten years later...So he was a sort of 4th century BCE performance artist.
Kwame Anthony Appiah: CosmopolitanismAgain, you don't have to remember the names, but the thalamic reticular nucleus, as I'm going to call it, serves as a sort of gate as to which information is allowed to pass through up to your conscious experience and which is not.
The Science & Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) | Huberman Lab EssentialsWhich hopefully let me keep this sort of thing, lets me keep a sort of entertaining, rambling method, um, which appears to be just a lot of waffling, 20 minute or 30 minute introductions,
RAMBLEMAN: Into The Ramblezone 🌀 [990]But then converting that kind of knowledge into a sort of working ability to do things in English is a different story.
RAMBLEMAN: Into The Ramblezone 🌀 [990]And it should be a sort of an amuse bouch, something to stimulate the pallet and prepare the taste buds for the main cause, which is the conversation that you can sink your teeth into.
RAMBLEMAN: Into The Ramblezone 🌀 [990]Um, no. Visiting fellow just means that he's been invited by the university to be a professor at the university for a sort of period of time.
Neuroscience & Learning English 🧠 11 Surprising Facts [1002]A chunk is like a sort of um a piece of something.
Neuroscience & Learning English 🧠 11 Surprising Facts [1002]There's a sort of you're not just focusing on one word at a time, but your brain is searching forwards and making guesses about what's coming next and then hearing what's coming next and then sort of like recalculating as it goes.
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