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Speaker 3: In this episode, we'll explore the delicate dance between tradition
Speaker 3: and innovation as a team of experts restores the historic
Speaker 3: dykes of the freeze Island and against the backdrop of
Speaker 3: an incoming storm.
Speaker 4: Right after this commercial break.
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Speaker 1: Fonse routes the forbidding Metredici racked a flora in the
Speaker 1: contour from Modern Lochhi lieselottos don't nasteim har Honde in
Speaker 1: the Zakophon Heidi Kiyos sevas Milieuvates Happer and her paschoneered
Speaker 1: overdurzamo on tiggling the kune heine modern technique nechir sayes
Speaker 1: the natur helped once Marva Mutte Oak for her zorg
Speaker 1: sven a locale historicus lip for zechto over the deck
Speaker 1: and cake met hbersove. The black Traditzi was sent pussy
Speaker 1: more than his earrings and angst the motor for zichter
Speaker 1: sayn varshu the hay the s hornhead vanda is a
Speaker 1: black machnit for lower han. The tree stormed, the taken
Speaker 1: over a car and the foot from the deck elk
Speaker 1: caught an under perspective brun must be sliss. Then oplassing
Speaker 1: saw the balon's motifinditusnt frilde and the two const the
Speaker 1: leecht bachon dunker at award zvar snail storm. Neither the
Speaker 1: snell the volking komfanelted nor the dragoned ansette the moodor's
Speaker 1: snell handled rip rum. The deck was half a way
Speaker 1: hair stelt, the taid drawn plummet where the snell over
Speaker 1: left lise a lot to stell. The ecologues a for
Speaker 1: stairking afore new matrial dot at waters are afur zumba
Speaker 1: natur bid at a firstore sveen funster, thenkind under audermannier
Speaker 1: Mark nicked out angelick lads of a hope that modernit
Speaker 1: tite on snoozel helper the storm come metembrul vint and
Speaker 1: regest bronze wugt mezzentim had new matrial wert snell arbracht
Speaker 1: me need to fool the annal's ure my out angluck hilded.
Speaker 1: The dake a stomped taken the wust hoof to the storm,
Speaker 1: the rider stunned the dree national car teveel the zone
Speaker 1: for zift door Brock had worked flows to the spen
Speaker 1: met a mangeling from enklov and oplurting zam Blick foretell
Speaker 1: the alas a new hip for moderna oplassing blond fooled
Speaker 1: hol van Trotz and bershib miss hin j hey theevell Hena,
Speaker 1: the horrizome cake Qune Tradizzi and inovatzi ol car amfel
Speaker 1: svenchlimlachte for zichter ik denk dot dot von dach learedeber
Speaker 1: use a lot to cnick the instament her o Huzukudna
Speaker 1: taken from Balans in a renew de land shop. Thevel
Speaker 1: the dreedy dake off reppe vista is a dot, the
Speaker 1: missy nor needful toy. It was Marza hode and Bashin,
Speaker 1: remarked by Tradizzi and modernitate hunt in hant kom Rahan
Speaker 1: hadwas mirrored on on her stell headwas a newer forbidding,
Speaker 1: and soo where the de sardou lay in from the
Speaker 1: deck a went out. Marmette Moderne cached her stealth and
Speaker 1: simbol von uhredil de tu const Let's take another listen.
Speaker 1: Listen closely to any part you may have missed. The
Speaker 1: ai sevind Blis offered the voda fond friche a longe.
Speaker 3: The icy wind blew across the mudflats of the Frischa Island.
Speaker 1: In Bloom Cake Narda aud de Kedizer outstretched lungs at
Speaker 1: loans rup Chiluette te.
Speaker 3: De Broum looked at the old dikes stretching along the landscape,
Speaker 3: silhouettes against the gray sky.
Speaker 1: So how the aulong Atlande performed.
Speaker 3: They had protected the land for centuries.
Speaker 1: Muvos At sent dak onso up mule into Blase.
Speaker 3: Now it was his task to breathe new life into them.
Speaker 1: Bloom was an engineer to roved and bahaut lon erfreut.
Speaker 3: Brum was an engineer dedicated to preserving his Dutch heritage.
Speaker 1: The Mouta de deke and her stelle for her delta
Speaker 1: fur storm comte the sachies mir TEUs herself ton de
Speaker 1: mont Amer's.
Speaker 3: We need to restore the dikes before the next storm comes,
Speaker 3: he said softly, more to himself than to anyone else.
Speaker 1: May fool de oak for framed fonsel routes.
Speaker 3: But he felt alienated from his roots.
Speaker 1: The forbidding metredici racta forlora in the contour for deter.
Speaker 3: The connection with tradition was getting lost in the offices
Speaker 3: of modern technology.
Speaker 1: Lisee lotos don't asked him. Rhonde Indzakophon herde killos.
Speaker 3: Leje Lootus stood next to him, her hands in the
Speaker 3: pockets of her thick coat.
Speaker 1: Sivas mulieuvets rapper and paschunered overdurza montvi Glin.
Speaker 3: She was an environmental scignist and passionate about sustainable development.
Speaker 1: The kunaheen modern technik nechir jays.
Speaker 3: We can't ignore modern techniques, she said.
Speaker 1: The nature helped uns Marva mute oak for arsorg.
Speaker 3: Nature helps us, but we must also take care of it.
Speaker 1: Sfinn a local historicus leap forzichtre over the dagg and
Speaker 1: cake metem bessoor the blick.
Speaker 3: Schfen, a local historian walked cautiously over the dike and
Speaker 3: looked on with a worried gaze.
Speaker 1: Tradici vas sen bassi modernisering zen ungst.
Speaker 3: Tradition was his passion, modernization, his fear.
Speaker 1: The mute for zicht, saying, varshu de hey.
Speaker 3: We must be careful, he warned.
Speaker 1: The honheait fondi se blick mahnit for ourham.
Speaker 3: The beauty of this place must not be lost.
Speaker 1: The drie storm, the technoval car and the foot from
Speaker 1: the deck.
Speaker 3: The three stood facing each other at the foot of
Speaker 3: the dike.
Speaker 1: Elk cotton on the perspective.
Speaker 3: Each had a different perspective.
Speaker 1: Bluem mustepe sless Brum had to decide zeen oppulo singhsau
Speaker 1: de ballons mutefinditi snet friede and the two const.
Speaker 3: His solution would need to find a balance between the
Speaker 3: past and the future.
Speaker 1: De l'echt bauhon dunkred tovarde anzvarra snail storm nather the snell.
Speaker 3: The sky began to darken and a heavy snowstorm approached rapidly.
Speaker 1: The volking klomfanelted nor ded re anzette.
Speaker 3: Clouds gathered ominously from the north.
Speaker 1: The mo the snell handele riproum.
Speaker 3: We need to act quickly, Brum shouted.
Speaker 1: The day voss haul ferve hair stelt.
Speaker 3: The dike was halfway restored.
Speaker 1: The date to dron.
Speaker 3: Time was pressing.
Speaker 1: Plomen vedes snell Overlecht.
Speaker 3: Plans were quickly discussed.
Speaker 1: Lisee Lotte stelle de ecolosa for staerking of for new
Speaker 1: matrial dotatva ars afur zumble natur bid to festore.
Speaker 3: Lija Lotta proposed ecological reinforcements, new materials that would drain
Speaker 3: water without disturbing natural areas.
Speaker 1: Sfen Fundste Dinkin and the aud manner Mark niqued out.
Speaker 3: Anglik Spenn frowned, thinking of the old ways, but eventually nodded,
Speaker 3: lots of.
Speaker 1: The hope without modernite, old snooze all help.
Speaker 3: Let's hope modernity will help us now. The storm corom metembrul.
Speaker 3: The storm came with a roar, vint e re wind
Speaker 3: and rain lashed against their faces.
Speaker 1: Broom scht Mezzenti had nio matrial ert snell Erbert.
Speaker 3: Brum labored with his team. The new materials were quickly applied.
Speaker 1: Mined to fool the annals urre my out angle quille
Speaker 1: de day stomped de devous.
Speaker 3: Dehov minutes felt like ours, but eventually the dikes held
Speaker 3: against the fierce waves.
Speaker 1: Dun de storm verride stun de de drie nastle car
Speaker 1: te vel de zun fsidor brock.
Speaker 3: When the storm blew over, the three stood side by
Speaker 3: side as the sun cautiously broke through.
Speaker 1: Het wergt flows to this Finn met in maneling from
Speaker 1: umkholof and oblting.
Speaker 3: It works. Spenn whispered with a mix of disbelief and relief.
Speaker 1: Zemblik fortelda alas a new bushib for moderning.
Speaker 3: His expression said, it all a new appreciation for modern solutions.
Speaker 1: Blum fool the uhol fontrtz emberhibb.
Speaker 3: Brahm felt a wave of pride and understanding.
Speaker 1: Miss hin je hey te vel renard the hoorizom cake
Speaker 1: kunetradici and ino fazi el car amful.
Speaker 3: Maybe, he said as he looked toward the horizon. Tradition
Speaker 3: and innovation can compliment each other.
Speaker 1: Sfinchlimlacht forzicht.
Speaker 3: Swenn smiled cautiously.
Speaker 1: Igding deltvedlt fon dar.
Speaker 3: I think we've learned that today.
Speaker 1: Yisilotto cnick to instament her oh juzu could not taken
Speaker 1: a from balloons in its ferneu de lance.
Speaker 3: Rap lisha Lutta nodded in agreement, her eyes searching for
Speaker 3: signs of balance in the rejuvenated landscape.
Speaker 1: Develle de dri de de afribe vistas delte missi no
Speaker 1: needful toutvos.
Speaker 3: As the three walked off the dike, they knew the
Speaker 3: mission was not yet completed.
Speaker 1: Marsade dem beffin marked tvar tredici m modernit hunt in
Speaker 1: hant concham.
Speaker 3: But they had made a start where tradition and modernity
Speaker 3: could go hand in hand.
Speaker 1: Hetvas mere deln her stell hetvos and nw a forbidding.
Speaker 3: It was more than a restoration, It was a new connection.
Speaker 1: And zhoveda desradu lay and from the deck awunau marmet
Speaker 1: mo der ne cort stelt and symbol for undil de tu.
Speaker 3: Const And so the shadow lines of the dikes, centuries
Speaker 3: old but restored with modern strength, became a symbol of
Speaker 3: their shared future.
Speaker 4: Today's vocabulary words are coming up right after this commercial break.
Speaker 4: Here are today's vocabulary words first in Dutch, then in.
Speaker 1: English eire aigre, eizere i see vode voden vode mudflats, awen, lung,
Speaker 1: awen lung awen lung, centuries opniw lafe and into blase
Speaker 1: op new leafe, and into blase op new life and
Speaker 1: into blase b new life.
Speaker 6: To create, to crevate, to create, dedicated, earth frute, earth frute,
Speaker 6: earth frut, heritage for framed, for framed, for framed, alienated roots, roots,
Speaker 6: oofs roots, do yoursam, do yoursm dorsam, sustainable, millie milieu
Speaker 6: mill you. Environmental technique technique, technique techniques for staking, for staking,
Speaker 6: for staking, reinforcements, defend the ominously perspective perspective, perspective perspective,
Speaker 6: Modernize earring, modernize earring mode an easier ring modernization, snell
Speaker 6: snell snell rapidly for zicht, for zich, for zicht, cautiously,
Speaker 6: for sture, for sto for store, disturbing, bussy, bussy, bussy, passion.
Speaker 1: Founster, funster, founster, frowned in novazi inovazi inovatzi innovation, the hip,
Speaker 1: the hip behep appreciation for newt for newt for neut rejuvenated,
Speaker 1: a fool and a.
Speaker 3: Train, un laboring, Wooster, Wooster, Wooster, fierce, Sluren, slurchre lashed, amful,
Speaker 3: amfulin amful, compliment, Simbol Simbol, simbol, zimbol Hdild Hidilde hdild shared.
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