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Speaker 3: In this episode, we'll explore how Joran's courage to break
Speaker 3: the ice in a bustling Amsterdam cafe leads to unexpected
Speaker 3: friendships and opens new doors for creative collaboration.
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Speaker 1: and overall site manse Robogo, over laptops, over wickled ivesprecher,
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Speaker 1: unhuptafo hayis on lungsna Amsterdam for housed and finted muelik
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Speaker 1: lagged featherwchtonoid for hemb lichts and laptop op Marat's herm
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Speaker 1: foron at cafe sit and drugehrubmence hun lach Enlavensprecher mackenham
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Speaker 1: luck stat her up and met mbuns and heart lobed
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Speaker 1: and the taffel sitter Anika and Peter sam metemparanre Anika
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Speaker 1: and stool nazif to and harat city, then spawning from
Speaker 1: mindered and baker Peter in a cheek and lavender start
Speaker 1: and sprack. What do ye Euryum flacked her he interseered
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Speaker 1: clad haig caked nassign anika met vi henar. The tomhawt
Speaker 1: eloped but dunked the dung bar. They knicked and grim
Speaker 1: loched hain problem. The zini is snell were to eurym
Speaker 1: cnicked met a licht hard and her new tree loaf
Speaker 1: insencapacitate stopped, headed them in and caked out. Now votatukoms
Speaker 1: sobringer had as rondoms and creative of haste legged longsam
Speaker 1: to smelt.
Speaker 3: Let's take another listen. Listen closely to any parts you
Speaker 3: may have missed in its.
Speaker 1: Heart from Amsterdam by the rocht and it studspilt s
Speaker 1: hildermetun calmer devata yechtetfriancers cafe.
Speaker 3: In the heart of Amsterdam, where the canals paint the
Speaker 3: cityscape with their calming waters, lies the freelancer's cafe.
Speaker 1: Bine is at warm and brosiant a lafe inder contrast
Speaker 1: mete kileevintlerbaut.
Speaker 3: Inside it is warm and bustling, a lively contrast with
Speaker 3: the chilly winter air outside.
Speaker 1: Hut rama lat vael natur lea tlichbine an overall sitimensebo
Speaker 1: over laptops, over wickled ihuespreke.
Speaker 3: Large windows, generously let in natural light, and everywhere people
Speaker 3: are bent over laptops or engaged in conversations.
Speaker 1: Urum ulhrafis umwerper ZiT in sen einia AmAm uktafel Uron.
Speaker 3: A graphic designer sits alone at a corner table.
Speaker 1: Hey is umlungsnaw umsterdomferhaust and finted muluk umzself here to fiestre.
Speaker 3: He recently moved to Umsterdom and finds it difficult to
Speaker 3: establish himself here.
Speaker 1: Z udorchtzen al dah.
Speaker 3: Still his thoughts have been silent for days.
Speaker 1: In Spirazi legged feerdervechtonout, inspiration seems further away than ever
Speaker 1: for him. Lichtzen leptopob maritzerm Isle.
Speaker 3: In front of him, his laptop lies open, but the
Speaker 3: screen is blank.
Speaker 1: Heyzu and kegged on shin.
Speaker 3: He sighs and looks around in admide of fun.
Speaker 1: At the cafe, sit and drug houpe mense.
Speaker 3: In the middle of the cafe, a busy group of
Speaker 3: people sits, hun, laugh.
Speaker 1: And lay in the spreka mackenheim muse.
Speaker 3: Here their laughter and lively conversations pique his curiosity.
Speaker 1: My urum is flat and fools if snell onzacre tsur framed.
Speaker 3: But Uron is shy and quickly feels insecure among strangers.
Speaker 1: To deep frombine smelt of flamma m erbey to or.
Speaker 3: Yet deep down there smolders a desire to belong Hey.
Speaker 1: Dlight de word is enhofft often behooting a dinna tour
Speaker 1: la kling.
Speaker 3: He turns the words in his head, practicing greetings that
Speaker 3: sound natural out and.
Speaker 1: Looks stat up and meet him buns and heart lopte
Speaker 1: nada dafu.
Speaker 3: Eventually he stands up and with a pounding heart, walks
Speaker 3: over to the table.
Speaker 1: Hoy machik erbe com.
Speaker 3: Hi, may I join you.
Speaker 1: Ft you ronzarchis, Ur asks softly, and the daffel Zita
Speaker 1: Anika and Peter sam met m barn.
Speaker 3: At the table, said Anika and Peter, along with a
Speaker 3: few others.
Speaker 1: Anika keke op him latworm.
Speaker 3: Anika looks up and smiles warmly.
Speaker 1: Natur look com erbe.
Speaker 3: Of course join us zize, she says, you run tricked
Speaker 3: and stool nast and hat city. Urun pulls a chair
Speaker 3: towards him and sits down.
Speaker 1: Then spunning for mindert and beije.
Speaker 3: His tensiones is a bit.
Speaker 1: Peter Anerschik and Leifender start and sprick.
Speaker 3: Peter, energetic and lively, starts a conversation, what do yer rum,
Speaker 3: what do you do You'uron flat into his heart, he asks, interested,
Speaker 3: h ig ben.
Speaker 1: Rafi is uwerper m forward your m tevel hay in
Speaker 1: baking air fos over saying borderstricles.
Speaker 3: Ah, I'm a graphic designer, Uron answers, while stumbling a
Speaker 3: bit nervously over his words.
Speaker 1: Ik suk nWo poyecht.
Speaker 3: I'm looking for new projects.
Speaker 1: Anika knicht Anika nods delt the oak neat makolo soums
Speaker 1: zeiker nada face da zebol.
Speaker 3: That's not always easy, especially after the holidays, she says, understandingly.
Speaker 1: Hetrsprich beveti al snelna frala o verraverk aut daring and moment.
Speaker 3: The conversation quickly moves to stories about work challenges and
Speaker 3: funny moments.
Speaker 1: Urum No states and be juseuart buslaut and aga forraral.
Speaker 3: Today, Juran, still a bit nervous, decides to share his
Speaker 3: own story.
Speaker 1: Hey for tilt over empoject the miss ring mahu he
Speaker 1: it's var the false flid.
Speaker 3: He tells about a project that went wrong, but how
Speaker 3: he learned something valuable from it.
Speaker 1: Zeen forraral is Obrecht and the underlauster Andert.
Speaker 3: His story is sincere, and the others listen attentively.
Speaker 1: Saying for rossing las obtyost to momente a lakis isa
Speaker 1: for hal to vardier.
Speaker 3: To his surprise, they laugh at the right moments and
Speaker 3: seem to appreciate his story.
Speaker 1: Peter yere is ok altit obsukna creative haste or me
Speaker 1: samteverk Anika andhaved him and filzechndblik.
Speaker 3: Peter here is always looking for creative minds to collaborate with,
Speaker 3: Anika says, giving him a meaningful look.
Speaker 1: Peter knaked Peter nod dot clinked into the sand urum.
Speaker 3: That sounds interesting.
Speaker 1: Uron the zoud the ains of ronsamover kin kuneprat.
Speaker 3: We could talk about a collaboration.
Speaker 1: Urm full to wormed in him oppold neit metakoholvant cafe
Speaker 1: to mark.
Speaker 3: Andhaft Jurun feels a warmth bubbling inside him that has
Speaker 3: nothing to do with the cafe's.
Speaker 1: Heaterdisi interaxei hev tem lat insign do's an unste umprechondvarre.
Speaker 3: This interaction has made him realize that his fears were unfounded.
Speaker 1: Hayev niuu friend remarkd m bishrinself poyecht.
Speaker 3: He has made new friends and maybe even a project for.
Speaker 1: Nier Heed cafe forlat is it nor stagecout and frisbaut
Speaker 1: mayorum fulsropre lade.
Speaker 3: When he leaves the cafe, it is still cold and
Speaker 3: crisp outside, but Uruan feels recharged.
Speaker 1: Hekeked nastigna Anika met vi Henard Tomholt elobed.
Speaker 3: He looks beside him to Anika, with whom he walks
Speaker 3: to the tram stop bedunct zerte dung bar. Thanks, he says, gratefully,
Speaker 3: ze Knicht and grim Locht. She nods and smiles. Hein problem,
Speaker 3: no problem, the genie snellvier too. We'll see you soon again,
Speaker 3: right you rum Knicht.
Speaker 1: You're a nod mat a litcht heart and in her
Speaker 1: new treloaf in sen campass did stopped headed, trim in
Speaker 1: and caked out. Now vatatukoms sobring.
Speaker 3: With a light heart and renewed belief in his abilities,
Speaker 3: he steps onto the tram and looks forward to what
Speaker 3: the future will bring.
Speaker 1: Hat as roundoon sen crea, teeth of haste, legged long
Speaker 1: sam to smelt.
Speaker 3: The ice surrounding his creative mind seems to be slowly melting.
Speaker 2: Today's folksocabulary words are coming up right after this commercial break.
Speaker 2: Here are today's vocabulary words, first in Dutch, then in English.
Speaker 1: Hacht, hachtencht, canals, stod, spilt, stod, spilt, stotspielt, cityscape, blowsend, blowsened, blowsened, bustling, flowster,
Speaker 1: flousterin flowster.
Speaker 3: Whisper news, hear height news, hear height news, hear height,
Speaker 3: curiosity onzacer onzacer onzaker, insecure for.
Speaker 1: Longer, for longer, for longer, desire, bunzend, bunzend, wanzend.
Speaker 3: Founding a.
Speaker 1: K an jik, energetic stroke, strokeling strokele, stumbling out, daring out,
Speaker 1: dar ringing out, daring challenges opricht obricht obricht, sincere and
Speaker 1: dochtor and doctor and chtor attentively, und nd, unfounded, frieze, frieze, frieze,
Speaker 1: crisp opre lade, opre lade, recharged, dunk bar, dunk bar,
Speaker 1: dunk bar, gratefully Smolt, Smolt, Smolt, smolders, salmon, the salmon,
Speaker 1: the erkon salmon, there Kah collaborate, interoxy, interoxy, interoxy interaction,
Speaker 1: hund hunt unfounded, her newt Her newt her newt renewed
Speaker 1: cappacy data capacy, dating capacy, data capabilities, door hand de
Speaker 1: door hand de verg door hand de Thoroughfare, Leavender, Lavender, Leavender, lively,
Speaker 1: o borrelen bor, bubbling fo lowbre four lowbre for low tota,
Speaker 1: tiv in, spirazzi in spirazzi in Spirrazzi, inspiration, le le
Speaker 1: ler blank vinter ven terse vein terse wintry.
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