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Speaker 3: the power of community and connection, transforming loneliness into newfound warmth.
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Speaker 1: smoll under the mill, the winter zone bron de kind revered,
Speaker 1: the canal as pale he him loched and fool the
Speaker 1: zi lichter heizeauxendur faker opened for the wild, and miss
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Speaker 1: for forbidding.
Speaker 3: Let's take another listen. Listen closely to any parts you
Speaker 3: may have missed.
Speaker 1: The well, the snail flock as Zachi's narbeneaded worlde cake
Speaker 1: brom out the ramponzen clean house and the romped from
Speaker 1: the door.
Speaker 3: As the snowflakes gently drifted down. Brum looked out the
Speaker 3: window of his small house on the edge of the
Speaker 3: village hed.
Speaker 1: Dorp va still ut kraka from the snail on the
Speaker 1: de foute von de Larsna.
Speaker 3: The village was quiet except for the crunching of snow
Speaker 3: under the feet of walkers.
Speaker 1: The canal Varra baufour and the kindre out of doorp
Speaker 1: spilled and haid over the ace.
Speaker 3: The canals were frozen, and the village children played and
Speaker 3: slid on the ice.
Speaker 1: Marblum vosnit Arbau of the.
Speaker 3: Ham but Brum hadn't gone outside.
Speaker 1: Havon de alara a laine since haseen frau Rotfurlor.
Speaker 3: He had lived alone for years, ever since he lost
Speaker 3: his wife.
Speaker 1: Distilled Vossaint josellsrop marfon dach fool de Hay and under
Speaker 1: the aveserte Bey in Zemborst.
Speaker 3: The silence was his companion, but today he felt another presence,
Speaker 3: pain in his chest.
Speaker 1: Bloom this needsaker but er and hoonsvos.
Speaker 3: Brum wasn't sure what was happening, Hey.
Speaker 1: Stuntop eleip forzg hopened doltvaltwather sat zorzname.
Speaker 3: He stood up and carefully walked to the kitchen, hoping
Speaker 3: some water would take away his worries. My de pain blaef,
Speaker 3: but the pain remained. Rudochts slope in zenhoft. But also
Speaker 3: then heart enfalvos. A thought crept into his head. What
Speaker 3: if it was a heart attack?
Speaker 1: He fooled the ungst knave knet alain unzen zunteed mar
Speaker 1: o um its amblers.
Speaker 3: He felt fear squeezing, not only for his health, but
Speaker 3: also for something else.
Speaker 1: Alse ni hulp sort so hees ley femuta del sen
Speaker 1: kwitz barhettone.
Speaker 3: If he sought help now, he would have to share
Speaker 3: his life, show his vulnerability.
Speaker 1: Nasteim von de Anika in fleeing the le kufra met
Speaker 1: vorma oh.
Speaker 3: Next Door to him lived Anika, a friendly woman with
Speaker 3: warm eyes.
Speaker 1: Bluem haltar fa krasine marcelech seenbarvard de metarislt.
Speaker 3: Brum had often seen her, but had only exchanged a
Speaker 3: few words with her.
Speaker 1: Fonda halte har hulp nod.
Speaker 3: Today he needed her help.
Speaker 1: Met ein Arseling tokaisen vint jas ahn and stumbled the
Speaker 1: cow depottle flutstop a crack and in this sneel.
Speaker 3: With some hesitation, he put on his winter coat and
Speaker 3: stumbled onto the cold path, footsteps crunching in the snow.
Speaker 1: Hey klotzurchis o pardeur.
Speaker 3: He knocked softly on her door.
Speaker 1: Anika opened the door. El himlerch to throst.
Speaker 3: Anika opened the door and smiled, surprised, broom won't brings
Speaker 3: you here, Brahm, what brings you here?
Speaker 1: Foce her stem fleendly look.
Speaker 3: And warm, she asked, her voice friendly and warm.
Speaker 1: Iek i ike pain stammel de broom.
Speaker 3: I have pain brum stammered emmain burst in my chest,
Speaker 3: ikding i clinique mood. I think I need to go
Speaker 3: to the clinic.
Speaker 1: Zumla Arseling pucked Anika harsh slotals and helped him the auto.
Speaker 3: Inn without hesitation. Anika grabbed her keys and helped him
Speaker 3: into the car.
Speaker 1: Delay sneider cliniquvos court marfourt blum leaket and ebechheit.
Speaker 3: The drive to the clinic was short, but to Brahmit
Speaker 3: felt like an eternity.
Speaker 1: The dorpstrata varrazofertraut marfon dach fool design.
Speaker 3: The village streets were so familiar, but to day they
Speaker 3: felt new.
Speaker 1: In the clinique er blomberhoute do yerun the house arts
Speaker 1: form adorb.
Speaker 3: In the clinic, Brom was greeted by yurun appenstatia the
Speaker 3: village doctor.
Speaker 1: Blum vot uta chilcoma bent cheirun friemilig.
Speaker 3: Braham. It's good that you came, said Yuron kindly.
Speaker 1: Te vell yirunem under zort mark to Blum the unldorps
Speaker 1: bavowners opt indevochtkamerzat.
Speaker 3: While Urune examined him, Brum noticed the other villagers sitting
Speaker 3: in the waiting room.
Speaker 1: The kinzicht mensi alte to buston totude.
Speaker 3: Familiar faces, people he had always kept at a distance.
Speaker 1: Now ankletists fortil the yurunhem delta bain stress RelA tear
Speaker 1: it was neetzenhart.
Speaker 3: After a few tests, Urune told him that the pain
Speaker 3: was stress related, not his heart.
Speaker 1: Bloom adam do opt out marfooled oak its omnurse had
Speaker 1: persive de'ltain net alein Loos.
Speaker 3: Brum exhaled in relief, but also felt something else, the
Speaker 3: realization that he was not alone.
Speaker 1: Anika blievezied her Anveisht also called merind dick over Senze.
Speaker 3: Anika stayed by his side, her presence like a calming
Speaker 3: blanket over his nerves.
Speaker 1: Bade for latof on the clinique bedunc de he har oprecht.
Speaker 3: As they left the clinic, he thanked her sincerely.
Speaker 1: Had ful de framed mar o kut m immond n
Speaker 1: asked him to heb.
Speaker 3: It felt strange, but also good to have someone by
Speaker 3: his side.
Speaker 1: Tunsesarma narunhaus truchkerde date brom and beloft as herself.
Speaker 3: As they returned to their houses together, Brum made a
Speaker 3: promise to himself.
Speaker 1: He jauferndre.
Speaker 3: He would change cleanest stop yes, small steps, conduct mac
Speaker 3: make contact de mura offbreak dejezelf hot op bout, break
Speaker 3: down the walls he had built himself.
Speaker 1: Devour dedch deevel the snail smot only re mil de
Speaker 1: winterson jer brom de quit the canal Spain.
Speaker 3: The next day, as the snow melted under a mild
Speaker 3: winter sun, Brums saw the children playing on the canals again.
Speaker 1: Hejim lachte and fool de zicher.
Speaker 3: He smiled and felt lighter.
Speaker 1: Hey chelsen duur fac or opener for de villdes.
Speaker 3: He would open his door more often to the world.
Speaker 1: M massine d'Arte faustated bffinfu its news.
Speaker 3: And maybe he thought this was the beginning of something.
Speaker 1: New, hed buffin for forbidding.
Speaker 3: The beginning of connection.
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 English.
Speaker 1: Snail flocker, snail flocking, snail flocker, snowflakes, zuchius, zarchiuschius, gently,
Speaker 1: dorps bef owners, dorps bef owners, dorps befo owners, villagers, cracking, cracking, cracking.
Speaker 3: Crunching, ace ace as ice and these a hate and
Speaker 3: these hate, and theste presence whose ELL's hop, who sells hop,
Speaker 3: Hoozell's hop, companion, burst, boorst burst, chest.
Speaker 1: Kritz bar hate, kritz bar hate, klitz bar hate, vulnerability, arzling,
Speaker 1: arzling ursily, hesitation, strombold strombolder strombold stumbled a wor height,
Speaker 1: a wear height, a were height, eternity, besif besif besif
Speaker 1: realization Dorp Dorp Dorp village, under zort, under zort undersort.
Speaker 3: Examined for trout for trout for trout, familiar of stumpt
Speaker 3: of stunt of storms, distance, stress RelA tiart stress relatierd
Speaker 3: stress relatier stress.
Speaker 1: Related zenu zenuine zeneu nerves Opricht opricht Obricht sincerely for
Speaker 1: rendre under for under change, conduct, conduct, contuct contact Mr Muren,
Speaker 1: Mr Walls, Smart, smat Smart, Melted, Milde, Milde, mild, mild, lifter, lifter, lifter,
Speaker 1: lighter for binding, for binding, for binding connection dward, drifted,
Speaker 1: fidend slid von de Lars, von de Lars, von de
Speaker 1: Lars Walkers.
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