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Speaker 3: In this episode, we'll venture to the towering heights of
Speaker 3: the Euromast, where three friends learn that sometimes laughter and
Speaker 3: a little spilled hot chocolate can warm even the coldest
Speaker 3: of days.
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Speaker 1: De vintervins, snake, a mess o, fritskaidek from the demost
Speaker 1: sumler marte, femksled belkar destster in a dun lar snail
Speaker 1: delucht was so held or dutchy the half in the
Speaker 1: verto conzin liche ika vinne Jaysndra copper, then ogufeld met
Speaker 1: fostparad and hait niemont come made for slam in enfarmer
Speaker 1: schoco lademelk drink wet strait marte lochte and maugged and
Speaker 1: roped on the sphere to lichte miss rin viinnevevelle and
Speaker 1: prays for the snails before chocolade, milk, femke met her
Speaker 1: broke look practice ablique cake, nahar Baker, Barnett's cham albaconte,
Speaker 1: cristalis ere, miss grin motivated ide from the red Strait,
Speaker 1: Lata farre and von nite Marsander sjudezen hoft fastparade hey
Speaker 1: rummelde Insanjo's sock and howl the uclain a homed farmer
Speaker 1: to force rain cake I kept did mahnomer here mad
Speaker 1: for warm igmain baker duncan igwine femke fulsta harveng Brauer
Speaker 1: equate need of that. The HOOTI day is sunder miss
Speaker 1: grin is a travarlec sunder losted and neat ha plats
Speaker 1: the zend baker both the hunt farmer in the hope,
Speaker 1: the varmer shocko lad milk tondoye long sam hre, the
Speaker 1: shoco lad milk wear fluy bar marpresis of that momentary
Speaker 1: bird ahead sunder floors and ship, and the baker coundled
Speaker 1: and storm from warmer Shoco lad milk create over the
Speaker 1: deck te weell sunder pochin dated the farmer had hail
Speaker 1: tafel was as in slow motion, and Martha burst the
Speaker 1: illach out now sunder didwas sacred. The maze spectaculary shoco
Speaker 1: lade milk slip femke lochte mae hain Winner von dach
Speaker 1: Marvel and Jude Hernering saunder stonetop signor stage road maneuvon
Speaker 1: de loch o k o k Julie heberleg had had
Speaker 1: knit on winner had had on pleasir mark met Frinde
Speaker 1: suboslaught on the wet straitor vachet and im plaids Darvon
Speaker 1: and photo the marker sustn de nastle car met the
Speaker 1: beffore schocolade milk in Unhande and himlachtebraid. The sky line
Speaker 1: from Rotterdam stretched silt after hen osenshild Rey from as Elucht,
Speaker 1: the photo Gravanna in a moment from Frinshop and pleazer
Speaker 1: saw alted in her innering blaze and the cow dedor
Speaker 1: of the Romost Sounder Marte and fem calchteterveldezund long sam
Speaker 1: under Ring, the loucht Inflammavonoragne and Rosodobed had lost the
Speaker 1: perfect off slouting fronndorfol f rossing and unless in the
Speaker 1: varre de fon Saintmosay.
Speaker 3: Let's take another listen. Listen closely to any parts you
Speaker 3: may have missed.
Speaker 1: The Vintervind snaked as a mess over the skydeck from
Speaker 1: the Rotterdam Uromost.
Speaker 3: The winter wind cut like a knife across the skydeck
Speaker 3: of the Rotterdam Ramast.
Speaker 1: Soundler Marte and femkus don Ledich bel car hun rusiche
Speaker 1: rode from the cow.
Speaker 3: Shunder. Martin and Femkas stood close together, their faces red
Speaker 3: from the cold.
Speaker 1: The stut onn locht rinstre in dun de la snail.
Speaker 3: The city below them shimmered under a thin layer of snow.
Speaker 1: The loecht was so held er dutchy the half in
Speaker 1: the vertu conzignle.
Speaker 3: The air was so clear that you could see the
Speaker 3: harbor lying in the distance.
Speaker 1: Ica vine Ja son l cope, saying, O hueffeldt met fosparadenhet.
Speaker 3: I'm going to win, said Sunder stubbornly, his eyes filled
Speaker 3: with determination.
Speaker 1: Niemnt come for slam in envarma cha co la de
Speaker 1: mel drinkvet straight.
Speaker 3: No one can beat me in a hot chocolate drinking contest.
Speaker 1: Marte lochte and market and flop und sphere to frichte.
Speaker 3: Martin laughed and made a joke to lighten the mood.
Speaker 1: Miss Rien vineuvevelle and prays for the snelst before cho
Speaker 1: cola de milk.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll win a prize for the fastest frozen hot chocolate.
Speaker 1: Femke met her jubrac le capocti sebliq kike Nahar Baker
Speaker 1: barine schram alboontek.
Speaker 3: Liz Femke, with her usual practical outlook, looked at her cup,
Speaker 3: where the foam was already beginning to crystallize.
Speaker 1: Miss schen motived ide from the vet strait la tefarre
Speaker 1: and holnite.
Speaker 3: Maybe we should abandon the contest idea and just enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Mar Sunder sredzen hoft fosperade.
Speaker 3: But Sunders shook his head, determined.
Speaker 1: Her mold inseegnja suck and howl the incline homed farmer
Speaker 1: to force reyn.
Speaker 3: He rummaged in his jacket pocket and pulled out a
Speaker 3: small hand warmer.
Speaker 1: Cake ikebdit mehnome. Look, I brought this here may for
Speaker 1: varm igmein Baker. I'll use it to warm my cup.
Speaker 1: Don com igwine, then I can win. Fimke fun stahrwing bl.
Speaker 3: Veemkea furrowed her brow.
Speaker 1: It cuate neat off the the HOUTI day is sunder.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's a good idea. Shunder, Miss
Speaker 3: Gene is a trefire. Look it might be dangerous.
Speaker 1: Sundler loasted in neat.
Speaker 3: Shunder didn't listen.
Speaker 1: Hey blats the zend baker both the hunt farmer in
Speaker 1: the hope, the varmer show gola the milk todo.
Speaker 3: He placed his cup above the hand warmer, hoping to
Speaker 3: thaw the hot chocolate.
Speaker 1: Lung sham vertu sho go la the milk vire fluey bar.
Speaker 3: Slowly the chocolate became liquid again.
Speaker 1: Marprecis of the moment bird ahead, sound, the floor s
Speaker 1: e hip and the baker cuntled.
Speaker 3: But just at that moment it happened Shunder lost his
Speaker 3: grip and the cup tilted.
Speaker 1: The home from Varma Cola de mel create over the
Speaker 1: deck develle Son dated to fum.
Speaker 3: A stream of hot chocolate glided across the deck while
Speaker 3: Shunder made an attempt to catch it.
Speaker 1: Hed Hey Tafral was also in slow motion and mart
Speaker 1: burst illach out.
Speaker 3: The whole scene was like in slow motion, and Martin
Speaker 3: burst into laughter.
Speaker 1: Now Sundler dit va sake a the mazed spectacular cho
Speaker 1: cola de milk slip.
Speaker 3: Well, Shunder, that was certainly the most spectacular hot chocolate slip.
Speaker 1: Femke lachete may.
Speaker 3: Femke laughed along.
Speaker 1: Heine viner Fonda Marvel jod he Ring.
Speaker 3: No winner today, but a good memory nonetheless.
Speaker 1: Sunder stontop sign state road Maneu from the l ah.
Speaker 3: Shunder stood up, his face still red, but now from laughter.
Speaker 1: Okay okay, Juli heber legg.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, you're right.
Speaker 1: Head's hat neat vine.
Speaker 3: It's not about winning.
Speaker 1: He's hat on Pleasir Mark met Frind.
Speaker 3: It's about having fun with friends.
Speaker 1: Should be slow to undevitz stray, to forgete any plaidst
Speaker 1: from photo to mac.
Speaker 3: They decided to forget about the contest and instead take
Speaker 3: a photo.
Speaker 1: Shustum the nastl car made to before the show, Cola
Speaker 1: de milk Inunhande and himlerch tobrate.
Speaker 3: They stood side by side with the frozen hot chocolate
Speaker 3: in their hands and smiled broadly.
Speaker 1: The skyline from Rotterdam straight to he held achter hen
Speaker 1: Olsen's Hildrey from a Enlucht.
Speaker 3: The Rotterdom skyline stretched out behind them like a painting
Speaker 3: of ice and sky.
Speaker 1: I photo Ravon in a moment for Frind's rap and
Speaker 1: Plassere saw alt it inherinering Blaye and Icau Dedromost.
Speaker 3: That photo, captured in a moment of friendship and joy,
Speaker 3: would always be a memory of that cold day on
Speaker 3: the eromast.
Speaker 1: Thunder, Marte and Femke lochte tevelle de long sam underching,
Speaker 1: de luchtin, flammoragne en rose doobt.
Speaker 3: Shunder. Martin and Femke laughed as the sun slowly set,
Speaker 3: dipping the sky in flames of orange and pink.
Speaker 1: Had lost the perfect off slouting, fallandorchful fossing and unless
Speaker 1: in the fon Saintmozaine.
Speaker 3: It was the perfect end to a day full of
Speaker 3: surprises and a lesson in the value of being together.
Speaker 2: Today's vocabulary words are coming up right after this commercial break.
Speaker 2: Here are today's vocabulary words, first in Dutch.
Speaker 1: Then in English. Vintervind vintervind, wintervend winter, wind, snait, snake, snait, cut, miss, miss,
Speaker 1: miss knife, klinsterre klinstre glinsterre, shimmered, foster, bradenheit, FoST barradenheit,
Speaker 1: FoST bradenheit, determination, koppor koppor kpur stubbornly, plucty, sublick, plucty, sublick, procti, sublick,
Speaker 1: practical outlook, umoulder, humolder, rumolder rummaged, your suck, your sock,
Speaker 1: your sock, pocket, huns Warmer, Houns Warmer, Houns Warmer, hand Warmer,
Speaker 1: ond'oje ondoyan onnd'oye Tha contold, contol de contold, tilted, grip, crip,
Speaker 1: riep grip, strom strom strom stream, clate, flate, flate, glided, thunner, thunner,
Speaker 1: fun catch, spectaculire, spectaculere, spectaculere, spectacular, slip, slip, slip, slip,
Speaker 1: hair innering, hair innering, her inner ring, memory, breath, bread, bread,
Speaker 1: probably skyline, skyline, skyline, skyline, strict as if out strict,
Speaker 1: as if out strict, zi out stretched, steal the ray,
Speaker 1: Steal the ray, seal the ray, painting rufo Rufoma, captured Blazer, Blazer, Bluesier, Joy,
Speaker 1: under hung, under hung, under hung, Sunset, dopetor dopetor dopetor,
Speaker 1: dipping Flummer, Flummer, phlomer, flames, Flossinger, Fossinger, Fossing.
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