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Speaker 3: In this episode, we'll dive into a heartwarming story of
Speaker 3: determination and cultural resilience as Alexis battles a storm to
Speaker 3: keep his family's Easter traditions alive in Santurn.
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Speaker 1: Oh Alexis almosts tapanda fountahi o alexis ierina mescoponavo thesisni
Speaker 1: paradosi an absition to ni basalior t io tipros the
Speaker 1: gis ean magales tote left it apos ya ya tombabu
Speaker 1: to steals kolos, to salus melias ta takataume iest titao
Speaker 1: tongsadel photo and no epsac metropus nepostatskida o kerosta parasi
Speaker 1: the platus e le n e a dfidu ti tao
Speaker 1: kitussihi alexi and then sta matisi iv rohi tau rotiice
Speaker 1: cathos maarip and mix tamayatis ta takatagio apocriticio. Alexis may
Speaker 1: have to pepthesi o tityos, hamoyeles IPOs, trisundstone kid or
Speaker 1: artisan a mazevuni la keipanya mevoa eleni kataskeva prosoro kataio
Speaker 1: jiro poto pir aemus dinam one ivromania keto kataiomen and
Speaker 1: dehi oh alexis prospatusidi ar cosnatoen is hissi elpisonda mines
Speaker 1: and danni eco yenia paraclu and ameniagnia is themes fanes
Speaker 1: map ifodato theagmatis to ernisike is tagnes archisana kadoor afinodestone
Speaker 1: nomosini o alexis and katida for retico mesato i kataio
Speaker 1: jimonon assosio pasha ale in the themetis ress do this paradosis,
Speaker 1: do only mazeftican heiro pott trapezi katatte gipuetis or alexis
Speaker 1: metageria do ikaua tokatha ye yo kiten dooxae sepimonie kus
Speaker 1: keekinus and you the po thesi meross in de men
Speaker 1: skleronomias do scavaraenias do.
Speaker 3: Let's take another listen. Listen closely to any parts you
Speaker 3: may have missed.
Speaker 1: Oh Alexis kitexta mavra sinepha perlitica palasa.
Speaker 3: Oh Alexis looked at the threatening black clouds coming from
Speaker 3: Desi riscot.
Speaker 1: And stsandorini stospit it is yayas to opuka anixi your
Speaker 1: tasent in Orthodoxy anastas your test.
Speaker 3: He was in Saturny at his grandmother's house, where every
Speaker 3: spring they celebrate the Orthodox Resurrection with grand festivities.
Speaker 1: Almost vetos tapanda fenota no haunkatvrohi.
Speaker 3: However, this year everything seemed like it would be lost
Speaker 3: under the rain.
Speaker 1: O Alexis ihieri aina mescopnicoki paradossi an absision to ernie
Speaker 1: bashali ne yor ti.
Speaker 3: O Alexis had come from Athena with the purpose of
Speaker 3: helping with the family tradition to roast the lamb for
Speaker 3: the Easter celebration.
Speaker 1: I serio ti pros di kis itan megales.
Speaker 3: He knew that the expectations were high.
Speaker 1: Totele ya ya tombopu tustius kiolus tu salus melies.
Speaker 3: The last thing he wanted was to disappoint his grandmother, grandfather,
Speaker 3: uncles and all the other family members.
Speaker 1: Tatakata ferume ipes tito tomsadel fotu and no ebsacnetropusna prosta devsitsida.
Speaker 3: Will manage, he said to his cousin, while he was
Speaker 3: searching for ways to protect the roasting from the storm.
Speaker 1: O kosta perasi, the weather will pass the platus e
Speaker 1: eleni a verfitu, titeu kitusnissihi next to them eleni titaios
Speaker 1: sister host anxiously Alexi, and thence the matisi ivrhi tita caume.
Speaker 3: Alexei. If the rain doesn't stop, what will we.
Speaker 1: Do rotissee cathoshnieri pi anemixita maayadis.
Speaker 3: She asked, as a gust of wind mixed her.
Speaker 1: Hair, taftia kataiyu.
Speaker 3: We'll make a shelter.
Speaker 1: Apocritikio Alexis may have to pepithisi.
Speaker 3: Alexis replied confidently.
Speaker 1: O titeusmole ipusti rishundstone kithi o arhisana maazev umxila kipi.
Speaker 3: Theirra smiled at him, supporting him, and the two began
Speaker 3: gathering wooden cloths.
Speaker 1: Mevoleni kataskivo kata fio yiro potopi.
Speaker 3: With help from Oleni, they built a temporary shelter around
Speaker 3: the fire.
Speaker 1: Mus dinamne ivrohi memania kto tschierio kata figio feno minandji.
Speaker 3: The wind was strengthening, the rain was falling furiously, and
Speaker 3: the makeshift shelter seemed not to withstand.
Speaker 1: Oh Alexis prospathus di cosna toni shisi elipijun dastimeni zundni.
Speaker 3: Alexis was constantly trying to reinforce it, hoping that the
Speaker 3: fire would stay alive.
Speaker 1: Iko jenia paracolumnia nia.
Speaker 3: The family watched with lit anxiety.
Speaker 1: Is themes fanes mehavmatis.
Speaker 3: The moments felt like ages, until slowly the fire did
Speaker 3: its miracle to erni psiike. The lamb was roasted is ta.
Speaker 1: Rones chisanathun ki kat jive boor afinondoe mato mosini.
Speaker 3: The rain drops started to die and the storm subsided,
Speaker 3: leaving everyone full of gratitude.
Speaker 1: Oh Alexis and fort comesatu.
Speaker 3: Alexis felt something different inside him.
Speaker 1: I hi kataferrio jimono asos to pasha ale the metis
Speaker 1: rizers do tis paradosius do.
Speaker 3: He had managed not only to save Easter, but also
Speaker 3: to reconnect with his roots, his traditions.
Speaker 1: Only maseevti can jiro trapezi katte yi puet Alexis meta
Speaker 1: herrie do.
Speaker 3: Everyone gathered around the table beneath the shelter that Alexis
Speaker 3: had built with his hands.
Speaker 1: Ikath bukia, tokatha ye yo hiten vuksasierimone q.
Speaker 3: Every bite, every laugh was a celebration of their persistence
Speaker 3: and unity.
Speaker 1: Kikinos ng thesi merosts in the manes kleronomiastu scavandvaterestingarda tosu.
Speaker 3: And he felt as if he had now won a
Speaker 3: new place, part of his interconnected heritage, digging deeper into
Speaker 3: the heart of his place and his family.
Speaker 2: Today's vocabulary words are coming up right after this commercial break.
Speaker 2: Here are today's vocabulary words, first in Greek, then in English.
Speaker 1: Ika the hida, ikata yida ikaate yida, the storm, dasinepha
Speaker 1: da cinephada sepha, the clouds, apilitica, apilitica, apilitica, threatening, iparadosi, iparadosi, iparadosi,
Speaker 1: the tradition hyprosdokia, hyprosdokia, hyprosdokia, the expectation na nav to
Speaker 1: disappoint oxadelfos oxadelfos oxa delfos, the cousin neaprostatvsi nebrostavsi naprostatvsi
Speaker 1: to protect aneasihi aniasihi aniasi hei anxiously to kata figio,
Speaker 1: tokata figio to kata fijiu. The shelter may have to pepy,
Speaker 1: may have to pets, may have to pepc confidently, Tobir Tobir, Tobir.
Speaker 1: The fire nine is hiszy nine is his sy nine
Speaker 1: is his sy To strengthen nan dehi, nan dehi, nan dehi.
Speaker 1: To withstand nine is hiszy nine is his sy nine
Speaker 1: is his sy to reinforce, toavma, to ava toma, the
Speaker 1: miracle ni nipoi nyosi, to subside iev no Mossini, iev
Speaker 1: no Mossini, ievre no monsigni.
Speaker 3: The gratitude.
Speaker 1: It is this, It is this, It is this. The
Speaker 1: roots enodida, enodita, enodita, the unity, iglooma littleomia, linomnia, the
Speaker 1: heritage ikarja, ikardia, ikardilla, the heart, otopush autopus, otoposh, the
Speaker 1: place Afterscho, Afterscho, Afterscho, makeshift animos, animus anemos. The wind is,
Speaker 1: thegna is, the gona is the rona, the rain drop
Speaker 1: ep mone ep money, ep money, the persistence. The is
Speaker 1: in the many, the as in the many, the as
Speaker 1: in the many, interconnected. An absession, an absession, nabsision to
Speaker 1: roast Namazevun, Namazevun, Namazevun.
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