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Speaker 3: In this episode, we'll explore how Mateo learns to embrace
Speaker 3: his true self, finding strength and friendship and balance amidst
Speaker 3: academic pressures.
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Speaker 1: El Viento, el ma los examines finales, estava, lavolta de leesquina,
Speaker 1: is ceda de ra cadavez major, matteo, ronestudiantemoya, plicado, siemprebuscandola, perfection,
Speaker 1: cine embargo then trodel says condia and grande more no
Speaker 1: complete collas, expectativa porvajo de carlos, survival, academi co mass
Speaker 1: forte Carlos conzucavejo si and pre perfecta menepe nado uatitut
Speaker 1: con fiada Parisia, nusailidades a fortnadamente, Matteo, no estava solo asulado,
Speaker 1: siempress Tavalucia, sumejo, amiga, Lucia, rasusole and LUs dias nobulados,
Speaker 1: menos procupada porlas notas Lucia, solia de sile mateoke is
Speaker 1: fruta de la juvent sintantoestris pero, matteo, retestarudo, escuchar consejos,
Speaker 1: no formava parte deesuplan todas last notchez mateos edava de
Speaker 1: spirto a statarde repasando cada capitulo, cada formula Luciello yamavades,
Speaker 1: the zumobil diciendo le canzara qued nada serviez to the
Speaker 1: arso re cancanzio peromate norrava sus palavas pensando kelo silo
Speaker 1: ardiazos s stande siados elvia del prime rexameen ell institutuo
Speaker 1: estava repleto the studiantestensos, matteo respirava pro fundamenteen trode laula,
Speaker 1: tratando de calmarsumente el professor and trevolas prevaci el pesaralas prevuntas,
Speaker 1: matteos intio kezumenes kedava and blanco todloes to diado paresia
Speaker 1: verde sa parcido, el panicospo rode el fuenton s escuando
Speaker 1: luci al sola mirada, matteo stavaatemblando and suaciento conuna sonrisa
Speaker 1: suave luciele susuroes sulugar recipe matteo no restus notas ESAs
Speaker 1: palavasi serro neco and sumente matteos, rolo, sojos, respiro, pro fundamente,
Speaker 1: poco a poco, logo, cal marce, precordoke, primero, rael suses versos,
Speaker 1: sus ganas espostlas notas precoperando, la compostura, matteo and peso
Speaker 1: is crevico, determination colla, Juda de Lucia, supro piavolunta, Matteo, terminolos,
Speaker 1: examenes finales, no supero a Carlos, kense, jevol, premier, puesto, peruezo, jano, importavatanto, mattelo, villa, prendido, albo, muco,
Speaker 1: mas valioso, common friend dad, la importancia, the norlas not as,
Speaker 1: the fire and suval las, vacaciones, jegaron conelinbierno, Matteo, prometto
Speaker 1: a Lucia, ken El, proximo ano and contraria and mejorrique,
Speaker 1: libriu and resos studios, is ubida personal si dee, savie, cavia, cresido,
Speaker 1: masa jas rosilos, rankings, port le sido por la mista vieltomiento.
Speaker 3: Let's take another lesson. Listen closely to any parts you
Speaker 3: may have missed.
Speaker 1: El viento frioso plava conforsa and El Patio del co
Speaker 1: Lejo Publico.
Speaker 3: The cold wind blew fiercely in the courtyard of the
Speaker 3: public school.
Speaker 1: El la sultima semno ze class er la m vientestava
Speaker 1: cargado de nervio sismo.
Speaker 3: It was the last weeks of classes and the atmosphere
Speaker 3: was charged with nervousness.
Speaker 1: Matteo ca minva porlos pasigioz lin stituto Consumchile de l
Speaker 1: rosa putes.
Speaker 3: Matteo walked through the school hallways with his backpack full
Speaker 3: of books and notes.
Speaker 1: Losxemines finale sestava na la vuelta de le squine snida
Speaker 1: de ra cava vez magior.
Speaker 3: The final exams were just around the corner, and his
Speaker 3: anxiety was increasing.
Speaker 1: Matteo ironestuviente muya plicado siemprevus cando la perfeccion.
Speaker 3: Matteo was a very diligent student, always striving for perfection.
Speaker 1: Si neem margo then trodel ces condilla en grande more
Speaker 1: no complir con la sexpectativa si queverr por de va
Speaker 1: jo de carlos sur riva la cavemi co masforte.
Speaker 3: However, inside him there was a great fear not living
Speaker 3: up to expectations and falling behind Carlos, his strongest academic rival.
Speaker 1: Carlos conzu Cavello siempre perfectamentepe na du suattitut confierda parisien
Speaker 1: nun cadudrd susavilidades.
Speaker 3: Carlos, with his hair always perfectly styled and his confident attitude,
Speaker 3: seemed to never doubt his abilities.
Speaker 1: Affortuna da mente, Matteo noestava solo.
Speaker 3: Fortunately, Matteo was not alone.
Speaker 1: Assuleo siemprecetava Lucilla sumehra miga.
Speaker 3: By his side was always Lucia, his best friend.
Speaker 1: Lucilla ira su solen LUs dias nobulos.
Speaker 3: Lucia was his sunshine on cloudy days.
Speaker 1: Menos procu paa porlas notas Lucia solia de silea. Mateo
Speaker 1: kevis frutera de la juveenul sinten.
Speaker 3: Tustris less concerned about grades. Licia used to tell Mateo
Speaker 3: to enjoy youth without so much stress.
Speaker 1: Perro Marto ra testarulo is cucher consejos no form va
Speaker 1: part de su plan.
Speaker 3: But Matteo was stubborn listening to advice was not part
Speaker 3: of his plan.
Speaker 1: Todas las nochez mateo se keva des pierto stare repasa
Speaker 1: cara capitulo, cara formula.
Speaker 3: Every night Matteo stayed up late, reviewing every chapter, every formula.
Speaker 1: Luciello ya mava dezzumvi liciendo le keves cancera quevenda servies
Speaker 1: t dierso recan sanso.
Speaker 3: Licia would call him from her cell phone, telling him
Speaker 3: to rest, that it was useless to study when tired.
Speaker 1: Pero Matteo iva sus pavras benceanlo que soolo silo arrier
Speaker 1: esus dissdan di sieros.
Speaker 3: But Matteo ignored her words, thinking that only this way
Speaker 3: he would achieve those much desired perfect scores.
Speaker 1: Elie del primer sa min elinstitutu stava repleto dis t dillentestensos.
Speaker 3: On the day of the first exam, the school was
Speaker 3: filled with ten students.
Speaker 1: Matteo respireva profunda mene tro de laola tratando marsumente.
Speaker 3: Matteo breathed deeply inside the classroom, trying to calm his mind.
Speaker 1: El Professor trevo las preevasi el imp las prevuntas mateo
Speaker 1: sintio ke su m blanco.
Speaker 3: The teacher handed out the tests, and as he began
Speaker 3: to read the questions, Matteo felt his mind go blank.
Speaker 1: Tod los telo parcia vera parecido.
Speaker 3: Everything he had studied seemed to have disappeared.
Speaker 1: El panicosepo dero del.
Speaker 3: Panic took hold of him fuent.
Speaker 1: Cescuondo, lucillel so la mirea.
Speaker 3: That's when Lacilla looked up.
Speaker 1: Matteo istava tembliento.
Speaker 3: Matteo was trembling in his seat.
Speaker 1: Conuna sonrisa suave, lucie le sulugar respira.
Speaker 3: Matteo, with a gentle smile. Licia whispered from her spot, breathe, Matteo.
Speaker 1: Noiristus NOAs.
Speaker 3: You are not your grades ISOs.
Speaker 1: Palavra sisierro neko and sumente.
Speaker 3: Those words echoed in his mind.
Speaker 1: Matios rolo sojos respiro pro fundamente poco a poco loo
Speaker 1: cal marce.
Speaker 3: Matteo closed his eyes, breathed deeply, and gradually managed to
Speaker 3: calm himself.
Speaker 1: Precordokee primero rael sousesforsos suzganas idis pueislas NOAs.
Speaker 3: He remembered that first and foremost there was himself, his efforts,
Speaker 3: his desires, and then the grades.
Speaker 1: Precuperando la compostura Matteo and psois griviricon de terminacion.
Speaker 3: Regaining his composer, Matteo began to write with determination.
Speaker 1: Collaguda de Lucilla, supro pia, volunta, matio terr minolo sexamenes finales.
Speaker 3: With the help of Lucia and his own willpower, Matteo
Speaker 3: finished the final exams.
Speaker 1: No supero Carlos, quince jevol, primer, pusto peruezo ya no lemportatanto.
Speaker 3: He did not surpass Carlos, who took the first place,
Speaker 3: but that no longer mattered to him.
Speaker 1: Mateo a villa, prendido albo, mucho mas valioso, comunfrindsierra de
Speaker 1: la inportan, sier re no de hergue las no tae
Speaker 1: fimira salo.
Speaker 3: Matteo had learned something much more valuable, how to face
Speaker 3: his anxiety and the importance of not letting grades define
Speaker 3: his worth.
Speaker 1: Las vacaciones yearn Coneliinbierno.
Speaker 3: The holidays came with the winter.
Speaker 1: Matteo prometio Lucia nel proximo nuen contrarion mejorqui libriu and
Speaker 1: trisus studios sisuvida personal.
Speaker 3: Matteo promised Lucia that next year he would find a
Speaker 3: better balance between his studies and his personal life.
Speaker 1: Sigienda de lente, saville, cavie, crecido, masa je de los
Speaker 1: no me rosi loos, rankins, fort le sido por la mista,
Speaker 1: diloto deescurimiento.
Speaker 3: Moving forward, he knew he had grown beyond numbers and rankings,
Speaker 3: strengthened by friendship and self discovery. Today's vocabulary words are
Speaker 3: coming up right after this commercial break. Here are today's
Speaker 3: vocabulary words, first in Spanish, then in English.
Speaker 1: Pel patio, del patio, phil patio, the courtyard, blamochilla, bla mochilla, blamochilla,
Speaker 1: the backpack, Blos passigius, Blos passigius, blos passigius, the hallways
Speaker 1: bla perfiction, blah perif bla perifction.
Speaker 3: The perfection hill, te Moore Hill, thee More.
Speaker 1: Hill te More. The fear bless expect, the divas bless expect,
Speaker 1: the divas bless expect, the divas, the expectations Ill reveal,
Speaker 1: Hell reveal, Hell reveal, the rival, black confienza, the black confienza,
Speaker 1: black confienza, the confidence, Pilsoul, peil soul, pelsoul, the sunshine
Speaker 1: plus consejos, blos concejos, blos concejos. The advice BLA for mula,
Speaker 1: bla for mulla, bla for mula, the formula, Plans see that,
Speaker 1: Plans see that, Plans see that. The anxiety pel Panico,
Speaker 1: pel Panico, Pelpanico, the panic elaola e laola, elaola, the classroom,
Speaker 1: bloss examinis, blows, examines, blos, examinis, the exams, pill ranking, hell, ranking,
Speaker 1: el ranking, the ranking, blamestaf bla mistaf, blamestaf, the friendship, elouto,
Speaker 1: the scrimiento elaouto, the scubrimiento, elouto, the scrimiento.
Speaker 3: The self discovery.
Speaker 1: Plus vacacionis plus vacaci plus vacacionis, the holidays Eliki Librio,
Speaker 1: Eliki librio, eliki librio. The balance, plusses fororsus, plusses fororsus,
Speaker 1: pluses fororsus, the efforts helm bierno, helin erno, helm Berno,
Speaker 1: the winter plus ganas plus ganas plus ganas. The desire
Speaker 1: Blafort Lisa Blaforte, Lisa blafort Lisa, The strength, till Valor,
Speaker 1: del Valor, del Valor, The worth, Bleveterminacion, bleaveter reminacion, bleaveterminacion.
Speaker 1: The determination Blavolluntev Blavo Luna Blavolluntev. The willpower Il capitulo,
Speaker 1: Il capitulo, il capitulo. The chapter plan nota plan, notta plan,
Speaker 1: nota the grade. Blahu went tooth, Blah who went toothed,
Speaker 1: Blah who went tooth? The youth.
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