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Speaker 3: In this episode, we'll journey through a stormy Amsterdam is
Speaker 3: Bob Battle's reign fear and doubt to cast his vote
Speaker 3: and find unexpected strength.
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Speaker 1: Als the kluko from La vista er sis r slam
Speaker 1: hast bas madridr drink distrata from Amsterdam. De lucht is
Speaker 1: dunker rans egfult meddomler, bustricht s yestrucor interval he rifting
Speaker 1: at stem local rent and Audus hold himself in the Jordan,
Speaker 1: Bennett is at warm and drooken mences down in long
Speaker 1: arrayed vachte hun stem abina knit warbar. Both need cabal
Speaker 1: from the storm bout lumper flicker often too, as of
Speaker 1: the elkmomentuna outram the lukt rogged mouth and benowned toward
Speaker 1: the sam pak de mansemossa boss foot huss and adam
Speaker 1: Hahling sneller hat heyev mute met drukoplek mahevil nit obheve
Speaker 1: zaint stem is belongreg Ava and friendly look of Revela
Speaker 1: her baby Inhanan puhutem welcome, zemetter krimloch emudeal avadulteber had
Speaker 1: his hacken house von dach boss knicked and pobert grimlach
Speaker 1: all fold teded by nick ob comer hayes had long
Speaker 1: sam for out ain't foot for the under the well
Speaker 1: has em black up the floor out elka clean is
Speaker 1: stop legged and aver hat the dure the tad ticked,
Speaker 1: bowed and dundarted, and the rech legged on aud look
Speaker 1: a darden spoke dorozenhoft what us haydnt optate halt what
Speaker 1: our saints stem floor had boss dinged azember's lissing blave
Speaker 1: obhave donzitae young an auder friend further up in the
Speaker 1: ray john zweite nahem and locht bay nadar boss optaber
Speaker 1: murdherant is it's in the simple root that us knew moodhaved.
Speaker 1: Missrine sends alamal in the zel of the boat, miss
Speaker 1: Rin marked hasif de filsorg here sends howders and vote
Speaker 1: ray stop for stop clotzeling hard that licht out. Then
Speaker 1: hul vanusmortres rail and Romunpo had to the manert the
Speaker 1: fray villagers povere The Comte de bevar Eva hoped that
Speaker 1: a norteti is and that the others dom o matererin
Speaker 1: order the creg had his joust of that moment in
Speaker 1: the bay nadaustanis that boss and besloud named heid sen
Speaker 1: angstopsee and maneufrierdnafort sireh excuiser, and the well had forbade.
Speaker 1: The man's ribbed had moment fulled as an averhead mahibrakets
Speaker 1: tembers netwa neered Lichtria to ur comte mattrillan ahund the
Speaker 1: packed busted stamboul yet and stemmed hay swarded paper off
Speaker 1: and latted in the doors fall. Then heart clothed Snell
Speaker 1: might have fooled and enormal upburthing. He heaved the trout
Speaker 1: when near hated himself for lad marked bus dot reev
Speaker 1: is who stopped the lucht is freez and for freezened
Speaker 1: hey fools. The wroundered stairker. Then stemhaved Iday and dothhaved
Speaker 1: them ruful from fordning and trots and thou wondled bust
Speaker 1: were the not strata from Amsterdam waiting. The dot hasen
Speaker 1: stained yehave by dragh and met a new for trowel
Speaker 1: in herself.
Speaker 3: Let's take another lesson. Listen closely to any part you
Speaker 3: may have missed.
Speaker 1: Alst the cloak of from the Vesta care says or
Speaker 1: slam ha baur de madridor drink the strata from Amsterdam.
Speaker 3: As the bells of the Westerkirk strike six Bas hurries
Speaker 3: through the rain drenched streets of Amsterdam.
Speaker 1: De Lieucht is dunker drehand and halfilled mid dummler.
Speaker 3: The sky is dark, threatening and filled with thunder.
Speaker 1: Bostricht say ya struck or umsihintervel herichting its stem local rent.
Speaker 1: Then audus houl himself in the Jordaan.
Speaker 3: Bas pulls his coat tighter around him as he runs
Speaker 3: towards the polling station. An old school gymnasium in the Jordan.
Speaker 3: Binet is at warm and drunkend inside it's warm and oppressive.
Speaker 1: Mincestan el'ngarayt vachte hun stemebein and nit warbar both the
Speaker 1: cabal from the storm.
Speaker 3: People stand in long queues waiting. Their voice is barely
Speaker 3: audible over the clamor of the storm outside.
Speaker 1: Lumper flickerer often too. Also, the elk moment couldn't.
Speaker 3: Outram lights flicker occasionally as if they could go out
Speaker 3: at any moment.
Speaker 1: The luchet rougedmuf and benout dor de saint Bachtmensemosa.
Speaker 3: The air smells musty and stifling from the packed crowd.
Speaker 1: Boss fool Toussein Adam hahling sneller hat.
Speaker 3: Bas feels his breathing quicken heyev.
Speaker 1: Mue medr kopleke marhe vil nitobreev.
Speaker 3: He struggles with crowded places, but he doesn't want to
Speaker 3: give up.
Speaker 1: Zay stem is blomach.
Speaker 3: His vote is important.
Speaker 1: Ava and freely l Kreville her baby in hung.
Speaker 3: Putem Iva, a friendly volunteer at the entrance, greets.
Speaker 1: Him vilcom zemetter rim lach.
Speaker 3: Welcome, she says, with a smile.
Speaker 1: U mutvel e fe radulteb at is hicken house Fonda.
Speaker 3: You'll need a bit of patience. It's craziness today.
Speaker 1: Boss knicked and pobert him lach all fold headed by
Speaker 1: nick op coom.
Speaker 3: Bs, nods and tries to smile, although he feels the
Speaker 3: panic rising.
Speaker 1: Hayes had lung sam for rout ain't foot for the
Speaker 1: umdler tevel hayseem blick opt floor out.
Speaker 3: He shuffles forward slowly, one foot in front of the other,
Speaker 3: keeping his gaze on the floor.
Speaker 1: El caklein is stop legged a hate the dure.
Speaker 3: Every tiny step seems to take an eternity the date
Speaker 3: tik t, time ticks.
Speaker 1: By bout and dunder it and re legged.
Speaker 3: Outside it thunders, and the rain seems unending.
Speaker 1: Adarten spoke Doorsenhoft.
Speaker 3: All sorts of thoughts run through his mind.
Speaker 1: That I'll say it neat obtate talt.
Speaker 3: What if he doesn't make it on time?
Speaker 1: What I'll say stem flor hat, What if his vote
Speaker 1: is lost? Bus dingd and be sliss blabreeve.
Speaker 3: Bs thinks about his decision keep waiting or give.
Speaker 1: Up duncite young an audu freeing fear the rope in
Speaker 1: the ray.
Speaker 3: Then he sees Jan, an old friend further down the line.
Speaker 1: Jonzweit Narheim and locht.
Speaker 3: Jan waves at him and laughs, Bey nadar Boss almost there, bah.
Speaker 1: Upte bermuderrand.
Speaker 3: He calls encouragingly.
Speaker 1: It is it's in the simple haut do boss new moutaeft.
Speaker 3: There is something in that simple greeting that gives by
Speaker 3: new courage.
Speaker 1: Missrine says a la mal in the self the boat.
Speaker 3: Maybe they're all in the same boat.
Speaker 1: Miss Srin mark taise if the fields org.
Speaker 3: Maybe he's worrying too much.
Speaker 1: Here saends howders and forte rey stop for stop.
Speaker 3: He straightens his shoulders and follows the line step by.
Speaker 1: Step, dmoutseling hatt lichts out.
Speaker 3: Suddenly the lights go out.
Speaker 1: Then hol f usmortreusrail enchmunpo hat dour de meinert.
Speaker 3: A wave of muffled screams and murmurs goes through the crowd.
Speaker 1: De fray villechurs pourbier de comte de de Bavard.
Speaker 3: The volunteers try to maintain calm.
Speaker 1: E faupt del the nortetis and that's alos doum o
Speaker 1: materer in order.
Speaker 5: De cre.
Speaker 3: Iva calls out that there is still time and they
Speaker 3: are doing everything to restore order.
Speaker 1: Hatis joust of the moment in the bay at d'austanis
Speaker 1: the bass sen beslaut named.
Speaker 3: It's at that moment, in the near darkness, that bie
Speaker 3: S makes his decision.
Speaker 1: Dues an angst opse e manufritna for sir excuser and
Speaker 1: tevel hey forbade the manserribt.
Speaker 3: He pushes his fear aside and maneuvers forward, excusing himself
Speaker 3: as he slips past people.
Speaker 1: Had moment fulled us an awerhead mahei breaketis stembus nitvaaner trichtrietruchkomte.
Speaker 3: The moment feels like an eternity, but he reaches the
Speaker 3: ballot box just as the lights come back.
Speaker 1: Matrillin l'arhonle bucked, busted, stemboliet and stemmed.
Speaker 3: With trembling hands, Bas takes the ballot and votes.
Speaker 1: Hey shirted bapier off a latted in the doors follow.
Speaker 3: He tears off the paper and drops it into the box.
Speaker 1: Zen heart clothed snell mahe fult in enormal oberty.
Speaker 3: His heart beats rapidly, but he feels a huge relief.
Speaker 1: He yave tetraut. He made it when neer heeded himself
Speaker 1: for la market bus d'altrie is rustopt.
Speaker 3: As he leaves the gymnasium, Bis notices that the rain
Speaker 3: has stopped.
Speaker 1: De liecht is fleece and furf listened.
Speaker 3: The air is fresh and refreshing.
Speaker 1: Hey fools if rondert starer.
Speaker 3: He feels changed stronger.
Speaker 1: Zeyn stem heaved ide and dothreave tem and ruful from
Speaker 1: fulduning and trots.
Speaker 3: His vote has been cast, and that gives him a
Speaker 3: sense of satisfaction and pride and.
Speaker 1: Zhou vandled bastur the not a strata from Amsterdam, waiting
Speaker 1: did'ltesen stein kihav bay and metieu FUTRAU is yourself.
Speaker 3: And so Bas walks through the wet streets of Amsterdam,
Speaker 3: knowing he has contributed and with a new confidence in himself.
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: Cluck, cluck, cluck, bells, slam, slam, slam, strike, hast, hast, hast, hurries,
Speaker 1: matri door drink matri door drink, madrid or drinkte, rain, drenched, deleahds, durations, delhends, threatening, steam,
Speaker 1: local steam, local steam, local polling station, yen rey in
Speaker 1: ray in queues, wore, bar, wore, bar, wore, bar, audible, cabal, cabal, cabal,
Speaker 1: clamor drounkens, drookens, drunken, oppressive, flickering, flicker, flickering, flicker, romombo, rumumbo, rumumbo, murmurs,
Speaker 1: sam rebuct de mensimosa, sam rebac de mensimosa, sam rebac
Speaker 1: de mensimosa, packed crowd, adam haling, sneller hat adam haling,
Speaker 1: sneller hat adam haling, sneller hat, breathing, quicken stem stem
Speaker 1: stem ooh, shlimlach, slimlach, shlimlach, smile, huduilt, huduilt, huduilt, patience, shraft, shraft, shraft,
Speaker 1: shuffles at a war height, a war height, eternity, the murderran,
Speaker 1: the murder ran, the murderran.
Speaker 6: Encouragingly, mood, moot, mood, courage, manuflered, maneuvriered, manufliered, maneuvers.
Speaker 1: Exclusierian, excuisierent, Excuisierian, excusing, trillan trilling, trilland trembling, oplifting, oplifting, oplifting.
Speaker 3: Relief, full dooning, full dooning, for doing, satisfaction, truths, truths, truths.
Speaker 1: Pride, freece, freece, freece fresh for freecent for freecent for freecent, refreshing,
Speaker 1: stain ghibet, stain, hibet, stainhibet, contribute.
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