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Speaker 2: In this episode, we'll unravel a mysterious letter that leads
Speaker 2: siblings on a captivating journey through Amsterdam, uncovering family secrets
Speaker 2: that deepen their bond and reshape their future.
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Speaker 5: claimed apartment, that seedel the met harbor broom bloom sat
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Speaker 5: samles So opened the brief and the taffo the wor
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Speaker 5: Alexayne zee for sifter. My lotter was all overtout. The
Speaker 5: aphant taweled the navel over the studdying ringus opsuk Lotter
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Speaker 5: and Brohm met.
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Speaker 5: ambas in outer brief and clame a bane out hurt.
Speaker 5: The bond headwas for Volor marr Hingen framed the ant
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Speaker 5: doors benning in lah photos and breathe on unfamili lid
Speaker 5: pars annoyed from hadehart an overhawled father the nar needeland
Speaker 5: was recoma and sirhin the kunst wild from Amsterdam, Hottree,
Speaker 5: infestiered s braught, the eudor in disoulder lastened and behapened
Speaker 5: el caparhina on hul demere over hunfelde bidors el car
Speaker 5: and unroushidinis better behave.
Speaker 2: Hadraheim fan hunfamili bond Hafen and deeper.
Speaker 5: Bership from hun identitate and at ain't from the dogs
Speaker 5: of latonast blum up the zolderflour harhand stafor for bonlemeti,
Speaker 5: but don't that you may bend Tracoma, says zacht Teveld
Speaker 5: Zunastralla unvegner benifunda dord fouler Rama had spayed medotic twafold
Speaker 5: entod de brum jahod leg some mysteries. Send wart on
Speaker 5: Ondeck toward hunzuktoch had nit alainen for both for half
Speaker 5: on whom family untilt ma ok the forbidding to snunfur
Speaker 5: stirkt lot of fool as yourself for zacred there done
Speaker 5: outefor hood wait in the varsavon dam coom and claire
Speaker 5: on the Vero, Tramute, Trade and brum Hai lead the
Speaker 5: mysteries to m Arma and Saint Suster for Trauer, zoukied
Speaker 5: as a Housewartz to Freida and fall for hal.
Speaker 2: Let's take another listen. Listen closely to any part you
Speaker 2: may have missed.
Speaker 5: Up amster ochtend in the Zohmer dvou the lota over
Speaker 5: the Rechte from Amsterdam.
Speaker 2: On a misty morning in the summer, Latte wandered along
Speaker 2: the canals of Amsterdam.
Speaker 5: De luchtwas varm umlangs the navel and the smallest stags
Speaker 5: Lake Afourheim.
Speaker 2: The air was warm despite the fog, and the narrow
Speaker 2: alleys seemed full of secrets.
Speaker 5: Lota fool desig alante chia forlor in high leave.
Speaker 2: Also so sukwas NAIs my neat prosis vistwat. Latte had
Speaker 2: been feeling lost in her life for a while, as
Speaker 2: if she were searching for something but didn't know exactly what.
Speaker 2: Fonda hatsi it's Bizumda's m u fem zinbrief Zumda of Sinder.
Speaker 2: Today she had received something special, a mysterious letter without
Speaker 2: a sender.
Speaker 5: Sat grief unhopened Inhartos rostog to opprovnd onmemdelo Straatelise.
Speaker 2: She had put the unopened letter in her bag, too
Speaker 2: excited to read it in the middle of the street.
Speaker 5: Serende in our house encline appartment deld seedil de matarbour Brum.
Speaker 2: She ran home to a small apartment she shared with
Speaker 2: her brother Brahm Blum sat Al and the gur kutafel
Speaker 2: for deeped in um Bouque. Bram was already at the
Speaker 2: kitchen table, absorbed in a book.
Speaker 5: Hey haltrey sestrip inzenhar uvel hey bas de'rtreros.
Speaker 2: He had gray streaks in his hair, though he was
Speaker 2: only thirty. Zeen bautisee de vos colm marzen o fri
Speaker 2: de bossoortete sou dra he lotebinis our storm. His exterior
Speaker 2: was calm, but his eyes revealed concern. As soon as
Speaker 2: he saw Latte burst in what iSER and de hans,
Speaker 2: what's going on?
Speaker 5: Fourtee te vel heysembril op sin houf doud.
Speaker 2: He asked, pushing his glasses up onto his head.
Speaker 5: Lot a howl the de brief de force reyne and
Speaker 5: yield him beswm.
Speaker 2: Latte produced the letter and held it up as if
Speaker 2: casting a spell. Did jze enfaud this, she said, simply
Speaker 2: the mutine at Saint Malaise. We need to read it together.
Speaker 2: Su opened the debrief and the tafel. They opened the
Speaker 2: letter at the table devour de var remiste yeus and
Speaker 2: Ferva sen Narenhaus, beaying on the gains deal from the Herte.
Speaker 2: The words were mysterious and referred to a house in
Speaker 2: an unknown part of the canals.
Speaker 5: Each over once family give anatvet monto de Lotte har
Speaker 5: o hus hitted if ammuse here in.
Speaker 2: Height something about our family that we don't know, muttered Latte,
Speaker 2: her eyes shining with curiosity. Blum cake Besort Bram looked concerned.
Speaker 2: Did conravarle sayn sey he forzicht This could be dangerous,
Speaker 2: he said cautiously, my Lotte voss al over teut. But
Speaker 2: lat was already convinced.
Speaker 5: The afant deevel the naful of for is starting hing
Speaker 5: is opsuk.
Speaker 2: That evening, as the mist hung over the city, they
Speaker 2: went in search.
Speaker 5: Lotemet avon the twinkling in her oh M brammetorte usin
Speaker 5: Marie vildes Ansius neet a la.
Speaker 2: Latahm Latte with an excited twinkle in her eyes, and
Speaker 2: Brahm with some reluctance, but he didn't want his sister
Speaker 2: to go alone.
Speaker 5: Suffult de Ambe signer out to brief and clam a
Speaker 5: bay in autretebons.
Speaker 2: They followed the instructions from the letter and came to
Speaker 2: an old canal house hetros forervola myrchingen framed amtrechings cart fanaut.
Speaker 2: It was dilapidated, but there was a strange allure to it.
Speaker 2: Suffon de lu Forborgdeur delayed an alensolderful stu frikiste endo qumente.
Speaker 2: They found a hidden door that led to an attic
Speaker 2: full of dusty boxes and documents. Met Klopund's heart open
Speaker 2: ends and auDA dos with pounding hearts. They opened an
Speaker 2: old box.
Speaker 5: Been inn in la he photos and brief from unfamililate
Speaker 5: bar snoyed from Hodehart an Ovajot father the Ninedeland Pasrucom
Speaker 5: and Sirrin de Kunstfield from Amsterdam hattre investiered.
Speaker 2: Inside were photos and letters from a family member they
Speaker 2: had never heard of, a great grandfather who had come
Speaker 2: to the Netherlands and invested himself in the art world
Speaker 2: of Amsterdam schebra to urodor in the zolder litened emberhaebened.
Speaker 2: They spent hours in that attic reading and understanding.
Speaker 5: El caparina unto de mere ov unfrilde bardorsa el car
Speaker 5: en urousidines baitbe.
Speaker 2: Each page revealed more about their past, helping them understand
Speaker 2: each other and their history better.
Speaker 5: Hadraim fanunfamili bond hafunun deeper buship for unidentidad.
Speaker 2: The secret of their family bond gave them a deeper
Speaker 2: understanding of their identity. And it ain't from the dar
Speaker 2: sat lottanast blum o the zoldafleur harhan stay for bu
Speaker 2: limiti zayne. At the end of the day, Latte sat
Speaker 2: next to Brahm on the attic floor, her hand firmly
Speaker 2: linked with his. Dunte that you may bend tricom say
Speaker 2: szart de vel do zulna straala unvechner benifum l d'Or
Speaker 2: de feud ram. Thank you for coming with me, she
Speaker 2: said softly. As sunbeams found their way in through the
Speaker 2: dirty windows.
Speaker 5: Head speed Medeltte waifuled entour de brum.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I doubt it, replied, Brahm.
Speaker 5: Jerhotreleig so mysteres senet vart undiktevorde.
Speaker 2: You were right. Some mysteries are worth discovering.
Speaker 5: Hunzukto radnit a layin and forborte for halfrom unfamili untilt
Speaker 5: mar ok to forbidding tison and for start.
Speaker 2: Their quest had revealed not only a hidden story of
Speaker 2: their family, but had also strengthened the connection between them.
Speaker 5: Lotta fooldes itself for zacreder dom outefor jutveit in de
Speaker 5: varsha fon dame come and Claire und de viro tomute trade.
Speaker 2: Latte felt more confident than ever, knowing where she came
Speaker 2: from and ready to face the world.
Speaker 5: M brum hall de mysteriis arm and Saint Zeuste fertrau.
Speaker 2: And Brahm he learned to embrace mysteries and trust his
Speaker 2: sister Zulkid is a house art to fred In ful fral.
Speaker 2: Thus they returned home content and full of stories.
Speaker 3: Today's vocabulary words are coming up right after this commercial break.
Speaker 3: Here are today's vocabulary words, first in Dutch, then in English.
Speaker 2: Mister, mister, mister misty Hochte hochte, hochte canals duvalde, duvalde, duvald,
Speaker 2: wondered stepheus, stepheus, stepheus ali, unopened, unhopened, unopened, unopened for
Speaker 2: deeped for deep, for deep, absorbed.
Speaker 5: Bout inside bout, inside bout inside, exterior, bersort height, bersort height,
Speaker 5: bersort height, concern twinkling, twinkling, twinkling, twinkling, daphen zene, daphen zene,
Speaker 5: daphen zene, reluctant and trekings cart and trekings caught and
Speaker 5: trekings cart.
Speaker 2: Allure for valor, for volor, for valor, dilapidated, for bor,
Speaker 2: for boor for bor hidden, zolder zolder zolder addic clopend
Speaker 2: heart clopend, heart clopen, heart pounding heart on tilde ontold
Speaker 2: on hilde revealed, Identitate, identitate, identitate, identity for starked for
Speaker 2: starkt for starkt strengthened for bundle, for bundle, for bundle connected.
Speaker 5: Zstrale zon nostralle zstrale sunbeams oh Marman, oh Marman, oh Marman.
Speaker 5: Embrace Zuchtort, zuchtort, zuchtort quest kunstworldt kunstwraalt Kunstworld, Art World,
Speaker 5: the Investiate, the Investiered, the investiart Invested, Bsort, Bersort, Concerned, Beisveen, Beisvihen, Beshvelan, Bewitchingly, brill, Brill, brill.
Speaker 2: Spectacmameham Secrets, Mumfolde, Mumfolde, Mumfolde, muttered for deeped for deep,
Speaker 2: for deep, delved.
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