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Speaker 3: In this episode, we'll journey through the fierce Arctic tundra
Speaker 3: alongside Martis and his companions, uncovering not just scientific discoveries,
Speaker 3: but the profound power of human connection against nature's fury.
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Speaker 1: Alvenshu la bamforsa, mintra, martia, vincenda alco iter al tarceedia,
Speaker 1: d la sevas, padisio, ala, tundratica, il paz only menzi
Speaker 1: and sala lava not an infinal. All sells companje, nuria,
Speaker 1: mark a, staban utan, tambay and balfret intents from rostras,
Speaker 1: the cidits martira, unimbastigado da dicat al kap ple, theespirasions,
Speaker 1: cankara a villa puud complete, puta, travallan do as paran
Speaker 1: feund the skubrimen kalid rauhamen, lava, pusturaada la villa mantingud aunt,
Speaker 1: the nuria, mark compans and lavantura pron carada, scuna goods,
Speaker 1: al kampamen era, buddest composed, parunas quanta stend as, the
Speaker 1: campania ben fixed as altergalad e achipsi and ti fixes
Speaker 1: campat ki lad all sells a staban grizzus passans la
Speaker 1: prumeza douna tempesta caveat as material i zaiat martis a
Speaker 1: villa collexi dallas Dapania, dun travail minucius pro jasa and
Speaker 1: ti assault alpesta lasa spirasions no complerta's liu premial core
Speaker 1: mentra rabizaba als instruments alvenkum saba jarsa anuncian larvada dun
Speaker 1: tampural imminen nur ya and balzuis brilliants il sumba sota
Speaker 1: la caapapula ba pro parsa marti nesassite mastapraparats not to
Speaker 1: them perdra totam balven baddi asenel and alcella negrit marty
Speaker 1: bas and t saven cataniero pro la tempesta adin sela
Speaker 1: calparaid zaba mark unmadaxio justtaban and balzan kurajia just d
Speaker 1: la stenders binga Marti to them ambasha bax klama la
Speaker 1: vel ferma comal zel sota al pels era al mumend
Speaker 1: pendra una da sizio ti baraspirafons the cid in kera
Speaker 1: or ra dada shada van dalas bardas cavilla is it
Speaker 1: las coundision zas turnavenn in suputaplas la lum nimban rapidamen sota,
Speaker 1: al bla, navad caukubriatot juns, altriuvasaguralas dadas e als campings
Speaker 1: and diligencia marti bata forza and al suskulegas anakya kunaxio
Speaker 1: manna cavilla ta muta rasa alven buffa a furia pro
Speaker 1: al kampamen barrasies ti rasias alas fors kunjun alparilla villa
Speaker 1: pasad e and alceensi cavavanidas press da la tempesta bananaravizan
Speaker 1: las dada zamcura ibase e ya and terrisas aphoricas is
Speaker 1: jestus da sala vrazio cavan bero una dada significaba unda
Speaker 1: skubrimenka parsisol martin no auria trubat ambun sus m marti
Speaker 1: basumbral SEUs compange finale men antonia, cala la rakumpenza nora
Speaker 1: and lexit sulitari sino and la la rilla coumpartida alven
Speaker 1: aracantaba una nova Maldia, mess Dolza, Mentra, Marti, Nuriya Mark,
Speaker 1: miraven juns alvast j latur Rizzo la kipa villa triunfat
Speaker 1: van la tempesta, sam vans Musca, Martia villa kunstuit Albultanseo.
Speaker 3: Let's take another listen. Listen closely to any parts you
Speaker 3: may have missed.
Speaker 1: Alven shu la vam force Manra martis a gustava la
Speaker 1: seufan da ven snida al call.
Speaker 3: The wind held fiercely as Marti tightened his scarf snugly
Speaker 3: around his neck.
Speaker 1: He al tar seda the la seva spadicio a la
Speaker 1: tundra artica i al paiza only mensi and so al
Speaker 1: blanca sam lava no tanni final.
Speaker 3: It was the third day of his expedition to the
Speaker 3: Arctic tundra, and the landscape was an immense white sheet
Speaker 3: that seemed endless.
Speaker 1: Al silus coompange, Nurie marc astaban luten tambem balfret intense
Speaker 1: from rostres da SidD.
Speaker 3: His companions Nuria and Mark were also battling the intense cold,
Speaker 3: but with determined faces.
Speaker 1: Marti he ra unimbarstilla do da di cad al caple,
Speaker 1: the spiraciuns cancarin no a billa purut coomplit.
Speaker 3: Mardi was a dedicated researcher, his head full of aspirations
Speaker 3: he had yet to fulfill.
Speaker 1: Pultavtravallendu asparan feund scubrimen kalidunra gun chemin.
Speaker 3: He had spent years working hard, hoping to make a
Speaker 3: discovery that would earn him recognition.
Speaker 1: La Siva poustura, la villa mantingutu Nuria marc companchen, Lavantura,
Speaker 1: broncarada scuna guts.
Speaker 3: His reserved nature had kept him distant from Nuria and
Speaker 3: mark companions in the adventure, but still strangers.
Speaker 1: Al campamen eramuddest compost parunas quantaestindas the campagna vin fixajat
Speaker 1: ee gipsi and tifixus campadze qui yelat.
Speaker 3: The camp was modest, consisting of a few tents firmly
Speaker 3: secured to the frozen ground, and scientific equipment scattered here
Speaker 3: and there, all.
Speaker 1: Sells a stavangrizus, pazanza, la prumeza duna tampesta caveat as matariiet.
Speaker 3: The skies were gray heavy with the promise of a
Speaker 3: storm that would soon materialize.
Speaker 1: Martis s Avilla calexi de la situsio da panilla dun
Speaker 1: travl Minucius.
Speaker 3: Martin knew that the success of the situation depended on
Speaker 3: meticulous work.
Speaker 1: Prosa san tia saul alpes de la zespiraciens no kumplertes
Speaker 1: liu primi al cor.
Speaker 3: But he felt alone, the weight of unfulfilled aspirations pressing
Speaker 3: on his heart.
Speaker 1: Mintre ravizaba al zins trumenz alven kumn saba jitarsa anuncian
Speaker 1: la rivada dun tampurl i Minin.
Speaker 3: As he checked the instruments, the wind began to stir,
Speaker 3: heralding the arrival of an imminent storm.
Speaker 1: Nuria Ambalzuiz brillians I al Sumbria sta la capa pula
Speaker 1: ba pru parsa.
Speaker 3: Nuria, with bright eyes and a smile beneath her polar layer, approached.
Speaker 1: Martis necessitem masta.
Speaker 3: Bra barats Martis. We need to be prepared.
Speaker 1: No pu dem perdra to them. Baldwin badi arsennelan al
Speaker 1: sella nedrit.
Speaker 3: We can't lose everything to the wind, she said, pointing
Speaker 3: to the darkened sky.
Speaker 1: Marti ba centi seven catanierro proa la tempesta din seu
Speaker 1: la calparlidzava.
Speaker 3: Martin nodded, knowing she was right, but it was the
Speaker 3: storm within him that paralyzed him.
Speaker 1: Mark Una madaxieu gesta valluitanam balzen courages la la stendes.
Speaker 3: Mark A man of action, was already grappling with the
Speaker 3: tent anchors.
Speaker 1: Binga, Marti pude mambascho.
Speaker 3: Come on, Marti, we can do this.
Speaker 1: Bacs clama la vel ferma comal giel sota al sus pels.
Speaker 3: He exclaimed, his voice, as firm as the ice beneath
Speaker 3: their feet.
Speaker 1: Ira al moumind pendra una de siziu. It was time
Speaker 1: to make a decision, Marti, baraspira fonds the sidin kera
Speaker 1: or rada the sha da van dalas bardas cavilla rigit.
Speaker 1: Marty took a deep breath, deciding it was time to
Speaker 1: put aside the barriers he had erected. Las coundision zastur
Speaker 1: navenin suputaplas la lum nimban rapi da men sota la
Speaker 1: navadco kubrietu.
Speaker 3: The conditions became unbearable. The light fading rapidly under the
Speaker 3: snowy white covering everything.
Speaker 1: Junes altriuvasa ruralas dadas eels camping sam diligentsia.
Speaker 3: Together the trio secured the data and the camps with diligence.
Speaker 1: Marti bartruva forsa nusus coulegas anakeya kunnaxio manna caville ta mutasa.
Speaker 3: Marty found strength in his colleagues, in that human can
Speaker 3: he had feared to embrace.
Speaker 1: Alven buffaba mfouria pral kampamen barrasisti gracias alas forskunjun.
Speaker 3: The wind blew furiously, but the camp endured thanks to
Speaker 3: their joint effort.
Speaker 1: Alparilla billa basad e and alciensi cavaida spresa la tempesta
Speaker 1: banannara vizan las da da zamcura.
Speaker 3: The danger had passed, and in the silence that followed
Speaker 3: the storm, they carefully reviewed the data.
Speaker 1: Ibasel ya intra riseazoforicas jestusda sala bracio cavan.
Speaker 3: Veo, And it was there, amidst euphoric laughter and celebratory gestures,
Speaker 3: that they saw it.
Speaker 1: Una da da significaba unda Scubrimenka Parsisol Martin no Ria Trubat.
Speaker 3: A significant piece of data, a discovery that Mardi would
Speaker 3: not have found on his own.
Speaker 1: Ambun suspir de la jamen Marti vasumbri al SEUs compage.
Speaker 3: With a sigh of relief, Martis smiled at his companions.
Speaker 1: Finale min Antonia, Calavarita la Racumpensa Nora and Lexitsulitari sinan
Speaker 1: la la grilla Kumpartida.
Speaker 3: He finally understood that the true reward was not in
Speaker 3: solitary success, but in shared joy.
Speaker 1: Alvenna Cantava, Una Nova Maldia, Missdolza, Mintra, Marti, Nuria, mar
Speaker 1: miraven junzal vast Jela Trurrizzo.
Speaker 3: The wind now sang a new sweeter melody as Marti, Nuria,
Speaker 3: and Mark gazed together at the vast i see horizon la.
Speaker 1: Quipa villa triumphads van la tempesta sin tam Veda van
Speaker 1: als Muska, Martia Villa kunstruit Albulta and sue.
Speaker 3: The team had triumphed not only over the storm, but
Speaker 3: also over the walls Mardi had built around 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 Catalan, then in English.
Speaker 1: Alvin Alvin, Alvin, the wind shoe, lava shoe, lava shoe, lava,
Speaker 1: howld umphorsa, amphorsa, mphorsa, fiercely, binceenida, binceenida, bin senyeeda, snugly,
Speaker 1: La bufanda, La bufanda, la bufanda. The scarf lux padisioux,
Speaker 1: lux padisiou, lux padisiou, the expedition latundra, latundra, la tundra,
Speaker 1: the tundra, immense, immense, immense, immense, al scompanche, al scoompanche,
Speaker 1: all scoompanne, The companions thed caat, thead caat, the de caat, dedicated, Lasaspidracians, lasaspidracians, lasaspiracions,
Speaker 1: the aspirations. Complert, complert, coumplert fulfilled, al racuona chamin al raguna,
Speaker 1: chamin al racun chamen, the recognition, Reservada reservada, the reservada reserved, als,
Speaker 1: dascunagots als, dascunagots als, dascuna hoots, the strangers, I'll campamin,
Speaker 1: I'll compamin, I'll campamin. The camp as campats as caampats
Speaker 1: as campats scattered, all cells, all cells, als cells, the skies, Tampesta, Tampesta,
Speaker 1: Tempesta storm minusius minusius, minusios meticulous, al zinstruments, al zinstruments,
Speaker 1: al zins truments, the instruments, agitarsa, agitarza, agitarza, stir La Kappa,
Speaker 1: La Kappa, La Kappa. The layer a negrit a negrit a,
Speaker 1: nagrit turkeneduitan, the Uitan Youuitan grappling, al zankuragas, al zankuragas,
Speaker 1: al zankuragas, the anchors in suputaplas in supu tablas in
Speaker 1: supportaplas unbearable, dilegenzia delegienzia di gienzia, diligence, gunnuxio umana, gunuxiomana,
Speaker 1: gunnuxio umana. Human connection, Oh florikus, oh florikus, oh florikus euphoric.
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