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Speaker 1: In this episode, we'll unravel a heartwarming tale of unexpected
Speaker 1: connections and untold love amidst the bustling backdrop of Amsterdam's
Speaker 1: Central Station, leading to a new Year's revelation.
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Speaker 1: In nicaud.
Speaker 4: Revel from Central session at Las Ilo frichtrenklam Echinger Pause
Speaker 4: passageers before the snell who covers rattland over the stain
Speaker 4: and floor, flag bay and bunkie Gravanna in sendachte feel
Speaker 4: zen op it bisunders an Enricht liftsbrief necheus Obervauer hinsted
Speaker 4: and from Hope in etzachtlicht thunder this a fag for
Speaker 4: Laura full the indas rot stud cannot kneed ladder around
Speaker 4: the snuffle tounhead opetroc fool the hay en warmer route
Speaker 4: in the border the brief Fortelda overlived deep and obrecht
Speaker 4: mark oak over a stunt and lama Erstondchenam of the
Speaker 4: envelope hain anvaising from vit com a for viad badultas
Speaker 4: to ragt at Zenhardt met the brief in senjos sak
Speaker 4: Bon Sander and afontur to the barons and raiserers miss
Speaker 4: srin Darte, I'll say the save for convinde sah it's
Speaker 4: behave over sen egg for lama Emma. They lived zover
Speaker 4: verhim Brussel. Then under zuk laid the hemner Lucas a
Speaker 4: young a man dishnder srede in the manse massa at
Speaker 4: senno fallen the blauermuds Lucas was nettob vena at peron
Speaker 4: to Sandra Hemzach. The clock ticked the bay and at
Speaker 4: twelve fur fur work stoped op a punt delte fre
Speaker 4: lichte fall for longer bernarda de sunder Lucas haf two
Speaker 4: days a brief slave forge for zichtre the wor the
Speaker 4: nor Fries in the Lucas candidate traditi ma alta rut
Speaker 4: hel him lacht and fratldo over leave this brief of
Speaker 4: sounder address and wanted from still A forbidding to surframe
Speaker 4: the tidents the face dark dint on sunder no de
Speaker 4: luketfol furware cake fool the hay and thoundering metse mobile
Speaker 4: in the hunt bell the hey Emma zayin stem was
Speaker 4: warm door dormo von alla kfulens the herd us stopped
Speaker 4: Lucu new yar emma ike mischie mire don yewit sunder leer,
Speaker 4: the dot of stones knead on over coma la quass
Speaker 4: doors and hard to open fonte need Alain Lucas boat
Speaker 4: shop mar oak, the mood on dichter be emma to
Speaker 4: coma hay beseft, the dot for bonding, hate k need
Speaker 4: altate and questiv abe haities marvrom open hat and intensity
Speaker 4: dot yar on the the strall and the lichte from
Speaker 4: Amsterdam on that thesunder dot I annoyed echt alaineos.
Speaker 1: Let's take another listen. Listen closely to any part you
Speaker 1: may have missed in the.
Speaker 4: Code Lucht from Amsterdam, ob Audier's avant de jovelve de
Speaker 4: platforms from the Central Stashum.
Speaker 1: In the cold air of Amsterdam on New Year's Eve,
Speaker 1: she understood Beneath the high vaulted ceilings of the Central stachon.
Speaker 4: Head closs in loads hitter, the frichte train a clam
Speaker 4: echinger zunderbaus.
Speaker 1: The stained glass sparkled illuminated trains came and went without pause.
Speaker 4: Passa years before snell hunkoffers ratlent over the stain and flour.
Speaker 1: Passengers moved quickly, their suitcases rattling over the stone floor.
Speaker 4: Flag bay and bunchie vanga inz redachte fielzen oop itch
Speaker 4: bi zunders an enricht LICHTSBRIEFI nechus o profau instudent from
Speaker 4: home in itzchtricht.
Speaker 1: Close to a bench, Lost in his thoughts, his eye
Speaker 1: caught something special, an unaddressed love note, neatly folded and
Speaker 1: glistening with hope in the soft light.
Speaker 4: Thunder de si fact flora fool the inde saho to stop,
Speaker 4: call it neat lad around to snuffle.
Speaker 1: Schunder, who often felt lost in this big city, couldn't
Speaker 1: resist taking a look dunhit o petroc fool de hay
Speaker 1: and warm gute in de Voorde. As he opened it,
Speaker 1: he felt a warm glow in the words.
Speaker 4: De brief foretel de o reliefte deep en obrecht mar
Speaker 4: ok o, for off stumpt and forlum.
Speaker 1: The letter spoke of love, deep and sincere, but also
Speaker 1: of distance and longing.
Speaker 4: Er stulte nam up de enfilop hain am thezing fermvie
Speaker 4: it come o four vi it badultos.
Speaker 1: There was no name on the envelope. No clue as
Speaker 1: to who it came from or for whom it was
Speaker 1: intended Torraktehitzenhart, yet it touched his heart. Mete debrief in.
Speaker 4: Zeen jos sak bahon son len alfontuur tisshublons eliseehers.
Speaker 1: With the letter in his coat pocket, Saunder embarked on
Speaker 1: an adventure between platforms and travelers.
Speaker 4: Miss hin d'artae alse de say for confinde chauhey it's
Speaker 4: buhey p o for sen eh for longa nore Emma
Speaker 4: jeh lifte zhou fe vehim Brussel.
Speaker 1: Perhaps he thought if he could find the writer, he
Speaker 1: would understand something about his own longing for Emma, his
Speaker 1: love so far away in Brussels.
Speaker 4: Zen und zuk lay dehem Marlucos and you a man
Speaker 4: di si under seed in the mensemossin etzeno fallen de Blaumutes.
Speaker 1: His search led him to Lucash, a young man who
Speaker 1: stood out in the crowd with his striking blue hat.
Speaker 4: Lucas vas Neto ven bon toun Saint Lahemza.
Speaker 1: Lukash was just heading to the platform when Schunder saw him.
Speaker 4: The clock tikteby Natalfur furwerg stnto punt te frerichte.
Speaker 1: The clock was tacking close to midnight. Fireworks were about
Speaker 1: to light up the sky full for Lama Bernada de
Speaker 1: son Le Lucas full of longing, Shunder approached Lucas haf.
Speaker 4: Tudezebriefev, did you write this letter fura forzichtre devor de
Speaker 4: nor fries.
Speaker 1: Zere, He asked, cautiously, the words still fresh in his memory.
Speaker 1: Lucas kendid tradici mar al trout. Lucash knew the tradition
Speaker 1: all too well.
Speaker 4: Her him lachte and foretell the ofer liftus brief of
Speaker 4: zundla adress bel rouvon de fon still a forbidding to
Speaker 4: surframe de taide in Stefface Daches.
Speaker 1: He smiled and told about leaftish briefing jonder adresh, a
Speaker 1: tradition of silent connection between strangers during the holidays.
Speaker 4: Di nocht tun som lenard de l'hte foul furwer cake
Speaker 4: fool the hay infirm ring.
Speaker 1: That night, as Schunder looked up at the sky full
Speaker 1: of fireworks, he felt a change. Met Sein mobile in
Speaker 1: the haunt Bel de haye Emma with his phone in hand,
Speaker 1: he called Emma zein stembos warm door domovon o la
Speaker 1: rufulens de helt uestopt. His voice was warm, filled with
Speaker 1: all the feelings he had kept hidden. Rulucu nuyer Emma,
Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Emma, Ike mischie I miss you mere
Speaker 1: da yevet more than you know.
Speaker 4: Sunder lir de delt offstant neat uno for comme lecvos.
Speaker 1: Schunder learned that distance was not insurmountable.
Speaker 4: Doorzen hartopen fonte nit ala Leucas boats rop mar o
Speaker 4: de mout und dichterbe Emma to come.
Speaker 1: By opening his heart, he found not only leucas message,
Speaker 1: but also the courage to get closer to Emma.
Speaker 4: Hey besift dot for bundleenheite neat altet and christifon na
Speaker 4: be haties marvon open hate and intensi.
Speaker 1: He realized that connectedness is not always a matter of proximity,
Speaker 1: but of openness and intention.
Speaker 4: D'ht yar on la d'estre de liechtevon Amsterdam, dick somdler
Speaker 4: deltaenoid e a laine loss.
Speaker 1: That year, under the radiant lights of Amsterdam, Saunder discovered
Speaker 1: that he was never truly alone.
Speaker 2: Today's vocabulary words are coming up right after this commercial break.
Speaker 2: Here are today's vocabulary words, first in Dutch, then in English.
Speaker 1: Velfd, velf develft, vaulted, closs in load, closs in load,
Speaker 1: closs in load, stained glass, swritterde sritterde swritterde sparkled, goul force,
Speaker 1: goul force, goul force, suitcases, ratlan ratolent, ratlent, bladder, the bladder,
Speaker 1: the bladder, the glancing, unricht, unricht, unricht, unaddressed, o provo
Speaker 1: o provauen.
Speaker 4: Folded, clinstruent, clinstrent, clinstrent, luminous off, stumped off, stumped off, storrent,
Speaker 4: distance for longer, for longer, for longer, longing, the duelt,
Speaker 4: the dult, the duelt, intended, bahum, bahum, bahum, embarked, peruns, peruns, peruns,
Speaker 4: platforms fallen, the op follen, the op fallen, the striking benather,
Speaker 4: the benather, then.
Speaker 1: The approached for.
Speaker 4: For zicht, for zicht cautiously traditi traditici tradit si tradition
Speaker 4: for binding for binding, for binding, connection, nabe hate, nabe hate,
Speaker 4: nabe hate, proximity, open hate, open hate, open hate, openness.
Speaker 1: Intensity, intensity, intensey intention, Strallander, Strallander, stralland radiant on over
Speaker 1: come Look on over come look on over coma look,
Speaker 1: insurmountable envelope, envelope, envelope.
Speaker 4: Envelope twelve twelve more twelve Midnight for rendering for for undering,
Speaker 4: Change Moot, Moot, Moot, Courage for Bundleenhete, for Bunlenhete, for Bouldenhete, Connectedness, Cleanstruent, Cleanstudent, Cleanstent, luminous.
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