The Red Mountain (Beginner)

《红山》(初学者)

Easy Stories in English

2020-06-09

35 分钟
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Today's episode starts with an important message about the protests. In America. Here are some links: If you do not know where to give, I recommend this fund. It is a bail fund (money to help people get out of prison) for all of America. Here is a list of all the places where you can give money internationally. Here you can get news about what is happening from Black Lives Matter. Here you can find links to resources to educate yourself on racism. #BlackLivesMatter There is a horrible king who loves fighting and killing people. But he is worried that his daughter will marry have a strong child who will come and kill him. So the King puts the Queen and the Princess in a tall tower, so that they cannot get out. But one day, a knight comes to the tower... Today's story is The Red Mountain. Go to EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/RedMountain for the full transcript. Level: Beginner Genre: Myths & Legends New Vocabulary: Protest, Corruption, Brutality, Arrest, Immigrant, Attack, Racism, Theory, Slave, Anti-blackness, Colonialism, Bail money, Funeral, Fight, Heartless, Marry, Prince, Princess, Weak, Tower, Knight, Weapon, Fearless, Look like Setting: Fairytale Word Count: 2084 Author: Beatrice Valleferro If you enjoy the podcast, please consider supporting us on Patreon. For just a few dollars a month you can get extra episodes, conversational podcasts, exercises, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Dear listeners, today I am going to talk about a difficult thing.

  • I have tried to make this language beginner level, but it is very hard.

  • There are many hard words here, but it is an important thing to talk about.

  • So I hope you will listen.

  • You have probably heard about the protests happening in America.

  • A protest is when many people go to one place and talk about a political problem.

  • Problem.

  • For example, maybe there is corruption.

  • There are people in the government, politicians, who are taking money from the people.

  • Thats corruption.

  • And people often go to protests to talk about corruption, to say no to corruption.

  • Well, the protests right now in America are a bit different.

  • They are not about corruption.

  • They are about police brutality.

  • Brutality means killing people, hurting people.

  • In America, the police are killing and they have killed in the past, many, many black people.

  • People are protesting against police brutality, but also people are protesting because there is coronavirus and the government is not giving them food or money.

  • They have nothing to eat, nowhere to live, no job.

  • The government is not helping them, but killing them.

  • So why is there so much police brutality in America?