The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd (Beginner)

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  Welcome to easy stories in English, the podcast that will take your English from ok to good and from good to great.

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  I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.

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  Today's story is for beginners.

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  The name of the story is the weaver girl and the cowherd.

• 00:22

  You can find a transcript of the episode@easystoriesinenglish.com cow that's easystoriesinenglish.com cow cow.

• 00:37

  This contains the full story as well as my conversation before it.

• 00:43

  Today's story is from chinese mythology.

• 00:48

  Actually, there are lots of interesting chinese myths.

• 00:53

  I studied Chinese for a year and I think the myths from China are really interesting.

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  This one is very sad but also very beautiful.

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  I actually want to start studying Chinese again at some point, but at the moment I am focusing on Spanish and French because sometimes I teach Spanish and French.

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  Okay, so I will just talk about some words in the story we've w e a v e is a verb and the past tense is wove.

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  W o v e.

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  Weave means to put together pieces of thread to make fabric.

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  For example, to make silk, you have to put lots of threads together.

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  After you weave fabric, you can then make clothes, but you have to weave it first.

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  Nowadays, all weaving is done on machines, so people don't have to weave themselves.

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  But in the past, people had to weave.

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  People wove and it took a lot of time and effort.

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  Cowherd.

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