English Listening Practice - Five a Day #34.1

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  Hello and welcome to the English Like a Native podcast.

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  My name is Anna and you're listening to week 34,

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  day one of your English Fiver Day, the second season.

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  This is the podcast that's on a mission to expand your vocabulary,

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  improve your listening skills and to help you to feel more like yourself when communicating.

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  in English.

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  We don't need perfection but we are aiming for fluency so stick with me.

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  I'm here every day of the working week and you will make progress.

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  So let's begin today's episode as we often do with a snapshot of what's to come.

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  Motherhood is rewarding, sure, but it's also full of cruel twists,

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  like leaving you with a bladder that waves the white flag far sooner than it used to.

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  Desperate to relieve myself yet clinging to my dignity,

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  I could only watch as my toddler sauntered over to a tree and enjoyed the freedom of a wild wee without a care in the world,

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  clearly teasing me.

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  while nobody else so much as batted an eyelid.

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  Let's dive into that vocabulary then, starting with the idiom.

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  Court short.

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  Court short.

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  Court C-A-U-G-H-T.

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  Short S-H-O-R-T.

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