English Listening Practice - Five a Day #42.1

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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 42,

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

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  I am your fluency guide here to help you to stick to your habit of dunking daily into the English language so that you keep moving forward,

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  keep progressing towards your goals.

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  Keep that fire burning so that over time your voice grows stronger and starts to truly represent who you are.

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  Now my promise to you is that this podcast will always be 100% my voice.

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  No A.I.

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  vocals here.

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  So you keep giving me your human ears and I'll keep giving you my human voice.

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  Deal?

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  Fantastic.

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  Okay, let's begin this week with another dose of fantastic vocabulary, starting with our snapshot.

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  When doctors first discovered that Margaret had Alzheimer's disease,

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  her family felt sadness and hope in equal measure.

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  Sad about her diagnosis.

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  But hopeful that new treatments might help.

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  Unfortunately,

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  medical science cannot yet reverse the damage that this brain condition causes and Margaret's memory loss seemed unstoppable,

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  getting worse each month despite all efforts to slow it down.

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