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Hello my lovely learners and welcome to Easy Stories in English,
the podcast that will take your English from okay to good and from good to great.
I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.
Today's beginner level story is called How the Moon Became Beautiful.
As always,
the transcript and PDF are available at easystoriesinenglish.com and you can find the link in the description.
This story is a Chinese folktale, translated into English by Mary Hayes David and Chao Lung.
But as always, I have rewritten it in my own style.
I'll just start by explaining some words that are in the story.