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Audio listening comprehension Hello guys, Can you please help me to understand these parts that I cut on an audio from NPR News that I don't understand. Here's the link: https://clyp.it/4l0hpv0z This is what I wrote: 00 to 08 - "On a sunny afternoon as to of fire is using a windly rake to turn the coffee being dried in the sun,". 11 to 16 - "run out of space because mountain have some unfortunate properties of being pointed " 19 to 26 - " non-profit coby baillo science. He says coffee plants are fussy, especially the find arabica coffee that American prefer" 30 to 34 - " Of a cool coffee goldilock blond " 36 to 43 - " center of coffee research have developed more than 2 hundred weather stations to better advise farmer and document mic-climate trends” In Brazil" 46 to 53 - " Back on the volcano on San Sebastian farm, …. of fire is looking over some " 55 to 1.00 - " caffeine rich but-bitter robust of ralliers "

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The audio quality makes the clip quite difficult to understand, even for me as a native English speaker. Additionally, there are like two different accents (British and American) and the announcer has a very strong American accent when pronouncing certain names which I assume are Portugese (Estuardo Fayez?), which makes it even more difficult. I've tried my best here (words which I'm not sure of are bracketed in square brackets [ ... ]): 00-08 - "On a sunny afternoon, [Estuardo Fayez] is using a wooden rake to turn the coffee beans drying in the sun [... inaudible]". 11-16 - "... ran out of space because mountains [inaudible] have this unfortunate property of being pointy..." 19-26 - " ...non-profit [inaudible] [could be Bioscience, buyer signs or buyer science]. He says coffee plants are fussy, especially the fine Arabica coffees that Americans prefer" 30-34 - "... often call coffee a Goldilocks plant, who likes it not too hot..." (reference to the children's story Goldilocks; they probably went on to say "not too cold" after the audio got cut off) 36-43 - "... Center of Coffee Research [probably name of a place, so I capitalised it] has developed more than two hundred weather stations to better advise farmers and document climate trends..." 46-53 - "Back on the volcanoes on San Sebastian farm, [Estuardo Fayez] looking over some coffee plants..." 55-1.00 - " ... caffeine-rich but bitter, robuster varieties over the mild, tasty Arabica..." Pretty good job!

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