Ticks and Pest Control What follows below is a transcription of my own spontaneous speech. Let me know if you find something that a native wouldn't say while talking. "So today I had two guys bath my dogs and they warned me that they were spoiled with ticks. This got us really scared because the smaller one, one of those brown ones that dig holes into the ground, the smaller one almost died from ticks very recently. So we definitely had to take them to the doctor, to the veterinary doctor... and then we had to call pest control here. But the pest control guy couldn't find any ticks clinging to the walls, and they're really visible when they're present, they form these black clusters in muddy places, and this sort of thing. And as he couldn't spot any, he said, I'll do the pest control anyway, but there seem to be no ticks over here."

How to use YouTube to enhance your listening comprehension

I've written a tool that maybe will be useful for other learners in this network, so I'd like to share it here.

Currently, It can only run in linux.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJlJhWw_Jz4

 

Transcription Request https://youtu.be/kY8_k8743PI "Joe what are you doing, are you playing "Jack animal quick" (???) too or are you supposed to be getting my thing? Listen, I need my thing now. I don't unders(tand)..."

Please fill in the gaps on this short transcript. Please transcribe what you hear in the video below. It lasts for less than fifteen seconds. https://youtu.be/7dsoEm-UL6w or : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dsoEm-UL6w Dude, do you think the boys are going to come here? Like This is not their hotel, this is some marriott. ( This is what it's like to be single ). It's like low key. And ????? "We're here to see One Direction too, like, sorry."

Please judge my accent http://picosong.com/SF5e/ "I read in a magazine the other day that we spend something like ninety percent of our time not living in the present. Meaning we are always thinking about what we are about to do or what we have already done, rather than thinking about what we are doing right here and now."

Choosing a tie His wrinkled clothes were done down in a jiff after the housekeeper ironed them over the mini ironing board. He knew he would have to get the ball rolling on his new job, so he decided on buying a brand new pink flashy tie. Luckingly, he asked his significant other for sound advice beforehand, and she had not the faintest hint of doubt and settled the matter steadly. - Don't go out on a limb on this one, rather stick to the tried and true black tie.

Dialogue: Mark, Tim and Annie Marie MARK: You better fix the grapple with your girlfriend lest she comes a'calling you names again this time 'round. TIM: I simply can't pull it all together. Try as I might, by somewhat reason, I couldn't take her from being outraged at me. MARK: I, for one, think you should wait for things to wind down. You forgot buying her a dating anniversary gift, so that's fine, 'cause there's a deadline. TIM: There's a deadline? MARK: She can't stay that upset for any more than three hundred sixty five days. TIM: You gotta be kidding me. MARK: Had you heard my advice back when it all started, you'd have learned to cook and now you wouldn't have to buy anything. TIM: Nonsense. So you think raspberry cakes are the fix? MARK: Look, follow me closely, It's just that... Hold on, there she comes. TIM: Here we go. ( ANNIE MARIE enters the room ) ANNIE MARIE: Hi sweetheart, did you say you'll cook me some raspberry cake? TIM: Man, Mark... Now I can see where you are coming from.

Help with pronounciation - American English ( August 25 ) Hello, I recorded the first two paragraphs of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Beautiful and The Damned" on vocaroo: http://picosong.com/uMPW/ If you are a native speaker of American English, I'd be very thankful if you point out any mistakes on my pronunciation that make me sound like I'm a foreign. If you know how to write in IPA ( International Phonetic Alphabet ), do not be afraid to use it. Thank you! "In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual "There!"—yet at the brink of this story he has as yet gone no further than the conscious stage. As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows."

Veganism I'm eating yakinori to keep my vitamin B12 levels high and healthy. This japanese seaweed is one of the best resources of vitamin B12 available, as I'm told by a recent scientific paper published by a Japanese university. By the way, these days I was reading a very funny article about being vegan in China. It showed how people over there cook perfect vegan meals but add a little shrimp over the top or cook it inside some pork broth just to kick it up a notch. So it's like they're almost vegan but still use meat as some sort of sauce. Here in Brazil it's just as hard to be a vegan, as you still must cook everything on your own. However, as there are not many vegan-friendly religions in this country, people give you looks as if you were doing something either otherwordly or altogether unnatural and unhealthy. Brazilians are very keen on meat, specially beef. If you are a native speaker of English, please let me know if you have any corrections to this little text I've just written, or if you find anything that sounds foreign. Thank you!