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Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

0594 Daily Easy English Lesson PODCAST—a hollow victory

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Self-improvement, Language Learning, Education

4.7812 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2016

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

TGIF!!! VICTORY!!! Yes, we all love victory. Any victory is good, right? Well, yeah! But...there is one type of victory that is good, but it's just not excellent. And, probably, we have all had that kind of victory~ My mom planned a picnic for the weekend. I told her, "I think it's going to rain!" She said, "No!" Well, on the weekend it rained! I won!! But...the picnic was ruined~ How can we describe THAT kind of victory?!! Check out today's podcast^^ Have a super day, Coach Shane Today's English expression and dialog: a hollow victory Germany killed Brazil in the World Cup. Yeah, but it was a hollow victory. How so? It was awesome! Yeah, but Brazil was without their number one player~ Subscribe on iTunes and get this English podcast EVERY DAY! PLEASE support my sponsors: www.letsmasterenglish.com/free www.audibletrial.com/lme (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) Study English, FREE ENGLISH LESSONS, on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/DailyEasyEnglish Support the Let's Master English team! On PayPal: Send to parmyproductions@gmail.com Or you can go here: www.patreon.com/coachshane Today's Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST is UP and READY for YOU!! #LME #LearnEnglish #ESL

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0:00.0

Hello everybody. My name is Coach Shane and welcome to Easy English Expressions. Come on, let's master English.

0:14.8

Hello everybody. Welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression, the podcast.

0:21.4

Once again, we are looking for people interested in our new English class.

0:29.2

It's called Action English, and you have a chance to join our class for free.

0:39.2

For one lesson, I want you to listen to yesterday's podcast.

0:44.8

What number was that?

0:46.9

593.

0:47.7

Listen to podcast 593.

0:49.7

At the end, I give you all the information.

0:52.3

Check that out.

0:53.6

We are looking for participants to help us

0:58.4

test out a new class. Okay, today's expression is a good one. A hollow victory. Hollow, H-O-L-L-O-W.

1:09.2

Victory, I won. Victory, V-I-C-T-O-R-Y. So victory, everybody knows victory winning.

1:16.9

Victory is great. But what is hollow? H-O-L-L-O-W. H-O-L-W. H-O-L-O-W.

1:25.3

So you can think of a tree outside my house. There's a tree. It's a very healthy tree.

1:31.2

But in my neighbor's yard, there's a tree that's actually dead. It's kind of sad. And inside the tree,

1:39.2

if you hit the tree, if you hit my tree, it's like, it sounds really strong. But if you hit my neighbor's tree,

1:47.5

it has that sound. So you know, the inside of the tree is empty. It's hollow. If you, if somebody

1:57.6

hits me on the head, it sounds like this.

2:03.4

Whoa, whoa.

2:05.4

That sounded hollow.

2:06.9

Oh, my God.

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