449. Film Club: Touching the Void (Part 2) Learning a Language is Like Climbing a Mountain
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
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🗓️ 13 May 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Part 2 of this Film Club episode looking at the award-winning documentary "Touching the Void" which tells the story of a mountain climbing expedition which goes wrong. Listen to this episode and then watch the film on Netflix or DVD for that extra bit of English input.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello welcome back to this double episode about the award-winning documentary film |
| 0:05.0 | Touching the Void. In this episode I'm going to continue talking about the |
| 0:09.6 | documentary to help you to understand it a little bit more and to just basically accompany your |
| 0:15.2 | enjoyment of this documentary which you can find on Netflix and on DVD. |
| 0:20.4 | Also there's a book version of it too. You should know that there will be spoilers ahead because I'm going to be talking about events that happen in the story. So spoiler alert. |
| 0:30.0 | If you don't want to sort of listen to this without having seen it, then go away and watch it on Netflix or something, come back and listen to the rest of it. |
| 0:38.0 | Okay? Another thing you should know is that there are some fairly graphic descriptions of pretty bad injury |
| 0:46.0 | coming up in this episode so if you feel squeamish and you don't think you don't |
| 0:51.1 | like things like bodily harm or injuries then when I start talking |
| 0:55.2 | about the injury you can just skip forwards by about one minute okay so I just |
| 1:00.3 | wanted to give you a heads up that there's a little bit of sort of gruesome, |
| 1:04.0 | a few gruesome descriptions, but it's all part of the events of the story. |
| 1:09.0 | This episode of the podcast is sponsored by I Talkie, and if you are looking for a teacher or a language |
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| 1:26.0 | Then check out I Talkie and remember that they are offering all of my listeners a voucher worth |
| 1:31.6 | ten dollars when they buy their first lessons or talking time and that works as a |
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| 1:40.0 | Try I Talkie, a lot of my listeners are using it and having a lot of success with it. |
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| 1:50.4 | UK slash talk or click an I talkie logo on my website. |
| 1:55.0 | You're listening to Luke's English podcast. |
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