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Hi, so there I was listening to Spanish, a Spanish audio,

an audio of two native speakers.

So it was a recording, two native speakers

speaking Spanish to each other.

I was listening, and at the same time I was reading because I had the text. But as I listened I became very frustrated.

Because even though I had the text, even though I was reading while I was listening,

I couldn't understand them. They were much too fast. To me, it just

sounded like,

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

like all the words were just pushed together and mumbled.

Mumbled is when you speak in a way that's not clear like you're not pronouncing the words clearly.

So it sounded to me like the speakers were mumbling like,

like, blah, blah, blah, and they were speaking super fast.

And even though I was reading, I still,

I couldn't really hear what they were saying.

And I got. really hear what they were saying.

And I got really frustrated. I was like, what?

I got the text.

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