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Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

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Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

AJ Hoge

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Effortless English Show, with the world's number one English teacher,

0:18.4

AJ Hogue, where AJ's more than 40 million students worldwide finally learn English once

0:23.6

and for all.

0:24.6

Without the boring textbooks, classrooms, and grammar drills, here's AJ with a quick piece

0:29.3

to help you learn to speak fluent English effortlessly.

0:34.0

Hi, I'm AJ Hogue, author of Effortless English, learn to speak English and like a native pronunciation,

0:40.9

pronunciation, we'll have a very small little pronunciation lesson today about stress,

0:50.8

pronouncing words and how it can change the meaning of words.

0:55.1

We'll be talking about content and content, which are two different meanings,

1:00.7

completely two different meanings, depending how you pronounce that word.

1:03.8

It's spelled the same content and content, but they're very, very, very different in meaning,

1:10.7

and we'll read a story, a little short fable, a little short story from ASAP, ASAP's fables,

1:19.9

and learn a little vocabulary and talk about the meaning of the story, ASAP's.

1:25.6

A lot of you really like the ASAP lessons, so I'll do ASAP and we'll talk about this word,

1:33.2

content and content.

1:37.6

All right, let's get into it.

1:41.2

So as always, this is from the book ASAP's Fables English translation of the ancient Greek stories.

1:48.3

This one's very short, it's called Nature's Punishment of Discontent.

1:54.1

Nature's Punishment of Discontent.

1:59.5

Kites, this is the kind of bird, a kite is kind of like an eagle.

2:04.0

Kites originally had singing voices as clear as any swan, but when they heard horses name,

2:14.0

they were envious and did their best to imitate them.

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