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Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

Mini-Story for Our Universal Journey

Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

AJ Hoge

Language Learning, Education

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2006

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0

Okay, welcome to the crazy,

0:17.0

Okay, welcome to the crazy story section of the Our Universal Journey article. In this little story, I'll try to help you remember and know how to use and understand some, not all, but some of the new

0:27.2

vocabulary from the article.

0:29.4

Okay, let's get started.

0:32.2

Once there was a frog, he wanted to find a princess.

0:37.6

So he went on a journey.

0:40.1

He walked for many years. Every day he imagined his princess.

0:45.0

In fact, he obsessed about her.

0:48.0

He couldn't think of anything else,

0:51.0

but he could not find her. He kept walking all over the world. He became

0:59.6

fatigued, very, very tired. He wanted to quit, but he said to himself, I will not have a failure of nerve. I will

1:12.0

overcome every problem. I will overcome every problem. I will overcome every catastrophe. I will

1:18.7

persist until I find her. One day the frog came to a large tumultuous river with huge rocks and big waves.

1:30.0

He was so fatigued he didn't have the capacity to swim across.

1:35.0

Then he saw a turtle. He yelled to it,

1:38.0

Can you help me cross the river?

1:40.0

The turtle said, why do you want to cross?

1:44.0

The frog said, I must find my princess.

1:49.0

The turtle was surprised.

1:51.0

He said,

1:52.5

Are you implying that you want to marry a human?

1:56.5

Yes, said the frog.

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