The Butcher and The King
Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge
AJ Hoge
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
A Taoist story.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Effortless English Show with the world's number one English teacher, A.J. Hogue. |
| 0:06.0 | Where A.J.'s more than 40 million students worldwide finally learn English once and for all |
| 0:11.0 | without the boring textbooks, classrooms, and grammar drills. |
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| 0:19.0 | I'm A.J. Hoag, the author of Effortless English, Learn to Speak English Like a Native. |
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| 1:19.9 | A story for you today. A story, a Taoist story in fact, it's a famous Taoist story. Quite a famous one. |
| 1:21.9 | Story about a butcher. one. |
| 1:23.0 | Story about a butcher. |
| 1:25.0 | And a king, I think it's a king. |
| 1:30.0 | Basically there's a king. Basically there's a king or a guy I can't remember I think it's a king walking through a market |
| 1:39.0 | right with his men |
| 1:41.0 | he's walking through the market and he sees a butcher in the market. |
| 1:46.3 | The butcher cuts meat, right? |
| 1:48.0 | Cuts up animals for eating. |
| 1:49.6 | And the butcher is working very fast. He's cutting, cutting, chopping up these animals. |
| 1:58.0 | cutting through the meat, cutting there. And it looks completely effortless. |
| 2:02.0 | Super, super, super, super fast and effortless. |
| 2:07.8 | So fast, so effortless, the king is amazed. |
| 2:10.1 | Whoa, wow! |
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