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Nov 2022
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795. DOPPELGANGER (Learn English with a ...

Luke Thompson
About this episode

Learn English with a short story. In fact, this episode contains two stories. Listen until the end for the 2nd one.

Repeat after me to practise your pronunciation. Learn some vocabulary & grammar in the second half of the episode, with an explanation of modal verbs of deduction in the past and present.

Episode page to read/download the transcript https://wp.me/p4IuUx-scI

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