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Jan 2025
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Learn English Listening to News Stories ...

Hilary Platt
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#EnglishListening #NewsInEnglish Transform your English listening skills with real breaking news! In today's English lesson https://adeptenglish.com/lessons/ we cover California's water crisis: A deadly cocktail of 10 months without rain and unstoppable fires; Trump wants to buy Greenland by force - but Denmark's PM has other ideas and your morning coffee habit might be saving your life!


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