Perché non provi inizialmente ad ascoltare l’audio senza leggere il testo?
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A London lawyer representing a wealthy art collector called his client and said to him, “Thomas, I’ve got some good news for you, and I’ve got some bad news for you.”
The art collector replied, “Okay, I’ve had a pretty awful day, so let’s hear the good news first. It might cheer me up a bit.”
“Well, I met your wife today,” said the lawyer, “and she told me that she has just invested £5,000 in two pictures that she thinks will bring a minimum of £10 million. And I think she could be right.”
“Excellent!” replied Thomas enthusiastically. “My wife has always had a good eye for a bargain! If that’s the good news, then I’m sure I can handle the bad news. What is it?”
The lawyer hesitated for a moment, and then replied, “The pictures are of you with your secretary.”
Your comments are always very welcome.
Ingliando 
Good morning Tony I just listen to this audio and I found it very funny but…I didn’t understand this sentence which I was forced to read in the transcription. The sentence is this: it might cheer me up a bit. I don’t tell you what I understood because it would make you laugh like a crazy. I wanted you to indicate, if possible, where I can go to see in the site’s section “pronunciation” about this type of sentence. Excuse me for the trouble and thanks as always!
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Hi Gaetano.
I’m not sure if the “pronunciation” section can help with a specific problem like this. It might be useful to know what you originally understood (I promise not to laugh like a madman).
It’s quite probable that your lack of familiarity with the expression “to cheer (somebody) up” led you to interpret it with some alternative and more familiar expression.
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Hi Tony. I have complete faith in your promise and I try to report what I heard to you. It might be this: I chimmy upbird. I realize it’s absurd but it was what I heard more or less. I listened to it multiple times until when I decided to read the text.
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It’s like I thought. It’s your lack of familiarity with the expression that has created the problem.
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Ok Tony the only thing to do, as you already mentioned many times, is practise, practise, practise. Thanks and see you tomorrow!
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“as you have already mentioned many times”
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Well corrected! 😉
Yes, I must come up with a challenging sentence for tomorrow! 🙂
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