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coloraday  +  959040 Sun, 01 Nov 09 05:06 PM
Thanks I'm very grateful.Though You don't have much time ,you help me with these listening questions.
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coloraday  +  962792 Thu, 05 Nov 09 09:41 PM
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coloraday  +  962838 Thu, 05 Nov 09 10:38 PM
4)


The last word is "drag" which is a bit cut off.

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coloraday  +  962847 Thu, 05 Nov 09 10:57 PM
5)



 

I seem to remember him you know ??? not turn up for gigs.


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Yankee  +  962852 Thu, 05 Nov 09 11:07 PM
This is what I hear in your latest three:


3. So, we thought, well, you know, if ... if the name of the group's being changed, and he's (???)


4. (???) is a (friar?), which is off the main


5. I seem to remember him, you know, starting to not turn up for gigs.

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coloraday, 15 days ago

Hi Amy

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3.I surely hear a z-sound after "name".

 

coloraday  +  963303 Fri, 06 Nov 09 10:57 AM
4.Isn't it "the other" at the beginning?
optilang  +  963328 Fri, 06 Nov 09 11:34 AM
Hi



This is what I hear



1. Might have been a failing of mine to tend to sort of talk down to him ‘cause I’d known him as a younger kid

 

2. And somewhere, it might be around … it’s in Liverpool somewhere that record, that’s the actual first recording we ever made

 

3. So we thought, well you know, if, if the name IS the group’s being changed and he’s long…… 


4. the…….Frieheit, which is off the main drag. (I think this is a reference to the street in Germany where the Beatles played – I’m sure I hear ‘Feiheit’, but I can’t get the word before. – A guess – The other’s at Freiheit which is off the main drag.

 

5. I seem to remember him, you know, starting to not turn up for gigs and ……

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coloraday  +  964515 Sat, 07 Nov 09 06:46 PM
Thank you very much optilang.

About no.3 What does it mean?I can't explain it to myself because if the group’s is something for completion of the word name ,why Paul tells it so quick after IS that I think he wanted to say it this way from the beginning,not to complete something he said at once which is name.Why isn't it of instead of is?

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