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@Tankulayer 17 күн бұрын

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@SLOMG24 25 күн бұрын

Thanks for this recording. Very effective reading!

@PhillipMadisha Ай бұрын

I thought of visiting here before going to write❤ I must say, it was pretty helpful coz I'm only left with few hours 😅

@sixtee016_ Ай бұрын

Eish ko rough😭😭

@eupremioguadalupi1893 Ай бұрын

This reading is a beautiful example of British-English .Intonation, rhythm and stress read by a native are a pleasure for a foreign listener who studied Eveline long ago.My best congratulations to the reader for his fabulous way of reading some amazing pages of English literature.Thank you so much to those who have organized that.

@deegeraghty9426 Ай бұрын

What a .miserable story! Guilt, guilt, guilt☹

@ZenithE8 6 ай бұрын

If you get what you think you want how long will that keep you satisfied.

@Englishsb24 4 ай бұрын

Not long enough which is the sad truth

@ZenithE8 6 ай бұрын

Not getting it.

@devoradamaris 6 ай бұрын

🕊🌎🕊🕊sharing🫂thankYOU

@khadzak7496 6 ай бұрын

What was the point ?

@marty49jm 6 ай бұрын

The AI is mispronouncing several words.

@janerichman3100 6 ай бұрын

Great story, pity about the AI narration

@Socratez7 6 ай бұрын

Can we all agree that Hemingway - extremely good writer that he was - was ultimately over rated. Certainly some of his work is just not all that. Add AI narration and you have a very average experience.

@vjhreeves 6 ай бұрын

AI generated video, AI narrator, and bots commenting. Ugh.

@libby6494 6 ай бұрын

For all his shortcomings as a man, he did love cats though.

@wyominghome4857 6 ай бұрын

The 6-toed cats still live at his place in Key West, treated like kings.

@wildager1488 6 ай бұрын

Oh. No

@KamalaN-lx7hg 6 ай бұрын

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@ron4093 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful short story! I want to watch it again and again. I’m an English learner in Japan.

@dontaylor7315 6 ай бұрын

The dialogue is teeth-grittingly obnoxious. Hemingway created a wife who - judging by her speech - is mentally retarded, and a husband who interacts with her like a pet owner, verbally patting her on the head and quickly going back to the book he's reading. To be fair, he could also create unforgettable strong female characters like Pilar in For Whom the Bell Tolls. But although women of intelligence like Lillian Hellman and Dorothy Parker gave Hemingway his due as a literary genius, they didn't think much of him as a human being; they found him insulting and insufferable to be around.

@dianemoril7612 6 ай бұрын

wow! so heartwarming!

@teachercharlesamericanengl2098 6 ай бұрын

The Old Man at the Bridge” by Ernest Hemingway is the tragedy of war. The author's intention is to illustrate the way wars disrupt the lives of innocent people who are caught up in the middle, but also the way it frustrates those who cannot do anything about it (0bservers and foreigners).

@teachercharlesamericanengl2098 6 ай бұрын

“Old Man at the Bridge,” Hemingway uses animals to symbolize the innocent victims of war, like the eponymous character himself. The old man's parlous condition is itself a metaphor for the adverse impact of war upon civilians.

@teachercharlesamericanengl2098 6 ай бұрын

@maryeliason1504 7 ай бұрын

Short & simple. Very good

@maryeliason1504 7 ай бұрын

So tired of the poor pronunciation!

@rhonaharker6358 7 ай бұрын

Was awful with the abrupt end and ad at the end

@jeffjones6951 6 ай бұрын

My (only) criticism exactly! A 5-second pause at the end would allow the listener a chance to absorb what had just happened. Instead I had to replay it

@jeffjones6951 6 ай бұрын

Follow-up thought: Perhaps they could find a less invasive voice for the sudden blurb at 7:17 ?

@carolinestaplestrom5090 7 ай бұрын

Hemingway us full of undemonstrative men and discontented women. Sweet ending, though; she won’t be totally miserable. The reader spoiled it for me somewhat: the monotone and pronouncing “square” as “squa” sounded AI.

@machanrahan9591 7 ай бұрын

I used this story as a "Word for Word" theatre exercise with a Chinese middle school group in Xinjiang Korla. They were very good. The simple English prose helped, I suppose.