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English Audio Request

Buberdul
English / Hotel Room. Future Tense
by Buberdul on Nov. 17, 2021
286 Words / 1 Recordings / 5 Comments
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Note to recorder:

Please correct my mistakes (if any) and read this text as a funny story :) I also have an intention to upload it to Youtube for studying it at slower and faster speeds as well as to share it with other people learning English and who may be struggling to find simple but interesting content as much as I do (so if you are against, please just skip this request)
Thank you very much in advance. Have a wonderful day! :)

In 5 years from now Stalin and Lenin are going to be in the car. They are going to be driving to Africa, to visit Cheburashka. On the way they will be tired. And soon, they will notice the Eleon Hotel. It will be a 5-star hotel. And the comrades are going to get a room there. But there is going to be a problem with the room. There will be some other people living in their room. Stalin and Lenin will not want to stay in the room with people they dont know.
They will keep driving, but it is going to be a long way, and they will be really tired. They will see a 1-star Ninja Hotel  and will get a room in that hotel. But there is going to be a problem again. There is going to be water in the room: on the floor, on the walls, on the ceiling, everywhere. They will not want to stay in the flooded room.
They will keep driving, but then they are going to be just exhausted. Finally, they will see a 13-star Monster Hotel. Indeed, there are going to be monsters everywhere. Surprisingly, Lenin and Stalin won’t be scared. Actually, they will like it. Because they are monsters themselves! Yeah, really. Lenin and Stalin are zombies!
They will get a room in that hotel and stay.
Next morning they are going to meet two beautiful monster ladies in the restaurant. The werewolf Merilyn Monroe and the witch Maryana Ro. They are going to fall in love. So, they will decide to stay in that hotel forever.
The year after that their friend Cheburashka will come to visit them at their weddings! Happy end!

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  • Hotel Room. Future Tense ( recorded by mittonupanasakai ), USA mid-Atlantic

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    5 years from now, Stalin and Lenin are going to be in the car. They are going to be driving to Africa, to visit Cheburashka. On the way they will be tired. And soon, they will notice the Eleon Hotel. It will be a 5-star hotel. And the comrades are going to get a room there. But there is going to be a problem with the room. There will be some other people living in their room. Stalin and Lenin will not want to stay in the room with people they dont know.
    They will keep driving, but it is going to be a long way, and they will be really tired. They will see a 1-star Ninja Hotel  and will get a room in that hotel. But there is going to be a problem again. There is going to be water in the room: on the floor, on the walls, on the ceiling, everywhere. They will not want to stay in the flooded room.
    They will keep driving, but then they are going to be just exhausted. Finally, they will see a 13-star Monster Hotel. Indeed, there are going to be monsters everywhere. Surprisingly, Lenin and Stalin won’t be scared. Actually, they will like it. Because they are monsters themselves! Yeah, really. Lenin and Stalin are zombies!
    They will get a room in that hotel and stay.
    Next morning they are going to meet two beautiful monster ladies in the restaurant. The werewolf Merilyn Monroe and the witch Maryana Ro. They are going to fall in love. So, they will decide to stay in that hotel forever.
    The year after that their friend Cheburashka will come to visit them at their weddings! Happy end!

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Comments

DBW
DBW
Nov. 24, 2021

I would not write "gonna" for "going to". Admittedly, sometimes it sounds that way when it is spoken but in written form always write "going to".

Buberdul
Buberdul
Nov. 24, 2021

Hello Darcy, thank you so much for your noticing. Frankly, I did it in purpose, for these stories were created to practice speaking through repeating them over and over again.
my thoughts were: as we all already know what "gonna' means and as it is WIDELY used on the internet why not to put it in practice in our stories.
But if it sounds really weird for your "Native" ears, I tend to trust you on that and will correct it if you that it will be better and more correct that way :)

DBW
DBW
Nov. 24, 2021

It may be ok for texting to friends and in a real informal situation. It may just be me who is over sensitive to it. However, in my personal opinion it is better to use "going to".

Buberdul
Buberdul
Nov. 26, 2021

Ok. I got it. Thank you, friend:)

Buberdul
Buberdul
Jan. 12, 2022

Hello dear mittonupanasakai! Thank you very much for voicing the story and for the frank commentary on it. I do understand the awkwardness of its language. I did so just to practice future structures with the story (and vocab) that we already know (We have the same story in present and past tenses). 1) Do you think it is still bad idea to use it as it is for that purpose? 2) What if the narrator of the story was a psycho with a cristal ball, would the language be more “edible” in that context?
Thank you very much in advance:)