English Recordings

1 I'm sorry to be late. / Sorry about being late. / My apologies.
2 Got a minutes? / Can I have a minutes? / Can I talk to you a sec? / Do you have a sec?
3 Don't worry about it. / It's nothing to worry about.
4 How much should I add to this ticket for Rome？
5 I missed my station. How can I get back to Spagna？　
6 Is all you want a Japanese？　
7 Wow! I feel like I'm in heaven.
8 At what exchange rate are you calculating？
9 Please get in the picture with me.
10 Could you fix me up with a bigger room ?　

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The japan team of world cup soccer did beyond expectation. Mass media focus on Honda so much, but I think Matsui and Okubo did as well as Honda. Anyway, I'm very happy because I can see Japan team's game more!

I have never been able to guess which horse would win.

That's all I'm going to tell about. I could probably tell you what I did after I went home, and how I got sick and all, and what school I'm supposed to go to next fall, after I get out of here, but I don't feel like it. I really don't. That stuff doesn't interest me too much right now.
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keeps asking me if I'm going apply myself when I go back to school next September. It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you
do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
D.B. isn't as bad as the rest of them, but he keeps asking me a lot of questions, too. He drove over last Saturday with this English babe that's in this new picture he's writing. She was pretty affected, but very good-looking. Anyway, one time when she went to the ladies' room way the hell down in the other wing D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know what the hell to say. If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice. It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

Suddenly, in a downstairs window that was brilliantly illuminated by a street-lamp not six yards away, Billy caught sight of a printed notice propped up against the glass in one of the upper panes. It said BED AND BREAKFAST. There was a vase of pussy-willows, tall and beautiful, standing just underneath the notice.

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Oscar gets to try his new feet
A cat that had its back feet severed by a combine harvester has been given two prosthetic limbs in a pioneering operation by a UK vet.

The new feet are custom-made implants that "peg" the ankle to the foot. They are bioengineered to mimic the way deer antler bone grows through the skin.
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Bionic feet for amputee cat

The operation - a world first - was carried out by Noel Fitzpatrick, a veterinary surgeon based in Surrey.

His work is explored in a BBC documentary called The Bionic Vet.

The cat, named Oscar, was referred to Mr Fitzpatrick by his local vet in Jersey, following the accident last October. Oscar was struck by the combine harvester whilst dozing in the sun.

The prosthetic pegs, called intraosseous transcutaneous amputation prosthetics (Itaps) were developed by a team from University College London led by Professor Gordon Blunn, who is head of UCL's Centre for Biomedical Engineering.

Professor Blunn and his team have worked in partnership with Mr Fitzpatrick to develop these weight-bearing implants, combining engineering mechanics with biology.

Mr Fitzpatrick explained: "The real revolution with Oscar is [that] we have put a piece of metal and a flange into which skin grows into an extremely tight bone."

"We have managed to get the bone and skin to grow into the implant and we have developed an 'exoprosthesis' that allows this implant to work as a see-saw on the bottom of an animal's limbs to give him effectively normal gait."

Professor Blunn told BBC News the idea was initially developed for patients with amputations who have a "stump socket".

"This means they fix their artifical limb with a sock, which fits over the stump. In a lot of cases this is sucessful, but you [often] get rubbing and pressure sores."

The Itap technology is being tested in humans and has already been used to create a prosthetic for a woman who lost her arm in the July 2005 London bombings.

"The intriguing thing with Oscar was that he had two implants - one in each back leg, and in quite an unusual site," Professor Blunn told BBC News.

He said that the success of this operation showed the potential of the technology.

"Noel has some brilliant ideas," he added. "And we're continuing to work closely with him to develop new technologies."

The Bionic Vet is on BBC 1 at 2245 BST on Wednesday

Teenage alternate juror wearing 'Who the f--- is Kanye West' shirt gets boot

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"Who the f--- is Kanye West," read Nneka Eneorji's black shirt, referring to the rap superstar who made headlines dissing hit singer Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Supreme Court Justice Thomas Farber demanded to know why she thought it was appropriate to wear that to court - eliciting a shrug from Eneorji.

"That is why I wore a sweater over it," the medical student said outside the courtroom. "I guess [the judge] couldn't take it anymore."

Only a few minutes after she was dismissed, Officer David London took the witness stand - offering testimony peppered with the f-word.

"I'm going to f---ing kill you," London said Walter Harvin, 30, screamed over and over as he tried to stop Harvin from entering his mother's W. 93rd St. building without a key.

London was caught on a surveillance camera striking Harvin dozens of times with a police baton during the July 2008 arrest.

Today is Saturday June 26, 2010. It is 4:30 in the morning, and it is the eleventh day that I am writing in my diary. Just a note: this is from the previous day, Friday June 25.
Well, yesterday I got up at 1:30p.m which is 1,5 hour earlier than I got up the day before. Then I looked out of the window in my room and I saw my housemate lifting weights outside. I must always laugh when I see him lifting weights. He always dais it incorrectly. I used to go to the gym quite often in the past and I know how to lift weights in a right way since a lot of musclebuilders has given me some advice about it. I tried to give an advice to my housemate too, but he did not care. So thats why I must laugh at him when I am seeing him to lifth the weights. However, he is good, because he exercises - he even do the skipping rope which is good for fitness. I should do it too. I mean, going to the gym was my hobby, I liked it very much, but ever since I started loving learning languages, I have been focusing on it and not on going to the gym. Sure, it is seen on my body. Because my body used to look really great - my muscle, my body, but now? It is not really good now, but I dont care. I just want to work on languages, because as I said before, I will get back to my country in a few months and who knows what it will be then.
Anyway, at 2p.m. I started to write my German note in my diary. It took quite long time then I wrote it - maybe 70 minutes. My vocabulary in German is not really good and I must pick a lot of words in my dictionary. When I writy my English note in my diary, I dont have to look up any word, so it does not take so long to write it. I mean, not every word I know, for example, today I was not sure how to say the phrase "lift weights" or "skipping rope", because I havent used it before. That's why I love this writing - I can really practise phrases which I really dont hear a lot. If I dont hear some words a lot, I cant rememeber them. It is about repetition as I mentioned several times. So, thanks to this method of learning, I can practise everyday common and even uncommon words and phrases. I will recommend it to all my friends who have problem with learning languages. You know what, my diary, I have been doing it with my German for 6 days and I have already improved my German a lot ever since.
Anyway, yesterday I should have gone to university because I made an appointment with my English teacher. However I was so lazy that I did not go there. I dont think that I missed something, because I did a lot of work at my home instead. I mean, conversations with him are great, but it takes long time to go there and then to get back. I spend only something about 1.5 hour with walking. It seems to me like a waste of time, because I can do something else instead. It was really ealy for me anyway. He wanted me to come at 2:15p.m, so it means to get up at 12:45p.m at least in order to eat and prepare myself.
But anyway, at 5p.m. I had a group conversation with Harry and with Russian girl Rassana. It was a special type of conversation. Harry chose some pictures and we should have discribed the pictures. I found that I have sometimes problem with it. I wanted to do it because it is a good skill to practise. When you want to pass some English certificate, there will always be a description of something.
Anyway, at 8:15p.m. I had a German conversation with Reinhard. It took over 80 minutes, so it was quite long. I wrote a note in my diary about routine stuff and what I did the day before yesterday and I read it to him, so I practised even my German pronunciation. As we went though the text, he corrected the text and tried to explained what kind of mistakes I made. After the conversation he sent me a conversation report with the correct version and he even recorded the text, so I can listen to the text now - GREAT! I really like his conversations. At the end of conversation, I arranged with him to have next conversation on Monday.
Well, yesterday it was a good day for my learning languages. I did a lot of things for German as well as for English. I am really looking forward to next statistics about learning in order to compare them with the previous week.
I must say that it took approximately something over 30 minutes to write this note in my diary and as I said, I used my dictionary only for the two phrases that I mentioned before.
Well, that’s everything for today. Goodbye, see you tomorrow!