Shadowing Practice: Five Short Plays Chapter 4 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Salt.
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Scene 1.
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No more salt.
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In a small grocery store, Groot is asking the shopkeeper for something.
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The others are waiting behind him.
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I like ten bags of salt, please.
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Ten? Of course.
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That's ten dollars, please.
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Here you are.
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Can I help you with all that?
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No, thanks.
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I have this cart.
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Ten bags.
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That's a lot of salt.
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Yes.
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Salt is very important, you know.
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It is.
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But why do you need ten bags?
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Soon there isn't going to be enough salt in the world.
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I saw it on television.
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Not enough salt?
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Really?
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It's true.
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So I'm buying some now.
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Goodbye. Did you hear that?
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Yeah, there isn't enough salt in the world.
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Not enough salt?
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That isn't true.
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But he saw it on television.
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Soon there isn't going to be any in the stores.
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Really?
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That's bad.
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I need salt.
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Me too.
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I can't live without it.
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Give me some salt, please.
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Ten bags.
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No, make that twenty bags. And me.
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I'd like thirty bags.
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Me first.
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I've got a big family.
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We need salt. Be quiet.
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All of you.
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You must wait.
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But we want our salt.
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And we want it now.
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But that man bought my last ten bags.
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Then it's true.
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He was right.
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There isn't enough salt in the world.
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What are we going to do?
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That's your problem.
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It's six o'clock.
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Time to close the store.
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I'm going home.
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But what about our salt?
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Look, there's a lot of salt in the world.
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Enough for everybody.
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Goodbye.
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Scene 2.
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We want salt.
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Spratly finds Groot standing in a street with his cart.
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Excuse me, I want to buy some salt.
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Sorry?
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What did you say?
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I know about the problem.
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What problem?
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What are you talking about?
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Soon there isn't going to be enough salt.
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Oh, you heard about that.
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Yes, and I want some salt.
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Then go to a grocery store and buy some.
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I can't find any.
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Every time I ask, the shopkeeper says, Sorry, no more salt.
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Oh, dear.
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But you have some.
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You bought ten large bags.
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I saw you.
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I'm sorry, but I'm not selling my salt.
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But I'll give you ten dollars a bag.
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No, I want $50 a bag.
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It's more expensive every day.
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Soon, there isn't going to be enough.
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All right, all right. $50 a bag.
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Give me five bags.
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Here's the money.
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Good man.
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You're doing the right thing.
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Excuse me.
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I saw you buy some salt.
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Ah.
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What's happening?
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I can't find any.
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The shopkeepers all say, sorry, no more salt.
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There's a problem.
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I know.
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It was on television.
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Everybody is talking about it.
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Listen, I must have some salt.
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Sorry.
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I can't help you.
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But I need it for my family.
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Please.
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All right, all right.
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But it's, uh, a hundred dollars a bag.
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Oh, no. I told you.
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Everybody wants salt.
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Well?
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Oh, all right then.
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Give me four bags.
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Four?
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Good.
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You understand the world, my friend.
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I see it in your face.
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Here's the money. And here's your salt.
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Goodbye.
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Hey, you.
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Stop.
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Are you talking to me?
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Yes.
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You were in the grocery store. Was I?
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Perhaps.
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I go into a lot of grocery stores.
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You bought all the salt in the store.
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Well, there's a problem, you know.
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Yes, there is, and it's all because of you.
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That's not true.
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I met Spratly just now.
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He tried to sell me a bag of salt for $500.
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That's too much.
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Of course it is.
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I know your plan.
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You go from store to store.
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You buy all the salt and sell it for a lot more money.
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Okay, it's true.
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I buy and sell salt.
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That's not wrong.
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Then sell some to me.
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No, I don't want to.
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Listen, I'm going to buy and you're going to sell.
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Do you understand?
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But I've only got one bag left.
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Give it to me, then.
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It's $200.
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Well, okay, you can have it for $150.
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But let me go.
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Give it to me.
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No, give me the money first.
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Now let me go.
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No!
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Help!
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Help!
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He ran in front of my truck.
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I didn't see him.
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You didn't do anything wrong.
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It was an accident.
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But why did he run across the street without looking?
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I was angry with him, so he ran away.
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How do you feel?
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Oh, my leg.
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My leg hurts.
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I think it's...
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He's okay, I think.
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Wait a minute.
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What's this in the street?
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It's salt.
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He had a bag of salt, and I wanted it.
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Salt?
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Well, that's interesting.
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I'm carrying salt on my truck.
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Bags and bags of it.
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Salt?
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Oh, no!
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Why are you laughing?
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It doesn't matter.
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I can't tell you now.
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Then you can tell that policeman.
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Look, he's coming across the street now.
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He saw the accident, I think.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel A2 se basa en el vídeo “Five Short Plays Chapter 4”. Las palabras que más se repiten: salt, bag, store, ten, sell. Este vídeo tiene 182 frases y 815 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:56. El hablante habla despacio, unas 103 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 87 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

8 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
goodbye/ɡʊdˈbaɪ/adiós, hasta luego
cart sustantivo/kɑɹt/carro, carreta
salt sustantivo/sɒlt/sal, salcita
dollar sustantivo/ˈdɑ.lɚ/dólar
excuse verbo/ɪksˈkjuz/excusar, perdonar
angry adjetivo/ˈæŋ.ɡɹi/enojado, enfadado
laugh verbo/læf/reír
quiet adjetivo/ˈkwaɪ̯.ət/quieto, silencioso

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
come across verbopasarse a
run away verbohuir

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • Can I help you with all that?
  • Did you hear that?
  • What are we going to do?
  • What are you talking about?
  • Are you talking to me?

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 28 contracciones y formas reducidas, como isn't, I'm, can't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como goodbye, cart, salt.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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