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How Much Can You Learn English Language by Listening to This Story?
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You might say 'Learn English Language by listening to just one story?' but in fact visiting this site could be your best chance.  

There are many other stories on the pages on this site.  Each page has a tip on how you can practice listening or studying.  Try to visit a page each day, and listen to that story.

It is best, of course, if you visit the same page again and again until you have really learned that story.  But even if you visit a different page everyday you can really improve your English listening skills.

Artistic learners can draw pictures showing the stories they hear.  This will help to remember the story, and also the vocabulary or expressions.

Later, you can look at the pictures again and recall the story or the vocabulary in the story. Try with this story, now!

Nine Years Later

Idioms list
1. be of two minds about:          to be unable to come to a decision about (something)
2. be dressed to the nines:        to be dressed in formal smart clothes, sometimes over-dressed
3. be living on a shoestring:       to have very little money to live on
4. not to have a penny to one's name: to be extremely poor
5. there is nothing else for it:     there is only one thing to do, there is no choice

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Jenny has been living on a shoestring for almost nine years.  When her fisherman husband died she did not have a penny to her name.  There was nothing else for it but to get a job and start working.  Now she is a very wealthy woman, and she is dressed to the nines as she visits the place where they scattered her husband's ashes.  For three days she was of two minds about going to visit this spot exactly nine years after his funeral. She is glad she came however, and she is sure her husband can see her, and is smiling to her even now.

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