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Podcast: Wadjasay? American English Pronunciation Practice
Episode: Mark Twain - reading from A Tramp Abroad -01
Description: Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks!"We had a plain, simple, unpretending, good hotel, in Baden-Baden—the Hôtel de France—and alongside my room I had a giggling, cackling, chattering family who always went to bed just two hours after me and always got up two hours ahead of me. But this is common in German hotels; the people generally go to bed long after eleven and get up long before eight. The partitions convey sound like a drum-head, and everybody knows it; but no matter, a German family who a...