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Shadowing: Irony and Dry Understatement
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Play each sentence, then say it out loud copying the rhythm and stress. Record yourself and compare.
Well, that went rather better than anyone had dared to hope, which isn't saying a great deal.
Oh, I'm sure the committee will act with its customary haste; we should have an answer by the middle of the next decade.
It wasn't exactly the most relaxing holiday, what with the delayed flights, the leaking tent and the goat that adopted us.
I'd hardly call it a disaster, though I'll admit the cake did have a certain structural ambition.
He has a remarkable talent for arriving precisely when the washing-up is finished.
To say that the negotiations were tense would be something of an understatement.
Naturally, the instructions were perfectly clear, provided one happened to read them in the original Finnish.
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