Chapter 10 of Beginners Luck is here in full — 411 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of Beginners Luck is here in full — 411 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
“Why not?” He suddenly thought he understood. “You don’t want me to come home any more?” “Oh, don’t be dramatic. Go away, please.
Chapter 10 of Beginners Luck is here in full — 411 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/82 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading “Go away, please.”
suitable to or characteristic of drama
From this reading ““Oh, don’t be dramatic.”
where you live at a particular time
From this reading ““You don’t want me to come home any more?””
give pleasure to or be pleasing to
From this reading “Go away, please.”
happening unexpectedly
From this reading “He suddenly thought he understood.”
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading “He suddenly thought he understood.”
fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation
From this reading “He suddenly thought he understood.”
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading ““You don’t want me to come home any more?””
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move away from a place into another direction
In this reading “Go away, please.”
become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
In this reading ““You don’t want me to come home any more?””
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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one or some or every or all without specification
From this reading “You don’t want me to come home any more?”
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading Go away, please.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “Oh, don’t be dramatic.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading “You don’t want me to come home any more?”
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “You don’t want me to come home any more?”
suitable to or characteristic of drama
From this reading “Oh, don’t be dramatic.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading Go away, please.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He suddenly thought he understood.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading “You don’t want me to come home any more?”
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “You don’t want me to come home any more?”
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading “You don’t want me to come home any more?”
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading “Why not?”
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading “Oh, don’t be dramatic.
give pleasure to or be pleasing to
From this reading Go away, please.
happening unexpectedly
From this reading He suddenly thought he understood.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading He suddenly thought he understood.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “You don’t want me to come home any more?”
fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation
From this reading He suddenly thought he understood.
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading “You don’t want me to come home any more?”
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading “Why not?”
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading “You don’t want me to come home any more?”
Chapter 10 of Beginners Luck by Emily Hahn holds 411 sentences, grouped into 83 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 10 holds 411 sentences of Beginners Luck, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 10 of Beginners Luck by Emily Hahn exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 411 sentences, grouped into 83 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 83 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 83 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 10 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 373 minutes of reading across 897 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Beginners Luck, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
