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Holiveratton Posted 16 years ago
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Help with this video: Bush-Clinton ask to raise funds for Haiti

Hi,
I can't understand some statements and words in the following short video:



Could you help me, please?

This is my attempt (I highlighted what I didn't understand):

Clinton: We Americans always do our best when we hear and head the crisis of others.
Bush: When can find a ... suffering, Americans have always stepped up and answered the call to help.
Clinton: But there's never been anything on a scale of human tragedy in our own hemisphere, like ... now ... in Haiti
Bush: Today, President Clinton and I are enjoying together to appeal to you with real urgency
Clinton: Give now and lives will be saved. Thank you.
Bush: Thank you

...thank you too Emotion: smile
  

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Good evening holiveratton Hi, I can't understand some statements and words in the following short video: Could you help me, please? This is my attempt (I highlighted what I didn't understand): Clinton: We Americans are always at our best when we hear and heed the cries of others. Bush: When confronted with massive human suffering , Americans have always stepped up and answered the call to help.

  • Good evening holiveratton Hi, I can't understand some statements and words in the following short video: Could you help me, please?
  • This is my attempt (I highlighted what I didn't understand): Clinton: We Americans are always at our best when we hear and heed the cries of others.
  • Bush: When confronted with massive human suffering , Americans have always stepped up and answered the call to help.
  • Clinton: But there's never been anything on a scale of human tragedy in our own hemisphere, like what we're now witnessing in Haiti Bush: Today, President Clinton and I are joining together to appeal to you with real urgency Clinton: Give now, and lives will be saved.
  • Thank you.
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Good evening
holiverattonHi,

I can't understand some statements and words in the following short video:

Could you help me, please?

This is my attempt (I highlighted what I didn't understand):

Clinton: We Americans are always at our best when we hear and heed the
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Hi dokterjokkebrok!
Thank you so much for your help, now it works!! Gee, the American accent is a bit more difficult for me to understand if compared to the British one!

Oh, by the way, I think that any ex-president would have been referred to as "President"...it's just the same here in Italy with our ones

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