918. Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle 💎 (Learn English with a Short Story)

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🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 111 minutes

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It's time for another classic Sherlock Holmes mystery story by Arthur Conan Doyle on the podcast. This time it is The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a case of a stolen gemstone! 💎 My aim here is to help you to understand and enjoy the story. I’ll read the original text to you, and will explain and summarise what is happening regularly. Just relax, listen carefully and try to enjoy this classic story. PDF available.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Luke's English podcast.
0:06.2	For more information, visit teacher luke.com.com.
0:13.6	Hello, listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast.
0:18.8	Very nice to be talking to you again in another episode.
0:23.0	And it's story time in this one. I've got a PDF ready, which you can download from the episode
0:30.2	description or show notes, wherever you're listening to this. Let's have a look at that PDF right now.
0:35.1	You don't need to follow the PDF with me. You can just enjoy listening if you prefer. But the PDF is available for you and I'm going to start working from it right now. So here we go. So learn English with a Sherlock Holmes story. Hello listeners. Back by popular demand. Here's another episode of Learn English with
0:56.2	a Sherlock Holmes story on Luke's English podcast. My aim with this episode is simply to let you
1:01.9	enjoy a classic Sherlock Holmes mystery story in English in the original text. This time I'm going
1:08.7	to read The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and originally published in Strand magazine in 1892.
1:18.4	It's available in the collection of stories called The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which is available from any good bookshop.
1:26.7	Depending on your level of English, it might be quite difficult to understand everything in this story the first time you hear it.
1:33.5	This is because the English here is fairly old-fashioned and complex.
1:38.5	So this might be difficult.
1:40.1	I'll help you during the story, but if you find it difficult to follow at any point, I would
1:45.3	like to encourage you to persevere, meaning keep listening, even if there are moments when you don't
1:52.1	understand what's happening, or there are specific words which you can't understand.
1:56.7	Persevere, keep listening, because I will explain things, but also it's just good practice to carry on
2:03.6	even when you don't understand everything 100%. Try to work out what's happening and try to
2:09.8	tolerate a certain amount of confusion. To help you, what I will do is this. So I'll read a section
2:16.7	of the story, then I'll stop and explain
2:19.2	what has happened, and then I'll move on to the next section. Okay? Now, I might not be able to
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