You will hear a recording. Type the missing words in each blank.

People (1) …………………… translate another person’s (2) ……………………. way of saying things with any degree of accuracy. This is because when we learn the (3) …………………….. of words, we pick up their (4) ……………….. meaning but we’ve added (5) ………………….. shades of difference which we get from our personal experiences. If you grew up in an (6) ………………………… household, the (7) ………………… ‘I’m angry with you’ had different association than for a person from a family where people talked through problems. We’re (8) ……………….. having to work out meaning from our own experience.

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