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Learning vocabulary

Different people find different aspects of language learning more or less difficult but there are some which are fairly universal.  Listen to Olivier, a language student, talking about the difficulties he has in learning English.  

Which of these difficulties does he mention having?

Listen again if necessary and put the words in these sentences into the correct order.

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