Get Fluent in English FAST | Reading and Listening Method

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Today, you'll improve your fluency in English by  reading and listening to English at the same time.
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We're going to read a news article together.
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Welcome back to JForrest English.
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I'm Jennifer.
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Now let's get started.
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First, I'll read the headline The Spear, Las  Vegas's multibillion dollar entertainment venue.
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Let's talk about the pronunciation here.
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Notice that this has a F sound, so this  pH is pronounced as F If I change this  
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to F and I just leave the S for now, we have fear.
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Fear.
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Repeat that Fear.
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Easy enough, right?
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So now I need to add the S, which  can be a difficult sound combination  
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for your F Think about what your mouth is doing.
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Fear Sphere.
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But for your S Sphere.
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Sphere.
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So you're going to hear the F more.
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The S is going to be quite quick.
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Sphere, Sphere, Sphere.
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Keep practicing that this sphere  Las Vegas is now notice here.
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Vegas, Las Vegas.
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That's the name of the city, the famous  city around the world, Las Vegas.
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Here I'm making it possessive, but for  pronunciation, I need to add an extra syllable.
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Las Vegas sis.
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Vegas sis.
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Las Vegas's multi billion  dollar entertainment venue.
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And here is the spear.
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This spear.
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When I first saw this image,  the first thing I said is wow.
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Wow, that's impressive.
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And then I also said, that's cool.
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That's cool.
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So cool.
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This is a very casual way that you  can sound like a native speaker.
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You can use it as an adjective to  describe something as interesting.
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Impressive.
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That's cool.
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That's so cool.
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That's impressive.
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What about you, When you saw this, what's  the first adjective that came to your mind?
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Put that in the comments.
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Wow.
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This fear is, and you can use mine.
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Impressive, cool or a different adjective.
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Put that in the comments.
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Wow the sphere is and then say it out loud so  you can practice that pronunciation as well.
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Now don't worry about taking these notes  because I summarize everything in a free  
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lesson PDF so you can look in  the description for the link.
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Now let's continue and talk about the sphere.
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This sphere is finally here.
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So these rhyme because we have fear here.
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This sphere is finally here.
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That's a good one to practice out  loud for your pronunciation as well.
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You're going to get very comfortable  with this by the end of the article.
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This sphere is finally here.
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And if you're wondering why  this has a capital the sphere,  
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it's because that's the name  of this entertainment venue.
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The name of this is the Sphere, The Sphere.
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And that's why you have a capital S,  because we always capitalize proper nouns.
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And later when you see it in the article,  
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you'll notice that the article the is part  of the name, so the name is the sphere.
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The sphere is finally here and it's already  generated quite abuzz when you first read this,  
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you may have thought it is,  it's is a contraction of it is,  
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but grammatically that would be  incorrect because it is generated.
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That doesn't make sense.
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Because of that, I know that this S  is actually the auxiliary verb has.
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It has already generated quite a buzz,  and that's the present perfect verb tense.
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So you can't tell just by  looking at this contraction.
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You can't tell if this is it is or it has.
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It's the full context of the  sentence that will tell you.
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So this contraction represents, it has,  and it's already generated, quite a buzz.
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Let's talk about this.
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What's a buzz in this context?
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A buzz is excited, positive talk about something.
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And in this case, the something is the sphere.
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So if I go to my friend and say, oh wow, did  you hear about the new sphere in Las Vegas?
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Yeah, it's super cool.
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I really want to go see it.
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Yeah, it looks amazing.
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And many people are talking about this  sphere in a positive, excited way.
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That's a buzz, a buzz.
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And generally, it's something generates a buzz.
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So that movie generated a buzz.
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The event generated a buzz.
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And again, excited, positive talk.
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The reason why I use LingQ to learn  languages and why I recommend you do too,  
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On LingQ, you have access to thousands of hours  of content that includes both audio and text,  
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Plus, you can import content directly from  YouTube, Netflix, blogs, the news, and much more.
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For example, you know those news articles  that I like to share in my videos?
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You can easily import them into LingQ  and create your own interactive lessons.
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He's a polyglot who speaks 20 languages.
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His method focuses on input, lots  of reading and lots of listening.
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And that's why LingQ, the app  Steve co-founded, is so effective.
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It makes reading and listening to content in  my target language easier and more enjoyable.
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I highly recommend LingQ because  I know it will help you improve  
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So use the link in the description to sign up.
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Now let's continue with our lesson.
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It started as a simple sketch.
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So what's the IT here?
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This sphere.
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This sphere started as a simple sketch.
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A sketch is a quick drawing, so you  can Draw Something very quickly.
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And generally there aren't a lot of details.
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There's not a lot of precision.
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So I might say, make a sketch of your house and  
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you'll just draw the outline  of your house very quickly.
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Now notice, because sketch  is a noun, you need a verb.
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The verb is make a sketch, make a sketch.
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And this is in the imperative verb tense.
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But I can also simply use sketch  as a verb sketch your house,  
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and in this case this is a  verb in the imperative form.
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So both are correct as a noun or as a verb.
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It started as a simple sketch.
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So someone drew a sphere.
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So a circle.
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That's a sphere.
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A circle with a stick person inside.
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This on the right is a stick person.
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So a very simple drawing of a person.
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This is a stick person.
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We have a joke in English that  she's such a terrible artist,  
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she can't even draw a stick person,  which I would say would apply to me.
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Even my stick people aren't that good.
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So this is a stick person, and  it was inside a circle which  
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represented this sphere, and  that's how this came to life.
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Seven years later, that  drawing has been made real.
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Notice the expression that I use.
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That's how it came to life, Came  to life, has been made real.
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Same thing, just a different way of saying it.
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Of course you always need to match your grammar  to the sentence structure of the sentence.
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So that drawing has come to life.
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Now is grammatically correct within the  sentence a $2.3 billion massive spherical venue.
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All right, so you already  know how to pronounce sphere.
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Now you'll just add a cool spherical and then you  have to add the syllable stress spherical eerical.
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So you can always drop the beginning  part and make it an easier sound.
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So let's just say eerical,  like ear eerical, eerical.
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And then you can add on the F sound spherical.
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Now you can add on this spherical, spherical.
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So that's how you can take a  complicated sound and make it  
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a lot easier to pronounce and to practice as well.
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In this case, spherical is the adjective  form, and it simply describes the venue.
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I just realized I didn't explain what a spear is.
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Perhaps you don't know.
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A spear is just an object  that's in the shape of a circle.
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And that's why this entertainment  venue is called The Sphere,  
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because it's in the shape of a  circle, a $2.3 billion massive  
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spherical venue standing 366 feet high  and lighting up the Las Vegas skyline.
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So again, here's the object.
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As you can see, there's light coming  from it, so it's lighting up the skyline.
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It's making the skyline lighter or  brighter, it's lighting up the skyline.
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Let's continue inside the 516 foot wide sphere.
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So before we talked about the height,  366 feet high, so that's the height.
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And now we're talking about the width.
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So you describe it as wide.
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So the height is high and the width is wide.
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I wrote that here and notice I wrote X feet  wide, but here it says 516 foot wide sphere.
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Why is that?
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That's because in this case, this entire area  that I've highlighted is an adjective that  
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describes the sphere, and adjectives  don't have a singular or plural form.
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So feet is plural and foot is singular.
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Otherwise, if you were seeing it as a measurement,  
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you would say the sphere is 516 feet wide, so this  is the measurement for it and you would use feet.
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But this is the adjective form and you  use foot because adjectives don't have  
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a plural form inside the 516 foot wide  sphere, a high resolution LED screen.
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Notice we don't pronounce this as lead.
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Lead.
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It's LEDLED screen, not lead.
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So you pronounce this as the individual letters.
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I'll just put a space between them  so you remember to pronounce them  
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as the individual letters and not as lead.
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To be honest, I'm not sure what LED stands for.
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I know that FYI means for your information,  
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so each letter represents  something for your information.
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FYI, so I know that LED each letter stands  for something, but I don't know what that is.
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Do you know what LED stands for?
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If you do, feel free to share it in  the comments because I have no idea.
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I've only heard it pronounced as LED.
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I've never heard anyone actually say what it is.
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A high resolution LED screen,  
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the largest on earth, wraps halfway  around the 17,600 seat audience.
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OK again, this is a great example of an adjective.
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It describes the audience because otherwise you  
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would say the audience or the theater  will just change it to the theater.
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The theater has 17,600 seats,  and you would need to add an S  
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to seat because there's more than one seat, right?
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But this is an adjective, and  that's why we don't have an S here.
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So there are 17,600 seats in the sphere.
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That is pretty cool.
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Very impressive.
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Out of the 17,600 seats.
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Oh look, we have it right here.
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I didn't need to write it because  we have an example right here.
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10,000 provide an immersive experience.
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Let's take a look at this out of these seats.
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This is a great sentence structure that  you can use to ask someone a question.
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You could say out of these three cities,  which one do you want to visit the most?
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And then you can either say the  cities or perhaps the written below.
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So I want you to answer this.
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Out of these three cities, Las  Vegas, San Francisco or Miami,  
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which one do you want to visit the most?
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Share that in the comments.
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I'm really excited to hear your answer.
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Now notice in this sentence structure,  
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out of these specific seats, 10,000  provide an immersive experience.
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So they're saying 10,000 out of 17,600 seats.
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So they're limiting the number of seats  that have this immersive experience with  
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a specialized sound system capable of  making guests feel sound vibrations.
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Notice how they put feel in quotations  because generally you hear sound,  
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but they're talking about the vibration.
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So if you're sitting down in a movie theater  and because of the bass, you you feel it.
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You feel the vibration.
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So that will happen in 10,000 out of 17,600 seats.
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This fear proudly boasts having the  world's largest concert grade audio system.
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The verb to boast is used when you have or  you own something and you're proud of it.
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So in this case, the sphere proudly boasts  having the world's largest audio system.
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So they have it, and they're  very proud that they have it.
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I put halving in brackets because it's optional.
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You can boast something now.
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In this case, the something  is just the audio system.
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The rest of the information gives more  information about the audio system.
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But you could say this sphere  boasts an audio system.
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So this sphere has an audio system  and they're very proud of it.
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This sphere boasts an audio system.
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It delivers a crystal clear and  multi layered audio experience.
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If you describe audio as crystal clear,  
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it means that it is the highest  level of quality crystal clear.
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So I hope you think that  this audio is crystal clear.
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I certainly go to a lot of effort getting this  
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professional microphone and making sure  that the studio has very good audio.
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So if you are happy with the  quality of the audio in this video,  
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put crystal clear in the chat,  put crystal clear in the chat.
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If you don't put crystal clear, I  might have to get a new microphone.
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So put Crystal Clear in the chat.
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Now you can use crystal Clear in  a more everyday setting as well.
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You could be having a phone call or  a zoom meeting or an online meeting.
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And you might say, oh, can you hear me?
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Can you hear me and the other  person to let you know that yes,  
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they can hear you and the audio quality is great.
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They can simply say crystal clear.
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Can you hear me?
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Crystal clear so you know that  the audio is OK, let's continue.
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Not only is the interior  of the building impressive,  
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but it's exterior also boasts 1.2  million hockey puck sized Led's.
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So remember, boast.
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It has it and it's very proud of having it.
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So again, the same verb here.
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Hockey puck size.
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This is an adjective.
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It tells you the size of the Led's.
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Led's are a light, remember?
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I'm not sure what LED means,  so if you do, let me know.
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And a hockey puck is about this big.
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So that's the size of the LED and  it boasts 1.2 million that can be  
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programmed to create dynamic  and colossal image displays.
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Colossal image displays are extremely large.
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That's what colossal means.
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Extremely large.
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Let's continue.
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It drew immediate attention on the 4th of  July with a digital fireworks display and  
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an eyeball that appeared to scan the  horizon with the words Hello World.
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So imagine you were walking down the street and  
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all of a sudden a giant eyeball  appeared on the sphere again.
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You would probably say, wow, that's cool,  that's super cool or that's impressive.
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Or again, have some other  adjective choice of your own,  
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so make sure you share that  in the comments as well.
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Let's continue.
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On September 29th, the much  anticipated moment arrived.
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Has the sphere unveiled its grander  to the world for the first time.
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So it's grander.
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This represents the the size, how  large it is, how advanced it is.
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It's grander.
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Now let's talk about the verb to unveil.
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When you unveil something,  you should simply show it.
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But you show it for the very first time.
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So before this moment, on September 29th,  nobody had seen the inside of the sphere.
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But then they unveiled it.
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They showed it for the first time.
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They showed the grandeur  of the sphere to the world,  
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setting the stage for U2's 25 show residency.
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So U2 is the name of a very popular band, a  band that's known around the world I'm sure.
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And a 25 show residency means that you  two has committed to performing 25 shows.
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So you 2 will perform 25 shows in the sphere.
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And notice again this is an adjective.
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That's why we don't have an S on  show, because it's an adjective.
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But when I said my sentence, there was an S Here's  the sentence again with the S, the plural noun.
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You 2 will perform 25 shows at the sphere.
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That's it's 25 show residency  now, much anticipated.
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This is very common to say much anticipated.
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Another common word is highly anticipated,  
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the highly anticipated moment,  the much anticipated moment.
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And when you describe something as  highly anticipated or much anticipated,  
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it means that it's something  that people have been expecting,  
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and they've been expecting it  with a lot of strong emotion.
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Oh, I can't wait.
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I can't wait.
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Only three more days that would describe  a highly anticipated moment or event.
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I wrote that definition for you.
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Now let's continue this legendary rock band.
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Of course That's You 2.
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The legendary rock band This legendary rock  band took center stage within the Colossal.
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We already know what this means.
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Very large, colossal state-of-the-art.
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To describe something as state-of-the-art means  it uses the latest and the best of everything.
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Materials, technology, everything  that went into the construction  
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of it is the latest and the best  state-of-the-art within the colossal  
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state-of-the-art spherical structure  and delivered a 2 hour performance.
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Again, we have a lot of adjectives in this case  that otherwise could be a plural noun, but in this  
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case is an adjective and that's why you don't  see an S The performance lasted for two hours.
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In that case, of course there  would be an S on the noun,  
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so they delivered a 2 hour performance  that left the audience in awe.
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That's the face of awe when you see  something and it's just so great,  
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so interesting, so amazing that  your mouth literally drops.
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That's in awe.
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In awe.
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Let's continue.
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Throughout the evening, attendees were treated  to a mesmerizing array of stunning visuals.
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First, let's talk about an attendee.
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An attendee is just someone who attends.
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So attendees, in the plural  represents people who attend.
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So people who attended the two hour performance  by the legendary rock band U2 throughout the  
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evening, attendees were treated to a  mesmerizing array of stunning visuals.
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OK, an array of means a large  number of so an array of visuals.
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So there are many different visuals,  an array of and a mesmerizing array of.
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When something is mesmerizing,  
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it means it has your full attention  and you don't want to look away.
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Because what you're looking at  or what you're listening to is  
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so interesting that it has your full attention.
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So even if your phone was  beeping, you wouldn't even notice,  
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or you wouldn't even care because what  you're looking at is so much better.
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That would be mesmerizing.
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So they were treated to a mesmerizing  array of stunning visuals.
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It was a star-studded affair.
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If you describe an event as star-studded,  it means that many stars attended.
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And a star in this case represents a celebrity.
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So a star-studded affair is an affair,  an event where many celebrities attended.
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It was a star-studded affair with  numerous prominent entertainers and  
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athletes in attendance, including Oprah  Winfrey, LeBron James and Matt Damon.
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And that's the end of our article.
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And I don't know about you,  
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but it definitely convinced me to want  to go to Las Vegas and see this sphere.
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I'd love to see it in person.
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So now what I'll do is I'll go to the beginning of  the article and I'll read it from start to finish.
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And this time you can focus on my pronunciation.
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Let's do that now.
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The Sphere Las Vegas is multibillion  dollar entertainment venue.
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This sphere is finally here and  it's already generated quite a buzz.
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It started as a simple sketch, a  circle with a stick person inside.
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Seven years later, that drawing has  been made real a $2.3 billion massive  
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spherical venue standing 366 feet high  and lighting up the Las Vegas skyline.
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Inside the 516 foot wide sphere,  a high resolution LED screen,  
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the largest on earth, wraps halfway  around the 17,600 seat audience.
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Out of these 17,600 seats, 10,000  provide an immersive experience  
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with a specialized sound system capable  of making guests feel sound vibrations.
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This fear proudly boasts having the  world's largest concert grade audio system.
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It delivers a crystal clear and  multilayered audio experience.
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Not only is the interior  of the building impressive,  
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but its exterior also boasts  1.2 million hockey puck sized  
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LED's that can be programmed to create  dynamic and colossal image displays.
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It drew immediate attention on the 4th of  July with a digital fireworks display and  
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an eyeball that appeared to scan the  horizon with the words Hello World.
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On September 29th, the much  anticipated moment arrived as  
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the sphere unveiled its grandeur  to the world for the first time.
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Setting the stage for U2's 25 show residency,  
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this legendary rock band took center  stage within the colossal state-of-the-art  
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spherical structure and delivered a 2 hour  performance that left the audience in awe.
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Throughout the evening, attendees retreated  to a mesmerizing array of stunning visuals.
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It was a star-studded affair with  numerous prominent entertainers and  
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athletes in attendance, including Oprah  Winfrey, Le Bron, James, and Matt Damon.
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