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Welcome to this lesson to help you learn  English with the new. We're going to read  

a news article together and you're going  to learn a lot of advanced vocabulary,  

complex sentence structure, it mounts grammar,  and even correct pronunciation directly by  

reading this article with me. Welcome back to  JForrest English training of course I'm Jennifer  

and this is your place to become a fluent and  confident English speaker. Let's get started.  

Hello, hello and welcome to our article. I'm sure  you recognize Prince Harry and you may know that  

he just released a memoir called spare that's what  we're talking about today. And I'm sure that's  

what many people around the world are talking  about right now. So let's read the headline.  

Prince Harry's memoir spare which captures  the ugly side of royal life hits bookshelves.  

Now let's talk about the title of this  memoir. A memoir is simply a book that  

talks about your own experience or memories of  memoir. Now spare in English is an adjective  

it's an adjective and it means extra or  additional. That's not in use, so not in  

use. So that means that available that's not in  use that's available. For example, I could say  

do you have an umbrella? Now if I wanted to be  more specific, I could say do you have a spare  

umbrella remember as an adjective it comes before  the noun and it just lets you know that I don't  

want your umbrella if you're using it. I want  an additional umbrella that you're not using.  

So you might say Do you Do you have a spare pen?  If you're in a class and you're taking notes,  

or you want to take notes and you don't have a  pen? You could turn to someone and say do you  

have a spare pen? So I would guess that spare  in this context is referring to the fact that  

he is like the extra member of the royal  family, not in use. Because there's no way  

he's ever going to become king. Because his  older brother William is going to be king.  

So he's like the spare. That's what I would  guess I don't know if that's true or not.  

Now let's talk about this. Hits bookshelves hits  bookshops. So hit is our verb to hit. It's being  

used in a different way. Of course, because  hit is this that's the verb to hit. But to  

hit a bookshelf when a product hits a location,  it simply means to become available to become  

available. So I'll write that out because  it's used in the context of when a product  

hits a location, it becomes available. So  you might ask, let's say a new iPhone was  

released or is going to be released. You might  ask when does the new iPhone hit the store? hit  

the shelves? Hit the internet because you can  buy it online right? Movies. When does that  

new movie hit? The theaters become available  in the theaters? So it's very commonly used?  

So when does his or his new memoir became  available? Hit the bookshops. All right, let's  

continue on. Prince Harry's memoir was released  Tuesday. This is when it hit bookshelves Tuesday.  

Not only offering right now when I see this  not only I know that later on in the sentence,  

they're going to say but also not only but also  because those two go together. So let's find out  

where they say that not only offering new details  on the British Royal Family bitter internal feud,  

after days of bombshell revelations and  promotional interviews, well, that was  

quite long actually. But also describing so we use  this expression not only but also when we want to  

talk about two different benefits or features  or points about one thing. So you might say.  

The book, not only talks about the  royal family, but also talks about his  

relationship with Megan Markel, his wife,  for example, not only not only and then you  

have your clause but also and then you have your  second clause, your second point. So that's a very  

advanced structure. It's a nice structure so you  can practice using that in your own. We use this a  

lot in written English but you can absolutely use  it in spoken English as well. So we have not only  

but also let's also look at this bitter,  bitter, bitter, bitter is an adjective.  

When someone is bitter, they're angry or upset.  about something that they just can't forget about.  

So let's say last week or two weeks ago, a friend  didn't invite you to their party so you're angry  

and upset. You were angry and upset at the  time but two weeks later, you're still angry  

and upset. So the anger and the feelings of being  upset have lasted because of that event. That's  

when you would say she's bitter. She's been angry  and upset for a long time. And Graham said about  

a past event all say, and you're still angry and  upset now. So the family's bitter, viewed a feud  

is a fight is another way  of saying fight. Their feud.  

I do hear this quite a lot in the  media to describe when two people  

are fighting. It could be a family, it could  be within a company. It could be friends,  

celebrities. I often hear them describe it as  a feud in the media but honestly, in in my own  

speech in speech with my friends, movies, I  don't hear that a lot. It's, I hear it more  

specifically in the media. In everyday context, we  just say by the families bitter internal fights,  

after days of bombshell revelations, now a  bombshell is a announcement that has a really  

big impact because a bomb imagine a bomb. Right?  So imagine you deliver news to someone and there's  

a big impact of that. In this case, a revelation  is information that wasn't available secrets  

information and now it is available. And by  describing it as a bombshell, it had a big impact.  

So that's a bombshell revelation, just information  being shared that has a very big impact.  

Let's continue on, but also describing how he  fell headlong in love with his future wife,  

Megan Markel. So this was quite a long paragraph  and then I summarized it in this very short  

paragraph the media does that they like to use  additional adjectives to make it sound really  

important or entertaining when you can say  the same thing in a more simple way. Okay,  

let's continue on. Well, many of the details from  the book titled spare have already been recorded.  

It's released at midnight Monday, local time, will  allow the public to get their hands on a copy of a  

memoir. Filled with glimpses into a rarefied  family riven by disagreement and distrust.  

When you get your hands on something, so notice  the sentence structure our verb is the verb get  

one's hands the one in this case is the subject  day. So it's there as the possessive pronoun to  

get one hand plural hands, on is our preposition  and then something when you get your hands on  

something, it just means that you have it and  we usually use this when the something might be  

difficult to to obtain. Or there's some sort  of significance in obtaining, let's say,  

there were only 10 iPhones that hit the shelves,  and I was able to get my hands on one I was able  

to obtain one and that is special or significant  because there aren't many available. So here's  

the example sentence and remember, get one's hands  so you need to match the possessive pronoun to the  

subject. So I put that here for you as well. So  you remember one's hands. Let's continue on. Okay.  

With glimpses into glimpses into when you glimpse  at something, you look at something quickly,  

and you don't necessarily see the whole thing you  just see a part of it. So let's say I'm driving I  

might glimpse at a billboard, a billboard is just  a poster that you see on a highway so I'm driving  

and I glimpse at it, I can't stare at it or look  at it for a long time because I'm driving I have  

to pay attention to the road so I might glimpse  at it quickly. So to look at something quickly,  

so that let me write that for you. So to glimpse  to glimpse at something is to look at something  

quickly. So in this context, if we get a glimpse  into the royal family, it means we get to look at  

the royal family, but only briefly because we only  get to see what the Manoir shares with us, right.  

So that's what is trying to let us know we get to  look at the royal family but only a little bit.  

rarefied is an adjective and as an adjective  it means not ordinary. So of course, the royal  

family is not ordinary. They're extraordinary.  They're rare a fine. So we use this as an  

adjective to describe the family, their rarefied,  the rarefied family. So if there is a company that  

is quite different from ordinary companies, you  might say it's a rarefied company. For example,  

I don't think you'll use this adjective too much  in your vocabulary, but just to understand the  

article a rarefied family riven by disagreement.  Ribbon riven by is another way of saying divided  

by because you have your family as a whole.  The family is not arguing they're together.  

But if the family is divided riven by it means  the disagreement caused the family to separate  

to become divided riven by. So this is another  way of saying divided by divided by disagreement.  

Let's continue on some Britons walked to  bookshops overnight to be among the first  

to buy a copy of spare when you flock to a  location it describes when a large number of  

people go to a location generally at or around  the same time. So you might say that people  

flocked to the Apple store when  the new iPhone hits the shelves  

when the new iPhone hit the shelves they  flock to so a large number of people and  

they generally went around the same time because  the iPhone was released at a specific date and  

time and that's when everybody went so to flock  to a large number of people. Let's continue on.  

Some of the books most eye catching passages  include allegations that Harry's brother an heir  

to the throne Prince William physically attacked  him during a dispute that his stepmother Camilla,  

the Queen Consort, leaked private conversations  to bolster her reputation and that his father,  

King Charles the third had pleaded  with his sons to not make his final  

years of misery with their arguing.  So remember, we learned another word,  

another word for fighting. We can say with  their arguing with their fighting with their  

viewing that could be another word with  their viewing so I'll leave that there.  

When something is eye catching it means that  your eye is drawn to it so your eye naturally  

goes to it. It is more interesting or it stands  out more it gets your attention. That's eye  

catching. So the passages passages just right  now we're reading a passage of this article  

so it's a piece of the article article and eye  catching is most interesting parts passages most  

interesting now it could be another adjective  interesting, engaging, most entertaining, for  

example, but I'll just say most interesting. an  allegation is when someone accuses someone else,  

you did this that's my allegation against you.  So Harry had allegations against his brother,  

William, you did this. That's what he said in the  book. So he physically attacked him. So physical  

means that there was violence involved. He touched  him. He maybe hit him, we don't know. But there's  

some sort of physical events attacked him during a  dispute. dispute is another word for fight during  

a fight or an argument, or again, a feud. We  can say, Camilla leaked when you leak something,  

it's when you make it available, but it should  not be available. So these private conversations,  

they're private for a reason, but if you leave  them is when I say oh, here's the conversation,  

and I give it to you, but you shouldn't have it.  So that is the verb to leak. This is a verb. I  

know it's a verb because it's conjugated. In the  past simple, so to make information available  

when it shouldn't be because it's private  information is not supposed to be public.  

To bolster her reputation bolstered in this  sense, is another way of seeing to improve to  

increase to bolster her reputation to improve  improve or increase, but in this case, it's  

improved because you don't necessarily increase  a reputation but you can improve it a lot of  

people don't like Camila right. She has a negative  reputation. She wants to improve it to bolster it.  

Now I think to plead with someone is  please don't please don't that's to  

lead with someone to plead with his son's  not to make his final years of misery and  

misery would be terrible. A misery with  their arguing using disputing or fighting.  

Let's continue on the publication of such  a frank and revealing account is a near  

unprecedented event in the centuries old history  of Britain's Royals, who as Harry has pointed out,  

double as both a family and national institution.  The book has led to questions over whether it  

could do lasting damage to the market, even asking  whether its future existence is now less certain.  

Okay, off Frank, and revealing account Frank  is another way of saying honest and honest  

and revealing just write this first honest  revealing is when you share a lot of details.  

So that comes from the verb to reveal which  means to share with details. So to reveal  

to reveal a lot of details or information to  share, share a lot but details or information.  

And then Frank means honest, and on  precedented event is an event. That  

doesn't happen very often. is never happened.  It's an unprecedented. Now unprecedented on  

its own means that it's never happened before.  Well, when you say near unprecedented it means  

that it's almost so near means almost in this  sense. So with implying that it's almost never  

happened before. And the event is sharing  so much information about the royal family  

publicly leaking that information, giving you  a glimpse into the private life of the Royals.  

Okay. And our final paragraph here he has said  that he's still wants a reconciliation with his  

family. When you have a reconciliation, it's when  so two parties they're disputing they're feuding  

or fighting. But if they reconcile, which  is the verb to reconcile is when they come  

back together as a family. So right now there's  Prince Harry here, and there's Prince William,  

Prince Charles, King, Charles here, they're  divided, right? So to bring them back together  

that's to reconcile. Reconciliation is just  the noun of it, to reconcile. We use this a  

lot in a legal context because if a husband  and wife they separate, which is a legal  

event when they no longer want to be married, but  then if they reconcile it means they do want to be  

married again. And they do not end their marriage  got reconcile, so to become friendly again, after  

a dispute to reconcile. So he wants to reconcile  He wants all reconciliation with his family. And  

believes one is possible, but asked whether he  had burned his bridges with his father and brother  

to burn. One's bridge is an ATM. So imagine right  now if I'm here, and I want to get there and  

there's a bridge I can easily go back and forth  between the two. Right? But if I burn the bridge,  

the bridge is no longer there. I can't get there,  right. So it's when you act in a way that makes  

reconciliation impossible, or act in a way that  it's impossible to get to something else. So a  

lot of people are advised when you quit your job,  don't burn your bridges, because you want to be  

able to go back to that job. In the future. How  could you burn your bridges? Well, if you tell  

your boss, you were the worst employer I ever had,  I hated working for you. You're a jerk and you  

do something that makes it so your employer would  never want to work with you again. So that bridge  

to that job is gone. Right? So here I've added the  definition and the example don't burn your bridges  

when you quit. So be very polite friendly, because  you may need a reference from your company. Or you  

may want to go back to that company in the future.  So that's the article I'm sure there's a lot more  

interesting details about this new memoir spare  Are you going to read it? Share it in the comments  

if you plan on reading this memoir. And now what  I'm going to do is I'm going to read the article  

from start to finish in full so you can practice  along with my pronunciation. Let's do that now.  

Prince Harry's memoir spare which captures  the ugly side of royal life hits bookshelves.  

Prince Harry's memoir was released Tuesday,  not only offering new details on the British  

Royal Family's bitter internal feud after days of  bombshell revelations and promotional interviews,  

but also describing how he fell headlong in  love. With his future wife, Megan Markel.  

While many of the details from the book titled  spare have already been recorded. Its release  

at midnight Monday, local time, will allow  the public to get their hands on a copy of a  

memoir filled with glimpses into a rarefied  family riven by disagreement and distrust.  

Some Britons walk to book shops overnight to  be among the first to buy a copy of spare.  

Some of the books most eye catching passages  include allegations that Harry's brother and heir  

to the throne Prince William physically attacked  him during a dispute that his stepmother Camilla,  

the Queen Consort, leaked private conversations to  bolster her reputation and that his father, King  

Charles the third had pleaded with his sons to not  make his final years of misery with their arguing.  

The publication of such a frank and revealing  account is a near unprecedented events in  

the centuries old history of Britain's  Royals, who as Harry has pointed out,  

double as both a family and national institution.  The book is led to questions over whether it's  

real lasting damage to the monarchy, even asking  whether its future existence is now less certain.  

Harry has said that he still wants  a reconciliation with his family and  

believes one is possible, but as better he had  burned his bridges with his father and brother.  

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