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Practice dictation & shadowing on the daily life story: John F. Kennedy: ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’
John F. Kennedy: ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’
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John F Kennedy IC Benign Berliner
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2000 Years ago the proudest boast was civus Romana's sum.
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Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is IC benign Berliner.
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There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't.
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What is the great issue between the free world and the communist world?
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Let them come to Berlin.
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There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future.
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Let them come to Berlin.
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And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere, we can work with the communists.
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Let them come to Berlin.
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And there are even a few who say that it's true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress.
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Let them come to Berlin.
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Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us.
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I want to say on behalf of my countrymen who live many miles away on the other side of the Atlantic, who are far distant from you, that they take the greatest pride that they have been able to share with you, even from a distance, the story of the last 18 years.
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I know of no town, no city that has been besieged for 18 years, that still lives with the vitality and the force and the hope and the determination of the city of West Berlin.
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While the wall is the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the communist system all the world can see, we take no satisfaction in it.
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For it is, as your mayor has said, an offense not only against history, but an offense against humanity, separating families, dividing husbands and wives and brothers and sisters, and dividing a people who wish to be joined together.
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What is true of this city is true of Germany.
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Real, lasting peace in Europe can never be assured as long as one German out of four is denied the elementary right of free men.
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And that is to make a free choice.
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In 18 years of peace and good faith, this generation of Germans has earned the right to be free, including the right to unite their families and their nation in lasting peace with goodwill to all people.
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You live in a defended island of freedom, but your life is part of the main.
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So let me ask you, as I close to lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today, to the hopes of tomorrow, beyond the freedom merely of this city of Berlin and all your country of Germany.
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To the advance of freedom everywhere, beyond the wall, to the day of peace with justice, beyond yourselves and ourselves to all mankind.
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Freedom is indivisible.
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And when one man is enslaved who are free, when all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one, and this country and this great continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe.
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When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost 2 decades.
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All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a freeman, I take pride in the words IK bin ein Berliner.
Let them come to berlin ahahaah