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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #38958 Short B12 deficiency
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You will hear a recording. Below is a transcription of the recording. Some words in the transcription differ from what the speaker said. Please click on the words that are different.
* Click on the words that are different from what you hear
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Correct Transcript:

Right. So, in terms of supplements other than vitamin D, which is not really a vitamin because you're meant to make it in your skin. So, you're not meant to need to eat it, which is the defination of a vitamin. As you get over past the age of about 70, you don't make it very well even if you are out in the sun. So, vitamin D is something that many-many older people need, regardless of sun exposure, after the age of 70, and that is the one supplement that we almost always as geriatricians look to see if people need, and and need to supplement. The other vitamin that is some which is a vitamin which is sometimes deficient because of ageing, is vitamin B12, because vitamin B12 is bound to animal protein and in order to cleave it from the protein and absorb it, you actually have to have acid in your stomach. So as you get older, you have a condition often called achlorhydria, where you don't actually make enough acid.
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Printed "deficit", the speaker says "defination"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "the defination of a vitamin". Both words start with d, so listen to the whole word, the spoken word is much longer.

Printed "exposing", the speaker says "exposure"

Explanation: Listen again to "regardless of sun exposure". Both words start with e, so listen to the end and expect a word for a thing.

Printed "always", the speaker says "sometimes"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "which is sometimes deficient because". They start with different letters, so focus on that first sound and trust your ears.

Printed "claim", the speaker says "cleave"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "to cleave it from". You see "claim" on the page, not in the audio. They both start with c, so listen to the whole word.

"geriatricians" matches the audio

Explanation: "we almost always as geriatricians look to see" has a rare word. It looks like a trick, but the speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

"achlorhydria" matches the audio

Explanation: "often called achlorhydria, where" has a long medical word. It seems hard and might fool you, but the speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

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