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Listen to native speakers pronounce “land mine” in real conversational contexts with synchronized timestamps and subtitles.
called metis, which is the ability to detect patterns in the environment.And so for example, my newspaper did a story about soldiers in Iraq, who could look down a street and tell whether there was a land mine, and IED, on the street. And when weasked them, "How do you know?" They couldn't tell you. They just said, "I feel a coldness inside." And that's not something that comes instinctively. It's something that comes from long practice