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1.     you can improve your pronunciation by reading out loud every day.   2.     I can’t translate this text, without checking some  words in the dictionary 3.     We сut corners by swimming across the river 4.     I’ll visit you before leaving Minsk 5.     Coming home, I started doing my homework 6.     He got into the room, without knocking