Missing word?

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Line 2:Oh, mes rhumatismes me dérangent un peu......Is the 'me' before dérangent missing? I've listened several times but can't hear it.

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Hi G,
I agree with you that in  'rhumatismes' the end of the word sounds a bit swallowed up because of the silent 'e' but I can hear the important 'm' sound.
I am afraid that this is the way people speak in France and as this is a B2 exercise, we would expect listeners to cope with this.
Bonne continuation !

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I can hear it quite clearly. Might be technical issue. There is some ‘running together’ of the end of ‘rheumatismes’ and ‘me’, as occurs more markedly in fast everyday speech.

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I thought it may be the 'running together' of 'rhumatismes' and 'me' but even taking that into consideration I still can't hear it. Must be too quick for my brain to process!

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Hi G, 
I have checked and the 'me' is there and detached from 'dérangent'. I suspect that the 'old lady' voice probably threw you ...
Bonne Continuation !

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Sorry to go on about this but it's really bothering me.....Should I be hearing 2 'me' sounds before dérangent - as in "mes rhumatismes me dérangent ?

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Hi G. I too can only hear the "me" sound once in "rhumatismes me dérangent", and I played it numerous times, but I wouldn't be too worried about trying to hear two. I think in conversation they would usually run the two "me" (or similar) sounds together like this, for ease of pronunciation (otherwise it would sound a bit like a stutter). In the spoken language I have found that there are often unsounded words or sounds, just like the missing "ne" in negative sentences which is almost universally dropped. Or the 'il" in "il y a" or "il faut" for example.

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Thanks everyone, I'm not losing sleep over it :-) and I do understand it's all part of french pronunciation. I was more concerned that I couldn't hear what everyone else was hearing. Thanks to Paul I now know I'm not alone!! I've decided to cancel my hearing test for another year.......LOL

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To my (amateur) ear the “me” is completely missing, and so Paul’s explanation seems quite convincing.

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The first time I transcribed it, I put in the me because I knew it should be there.  But after listening for several times, I concluded she was speaking some kind of slang and omitting the me.  So, I took it out and found I was wrong.  I guess it's something like "I didn't know" in English.  Sometimes the nt gets swallowed and the listener has to say "did or did not?" for clarification.