Shadowing Practice: “I’m in the Empire Business” | Breaking Bad (Bryan Cranston) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Hey.
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Uh, yo, you sure this is okay?
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She's not here.
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Nobody's here.
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All right.
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So, uh, something's come up.
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Mike wanted to come here to give you the hard sell,
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but I figured it'd be better coming from me.
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Mike's connection won't buy mine and Mike's shares of the methamine unless he gets your share, too.
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He wants the entire thousand gallons.
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Absolutely not.
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Yeah, I figured you'd say that,
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but I've been thinking about it,
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and it really makes sense.
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Kinda.
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It does, does it?
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Look, when you, uh, when you started this thing,
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Did you ever dream of having five million dollars?
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I know for a fact that you didn't.
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I know for a fact all you needed was 737,000 because you worked it all out like mathematically.
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Look, if selling the math to me now means that no one else ever gets killed,
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then I vote for that man, hands down.
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And we could have it tomorrow.
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We would be out.
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You could spend time with your family,
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no more worrying about them getting hurt or finding out about everything.
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Isn't this what you've been working for?
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I have not been working this hard just to sell out.
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It's not selling out.
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Yes, it is, Jesse.
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We have suffered and bled, literally, for this business.
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And I will not throw it away for nothing.
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I don't know how else to say it, Mr. White.
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Five million dollars isn't nothing.
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Jesse, have you heard of a company called Gray Matter?
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Huh?
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Well, I co-founded it in grad school with a couple of friends of mine.
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Actually, I was the one who named it.
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And back then, it was just,
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oh, it was just small time.
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We had a couple patents pending, but nothing earth shattering.
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Of course, we all knew the potential.
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Now we were gonna take the world by storm.
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And then this, well, something happened between the three of us and I'm not gonna go into detail.
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But for personal reasons I decided to leave the company.
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And I sold my share to my two partners.
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I took a buyout for $5,000.
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Now at the time, that was a lot of money for me for me.
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Care to guess what that company is worth now?
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Millions?
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Billions with a B.
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2.16 billion as of last Friday.
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I look it up every week and I sold my share, my potential, for $5,000.
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I sold my kids birthright for a few months' rent.
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My business isn't the same thing.
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Jesse, you asked me if I was in the meth business or the money business.
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Neither.
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I'm in the empire business.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo ““I’m in the Empire Business””. Las palabras que más se repiten: share, Jesse, sold. Este vídeo tiene 58 frases y 440 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:35. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 123 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 87 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 10 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
suffer verbo/ˈsʌfɚ/sufrir, penar
patent sustantivo/ˈpeɪtənt/patente
mathematics sustantivo/mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/matemáticas, matemática
pending adjetivo/ˈpɛndɪŋ/pendiente
gallon sustantivo/ˈɡælən/galón
bleed verbo/ˈbliːd/desangrar
buyout sustantivocompra accionaria empresarial
mathematically adverbiomatemáticamente
microgram sustantivo/ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌɡɹæm/microgramo
shatter verbo/ˈʃætɚ/astillar, reventar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
come up verbosalir a relucir
hands down adverbiofácilmente

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • Did you ever dream of having five million dollars?
  • I know for a fact that you didn't.
  • Isn't this what you've been working for?
  • My business isn't the same thing.
  • I'm in the empire business.

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 15 contracciones y formas reducidas, como isn't, gonna, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, birthright /ˈbɝθ.ɹaɪt/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como suffer, patent, mathematics.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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