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He ran off years ago, figured him for dead anyway.
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So anyway, this lawyer fella says to me, his brother died a rich man, oil wells and shit.
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Close to a million bucks.
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A million bucks?
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Yeah.
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Fucking incredible how lucky some assholes get.
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Jeez Louise, you gonna see any of that?
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35,000.
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That's what he left me.
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Dollars?
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Yep.
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Holy shit, that's great.
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That's like winning the sweepstakes.
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Isn't it?
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Dumb shit, what do you think the government's gonna do to me?
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Take a big wet bite out of my ass is what?
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Poor Barry.
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Terrible fucking luck, huh?
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Crying shame.
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Some people really got it off of.
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Andy, you nuts.
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Keep your ass on your mop, man.
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Andy.
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Well, all right, you're gonna pay some taxes, but you'll still end up with...
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Oh, yeah, yeah, maybe enough to buy a new car, and then what?
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I gotta pay tax on the car.
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Repair, maintenance, goddamn kids pestering you to take them for a ride all the time.
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At the end of the year, you figure the tax wrong, you gotta pay him out of your own pocket.
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I tell you, Uncle Sam, he puts his hand in your shirt and squeezes your tit till it's purple.
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The man Ned gets a break.
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Ned!
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What's he doing?
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He said Rich Gidding.
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Shut this up, Joe.
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Keep telling him.
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Some brother.
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Shit.
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Hey!
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Mr. Hadley, do you trust your wife?
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Oh, that's funny.
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You're gonna look funnier sucking my dick with no teeth.
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What I mean is, do you think she'd go behind your back, try to hamstring you?
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That's it.
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Step aside, Mert.
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This fucker's having himself an accident.
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You don't push him off the roof, because if you do trust her, there's no reason you can't keep that 35,000!
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What did you say?
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35,000.
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35,000?
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All of it.
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All of it?
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Every penny.
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You better start making sense.
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If you want to keep all that money, give it to your wife.
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The IRS allows a one-time only gift to your spouse for up to $60,000.
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Bullshit!
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Tax-free?
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Tax-free.
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IRS can't touch one cent.
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You knew that smart banker would kill his wife, aren't you?
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Why should I believe a smart banker like you?
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So I can end up in here with you?
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It's perfectly legal.
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Go ask the IRS.
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They'll say the same thing.
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Actually, I feel stupid telling you this.
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I'm sure you would have investigated the matter yourself.
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Yeah, fucking A.
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I don't need no smart wife-killing banker to tell me where the bear's sitting the buckwheat.
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Of course not.
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But you do need someone to set up the tax-free gift for you, and it'll cost you.
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A lawyer, for example.
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Bunch of ball-washing bastards.
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Right.
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I suppose I could set it up for you.
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That would save you some money.
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If you get the forms, I'll prepare them for you, Nearly free of charge.
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I'd only ask three beers apiece for each of my coworkers.
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Co-workers, get him.
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That's rich, ain't it?
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I think a man working outdoors feels more like a man if you can have a bottle of suds.
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It's only my opinion.
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Server.
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What are you, Jimmy, staring at?
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Back to work.
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Let's go to work.
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And that's how it came to pass, that on the second to last day of the job, the convict crew
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that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of 49
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wound up sitting in a row at 10 o'clock in the morning, drinking icy cold, bohemia-style beer,
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courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison.
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Drink up while it's cold, ladies.
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The colossal prick even managed to sound magnanimous.
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We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men.
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Hell, we could have been tarring the roof of one of our own houses.
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We were the lords of all creation.
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As for Andy, he spent that break hunkered in the shade.
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A strange little smile on his face, watching us drink his beer.
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Hey.
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Want a cold one, Andy?
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No, thanks.
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Gave up drinking.
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You could argue he'd done it to curry favor with the guards.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “Shawshank Redemption - Rooftop Scene”. Las palabras que más se repiten: tax, Andy, wife, banker, Irs. Este vídeo tiene 99 frases y 703 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:22. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 161 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 84 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 20 de sus 99 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
banker sustantivo/ˈbæŋkəː/banquero, banquera
tar sustantivo/tɑɹ/alquitrán, chapopote bituminoso
buck sustantivo/ˈbʌk/buco, gamo
apiece adverbio/əˈpis/cada uno
buckwheat sustantivo/ˈbʌkʍiːt/alforfón, trigo sarraceno
colossal adjetivo/kəˈlɑsəl/colosal, descomunal
hamstring sustantivo/ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/isquiotibial, músculo isquiotibial
hunker verbo/ˈhʌŋkɚ/encuclillarse, acurrucarse
magnanimous adjetivo/mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/magnánimo
pester verbo/ˈpɛstɚ/atosigar, molestar
convict verbo/ˈkɑnvɪkt/condenar, sentenciar
stare verbo/stɛɚ/mirar fijamente, quedarse mirando
squeeze verbo/skwiːz/exprimir, apretar
spouse sustantivo/spaʊ̯s/cónyuge, consorte
curry sustantivo/ˈkʌ.ɹi/curri

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
give up verborendirse, entregar
wind up verbo/waɪnd ˈʌp/dar cuerda

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • That's what he left me.
  • Hadley, do you trust your wife?
  • What did you say?
  • Why should I believe a smart banker like you?
  • I'm sure you would have investigated the matter yourself.

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbos seguidos de la forma en -ingKeep telling · start making
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un plan o algo que se ve venirgonna see · gonna do · gonna pay
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónyou'll still end · They'll say · it'll cost

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 23 contracciones y formas reducidas, como gonna, can't, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: magnanimous /mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: sweepstake /ˈswipˌsteɪk/, stare /stɛɚ/, squeeze /skwiːz/, spouse /spaʊ̯s/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: convict /ˈkɑnvɪkt/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/
  • /h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: hamstring /ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/, hunker /ˈhʌŋkɚ/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como banker, tar, buck.

¿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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