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Rachel, do me a favor?
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Can you just put that on pause for a sec?
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Because I need to make a copy.
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No, Lewis, I can't.
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I'm busy doing my job.
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Excuse me?
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You want to fire me like you fired Harold?
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Because honestly, I don't give a shit.
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I get it.
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Rachel, listen.
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I know about the Harvard thing.
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And I think it's great.
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What?
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Yeah, Norma told me.
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Rachel, I know that waiting is hard, but you're not gonna be here for much longer.
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I got 100% faith in you.
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I didn't get it.
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What?
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I don't understand.
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I had everything.
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My grades, the LSATs, I'm a legacy, and I don't even puff myself up, but I killed it at that interview.
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That doesn't make any sense.
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And do you remember that woman who came from Harvard?
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She didn't like anyone, but I swear she loved me.
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Sheila.
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Yeah.
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Sheila...
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Sheila Sass.
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You remember.
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Yeah, I remember. Is there something wrong?
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Yup, there is something wrong.
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I believe you were wronged.
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I believe you suffered the slings and hours of outrageous wrongness.
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And I will not have it.
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What does that mean?
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That means that I'm gonna rectify this situation because you miss saying you're going to Harvard.
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Look, Sheila, I'm flattered by what you did.
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But this is not fair, and you know it can't stand.
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Lewis, pull a resume from the stack.
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Anyone.
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Read it.
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Sure.
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Magna cum laude.
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Yale, 3.9 GPA.
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Another one.
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Summa cum laude.
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Georgetown, 4.3 GPA.
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Listen, I get it.
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I know what you're trying to...
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That's my reject pile.
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I am a professional.
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I would never let my feelings for you sway me against a candidate.
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Okay, but you have to let them sway you for a candidate.
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You can't ask me that.
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Rachel Zane is the best paralegal in the best law firm in New York.
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She is relied upon by the best lawyers who have graduated from the best university.
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The woman is crimson.
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So who do I knock out?
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I promised her.
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Louis, I liked her.
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I did.
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You're just gonna have to tell her the truth.
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Sometimes good isn't good enough.
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What is it, Louis?
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Got a hard truth to tell you.
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I'm not going to Harvard.
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No, you're not.
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I get it.
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I'm not good enough.
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I never have been.
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That is not the hard truth.
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You're an amazing candidate, and you need to know this in your heart.
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The truth is you did not get in.
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Because I let you down.
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What are you talking about?
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Sheila and I had a relationship.
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I hurt her. And...
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And she took it out on me?
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I want to write you a recommendation for anywhere.
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Any law school.
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It just...
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Won't be Harvard.
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I'm really sorry.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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I never got to buy you that drink last night.
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They were free.
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I know.
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You left.
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I did.
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It was a nice party.
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It was.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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Okay.
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So I see you're still not gonna tell me why.
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I didn't get to know.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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You left.
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I did.
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It was a nice party.
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It was.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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Okay.
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So I see you're still not gonna tell me why you...
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I didn't get into Harvard.
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Don't look at me that way. With sympathy? With pity.
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I wasn't.
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Rachel...
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Listen to me.
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There are other schools...
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Don't.
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Yeah, I won't.
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It wasn't that I wasn't good enough.
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I know that.
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It was Louis.
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What?
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The interviewer.
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Uh, apparently she and Louis had a history and...
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Wait, she didn't let you in because of him?
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That's...
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I know.
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...not right.
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I know.
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Tell me about the day you found out.
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Rachel, come on.
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No. I need to hear how it felt from someone who got in, because I'll...
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I'll never hear that from myself.
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You're looking at me like that again.
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I'm not.
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Then what?
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It's.. it's just not right.
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Yeah.
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Whatever it is, I'm not in the mood.
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I know about Rachel and Sheila at Harvard.
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How?
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Rachel told me.
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She wants me to send this letter going over Sheila's head, but it can't come from me.
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Yeah, it can't come from anyone.
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She didn't get in because they didn't think she was good enough.
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You lied to her.
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No, I never lied to her.
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I told her she was good enough, which she is, but I let her down because I couldn't persuade Sheila, which is the truth.
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Louis, you have to tell her the real truth.
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Like, I saw the look on her face and I took it away.
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I do not want to put it back.
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She is gonna pursue this.
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She's gonna find out one way or the other.
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I'm not gonna let her find out from Harvard.
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I can't tell her.
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You'll regret it.
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Look, I'll give you another day to think about it, but after that, I have to tell her myself.
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I mean, so look, I'm sorry, but I am not...
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When did you send that letter?
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Um, I was, uh...
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I'll tell you when.
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Never.
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Okay, look, let me explain.
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When I went to see Louis, he told me what really happened.
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I know.
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He told me to.
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And I get it.
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I'm not good enough.
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What I don't get, Mike, is why you didn't have the courage and tell me that yourself.
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Look, he lied to you.
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I thought he deserved the chance to tell you himself, all right?
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When I went to his office to get him to sign the letter, I...
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Wait.
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You went to him to sign the letter?
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You told me you were gonna sign the letter.
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No. So you lied to me.
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No, I didn't.
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I told you that I would help you.
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That is such bull .
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That's not what you meant, and you know it.
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You've been cagey with me since the second I came to you about the letter, and you're being cagey with me right now.
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You are.
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You're lying to me.
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Not today.
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Rachel, please stop.
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Then what day, Mike?
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Because it's always something.
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It is always some secret or some story or some lie.
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You don't understand.
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I don't understand why.
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You don't understand what I have been through.
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You don't understand what I have lost.
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Because it's everything.
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Everyone that I love.
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Trevor, my grandmother, Harvey, now probably this job.
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I am not ready to lose you.
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Not today.
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Then tell me.
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I never went to Harvard.
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What?
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I'm a fraud.
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Rachel.
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Rachel.
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I'm sorry.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “"Sometimes Good Isn't Good Enough"”. Las palabras que más se repiten: Rachel, Harvard, Sheila, Louis, letter. Este vídeo tiene 201 frases y 1100 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 9:23. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 117 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 80 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
litter sustantivo/ˈlɪt.ɚ/cama, lecho
sway verbo/ˈsweɪ̯/balancear, bambolear
flatter verbo/ˈflætɚ/halagar, falagar
interviewer sustantivo/ˈɪntɚvjuɚ/entrevistador, entrevistadora
puff sustantivo/pʌf/bocanada, vaharada
crimson sustantivo/ˈkɹɪmzən/carmín, carmesí
outrageous adjetivo/aʊtˈɹeɪ.d͡ʒəs/indignante, inaudito
persuade verbo/pə(ɹ)ˈsweɪd/persuadir, chamuyar
yale sustantivoeale
pity sustantivo/ˈpɪt.i/piedad, lástima
pause sustantivo/pɔːz/pausa
sympathy sustantivo/ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/compasión
stack sustantivo/stæk/pila, montón
recommendation sustantivo/ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/recomendación
resume verbo/ˈɹɛz.ə.meɪ/reanudar, retomar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
find out verboaveriguar, anoticiarse
knock out verbonoquear

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

  • Rachel, do me a favor?
  • What are you talking about?
  • Wait, she didn't let you in because of him?
  • When did you send that letter?
  • You went to him to sign the letter?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorahave graduated · have been · You've been
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosawoman who came · someone who got · Sheila, which is
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewere wronged · is relied
Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupothe best

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 75 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, don't, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/, grandmother /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: paralegal /ˌpɛɹəˈliɡ(ə)l/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: sway /ˈsweɪ̯/, stack /stæk/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: crimson /ˈkɹɪmzən/, pause /pɔːz/, resume /ˈɹɛz.ə.meɪ/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: cagey /ˈkeɪd͡ʒi/, outrageous /aʊtˈɹeɪ.d͡ʒəs/, courage /ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/

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 litter, sway, flatter.

¿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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