Pratica di Shadowing: I'm NOT Testifying Against My Mentor | Suits - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Tell me about your relationship with Cameron Dennis.
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Vague.
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Did you and District Attorney Cameron Dennis work closely together?
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He was my boss.
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He supervised all my cases.
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And were you personally close?
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Subjective.
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A judge would allow it.
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And yet there's not one here.
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Do you really think by deposing him on the stand, you're going to intimidate him?
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I think deposing him here will let him know what it will be like if this evidence is brought forward at trial.
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You're not getting to trial.
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If your client doesn't perjure himself right now, I won't have to.
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Were you and Cameron Dennis close?
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Personally?
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He was my mentor.
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It's a hard relationship to define.
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Moving on, counselor.
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All right.
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We don't have to talk about Mr. Dennis.
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Let's talk about you, Mr. Spector.
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In two years, you handled 18,362 cases.
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36 cases a day.
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That's beyond impressive.
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Thank you.
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You took 147 to trial, winning them all.
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Don't go to trial if you're not gonna win.
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Why'd you leave?
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An attorney by the name of Jessica Pearson helped me get through law school, and she felt that I could use trial experience.
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But I always planned on ending up at her firm and paying her back by earning that firm outrageous settlements.
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How am I doing?
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Could do better.
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You two think that this is a joke?
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Argumentative.
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You're damn right it's argumentative.
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Because he knows that laws have been broken, and he has an obligation to report it.
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Ms. Leeds...
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But if this is the way you want to play it, the Attorney General has given me a broad mandate to uncover what went on.
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And it need not be limited to Mr. Dennis.
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Were you part of the problem, Mr. Spector?
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Vague.
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I'll rephrase.
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In your capacity as Assistant District Attorney in the county of New York, did you knowingly suppress evidence in violation of the ABA Rules of Conduct,
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the NDAA standards, and the New York State Bar Rule 8.4, Section C?
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My client would like to exercise his Fifth Amendment rights at this time.
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I hear you botched the settlement by negotiating against yourself.
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I didn't...
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You let Lewis know the one thing that was most important to our client.
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Yes, I made a mistake, but Lewis made one too.
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Well, he didn't mention that.
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Yes, he knows what our client wants, but now we know the one thing his client wants.
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She doesn't care about winning, Harvey.
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She just wants our client to lose.
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Okay, well, that's good.
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So what's next?
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We lose.
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We give her the tabloid.
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Well, how does that make our client happy?
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We let Madison have the paper, and then we take everyone who works there and we start a new one.
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They all love Kelsey.
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Nothing but the truth is just a name.
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We let Madison have it.
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I've taught you a thing or two.
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Well, I see that you're up to speed.
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Well, as am I.
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Um, I noticed there were some employee issues at the tabloid.
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You know, contracts about to expire.
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So I just want to let you guys know that I, uh, went ahead and locked up all the key employees.
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Just to protect us.
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Since we're all.. working on this together.
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Right?
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Mm-hmm.
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Good.
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He knows.
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He can't.
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He does.
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I was careful.
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I deleted every file from the server.
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The only time any paper trail left my locked desk is when I faxed it to Kelsey.
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You faxed it from the large machine
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that stores all the information you put in it to be printed back later by anyone who has your code?
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He can't do that.
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We have a Chinese wall thingy.
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Oh, God, he's gonna beat us, isn't he?
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Look, he knows what we're up to, but he couldn't keep his tactics to himself.
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So we can use that against him.
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And that's how we'll crush Lewis.
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Refresher course, Harvey.
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You and Lewis aren't opponents on this one.
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You're working together.
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Like Captain and Tennille?
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If so, he's Tennille. Who?
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You need to come with me.
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What, am I in trouble?
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Yeah, Harvey.
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You are.
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You gonna buy me a drink before you screw me?
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Sit down, Harvey.
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I just know what she has to say.
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You got me trembling in my boots.
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You're a small fish, and you don't even swim in the pond anymore.
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But if I have to eat you alive to get to Cameron Dennis, I will.
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This is my case against him.
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Falsifying DNA tests, coerced confessions, testimony buried.
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You have all this, why do you need me? Because this is circumstantial.
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You have the crimes, but you can't physically tie them to Cameron.
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He's a dirty public servant, and I think it's why you left.
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Your record was too good to just walk away.
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Maybe I got greedy.
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Harvey.
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I'm not testifying.
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You're being stubborn.
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And this isn't one where you get to make the call.
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I'm sorry.
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I've done all I can.
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It wasn't just his cases he cheated on.
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Hector Avila, take a look.
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You think you were really that great?
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You think your great track record was because of your skill? because of your skill.
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I got two theories here, Harvey.
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Either you're wasting your time protecting a man who screwed you from the beginning, or you didn't just know he did this.
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You participated, in which case I'll have you disbarred.
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Thank you.

Perché esercitarti a parlare con questo video?

Questo video è una vera gemma per chi vuole migliorare l'inglese parlato: il dialogo è intenso, con toni formali e argomentazioni acute, tipiche di contesti legali o professionali. Esercitarti a "shadow speak" (ripetere a voce alta immediatamente dopo i parlanti) con questo contenuto ti aiuterà a acquisire fluidità, intonazione e confidenza in situazioni dove la precisione linguistica è fondamentale. Inoltre, le discussioni tra avvocati e testimoni offrono un contesto reale per capire come usare l'inglese in modo persuasivo e assertivo. Non è solo imparare parole, ma a comunicare con potere!

Grammatica e espressioni nel contesto

Analizziamo alcuni punti chiave del dialogo per rafforzare la tua competenza:

  • "My client would like to exercise his Fifth Amendment rights": L'uso di "would like to" è una forma più cortese di "want to", perfetta per contesti formali. Nota come "exercise" qui non significa "esercitare" nel senso fisico, ma "usare" o "invocare" un diritto. Ottimo per imparare vocaboli specifici del diritto.
  • "I hear you botched the settlement": "Botched" è un verbo informale che significa "sballare" o "ruinare". L'espressione "I hear you..." è una maniera colloquiale di dire "Ho sentito che...", utile per iniziare una conversazione su un argomento delicato.
  • "My client would like to exercise his Fifth Amendment rights at this time": La struttura "at this time" è una variante formale di "ora" o "in questo momento", spesso usata in contesti legali o professionali per aggiungere precisione.
  • "Do you really think by deposing him on the stand, you're going to intimidate him?": La costruzione "by + gerundio" (es. "by deposing") è fondamentale per esprimere il modo in cui si fa qualcosa. Esercitati a usarla per spiegare azioni e risultati.

Trappole di pronuncia comuni

Nel video, alcuni vocaboli possono creare difficoltà: ecco come affrontarli con il "shadowing in inglese":

  • "Deposing": La pronuncia corretta è /dɪˈpoʊzɪŋ/, con l'accento sulla seconda sillaba. Attenzione a non confonderla con "disposing" (/dɪˈspoʊzɪŋ/), che significa "smaltire".
  • "Perjure": Si dice /ˈpɜːrdʒər/, con la "j" pronunciata come in "giorno" (inglese). Evita di aggiungere una "t" finale!
  • "Suppress": La pronuncia è /səˈpres/, con l'accento sulla seconda sillaba. Non confondere con "express" (/ɪkˈspres/), che ha un suono differente.

Imparare l'inglese con YouTube e usare tecniche come lo shadowing è un modo veloce e divertente per migliorare la pronuncia e la fluidità. Un shadowing site o semplicemente ripetere le frasi del video a voce alta (shadow speak) ti aiuterà a internalizzare le intonazioni e le pause naturali della lingua. Non perdere l'occasione di esercitarti con questo dialogo ricco di contesti reali!

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohave been broken · has given · I've taught
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fais brought · have been broken · be printed
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosaeveryone who works · anyone who has · man who screwed

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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