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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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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B1 si basa sul video “Shawshank Redemption - Rooftop Scene”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: tax, Andy, wife, banker, Irs. Questo video contiene 99 frasi e 703 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:22. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 161 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 84% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare. 20 delle sue 99 frasi sono domande: un buon esercizio per l’intonazione interrogativa e le risposte brevi.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
banker sostantivo/ˈbæŋkəː/banchiere, banchiero
tar sostantivo/tɑɹ/catrame
buck sostantivo/ˈbʌk/Maschio di cervo, antilope
apiece avverbio/əˈpis/ciascuno, ciascuna
buckwheat sostantivo/ˈbʌkʍiːt/grano saraceno, fagopiro
colossal aggettivo/kəˈlɑsəl/colossale
magnanimous aggettivo/mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/magnanimo
sweepstake sostantivo/ˈswipˌsteɪk/lotteria, gioco a premi
convict verbo/ˈkɑnvɪkt/condannare
stare verbo/stɛɚ/fissare
squeeze verbo/skwiːz/spremere, stringere
spouse sostantivo/spaʊ̯s/sposo, sposa
curry sostantivo/ˈkʌ.ɹi/curry
courtesy sostantivo/ˈkɝɾəsi/cortesia
shade sostantivo/ʃeɪd/ombra

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
give up verboarrendersi
set up verbo/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/preparare, installare

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • 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.

La grammatica di questo video

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

StrutturaNel video
Verbo + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — i verbi seguiti dalla forma in -ingKeep telling · start making
Futuro con “going to” be going to + verbo — un piano o qualcosa che si vede arrivaregonna see · gonna do · gonna pay
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisione, una promessa o una previsioneyou'll still end · They'll say · it'll cost

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 23 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come gonna, can't, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: magnanimous /mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hamstring /ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/, hunker /ˈhʌŋkɚ/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: buck /ˈbʌk/, apiece /əˈpis/, buckwheat /ˈbʌkʍiːt/, magnanimous /mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/, sweepstake /ˈswipˌsteɪk/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: banker /ˈbæŋkəː/, hamstring /ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/, magnanimous /mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come banker, tar, buck.

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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