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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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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “Shawshank Redemption - Rooftop Scene”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: tax, Andy, wife, banker, Irs. Deze video bevat 99 zinnen en 703 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:22. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 161 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 84% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken. 20 van de 99 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
banker zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbæŋkəː/bankier
tar zelfstandig naamwoord/tɑɹ/koolteer
buck zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbʌk/bok
apiece bijwoord/əˈpis/per stuk
buckwheat zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbʌkʍiːt/boekweit
colossal bijvoeglijk naamwoord/kəˈlɑsəl/kolossaal
magnanimous bijvoeglijk naamwoord/mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/grootmoedig, edelmoedig
pester werkwoord/ˈpɛstɚ/pesten
sweepstake zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈswipˌsteɪk/loterij
convict werkwoord/ˈkɑnvɪkt/veroordelen, vonnissen
stare werkwoord/stɛɚ/staren
squeeze werkwoord/skwiːz/drukken, klemmen
spouse zelfstandig naamwoord/spaʊ̯s/echtgenoot, eega
curry zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkʌ.ɹi/kerrieschotel, curryschotel
penny zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈpɛni/penny

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
give up werkwoordzich overgeven
set up werkwoord/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/bereiden, voorbereiden

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

  • 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.

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

StructuurIn de video
Werkwoord + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — werkwoorden die door de -ing-vorm worden gevolgdKeep telling · start making
Toekomst met “going to” be going to + werkwoord — een plan of iets dat je ziet aankomengonna see · gonna do · gonna pay
Toekomst met “will” will + werkwoord — een besluit, belofte of voorspellingyou'll still end · They'll say · it'll cost

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 23 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals gonna, can't, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: magnanimous /mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: squeeze /skwiːz/, shade /ʃeɪd/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: banker /ˈbæŋkəː/, hamstring /ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/, magnanimous /mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/
  • /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: magnanimous /mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/, investigate /ɪnˈvɛs.tə.ɡeɪt/

Zo oefen je met deze video

  1. Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
  2. Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als banker, tar, buck.

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