Shadowing Practice: Saul Goodman’s New Year Tips for Staying Out of Trouble | Breaking Bad - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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We.. have had a bit of a setback.
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We.. have had a bit of a setback.
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I'm sorry, but that's an accurate description.
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What else do you want me to call it?
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How about your faults?
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How about that?
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No, no, no, no. Don't lay that on me.
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You are in charge of distribution.
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You said expanded territory.
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You said...
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That doesn't mean you become careless.
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Guys, guys, hey!
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Who do I look like?
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Maury Povich?
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I'm not your marriage counselor.
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Your professionals act like it.
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Now, setback.
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Go.
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One of our dealers was murdered.
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Some kind of...
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turf dispute.
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Apparently we lost.
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And everyone quit on us.
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I mean, we have absolutely no distribution.
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Is there any way any of this can be traced back to you?
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Or the police I'm talking about?
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Well, there's your silver lining.
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How about you?
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How's the, uh, health situation?
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It's, uh, it's better.
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Do you mind?
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Better?
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Yeah, it's, uh...
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looking.. it's looking a little more positive.
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I may have more time than I thought.
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Outstanding.
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As to your dead guy, uh, occupational hazards.
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Drug dealer getting shot.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's been known to happen.
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Now, what about product on hand?
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How's your inventory?
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38 and change.
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38 ounces, grams.
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Pounds.
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You did say make hay while the sun is shining.
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Guys, why the long faces here?
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You're sitting on a gold mine.
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A gold mine we can't sell.
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We need a proper infrastructure.
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We need foot soldiers and we need dealers on a street level that are rock solid.
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We need muscle.
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And we need enforcers.
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Payback, that's what we need.
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God.
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This entire process has just been so...
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It's always been one step forward and two steps back.
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We need your help.
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Let's start with some tough love, all right?
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Ready for this?
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Here goes.
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You two suck at peddling meth, period.
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So give up on trying to do it all yourselves.
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Hell, I'm amazed you got this far.
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Look, we are not going to deal with another high-level distributor.
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No, thank you.
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We have been down that road.
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What, some tattooed speed freak?
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Now, what you two need is an honest-to-God businessman, right?
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Somebody who treats your product like the simple,
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high-margin commodity that it is.
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Somebody who ships out of town, deals only in bulk.
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Someone who's been doing this for 20 years and never been caught.
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You know someone like that?
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Let's just say I know a guy who knows a guy.
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Who knows another guy.
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Let me make some calls,
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see if I can get you a meeting.
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Well, what's his name?
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I have no idea.
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He's very low profile.
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He's careful like that.
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You know, from what I do hear about him,
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he sounds a little like you.
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This is insane.
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I have so much cash on hand that I actually count it by weighing it on my bathroom scale,
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and yet I can't spend it.
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I can't tell my family about it.
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All of whom think that I am right on the edge of bankruptcy.
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I mean, it's...
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It's insane.
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Well, I guess that's why gangsters had malls.
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What?
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Gun malls.
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Haven't you ever seen white heat?
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I've seen white heat, but I don't see how that pertains.
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Maybe you need a maul more than you need a wife who you can't trust with your secrets.
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Just...
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What good is money that doesn't spend, huh?
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If a tree falls in the forest,
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you know, you get the point.
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So, uh, communicating is out.
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Out.
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All right, well, let's see what else is there.
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There's always, uh, hey, I found a big bag of money down by the railroad track.
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No?
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Well, works for me.
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Uncle Murray.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, oh, many's the happy memory of Uncle Murray bouncing me on his knee.
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We lost track of the old pervert years ago,
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but what do you know?
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He kicked it and left me millions.
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No, no. It cannot be blind luck or some imaginary relative who saves us.
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No, I earned that money.
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Me.
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And now my son created his own website website, savewalterwhite.com, soliciting anonymous donations.
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Do you have any idea how that makes me feel?
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Yeah, look at that.
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It's got PayPal and everything.
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Cyber begging.
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That's all that is.
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Just rattling a little tin cup to the entire world.
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Yeah, there's no deep-seated issues there.
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Walt, I'm looking at the answer right here.
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It's staring me in the face.
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Do I have to spell it out for you?
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I know.
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I know.
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You're thinking that I should be funneling my money into my son's website, but absolutely not.
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No. I am not going to have my family think that some mystery benefactor saved us.
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Not some mystery benefactor.
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Singular.
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That would raise too many questions.
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However, stay with me here.
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Zombies.
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I got a guy who knows this guy,
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who knows this rain man type, right?
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He lives with his mother in her basement in Belarus, right?
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So good luck extraditing his fat Russian ass.
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Wait, wait, he's a hacker cracker, extraordinaire.
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This guy can hijack random desktops all around the world,
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turn them into zombies that do his bidding.
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For instance, he can make it so 20 or 30,000 little donations come in from all over the US and Canada.
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10, 20, 50 bucks a pop,
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all paid in full, nice and neat,
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untraceable from the good-hearted people of the world to Mr. Walter H.
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White, cancer saint.
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I'm getting a warm and fuzzy feeling just thinking about it.
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Oh, my God.
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You really are a chemistry teacher.
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Uh, you mind?
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I was terrible at chemistry.
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I'm more of a humanities guy.
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How did you find me?
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We should talk about that.
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So it should be much,
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much harder for people to track you down.
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My PI charged me for three hours,
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so I seriously doubt it took him more than one.
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So this is what?
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Blackmail?
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Walter, I'm your lawyer.
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Anything you say to me is totally privileged.
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I'm not in the shakedown racket.
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I'm a lawyer.
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Even drug dealers need lawyers, right? especially drug dealers.
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So what, you're just doing this out of the kindness of your heart?
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Oh, come on.
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Have you seen my hourly rate?
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Oh, by the way, where do you keep the money?
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Is it in your mattress?
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Is it in a jelly jar buried in the side yard, huh?
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You know, this kid Mayhew may be the first of your guys to get picked up,
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but he won't be the last.
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And if I can find you,
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how far behind can the cops be?
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I don't understand.
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What exactly are you offering to do for me?
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What did Tom Hagen do for Vito Corleone?
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I'm no Vito Corleone.
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No shit.
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Right now, you're Fredo.
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But, you know, with some sound advice and the proper introductions, who knows?
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I'll tell you one thing,
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you've got the right product.
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Anything that gets the DEA's panties and this big a bunch,
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you're on to something special.
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And I would like to be a small and silent part of it.
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Food for thought, yeah?
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So if you want to make more money and keep the money that you make,
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better call Saul.
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You can't come to my work like this.
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You're too recognizable.
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Your face is plastered on every bus bench within a five-mile radius.
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Celebrities have to get their cars washed just like everybody else.
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Look, I wouldn't have come if it wasn't important.
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Okay.
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What is it?
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Well, I, uh, went ahead and met with your Mr. Benecke,
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all right, and which I will say again loudly and for the record, bad idea.
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Yes, but it is better than prison, correct?
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Marginally, which is why I disperse the funds as you requested.
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All right, good.
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Yeah, I can't believe you actually bought it.
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Great Aunt Birgit.
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What?
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But you called it.
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I mean, I guess people see those zeros dance before their eyes.
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It's kind of like highway hypnosis.
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All right, so what's the problem?
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Well, let's just say you and I don't wear the same rose-colored glasses where Johnny Fabulous is concerned,
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so I kept an eye on his bank accounts,
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and I pulled his credit report.
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If you would, note the time on there.
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3.54 p.m yesterday.
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Three hours after leaving my office.
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He bought a Mercedes SL 550.
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He's actually leasing it, but he put 4,500 down.
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He's gonna pay 18.30 a month, and fully loaded.
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I mean, he even got the heated steering wheel.
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But that's upwards of 6,300 that won't be going to the IRS.
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I just thought you might like to know,
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loathe as I am to say, I told you so.
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Where is he now?
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There he is, finally.
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I went ahead and started without you.
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Ladies, this is Jesse San.
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He's in for the full treatment.
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Hey, take off your shoes, lay back.
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Exfoliate.
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Maybe later.
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So where's the maestro?
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Where does he out park in the minivan?
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Does it look like a shadow?
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Here's where he's at.
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What am I doing here?
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I was going to have you two flip a coin.
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Since the genius can't be bothered, today's your lucky day.
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Look around, kiddo.
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It's all yours.
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What?
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This?
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Yeah.
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You are now the owner of this fine establishment.
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For free?
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Free?
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Oh, ladies, cover your ears.
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No, not free.
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Look, hey, this is a squeaky clean,
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highly profitable, at least potentially, local institution.
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Looked upon with favor by the Chamber of Commerce, Better Business Bureau, at $312,000.
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It's a steal.
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$312,000.
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Don't you get it?
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On the outside, it's a nail salon, right?
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On the inside, it's the best money laundry a growing boy could ask for.
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Wait, wait, wait!
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Hey, ladies, thank you.
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Thank you.
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Good job.
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Come back here.
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Sit.
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Come on, come on.
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Humor me here for a second.
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Now, you know you need to launder your money, right?
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Do you understand the basics of it?
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Placement, layering, integration?
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I ain't buying no damn nail salon, so just forget it.
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Well, you want to stay out of jail, don't you?
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I mean, you want to keep your money and your freedom.
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Because I got three little letters for you, IRS.
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If they can get Capone, they can get you.
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Hey, look.
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Here's you, right?
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Pink, Pinkman, get it?
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Okay.
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Here's your cash.
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You're out on the town.
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Yeah, you're partying hardy.
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You're knocking boots with the chicky babes.
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And, oh, who's this?
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It's the tax man.
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And he's looking at you.
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Now, what does he see?
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He sees a young fella with a big fancy house,
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unlimited cash supply, and no job.
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Now, what is the conclusion the tax man makes?
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I'm a drug dealer.
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Wrong.
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Million times worse.
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You're a tax cheat.
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What do they do?
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They take every penny, and you go in the can for felony tax evasion.
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Ouch!
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What was your mistake?
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You didn't launder your money.
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Now, you give me your money, okay?
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That's called placement.
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Hand me that little thing, then...
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This is the nail salon, right?
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I take your dirty money,
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and I slip it into the salon's nice, clean cash flow.
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That's called layering.
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Final step, integration.
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The revenues from the salon go to the owner.
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That's you.
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Your filthy drug money has been transformed into nice,
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clean, taxable income brought to you by a savvy investment in a thriving business.
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So you want me to buy this place so I can pay taxes?
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I'm a criminal, yo.
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Yeah, and if you want to stay a criminal and not become,
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say, a convict, then maybe you should grow up and listen to your lawyer.
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Right.
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So you can get your 5%.
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No, that's 17%.
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I heard you said 5%.
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You said it right in front of me.
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Yeah, that was for your partner.
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It's privileges of seniority and all.
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But for you, it's the usual,
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17% and that's a bargain.
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Hey, what you...
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Hey, listen to it!
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Come on, I'm talking to you about your future here.
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Listen to reason!
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Here's your change.
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Oh, um, count it down.
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Uh, three, that makes 15,
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plus five, that is 20.
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Give this to your car wash professional.
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Thank you.
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Have a new one day.
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You too.
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Good.
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Why do I gotta say that?
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Because it reinforces our brand.
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So, getting the hang of it?
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So, it's pretty basic.
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Mom, it's Saturday.
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Can I go?
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Go where?
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Home.
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Pick up a few things,
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maybe chill for a little bit.
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I'm sure the smell is gone by now.
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Why don't you just stick around here for a while longer?
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I need you.
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I, uh, who do I give this to?
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Um, you know what?
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I'll take care of it.
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Excuse me, son.
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That'll be $14.97, please.
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Hey, how you doing?
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You're on our billboard.
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You're the lawyer guy.
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Yeah, better call Saul.
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Okay, so three makes 15,
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and 20, 25, 30, 35,
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40, and 10 makes 50.
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Thank you.
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I like your commercial.
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What happened to your face?
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Ah, this is, uh, I guess you'd call it an occupational hazard.
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Okay, so thank you, and please give that to your car wash professional.
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Very good.
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Thank you very much.
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Good to meet you.
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Yeah.
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Don't drink and drive, but if you do, call me.
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Have an A1 day.
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Mom, you forgot to say it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I did.
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Okay.
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About This Lesson
In this lesson, learners will practice their spoken English through a detailed analysis of a dialogue from the renowned series, "Breaking Bad." This excerpt features Saul Goodman, a character known for his persuasive language and sharp wit. By the end of this session, students will have practiced not only their pronunciation but also their understanding of context, tone, and how to convey meaning through speech. This lesson invites you to explore the shadowspeak technique as you immerse yourself in the nuances of conversational English.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Setback: A difficulty that stops progress.
- Expanded territory: An increase in the area of operation or influence.
- Occupational hazards: Risks or dangers associated with a job.
- Gold mine: Something that yields a lot of profit or value.
- Inventory: The stock of goods or materials available for use or sale.
- Foot soldiers: The ground-level workers who execute tasks.
- Rock solid: Extremely reliable or dependable.
Practice Tips
To enhance your English speaking skills, consider using the shadowspeaks technique. This involves mimicking the tone and speed of the original dialogue. In the provided transcript, notice how Saul balances urgency and confidence, which can be challenging given the pace of the conversation. Practice these tips to improve your shadowing:
- Listen closely: Play the excerpt multiple times, focusing on the intonation and rhythm of Saul's speech.
- Start slow: Use a shadowing app to control playback speed, allowing for easier imitation at first.
- Repeat phrases: Break down the transcript into smaller sections, repeating each phrase until you feel comfortable.
- Focus on delivery: Aim for clarity and expressiveness, mirroring the emotional content of his words.
- Record yourself: Capture your attempts and compare them to the original to identify areas for improvement.
Incorporating these strategies into your practice can significantly enhance your fluency and pronunciation, making you a more confident speaker in everyday conversations.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.
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