Shadowing Practice: Despicable Me 2 & 3: Top 10 Funniest Scenes - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hey!
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Get that back!
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Guys!
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No!
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Leave me alone!
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RUN!
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RUN!
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Man's like flour It's in every living thing Mind use your power Spirit use your wings RIDO!
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Freedom!
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Freedom!
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Freedom!
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Freedom!
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Freedom We've been waiting a long time Can we...
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No!
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No!
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No!
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Freedom!
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You...
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Crew?
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Uh-oh...
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Oh, my God.
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I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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Please, Cugna Rapota!
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Roman Alegrou!
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Roman Alegrou!
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RIPA!
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RIPA!
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La mani, moti, la notar.
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Oup la mati, Régis, faut pas pousser la mamie Underwear,
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la carelle, il est oui,
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il est bien, ma colère Underwear,
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la backplate, les poilus de la tête The pearl,
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the pearl, the way The devil,
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the vets, the stars The toil,
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the beautiful and beautiful The beauty of the world Can I be the first to say, no?
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Oh, yeah, la, la, under weeees!
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Ah, tu, le amo ti, under weeees!
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Okay.
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Excuse me!
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Um, hi, excuse me!
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Uh...
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Hi, everybody.
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I'd like to make some toast.
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Uh...
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Okay.
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She, um...
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She kisses my boo-boos.
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She braids my hair.
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We love you, mothers, everywhere.
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And my new mom, Lucy, is beyond compare.
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The bride and the groom!
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I'm so excited to be here.
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Oh, buddy.
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What was that?
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I don't see anything.
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A unicorn!
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I can't spell!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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What?
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Hurry!
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Whoa!
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What's the matter?
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Ah!
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Whoa!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Ah!
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Oh, la, la.
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Huh?
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Pilatos?
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Kevin!
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Dr. Lefario, you're back!
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In the flesh?
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Behold, the antidote.
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Come on!
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Let's finally put this horrible jelly to some good use.
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Oh Come on stay focused
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Politica Massara?
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Massara?
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No, let's eat it!
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We eat it!
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AAAAAAAAAAAA!
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Pizza!
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Pizza!
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Pizza!
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Pizza!
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Pizza!
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Pizza!
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Pizza!
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Pizza!
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What are you doing?!
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Intruders!
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Intruders!
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There they are!
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Stop!
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Hey you!
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Don't move!
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Halt!
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AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Come here!
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Come here!
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Tempura!
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La Carbonara!
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Eh eh eh, Oolah!
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Oh, eh...
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Oh Toca
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boca pizza la lasagna
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No, no, no!
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Hey, you freeze!
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Don't move!
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Hands in the air!
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Face it, Gru, villainy is in your blood!
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You can't tell me you don't miss the rush, a little?
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Oh, maybe a little.
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And now you've got the chance to get back on top, get your mojo back, become Gru again.
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How awesome would that be?
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Hmm.
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Oh please come on.
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Just one heist.
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There's gotta be something out there somewhere that you still wanna steal.
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Huh.
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Alright El Macho, you're going down.
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Wait, wait!
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What?
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What are you doing?
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I'm checking for laser beam alarm triggers.
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It's a restaurant!
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You never know what kind of booby traps this guy could have set?
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Huh?
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Come on.
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There are no booby traps.
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Ha!
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Booby!
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Ah!
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Oh.
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There's a chicken.
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Are you lost, little guy?
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You must be lost.
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Ha!
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Some guard door.
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Whoa!
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Oh, no, no, no!
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Get it over me!
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Get it over me!
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Get it over me!
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Oh, I got you!
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I got it!
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Ha!
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Oh!
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What is wrong with that chicken?
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Hey, that polo is loco.
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No?
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Okay, let's go.
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You getting anything?
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No, not yet.
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But hey, maybe you can find something with these X-ray goggles?
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Mom.
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How are they working?
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Tell me, tell me.
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What's wrong?
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Something wrong?
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Oh, that's an image I'll never get out of my brain.
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I knew it!
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The serum is in here!
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Then let's get it!
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This is going to be good!
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Aha!
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What?
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It's.. it's...
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Salsa?
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Aw, man.
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Oh.
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Somebody's going to die tonight.
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Pogito!
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What did I do to you?
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Pogito, can you hear me?
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Who would do this to such a sweet little chicken?
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What?
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Who's there?
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Uh-uh.
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You coming out, or am I gonna go in?
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Stop!
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Hey, Ace!
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Crew, call one of your munchkins!
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We've been spotted!
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Come get us!
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Hey, look, we're here!
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Ah, cool!
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Oh, subtle.
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Oh, subtle.
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Over here!
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Over here!
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Over!
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Here.
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Hold tight!
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Ah!
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I have you now!
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Oh, wow.
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Hello.
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Oh, hi.
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Hello, Mother Margo.
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I am Nico.
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I present you with Pig to confirm my engagement to your daughter.
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Hey, what now?
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What's going on?
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Uh, remember Little Boots?
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Hello, my shmoopsy-poo.
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Whoa, hey, uh, you seem to think you're engaged.
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What?
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We're not engaged.
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Look, Nico, you seem like a very nice boy with a very nice pig, uh, but you're not engaged.
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Okay?
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It's not happening.
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I understand.
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Who was I kidding?
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A dumpling like me with a goddess like you.
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But I promise I will never forget you, Marco.
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Never.
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Oh, I'm pretty sure I won't forget you either.
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Bye.
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Bye, Nico.
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Wow, that was crazy.
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Woo!
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That was totally humiliating.
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Taking a bite of that cheese was the stupidest thing I've ever done.
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Why did I listen to you?
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Right, but it's over now, so...
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Here we go.
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Nico!
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You!
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You refuse my son's engagement, pig?
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What?
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May you and your daughter die slow death and be buried with onions Alright lady,
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that's it nobody nobody Curses my daughter.
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Ya got that because if you mess with Margo you mess with me
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And I promise you do not want to mess with me.
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Do you understand me?
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Now get I think we just need to- oh!
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Yes!
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Oh!
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I have to tell Gru!
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I will.
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Can we go back now?
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Already?
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Just a couple more hours.
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We have to be home before it gets dark.
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I don't understand.
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I did exactly what the man said.
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You mean that one-eyed Scarface man that everybody laughed at?
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Yeah, it makes no sense.
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Look, Agnes, maybe we're not...
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My whole life has been building to this moment!
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I'm gonna name you lucky Yeah,
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I'll let someone else burst her bubble wait, what are you doing?
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Yeah!
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Oh!
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Fuck you guys, it's Lucy!
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Lucy over here!
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Help!
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Help us!
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Mama's coming, girls!
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Look right here, Lucy!
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Look at that laser go!
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I love it when a plan comes together!
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Ah!
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It's Groove!
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Get ready, Brad!
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You're about to be blasted back to the 80s!
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Woohoo!
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Oh ho!
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We got him!
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Oh no!
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Don't worry!
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There's more where that came from!
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It'll take more than that to stop me!
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Oh...
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Brad Pak, go get that barf bag!
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Oh Wait
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job Bonus did you see that climb all gone?
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Bye wonder twins?
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Oh Wow,
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oh la la Ugh!
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Ugh!
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Ugh!
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Ugh!
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Ugh!
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Ugh!
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Hang on, girls!
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I've got you!
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I...
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I can't!
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I'm stopping!
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No!
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Got you!
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Thank you, Lucy.
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Let's go!
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We're not safe yet!
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Oh, look
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at what we have!
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Here!
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Sorry, Gru.
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This is going to be a total burn!
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Donnie, hang in there, baby!
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It's almost Friday!
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So, how's today's batch, Dr. Navario?
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I developed a new formula which allowed me to get every known kind of berry into one flavor of jelly. That tastes good!
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I love the flavor of that!
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It's horrible, isn't it?
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No, no!
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Oh, we're making great progress!
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Here, try some of this.
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Go for it.
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Whoa!
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Okay, just because everybody hates it doesn't mean it's not good.
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Listen, Gru, there's something I've been meaning to talk to you about for some time now.
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What?
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What's wrong?
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Um...
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I miss being evil.
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Sinister plots, large-scale crimes.
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It's what I live for!
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I mean, don't you think there's more to our future than jelly?
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Well, I'm also considering a line of jams.
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Um, the thing is, Gru...
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I've had an offer of employment elsewhere.
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Doctor Navarro, come on.
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You're kidding, right?
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It's a great opportunity for me.
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Bigger lab, more evil, full gentle.
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Very well.
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Let us give you the proper send-off.
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Minions!
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The highest honor awarded to Dr. Nefario for your years of service,
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the 21 Farcon salute.
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Porado!
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Porado!
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Porado!
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I counted 22.
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Farewell, my friends.
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This may take a while.
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Get up out of your business!
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I miss you already!
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Now it's time to die!
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Any last words, Gru?
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You know what?
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I got two words for you!
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Dance fight!
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Oh, it is unlike Donkey Kong.
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I am going to enjoy this.
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Enough!
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I heard!
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Game over!
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Is this what you're looking for?
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No!
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No!
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No!
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No!
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No!
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No!
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Curse you, Gru!
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Curse you!
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Yeah?
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What happened?
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Drew!
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Drew!
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No!
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Oh!
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Hey!
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We did it!
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Yes, we did, brother.
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Drew!
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Drew!
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Drew!
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Drew!
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Oh!
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Oh!
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Oh my god!
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Hey, Mal!
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Welcome back!
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Woo-hoo-hoo!
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There's something special on the other side of this moment.
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And it's about what you and I decide
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And it's important for you to remember we did this together Love you, Mom
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 402 sentences and 1437 words to shadow. The speech runs for 27:16. 77% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| pizza noun | /ˈpi.tsə/ | A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables. |
| whoa | /woʊ/ | Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down. |
| engage verb | /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/ | To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied. |
| jelly noun | /ˈd͡ʒɛli/ | A dessert made by boiling gelatine (or a plant-based alternative such as agar or carrageenan), sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and… |
| horrible adjective | /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/ | Causing horror; terrible; shocking. |
| trap noun | /tɹæp/ | A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body. |
| engagement noun | /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt/ | An appointment, especially to speak or perform. |
| laser noun | /ˈleɪzɚ/ | A device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light. |
| pearl noun | /pɝl/ | A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain… |
| subtle adjective | /ˈsʌtəl/ | Of an action or movement: very delicate or slight, and thus barely noticeable; not obvious; inconspicuous, unintrusive. |
| curse noun | /kɝs/ | A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane. |
| flavor noun | /ˈfleɪvə/ | The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. |
| rush verb | /ɹʌʃ/ | To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully. |
| elsewhere adverb | /ˈɛlsˌʍɛɹ/ | Synonym of somewhere else: in, at, or to some other place. |
| compare verb | /kəmˈpɛɚ/ | To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it… |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| come together verb | /ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/ | To assemble; to congregate; to combine. |
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. | |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. | |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. | |
| send off verb | /sɛnˈdɒf/ | To send; to dispatch. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | We've been waiting · has been building · I've been meaning |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | must be lost · We've been spotted · be buried |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | We've been spotted · I've ever done |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the stupidest · The highest |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 51 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: rush /ɹʌʃ/, flesh /flɛʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: locomotive /ˌloʊkəˈmoʊtɪv/, humiliate /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like pizza, whoa, engage.
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.