Shadowing Practice: Finding Nemo - All Clips From The Movie (2003) Pixar - Learn English Speaking with Video

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You quit it?
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What?
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I'm trying to swim here.
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What, the ocean isn't big enough for you or something like that?
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Huh?
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You got a problem, buddy?
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Huh?
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Huh? Do you? Do you?
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Do you want a piece of me?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Ooh, I'm scared now.
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What?
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Wait a minute.
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Stop following me, OK?
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What are you talking about?
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You're showing me which way the boat went.
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A boat?
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Hey, I've seen a boat.
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It passed by not too long ago.
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It went, um, this way.
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It went this way.
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Follow me.
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Wait a minute.
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Wait a minute.
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What is going on?
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You already told me which way the boat was going.
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I did?
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Oh no. If this is some kind of practical joke, it's not funny!
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And I know funny!
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I'm a clownfish!
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No, it's not.
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I know it's not.
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I'm so sorry.
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See, I suffer from short-term memory loss.
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Short-term memory loss?
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I don't believe this!
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No, it's true.
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I forget things almost instantly.
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It runs in my family.
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Well, at least I think it does.
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We need to find a son.
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What are you doing?
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Are you sure you speak, whale?
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Can you give us a reference?
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See?
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He's swimming away.
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Come back.
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He's not coming back.
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We offended him.
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Maybe a different dialect.
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Dory, this is not whale.
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You're speaking like upset stomach.
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Maybe I should try humpback.
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No, don't try humpback.
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You actually sound sick.
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Maybe louder, huh?
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Don't do that.
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Too much orca.
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Didn't it sound a little orca-ish?
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It doesn't sound orca.
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It sounds like nothing I've ever heard.
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It's just as whaley might be hungry.
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Don't worry.
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Whales don't eat clownfish.
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They eat krill.
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Swim away!
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Oh look, Krill!
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Move!
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Dory!
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Move!
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Wake up!
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Wake up!
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Come on, first day of school!
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I don't wanna go to school!
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Five more minutes!
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Not you, dad!
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Me!
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Okay.
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Get up!
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Time for school!
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Time for school!
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Time for school!
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Time for school!
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Alright, I'm up, it's time for school!
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Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!
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Whoa!
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Nemo!
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First day of school!
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Nemo, don't move!
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Don't move!
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You'll never get out of there yourself!
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I'll do it!
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You'll never get out of there yourself.
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I'll do it.
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All right, where's the break?
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You feel a break?
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Sometimes you can't tell because fluid is rushing into the area.
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Now, any rushing fluids?
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No. Are you woozy?
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No. How many stripes do I have?
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I'm fine.
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Answer the stripe question.
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Three.
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No!
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See, something's wrong with you.
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I have one, two, three.
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That's all I have?
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Huh.
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You're okay.
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Right then.
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The meeting has officially come to order.
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Let us all say the pledge.
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I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine.
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If I am to change this image, I must first change myself.
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Fish are friends, not food.
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Except stinking dolphins.
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Dolphins?
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Yeah, they think they're so cute.
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Oh look at me, I'm a flippin' little dolphin.
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Let me flip for you, ain't no something.
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Right then, today's meeting is step five.
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Bring a fish friend.
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Now, do you all have your friends?
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Got mine.
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Hey there!
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How about you, chum?
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Oh, well, I, um, seem to have misplaced my, uh, friend.
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It's alright, Chum!
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I have a feeling this will be a difficult step.
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You can help yourself to one of my friends.
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Oh, thanks, mate.
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A little Chum for Chum, eh?
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Alright, here, dudes!
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Get ready!
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Your axe is coming up, man! Where?
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I don't see it!
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Right there!
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I see it!
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I see it!
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You mean the swirling vortex of terror?
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That's it, dude.
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Of course it is.
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Okay, first, find your exit buddy.
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Do you have your exit buddy?
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Yes.
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Okay, Squirt here will now give you a rundown of proper exiting techniques.
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Good afternoon.
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We're gonna have a great jump today.
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Okay, Greg, our backpack has to hit the wall.
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There's a screaming bottom church to watch out.
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Remember, rip it, roll it, and catch it!
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It's like he's trying to speak to me, I know it!
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You know, you're really cute, but I don't know what you're saying!
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Say the first thing again.
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Okay, Jellyman, go, go, go, go, go, go!
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Do you remember where my dad is?
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Honey, your dad's probably back at the pet store.
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Pet store?
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Yeah, you know, like, uh, I'm from Bob's Fish Mart.
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Petalas.
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Fish-a-rama.
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Mail order!
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eBay!
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So, which one is it?
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I'm from the ocean.
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Ah, the ocean.
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The ocean!
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Ah!
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He hasn't been decontaminated yet!
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Jacques!
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Oui.
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Clean him!
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Oui.
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Ocean!
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Oh, la mer!
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Bon!
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Voilà!
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He is clean.
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Alright, listen to me.
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I have an idea.
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A game.
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A game?
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Yes.
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I love games.
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Pick me.
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Alright, here's the game.
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Whoever can hop the fastest out of these jellyfish wins.
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Okay.
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Rules.
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Rules.
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You can't touch the tentacles.
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Only the tops.
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Something about tentacles.
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Got it.
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On your mark, get the hook.
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Wait, wait, wait.
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Not something about them.
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It's all about them.
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Wait.
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Dory.
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You gotta go faster if you wanna win.
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Dory.
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Boing, boing, boing, boing, boing.
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Wait a minute.
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Dory.
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Whee!
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So, we're cheating death now.
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That's what we're doing.
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We're having fun at the same time.
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I can do this.
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Just be careful.
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Yeah, careful I don't make you cry when I win!
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Oh, I don't think so!
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Whee!
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Give it up, old man.
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You can't fight evolution.
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I was built with speed.
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The question is, Dory, are you hungry?
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Hungry?
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Yeah, because you're about to eat my bubbles!
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The Cloudfish is the winner!
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Woohoo!
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We did it!
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Look at us!
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Tory?
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Dude...
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Dude...
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Focus, dude...
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Dude...
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Oh...
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Oh, he lives!
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Hey, dude!
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Oh...
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What happened?
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Oh, I saw the whole thing dude first you were like whoa, and then we were like whoa and you were like What are you talking about?
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You mini-man taking on the jellies you got serious thrill issues dude.
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Oh Awesome.
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Oh, oh my stomach.
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Oh Man hey, no hurling on the shell dude.
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Okay.
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Just waxed it So mr. Turtle whoa dude.
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Mr. Turtle is my father name's crush Crush?
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Really?
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Okay, Crush.
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Listen, I need to get to the East Australian Current.
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EAC.
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Oh, dude.
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You're riding it, dude!
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Check it out!
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Hello, my name is Bruce.
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Hello, Bruce.
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It has been three weeks since my last fish, on my honour, or may I be chopped up and made into soup.
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You're an inspiration to all of us.
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I'm in.
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Right then, who's next?
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Pick me, pick me, pick me!
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Yes, the little Sheila down the front.
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Woo!
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Coming up here.
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Hi, I'm Dory.
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Dory well, well, I don't think I've ever eaten a fish Hi, that's incredible
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No hurling on the shell dude,
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okay just waxed it Everybody hold on!
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A little help, over here!
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No!
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I don't get it.
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Somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere...
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Let's ask somebody for directions.
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No!
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What is it with men and asking for directions?
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My lover stands on the stairs...
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No, darling!
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No!
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No!
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Then we'll see them Sweet!
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Totally!
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No more sailing Nice

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Finding Nemo - All Clips From The Movie (2003) Pixar”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: dude, Dory, fish, boing, ocean. This video has 277 sentences and 1191 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:10. The speaker talks at a steady 130 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 49 of its 277 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
whoa/woʊ/Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
hungry adjective/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
buddy/ˈbʌdi/A person far removed from the conversation.
exit noun/ˈɛɡzət/An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
swim verb/swɪm/To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
crush verb/kɹʌʃ/To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
whale noun/ˈweɪl/Any large cetacean, usually with the exclusion of dolphins and porpoises.
dolphin noun/ˈdɑlf.ɪn/A carnivorous cetacean, typically with a beak-like snout, famed for their intelligence and occasional willingness to approach humans.
rush verb/ɹʌʃ/To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.
stomach noun/ˈstʌmək/An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
shell noun/ʃɛl/The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
fluid noun/ˈflu.ɪd/Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
wax noun/waks/Beeswax.
stripe noun/stɹaɪp/A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
practical adjective/ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/Relating to, or based on, practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
come back verbTo return to a place.
come up verbTo emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
get out of verbTo leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
wake up verb/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/To stop sleeping; to awake.
get up verbTo move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
watch outUsed to warn someone of an imminent danger.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

  • What, the ocean isn't big enough for you or something like that?
  • You got a problem, buddy?
  • Do you want a piece of me?
  • What are you talking about?
  • Are you sure you speak, whale?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

StructureIn the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters nowI've seen · I've ever heard · hasn't been decontaminated
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does itbeen decontaminated · was built · be chopped
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around nowI'm trying · are you talking · You're showing
Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or predictionYou'll never get · I'll do · will be

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 58 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

  • The “sh” and “zh” sounds: crush /kɹʌʃ/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, shell /ʃɛl/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
  • Long words — get the stress right: evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, decontaminate /diːkənˈtæmɪneɪt/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like whoa, hungry, buddy.

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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