Shadowing Practice: FINDING NEMO All Movie Clips (2003) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Wake up!
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Wake up!
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Come on!
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First day of school!
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I don't want to 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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Get up!
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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!
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It's time for school!
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Whoa!
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Nemo!
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Where's the 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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- - All right, where's the brake?
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You feel a brake?
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- Mm.
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- Sometimes you can't tell 'cause fluid is rushing to 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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We need to find a son.
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Can you give us a reason?
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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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Move * Move!
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Dory!
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Move!
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Right then, 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 golfers.
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Golfers?
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Yeah, they think they're so cute.
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Little dolphin, let me flip for you, ain't no something!
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Right then, today's meeting is step five: 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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But 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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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 honor 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 mean.
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Right then, who's next?
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, 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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Hi, Dory.
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And, uh, well, I'm Well, I don't think I've ever eaten a fish.
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Hi, that's incredible, boy.
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Good on you, mate!
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I'm glad I got that off my chest.
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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 ya? Do ya? Do ya?
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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, okay?
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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!
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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...
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I mean, at least I think it does.
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Do you know 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. At Palace.
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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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Ocean!
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Oh, la mer!
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Bon!
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All right, 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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A game?
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Yes.
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Ah!
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I love games.
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Pick me.
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All right, here's the game.
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Um, whoever can hop the fastest out of these jellyfish wins.
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Okay.
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Rules, rules, 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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No, no, wait, wait!
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That's something about, nothing it's all about!
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Wait!
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- Wee!
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- Sorry!
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- You gotta go faster if you wanna win!
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- Sorry!
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- Boing, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing!
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- Wait a minute!
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- Huh!
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-Gauri!
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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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Ha ha ha!
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Woo!
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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 for speed.
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The question is, Dory, are you hungry?
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Hungry?
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Yeah.
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'Cause you're about to eat my bubbles!
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The clownfish 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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Tori?
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Dude...
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Ugh...
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Dude...
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Focus, dude...
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Dude...
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Dude...
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Oh, he lives!
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Hey, dude!
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What happened?
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Oh, I saw the whole thing, dude.
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First you were all like, "Whoa !" and then we were like, "Whoa !" and then you were like, "Whoa !" What are you talking about?
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You, Miniman!
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Taking on the jellies!
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You got serious thrill issues, dude.
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Awesome.
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Oh, my stomach.
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Oh.
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Oh, man.
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Hey, no hurling on the shell dude, okay?
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Just waxed it? So, Mr. Turtle...
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Whoa, dude.
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Mr. Turtle is my father.
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Name's Krosh.
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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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Alright, we're here, dudes!
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Get ready!
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Your exit's 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, dudes!
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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, we're gonna have a great jump today!
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Okay, Greg, our carpet has to hit the wall!
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There's a screaming bottom dirt, so watch out!
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Remember, rip it, roll it, and punch 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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- - I gotta find my son Nemo!
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Grab shell dude!
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Grab moi!
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No hurling on the shell dude, okay?
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Just waxed it?
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- - Duck!
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It's not a duck, it's a pill, it's a gas!
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Everybody hold on!
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A little help, over here.
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Duck!
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Hey!
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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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Move, darling!
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Yes!
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Let no sailin'.
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Sweet!
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Totally.
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No more sailin'.
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Bye.
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Nice!
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “FINDING NEMO All Movie Clips”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: dude, boing, fish, ocean. This video has 276 sentences and 1146 words to shadow. The speech runs for 8:47. 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. 51 of its 276 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:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| buddy | /ˈbʌdi/ | A person far removed from the conversation. |
| shell noun | /ʃɛl/ | The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. |
| exit noun | /ˈɛɡzət/ | An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure. |
| duck noun | /dʌk/ | Any of certain aquatic birds of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet, distinguished from swans and geese by generally being smaller and… |
| rush verb | /ɹʌʃ/ | To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully. |
| hungry adjective | /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ | Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food. |
| 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. |
| swim verb | /swɪm/ | To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. |
| 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. |
| technique noun | /tɛkˈniːk/ | The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements. |
| suffer verb | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | To undergo hardship. |
| stomach noun | /ˈstʌmək/ | An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion. |
| whoever | /huˈɛvɚ/ | Who ever: an emphatic form of who. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. | |
| watch out | Used to warn someone of an imminent danger. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- That's all I have?
- Can you give us a reason?
- What, the ocean isn't big enough for you or something like that?
- You got a problem, buddy?
- Want a piece of me?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has been · I've ever eaten · I've seen |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be chopped · been decontaminated · was built |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | is rushing · I'm trying · You're showing |
| Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction | You'll never get · I'll do · will be |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 48 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: shell /ʃɛl/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, clownfish /ˈklaʊnˌfɪʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: evolution /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, decontaminate /diːkənˈtæmɪneɪt/
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 buddy, shell, exit.
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.