Shadowing Practice: Those Minions are Dummies (Minions 1 + 2 FUNNY Scenes) ⚡ 4K - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Pretty groovy, huh?
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Look out, look out, look out.
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Ramba.
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Whoa!
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We begin with a basic kick.
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Now you.
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Yeah!
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Yeah!
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Okay.
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No kicking.
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This is a melon hammer.
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It's a weapon.
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This is Fred.
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He is a dummy.
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Never underestimate a dummy.
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Dummy.
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Fuck, dummy.
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Hello, Fred!
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Now attack!
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BATTERY FITZE!
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Yeah!
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Woo-hoo!
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Shoo-wah!
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Shoo-wah!
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Woo-hoo!
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Ah!
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Stegito!
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Romano battalion, Moldav.
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Fred.
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Doubt tells me I cannot break this wood But doubt exists only in the mind.
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You know what I say to my mind Now you No!
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Okay, clearly we are not ready for philosophy.
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Let's just train.
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Oh, hey!
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Monkey time!
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Whoa, whoa, okay, okay, okay.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Won't you take me to the monkey time?
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Oh!
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Oh!
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Oh!
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Hey!
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Oh, God!
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First up, tomorrow's going to be even worse.
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Topilano la crona.
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Come here!
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Super union! So...
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You came for the Queen's crown, did you?
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Well, you're gonna have to get through me!
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Me, the keeper of the crown.
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You think it's funny to mock the elderly, do ya?
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Uh, si?
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I've been up here for decades just waiting for someone to try and steal the Queen's treasure.
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Okay, me and we...
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What are you saying?
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Nevermind, don't care!
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Oh no!
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Oh no you don't!
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Oh no!
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Oh no!
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Oh no!
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Oh shit!
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Spira!
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The crown is over!
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Help!
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Come on!
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Why?
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Yes!
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La Crona!
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Ah!
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Ha ha!
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No!
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Ah!
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Sponniar la copa!
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Macaroni la piatta!
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Woohoo!
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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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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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Go, go, go.
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Hey, wait a minute.
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Ballon!
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Oh, no!
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Where's the Lava?
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Trespassers!
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Get out of here!
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Come back here!
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Go, go, go!
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Jimmy!
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Oh, okay!
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Get the fuck back here!
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Snare!
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Snare!
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Okay now, you might feel a little pinch.
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Got you now!
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Time to break some bones!
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Any plans for the weekend?
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Take five deep breaths.
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I'll be right back.
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Hey!
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You like picking on little guys, huh?
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Go take a nap, old lady.
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Old lady?
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I am a master of the ancient Shaolin art of Kung Fu.
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Get lost!
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If you come back to our place, you're dead!
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Come, the woman learned Kung Fu!
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I Don't I Don't
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I Don't I
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Ah, the bougie!
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So, let's go to the bread.
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And the cake.
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And the cake is for everyone!
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King Bomb!
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Oh wait!
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Talking about my generation Just a cop and get around About my generation
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Please say do look awful Talking about my generation Oh wait!
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Talking about my generation Oh five five five before three Yes you're coming!
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To my generation To my generation To my generation baby Ah ha ha Ha ha!
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Yes, King Bob!
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King Bob?
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King Bob?
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Ah, Claire.
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Hmm, Tiffany.
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This hair is a fire.
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Why don't you, uh, say it?
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Ah!
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How dare you!
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Ah!
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Hey, hey!
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Go ahead,
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go ahead.
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Ah!
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Bella...
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I don't want you to take this the wrong way, but I hate you.
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I thought I could get over what you did, but I feel so betrayed.
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I think.. yes, I think we're gonna have to break up.
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And it's not you!
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Oh wait, hold on.
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It is you.
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It's a hundred percent you.
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No, no, no!
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So get comfortable, minions.
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Get real, real comfortable.
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Because this is where you're going to spend the rest of your worthless little lives.
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Alright!
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Let's do this!
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M-Mokali Herb!
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Who's this handsome Herb fella?
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No, my name is...
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Blurb.
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I'm a dungeon master.
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Prepare for torture!
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Which I do!
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Alright, are we comfy?
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Doesn't matter!
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This is torture!
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Huh, uh, Jappers?
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No, sorry for me.
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Wow, harder than I thought.
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Next machine!
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Oh, welcome to hang town!
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Population, you- Oh, uh, uh, huh.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
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Cut it out!
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This is really unprofessional!
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There's no laughing in the dungeon!
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I wanna see tears, and I wanna hear screams, or I'm gonna give you...
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Wait...
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Hey!
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Ew, I've got a groovy idea!
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Look at this!
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Hello!
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Will the future King Herb Overkill please come upstairs to prepare for the coronation?
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Well, I hope you learned your lesson for today.
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Si, bueno!
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And by the way, it was me, her, the whole time.
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I don't even know anyone named Blurb.
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The Queen of England!
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Kevin!
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Kevin!
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Scarlet!
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Scarlet!
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My queen!
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Nobody help me!
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Come on, come on!
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Lift up two!
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One, two, one!
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Scarlet, you're okay.
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He tried to kill me!
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No, but...
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...la body...
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This is no longer a coronation.
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It is an execution!
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Get there!
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One million!
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Run, fellas!
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Run!
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As quickly as possible, what is going on?
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Oh!
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I don't think it's...
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I get it, I get it!
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OK, I get it.
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OK, I get it, OK, I get it!
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Here!
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Oh!
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Oh the hell.
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Yamako.
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You're mine.
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You're mine.
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There.
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Oh Oh,
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Tim!
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Oh, Tim!
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Oh, Tim!
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Oh, oh, baby!
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Ipuchi!
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Oh, Tim!
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Oh, Tim!
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Tim!
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Stuart!
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Bob!
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Oh, batav la mycopalatie!
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Buddy!
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Oh, hey, buddy!
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Find your tribe.
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And never, ever let them go.
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Otto?
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Si.
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You better
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stay out of trouble, kid.
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I will lead a good and honest life.
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You're alive!
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You just blew my mind.
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How did you do that?
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I cannot wait to fake my own death to avoid the authorities.
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Shoot for the moon, kid.
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Shoot for the moon.
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See you later, suckers.
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You can always get what you want.
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You can always get what you want.
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You can always get what you want.
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But if you try sometime, it's just my fight.
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It's just my fight.
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You can watch me.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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Sorry, we're closed.
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Oh!
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I just wanted to thank you for this.
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Work like a charm.
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All right, let me cut to the chase here.
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I need the genius mad scientist.
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You want to come work for me?
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No, I am done with villainy.
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Off to happier horizons.
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Goodbye, little chap.
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Please, please.
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Oh, all right, all right, fine.
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Stop with the face.
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I'm in.
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Want to see something cool? Are you kidding me?
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Big bug!
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Big bug!
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Big bug!
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Big bug!
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Big bug!
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I like that!
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Those Minions are Dummies (Minions 1 + 2 FUNNY Scenes) ⚡ 4K”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: generation, Tim, bug, King, dummy. This video has 288 sentences and 1037 words to shadow. The speech runs for 17:49. 81% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| dummy noun | /ˈdʌmi/ | A stupid person. |
| whoa | /woʊ/ | Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down. |
| scarlet noun | /ˈskɑɹlɪt/ | A brilliant red colour sometimes tinged with orange. |
| buddy | /ˈbʌdi/ | A person far removed from the conversation. |
| torture noun | /ˈtoɹt͡ʃɚ/ | The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which… |
| monkey noun | /ˈmʌŋki/ | A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails… |
| dungeon noun | /ˈdʌn.d͡ʒən/ | An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle. |
| bone noun | /boʊn/ | A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. |
| lesson noun | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| awful adjective | /ˈɔːfʊl/ | Very bad. |
| chase verb | /t͡ʃeɪs/ | To follow at speed. |
| jimmy noun | /ˈd͡ʒɪmi/ | A device used to circumvent a locking mechanism. |
| steal verb | /stiːl/ | To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it. |
| tear verb | /tɛɹ/ | To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. |
| genius noun | /ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/ | Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art… |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| look out verb | To be vigilant and aware often as an imperative to alert a person to danger. | |
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| break up verb | To break or separate into pieces. | |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. | |
| get over verb | To overcome. | |
| get through verb | /ɡɛt ˈθɹu/ | To overcome; to endure. |
| lift up verb | To elevate to a higher position. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Won't you take me to the monkey time?
- You think it's funny to mock the elderly, do ya?
- Why don't you, uh, say it?
- How did you do that?
- You want to come work for me?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | tomorrow's going to be · gonna have · you're going to spend |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | are you saying · you're coming · is going |
| Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction | Won't you take · I'll be · will lead |
| Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary | have to get · have to break |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 32 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: execution /ˌɛk.sɪˈkjuː.ʃən/, treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/, coronation /ˌkɔɹəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
- Long words — get the stress right: execution /ˌɛk.sɪˈkjuː.ʃən/, underestimate /ʌndɚˈɛs.tɪ.meɪt/, coronation /ˌkɔɹəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/, macaroni /ˌmæk.əˈɹoʊ.ni/
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 dummy, whoa, scarlet.
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.