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Shadowing practice: American Dad: Roger Is Shunned Over TikTok (Clip) | TBS

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  1. Dad, this is not what we agreed to!0:01
  2. Sure it is!0:03
  3. This was your idea, Hailey.0:04
  4. Urban homesteading, farming, right in the heart of the city.0:05
  5. Small scale farming!0:08
  6. Well, if it's small scale that gets your engine revving, you're gonna love our new tiny farmhouse!0:10
  7. Come on, everybody, I'll give you the tour.0:15
  8. How are we gonna sleep?0:19
  9. Not on a stack of 20 Downey mattresses, Princess!0:20
  10. For the last time, I didn't say I felt a pee.0:24
  11. I said my mattress smelled like pee.0:26
  12. I peed to bed.0:28
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  1. Anyway, I'll show you how you'll sleep, because it's bedtime anyway.0:29
  2. We're on farm hours now.0:32
  3. Bed by four, up at two.0:34
  4. Steve boy, this is you.0:36
  5. I can't fit in there.0:37
  6. Just give it a try, Steve boy.0:38
  7. Yes, Mother.0:40
  8. Correction!0:41
  9. Now that we're farm folk, I'm the one who calls my wife Mother.0:42
  10. Light!0:46
  11. Oh, God!0:47
  12. Roger?0:51
  13. Hailey and Jeff?0:55
  14. And Mother, if you open up this oil painting of Blonde Jesus, there's a cupboard behind.0:58
  15. Hello?1:10
  16. Hi.1:15
  17. Stay on this is Amos.1:20
  18. Hey.1:23
  19. Hey, what's up?1:24
  20. I'm just gonna go get some water.1:26
  21. Amos, it's not what it looks like.1:28
  22. Oh, yeah!1:34
  23. I feel myself getting tougher already.1:36
  24. Morning, neighbor.1:39
  25. Well, look who it is.1:43
  26. Sun's already almost up, sleeping beauty.1:45
  27. I was stuck in the wall fighting off hundreds of tiny spiders.1:48
  28. Oh, yeah, we're raising spiders now, too.1:51
  29. I'm gonna sell them to a Spider -Man movie, which we'll never see, of course, because we're forgoing all modern technology.1:53
  30. On pain of shunning?1:59
  31. Done.2:01
  32. We'll need maximum discipline, because this homestead must succeed.2:01
  33. I quit my job and took out a mortgage with a 39 % interest rate to pay for the renovations.2:05
  34. You did what?2:10
  35. The bankers were high -fiving while I signed the paperwork.2:11
  36. Looking back, probably should have been a red flag.2:14
  37. Maybe we need to worry less about me becoming farm tough, and more about you being so farm stupid.2:16
  38. Shunner, Stan!2:24
  39. She talketh back to thee, dude!2:25
  40. Hold up, wait, though.2:27
  41. I want to get this from my tic -tac.2:28
  42. Guga!2:30
  43. Oh, shit.2:30
  44. I'mma get shunned, aren't I?2:31
  45. Roger has violated the rules of the farm.2:33
  46. He must be shunned.2:36
  47. It was one mistake, and we just came up with a rule.2:38
  48. Why are you being so hard on him?2:41
  49. Because modern luxuries make us soft.2:43
  50. Roger, you are shunned.2:46
  51. Whatever.2:50
  52. I'm still the most Amish motherf***er here.2:51

American Accent Training in a Fast Paced American Dad Scene

This clip comes from American Dad, a TBS animated sitcom, and it puts a full family argument in front of you: Stan, Hailey, Steve and Roger clash over a fake homesteading project that has already gone wrong. That density of speakers is why it works for american accent training: overlapping objections, interruptions and quick comebacks are closer to real talk than a single narrator ever gives you. The transcript runs 64 lines at 214 words per minute, faster than 73 percent of the catalogue, and it sits at B2, so expect to replay lines rather than catch everything on the first pass.

The scene stays a family sitcom argument, not a lecture, so it also works as english speaking practice for tone: someone objects, someone else talks over them, a kid mutters a complaint. Practising these exchanges out loud puts you closer to everyday conversation than reading a script would.

How to Pronounce English Words in American Accent: the gonna Lines

Three lines in this scene share the same reduction, and hearing it three times back to back makes it easier to reproduce. Whisper caught the compressed forms exactly as they were spoken, so you can trust the spelling on the page.

  • "Well, if it's small scale that gets your engine revving, you're gonna love our new tiny farmhouse!" is the tour pitch that starts the scene, and "gonna" lands as one quick syllable folded straight into "love".
  • "I'm just gonna go get some water" stacks two verbs, go and get, back to back, said fast to cover an excuse.
  • "I'mma get shunned, aren't I?" compresses the same reduction one step further, and the rising question at the end is the part worth copying, not just the reduced verb.

English Speaking Practice for Daily Use: a Line by Line Order for This Scene

Work through this clip in the order the argument actually escalates rather than jumping around. Each step below points at a specific line, so shadow this line before moving to the next one.

  • Start with lines 1 to 5, the short opening exchange, to get the rhythm of two people cutting each other off.
  • Isolate line 6, "Well, if it's small scale that gets your engine revving, you're gonna love our new tiny farmhouse!", and repeat only the gonna beat until it sits at normal speed.
  • Move to line 32, "I'm just gonna go get some water", and read it as one breath, no gap between the two verbs.
  • Take line 49, "Maybe we need to worry less about me becoming farm tough, and more about you being so farm stupid", and shadow this line whole for its pause before the comeback lands.
  • Finish on line 56, "I'mma get shunned, aren't I?", for the alarmed pitch at the end, the emotional turn the whole scene has been building toward.
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