Shadowing practice: Neverending Story Moment | Stranger Things 3 | Netflix

This clip is Dustin's walkie talkie call to Suzy from Stranger Things 3, a radio conversation that opens on procedure and ends on an actual argument between the two of them. It runs at 140 words per minute, faster than 12% of the catalogue, so the lines move quickly and you cannot coast through them. The recording is rated B2: short exchanges early on, then two long, breathless sentences from Dustin near the end that carry real grammatical weight. If you learn english with series, this is a scene you likely already know, which frees your attention for how it sounds rather than what happens.

The scene is built for english speaking practice because it is almost entirely two voices trading short lines under radio static, the exact rhythm you need for real back and forth. The accent here is fast, frantic teenage American English, a good test once you have handled slower material.

The opening callsign repeats three times before anyone answers: "Suzy, do you copy?" and Dustin only relaxes once he hears "This is Suzy, I copy." That exchange is pure radio protocol, useful for pronunciation because every syllable is said on purpose so the message gets through static.

• "Suzy, do you copy?" is said three times running before the reply lands, a good line for practising a level, evenly stressed question instead of the usual rising pitch.
• "It sounds much better now, thanks." carries a relieved, falling intonation right after the frequency change, worth copying for a natural pitch drop at the end of a sentence.
• "Get the goddamn number already!" is someone off mic losing patience mid call, and the stress falls hard on "goddamn" and "already", which is what turns a flat sentence into an interruption.

Work the clip in the order it was recorded rather than jumping around. Each block trains a different skill before the next one gets harder.

• Start with lines 1 to 4, the triple call "Suzy, do you copy?" and the reply "This is Suzy, I copy.", repeated until the rhythm of the callsign feels automatic.
• Move to lines 19 to 20, "I copy, Suzy -Poo." and "It sounds much better now, thanks.", where the exchange settles into a normal conversational pace.
• Shadow line 29 on its own, "I haven't heard from you in a week, and now you want a mathematical equation that you should know so you can save the world?", breaking it into three phrases before saying it whole.
• Finish on line 38, "I heard you the first time, but Ged is also saving Earthsea, and he's about to confront the shadows, so this is Suzy signing off.", the longest sentence in the clip and the real test of whether you can speak fluently at the pace Dustin uses it.