Shadowing practice: ULTIMATE Best of Cold Opens - Brooklyn Nine-Nine

This clip strings together Brooklyn Nine-Nine cold opens, the packed minute of jokes each episode runs before its title card. It is rated B2 and moves at 240 words per minute, faster than 91 percent of the catalogue here, so it is a real test of english speaking practice at speed rather than a slowed down drill. It opens with a mock ceremony over "The question is, who here does the best impression of Captain Raymond Holt?", then jumps to a food truck chase built as a Mad Max parody.

The American accent runs fast and sitcom paced throughout, with characters cutting each other off and answering before the previous line has finished. If you want american accent training on natural, overlapping dialogue instead of isolated vocabulary, this is closer to how people actually talk, and because it is a scripted scene it also works if your goal is to learn english with series rather than single clips.

The jokes here come from formal or exaggerated wording delivered completely flat, which is worth listening for before you try to reproduce it.

• "You'll be judged on voice, body language, and overall lack of flair." is said like a competition announcer, with all three criteria landing inside one breath group, good for practising list stress without a pause between items.
• "What is this glutinous monstrosity before me?" and "The sugar in this is quite sweet." are both about a marshmallow, delivered in the same flat, official register as the ceremony line before them, which is the whole joke.
• "Does she have a twin sister?" is answered almost instantly by "If Rosa had a twin, she would have eaten her in the womb.", a hyperbolic conditional with barely a beat between question and reply. The reel also carries eleven instances of gonna elsewhere, so keep listening past this opening if you want more of that reduction.

Treat the compilation as three short shadowing english speaking practice reps, one per bit, rather than one long take.

• Start with "The question is, who here does the best impression of Captain Raymond Holt?" and repeat it until the flat, official tone feels natural before Holt's own deadpan lines begin.
• Pair "What is this glutinous monstrosity before me?" with "The sugar in this is quite sweet." and shadow them back to back. The joke only lands if the stress sits on the formal words, so listen for where it falls before you copy it.
• Move to the food truck panic and take "We have to get there by 7 o 'clock when they lift the parking restrictions." on its own. It is the one long line in the run, good for breath control before the short exclamations that surround it.
• Finish on "Does she have a twin sister?" into "If Rosa had a twin, she would have eaten her in the womb." and match the gap between the two lines, not just the words, since the timing is what makes it read as a comeback.