Shadowing practice: Up — I Have Just Met You and I Love You

This clip is perfect for english speaking practice at the beginner level. Dug from Up is a dog learning to speak through a magical collar, and his journey mirrors yours: practicing how to pronounce english words with patience and warmth. This is an effective way to learn english with movies because the character's voice is so clear and patient. The American accent here is unhurried, distinct without being exaggerated. At A2 level, all 18 lines use simple vocabulary and short sentences. The speech pace is forgiving, giving you time to hear and repeat each word.

Beyond the mechanics of pronunciation, Dug's emotional engagement teaches you something essential about how English works. Real speakers sound the way they do because they care about what they're saying. His enthusiasm when meeting someone new, his confusion about language itself, his delight in his master's cleverness: these feelings reshape the intonation, the stress, the whole shape of the sentence. That is what you are learning when you shadow this line: not just words, but the feeling they carry.

The clip is also smart about repetition. Dug uses the same words again and again: "master," "smart," "collar," "talk". This lets you hear the same sounds in slightly different positions. By the end of 18 lines, those vowels and consonants have embedded themselves in your ear. That is how a beginner's ear learns.

The simplest english phrases carry tremendous feeling through intonation and word order. This clip shows you how.

• "My name is Dug" is a direct introduction using present tense: subject, verb, object, nothing fancy. It is the template you will use to introduce yourself.
• "I have just met you and I love you" builds emotional intensity forward, with stress moving from the middle of the sentence to the end. Shadowing this teaches you how English reshapes meaning through emphasis alone, not just through word choice.
• "My master made me this collar" uses past tense with a clear subject-verb-object order, the kind of sentence structure that, once mastered at this level, works everywhere.

Work through it in sections, always shadowing with the emotion the character brings.

• Start with lines 1-3, the opening exchange where Dug greets you. This teaches reactive speech and shows you how an exclamation like "BRAH" changes your whole mouth position. Repeat this part three times.
• Move to lines 4-5, the introduction where Dug says "My name is Dug" and then delivers the emotional peak: "I have just met you and I love you." Shadow each line twice, once for the facts and once for the joy.
• Work through lines 6-11, where Dug explains his collar and praises his master's intelligence. Notice that "smart" appears three times here, and each time it sits in a slightly different position in the sentence. That variation is what makes real speech, not recitation.
• Finish with lines 14-18, the confusing middle where Dug attempts translation and English tangles. These lines show you what happens when a speaker gets stuck, a real moment that every learner experiences.