Shadowing Practice: "Focusing is about saying no" - Steve Jobs (WWDC'97) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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What about OpenDoc?
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What about OpenDoc?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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What about it?
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I don't know.
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It's dead, right?
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Huh?
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It's dead, right?
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I don't know.
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I spent a lot of time working on it.
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Yeah.
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I'm sad.
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Well, you know, let me say something that's sort of generic.
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I know some of you spent a lot of time working on stuff that we put a bullet in the head of.
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I apologize.
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I feel your pain.
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But Apple suffered for several years from lousy engineering management.
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I have to say it.
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And there were people that were going off in 18 different directions, doing arguably interesting things in each one of them.
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Good engineers.
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Lousy management.
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And what happened was you look at the farm that's been created with all these different animals going in different directions, and it doesn't add up.
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The total is less than the sum of the parts.
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And so we had to decide what are the fundamental directions we're going in and what makes sense and what doesn't.
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And there were a bunch of things that didn't.
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and microcosmically they might have made sense, macrocosmically they made no sense.
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And, you know, the hardest thing is, when you think about focusing, right, you think, well, focusing is saying yes,
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no. Focusing is about saying no. Focusing is about saying no. And you've got to say no,
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no, no, no. And when you say no, you piss off people.
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And they go talk to the San Jose Mercury and they write a shitty article about you.
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You know?
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And it's really a pisser.
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because you want to be nice.
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You don't want to tell the San Jose Mercury, the person that's telling you this,
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you know, just was asked to leave or this or that or this or that.
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So you take the lumps.
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And Apple's been taking their share of lumps for the last six months in a very unfair way.
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And it's been taking them, you know, like an adult.
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And I'm proud of that.
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And there's more to come, I'm sure.
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There's more to come.
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I mean, some of these, I read these articles about some of these people that have left.
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I know some of these people.
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They haven't done anything in seven years.
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And, you know, they leave and it's like, you know, it's like the company's going to fall apart the next day.
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And so, you know, I think there'll be stories like that that come and go.
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But focus is about saying no.
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And the result of
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that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.
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And OpenDoc, I mean, I was for putting a bullet in the head of OpenDoc.
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A, I didn't think it was great technology, but B, it didn't fit the rest of the world isn't going to use OpenDoc.
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And I think as a container strategy, there's some stuff in the Java space that's much better.
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And even the OpenDoc guys were basically trying to rewrite the whole thing in Java anyway, which was a restart.
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So it didn't make sense.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “"Focusing is about saying no" - Steve Jobs”. Las palabras que más se repiten: Opendoc, focusing, sense, directions. Este vídeo tiene 55 frases y 528 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:59. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 177 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

12 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
bullet sustantivo/ˈbʊlɪt/bala, proyectil
lump sustantivo/lʌmp/bulto, grumo
suffer verbo/ˈsʌfɚ/sufrir, penar
fundamental adjetivo/ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/fundamental, cimental
unfair adjetivo/ʌnˈfɛɚ/injusto, que no vale
apologize verbo/əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/disculparse [with con], pedir(le) perdón [with a]
generic adjetivo/dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪk/genérico
container sustantivo/kənˈteɪ.nəɹ/recipiente, envase
arguably adverbio/ˈɑɹɡjuəbli/argüiblemente
restart verbo/ˈɹiːˌstɑɹt/reiniciar
lousy adjetivo/ˈlaʊ.zi/pésimo, penoso
rewrite verbo/ɹiˈɹaɪt/reescribir

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
add up verboadicionar
fall apart verbodespedazarse, desintegrarse

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — una acción que empezó antes y continúaApple's been taking · it's been taking
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahorathat's been created · have left · haven't done
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacebeen created · was asked

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 17 contracciones y formas reducidas, como didn't, don't, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, lousy /ˈlaʊ.zi/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, generic /dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪk/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como bullet, lump, suffer.

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Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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