Pratique du Shadowing: "Focusing is about saying no" - Steve Jobs (WWDC'97) - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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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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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette leçon d’expression orale s’appuie sur la vidéo « "Focusing is about saying no" - Steve Jobs ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : Opendoc, focusing, sense, directions. Cette vidéo contient 55 phrases et 528 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 2:59. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 177 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. 85 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais ; le reste mérite d’être vu avant de commencer.
Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo
12 mots de la vidéo à retenir, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| bullet nom | /ˈbʊlɪt/ | balle, projectile |
| lump nom | /lʌmp/ | masse, tas |
| suffer verbe | /ˈsʌfɚ/ | souffrir |
| fundamental adjectif | /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/ | fondamental |
| unfair adjectif | /ʌnˈfɛɚ/ | injuste, déloyal |
| apologize verbe | /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/ | s'excuser, faire l'apologie de |
| generic adjectif | /dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪk/ | générique |
| container nom | /kənˈteɪ.nəɹ/ | récipient, contenant |
| arguably adverbe | /ˈɑɹɡjuəbli/ | probablement, sans doute |
| restart verbe | /ˈɹiːˌstɑɹt/ | recommencer |
| lousy adjectif | /ˈlaʊ.zi/ | pouilleux, minable |
| rewrite verbe | /ɹiˈɹaɪt/ | réécrire, récrire |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
|---|---|
| add up verbe | additionner |
| fall apart verbe | tomber en morceaux |
La grammaire de cette vidéo
Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :
| Structure | Dans la vidéo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continu have/has been + -ing — une action commencée avant et toujours en cours | Apple's been taking · it's been taking |
| Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant | that's been created · have left · haven't done |
| Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait | been created · was asked |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 17 contractions et formes réduites, comme didn't, don't, I'm. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/, generic /dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪk/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: generic /dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪk/, container /kənˈteɪ.nəɹ/, arguably /ˈɑɹɡjuəbli/, restart /ˈɹiːˌstɑɹt/, rewrite /ɹiˈɹaɪt/
Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo
- Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
- Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
- Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme bullet, lump, suffer.
Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?
Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.