Shadowing Practice: John Carmack - The Elegant Design - Learn English Speaking with Video

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There is design that could be called art involved in the technical side of things on there.
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There's work that I've done that at the time I can think this is the right way to do it.
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It powerfully feels correct.
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And I suppose that's similar to an artistic sense in some ways where it's not
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so much that I've measured everything and I've quantitatively shown that this is correct, but many times there is just the sense,
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the voice of experience and all that's gone before, where something comes up and sometimes it's even a fairly abrupt thing where working something
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and then all of a sudden this is the right way to do it
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and it becomes clear and that's you know that's very rewarding it's not
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that I just look at things
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and say here are all the tasks let's start slogging through them one after another
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I do want to to come up with
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because the elegant design is the thing
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that allows you to do something two years ahead of
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when it should have been possible and that's
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so much of what I've done in technology where you don't need cleverness to do 3D games today.
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You know the hardware is extraordinarily powerful
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and all you need to do is just not do a horrible job
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and it still comes out okay
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but in the early days it was what nobody thought was possible
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and sure you could have just waited
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and eventually the hardware would have been there
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and everybody could have done it but the fact
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that I helped make something possible two or three years earlier than it would have been otherwise, that's still a good thing.
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If something's worth doing, it's worth doing earlier.
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It's all that opportunity value.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “John Carmack - The Elegant Design”. This video has 25 sentences and 298 words to shadow. The speech runs for 1:31. The speaker talks fast, about 196 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 90% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

12 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
hardware noun/ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/Fixtures, equipment, fasteners, tools, and devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as…
horrible adjective/ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
sudden adjective/ˈsʌd.ən/Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly.
reward noun/ɹɪˈwɔɹd/Something of value given in return for an act.
artistic adjective/ɑɹˈtɪs.tɪk/Having or revealing creative skill.
elegant adjective/ˈɛləɡənt/Characterised by or exhibiting elegance; having grace, refinement, or tasteful simplicity.
abrupt adjective/əˈbɹʌpt/Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
cleverness noun/ˈklɛvɚnəs/The property of being clever.
extraordinarily adverbIn an extraordinary manner.
powerfully adverb/ˈpaʊɚf(ə)li/In a powerful manner.
quantitatively adverbIn a quantitative manner.
slog verb/slɑɡ/To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
come out verb/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/To be discovered; to be revealed.
come up verbTo emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
come up with verbTo manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 5 contractions and reduced forms, such as I've, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like hardware, horrible, sudden.

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