Shadowing Practice: Silicon Valley | Season 1-5 | The Best of Gilfoyle - Learn English Speaking with Video
Creating lesson...
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Can you kind of catch me up on what you see as your role in the company?
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What do you do?
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What do I do?
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System architecture, networking and security.
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While you were busy minoring in gender studies and singing a cappella at Sarah Lawrence, I was gaining root access to NSA servers.
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I was one click away from starting a second Iranian revolution.
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- I actually went to Vassar.
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- I prevent cross -site scripting.
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I monitor for DDOS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings.
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The internet, heard of it, transfers half a petabyte of data every minute.
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Do you have any idea how that happens?
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All those you porn ones and zeros streaming directly to your shitty little smartphone day after day?
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Every dipshit who shits his pants if he can't get the new Dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds?
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So what do I do?
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I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire fucking company.
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That's what the fuck I do.
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That's basically what I told him.
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Listen, wherever we end up here, I just want to say that I feel I should get more equity than Dinesh.
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Jack's empty fucking chair is a better choice than I am.
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So maybe ask the chair.
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See what it thinks.
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Say what you will about the chair, but at least it never told me to build the fucking box.
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True.
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Compared to Richard, it's a lot sturdier.
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And it has a lot less of Barker's ass rubbed all over it.
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Hello, what's your name?
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Visit us at microdrone .com to download...
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Oh, wow, microdrone.
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They just closed $70 million in seed funding.
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Was he like, "Bro, you're my bro." Or was he like, "I wanna shoot you in the face and watch you bleed out all over the stage,
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'cause you fucked my wife, you cocksuck"?
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Right in the middle.
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It was like...
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- Huh.
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- Guilfoyle.
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Richard, stop talking about this, or I have to punch you in the face.
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Fuck.
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Wow.
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Pied Piper sounds like a great place to work.
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Oh, yeah, it is.
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Pied Piper is the best.
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Oh, my God.
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Every day feels like I've died and gone to hell.
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I'm sorry?
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He's a Satanist, so it's good.
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Oh, fun.
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You really think we'd go work for Hooli?
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Richard?
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What other options do we have?
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We need serious funding to go up against Nucleus, and we don't have that. So listen.
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I will listen.
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To the sound of you chortling on my balls.
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Okay.
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That's how I talk the ad agency into giving you guys that slogan for only 30 grand.
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Synergy bitches.
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Know what that means?
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Does it mean taking a stack of cash and lighting it on fire?
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- Thank you.
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- - Crazy fucker!
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I love this guy!
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This fucking guy!
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-I think maybe I should call the museum, see if this is normal.
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-Jarred, you want that egg to be alive, right?
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- Well, right now, because you don't know whether it is or not, it exists in both states.
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Like Schrodinger's cat.
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-Like what?
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-It's a quantum mechanics thought experiment that an Austrian physicist came up with to help understand quantum states.
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So he imagined putting a cat into a box with poisoned food.
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There's a 50 /50 chance the cat eats it.
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If you open the box and confirm that the cat is dead, that in a sense, You've killed the cat.
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Or, if you call the museum and get the information, then you've killed the egg.
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No. That's silly. Is it?
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Okay.
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I'm just gonna think about it for a minute.
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You should have never called that museum, Jared.
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They're on there pretty good.
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Holy shit.
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Jared, you just killed that guy.
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I just got a text from Richard.
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I'm not gonna read it.
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You can have the cheese of the plane.
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You're leaving me with the cheddar?
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That's right, Dick.
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Geek Squad.
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The computer's right here.
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you're not wearing the shirt.
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I spilled coffee on it.
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I'm a nerd.
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All right.
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We're all set here You're gonna be replacing it Bye.
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- Hey, I'm Winnie.
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I'm Guilfoyle.
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Are you a bartender?
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I work at Facebook.
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- As a bartender?
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- Now, I only ordered one as a sample, but once I have your sizes, we can all have them.
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- Why would we all want them?
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One is already too many.
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I don't mean in the house, I mean like in the world.
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- Now, Guilfoyle, I have you at about a 40 long.
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Am I right?
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- If my mother was naked and dead in the street, I would not cover her body with that jacket.
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- Kill.
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I'm sorry.
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Looks like you want to compress a movie file.
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Can I help?
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You know, with Pi Piper's revolutionary neural network optimized sharded data distribution system, it's just six clicks away.
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Follow me!
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I like it.
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That's a fucking lie.
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Yeah.
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I saw you come out of the shower yesterday.
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Okay.
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-Uh, well, obviously, I've been sleeping here at night, but I've been gone during the day.
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-Pretty sure that shower was in the morning.
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That's part of the day, Richard.
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-Okay, Guilfoyle.
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I -I've been sleeping here at night, and then I've been here for some mornings, but I'm...
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I've left the house during the day.
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We all leave the house during the day, Richard.
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That's not weird.
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I went to get coffee this morning.
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Yeah, I went to the dispensary.
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And then I had smoked the weed before I got home, so I went back to the dispensary.
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You know what?
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I just realized I haven't left the house in six days.
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Now that's worth exploring.
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What the fuck was that?
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Oh, just three months of runway being driven off by 90 pounds of asshole.
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spoken by a 280 pound pile of shit.
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Thank you.
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Would you please, please, please, please, Please.
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Come work for Pied Piper.
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Thanks for asking.
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I'm going to put this as delicately as I know how.
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You can shortle my balls.
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This must be the new fridge.
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You like this?
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Look, it has a screen so you can see all the food that's inside.
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Mm -hmm.
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Kind of like that one.
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This one has an app so you can actually watch the food on your phone.
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All it needs to do is keep my fucking beer cold.
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Hmm, you're running low on beer.
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Fuck you.
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It's bad enough it has to talk.
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Does it need fake vocal tics?
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Like...
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- Uh...
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- Well, it just makes it sound more human.
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Humans are shit.
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This thing is addressing problems that don't exist.
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It's solutionism at its worst.
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We are dumbing down machines that are inherently superior.
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Whatever you give your server a human name, you named it Anti.
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Yeah, but Anton doesn't call me anything.
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He grimly does his work, and he sits motionless, till it's time to work again.
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We could all take a page from his book.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Hmm, I'm not quite sure what you're doing.
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Is there something I can help you with?
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Yeah, how do I shut you the fuck up?
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Hello?
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My co -friend.
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Hello?
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Huh, suck it, Jian Yang.
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Hmm, ah, huh.
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You attack her and destroy my refrigerator?
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Anna, you misspelled my name.
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I did.
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I had to overclock Anton, but I was able to brute force the backdoor password to that chrome piece of shit in under 12 hours.
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But I added a little visual flair.
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- Hey, we're done with the migrating.
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How's it going in here?
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- Don't touch the fucking lights.
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One surge and we're dead.
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- What the fuck?
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What?
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of the eyes.
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- They're contacts.
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- Okay, how we looking?
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Jesus!
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Christ.
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I broke my glasses.
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I don't have an extra pair, so I had to pull these out of a drawer I had made for All Hallows' Eve.
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I was a cat.
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We literally moved it from 9 to 11 to accommodate you.
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So do you mind telling us when you feel like you can make it in?
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Sure.
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Whenever you hold the meeting.
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I'll be in an hour after that.
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Okay.
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Well...
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What?
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The fuck was that?
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That's the song "You Suffer" by Napalm Death.
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Whenever the price of Bitcoin dips below a certain value, It's no longer efficient to mine.
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Okay, any idea how often that might happen?
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Bitcoin is very volatile, so...
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This is so loud.
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A lot.
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Good.
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All right, well...
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Maybe turn it down or something.
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Oh, fuck.
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The witch lost his mind.
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Go for it.
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You smoke?
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I kept mulling that sep and shit.
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I didn't leave a bit of my coat on that fridge.
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No remnants, nothing.
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So how do they know?
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Then I realized...
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They're listening to us.
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Thank you.
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They've been listening to us this whole fucking time.
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You thought a mind performing fellatio was bad?
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What happens when your customers find out that every single thing they've ever said in front of their Hearth.
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has been recorded.
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I'm a world -class COO, okay?
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And your heavy metal friend, I mean, he's obviously a dick.
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Hey, I'm back.
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Did Richard step out?
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Yeah, I guess so.
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He said he needed a dick.
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Holy Fuck.
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What did you do to your face?
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This?
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Oh, it's just a light saline injection.
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It's temporary.
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The idea was to distract from my nose, which scans kind of large on camera, so it just kind of evens things out.
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What evens things out?
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Fuck you.
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Fuck you.
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Becky, did you run connection throttling on the latest batch of device IDs?
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Yes.
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You know why?
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Not a moron.
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Oh, I see.
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I'm the asshole.
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Really?
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You really want to have this conversation?
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You're both assholes.
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Shut the fuck up.
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Monica.
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Cheers. For me?
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Yeah!
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This is our coin price, right?
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It's going up.
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Well, look at that.
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Come on!
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Jared finally broke him.
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Good!
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Yeah.
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I like you.
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No, I don't know.
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Fuck you!
Context & Background
The dialogue in the video from "Silicon Valley" showcases a conversation between characters working in a tech startup environment. The speaker, Gilfoyle, represents a unique blend of technical expertise and dark humor as he discusses his role in the company dealing with critical issues such as system architecture, networking, and security. This context reflects the fast-paced and often chaotic nature of the tech industry, where pressure and competition are part of daily life. Understanding such dialogues can enhance your comprehension of contemporary workplace dynamics and expose you to modern colloquial expressions.
Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication
- "What do I do?" - A common phrase for clarifying one’s role or responsibilities.
- "I prevent cross-site scripting." - A technical term that can lead to broader conversations about cybersecurity.
- "My role here is crucial." - An effective way to assert the importance of your position or responsibilities.
- "What other options do we have?" - Useful for initiating discussions about choices and alternatives in problem-solving situations.
- "Pied Piper sounds like a great place to work." - A phrase to express enthusiasm or sarcasm about a workplace setting.
Step-by-step Shadowing Guide
To effectively tackle the dialogue in this video and improve your English pronunciation, follow these steps:
- Listen Actively: Play the video segment several times to familiarize yourself with the context and tone. Pay attention to how the characters express frustration, humor, and urgency.
- Transcribe Key Phrases: Write down the top 5 phrases mentioned above and any additional ones that catch your interest. This exercise reinforces understanding and memorization.
- Utilize a Shadowing App: Use a shadowing app to practice mimicking the intonation, rhythm, and pronunciation of the speakers. This technique is particularly effective in IELTS speaking practice.
- Repeat and Record: Record yourself saying the phrases after the speakers. Playback your recordings and listen for areas of improvement. Compare your pronunciation to the original to identify differences.
- Engage in Conversation: Incorporate your new phrases into daily conversations or practice scenarios. This can significantly boost your English speaking practice and make you more comfortable in real-life discussions.
Incorporating video content like this into your learning routine can enhance your ability to learn English with YouTube, allowing you to connect with contemporary language use while also grasping the nuances of workplace jargon. By following this structured approach, you will not only improve your vocabulary but also develop the confidence needed for effective communication.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.