TED演讲：Jay-Walker谈中国英语学习狂热范文大全

第一篇：TED演讲：Jay-Walker谈中国英语学习狂热

Let's talk about manias.Let's start with Beatle mania: hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming, pandemonium.Sports mania: deafening crowds, all for one idea--get the ball in the net.Okay, religious mania: there's rapture, there's weeping, there's visions.Manias can be good.Manias can be alarming.Or manias can be deadly.让我们来谈谈狂热。先从甲壳虫热说起。歇斯底里的少年们：高呼，尖叫，喧嚣。体育热：震耳欲聋的人群，都是为了一个目标，让球入网。还有宗教热：有欢笑、也有泪水还有梦想。狂热可能有益，也可能会令人担忧。有时狂热可能会很致命。

The world has a new mania.A mania for learning English.Listen as Chinese students practice their English by screaming it.现在，世界上有种新的狂热。学习英语的狂热。下面听听中国学生用高声叫喊的方式练习英语。

Teacher:...change my life!

老师：...改变我的生活！

Students: I will change my life.学生：我要改变我的命运。

T: I don't want to let my parents down.老师：我不想让父母失望。

S: I don't want to let my parents down.学生：我不想让父母失望。

T: I don't ever want to let my country down.老师：我从不想让国家失望。

S: I don't ever want to let my country down.学生：我从不想让国家失望。

T: Most importantly...S: Most importantly...老师：最重要的...学生：最重要的...T: I don't want to let myself down.老师：我不想让我自己失望。

S: I don't want to let myself down.学生：我不想让我自己失望。

Jay Walker: How many people are trying to learn English worldwide? Two billion of them.JayWalker:全世界现在有多少人学习英语？20亿

Students: A t-shirt.A dress.学生：一件T恤。一条裙子。

JW: In Latin America, in India, in Southeast Asia, and most of all in China.If you are a Chinese student you start learning English in the third grade, by law.That's why this year China will become the world's largest English-speaking country.(Laughter)Why English? In a single word: Opportunity.Opportunity for a better life, a job, to be able to pay for school, or put better food on the table.Imagine a student taking a giant test for three full days.Her score on this one test literally determines her future.She studies 12 hours a day for three years to prepare.25 percent of her grade is based on English.It's called the Gaokao, and 80 million high school Chinese students have already taken this grueling test.The intensity to learn English is almost unimaginable, unless you witness it.JW：在拉丁美洲、印度、东南亚和几乎整个中国。如果你是名中国学生，根据法律要求，你在小学三年级就得开始学英语。这就是为什么今年（2009年）中国会成为全世界最大的讲英语的国家。（笑声）为什么是英语？用一个词来回答就是：机会。一个获得更好的生活、工作的机会。可以上得起学，可以吃上更好的食物。想象一个学生用整整三天时间参加一次大考。她的这次考试成绩几乎决定她的未来前途。为了准备这次考试，她在三年的时间里，每天学习12小时。而这次考试25%的成绩是由英语决定。这个考试叫做高考。有8000万中国高中生参加过这个“独木桥”考试。学英语的强度几乎不可想象，除非你亲眼目睹。

Teacher: Perfect!Students: Perfect!

老师：完美！学生：完美！

T: Perfect!S: Perfect!

老师：完美！学生：完美！

T: I want to speak perfect English.老师：我想讲完美的英语

S: I want to speak perfect English.学生：我想讲完美的英语

T: I want to speak--S: I want to speak--

老师：我想说--学生：我想说--

T: perfect English.S: perfect English.学生：完美的英语。学生：完美的英语

T: I want to change my life!

老师：我要改变我的命运！

S: I want to change my life!

学生：我要改变我的命运！

JW: So is English mania good or bad? Is English a tsunami, washing away other languages? Not likely.English is the world's second language.Your native language is your life.But with English you can become part of a wider conversation: a global conversation about global problems, like climate change or poverty, or hunger or disease.The world has other universal languages.Mathematics is the language of science.Music is the language of emotions.And now English is becoming the language of problem-solving.Not because America is pushing it, but because the world is pulling it.So English mania is a turning point.Like the harnessing of electricity in our cities or the fall of the Berlin Wall, English represents hope for a better future--a future where the world has a common language to solve its common problems.JW：那么这股英语热是好是坏呢？英语是不是海啸，会席卷其它所有语言？不太可能。英语是世界第二大语言。你的母语就是你的人生。但英语可以让你参与更大范围的讨论：关于全球性问题的全球范围内的讨论。比如气候变化、贫穷、饥饿或疾病。这个世界上还有其它的全球性语言。数学是科学的语言。音乐是感情的语言。现在，英语正在成为解决问题的语言。这并非因为美国促使其如此，而是因为全世界的需要。所以英语热是一个转折点。就像利用城市电力，或柏林墙的倒塌，英语代表着更加美好的未来的希望，到那时全世界就可以用共同语言解决共同的问题。

Thank you very much.(Applause)

非常感谢大家。（掌声）

第二篇：TED演讲：Jay Walker谈中国英语学习狂热

TED演讲：Jay Walker谈中国英语学习狂热

Jay Walker: How many people are trying to learn English worldwide? Two billion of them.JayWalker:全世界现在有多少人学习英语？20亿

Thank you very much.(Applause)非常感谢大家。（掌声）

第三篇：TED演讲：Jay_Walker谈中国英语学习狂热 2

English Mania

The world has a new mania——A mania for learning English.Listen as Chinese students practice their English by screaming it.现在，世界上有种新的狂热。学习英语的狂热。下面听听中国学生用高声叫喊的方式练习英语。

Teacher:...change my life!

Students: I will change my life.S: I don't want to let my parents down.T: I don't ever want to let my country down.S: I don't ever want to let my country down.T: Most importantly...S: Most importantly.T: I don't want to let myself down.S: I don't want to let myself down.T: I don't want to let my parents down.Jay Walker: How many people are trying to learn English worldwide? Two billion of them.JW: In Latin America, in India, in Southeast Asia, and most of all in China.If you are a Chinese student you start learning English in the third grade, by law.That's why this year China will become the world's largest English-speaking country.Why English? In a single word: Opportunity——Opportunity for a better life, a job, to be able to pay for school, or put better food on the table.Imagine a student taking a giant test for three full days.Her score on this one test literally determines her future.She studies 12 hours a day for three years to prepare.25 percent of her grade is based on English.It's called the Gaokao, and 80 million high school Chinese students have already taken this grueling test.The intensity to learn English is almost unimaginable, unless you witness it.JW：在拉丁美洲、印度、东南亚和几乎整个中国。如果你是名中国学生，根据法律要求，你在小学三年级就得开始学英语。这就是为什么今年（2009年）中国会成为全世界最大的讲英语的国家。为什么是英语？用一个词来回答就是：机会。一个获得更好的生活、工作的机会。可以上得起学，可以吃上更好的食物。想象一个学生用整整三天时间参加一次大考。她的这次考试成绩几乎决定她的未来前途。为了准备这次考试，她在三年的时间里，每天学习12小时。而这次考试25%的成绩是由英语决定。这个考试叫做高考。有8000万中国高中生参加过这个“独木桥”考试。学英语的强度几乎不可想象，除非你亲眼目睹。

T: I want to speak perfect English.S: I want to speak perfect English.T: I want to change my life!

S: I want to change my life!

第四篇：TED演讲：关于世界英语热

TED中文演讲稿

关于世界英语热让我们来谈谈狂热。先从甲壳虫热说起歇斯底里的少年们，高呼，尖叫，喧嚣的场面。体育热震耳欲聋的人群。都是为了一个目标，要球进网。还有，宗教热。有欢笑，也有泪水。还有梦想。狂热可以是件好事。狂热也可以使人担心。有时狂热也可以是致命的。

现在世界上有一种新的狂热。学习英语的狂热听，中国学生在练习讲英语用高声叫喊的方式练习英语。老师：...改变我的生活！

学生：我要改变我的命运。

老师：我不想让父母失望。

学生：我不想让父母失望。

老师：我从不想让国家失望。

学生：我从不想让国家失望。

老师：最重要的...学生：最重要的...老师：我不想让我自己失望。

学生：我不想让我自己失望。

Jay Walker: 全世界现在有多少人学习英语？ 20亿

学生：一件衬衫。一条裙子。

JW：在拉丁美洲在印度，在东南亚。和几乎整个中国。如果你是个中国学生根据法律，在小学三年级你得开始学习英语。这就是为什么今年中国会成为全世界最大的讲英语的国家。（笑声）为什么是英语?用一个词来回答：机会。一个获得更好生活，工作的机会。可以上得起学，可以吃更好的食物。想象一个学生用整整三天时间参加一次大考。她的这个考试的成绩真正地决定了她的前途。她每天学习12个小时三年间都是如此，就是为了准备这个考试其中25%的成绩是由英语决定的这个考试叫做高考。有8000万的中国高中生都已经参加过这个“独木桥”考试学习英语的强度几乎不可想象。除非你亲自见证过

老师：完美！学生：完美！

老师：我想讲完美的英语

学生：我想讲完美的英语

老师：我想说--学生：我想说--

学生：完美的英语。学生：完美的英语

老师：我要改变我的命运！

TED中文演讲稿

学生：我要改变我的命运！

JW：那么这股英语热是好还是坏呢？英语是海啸吗，席卷其他所有的语言？不见得。英语是世界第二大语言。你的母语是你的生活但是英语可以让你参与更大范围的讨论。一个全世界范围的关于全球问题的讨论。比如气候改变或者贫穷或者饥饿，或是疾病这个世界上还有其他的全球性语言数学是科学的语言音乐是感情的语言现在，英语正在成为解决问题的语言并不是因为美国促使其如此。而是因为全世界的需要。所以英语热是一个转折点就像我们城市里的供电系统或者柏林墙的倒塌，英语代表着希望拥有一个更好的未来的希望未来全世界将用共同语言去解决共同的问题

非常感谢（掌声）

第五篇：杨澜ted演讲中国的新一代

杨澜TED演讲：重塑中国的年轻一代（英文演讲稿）Yang Lan: The generation that's remaking China

The night before I was heading for Scotland, I was invited to host the final of “China's Got Talent” show in Shanghai with the 80,000 live audience in the stadium.Guess who was the performing guest?Susan Boyle.And I told her, “I'm going to Scotland the next day.” She sang beautifully, and she even managed to say a few words in Chinese.[Chinese]So it's not like “hello” or “thank you,” that ordinary stuff.It means “green onion for free.” Why did she say that? Because it was a line from our Chinese parallel Susan Boyle--a 50-some year-old woman, a vegetable vendor in Shanghai, who loves singing Western opera, but she didn't understand any English or French or Italian, so she managed to fill in the lyrics with vegetable names in Chinese.(Laughter)And the last sentence of Nessun Dorma that she was singing in the stadium was “green onion for free.” So [as] Susan Boyle was saying that, 80,000 live audience sang together.That was hilarious.So I guess both Susan Boyle and this vegetable vendor in Shanghai belonged to otherness.They were the least expected to be successful in the business called entertainment, yet their courage and talent brought them through.And a show and a platform gave them the stage to realize their dreams.Well, being different is not that difficult.We are all different from different perspectives.But I think being different is good, because you present a different point of view.You may have the chance to make a difference.My generation has been very fortunate to witness and participate in the historic transformation of China that has made so many changes in the past 20, 30 years.I remember that in the year of 1990,when I was graduating from college, I was applying for a job in the sales department of the first five-star hotel in Beijing, Great Wall Sheraton--it's still there.So after being interrogated by this Japanese manager for a half an hour, he finally said, “So, Miss Yang, do you have any questions to ask me?”I summoned my courage and poise and said,“Yes, but could you let me know, what actually do you sell?” I didn't have a clue what a sales department was about in a five-star hotel.That was the first day I set my foot in a five-star hotel.Around the same time, I was going through an audition--the first ever open audition by national television in China--with another thousand college girls.The producer told us they were looking for some sweet, innocent and beautiful fresh face.So when it was my turn, I stood up and said, “Why [do] women's personalities on television always have to be beautiful, sweet, innocent and, you know, supportive? Why can't they have their own ideas and their own voice?” I thought I kind of offended them.But actually, they were impressed by my words.And so I was in the second round of competition, and then the third and the fourth.After seven rounds of competition, I was the last one to survive it.So I was on a national television prime-time show.And believe it or not, that was the first show on Chinese television that allowed its hosts to speak out of their own minds without reading an approved script.(Applause)And my weekly audience at that time was between 200 to 300 million people.Well after a few years, I decided to go to the U.S.and Columbia University to pursue my

postgraduate studies, and then started my own media company, which was unthought of during the years that I started my career.So we do a lot of things.I've interviewed more than a thousand people in the past.And sometimes I have young people approaching me say, “Lan, you changed my life,” and I feel proud of that.But then we are also so fortunate to witness the transformation of the whole country.I was in Beijing's bidding for the Olympic Games.I was representing the Shanghai Expo.I saw China embracing the world and vice versa.But then sometimes I'm thinking, what are today's young generation up to? How are they different, and what are the differences they are going to make to shape the future of China, or at large, the world?

So today I want to talk about young people through the platform of social media.First of all, who are they? [What] do they look like? Well this is a girl called Guo Meimei--20 years old, beautiful.She showed off her expensive bags, clothes and car on her microblog, which is the Chinese version of Twitter.And she claimed to be the general manager of Red Cross at the Chamber of Commerce.She didn't realize that she stepped on a sensitive nerve and aroused national questioning, almost a turmoil, against the credibility of Red Cross.The controversy was so heated that the Red Cross had to open a press conference to clarify it, and the investigation is going on.So far, as of today, we know that she herself made up that title--probably because she feels proud to be associated with charity.All those expensive items were given to her as gifts by her boyfriend,who used to be a board member in a subdivision of Red Cross at Chamber of Commerce.It's very complicated to explain.But anyway, the public still doesn't buy it.It is still boiling.It shows us a general mistrust of government or government-backed institutions, which lacked transparency in the past.And also it showed us the power and the impact of social media as microblog.Microblog boomed in the year of 2010, with visitors doubled and time spent on it tripled.Sina.com, a major news portal, alone has more than 140 million microbloggers.On Tencent, 200 million.The most popular blogger--it's not me--it's a movie star, and she has more than 9.5 million followers, or fans.About 80 percent of those microbloggers are young people, under 30 years old.And because, as you know, the traditional media is still heavily controlled by the government,social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit.But because you don't have many other openings, the heat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.So through microblogging, we are able to understand Chinese youth even better.So how are they different? First of all, most of them were bornin the 80s and 90s, under the one-child policy.And because of selected abortion by families who favored boys to girls, now we have ended up with 30 million more young men than women.That could pose a potential danger to the society, but who knows;we're in a globalized world, so they can look for girlfriends from other countries.Most of them have fairly good education.The illiteracy rate in China among this generation is under one percent.In cities, 80 percent of kids go to college.But they are facing an aging China with a population above 65 years old coming up with seven-point-some percent this year, and about to be 15 percent by the year of 2030.And you know we have the tradition that younger generations support the elders financially, and taking care of them when they're sick.So it means young

coupleswill have to support four parents who have a life expectancy of 73 years old.So making a living is not that easy for young people.College graduates are not in short supply.In urban areas, college graduates find the starting salary is about 400 U.S.dollars a month, while the average rent is above $500.So what do they do? They have to share space--squeezed in very limited space to save money--and they call themselves “tribe of ants.” And for those who are ready to get married and buy their apartment, they figured out they have to work for 30 to 40 years to afford their first apartment.That ratio in Americawould only cost a couple five years to earn, but in China it's 30 to 40 years with the skyrocketing real estate price.Among the 200 million migrant workers, 60 percent of them are young people.They find themselves sort of sandwiched between the urban areas and the rural areas.Most of them don't want to go back to the countryside, but they don't have the sense of belonging.They work for longer hours with less income, less social welfare.And they're more vulnerable to job losses, subject to inflation,tightening loans from banks, appreciation of the renminbi, or decline of demand from Europe or America for the products they produce.Last year, though, an appalling incident in a southern OEM manufacturing compound in China: 13 young workers in their late teens and early 20s committed suicide, just one by one like causing a contagious disease.But they died because of all different personal reasons.But this whole incident aroused a huge outcry from society about the isolation, both physical and mental, of these migrant workers.For those who do return back to the countryside,they find themselves very welcome locally,because with the knowledge, skills and networksthey have learned in the cities, with the assistance of the Internet, they're able to create more jobs,upgrade local agriculture and create new businessin the less developed market.So for the past few years, the coastal areas, they found themselves in a shortage of labor.These diagrams show a more general social background.The first one is the Engels coefficient,which explains that the cost of daily necessitieshas dropped its percentage all through the past decade, in terms of family income, to about 37-some percent.But then in the last two years, it goes up again to 39 percent, indicating a rising living cost.The Gini coefficient has already passed the dangerous line of 0.4.Now it's 0.5--even worse than that in America--showing us the income inequality.And so you see this whole society getting frustrated about losing some of its mobility.And also, the bitterness and even resentment towards the rich and the powerful is quite widespread.So any accusations of corruptionor backdoor dealings between authorities or business would arouse a social outcry or even unrest.So through some of the hottest topics on microblogging, we can see what young people care most about.Social justice and government accountability runs the first in what they demand.For the past decade or so, a massive urbanization and development have let us witness a lot of reports on the forced demolition of private property.And it has aroused huge anger and frustrationamong our young generation.Sometimes people get killed, and sometimes people set themselves on fire to protest.So when these incidents are reported more and more frequently on the Internet,people cry for the government to take actions to stop this.So the good news is that earlier this year, the state council passed a new regulation on house requisition and demolition and passed the right to order forced demolition from local governments to the court.Similarly, many other issues concerning public safety is a hot topic on the Internet.We heard about polluted air, polluted water, poisoned food.And guess what, we have faked beef.They have sorts of ingredients that you brush on a piece of chicken or fish, and it turns it to look like beef.And then lately, people are very concerned about cooking oil, because thousands of people have been found [refining] cooking oil from restaurant slop.So all these things have aroused a huge outcry from the Internet.And fortunately, we have seen the government responding more timely and also more frequently to the public concerns.While young people seem to be very sure about their participation in public policy-making, but sometimes they're a little bit lost in terms of what they want for their personal life.China is soon to pass the U.S.as the number one market for luxury brands--that's not including the Chinese expenditures in Europe and elsewhere.But you know what, half of those consumers are earning a salary below 2,000 U.S.dollars.They're not rich at all.They're taking those bags and clothes as a sense of identity and social status.And this is a girl explicitly saying on a TV dating show that she would rather cry in a BMW than smile on a bicycle.But of course, we do have young people who would still prefer to smile, whether in a BMW or [on] a bicycle.So in the next picture, you see a very popular phenomenon called “naked” wedding, or “naked” marriage.It does not mean they will wear nothing in the wedding, but it shows that these young couples are ready to get married without a house, without a car, without a diamond ring and without a wedding banquet, to show their commitment to true love.And also, people are doing good through social media.And the first picture showed us that a truck caging 500 homeless and kidnapped dogsfor food processing was spotted and stopped on the highway with the whole country watchingthrough microblogging.People were donating money, dog food and offering volunteer work to stop that truck.And after hours of negotiation, 500 dogs were rescued.And here also people are helping to find missing children.A father posted his son's picture onto the Internet.After thousands of [unclear], the child was found, and we witnessed the reunion of the family through microblogging.So happiness is the most popular word we have heard through the past two years.Happiness is not only related to personal experiences and personal values, but also, it's about the environment.People are thinking about the following questions: Are we going to sacrifice our environment further to produce higher GDP? How are we going to perform our social and political reform to keep pace with economic growth, to keep sustainability and stability? And also, how capable is the systemof self-correctness to keep more people contentwith all sorts of friction going on at the same time?I guess these are the questions people are going to answer.And our younger generation are going to transform this country while at the same time being transformed themselves.Thank you very much.

TED演讲：Jay-Walker谈中国英语学习狂热范文大全

第一篇：TED演讲：Jay-Walker谈中国英语学习狂热

第二篇：TED演讲：Jay Walker谈中国英语学习狂热

第三篇：TED演讲：Jay_Walker谈中国英语学习狂热 2

第四篇：TED演讲：关于世界英语热

第五篇：杨澜ted演讲中国的新一代

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