TED演讲——不要固执于英语英文字幕

第一篇：TED演讲——不要固执于英语英文字幕

不要固执于英语

I know what you’re thinking.You think I’ve lost my way, and somebody’s going to come on the stage in a minute and guide me gently back to my seat.I get that all thetimein Dubai.“Here on holiday are you, dear?”“Come to visit the children?”“How long are you staying?”Well actually, I hope for a while longer yet.I have been living and teaching in Gulf for over 30 years.And in that time, I have seen a lot of changes.Now that statistic is quit shocking.And I want to talk to you today about language loss and the globalization of English.I want to tell you about my friend who was teacher English to adults in Abu Dhabi.And one fine day, she decided to take them into the garden to teach them some nature vocabulary.But it was she who ended up learning all the Arabic words for the local plants, as well as their uses, medicinal uses, cosmetics, cooking, herbal.How did those students get all that knowledge? Of course, from their grandparentsand even their great-grandparents.It’s not necessary to tell you how important it is to be able to communicate across generation.But sadly, today, languages are dying at an unprecedented rate.A language dies every 14 days.Now at the same time, English is the undisputed global language.Could there be a connection? We don’t know.But I do knowthat I’ve seen a lot of changes.When I first came out to the Gulf, I came to Kuwait in the days it was still a hardship post.Actually, not that long ago.That is a little bit too early.But nevertheless, I was recruited by the British Council along with about 25 other teachers.And we were the first non-Muslims to teach in the state schools there in Kuwait.We were brought to teach English because the government wanted to modernize the country and empower the citizens through education.And of course, the U.K.benefited from some of that lovely oil wealth.Okay.Now this is the major change that I’ve seen how teaching English has morphed from being a mutually beneficial practice to becoming a massive international business that it is today.No longer just a foreign language on the school curriculum.And no longer the sole domain of mother England.It has become a bandwagon for every English-speaking nation on earth.And why not? After all, the best education according to the latest World University Rankings is to be found in the universities of the U.K.and the U.S.So everybody wants to have an English education, naturally.But if you’re not a native speaker, you have to pass a test.Now can it be right to reject a student on linguistic ability alone? Perhaps you have a computer scientist who’s a

genius.Would he need the same language as a lawyer, for example? Well, I don’t think so.We English teachers reject them all the time.We put a stop sign, and we stop them in their tracks.They can’t pursue their dream any longer, till they get English.Now let me put it this way, if I met a monolingual Dutch speakerwho had the cure for cancer, would I stop him from entering my British University? I don’t think so.But indeed, that is exactly what we do.We English teachers are the gatekeepers.And you have to satisfy us first that your English is good enough.Now it can be dangerous to give too much power, to a narrow segment of society.Maybe the barrier would be too university.Okay.“But,” I hear you say, “What about the research? It’s all in English.” So the books are in English, the journals are done in English, but that is self-fulfilling prophecy.It deeds the English requirement.And so it goes on.I ask you, what happened to translation? If you think about the Islamic Golden Age, there was lots of translation then.They translate from Latin and Greek into Arabic, into Persian, and then it was translated on into the Germanic languages of Europe and the Romance languages.And so light shone upon the Dark Ages of Europe.Now don’t get me wrong.I am not against teaching English, all you English teachers out there.I love thatwe have a global language.We need one today more than ever.But I am against using it as a barrier.Do we really want to end up with 600 languages and the main one being English and Chinese? We need more than that.Where do we draw the line? This system equates intelligence with a knowledge of English which is quite arbitrary.And I want to remind you that the giant upon whose shoulders today’s intelligentsia stand did not have to have English, they didn’t have to pass an English test.Case in point, Einstein.He, by the way, was considered remedial at school because he was, in fact, dyslexic.But fortunately for the world, he did not have to pass an English test.Because they didn’t start until 1964 with TOEFL, the AmericanTest of English.Now it’s exploded.There are lots and lots of tests of English.And millions and millions of students take these tests every year.Now you might think, you and me, those fees aren’t bad, they’re okay, but they are prohibitive to so many millions of poor people.So immediately, we’re rejecting them.It brings to mind a headline I saw recently: “Education: The Great Divide.” Now I get it, I understand why people would focus on English.They want to give their children the best chance in the life.And to do that, they need a Western education.Because, of course, the best jobs go to people out of the Western Universities, that I put on earlier.It’s a circular thing.Okay.Let me tell you a story about two scientists, two English scientists.They were doing an experiment to do with genetics and the forelimbs and the hind limbs of animals.But they couldn’t get the results they wanted.They really didn’t know what to do, until along came a German scientist who realized that they were using two words for forelimb and hind limb, whereas genetics does not differentiate and neither does German.So bingo, problem solved.If you can’t think a thought, you are stuck.But if another language can think that thought, then, by cooperating, we can achieve and learn so much more.My daughter, came to England from Kuwait.She had studied science and mathematics in Arabic.It’s an Arabic medium school.She had to translate it into English at her grammar school.And she was the best in the class at those subjects.Which tells us, that when students come to us from abroad, we may not be giving them enough credit for what they know.And they know it in their own language.When a language dies, we don’t know what we lose with that language.This is –I don’t know if you saw it on CNN recently—they give the Heroes Award to a young Kenyan shepherd boy who couldn’t study at night in his village like all the village children, because the Kerosene lamp, it had smoke and it damaged his eyes.And anyway, there was never enough kerosene, because what does a dollar a day buy for you? So he invented a cost-free solar lamp.And now the children in his village get the same grades at school as the children who have electricity at home.When he received his award, he said these lovely words: The children can lead Africa from a dark continent, to a light continent.A simple idea, but it could have such fat-reaching consequences.Peoplewho have no light, whether it’s physical or metaphorical, cannot pass our exam, and we can never know what they know.Let us not keep them and ourselves in the dark.Let us celebrate diversity.Mind your language.Use it to spread great ideas.

第二篇：(TED英文演讲)我们不要墨守成规,一成不变的教育!——观后感

No more stereotypical education!—— Feedback Education has always been a complicated subject.A great number of renowned educators have spent their lifetime on it.But it didn’t work for long.Just like the attractive old man suggested, the education system has been stuck to a stiffness.Many kids went to school to study, and they just graduated from schools.If someone ask what they learned, they can seldom say something.It’s still worth thinking although the speech was for American education.As the lecturer said, all kids should be provided with fair education.We need to see the justice between rich kids and poor kids so that all of them can receive good education.And the most significant problem is innovation.Just like the speaker experienced, our education similarly changed nothing.Students went to school year after year, but how many succeeded in their fields? A tiny bit of them.I think this phenomenon really means something.So, what we are studying for? More than one educationists mentioned about this, but there won’t be any changes even for a while.The dilemma of education is the inner power against the innovation, which is tough to break through but we have to.Despite we might face huge challenges and failures happen, it shouldn’t stop us from making the next attempt.The other thing is that educational innovation should imitate the science innovation, innovation is expected to be processed scientifically in order to avoid unnecessary troubles.As the saying goes, education is the foundation lasting for generations.These kids nowadays are going to play important roles in our country’s rise.I believe we will witness prosperity in reality as long as our kids suffer no more from education.

第三篇：大学英语作业之ted演讲感想

机制14-xxxx 20xxxxxxxxxxx I agree with the point of view in the TED Talk.A good interpersonal relationship helps us from young to old.During our learning career, relationship exists everywhere.We can’t live without relationship with each other.For many people, interpersonal relationship and their ability are equaled important to their success.Good interpersonal relationship promotes people become successful.That’s why we should maintain good interpersonal relationship with each other.

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：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：英语ted盖茨老婆演讲——可口可乐

One of my favorite parts of my job at the Gates Foundation is that I get to travel to the developing world, and I do that quite regularly.And when I meet the mothers in so many of these remote places, I'm really struck by the things that we have in common.They want what we want for our children, and that is for their children to grow up successful, to be healthy, and to have a successful life.But I also see lots of poverty, and it's quite jarring, both in the scale and the scope of it.My first trip in India, I was in a person's home where they had dirt floors, no running water, no electricity, and that's really what I see all over the world.So in short, I'm startled by all the things that they don't have.But I am surprised by one thing that they do have: Coca-Cola.Coke is everywhere.In fact, when I travel to the developing world, Coke feels ubiquitous.And so when I come back from these trips, and I'm thinking about development, and I'm flying home, and I'm thinking, “We're trying to deliver condoms to people or vaccinations,” you know, Coke's success kind of stops and makes you wonder: how is it that they can get Coke to these far-flung places? If they can do that, why can't governments and NGOs do the same thing? And I'm not the first person to ask this question.But I think, as a community, we still have a lot to learn.It's staggering, if you think about Coca-Cola.They sell 1.5 billion servings every single day.That's like every man, woman and child on the planet having a serving of Coke every week.So

why does this matter? Well, if we're going to speed up the progress and go even faster on the set of Millennium Development Goals that we're set as a world, we need to learn from the innovators, and those innovators come from every single sector.I feel that, if we can understand what makes something like Coca-Cola ubiquitous, we can apply those lessons then for the public good.Coke's success is relevant, because if we can analyze it, learn from it, then we can save lives.So that's why I took a bit of time to study Coke.And I think there are really three things we can take away from Coca-Cola.They take real-time data and immediately feed it back into the product.They tap into local entrepreneurial talent, and they do incredible marketing.So let's start with the data.Coke has a very clear bottom line.They report to a set of shareholders.They have to turn a profit.So they take the data, and they use it to measure progress.They have this very continuous feedback loop.They learn something, they put it back into the product, they put it back into the market.They have a whole team called “Knowledge and Insight.” It's a lot like other consumer companies.So if you're running Namibia for Coca-Cola, and you have a 107 constituencies, you know where every can versus bottle of Sprite, Fanta or Coke was sold, whether it was a corner store, a supermarket or a pushcart.So if sales start to drop, then the person can identify the problem and address the issue.Well let's contrast that for a minute to development.In development, the evaluation comes at the very end of the project.I've sat in a lot of those meetings.And by then, it is way too late to use the data.I had somebody from an NGO once describe it to me as bowling in the dark.They said, “You roll the ball, you hear some pins go down.It's dark, you can't see which one goes down until the lights come on, and then you an see your impact.” Real-time data turns on the lights.So what's the second thing that Coke's good at? They're good at tapping into that local entrepreneurial talent.Coke's been in Africa since 1928, but most of the time they couldn't reach the distant markets, because they had a system that was a lot like in the developed world, which was a large truck rolling down the street.And in Africa, the remote places, it's hard to find a good road.But Coke noticed something.They noticed that local people were taking the product, buying it in bulk and then reselling it in these hard-to-reach places.And so they took a bit of time to learn about that.And they decided in 1990 that they wanted to start training they local entrepreneurs, giving them small loans.They set them up as what they called micro-distribution centers.And those local entrepreneurs then hire sales people, who go out with bicycles and pushcarts and wheelbarrows to sell the product.There are now some 3,000 of these centers employing about 15,000 people in Africa.In Tanzania and

Uganda, they represent 90 percent of Coke's sales.Let's look at the development side.What is it that governments and NGOs can learn from Coke? Governments and NGOs need to tap into that local entrepreneurial talent as well, because the locals know how to reach the very hard-to-serve places, their neighbors, and they know what motivates them to make change.I think a great example of this is Ethiopia's new health extension program.The government noticed in Ethiopia that many of the people were so far away from a health clinic, they were over a day's travel away from a health clinic.So if you're in an emergency situation, or if you're a mom about it deliver a baby, forget it, to get to the health care center.They decided that wasn't good enough, so they went to India and studied the Indian state of Kerala that also had a system like this, and they adapted it for Ethiopia.And in 2003, the government of Ethiopia started this new system in their own country.They trained 35,000 health extension workers to deliver care directly to the people.In just five years, their ratio went from one worker for every 30,000 people to one worker for every 2,500 people.Now, think about how this can change people's lives.Health extension workers can help with so many things, whether it's family planning, prenatal care, immunizations for the children, or advising the woman to get to the facility on

time for an on-time delivery.That is having real impact in a country like Ethiopia, and it's why you see their child mortality numbers coming down 25 percent from 2000 to 2008.In Ethiopia, there are hundreds of thousands of children living because of this health extension worker program.So what's the next step for Ethiopia? Well, they're already starting talk about this.They're starting to talk about, “How do you have the health community workers generate their own ideas? How do you incent them based on the impact that they're getting out in those remote villages?” That's how you tap into local entrepreneurial talent and you unlock people's potential.The third component of Coke's success is marketing.Ultimately, Coke's success depends on one crucial fact, and that is that people want a Coca-Cola.Now the reason these micro-entrepreneurs can sell or make a profit is they have to sell every single bottle in their pushcart or their wheelbarrow.So, they rely on Coca-Cola in terms of its marketing.And what's the secret to their marketing? Well, it's aspirational.It is associates that product with a kind of life that people want to live.So even though it's a global company, they take a very local approach.Coke's global campaign slogan is “Open Happiness.” But they localize it.And they don't just guess what makes people happy, they go to places like Latin America, and they realize that happiness there is associated with family life.And in South Africa, they associate happiness with [unclear] or community respect.Now, that played itself out in the World Cup campaign.Let's listen to this song that Coke created for it, “Wavin' Flag” by a Somali hip hop artist.(Video)K'Naan: ? Oh oh oh oh oh o-oh ? ? Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ? ? Oh oh oh oh oh o-oh ? ? Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh o-oh ? ?Give you freedom, give you fire? ? Give you reason, take you higher ? ? See the champions take the field now ? ? You define us, make us feel proud ? ? In the streets our heads are lifted ? ? As we lose our inhibition ? ? Celebration, it's around us ? ? Every nation, all around us ?

Melinda French Gates: It feels pretty good, right? Well, they didn't stop there.They localized it into 18 different languages.And it went number one on the pop chart in 17 countries.It reminds me of a song that I remember from my childhood, “I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing,” that also went number one on the pop charts.Both songs have something in common: that same appeal of celebration and unity.So how does health and development market? Well, it's based on avoidance, not aspirations.I'm sure you've heard some of these messages.“Use a condom, don't get AIDS.” “Wash you hands, you might not get diarrhea.” It doesn't sound anything like “Wavin' Flag” to me.And I think we make a fundamental mistake, we make an assumption, that we think that, if people need something, we don't have to make them want that.And I think that's a mistake.And there's some indications around the world that this is starting to change.One example is sanitation.We know that a million and a half children die a year from diarrhea, and a lot of it is because of open defecation.But there's a solution: you build a toilet.But what we're finding around the world, over and over again, is, if you build a toilet and you leave it there, it doesn't get used.People reuse it for a slab for their home.They sometimes store grain in it.I've even seen it used for a chicken coop.(Laughter)But what does marketing really entail that would make a sanitation solution get a result in diarrhea? Well, you work with the community.You start to talk to them about why open defecation is something that shouldn't be done in the village, and they agree to that.But then you take the toilet and you position it as a modern, trendy convenience.One state in Northern India has gone so far as to link toilets to courtship.And it works.Look at these headlines.(Laughter)I'm not kidding.Women are refusing to marry men without toilets.No loo, no “I do.”(Laughter)

Now, it's not just a funny headline.It's innovative.It's an innovative marketing campaign.But more importantly, it saves lives.Take a look at this.This is a room full of young men and my husband, Bill.And can you guess what the young men are waiting for? They're waiting to be circumcised.Can you you

believe that? We know that circumcision reduces HIV infection by 60 percent in men.And when we first heard this result inside the Foundation, I have to admit, Bill and I were scratching our heads a little bit, and we were saying, “But who's going to volunteer for this procedure?” But it turns out the men do, because they're hearing from their girlfriends that they prefer it, and the men also believe it improves their sex life.So if we can start to understand what people really want in health and development, we can change communities and we can change whole nations.So why is all of this so important? So let's talk about what happens when this all comes together, when you tie the three things together.And polio, I think, is one of the most powerful examples.We've seen a 99 percent reduction in polio in 20 years.So if you look back to 1988, there are about 350,000 cases of polio on the planet that year.In 2009, we're down to 1,600 cases.Well how did that happen? Let's look at a country like India.They have over a billion people in this country, but they have 35,000 local doctors who report paralysis, and clinicians, a huge reporting system in chemists.They have two and a half million vaccinators.But let me make the story a little bit more concrete for you.Let me tell you the story of Shriram, an 18 month boy in Bihar, a northern state in India.This year on August 8th, he felt paralysis, and on the 13th, his parents took him to the doctor.On August 14th and 15th, they took a stool sample, and

by the 25th of August, it was confirmed he had Type 1 polio.By August 30th, a genetic test was done, and we knew what strain of polio Shriram had.Now it could have come from one of two places.It could have come from Nepal, just to the north, across the border, or from Jharkhand, a state just to the south.Luckily, the genetic testing proved that, in fact, this strand came north, because, had it come from the south, it would have had a much wider impact in terms of transmission.So many more people would have been affected.So what's the endgame? Well on September 4th, there was a huge mop-up campaign, which is what you do in polio.They went out and, where Shriram lives, they vaccinated two million people.So in less than a month, we went from one case of paralysis to a targeted vaccination program.And I'm happy to say only one other person in that area got polio.That's how you keep a huge outbreak from spreading, and it shows what can happen when local people have the data in their hands;they can save lives.Now one of the challenges in polio, still, is marketing, but it might not be what you think.It's not the marketing on the ground.It's not telling the parents, “If you see paralysis, take your child to the doctor or get your child vaccinated.” We have a problem with marketing in the donor community.The G8 nations have been incredibly generous on polio over the last 20 years, but we're

starting to have something called polio fatigue, and that is that the donor nations aren't willing to fund polio any longer.So by next summer, we're sighted to run out of money on polio.So we are 99 percent of the way there on this goal, and we're about to run short of money.And I think that if the marketing were more aspirational, if we could focus as a community on how far we've come and how amazing it would be to eradicate this disease, we could put polio fatigue and polio behind us.And if we could do that, we could stop vaccinating everybody, worldwide, in all of our countries for polio.And it would only be the second disease ever wiped off the face of the planet.And we are so close.And this victory is so possible.So if Coke's marketers came to me and asked me to define happiness, I'd say my vision of happiness is a mother holding healthy baby in her arms.To me, that is deep happiness.And so if we can learn lessons from the innovators in every sector, then in the future we make together, that happiness can be just as ubiquitous as Coca-Cola.Thank you.(Applause)