TED推荐 | 3 ways to speak English

TED视频欣赏请戳链接~

Ted talk from Jamila Lyiscott

Jamila Lyiscott的 “3 Ways to Speak English”，曾经被评为Ted2014年最受欢迎的20个talks之一。Jamila是个“三语演讲者”，演讲一开始就讲各种俚语、非洲英语.……

也许小伙伴们还在纳闷这还是正式的演讲不？不过听着听着应该就明白了：每种语言都有自己的历史和文化，不需要被纠正，只要 “be proud of it”就够了。

其实，很多时候英语的学习不光是语言更多是视角和观点。 

►Today, a baffled lady observed the shell where my soul dwells.

00:18

►And announced that I’m “articulate”

00:23

►Which means that when it comes to enunciation and diction

00:27

►I don’t even think of it

00:28

►‘Cause I’m “articulate”

00:31

►So when my professor asks a question

00:34

►And my answer is tainted with a connotation of urbanized suggestion

00:37

►There’s no misdirected intention

00:39

►Pay attention

00:40

►‘Cause I’m “articulate”

00:43

►So when my father asks, “Wha’ kinda ting is dis?”

00:46

►My “articulate” answer never goes amiss

00:50

►I say “father, this is the impending problem at hand”

00:53

►And when I’m on the block I switch it up just because I can

00:56

►So when my boy says, “What’s good with you son?”

00:59

►I just say, “I jus’ fall out wit dem people but I done!”

01:04

►And sometimes in class

01:06

►I might pause the intellectual sounding flow to ask

01:09

►“Yo! Why dese books neva be about my peoples”

01:12

►Yes, I have decided to treat all three of my languages as equals

01:17

►Because I’m “articulate”

01:21

►But who controls articulation?

01:23

►Because the English language is a multifaceted oration

01:26

►Subject to indefinite transformation

01:28

►Now you may think that it is ignorant to speak broken English

01:32

►But I’m here to tell you that even “articulate” Americans sound foolish to the British

01:37

►So when my Professor comes on the block and says, “Hello”

01:40

►I stop him and say “Noooo …

01:43

►You’re being inarticulate … the proper way is to say ‘what’s good’”

01:47

►Now you may think that’s too hood, that’s not cool

01:50

►But I’m here to tell you that even our language has rules

01:53

►So when Mommy mocks me and says “ya’ll-be-madd-going-to-the-store”

01:58

►I say “Mommy, no, that sentence is not following the law

02:03

►Never does the word “madd” go before a present participle

02:07

►That’s simply the principle of this English”

02:10

►If I had the vocal capacity I would sing this from every mountaintop,

02:13

►From every suburbia, and every hood

02:16

►‘Cause the only God of language is the one recorded in the Genesis

02:19

►Of this world saying “it is good"

02:21

►So I may not always come before you with excellency of speech

02:25

►But do not judge me by my language and assume

02:27

►That I’m too ignorant to teach

02:29

►‘Cause I speak three tongues

02:30

►One for each:

02:31

►Home, school and friends

02:33

►I’m a tri-lingual orator

02:35

►Sometimes I’m consistent with my language now

02:37

►Then switch it up so I don’t bore later

02:39

►Sometimes I fight back two tongues

02:41

►While I use the other one in the classroom

02:43

►And when I mistakenly mix them up

02:45

►I feel crazy like … I’m cooking in the bathroom

02:49

►I know that I had to borrow your language because mines was stolen

02:56

►But you can’t expect me to speak your history wholly while mines is broken

03:01

►These words are spoken

03:03

►By someone who is simply fed up with the Eurocentric ideals of this season

03:08

►And the reason I speak a composite version of your language

03:11

►Is because mines was raped away along with my history

03:15

►I speak broken English so the profusing gashes can remind us

03:19

►That our current state is not a mystery

03:22

►I’m so tired of the negative images that are driving my people mad

03:27

►So unless you’ve seen it rob a bank stop calling my hair bad

03:31

►I’m so sick of this nonsensical racial disparity

03:35

►So don’t call it good unless your hair is known for donating to charity

03:39

►As much as has been raped away from our people

03:44

►How can you expect me to treat their imprint on your language

03:48

►As anything less than equal

03:50

►Let there be no confusion

03:52

►Let there be no hesitation

03:54

►This is not a promotion of ignorance

03:56

►This is a linguistic celebration

03:59

►That’s why I put "tri-lingual" on my last job application

04:05

►I can help to diversify your consumer market is all I wanted them to know

04:09

►And when they call me for the interview I’ll be more than happy to show that

04:12

►I can say:

04:13

►“What’s good”

04:14

►“Whatagwan”

04:15

►And of course …“Hello”

04:18

►Because I’m “articulate”

04:21

►Thank you.

04:22

►(Applause)