Let's talk about manias.
We start with beatles mania.
Hysterical teenages crying,
exclaiming,
pandemonium.
Sports mania,
Deafening crowds,
all for one idea,
get the ball in the net.
Ok, religious manias.
There's reapture.
There's weeping.
There's visions.
Manias can be good.
Manias can be alarmina.
or manias can be deadly.The world has a new mania.
A mania for learning English.
Listen as Chinese students
practice their English by screaming it.
Change my life!
I will chang my life.
I don't want to let my parents down.
I don't want to let my parents down.
I don't want to let my country down.
I don't want to let my country down.
Most importantly
Most importantlyI don't want to let my myself down.
I don't want to let my myself down.How many people are trying to learn English worlwide?
2 billion of them.A t-shirt.
A dress.In latin American,
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
literaly determines her future.
She studies 12 hours a day for three years to prepare.
25% 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.perfect!
Perfect!
perfect!
Perfect!
I want to speak perfect English.
I want to speak perfect English.
I want to speak
I want to speak
perfect English
perfect English
I want to change my life!
I want to change my life!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 ablut 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.
Likely the harnessing of electricty 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. Thank you very much.
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