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1、Lets talk about manias. Lets start with Beatle mania. Hysterical teenagers crying, screaming, pandemonium. Sports manias, deafening crowds, all for one idea, get the ball in the net. OK, religious manias .Theres rapture. Theres weeping. Theres visions. Manias can be good. Manias can be alarming, or
2、manias can be deadly. The world has a new mania, a mania for learning English. Listening as Chinese students practise their English by screaming it.How many people are trying to learn English worldwide? 2 billion of them. In Latin America, in India, Southeast Asia, and most of all, in China. If you
3、are a Chinese student, you start learning English in the third grade by law. Thats why this year, China will become the worlds 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 t
4、able. 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% of her grade is based on English. Its called the Gaokao. And 80 million high school Chinese students have already ta
5、ken this grueling test. The intensity to learn English is almost unimaginable, unless you witness it. So is English mania good or bad? Is English a tsunami washing away other languages? Not likely. English is the worlds second language. Your native language is your life, but with English you can bec
6、ome part of a wider conversation, 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 proble
7、ms solving, not because American is pushing it , but because the world is pulling it.So English mania is a turning point. Like the harnessing of electricity in our city 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.
