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1、TED英语演讲别人嘲笑你的英语口音时该怎么办 艺术家Safwat从小就有口吃，但身为独立动画制作者，他决定用自己的声音，赋予视频中的角色生命。当网络评论者开始嘲笑他的巴勒斯坦口音，他受到到打击，他不再用自己的声音配音。且听这令人深思的演说中，如何找回他的声音及自信。下面是我为大家编写关于TED英语演讲：别人嘲笑你的英语口音时该怎么办，欢迎借鉴参考。 TED演讲：当别人都在嘲笑你的英语口音时，你该怎么办? I used to have this recurring dream where I'd walk into a roomful of people, and I'd try
2、 not to make eye contact with anyone. Until someone notices me, and I just panic. And the person walks up to me, and says, "Hi, my name is So-and-so. And what is your name?" And I'm just quiet, unable to respond. After some awkward silence, he goes, "Have you forgotten your name?&
3、quot; And I'm still quiet. And then, slowly, all the other people in the room begin to turn toward me and ask, almost in unison, (Voice-over, several voices) "Have you forgotten your name?" As the chant gets louder, I want to respond, but I don't. I'm a visual artist. Some of m
4、y work is humorous, and some is a bit funny but in a sad way. And one thing that I really enjoy doing is making these little animations where I get to do the voice-over for all kinds of characters. I've been a bear. (Video) Bear (Safwat Saleem's voice): Hi. Safwat Saleem: I've been a wha
5、le. (Video) Whale (SS's voice): Hi. SS: I've been a greeting card. (Video) Greeting card (SS's voice): Hi. SS: And my personal favorite is Frankenstein's monster. (Video) Frankenstein's monster (SS's voice): (Grunts) SS: I just had to grunt a lot for that one. A few years ago
6、, I made this educational video about the history of video games. And for that one, I got to do the voice of Space Invader. (Video) Space Invader (SS's voice): Hi. SS: A dream come true, really, (Laughter) And when that video was posted online, I just sat there on the computer, hitting "ref
7、resh," excited to see the response. The first comment comes in. (Video) Comment: Great job. SS: Yes! I hit "refresh." (Video) Comment: Excellent video. I look forward to the next one. SS: This was just the first of a two-part video. I was going to work on the second one next. I hit &q
8、uot;refresh." (Video) Comment: Where is part TWO? WHEREEEEE? I need it NOWWWWW!: P SS: People other than my mom were saying nice things about me, on the Internet! It felt like I had finally arrived. I hit "refresh." (Video) Comment: His voice is annoying. No offense. SS: OK, no offens
9、e taken. Refresh. (Video) Comment: Could you remake this without peanut butter in your mouth? SS: OK, at least the feedback is somewhat constructive. Hit "refresh." (Video) Comment: Please don't use this narrator again u can barely understand him. SS: Refresh. (Video) Comment: Couldn&#
10、39;t follow because of the Indian accent. SS: OK, OK, OK, two things. Number one, I don't have an Indian accent, I have a Pakistani accent, OK? And number two, I clearly have a Pakistani accent. But comments like that kept coming in, so I figured I should just ignore them and start working on th
11、e second part of the video. I recorded my audio, but every time I sat down to edit, I just could not do it. Every single time, it would take me back to my childhood, when I had a much harder time speaking. I've stuttered for as long as I can remember. I was the kid in class who would never raise
12、 his hand when he had a question - or knew the answer. Every time the phone rang, I would run to the bathroom so I would not have to answer it. If it was for me, my parents would say I'm not around. I spent a lot of time in the bathroom. And I hated introducing myself, especially in groups. I
13、9;d always stutter on my name, and there was usually someone who'd go, "Have you forgotten your name?" And then everybody would laugh. That joke never got old. I spent my childhood feeling that if I spoke, it would become obvious that there was something wrong with me, that I was not n
14、ormal. So I mostly stayed quiet. And so you see, eventually for me to even be able to use my voice in my work was a huge step for me. Every time I record audio, I fumble my way through saying each sentence many, many times, and then I go back in and pick the ones where I think I suck the least. (Voi
15、ce-over) SS: Audio editing is like Photoshop for your voice. I can slow it down, speed it up, make it deeper, add an echo. And if I stutter along the way, and if I stutter along the way, I just go back in and fix it. It's magic. SS: Using my highly edited voice in my work was a way for me to finally sound normal to myself. But after the comments on the video, it no longer made me feel normal. And so I stopped using my voice in my work. Since then, I've thought a lot about what it means to be normal. And I've come to understand that "normal" has a lot to
