summary TED by Jay Walker

         I would like to make a summary about Ted that I have listened, it is about “Manias”. The speaker starts talking about mania with Beatle mania. Beatle mania is close with the word historical teenagers, crying, screaming, pandemonium. Sports mania: deafening crowds, all for one idea, get the ball in the net. Religious mania: there’s rapture, there’s weeping, there’s visions.  Manias can be good, manias can be alarming or manias can be deadly. The speaker said that the world has a new mania, a mania for learning English. The people from Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, and most all in China are trying to learn English worldwide. The Chinese students practice their English by screaming it, they start leaning in the third grade by law. So that’s why this year Chine will become the world largest English speaking country. They believe that with English they can get an opportunity for a better life, a job, to be able to pay for school, or put better food on the table.

          Jay Walker in his public speaking said that 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 about global problem, 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 American is pushing it, but because the world pulling it. So English mania is a turning point. Like the harnessing of electricity in our cities, or the fall of the Berlin Wall, English represents hope for better future. A future where the world has a common language to solve its common problems.