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10岁上海男孩TED全英文演讲：学习明明可以很快乐！
对10岁的王梓一来说，参加各种国内的英语演讲比赛早已驾轻就熟。
后来因为一个偶然的推荐，他成为了2019 TEDX Suzhou城市大会的最小演讲人。在大会上，他用英文进行了15分钟的演讲。
和每一位演讲爱好者一样，TED是梓一梦想中的舞台。
在这次的TED演讲中，梓一的演讲主题是“学习明明可以很快乐”。
在演讲中，梓一向观众们分享了自己的三个玩具。
第一个玩具是恐龙玩具。这个小玩具让梓一开始热爱恐龙，他希望日后能成为一个古生物学家。
第二个玩具是地球仪，这个玩具让梓一爱上了地理和历史，让他每天坚持了解地球上每一个角落的现在和过去。
第三个玩具是爸爸送的高尔夫球杆。通过学习高尔夫球，梓一认识到战胜困难也是成长的乐趣之一。
通过这三个玩具，梓一跟现场观众分享：
学习应该是一件很快乐的事情，我们不应该为学习感到焦虑。如果你真心热爱一件事，就会花时间深入地学习和探索它。
Wow, good afternoon. I didn’t expect such an amazing crowd. And as you can see from the TEDx introduction it says that I’m 9 years old. But just 3 weeks ago I welcomed my first two digit birthday, now you probably know I'm 10 years old. 10 years, Can you imagine? Oh my god! A lot of things changed. Almost everything. But there is one thing that had never changed and I believe that all kids sitting here should know what I'm talking about --- HOMEWORK! My homework can always be in the way as an African buffalo. And I have never joined the 'I love homework so much' club but still I do enjoy learning.
Well you see, we are constantly learning throughout the entire life, whether as a student, as an adult, as a parent or even your grandparents. Maybe it’s funny but it’s actually true. But most people think it seems sort of a mission impossible. It’s strenuous, arduous and laborious! Who want to learn in that kind of atmosphere. It sounds like a stinky cheese. But it doesn’t have to be like that. And it’s all down to us to discover, share, and retain the joy of learning.
I remember I was this fat boy at school and my home while my mom was online shopping something that are probably like shampoo. While peeping over her shoulder, I thought that’s a bizarrely shaped object! It has a giraffe-like neck and a gigantic body and a long tail. It was, what my classmates call it, a dinosaur.
Well, I was immediately attracted by these prehistoric creatures. And I jumped up and begged my mom to buy one for me. And that became my very first toy in life at the age of 3. Dinosaurs opened up an entire new world for me. Well, I could dive into dinosaur books, seem to never come out again. Well, just joking. And I can go onto (the) internet and search for hours. I can even skip meals just to learn about dinosaurs. And while having fun, I learned about the spiked lizard styracosaurus, vegetarian triceratops and gigantic meat-eating giganotosaurus.
One day, I firmly stood up, walked to my mom and said:
'Mom, I want to be a paleontologist, to study all about the fossils of the dinosaurs.'
She was like: 'What? What did you say?'
'Mom, I want to be a PALEONTOLOGIST.'
'What on earth? Of course son, you can be anything you want!'
Oh seriously. Does she have any idea what a paleontologist was? No! And she was so astonished by how a three-year-old boy so determined to be something she had never dreamed of.
And I didn’t just stop there. I spent hours (in) chatting with my American friend Steven because he was just as passionate about dinosaurs as I was. We would often do dinosaurs’ impersonation like how ugly they looked and how they roared.
As I went into the first grade, my science teacher assigned us a project about ecosystems. Although, I admit, I have no idea what ecosystem was, still my dad and I came up with a great idea: we used a shoe box to create the general scenario; we used toilet paper as brown and green curvy trees and we also painted jewel-blue winding streams and there were eight white dinosaurs, while not alive, but still the very first aid I brought from my mom.
There are Styracosaurus; Ankylosaurus; Triceratops and etc.. I named my project “Creature Park” because it’s full of the dinosaurs that I love. At school, I gave a presentation about my project to the entire class. They all like “wow”, beamed with joy and gave me a big round of applause. Well you see. Their encouragement stimulated my joyous appetite and sent me off on another journey of learning.
At the age of 6, my mother granted me this time a second toy. It was a globe and it shook up my own globe a little bit. I learned that we live in a country called China and the earth is full of strangely named oceans, lakes and countries. They all seem to be brothers and sisters, seem to be related. Don’t you think? Like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan. That’s lots of stans. Now, let me be clear with you: I stan for world geography. And I drew mind maps, post post-it notes in all of my room and drew my own world maps.
In the summer holidays, my speech teacher Bobo phoned me and asked me about a country that he has no idea how to spell just because he met someone from that country, Eritrea. The image of Eritrea’s map opened a land in my mind and then I listed every single fact I know to him.
Did you know that Eritrea is a member of East Africa Community which is used to improve the cooperation among the east African States. It is bordered by 3 countries, Sudan in the west, Ethiopia to the south, and Djibouti to the southeast. It’s a multilingual country with no official language. It is the 99th largest country in the world in terms of land area with 117,600 square kilometers. Shishi! I never knew that the stuff I accumulated could actually come in handy even with my speech teacher. Birthday surprise. And that even I want to know more about the country’s rivers, lakes, cities, provinces and traffic conditions!
At school I even started a geo-marathon-pop-quiz with my geography teacher. Every time we meet in the office or the classroom, he will test me on everything and anything on world geography. So far I’m unbeatable and as a winning streak for half a year now but it’s taking a toll on me.
Since I am taking atlas wherever I go, even I am going to the toilet, I still don’t have lots of time in the world 24/7 to learn world geography. Even my homework is taking over the world, I don’t want to stop. But still anyway, I was squeezing 30 minutes every day just to learn about world geography. And that led me to learn about the inter-dependency of the world and the importance of world history. Every day it’s like a treasure hunt. I would discover something new about this world.
Subsequently, the first toy brought me tremendous amount of joy and helped me realize the actual joy of learning. The second toy taught me that learning can be challenging and stressful, but the joy is still there. However, the third toy was different. It was tricky. It’s like a Pandora box. Well, if you know what I mean.
When I was 7 years old, I received a golf club from my Dad. I remember the first time I swung, even though it’s so bad, my dad was like wowed: you are a gifted golf player, son. You know what? I was juiced up and my ego was boosted. I decided to be a dedicated golf-player almost immediately. Officially, I embarked on a roller coaster voyage.
I did not in the tiniest scale understand how hard it was. One scorching summer day, 40 Celsius degrees outside. I was sweating and my shirt was soaked, well, not with blood. I just wanted to take a break. But My dad looked at me dead straight in the eye: son, if you want to be a dedicated golf player, don’t get distracted by the heat. Hang in there, alright? Okay! I kept on but the moment I looked up, I was shocked: he was sitting under the tree, drinking iced-tea, and looking very pleased. Well, I was speechless, so what can I say?
You see, playing golf requires constant focus, prediction and brain power, because every hole is different, every bunker is different and every green is different. Even the weather conditions can make a large difference on where about the ball is actually going. There are days I feel I’m standing on top of the moon, and there are also days I feel that I hit rock bottom.
Last January, I attended the national golf tournament in Zhuhai. It was a chilly Saturday morning, The sun rose in a pool of red, crimson and gold, spilling light over the smooth golf course. I set my foot on it and I came with a significant amount of confidence.
As you can imagine, on the first day, I hit the best score in the record of history but on the second day, the wind went bizarre and was sighing and thrashing in the tree tops and a curtain of rain beat down from the heavens. Even my dear mother nature decided to turn against me. I tried to block it all out but somehow I lost the focus and kept on making silly mistakes. As you can imagine, on the second day, I hit the worst and lost the game. I was embarrassed, devastated and my heart was broken. I cannot stand the pain of losing in front of my parents, competitors and a bunch of spectators.
I tried to hide my frustration and anger, but my joy of learning golf was completely gone! What’s worse, my brain kept on telling myself: You can’t do this! You can’t do this! You’d better quit now. Naturally, my dad tried to talk me out of this pessimistic mindset. “Son, all golfers fail even Tiger Woods. Hang in there, alright?” Honestly, I am a little bit fed up with my dad’s dear pep talk. He basically said the same thing every single time I failed the competition. Is that “hang in there, alright?” the only phrase that he knows?
But still, to play a fair game, he’s a cool dad. He was always there for my when I feel depressed. He would sit with my frustration, listen to my complaints and sometimes try to tell me jokes that are actually pretty funny.
Well, whenever I got better, he took me to the training course and had more training sessions. From that day on, we extended the training hours. We analyzed each movement, and we pushed the boundaries further. And I learned to arm myself with positive self-talk. And I created a kind of positive stream of energy that drove me to higher performances and better skills. And finally, hard work paid off. I won a few competitions. But oh please, don’t get me wrong. Don’t call me god. I still lose games occasionally.
And now, thinking back, I would say I have no rigor of playing golf. And I discovered the joy of learning does not necessarily have to lie in these good times. Sometimes, the road can be bumpy and tricky. But the process of learning to overcome and analyze these obstacles can even allow you to go deeper. And these tiny rewarding successes along the way can bring you more joy.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's take a quick moment to think why us kids or even parents don't have much joy in learning nowadays. Is it because we are too deceived in the thoughts we 'thought' we were passionate about? Is it because we are chasing after our parents' dreams instead of our own? Or is it because learning becomes a competitive sport instead of a joyful ride?
From my own learning experiences, the key to maintain the joy of learning is to go deep with your passion, not to meet anyone else’s expectation or treat it as a big competition. As Albert Einstein said, "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’s gonna live its whole life believing that it is dump.". Just a kind reminder to all parents, don’t worry about us kids. We are just fine! Perfectly fine! Don’t need to push us. Don’t need to pull us. Don’t need to force us. Because we have our own way.
I firmly believe that learning should be full of happiness and joy as long as you can start from your own passion, continue with execution and fly with your imagination. So three toys sparked my curiosity and enlightened my world of learning. Now I’m getting a little bit curious: what’s my next toy? And the same applies to you all: what’s your next toy?
Thank you very much!
看看他近几年的“战绩”，足以让无数同龄人汗颜。
2020中国日报社《新时代大讲堂》第11期受邀演讲嘉宾
2020ESDP上海演讲决选小高组亚军第17届中国日报社全国英语演讲大会小高组总冠军
2019ESDP上海演讲决选小高组冠军
第16届中国日报社全国英语演讲比赛上海区小低组亚军
学习英语演讲让梓一在学习和生活上都更加的从容自信，也为他的人生打开了一扇不一样的大门。
From happiness to sorrow and loss, and back again一个家庭微信群的战“疫”故事始于快乐，历经悲伤离散，终回日常
My father was born in the city of Wuhan and some of my relatives live there as well some also live overseas. Luckily, we can still connect with each other through a shared WeChat group called Happy Family where we catch up, post funny videos and gossip occasionally.我的爸爸出生在武汉，家里一些亲戚也住在武汉，还有一些家人居住在世界其他角落。开心的是，我们可以互相联系，通过一个名为“快乐大家庭”的微信群。我们常常在里面互问近况，发有趣的视频，有时候也会八卦一下。
But 2020 turned out to be a year unlike any other.我们从没想到2020成了如此特殊的一年。
In mid-January, we were all excited about the Chinese New Year 1 which was about to fall about 10 days later. Some were planning to travel to warm Hainan some were gonna make special big Spring Festival purchases and others were gonna visit their distant relatives. None of us fully realized what lay in wait.1月中旬，大家都很期待春节的到来，此时距离过节只有10天左右。一些亲戚计划去温暖的海南旅游，一些准备采购年货，还有一些打算去拜访远亲。我们谁也没意识到等待我们的是什么，
Then on January the 23rd, news of a mysterious illness broke out a virus we now call COVID-19. This virus is highly infectious making people extremely sick and sometimes even killing them. At that moment, it was as if that Wuhan pushed a giant stop button and everything was put into lockdown.1月23日，新闻里突然播报一种神秘病毒，我们现在称其为新型冠状病毒。这种病毒传染性极强，感染病毒者可能会病重甚至身亡。那个时刻，武汉被按下了“暂停”键。整个城市都被封锁了。
Naturally, in the Happy Family WeChat group messages of anxiety and panic quickly popped up.Do you have enough face masks?Are we gonna have enough medical test kits?Omg, I ve heard my neighbor just got the virus.Spring Festival is supposed to be a time to sending out red envelopes but we began to send worry envelopes.自然而然，在“快乐大家庭”微信群里，担忧的消息也一个接一个地弹出。你们的口罩够吗?医院的检测盒够吗？天，我刚听说我的邻居感染了。春节本应是发红包的时候，此时群里发出的却是焦虑和担忧。
Every day, our WeChat group was bombarded with climbing figures of confirmed coronavirus cases and even deaths. Reports on social media were not helping any matters. Chaos was only causing more confusion. Then a message from Auntie Yun popped up telling us her neighbor had just died of the virus. He was only 48 years old and had been quite healthy. How could somebody like that just die? We were agitated and frightened. Then there was dead silence. Nobody would say anything. Wuhan became a ghost town and Happy Family became a ghost group.我们的微信群每天都充斥不断攀升的数字：确诊病例甚至死亡人数。社交媒体上的报道也没有改善现状。杂乱的消息只让人更加困惑。云阿姨在群里发信。告诉我们她的邻居刚因冠状病毒去世。邻居年仅48岁，平时非常健康。怎么一个好好的生命就这样消逝了呢？我们开始焦虑害怕，接着群里一片沉寂，没有人说话。武汉成了一座寂静的城市，“快乐大家庭”变成了一个沉默的群组。
A few days later a piece of news regarding my Auntie Peng broke the general silence of the group. She is a service worker and had been serving the community with sanitation inspections since the dawn of the outbreak. She put on protective suit wore her face mask and patrolled communities to keep track of residents' health and to inform local citizens to quarantine themselves. She went out early and came back late. She did not even have time to look after her 2-year-old child. She stated in her WeChat moments: I wish I can be Doramon so that I can have my own pharmacy to care for the sick and a supermarket to gather supplies.几天以后，彭阿姨的一条消息打破了大家的沉默。她是一名基层工作者，疫情爆发后一直在社区服务，做环境卫生的安全监测工作。她穿上防护衣，戴上口罩，在社区巡逻，报告居民的健康状况，确保当地市民进行自我隔离。她早出晚归，甚至没有时间照顾自己两岁的孩子。她发微信朋友圈说，我多希望自己是哆啦A梦，这样我就可以变出个药房来照顾病人，变出个超市来收集生活用品。
Honestly, she was our entire inspiration of course but her husband, Uncle Hao, was extremely worried about her safety. And yet three days later, he was actually inspired to become her helping hand. Officially, he became the first volunteer of our family. He sent the sick to hospitals gave people food and water and helped out in many other ways. Not long after that, Auntie Yun's father also joined in. He went from house to house helping check citizens' temperatures to make sure infected people can get cured in time.彭阿姨的事情鼓舞了我们，但她的丈夫郝叔叔却很担心。然而三天后，受到鼓舞的郝叔叔开始帮助云阿姨。他正式成为这个家庭的第一个志愿者。他接送患者去医院，运送食物和水，竭尽所能地提供帮助。几天后，云阿姨的父亲也加入战“疫”。他挨家挨户地帮忙检查市民的体温，确保感染的患者可以得到及时救治。
My family did not just stop there. Many relatives were very eager to help out and relieve the burden. Uncle Dong is a head chef from a family-owned restaurant. He noticed that doctors and nurses from the front lines were extremely anxious to get food. Henceforth, he signed up for a voluntary program where he would make meals for medical staff members. He made scrambled eggs with tomatoes, Wuchang fish and other steamed dishes which would be packaged and sent to hospitals nearby. This is meant as an appreciation and a boost of morale for medical workers on the frontlines of COVID-19 pandemic. Uncle Dong said: They are risking their own lives to save ours. I can never express my gratitude. I don't have much to offer, but this is the least that I can do. I hope they'll enjoy the authentic local cuisine.家人们做的远不止这些。亲戚们都很想帮忙减轻负担。董大叔是一家家庭餐馆的主厨。他注意到前线的医生和护士吃饭成问题，于是他报名参加了一个志愿服务项目，为医务人员做饭。他做鸡蛋西红柿、武昌鱼和其他热菜，打包送到附近的医院，以此表达对医务人员的感激 ，并为辛勤工作的他们加油打气。董叔叔说：“他们冒着生命危险救我们，我的感激之情无法言表。能力有限，我尽量做些力所能及之事。希望他们会喜欢地道的本地菜。”Soon, two new emergency hospitals and numerous quarantine centers were built in the city of Wuhan. Thanks to the relentless efforts of the medical workers and volunteers patients were given the care that nursed many of them back to good health and saved countless lives. The situation started to turn around and we began to see a light at the end of the tunnel.很快，两所紧急医院和更多隔离中心在武汉建成。在医务人员和志愿者的不懈努力下，众多患者被精心照料，重获健康，无数生命被挽救。情况开始好转。我们看到战胜疫情的曙光。
But it was really one month later when our Happy Family WeChat group started to sense any real relief. Some relatives resumed their daily activities and posted pictures of hot dry noodles they made at home. Others made talks about how ordinary people can battle against coronavirus and some posted their public square dance videos. Em, not so much, technically, it was a living room square dance.不过直到一个月后，“快乐大家庭”微信群才真正氛围缓和。群里的一些亲戚回归日常，秀出自己在家做的热干面的照片，大家开始分享普通人共同抗击疫情的感人故事，还有人晒出了他们的广场舞视频。当然，严格来说只是客厅里的“广场舞”。
Up till now, my family has had seven volunteers. And my family is only one of hundreds of thousands of families in Wuhan doing their own bits to pull the city together. If you think about it, my family has been in lockdown for 76 days, that's more than 1,800 hours of torturous isolation. Hundreds of thousands of millions of people in China have to cope with the severe measures taken to tame this virus. But it is our fellow citizens in Wuhan that sacrificed the most to save us from the worst. When we look at these stats they are not just dead figures they signify our feelings, ups and downs they represent countless families torn apart and heart-broken stories but they also symbolize the strength of unity. Without Wuhan's sacrifice from joint efforts from people from all walks of life we wouldn't have what we have achieved so far.目前为止，我家有七人成为志愿者。但我的家人只是武汉数十万家庭中的一员，他们都在尽自己的一份力量让武汉好起来。回想一下，我们居家隔离76天，也就是1800多个小时的难熬时光。中国数亿人严格遵守隔离政策来对抗病毒。但是武汉人民做出了最大的牺牲，为了避免我们陷入最坏的情况。我们看到的这些数据，不仅仅是冰冷的数字 , 它们象征着我们心情的跌宕起伏，代表着无数家庭离散和心碎的故事，它们更象征着团结的力量。没有武汉的牺牲和社会各界的共同努力，战“疫”就不会有现在的成就。
Now coronavirus has developed from an epidemic to a full-scale global major pandemic and it is still far from being beaten and we began to think about those in other countries in their struggle. Even in China, coronavirus still remains undefeated but I'm sure the end is approaching. By then, I hope everybody will be able to come to Wuhan to enjoy delicious hot dry noodles, climb the famed Yellow Crane Tower and post funny selfies with your family. I firmly believe Wuhan will come out of its shock and everything will be back to normal.现在新冠病毒已经成为全球性的大流行病，它还远远没有被战胜。我们开始关心其他国家人们的战斗。即使在中国，新冠病毒之战仍然没有结束。但我相信胜利即将来临。到那时，我希望所有人都能来武汉，尝尝美味的热干面，爬上黄鹤楼和家人朋友一起来几张搞笑自拍。我坚信武汉将从震荡中平复，一切都将回归日常。、
他的表现，同样引来了各方关注，瞬间获得点赞无数：
王梓一的学习方法从7岁开始，梓一就一直坚持每周进行一次英语演讲训练，英语演讲同时有效地激发了他学习英语的兴趣。
此外，他一直坚持利用各种碎片时间来训练英语阅读和听力。
他的英语演讲学习方法主要包括三点：
在一次采访中，梓一透露了自己英语学习的秘密：一是坚持阅读后记笔记； 二是利用每天在校车上、去球场训练路上的时间来听大量的英文作品； 三是长期坚持英语演讲训练，训练中的即兴演讲和快问快答是他最喜欢的环节。
我认为学英语不能靠刷题和背单词，那样很无聊，也未必帮助很大。我很喜欢阅读，平时会大量阅读英文原版书籍。
碰到不认识的单词，我就自己查字典，然后写下来，做读书笔记很重要，读完再自己复述或者讲给爸爸妈妈听。一年下来，类似《哈利·波特》这样大部头的原版书，我可以读10-15本。另外，我还会零散地读一些英文杂志。
书籍的选择基本都按我自己的兴趣，当然老师也会推荐。读的主要是我特别喜欢的科幻小说，也会进行一些关于facts（事实）的非虚构阅读。因为读都是自己好奇的东西，所以不会觉得枯燥和辛苦。
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