ENGLISH MANIAC

By Jay Walker Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh Today, I’d like to summarize a video by Jay Walker. In this video, he speaks about English mania for 04.28 minutes. Perhaps, we are one of the English mania. In this video, he delivered whether a mania good or bad. So, by reading this summary and watching the video, we know about the mania especially English’s mania. He delivers three examples of manias and starts his speech with Beatle mania: hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming and pandemonium. Then with sports mania: deafening crowds and all for one idea, is get the ball in the net. Next, religious mania: there’s rapture, weeping, and visions. Mania is good. Mania can be alarming or mania can be deadly. Now, the world has a new mania is a mania for learning English. He gives example about Chinese students in learning and practice their English by screaming it. The students repeat the sentence after the teacher loudly. It happen in China. They learn English harder because they must. He says that two billion people are trying to learn English worldwide. Perhaps we will ask, why English? He says in a single world is opportunity. Opportunity for a better life, a job, to be able to pay for school or put better food on the table. He illustrates English mania not as a tsunami which washing away others languages. English is the world’s second language. Our native language is our life but with English we can be a part of a wider conversation. A global conversation about global problems like climate change or poverty or hunger or disease. He also emphasizes that the world has other universal languages. As mathematics is the language for science. Music is the language of emotions. Also English, nowadays it is becoming the language of problem solving. This is not because America is pushing it but because the world is pulling it. So, he concludes that 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 a better future where the world has a common language to solve its common problems.

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