My Voice in These Words
“You cannot tell your stories if you’re ashamed of them.” -TedTalk I like watching TedTalk’s videos. I started watching because I wish to learn to speak English better. One of the tips that I’ve gotten is that in order to speak fluently, you got to observe how great speakers communicate and try to do it like them. However, after plenty of videos and unexpected realization about how all of them speak with different styles and accents, I no longer tried to copy their speaking styles. I turned to the BBC podcasts instead and tried to sound more British. Which I embarrassingly, never succeeded in. Now, putting that aside, what I want to write about is not how to speak better English. Rather, it is about what I found out from all those TedTalk’s videos. It is that each of them shares one common thing – that the contents are real, they are stories experienced by the speakers themselves, and they are being shared to the world who are willing to listen. I came across to this one part...