Chris Anderson, the founder of TED Conference, once said, "Once, people in the era of knowledge economy said that you should protect knowledge like gold, which is your only value. However, when the whole world is connected, the rules of the game will change. Everyone is interrelated and everything will develop rapidly. When knowledge spreads out, it will reach all parts of the world at the fastest speed, get feedback and spread, and its potential value is intangible. "
In 200 1 year, Anderson bought the TED conference and turned it into a non-profit organization. The conference is held once a year, and the speeches of the conference are made into videos and put on the Internet for free sharing by global audiences.
TED stands for technology, entertainment and design. The purpose of this conference is to "change the world with the power of thought". TED talk is characterized by no complicated and lengthy professional lectures, loud views, straight to the point, various types and novel views.
Anyone who has the opportunity to speak at the TED conference has an extraordinary experience. They are either leaders in a certain field or pioneers in new fields, or they have made some pioneering efforts that can bring changes to society. For example, Craig Venter, a leader in the field of human genome research, nicholas negroponte, the founder of the "Give Every Child a One Hundred Dollar Laptop" project, Ben Saunders, the first person who skated to the North Pole alone, and Steven Pinker, an outstanding linguist of our time ... As for stars like Al Gore, they are frequent visitors to the TED conference.
Therefore, for the general public, TED is a rare "face-to-face" communication bridge with all walks of life around the world. Whether it is the little things around us that we have become accustomed to, such as "Why do people laugh?" Or rise into space, a scientific event that is not in contact with daily life. TED is like an arbitrary door to any knowledge field, which gives people from all walks of life the opportunity to understand the world where scientists, entrepreneurs, philosophers and so on live and learn.
As we all know, TED talk is also a good resource for learning English.
For a public platform for knowledge sharing, I personally think that learning the concept of speech is the primary purpose. While mastering the ideas and concepts conveyed by the speech, you can accumulate some words, phrases and sentence patterns. However, some English learners just want to use it to practice listening, but because of the wide coverage of TED talk, a series of difficult words will appear. For example, some uncommon scientific words or biological words often lead learners to persist for a few days, or just give up after listening to a few words, or even stop contacting TED, which is really a great waste for a good learning resource like TED.
For English-speaking countries, when they watch a TED talk, they learn the thoughts and ideas of the speaker directly, while many learners in China hold white flags when learning their expressions. So I personally think that the learning order needs to be corrected. It should be thinking first, followed by English. However, this does not mean that we can only learn ideas by watching Chinese subtitles, but we should learn their authentic English expressions skillfully. I will further describe the specific method in the later article push.
Therefore, the purpose of establishing this official WeChat account is to ensure that I can accumulate authentic English expressions after learning the concept of pronunciation.
Starting today, there will be a Ted article sharing and pushing every week to witness the wonder of knowledge.