This video is really impressive and defines a lot of stuff about communication and languages. I agree with Jamila Lysicott because there’s actually different ways to communicate to different types of people. there’re categories like your parents, employees and friends. If a person speaks more than one language then it gets hard sometimes to speak in proper english. If I talk about myself, I speak four languages and sometimes I get mix up with words and later realize that what was I speaking. Jamila is absolutely right that speaking one language in a different ways doesn’t make you uneducated or unethical in fact it makes a person “articulate” as she mentioned it. That way you could easily convey a message to others. Knowing more languages make a person think differently, like if I refer this to myself whenever I sit for studying, I actually think in my language and write stuff down in my English which helps me a lot. Same like I count in my English that makes it more easy rather than counting in English. As she mentioned in her Todd talk, “So I may not always come before you with excellency of speech;but do not judge me by the language and assume that I’m too ignorant to teach”. She has a point here that yes language is a way of speaking but that doesn’t define your excellence or that a person is not capable of a speaker just because he speaks a language in a different way. A person’s brain defines his/her ideas, thoughts, and intelligence not a language called English. I like how she mentioned about herself being a trilingual and she feels proud of that because she can witch from one to another. She also mentioned about the racism that black people went through and still going till this day which is very sad and unacceptable behaviour. I remembered when I came to America and joined high school and I was a new comer. Whenever I started reading something in class, students used to make fun of my accent because it was not “proper” but that doesn’t really bothered me because my teachers always cheered me up. So speaking more languages doesn’t make you uneducated instead it brights your brain more.
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