WEBVTT 00:20.942 --> 00:24.315 I think the main limitation in the world, 00:24.315 --> 00:25.810 comes from ourselves. 00:26.239 --> 00:29.517 If you bravely break through the framework, 00:29.857 --> 00:32.496 you'll find more potential and possibility. 00:33.409 --> 00:34.994 To face the problem. 00:34.994 --> 00:37.076 To face the difficulty. 00:37.076 --> 00:38.416 To face the challenge. 00:44.242 --> 00:46.031 My hearing was impaired 00:46.031 --> 00:47.197 before I was born. 00:47.197 --> 00:48.959 Living with physical disorder 00:48.959 --> 00:51.330 I just want to say 00:51.623 --> 00:53.563 I am proud of my imperfection. 00:53.563 --> 00:56.607 Many people don't have confidence in themselve. 00:57.178 --> 00:59.574 Many people don't believe in themselves. 00:59.574 --> 01:00.818 But I do. 01:00.818 --> 01:02.415 I don't give up myself 01:02.666 --> 01:03.951 simply because can't hear well. 01:04.174 --> 01:06.636 Instead, I work twice harder than anyone else. 01:06.718 --> 01:07.700 Renowned. 01:08.071 --> 01:08.989 Renowned. 01:09.259 --> 01:11.505 Renowned. 01:12.766 --> 01:14.666 In my junior high school, 01:14.666 --> 01:15.767 I had a teacher 01:15.767 --> 01:18.315 who is of great importance to me. 01:18.436 --> 01:19.826 That is my English teacher. 01:19.832 --> 01:24.742 Once I got only 70 on my test, 01:24.992 --> 01:26.490 but my teacher said to me, 01:26.501 --> 01:29.681 "You are the best." 01:29.984 --> 01:32.699 These words encouraged me a lot 01:32.699 --> 01:34.380 and made me more confident, 01:34.388 --> 01:36.131 so I study even harder. 01:37.795 --> 01:38.575 Okay. 01:38.575 --> 01:42.354 I am afraid of speaking. 01:43.160 --> 01:44.084 Great. 01:44.084 --> 01:44.921 Okay. Speaking. 01:44.921 --> 01:45.865 Very good, ok. 01:45.865 --> 01:48.631 The reason why I study English 01:48.631 --> 01:49.919 is to prove that 01:49.919 --> 01:51.903 even I can't hear well, 01:51.903 --> 01:53.665 I can still learn English well. 01:53.665 --> 01:56.075 I think if even I could succeed 01:56.075 --> 01:58.640 I would encourage more and more people. 01:58.640 --> 02:04.105 And she told me to speak it again and again, 02:04.105 --> 02:05.919 you'll do it better. 02:05.922 --> 02:09.063 The way I practice my pronounciation... 02:09.063 --> 02:12.095 I don't care what others think of me. 02:12.103 --> 02:14.158 I don't care they laugh at me. 02:14.655 --> 02:16.128 Speak out. 02:16.128 --> 02:18.785 You will speak better if you keep practicing. 02:18.785 --> 02:20.322 Do not be afraid to speak out loud. 02:20.766 --> 02:23.739 Perhaps my hearing is impaired, 02:23.746 --> 02:26.633 so my pronounciation is not that good. 02:27.127 --> 02:29.922 Therefore, I try another way to practice 02:30.250 --> 02:31.427 that is, singing. 02:31.510 --> 02:33.608 *To make my world* 02:33.608 --> 02:34.913 Be careful with the tempo. 02:34.913 --> 02:39.707 *To make my world* 02:39.726 --> 02:41.903 *Fill with lovely sound* 02:43.223 --> 02:45.698 The biggest problem for 02:45.706 --> 02:47.140 Hearing-impaired people like me, 02:47.145 --> 02:49.511 Is that we can hardly control our own volume. 02:49.511 --> 02:52.920 But you have to control it when you're singing, 02:52.931 --> 02:54.228 including controlling Dantian 02:54.228 --> 02:56.222 and controlling your voice. 02:56.775 --> 02:58.683 It is not easy to catch up with the tempo. 02:59.472 --> 03:01.495 It is difficult to distinguish high and low pitches. 03:01.495 --> 03:03.542 I could only have a felling of it. 03:03.928 --> 03:05.885 For me, pitches are only different "feelings" 03:05.885 --> 03:08.329 of "higher" or "lower". 03:08.503 --> 03:10.185 I can only feel it 03:10.448 --> 03:12.598 and I learn it by heart. 03:12.598 --> 03:14.302 After the voice engraving in my mind, 03:14.302 --> 03:15.723 I am able to sing it. 03:18.248 --> 03:18.737 Right. 03:18.737 --> 03:20.692 ...Give me a hug... 03:21.558 --> 03:22.165 Okay. 03:23.698 --> 03:28.676 Too many words just stick with each other. 03:28.676 --> 03:32.633 It is difficult for me to sing it. 03:32.633 --> 03:33.882 As for tempo, 03:33.882 --> 03:35.335 I am usually not sure about that. 03:35.335 --> 03:37.299 I might on to it, 03:37.299 --> 03:38.583 or just do not catch the beat. 03:38.583 --> 03:40.076 But what I really care is that 03:40.501 --> 03:42.830 this is my very song, 03:43.927 --> 03:47.096 and I am singing it. 03:47.642 --> 03:50.954 *To make my world* 03:50.954 --> 03:54.682 *Fill with lovely sound* 03:58.349 --> 04:01.591 *It's you.* 04:21.001 --> 04:24.508 I started wearing hearing aid in 3rd grade. 04:24.508 --> 04:27.095 Some of my classmates did not understand that 04:27.095 --> 04:28.493 my hearing ability is impaired. 04:28.493 --> 04:30.792 Because sometimes I do not hear others, 04:30.798 --> 04:33.566 there would be some misunderstanding. 04:33.566 --> 04:35.141 Some classmates see me 04:35.141 --> 04:37.083 as a pride person. 04:38.379 --> 04:39.782 I remember it perfectly 04:39.782 --> 04:41.385 that I was afraid of school. 04:41.981 --> 04:43.377 Yes, I did not like going to school. 04:43.377 --> 04:46.075 I was not interested in learning. 04:46.075 --> 04:48.577 And then I found out that 04:48.577 --> 04:51.530 the motive of learning is coming from myself. 04:51.530 --> 04:54.387 When I become stronger, 04:55.055 --> 04:58.994 I believe, I will not be bullied. 05:08.896 --> 05:11.081 Maybe students of 4th ,5th ,6th grades have seen him. 05:11.081 --> 05:13.679 He is here to give speech to us. 05:13.679 --> 05:15.358 Mr. Chen Qun-Lian. 05:15.358 --> 05:20.094 He gradated from our school 25 years ago. 05:20.094 --> 05:23.790 Let's welcome Mr. Chen with warm applause. 05:25.982 --> 05:26.921 Thank you, Sir. 05:28.113 --> 05:30.490 Please tell me one thing that you're proud of yourself. 05:30.490 --> 05:32.018 Would you share it with me? 05:32.018 --> 05:36.637 I am proud of my talent of painting. 05:36.637 --> 05:39.535 But I think I can't paint well. 05:39.743 --> 05:41.505 It's fine, just keep practicing, 05:41.505 --> 05:43.445 you will become a great painter. 05:43.445 --> 05:44.987 I believe in you! 05:45.130 --> 05:47.045 Everything is difficult at the beginning. 05:47.045 --> 05:49.055 Only if you push yourself and try harder. 05:49.055 --> 05:50.324 you will be successful. 05:50.324 --> 05:55.690 Usually we are not willing to learn English. 05:55.694 --> 05:59.885 But he is, and he works very hard. 06:00.061 --> 06:02.886 He said, "everything is possible once you're willing to do it." 06:02.886 --> 06:05.420 I think his words encourage me a lot 06:05.420 --> 06:08.476 and make me want to try harder. 06:08.476 --> 06:09.577 Just like he does. 06:09.894 --> 06:12.782 Everyone is a gift. 06:12.782 --> 06:15.790 I want to tell the kids that 06:16.312 --> 06:18.410 although we cannot change the external environment, 06:18.410 --> 06:20.274 we can change ourselves internally. 06:20.539 --> 06:23.095 Never give up on yourselves. 06:23.417 --> 06:25.822 Never say no before you try it. 06:25.824 --> 06:27.226 Everything is possible, 06:27.226 --> 06:28.766 once you try to do it. 06:29.315 --> 06:32.375 No matter how many difficulties you face in your lives, 06:32.375 --> 06:34.191 don't give up. 06:34.191 --> 06:35.918 If I can do it, 06:35.918 --> 06:38.892 I believe you can do it, too.