Recently, Roy Wang, one of the TFBOYS’ members, was invited to United Nations Headquarters in New York to attend the ECOSOC Youth Forum 2017 as a Chinese youth representative.
He made a speech around two minutes to call upon people to pay attention to quality education.
On April 14th, 2017 InterContinental Beijing Sanlitun Roy Wang, member of TFBOYS
How did you prepare for the speech? After I arrived in America, the local UN staff taught me the proper pronunciation.
As I have some accent, they corrected my pronunciation again and again.
Did you pay attention to feedback for your speech?
Many people said my English was not good.
That’s right. In fact, I know better than anyone that my English is not very good.
So before going UN, I was prepared mentally to be scolded.
After all, English isn’t my mother tongue.
I don’t converse in English typically. It’s normal not to be good.
However, because of the scolding, I must try my best to improve.
How did you know they “scolded” you?
Weibo. Just (search) Wang Yuan English.
But I think the scolding were OK.
Not very fierce, but pretty light.
Do you mind being “scolded”?
I don’t feel it when I was young.
Maybe I was too young and innocent to be sensitive about it.
I know there are people scolding me, but I thought it’s OK.
Later on, I became more sensitive and will feel bad.
Gradually, I’m able to take it in positively.