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Let's talk about obsession

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Let's start with the Beatles obsession(band)

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Hysterical crying and screaming of teenagers and pandemonium

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Sports obsession

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Deafening crowds for one-goal lead

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In the Nets

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Well religious mania

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There's euphoria there's crying there's visions

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Obsession can be good it can be

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Alarming or obsessive can be fatal

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The world has a new obsession

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The obsession of learning English listen to

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Chinese students practice their English by

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Screaming

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I don't want to leave my parents

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I never want to make a mockery of my country

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Continuously

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I don't want to leave myself

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How many people are trying to learn

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English is spoken by two billion people worldwide

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In Latin America, India, Southeast Asia

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And most of all in China if you

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Chinese student starts learning English

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In the third grade by law, therefore

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This year will be China

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The largest English-speaking country in the world

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Why English is an opportunity

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A chance for a better life or a job

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To be able to pay for school or a better position

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Food on the table, imagine a student

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Studying for a giant exam for three whole days

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Her grades on this one test are literally

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She determines her future, studied 12 hours

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On the day for three years to prepare

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25% of her grades are based on English

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It's called the COWGAO eighty million

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A Chinese high school student already

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They took this cruel test

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The intensity of learning English is almost

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It is inconceivable only if you witness it

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I want to change my life

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So is the English obsession good or bad

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Is the English tsunami wiping out the rest

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Languages are unlikely. English language

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It is the second language in the world. Your native language

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It's your life, but with English

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You can be part of a conversation

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A global conversation is taking place about

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Global problems such as climate change or

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Poverty, hunger or disease.

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The world has other world languages

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Mathematics is the language of science،

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Music is the language of emotions،

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And now English has become a language

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Solving problems is not because America

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You support him, but because the world

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Help him with that. So the English obsession

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Is a turning point

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Such as harnessing electricity in

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Our cities or the fall

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The Berlin Wall.

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English represents hope for a better future

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A future where the world has

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A common language to solve common problems

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Many thanks

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Editing by Mohammad Zargham