“Say This, Not Diss”: The Story About Our Accents | Jennifer Xu | TEDxShanghai American School Puxi

[Applause] For as long as I can remember, babbling a Chinese accent has been a humongous part of learning English in my family. Take my sister for example. She's 12 years older than me and she grew up attending a local Chinese school until just before her early teens and then she transferred to an international school.Of course, I was too young to really witness this firsthand, but one of the stories about that transition will always stick with me. When she began attending a new school, it was terribly hard ...