If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
Interpretation
Learning a new language requires accepting imperfection to communicate effectively.
In this quote, Yao Ming emphasizes the importance of allowing oneself to make mistakes when learning a new language. The fear of making errors can inhibit progress and prevent meaningful communication; thus, embracing imperfection is crucial for language acquisition and fluency.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a language class to encourage students to speak without fear.
Every sound in the gym is so fantastic. The screams of the fans, the whistle of the ref, the teammates calling to each other, the sounds of the ball touching the wooden floor, the sneakers touching the floor, and the sounds of the fight, the muscle and the sweat. Oh, and the last one-when the ball goes through the net. Don't laugh at my sensitivity and romanticism - those sounds really attract me.
When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
When the buying stops, the killing can too.
I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.
But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African American saying: Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference.
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.
I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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