Jamila Lyiscott : 3 ways to speak English

                           

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Jamila Lyiscott : 3 ways to speak English (transcript)

Summary

The speaker is a poet and this is her spoken word essay.

The title is "Broken English ".

She says in the poem that she speaks three tongues. It means three accents in English: one is articulate English in school, another accent English is used when she talks with her family and another one is used when she talks with her friends. It's because this is her communication way with them and her answer never goes amiss.

She is a black woman. Her hair, skin, race, and history are always called bad but her language was stolen.

Inequality should be ended.

We speak the same language that is English.

Words in this story
articulate / definite, decided
nonsensical / unreasonable, irrational, absurd