全国英语演讲比赛一等奖！熊歆：探索语言艺术的无限可能

全国一等奖！在第二十四届中国日报社“21世纪·可口可乐”杯全国英语演讲比赛大学组中，上海外国语大学英语学院 EN-lightenment 演讲社社长（Co-president）、英语学院英语专业+卓越学院国际组织实验班的熊歆，以上外校选赛冠军、全国半决赛第二日排名第一的成绩进入全国总决赛，获得全国一等奖的佳绩。

这次比赛中，熊歆说自己最大的成长是找到了个人风格。熊歆坦言，这次比赛让她知道了自己的水平，进入决赛之后，“标准不再是证明自己，而是更想把自己的想法通过语言的力量传递出去。”她追求的是像TED TALK里面的演讲者一样，让自己的声音入耳、入脑、入心，“我更在意的是观众的共鸣。”

▌演讲的艺术：邀请你进入我的世界

在演讲的过程中，她找到了“自己”。连续参加了第二十三届、第二十四届“21世纪·可口可乐”杯全国英语演讲比赛，从上海赛区季军到全国一等奖，熊歆坦言这样的进步归功于自己摸索到了合适的风格。“之前的成功是因为自己有舞台经验，临场反应比较快，基本素质好，所以可以拿到一定的名次。但在后来，我会更看重演讲的整体思维，这决定了能否在一众人中脱颖而出。”所谓的整体思维，是要有自己的语言呈现方式。“进入全国赛的选手，都有很强的基本功，而想法的独特，是能够成功获得关注的重要的一点。”她仍记得曾经赛场上的一位选手对她的评价: “She let us believe in the power of romance again （她让我们再一次相信浪漫的力量）”。她认为，有气势的大局观是一种呈现方式，从小事引发的浪漫感也是一种方式。从小的立意出发，用浪漫的情怀来引发观众共鸣，这是她的“Romance”风格，也是她最享受的演讲状态。

The Pursuit Of Happiness

I have a brother. I mean a real brother, a biological one, born by my parents, and that wasn’t common in my generation. I used to be really curious about why my mom still gave birth to me even under the one-child policy, and when I asked her, she told me it was because of my brother. There weren’t many kids of his own age in the neighborhood, and he wanted a baby-sister to play with. Both my brother and I were proud of each others’ existence. He would take my photos to school and tell his classmates how cute his little sister was, and I would tell the naughty boys in my class that I’m not afraid of them because I had a brother who was always behind me.

He was 9 years elder than me, meaning there is almost half a generation’s gap between us, and also between our parents and us. Me, a 19-year-old girl born in the year 2000, find art and music indispensable parts of my life; my brother’s pursuit when he was 19 was to have a considerate girlfriend and a Beijing citizenship; and during the early 1970s, when my parents were 19, they had to work hard to pay for food due to the shortage of goods and materials. From physiological need to the pursuit for love and belonging, and to self-actualization, if you look into the lives of my family of four, you will find a miniature view of the change of the society, moving up the Maslow Hierarchy of needs.

But my other friends weren’t so lucky -- they share the same level of pursuit with me, but they don’t have a sibling. Well I’m not trying to tell you how nice my brother is -- I can do an one hour speech on that -- I’m saying that most of the children were born under the one-child policy. Indeed, they received almost all the love and care from their parents, but also they face so much pressure and expectation that they became somewhat depressed, or even self-centered. As they grow up, they have to carry the burden of the whole family, and their growth of happiness isn’t proportional to their growth of salary.

You see, reforms can not only bring us benefits, but also drawbacks. To change or not to change, this is no longer a question. The question is, in which direction? The reform and opening up should keep updating itself in answer to people’s needs. So what do we need? As netizens jokingly post on social media their wish to win a lottery ticket and spend the rest of their life doing whatever they want, the answer is revealed: happiness. Boosting economy is simply a method, the ultimate goal is to have an ideal life. People pursue fortune to create their dream life, and the nation boosts its GDP to increase the Gross National Happiness. As President Xi put it, the problem we are now to solve is people's ever-growing needs for a better life.

Undoubtedly, the reform and opening up has already brought us countless benefits, but now, ladies and gentlemen, it is already time to fulfill a more advanced goal: to make everyone happy. It’s simple, but takes us lots of efforts. And I wish that in the future, my kids, and by that I mean the two of them, can fill their life with eudemonia, a kind of rational happiness proposed by Aristotle. And just like in my favorite happy-ending kind of fairy tales, then they live happily ever after.

熊歆在第24届“21世纪·可口可乐”杯全国英语演讲比赛全国半决赛中的演讲稿

熊歆全国总决赛音频来自上海外国语大学00:0013:36

熊歆在第24届“21世纪·可口可乐”杯全国英语演讲比赛全国总决赛中的现场录音

如今再谈到“演讲”，她选择用“探索”这个词来描绘。演讲的过程如同玩电脑游戏“三维弹球”，每一次的开始，都会随着球的轨迹，触碰到所在世界的不同“点”。她认为从年幼到成年，每个人的世界都会逐步形成这样凸出的“点”，每个人也许不会深入探究很多的“点”，但是能借此更多地了解世界的全貌。演讲便如同游戏中弹出的球，带她不断摸索由“点”构成的世界边界。与此同时，“演讲也是一种非常温和的传播手段，像是给观众创造一个氛围，让他们不知不觉中身处这个氛围里面，朝你的方向走过来。”熊歆觉得这样的过程，就像是邀请别人走进自己创造的世界里一样。

目前，她仍然担任着EN-lightenment 演讲社社长一职，带领社员们一起探索着言语的奥妙。在像家一样的社团里，熊歆从志同道合的伙伴身上学到了很多，也知道了努力的方向——将演讲的艺术更好地传播出去。

           2019 熊歆与其他英语演讲比赛获奖选手暑期赴香港游学 

暑期，她同此前演讲比赛的选手们一起，前往了香港中文大学参与了为期一周的夏令营，继续深入锻炼演讲技巧，探索着生活中的不同“点”，扩宽着自己世界的边界。
▌辩论的挑战：说服自己，说服别人

                           熊歆在EN-lightenment 演讲社

和演讲不同，辩论“可能会更有侵略性”。参加辩论时，需要列举确凿的事实，再以清晰的逻辑，通顺的语言表达出来。有时，辩手自己内心中可能都不支持自己要辩论的观点，所以“先说服自己，然后再去说服别人”，这在熊歆看来很神奇，也让她从另一个角度去探索着语言的力量。在去年在上外举办的上海国际辩论赛上，熊歆不仅作为选手参加了比赛，还担任了组委会副主席，这对她来说是一种新的挑战。当身份从一位辩手转化为组委会的一员，亲身参与活动筹划后，她才意识到其中的“事务繁杂”：协调任务，交接工作，管理财务……但幸运的是，熊歆得到了许多人的帮助。在辛苦的同时，熊歆收获了深厚的友谊，在和评委的交流接触中，她对英语辩论也有了更加全面的了解。

熊歆兴趣爱好广泛，舞蹈、戏剧、展览等艺术活动使她的大学生活格外充实。从小练习拉丁舞的经历，培养了她的台风与自信。就在2018年上外招生宣传片中，熊歆也展示了她的舞蹈功底。此外，她曾在飞那儿话剧团和朋友们一起排演过新生戏，带着编剧与演员的双重身份亲身体验舞台剧艺术。大一暑假在伦敦学习的熊歆，也特意赶到爱丁堡参加一年一度的爱丁堡戏剧节，观看半交互式情景剧Midsummer，感受“故事就像发生在自己身边”。周末，她会跑遍上海去看各种不同的展览，并乐于在社交平台上分享自己的经历。

                                      2018  熊歆暑期在伦敦大学亚非学院交流学习

                                                            熊歆参与拍摄上外招生宣传片

 因为对于艺术的热爱与幼时的少儿频道主持经历，熊歆再次拿起话筒，开启了一段同样以“语言”为载体的艺术体验——主持。刚进大一时，她“第一时间就去报名了主持人团”。海外交流心得分享会、十大歌手决赛，还有运动会开幕式……两年多来熊歆已经主持了不少活动。和演讲一样，主持人的工作也是向观众传递信息。但与带有主观色彩的演讲相比，“主持中的信息是客观的，是不能更改的”，让观众愿意听主持人说话的同时把关注的重心放在节目上，熊歆还在不断地摸索。

                                                            熊歆主持2019级新生军歌大赛

 不断丰富的主持经历让她无论在舞台表现还是控场能力上不断成熟。在今年的2019级新生军歌大赛，她便是主持人之一。她坦言，在之前的主持经历中，会比较在乎自己的个人表现，但在这次晚会上，她更关注的是整体团队的表现。“从分配串词到带领大家训练，我会注意听每个人的部分，也经常思考碰到现场意外怎么补救。现在作为团中的‘老人’，需要承担起一定的责任，把整体效果呈现地更好。”在晚会经历中，她也凭借自己的主持经验和应变能力解决好每一个潜在的主持“危机”，使每一场活动都能不留遗憾。 

 在演讲、辩论、主持中，熊歆不断探索着“说”的艺术。谈及未来的规划，目前正读大学三年级的熊歆给出回答是：传播学。“我之后比较想继续深造，读传播学，或跨文化方向。人和人的想法如何交流、用什么样的语言能更好的把信息传递给别人，我对此很感兴趣。”在她看来，传播是方式，社会是内容，语言是桥梁。以语言为工具，以热爱与兴趣为依托，发挥跨文化交流优势，熊歆的未来还有无数种可能。

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