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[English]

Welcome to my T. Uh so first of all I

would like to clarify I'm no world

champion. I'm just Asian champion and

EFL category. So just for the

clarification purpose. Okay. So today I

will be talking about my journey and

what I have gone through and what I have

seen in the last 10 years. I've been

waiting for almost 10 years now and like

uh the ups and downs of it and the

journey to overcome the language barrier

because most of us here like talk in

Bangla is our primary language then you

have to go for and English in order to

win. So I'll talk us through all the

possible things. So it all started back

in 2016 when I was studying in the

classroom. I was very nerdy back then

and then suddenly some people came into

the class and asked if I want to join

debate club or not. Uh I was like okay

let's give it a shot. Uh I don't know

what it is. I don't know how it feels

but let's try to go there and see what

happens. Uh I joined the debate club. I

went to the first uh round of the

tournament the infra tournament that

happens in between there. And when I sit

there uh the first speech that I was

supposed to give, I got very nervous

because understandably I forgot the

motion. Uh I don't know how it happened

but I forgot the motion. So I got stood

up there for a minute then I just got

the flow and gave somehow speech. But

what it made me feel like is that okay I

can talk I can talk fine and probably I

can convince people that what I'm trying

to say. That made me interested into

continue debating. So I basically

started debating in national level

competitions from 2017. Uh in 2017 uh I

did my first national competition in my

school finance. I got knocked out from

the second round. Uh very unfortunate

but I think it was fair enough.

Afterwards moving forward uh then I move

forward and I made it to the

quarterfinal in my second tournament

which is quite a big deal back at the

time and everyone was so happy. Oh my

god, class 7 kids have made it to the

quarterfinals. And that gave me quite a

lot of motivation. Oh we are good

probably. So I can probably make it

happen and I can probably win some

tournaments for my club. But the problem

out there is that often often times good

things takes time and we believe that

whatever we'll do will happen

immediately. But whenever

uh whenever you want to do anything

there are good things which happens and

that takes a reverse time. From 2017 to

2019 I lost quarterfinal semi-final of

13 competitions uh no 13 and I didn't

make it to the final of one single

competition and we were devastated as a

team that oh whatever we're doing we are

not being able to make it to the final

but then in 2019 December I remember I

did a competition in Samsan school that

is like the in the other part of back in

Dra And we won the competition and that

was quite a big deal for us like my

teammate was crying because

understandably we at least made it

happen. After when we won the tournament

that gave us the flow that we needed

that gave us the trigger that we needed

and then we almost won 10 trophies for

the club in 13 40 tournaments in between

next. What it does is that it says if

you often times good things happens but

it requires some time and eventually in

those situations we move forward and we

did well but the thing is that the

problem about debtors are that they're

often times so much hungry when they win

national competition they want to do

well in English competition then they

want to do well in international

competition so just as like other

debtors I wanted to do well in English

debate competition as

But as I said I am from a very average

Bangla medium school and my school is

topnotch though most common school

though but we all understand Bangla

there so there is no English debating

understandably there's no debating

circuit there so what we had to do uh

like in order to shift to English

debating was really tough for me because

when I first give my English speech I

could only speak for one minute and I

don't know what I said uh because all I

said didn't make any sense in English?

Uh I'm quite sure. Then what I had to do

is that I had to go through a lot to

make sure that I can actually talk in

English. Uh for everyone's purpose, I

also got into an English coaching center

where they teach you how to talk in

English. Obviously, that didn't help

because uh we all know that how to speak

in English work doesn't help you. But

understandably, I tried a lot. I made my

dream a passion with me and a routine of

mine. I saw movies that are in English.

I saw series that are in English. I read

English articles. I read English

newspapers. All of the things just to be

sure that I can speak in English. And

then somewhat after some time in a year

or two, I could actually uh like speak 7

minutes or 8 minutes in English. That

was like quite a fine deal for me back

then. But after when I made it to the

like the level that where I can take it

still like speak in English then my

purpose was to go forward and do well in

debates as well implement that in

debates and eventually do something that

can make sure that I can like I'm doing

well for the country and uh just like

every debater in Bangladesh it was my

dream to represent team Bangladesh in

world school diving championship uh but

the problem is that often times how hard

you work it doesn't work out for you and

I think it's fine because often time

hard work doesn't guarantee success

right I worked quite hard for making it

to team Bangladesh but the in my first

attempt I made it to the national camp

and then I got knocked out because

understandably my SC exam was going on

and I priorized my over getting

Bangladesh in the second attempt I

didn't even make it to the national camp

uh this was a true that happened in 2021

since I degree was I my team and I did

perform really bad or like whatever

happened we don't know but we didn't

even make it to the uh I didn't even

make it to the national and it was quite

a heartbreak for me because I used to be

a good debtor back then well like fine

debator who can actually made it through

the top 15 of the country or top 20 of

the country like the top 25 debtors were

taken out of the tournament and I was

not in the top 25 list And that made

like that broke my heart quite badly and

I was like okay probably it is not

happening for me probably I'm not good

enough probably it's not working out for

me. Uh but the problem often time that

is around us is that we always focus on

the negative things. So don't focus on

the positive things. Uh if I look back

into my college debating journey I won

five national tournaments back to back

and which is quite a big deal for that

time. But the problem is that I didn't

care because all of my passion was

related to getting into Bangladesh. And

when I didn't make it to uh it was like

quite heartbreaking for me. Then I

decided okay problem is not happening.

Let's take a pause. Let's restart. I

took a pause from debating. I didn't

debate for almost a year or half because

I was preparing for my admission. I had

other priorities in my life and I

thought that probably focusing on those

things makes more sense. When I got into

university, I got into beauty. Uh where

all the like luckily there are a lot of

good debtors in beauty. So we have a

good bunch of debtors out there in when

I got into beauty. Uh luckily again

everything started to pick up. I started

winning competition. We won multiple IV

tournaments consecutively. We won, we

won B, we won. All the tournaments

before and I was like okay probably

speaking again for me and probably I'm

going fine. then the tournament uh uh

and obviously when you're debator and we

international debtor we know that when

the majors are coming and when the like

main tournaments of the Asia main

tournaments of the world are coming and

when we saw the date of like UAC we were

like okay let's give it a shot and let's

try what we can do in the international

level as well before UADC for the last

two months before UADC we prepped so

hard we did like almost 40 spurs we did

take so many sessions we did all the

possible drills that we can do and we

put all of our efforts in the UAC and we

are like okay let's give it a try I'm

going abroad for the first time in my

life probably if I don't make it to the

final or probably if I don't win the

competition that's fine I can just go

abroad and have fun but uh sometimes the

stars align sometimes your luck works

for you right and in the competition we

somehow managed to become the champion

of Asia that's quite a big deal because

understandably For me, I was able to

hold my flag and hold and represent my

country in the biggest stage of Asia and

always it was my dream to actually

represent my nation at the biggest stage

of world. I couldn't make it in the WC

but I made it in the QC. The thing that

I want to say is that uh it's just the

beginning. I won but I want to win more

and I think the hunger actually keeps

you much more awake. Uh dream often time

hurts but this is what makes us human.

This is what makes us live our life

right. So I probably want to win most

probably I'll be able to probably I

don't want to be able to but the moment

in time that you pause your hunger is

the moment you actually stop working for

it and you stop like achieving it. One

thing I would like to say last uh as I'm

a big Nova Chocab fan as I follow

tennis. Uh what can you say after a game

uh in a postmatch commentary?

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
journey /ˈdʒɜːr.ni/ B1	noun - an act of travelling from one place to another
barrier /ˈbær.i.ər/ B2	noun - something that blocks movement or prevents people from doing something
debate /dɪˈbeɪt/ B2	verb - to discuss a subject in a formal way noun - a discussion in which reasons are put forward for and against some proposition or proposal
nervous /ˈnɜːr.vəs/ B1	adjective - worried or anxious
speech /spiːtʃ/ B1	noun - the ability to talk; the act of talking
competition /ˌkɑːm.pəˈtɪʃ.ən/ B1	noun - an event in which people compete to win
motivation /ˌmoʊ.t̬ɪˈveɪ.ʃən/ B2	noun - the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way
dream /driːm/ A2	noun - a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep verb - to hope, wish, aspire
passion /ˈpæʃ.ən/ B2	noun - a strong feeling of enthusiasm or excitement for something
routine /ruːˈtiːn/ B1	noun - a sequence of actions regularly followed
represent /ˌrep.rɪˈzent/ B2	verb - to be appointed to act or speak for someone
effort /ˈef.ɚt/ B1	noun - physical or mental activity needed to achieve something
champion /ˈtʃæm.pi.ən/ B1	noun - a person who has defeated all rivals in a competition
hungry /ˈhʌŋ.ɡri/ A2	adjective - feeling or showing the need for food adjective - having a strong desire for something
tournament /ˈtʊr.nə.mənt/ B1	noun - a series of contests between a number of competitors, who compete for an overall prize