Tenor Gao Liang has a beautiful voice. He has always had a beautiful voice, and from a very young age his singing received praise. But when he spoke, adults gave pause, and his classmates laughed at him. For a long time, Liang couldn’t understand why. He thought he spoke like everyone else, and wasn’t aware of anything to laugh at. Then one day, fate led Liang to an old tape recorder lying around the house, and when he played back a recording of himself, Liang was in for a shock. What he thought he sounded like and what he actually sounded like were completely different. It turned out that Liang had a speech disorder. There was nothing physically or mentally wrong with him, but he was pronouncing most of his words incorrectly, Liang explained. With great persistence, Liang re-learned to speak from scratch, listening to others and mimicking their speech, …