If you know Alibaba.com, you must have heard of its founder Jack Ma or 马云。Well, Jack used to be an interpreter before he became an entrepreneur. His English, especially his spoken English is excellent. In his time, English education was not as good and popular as it is now. Then how did Jack learn English and improve his spoken English when he was young?Here is his story in his own words:"When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English. I rode my bike for 40 minutes every morning, rain or snow, for eight years to a hotel near the city of Hangzhou's West Lake district, about 100 miles southwest of Shanghai. China was opening up, and a lot of foreign tourists went there. I showed them around as a free guide and practiced my English. Those eight years deeply changed me. I started to become more globalized than most Chinese. What I learned from my teachers and books was different from what the foreign visitors told us."There you go, Jack was persistent and brave enough to practice his English with overseas tourists by acting as a tour guide for them. That is not a bad idea at all. If you have such opportunities, why don't you do the same?
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