In Yangshuo, Guilin, there is a 76-year-old grandmother tour guide who can fluently use 11 foreign languages, and many Chinese and foreign tourists flock to him. She was in the third grade of elementary school and began to learn English in her 60s.

In Yangshuo, Guilin, there is a 76-year-old grandmother tour guide who can fluently use 11 foreign languages, and many Chinese and foreign tourists flock to him. She has been learning English since she was in her 60s, does she have any secrets to learning foreign languages?

Mother Moon's name is Xu Xiuzhen, a local authentic peasant woman, who only has the culture of the third grade of primary school. In 1996, seeing the flock of domestic and foreign tourists to Yangshuo, Xu Xiuzhen, who had been working as a farmer at home, thought of selling some drinks to subsidize the family.

There is a scenic spot at the mouth of Licun Village, the top of the mountain is a natural large stone arch, which looks like the Haoyue Moon hanging on the peak, so it is named "Moon Mountain". Xu Xiuzhen originally sold drinks at the Moon Mountain attraction. She is simple and kind, and when tourists encounter problems, she will try her best to help.

One day, a young foreign tourist had a painful expression on his face while climbing a mountain, a cold sweat on his forehead, and his companions were blindfolded. Xu Xiuzhen rushed forward, and it turned out to be a stomachache caused by heat stroke. "Try the old way first!" Xu Xiuzhen took out the wind oil essence that was always in her pocket, applied it to the young man's stomach, and then scraped sha with her fingers.

Before long, the tourist was not in pain, and asked how much money he needed to pay, and Xu Xiuzhen waved his hand: "What I should do is not want money." The young man was grateful: "You are as good as my mother." He also gave Xu Xiuzhen an English name, Mama Moon, which means "the mother who guards the Moon Mountain." Later, the name Mother Moon slowly spread.

In the process of selling drinks, Xu Xiuzhen knows the importance of language. Many foreign tourists want to buy drinks, because Xu Xiuzhen does not understand English and give up, Xu Xiuzhen is not willing. So I decided to learn English from my daughter-in-law, who often works as a tour guide for foreign tourists.

Everything was difficult at the beginning, the first few days, the words that the daughter-in-law taught the night before, Xu Xiuzhen went out the next day and forgot everything. But Xu Xiuzhen, who firmly believes that "practice makes perfect", let her daughter-in-law review the words and sentences she learned over and over again. In order not to let these new words "slip away", she was stunned to review them often until the second half of the night.

The next day, Xu Xiuzhen successfully applied what she learned to her dialogue with foreigners. Since then, her confidence in learning foreign languages has been full at once, and she has been chanting like a demon. With the accumulation of time, more and more words and sentences can be spoken, and communication with foreigners has become smoother.

In 1998, she successfully obtained a local tour guide certificate. Relying on the link of English and the summarized language learning method, Xu Xiuzhen began to learn the languages of other countries by herself. While learning foreign languages as a tour guide, almost all the foreign tourists she came into contact with were her language teachers.

Today, Xu Xiuzhen can communicate with tourists in the languages of 11 countries, including English, German, French, Italian, Korean, and Spanish, and become a "celebrity" in Yangshuo.

The moon hangs on the top of the mountain in the west, and the tiger chases the nine cattle in the east. Ducks drink water without looking up, ancient medicine collects medicine to go up the mountain..." After living in Yangshuo for nearly 70 years, Xu Xiuzhen is full of feelings for every mountain and river here, and she is more fond of introducing scenic spots with catchy songs. Many tourists come to her as a tour guide, and Xu Xiuzhen has become a business card for Yangshuo tourism.

Xu Xiuzhen still maintains the simplicity of a farmer and never takes the initiative to ask tourists to shop, she said, "You can't 'look at money with everything', you must leave a good impression on tourists." If you slaughter a guest once, the tourist will say yangshuo slaughtering the guest, which hurts the image of Yangshuo. ”

In this way, tourists are very satisfied with Xu Xiuzhen's service, full of help her publicity, Xu Xiuzhen's fame is getting bigger and bigger. A reporter discovered her story and put it in the newspaper. After the report, it aroused widespread concern. Many media outlets rushed to report on the rural woman's legendary experience, and Mother Moon also stepped out of the mountains for the first time.

The focus of everyone's attention is, how can a peasant woman who only has a third-grade primary school culture start learning foreign languages in her 60s and learn so well? Mother Moon smiled and said: "I learned foreign languages is the "stupid story", learn to forget, forget to learn again, and learn over and over again.

And what impresses tourists about Mother Moon is not only foreign languages, but also simple character. She loves Yangshuo and hopes to share the beauty of Yangshuo with tourists, she treats tourists as relatives and does not want tourists to consume. There was even a British tourist, led by Mother Moon, who wrote a confession on Mother Moon's notebook after the tour.

@ Pro July life for a hundred years, can not give up. At a time when many children complain that English is not easy to learn, the story of Mother Moon learning a foreign language at the age of 60 is really incredible. The memory of 60 years old is definitely declining, and Mother Moon has learned English by constant repetition with a lot of momentum. Later, he also learned German, French, and many other foreign languages, and achieved a sparkling life in his 60s. Her secret to learning is that there is no way back, only learning.

Even if there is a strong wind, life does not give up. Old age, low culture, and illiteracy cannot be the ones that trap us in our progress. Moon Mom, who is in her 70s, is still working hard! Come on!