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Speaking of Li Yang, the new generation of young people may not know. In the era when Li Yang's crazy English was the hottest, how many students did not read his speech?
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Born in 1969 in Benniu Town, Xinbei District, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Li Yang was born in Shanxi. Yu Boya, Zhong Ziqi and Chen Yuanyuan are all from the area.
After graduating from middle school in the 1960s, his parents responded to the party's call to volunteer to support border construction.
At that time, the Xinjiang region was in dire need of support
Li Yang was not born a genius in English.
When he was a child, Li Yang was just an ordinary child, he was shy, introverted, did not dare to see strangers, did not dare to contact the phone, did not dare to go to the movie, and even did physiotherapy when the instrument leaked and burned his face and did not dare to make a sound... . .
In 1986, Li Yang was admitted to the Department of Engineering Mechanics of Lanzhou University in the Great Northwest. After entering the university, Li Yang was unremarkable, Li Yang was once the first to last place in the whole year, and he failed the English exam for two consecutive semesters, which was a veritable scum.
At the end of the second semester of the university, Li Yang had hung up 13 subjects, and it was difficult to mix a graduation certificate now!
At that time, I was very confused and always looking for a breakthrough in life. He chose English as a breakthrough and vowed to pass the English Level 4 exam held four months later.
Get rid of the introverted personality, full of self-confidence Li Yang
In order to completely change the embarrassment of failed English learning, Li Yang began to fight hard, he abandoned the tradition of focusing on grammar training and reading training, took a different path, broke through from speaking, and originally turned the test questions into catchy sentences, and then blurted out.
After four months of hard work, Li Yang won the second place in the 1988 University English Level 4 Examination.
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Next to the "Lan Da" martyrs' pavilion blowing a cold wind, Li Yang and his companions wore dark green military coats, dragged large leather shoes, stood against the drifting snow, waved their arms, and pulled up their throats to shout English.
They decided to shout at least 2 hours a day, lasting two seasons, autumn and winter. Within three days, he had begun to retreat. If he hadn't made an agreement with his companions, I'm afraid he wouldn't have been able to hold on to it himself.
Li Yang, dressed in a military coat, reads English scenes at Lanta
The small test of the cattle knife first saw results, only 10 days, someone said to him: "Hey, Li Yang, your English sounds much better." The recognition of others made Li Yang confident in his self-created learning methods, and he began to believe that the method that was regarded as "crazy" by others was a shortcut.
For 4 months, he carried notes and sticky notes of various English sentences with him, and whenever he had time, he practiced pronunciation with them, and in his words, trained his mouth into an "international muscle".
In order to train his listening, he and his classmates were 60 meters apart from the simulated simultaneous translation, and he repeated nearly 10 original English books of various types in 4 months, and the level 6 exam questions were even more proficient in blurting out.
His tongue was no longer stiff, his ears were no longer out of order, and he realized from constantly "moving his mouth" that he was going through the most primitive process of learning his native language. As a language, if you don't speak English, how can it be called a language?
Train your mouth into an "international muscle"
After the grade 6 exam results came down, he won the second place in the school, and then participated in the school-wide speech competition and won the championship.
"Lan Da" was shaken by this, and Li Yang, who always failed the exam, suddenly became a master of English. Teachers and students rushed to tell each other, and the school also specially awarded an award, so that Li Yang really showed his face.
Don't look at him now, his mouth is hanging, sharp teeth, When he was a child, Li Yang was extremely introverted, and when he went to college, Li Yang felt more and more that introversion was his great enemy. In order to defeat this old enemy, he once again "went berserk".
He began to change his style, the earliest prototype of "Kill Matt", growing long hair, wearing earrings, and waving around in the streets of Lanzhou. Passers-by all looked sideways, and Li Yang was once again regarded as a madman by others.
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In July 1990, Li Yang graduated from Lanzhou University and was assigned to the Northwest Electronic Equipment Research Institute in Xi'an (which is a powerful research institute that studies some tall weapons and equipment).
From the dormitory to the office, there is a stretch of loess road, Li Yang passes through this road every day, holding a card in his hand, reading English in his mouth, at first he was lonely, everyone called him "crazy", and slowly there were 1, 2, 3 behind him、......
At the same time, Li Yang insisted on running to the roof of the ninth floor of the unit every day to shout English, lying down and shouting, kneeling and shouting, jumping and shouting, shouting English in the winter while the snow was flying; in the summer, bare-chested, wearing shorts, shouting English to the sunrise.
In this way, after insisting on blurting out 40 sentences every day before the sun came out and shouting for a year and a half, Li Yang's life principle once again came to a new turning point.
A middle school in Jinjiang, Fujian Province, follows Li Yang to learn English
In 1992, Guangdong Province set up the country's first provincial-level 24-hour all-English radio station, and Li Yang was eager to try it. He called the director directly, and when the director was not there, he left a message on the phone in English to indicate his wishes.
As soon as the director came back, the director's secretary said, "Director, there is an American calling you." The director listened to the message, hey, this young man speaks American English is really authentic. So he came to Guangzhou from Xi'an.
In the following years in Guangzhou, he earned a nickname: "Universal Translator", once set a record of 400 US dollars per hour of interpreting and 8,000 Hong Kong dollars per minute advertising dubbing, surpassing his Hong Kong counterparts, becoming the most expensive translator in Guangzhou, and he was also the only foreign language advertising dubber on Hong Kong television, Chinese. He does have crazy capital, which is still worth learning.
Li Yang, who was once incomparably brilliant, and his crazy English
Consider that there are more than 300 million people in China who are distressed by "deaf and dumb English", and in order to promote his successful experience in English to more people, he has "gone crazy". In 1994, Li Yang quit his radio job to form an international English promotion studio and began an ascetic "preaching" career.
In Shenzhen, the small lecture hall was crowded with more than 1,000 people, and the auditorium across the street was also full of people, causing serious traffic congestion, and the local newspaper commented: In addition to buying stocks, Shenzhen has not seen such a hot scene.
In Guangxi, 30,000 people braved the rain to listen to his speech at the Baise Sports Square, which was a red flag exhibition and a sea of people!
In the countryside, township cadres gathered English teachers from within a few miles to listen to his experience in learning English.
He even went to military barracks and prisons to give speeches, and the extent of the madness was evident.
The spectacular scene brought by Crazy English is shocking to watch
He plans to train 1,000 English teachers across the country and open a chain of stores. In addition to facing the domestic market, Li Yang also launched the "Crazy Chinese", earning money from foreigners and being very economically minded. Li Yang said: "Why only Chinese to take the TOEFL, foreigners want to come to China to invest, first learn Chinese." ”
Crazy English promotion that can conquer the whole world
Li Yang has a slogan: Let the three hundred million Chinese speak fluent English.
So, he will face the English market of 300 million Chinese, can he appear as a successful person again like a speaking teacher and a speech expert? We don't know.
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On September 5, 2011, Li Jin (wife Kim Chinese name) exposed Li Yang's domestic violence against her on Weibo, and the evidence she released was shocking, a real Li Yang, so terrible.
After being questioned by a strong burst of online public opinion, Li Yang publicly apologized and promised not to commit domestic violence again, and the couple seemed to be reconciled.
Li Yang and his former wife Kim
In 2013, Li Yang and Li Jin (wife Kim Chinese name) officially divorced. In 2019, Li Jin sent a family portrait saying that he forgave her husband Li Yang, and everyone thought they had remarried, but both of them denied the news of remarriage.
多年前，李阳曾公开宣称，这场跨国婚姻不过是一种“家庭教育实验”，三个女儿都是中美文化教育的“实验品”。 Is such a cold and crazy statement true?
His wife's anti-domestic violence joint letter gave Li Yang a resounding slap
No one expected that the story of the divorced couple would have a sequel a few years later, which confirmed the saying that domestic violence was only zero times and countless times.
On August 29, 2021, Li Jin (wife Kim Chinese name) sent out another shocking news, saying that Li Yang had remarried and had a new child, but he abused Li Jinsheng's daughter Li Hua. In a sneaky video she sent, there were suspected Li Yang's roars and beating sounds, as well as the girl's screams.
Kim said Li Yang not only beat his daughter, but also threatened the children with members of Crazy English to tell their mothers about domestic violence, and even called domestic violence "Chinese culture". We do not recognize this cultural issue.
A famous quote from Li Yang: pain past is pleasure (the pain of gritting your teeth is happiness). Ask if you've been in pain or have you been happy?