Where there is a will, there is a way. Chef of Tsinghua University canteen scored 630 points in TOEFL.
Public trust. Com May 6, 2004
Public trust. Com, May 14, TOEFL score of 670, and Tsinghua Goofy Student's score of 600 is not easy. However, a migrant worker who cuts vegetables and sells rice for Tsinghua students three times a day broke out the first time he came to power.
According to the Beijing Daily, there are many talented people on campus in Tsinghua, but Zhang Liyong, the owner of the student canteen, is also known to many people, so this is a new thing. His hardships, his assiduousness and his tenacity touched the students in Tsinghua. On the BBS in Tsinghua, Shui Mu, it was the first time that a migrant worker was tenacious and eager to learn to make waves.
Zhang Liyong, 29, has been a migrant worker for 10 years, and now she is about to get a diploma in international trade from Peking University.
Start with the English instructions on the box.
Zhang Liyong, like thousands of children of farmers in Qian Qian, had a dream of "jumping out of the farm gate" in college. However, in the second year of high school, he looked at the leaking adobe house and his parents who worried about his and his sister's tuition all day. He made a little man's decision: to interrupt his studies and go out to work.
When he first walked out of a small mountain village in Chongyi County, a mountainous area in southern Jiangxi, his mother put a dozen high school textbooks in a clean canvas bag and said, "Brave, mom and dad, I'm sorry I didn't let you finish high school and get into college." Zhang Liyong said, "Don't be sad, I just temporarily postponed my dream of going to college."
He went south to Guangzhou, first settled in a bamboo art factory, and spent 12 hours on the assembly line every day. Soon, he entered a Sino-foreign joint venture toy factory, where all the toys were sold abroad. The order is in English, the words on the carton are in English, and the target size is also in English. If you don't know these foreign words, you can't determine the size, color and filling of the toy, let alone start.
Zhang Liyong took out a high school English textbook from his canvas bag, bought an English dictionary as an assistant, and compared the English on the packing box, popped out Chinese characters one by one. Every time he understands an English word, he is like drinking honey, and his interest and sense of accomplishment in English arises spontaneously.
In autumn, a group of foreign guests came to the factory, and the translators in blue suits skillfully joked with them and introduced them as they walked. Zhang Liyong didn't understand a word, but his eyes clearly showed envy. He has another design for his life.
Later, Zhang Liyong bought back English learning materials. The bitterness and tiredness of work and life, accompanied by English learning, has turned into a sweet stream in my hometown, flowing in the hearts of wanderers in a foreign land.
There is a special student in Tsinghua campus.
1On June 7th, 1996, Zhang Liyong, 2 1 year-old, came to Tsinghua University 15 as a vegetable cutter with the help of his uncle.
The first time he walked into the southwest gate of Tsinghua, he felt that the campus in Tsinghua was really big and the students in Tsinghua were really happy. He was so lucky. How proud and proud the children in the mountains are to be in Tsinghua's arms.
After walking around the Tsinghua campus, he realized a problem: the rich and the poor can't choose, and learning and being lazy depend on him. He made up his mind to be a studious young man and live up to Tsinghua.
Zhang Liyong began to teach himself by taking English that he was interested in as a breakthrough. But the difficulty of self-study was unexpected. With a meager monthly salary, he couldn't afford a teacher, so an old radio became his husband. He gets up at 4 o'clock every morning and has to stand in front of the vegetable pier and the window for eight or nine hours. At the end of the day, his back was sore and his legs were weak, and he was exhausted. He can't open his eyes without reading a few pages. How can this go on? Later, Xiao Zhang found that drinking hot water cured his drowsiness. Every time before reading a book, he pours a pot of boiling water and deliberately burns his tongue to make it hurt, so as to dispel sleepiness.
He studies until after midnight every night, and there is only one fluorescent lamp embedded in the ceiling in the dormitory. 10 The brothers in the same dormitory supported him in his studies and gradually got used to sleeping with the lights on. After a while, he moved out and rented a 5-square-meter bungalow. There is a motto "Never fail in the dictionary of young people" in front of the bed. The timetable for learning English is posted on the table. Get up in the morning to study 1 hour, take a lunch break for 40 minutes, and get off work at 7: 30 in the evening to study until one or two in the morning.
For eight years, he insisted on following the schedule every day. Playing cards, watching TV and other hobbies have given way to learning English. In the cold winter, there is no heating, and he is reading around the stove. On a hot summer day, mosquitoes buzzed, and he shook his fan and wrote. Later, a migrant worker was added to the public classroom of the teaching building. The first time I went to the classroom to read a book, I was afraid of being recognized by students. He went more often, and gradually integrated into the student community in Tsinghua.
After reading English textbooks and listening to English tapes for half a year, I feel good about myself, but I just can't open my mouth in front of people. In the evening, he came to the English corner of Tsinghua campus next to Wen Ting and leaned over to listen to others. A boy came over and greeted him in English. He snorted and smiled. It's not a dialogue at all, but words that jump out one by one. "That's right, I can understand. As long as you speak boldly, you will gradually master it. " The boy's encouragement prompted a bud to start speaking English.
Tsinghua, Peking University, English corner of the National People's Congress, since then there has been an extra migrant worker. For eight years, he insisted on going almost once a week. He greeted every familiar or unfamiliar China person and foreigner loudly and talked with them boldly. Words and sentences that were once rigid and even irrelevant flowed out of his mouth. Oral English and listening have also inadvertently changed from quantitative to qualitative.
He said, "Learning English has become a habit of mine, just like brushing my teeth. When brushing your teeth, open your mouth first, and then brush your teeth with toothbrush and toothpaste. You have to open your mouth to learn English. "
Beijing is his mobile English dictionary.
Many people have asked him the same question. How can he learn English so well? Zhang Liyong said that besides learning English strictly according to the English timetable and speaking English boldly, we should also know that Beijing is a mobile English dictionary and English is everywhere.
He remembers every billboard, every guide card, every hotel name and every subway station entrance as long as there is English. Even if he is soaking a bag of instant noodles, he can learn five words: salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate, dehydrated vegetables and seasoning packets. Drip wears away the stone. The British building was built here brick by brick.
When Zhang Liyong blurted out an English sentence while selling steamed bread, he began to attract the attention of Tsinghua students.
At noon that day, the students finished class late and the window was crowded with people. Some students can't wait to hand over the bowl: two steamed buns! Three! I want three! Zhang Liyong was dazzled by the cries and the shaking rice bowl. He blurted out, "Can you wait for a while? ? Can you wait a moment? " The voice was not loud, but clear and powerful, and the students froze. Superfine products, who sells steamed bread, can speak authentic English? The hand sticking into the window and the bowl retract. “Thanksforyoupatience？ Thank you for your patience? " Zhang Liyong added with a smile.
One day, two students discussed in front of the dinner window that there was bread in the English word. Why didn't they notice "steamed bread"? Yes, this is steamed bread. Zhang Liyong accepted us. Another time, two students were arguing whether bean can refer to peas. Zhang Liyong in the window said, "bean is the general term for beans, and pea is peas." Two students listened and nodded yes.
From then on, Zhang Liyong began to consciously sell rice in English at the window. There was always a long queue in front of the window, and even students who didn't like steamed bread were waiting in line, just to communicate with Zhang Liyong in English.
Soon, Zhang Liyong took the TOEFL test that year. The score is 630. Strangely, he didn't apply for studying abroad. It turns out that the exam is only to test the results of learning English. Tsinghua students were impressed. At that time, on the BBS in Tsinghua, Shui Mu, the topic about Zhang Liyong became a hot topic. Tsinghua students compared him to the sweeping monk of Shaolin Temple hidden in Eight Dragons: "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in Tsinghua. Shaolin has' sweeping monk', and we have' Shantou God' in Tsinghua, which is equally shocking. "
Some students left a message saying that to be such a "steamed bread god", it is better to make some contributions to the English Department of Tsinghua and be a temporary teaching assistant or something. Some people said that when Mr. Qi Baishi had no degree or diploma, Xu Beihong asked him to be a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. Tsinghua has always valued real talent and learning, and should give Master Zhang, who sells steamed bread in the canteen, a chance. ...
Zhang Liyong didn't become a teaching assistant in the English Department of Tsinghua, but many people asked him to be a teacher.
After a long talk with Zhang Liyong, two students who failed several times after entering Tsinghua were greatly touched. They respectfully called him Teacher Zhang, and his grades came up after he went back.
He is an English teacher of Grade Three students. While he was teaching the children, the parents' mahjong sounded outside the house. Zhang Liyong told his parents not to blame their children for not learning well, and advised them to put down mahjong and pick up English. Soon, the students' English scores in the class rose and they were admitted to key high schools. Parents who do business gradually use English when dealing with foreign businessmen.
Last summer vacation, Tsinghua University Catering Service Center held the first English training course for catering service personnel, and Zhang Liyong was hired as the only lecturer by the director of the center. At the beginning of school, most waiters who can't even speak a word of English can have a simple English conversation. A migrant worker drives more peers to learn.
By analogy, Zhang Liyong went to Peking University Institute of Adult Education to study international trade for three years and obtained a junior college diploma. Finance, trade, international commercial law, boring and difficult professional courses, he just chewed them off one by one, and the most difficult thing was calculus. He didn't even learn all the math in high school, but he also got it.
He also taught himself computer courses and widely read professional books related to news interview. In the second half of last year, Zhang Liyong began to write a book about how to learn English, tentatively entitled "Self-learning English-A Game for the Brave". Now, more than half of the manuscript has been completed, and several publishing houses have asked him to discuss publishing this book.
Before the Spring Festival this year, Zhang Liyong received an email from Australia. The name of the sender is Tim. He studied in Tsinghua a year ago and made friends with Zhang Liyong at the English corner. After returning to China, Tim never broke off contact with Zhang Liyong. In the letter, Tim wrote, "God of Steamed Bread", you are the greatest young man I know in China.
Zhang Liyong, who is handsome and handsome, said that his plan is to get a bachelor's degree in international trade from Peking University in a few months, realize his dream of being 10 years late, and then consider going abroad to broaden his horizons. In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, he believed that he would find a more suitable life stage. (Qi Haiyan)