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Recently, a woman called Auntie Xie in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, has become popular on the Internet because she used fluent(流利的) English with foreign customers.
Auntie Xie sells at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant panda Breeding. There cute pandas have attracted lots of from all over the world since many years ago, driving the vendor(小贩) business. Auntie Xie felt that this was a good : If I could talk with foreign tourists, my fruit would probably sell out quickly. she began to learn English and tried to communicate with foreign tourists in English!
Later, she found that it worked, because she was able to communicate with foreign tourists well. She her apples and bananas in a minute or two, and even foreign tourists praised her for speaking English so well.
Maybe you are surprised Auntie Xe can communicate with foreign tourists fluently? You could hardly think about how much effort she has put into making her fluent English so that foreign tourists can it faster. Many people in their forties and fifties have a memory that is not as as that when they were young. So it often takes a longtime to read a word or a sentence well. What's more, their patience is not as good as before, and don't have much time to learn at all because of the family and the rush of life. But all of those didn't stop Auntie Xie. She never gives up practicing English and using it in her life.
