Videos of 77-year-old Xu Xiuzhen, who speaks different languages with foreigners while selling water, postcards and headdress flowers, have brought her fame (名声).
To support her family, Xu, who dropped out of junior school in the third grade, began to learn different languages(attract) more foreign customers.
Xu said she would convert (转变) words in any language into Chinese (character) based on their pronunciation and then memorize them. She would repeat the words in her head before going to bed and immediately waking up, which has given her fluency in basic conversations with foreigners, she said.
Over the past two decades, Xu (teach) herself 11 foreign languages, (include) English, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. In addition to making her (extreme) popular, her language ability has madeeasier for her to communicate with foreign tourists. As result, Xu has also become one of the (busy) tour guides in Yangshuo. Her fame draws a large crowd of tourists every day, especially foreign visitors, come to meet the multilingual guide out of admiration.
"More and more foreign tourists are coming to Yangshuo, and I hope they will feel at home here with my help." she said.
