How Jack Ma Has Acquired English

How Jack Ma Has Acquired English

Everybody knows Jack Ma as a successful businessman. When he came to Bangkok, I noticed that his English is also very effective. His command of English is close to perfection. He must have been those Chinese who could speak English very well. We know that he is a native Chinese. But few people know how he has learned English, where and when. The story on how Jack ma has learned English should help inspire many English language learners who feel that it's too hard to acquire the language.

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"I don;t know why or how...but at about 12-13 years old. I suddenly fell in love with language.
It's English. And there's no place you could learn English in China at that time. There were no books...no English books. So I went to Hang Zhou Hotel. Now it's called Hang Zhou Shangrila Hotel.
That's was the hotel that could receive the foreign visitors. So, every morning, for nine years, I showed them around for free guide. And they taught me English."

On reflection, many of us are luckier nowadays. We have got plenty of books and media to learn the Language called English.

"And I think that's changed me. Today, I am I am 100% made in China. I have never got a one-day train outside China. Sometimes, people told me 'Jack, why you speak English like that? Sometimes, you talk like an American guy. How?"

"I think it's those 9 years. Those years I was taught by those foreign visitors. changed me.  Everything they told me was so different from the things I have learned from schools and from my parents"

"So, now I have a habit. Whenever I see or hear .... I use my mind to think about it for 2 minutes. "

Jack Ma is an example of a self-made man and self-taught person. If you want to be proficient in English, you need to create contexts where you have to speak and use the language in question. Do not blame you opportunities. They have to be made and created too.