Zhou Xun (born October 18, 1976) is a Chinese actress and singer. She is regarded as one of the "Four Young Dan actresses" in China (四小花旦) in the early 2000s, along with Zhang Ziyi, Xu Jinglei and Zhao Wei.
Zhou Xun is an internationally acclaimed Chinese actress and singer. She caught international attention through her roles in Lou Ye's Suzhou River in 2000 and Dai Sijie's film adaption of the book of same name Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress in 2002. In 2003, she starred in the television remake of Jinyong's novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes as "Huang Rong" with actor Li Yapeng
I (Graeme, Ed of Kaixin with Xiaosui) am a mature age adult and I have never been good a learning a language.
I studied online for 5 years and I knew a LOT about how to speak Chinese.
BUT, I could not speak it!
Then I met a wonderful woman who is to be my wife.
She spoke little English so I had to stumble through my rudimentary Chinese.
She is very very patient and I was soon speaking with some fluency. It was still simple Chinese and I am sure many of the tones are wrong, but she can understand.
I then realized that if I had done that from the very beginning I would be fluent by now.
You can't learn a language by just studying it.
You have to use it from the very beginning.
So don't waste 5 years like I did, start with an online tutor from eteacher and you will soon be speaking your new language fluently.
Chinese Students, the same applies to you. You will not learn English UNLESS you use it.
Xiaosui's Books
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Xiaosui (Ed of Kaixin) grew up during the Cultural Revolution. These are personal stories about those times and of the wisdom she learned from her father, who taught her "how to face the life."