ithinkhardworkismoreimportantthanthetalent,butthetalentisveryusefultoo.learningaforeignlanguageespeciallytheonethatisverydifferentfromyournativelanguageisverydifficult,nomatterhowcleveryouare.nohardwork,noprogress.

　　here,iintroduceachinesegeniustoyou,he'sGuHongming,whowasfamiliarwithFrench,Italian,AncientGreek,Latin,JapaneseandMalay,aswellasChinese,EnglishandGermanwhenhewas25yearsold.nothingbuthardworkwhichislearningbooksbyheart.

　　whenhewas11,helearned"Faust"byheart,andthenallShakespeare'sworks.sosufferingbuthemadeit.

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