But she said she never gave up.

但她表示自己绝对不会放弃。

'If I can fly I will fly, if I can't fly I will run, if I cannot run I will crawl,' she said.'No matter what you must move forward.'

“如果我能飞那我就飞，如果我不能飞那我就跑，如果我不能跑那我就爬。”李艳芝说，“无论如何我都会努力前进。”

In order to improve their lives, Ms Li does translation work as a freelancer on top of her regular teaching. Through this, she has earned enough to buy herself a new apartment.

为了提高收入，李艳芝在教学之余还兼职做翻译。靠翻译赚的钱，她买了一套新房子。

Apart from English, Ms Li has learned to speak more than 10 different languages, including French, Russian, German, Japanese and Polish.

除英语之外，李艳芝还会说十多门外语，包括法语、俄语、德语、日语和波兰语等。

She hopes that by memorising the 220,000 words from the dictionary, she can encourage students to learn English and increase their vocabulary.

李艳芝希望通过自己背诵字典上22万个单词的经历来鼓励学生们学英语、提高词汇量。

'Lecturer Li really is a living English-Chinese Dictionary,' says Zhang Xinjie, one of her students.

她的一位学生说：“李老师就是一本活的英汉词典。”

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