Xinhuanet Beijing, June 14th Australian guy David Gulasi has been a foreign teacher in China for nearly 7 years. He often posts funny English videos made by himself on Weibo, helping netizens learn English through laughter. He is very popular and has become an internet celebrity himself. Recently, in an interview with Xinhua News Agency, Gulasi expressed his love for China, saying that he realized his life value in China and he was willing to be a "happy fruit" for the people of China.
Gulasi worked in an IT company in Sydney before coming to China, and occasionally performed outdoor comedy talk shows at the Sydney Comedy Club. He came to Hohhot, Inner Mongolia to teach English in 2010, when he only planned to stay for three months. Unexpectedly, after living here for a period of time, he became more and more fond of it, learned some dialects and integrated into local life. Later, he opened his own English training institution in Hohhot.
33-year-old Gulasi never thought that she would become an internet sensation in China. He said that although his Weibo was taught to register by a friend in China a few years ago, what really made him angry was the video released in Weibo in January this year, which told him how to teach students how to use the English word "Play" and teach netizens to understand the usage of this word with vivid expressions.
Gulasi said, "I only had 50 followers the night the video was released, and by the next morning there were 120,000 followers. Later, I recorded some videos, which were also very popular with netizens. All this came too suddenly, and everyone said they liked my facial expression. "
Since the video became a popular video, Gulasi often made videos based on anecdotes in class, experiences in life, current hot topics and differences between Chinese and western cultures, and told stories with rich facial expressions and vivid body language in the form of interspersed Chinese and English. Gulasi has also gained a lot of fans. At present, his Weibo has more than 730,000 followers, and most of his videos have thousands of likes, with a lot of comments and reposts.
Recently, he uploaded a video, angrily denouncing some foreigners in China, saying that they live easily in China, earn money from Chinese and have girlfriends in China, but complaining about all kinds of bad things in China. Gulasi is angry at these impolite behaviors, and hopes that foreigners in China will have a correct attitude and be grateful for what they have here. He also took the earth-shaking changes in Shenzhen for more than 30 years as an example to show that the achievements of China’s rapid development are few in the world. This video has made him famous, and it has become the second most popular video in his personal Weibo, with more than 50,000 likes and more than 7,000 comments.
Gulasi has now settled in Hohhot, married a Mongolian girl and had a beautiful daughter. He is grateful for everything he has in China. One of the videos tells five reasons why foreigners like China. After comparing with Australia, Gulasi praised the high efficiency of online shopping, express delivery, banks and hospitals in China, and finally emphasized the delicious food in various places in China.
Gulasi said, "I’ve been trying different ways to make people laugh. I have this gene. I have been trying to teach students to learn English in an entertaining way, because the education method in China is too serious. " His teaching method is very popular with students. He likes to communicate with students and pays attention to interesting topics.
Gulasi told reporters that he likes teaching English to Chinese very much and would like to be a "pistachio" for Chinese. He said that Hohhot has helped him too much and realized his life value here. Teaching English here is not only a job, but also his passion. (Xinhua News Agency reporters Jaco and Gregory Dimopoulos from Sydney, edited by Du Jian, reported by Xinhua International Client)