History
"Crazy English" originated when Li Yang was concerned about passing the College English Test level 4, a Chinese standardized test on English for college students. During his studies he found that reading his assigned English work out loud was very effective for him. When he finally took the CET 4 he earned the second highest score in his department. Soon after an excellent performance on the exam, he gave a lecture on his method of learning English. Li Yang graduated from Lanzhou University in 1990. After graduation, he continued to practice English using this method, often standing on top of the office building where he worked and shouting English. He did not start promoting his method on a large scale until 1994 when he founded Li Yang Cliz English Promotion Studio. Since then, his method has become very popular; it currently has approximately 20 million practitioners, including several foreign teachers who work intermittently with the camps.
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