@IndieDevHailey: A reply letter to an ex-girlfriend turned into a GitHub top project with 48.6k stars. In 2017, a friend asked him 'How to learn English efficiently', and he wrote a guide. Nine years later, this repository has 48.6k stars and 5.1k forks, becoming the most hardcore English learning open source project in the Chinese community.
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This story introduces a GitHub English learning guide repository created in 2017, which became popular due to a reply letter to an ex-girlfriend. It has since gained 48.6k stars and 5.1k forks, becoming the most hardcore English learning open source project in the Chinese community.
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🔥 A reply to an ex-girlfriend turned into a GitHub top project with 48.6k stars
In 2017, a friend asked him “How to learn English efficiently?”, and he wrote a guide.
9 years later, this repository has 48.6k stars and 5.1k forks, becoming the most hardcore English learning open-source project in the Chinese community. https://t.co/2kNG3evnRo
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