¹When did you last say “I love you” to your father? If you can’t remember, then you should get the chance on the next Father’s Day, the third Sunday of June.

²Generally compared to a mother’s gentle love, a father means something like independence, confidence (信心), courage and adventure. Also, a caring father can help his children get along with others, according to a study on Live Science. Fathers not only help their children get into their social circle but also teach them how to act and control their feelings.

³For example, Bill Gates, one of the Microsoft founders, was quiet and didn’t like to talk with others when he was a little kid. So his father often held family parties and let Bill play games with family members. “Games like soccer and swimming seemed to be silly at that time but they improved my ability of communicating and getting along with others,” Gates once said in an interview with US Fortune magazine.

⁴US actor Will Smith learned important lessons from small things taught by his father. His father once planned to pull down a wall of their shop and rebuild it. But little Will thought it was impossible. After a year and a half, they did it. “You don’t try to build a wall. You are going to lay a brick (砖) every day. And soon you will have a wall,” he said on the TV show Charlie Rose (《查理·罗斯访谈录》).

⁵“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters,” British poet George Herbert (1593-1632) once said. Do you agree?

Kato Lomb was born at an exciting time. It was 1909 in Budapest, and the world that she grew up in was going to see great changes.

After getting her degree in physics, she looked for the job everywhere, but failed. She saw little hope of getting a job in the scientific fields. So she decided to teach English. She just had to learn it first. In her language learning Kato started reading cheap but exciting novels, carrying a dictionary with her all the time.

Her way of language learning made sense — if the story is exciting enough, it can keep you going past what you don’t understand. In the end, you can pick up what you need from the context*. The reading took her further than she could have imagined.

After the end of the Second World War, she began a long and successful career of interpretation* and translation. In fact she was one of the first professional simultaneous interpreters* in the world. Simultaneous interpretation is a job much more difficult than translation as all the work happens in real time. Not stopping at English, she learned French, Russian, Polish, Chinese, Japanese and quite a few other languages that she used to work as a translator.

Kato believed that interest was the most important part of language learning. Grammar could always come later if you were excited about learning and understanding new words in the language. No matter what language she was learning, she always believed she could complete the task and could keep studying her whole life.

Who is Li Ziqi? For 7 million YouTube viewers and 20 million Weibo users, it's easy to answer. The 29-year-old vlogger's videos about her country life recently went viral(走红). Her fans call her "the goddess of nature".

She is worthy of this title. Cooking, painting, designing, farming ... she practices and masters many kinds of skills. In her videos, Li wears hanfu that she made herself. She also rears silkworms in order to sew quilts. Li grows plants as well. She is often seen preparing meals with vegetables picked from her backyard. She eats a seasonal diet.

"She performs the work of a farmer with the grace (优雅) of a fairy (仙子)," the South China Morning Post said.

Li was raised by her grandparents in a small village in Sichuan province. When she was 14, she went to the city to work, but returned to the countryside in 2012 to take care of her sick grandmother.

To make a living, Li runs an online store. At first, she just used her videos to advertise her products. But the simple pleasures she presented(呈现) quickly won her many fans. "In such a tech-driven age, where everything comes so quickly, it's beautiful to watch such a slow process unfold (展现) without her getting stressed," one of her fans said online.

For her global audience, what is even more interesting is Li's deep knowledge of food, nature and Chinese culture. "I can see how good Chinese people are at cooking! I never thought of preserving (保存) meat like that!" one foreign fan wrote on YouTube.

As China Daily said, Li shows the world that Chinese people love good food and are good at making art out of the simplest materials. With her videos, she has spread Chinese culture to the world.