In the golden autumn of September, the heat gradually fades.

Gu Biao, who was dressed in a new suit, stood on the small square outside Chongwen Gate with a fellow girl, looking around.

The two of them each held a small flag in their hands, similar to the wild tour guides of those cottage tour groups in later generations.

Originally, as a boy, Gu Biao had to hold up a wooden sign that read "Foreign Affairs University".

He was tired after a long time, so he picked up the dead branches of a street tree, tied the wooden handle of the sign longer, and then inserted it directly into the turf of the flower bed.

As for whether the greenery is destroyed, no one cares these days.

That's right, his outfit today was grabbed by the teachers in the courtyard and sent to welcome the new students. Today is the registration day for the class of 78, and the train tickets are all sent to each student's hometown by postal service on the day set by the college, so there will be no delay on the road.

On the side of Chongwenmen Square, there is the exit of the Beijing Railway Station, and they set up their stalls here to ensure that every student who leaves the station can see it.

There was also a minibus parked next to them, which could seat about 20 people, and it was sent by the school to pick up people.

Because the hours of the trains entering Beijing are different in various places, it is impossible to wait for them, so they all leave when they are full of 20. Anyway, the school is located near Yuyuantan Park outside the West Second Ring Road, and it is only 5 kilometers away from Chongwenmen, so it is almost the same as 3 trips.

At this moment, it was already afternoon, Gu Biao was tired and hungry waiting, and he had already sent away two cars of juniors and sisters, just waiting for the last car to be full.

He didn't want to take on this boring errand, but who made him perform well in the class of '77, so he won the trust of most teachers in just a few months.

The girl next to him can be regarded as his old acquaintance, it is Ye Kun who was admitted with him a few months ago.

Her knowledge and oral language skills are also like a fish in water in the Foreign Affairs Academy, and she is born with an advantage over other hard-working children from poor places, so she is also a popular figure in the academy today.

Today, she also wears a foreign women's suit, as well as a lace-trimmed pink shirt and a royal blue tubule skirt.

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From March to September 78, in just a few months, Gu Biao has changed from a newcomer to a sophomore at the Foreign Affairs Academy.

And because they are the first batch after the resumption of school, there are no juniors or seniors on it.

This kind of strange growth speed that outsiders can't imagine is all due to the timing of the recruitment of the 77th class - their group of people were admitted before the winter college entrance examination and the Spring Festival. So their freshman year is destined to have only one semester, and they will skip directly to their sophomore year.

For people like Gu Biao who want to grow up quickly and obtain a legal tossing identity, this is certainly a very cool opportunity.

However, for most students who are really ready to study, this is another tragic challenge.

First of all, the most practical difficulty is how to complete something in one semester that could only be done in an academic year.

In the two years since the resumption of the college entrance examination, both teachers and students are very attentive and enthusiastic. Everyone cherishes the opportunity to read and teach. Students don't think about the heavy workload, and teachers don't think about whether they should be paid for overtime.

Originally, the country only had a single holiday, and the teachers and students of the 77th class did not even have a single holiday in order to rush the course progress in a hurry.

This also led to Gu's first semester (and first academic year) college life, which has little to describe and recall.

Attend classes, do questions, memorize words, and practice speaking with each other. That's basically all for the last six months of life – including the two months of summer vacation.

No one takes a vacation, no one goes home to visit relatives, and no one has the energy to secretly fall in love with a man and a woman.

Even so, the course that was supposed to take a whole year according to the original plan could not be completed.

In the end, the leadership of the college held a meeting to discuss it, and decided to move the two courses on diplomatic etiquette and Western culture and folklore that were originally in the freshman year to the sophomore year. After the freshmen of the class of '78 come in, they will be merged together.

At the same time, the military training for freshmen that should have been organized when they entered the school was also canceled and moved to the sophomore year for retraining.

In the only semester of their freshman year, the class of '77 devoted 100% of their energy to foreign language classes.

In this way, it is equivalent to spreading the course of 4 semesters into 3 semesters, and it is not so urgent.

Half a year of closed devil training has forced Gu Biao, an engineering student in his previous life, from the ordinary CET6 English level to the level of specialization eight-

After all, the reason why the average college student spends several years learning a foreign language is because foreign languages are not all they have, and only 20% of their energy is spent on foreign languages at most every semester.

If it is a six-month completely closed militarized management that only learns foreign languages and uses foreign languages in life, this kind of improvement is very terrifying. What's more, Gu Biao's body in this life is still a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, but he has an advantage in learning languages.

In addition to English, this semester, Gu Biao also laid the foundation of two other foreign languages. This brings us to the specific professional class he was assigned to.

The 77th class of students of the Foreign Affairs University has a total of 60 enrollment places nationwide, and after being admitted, they are divided into 4 classes, with a total of 15 students in each class of 9 men and 6 women, and the teaching system is small.

According to the professional establishment ten years ago, there should be a class corresponding to the future Asian Division, majoring in Japanese, Russian and Korean, as well as other Southeast Asian languages (not all courses, but in the future, they will be divided into small languages as electives)

Then the second class corresponds to the European Division, majoring in English, French, and German, and electing Southern European minor languages such as Italian/Greek.

Class 3 corresponds to the Americas Division, with the main subjects being English, Spanish and Portuguese. Spanish is spoken in most countries in Latin America, and Portuguese is spoken in Brazil.

The last four classes are the "Chinese as a Foreign Language Major" of Wanjin Oil, but this Chinese as a foreign language is completely different from the difficulty of Chinese as a foreign language in later foreign language universities. It is to choose a few mainstream languages, and to know how to express the essence of Chinese in a foreign language.

Of course, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not cultivate such talents for the sake of students translating "Dream of the Red Chamber" or Tang and Song poems into a beautiful foreign language.

However, students need to be able to accurately translate the ideas and anthologies of great leaders into foreign languages, and pay attention to national propaganda in foreign affairs activities and to other societies in their camp. In the years of the Sino-Soviet polemic, when everyone relied on verbal artillery to win over the younger brother, the cadres of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did many of these things.

And Gu Biao, because his grades were too good, was unfortunately assigned to this major in Chinese as a foreign language. The top is also bright, and he feels that talents are rare, so he is allowed to choose three major languages to attack.

So in these 6 months of devil training, in addition to struggling with English, Gu Biao also studied Japanese and German, which can be regarded as giving full play to the accumulation of being a time-traveler in his previous life-

Japanese is relatively easy for him to learn as a second foreign language, after all, there are so many Japanese comic dramas and JRPG games on PS4 in his previous life. And in the years when I was a programmer in Alipay, the company's benefits were really good, and many employees were organized to travel abroad. There is a more or less basic basis for common conversations.

It's just that he didn't spend the energy to memorize fifty tones, so Gu Biao is equivalent to being blind in this text, and he can only listen and speak, but can't read and write. After coming here, I finally made up for the basic grammar and spelling.

The third foreign language he originally wanted to learn Korean, that is, Korean, so as to save some effort. The reason is, of course, because I studied it when I was traveling and watched some Korean dramas. Unfortunately, the teacher sternly told him that Korean was not worthy of being counted as a big language, so he chose German among the only options given by the teacher.

In his previous life, as an engineering student in electrical engineering, because of the need to check literature, Gu Biao really knew the comparison of hundreds of English words and German words. Compared with Japanese, Gu's German level is just the opposite—he is a dumb German who can understand a few words in the literature, but can't speak a word.

In the choice of a third major in a foreign language, the teacher gave him two options: Russian or German. The reason for this requirement is also required by the nature of the work of the Department of Chinese as a Second Language.

In the polemics, the most important sources to be cited are the original works of Comrades Marne and Ulyanov. The writings of the sages such as Marne were originally written in German, which is also the source of attention for production. Comrade Ulyanov's stuff was, naturally, written in Russian.

Therefore, it will be very useful for Germany and Russia to choose a major in the future when the Soviets have betrayed the route in a diplomatic attack. You can quote scriptures at every turn.

Gu Biao is like a part of a great cause of social attention, which was taken half a year by a huge and temporarily irresistible external force, and he also built several skills.

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"Why hasn't it arrived at this point? Could it be that I received the wrong notice, I don't know if I am gathered here?"

Perhaps impatiently waiting, Ye Su wiped a handful of sweat and complained in a low voice.

As a girl, her physical strength is naturally weaker, and she is a child of a cadre, so she is not as good as Gu Biao in terms of hardship, and there are complaints.

"Wait a little longer, if you really can't do it, I'll pull this batch back to school first and ask Teacher Cai. Gu Biao comforted.

Just when Gu Biao was a little unhappy, a rush of footsteps came from behind, and Gu Biao turned around in surprise and saw a righteous face with a Chinese character...... Youth.

The reason why we say that young people are significantly older than later generations of college students. However, in the two years of '77 and '78, there were more than 20 people who went to college, and it is not surprising.

"Classmate, is this the report of the 78th freshman?" The boy, who was nearly 10 years older than Gu Biao, asked Gu Biao in a greeting tone of greeting seniors, which really made Gu Biao a little awkward.

"Yes, are you a freshman? Gu Biao didn't care about being entangled, he just wanted to pick up all the people and send them away quickly.

While watching, Gu Biao also complained: "We have been looking at the station for a long time, how did you come from the west?"

The junior bowed deeply and apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm a native of the capital, so I live in the west of the city, so I'd better go directly to the school." After the report, Mr. Cai said: Could it be that you have been waiting for me in Chongwenmen. I just pedaled my bike and flew over, I'm really sorry!"

"Hey, remember to talk about organizational discipline in the future. Nowadays, the communication is inconvenient, and the notice says that someone has picked up the Chongwenmen report, so you should come first, regardless of whether you are a native of the capital or not, if you have a problem, you can reflect it later. Gu Biao said a few words, and then gave up, "Yang Yi, okay, I'm registered, let's get on the bus - your bicycle is also on the top of the bus." ”

"Oh yes. I'll help you close the stall. Yang Yi is also very active and tries to do more to make up for it.