Chapter 310: Please Speak English
"Loser, how are you going to lose, how much are you going to lose?" Yang Meng asked puzzledly, "It's really rare to say the word loser from your mouth." β
Xiao Peng calculated: "Probably throw more than 10 million a year." I don't know how many years to throw it. β
Yang Meng frowned and thought for a moment: "What about the rate of return?"
"It's low. Xiao Peng took a deep puff of cigarette: "It may be infinitely close to zero, to be precise, it is a thing that benefits our descendants, the kind that does not ask for returns, but it takes a lot of energy." β
Yang Meng smiled: "Is that to learn from Lei Feng? do good deeds without leaving a name, the kind that is specially written in the diary?"
Xiao Peng glanced at him: "Get out." I'm getting down to business. β
Yang Meng said: "I said that you are stupid, what is money? Isn't it just used to make yourself happy? More than 10 million a year? Isn't that 2 million US dollars? Half of us are one and a half, no matter what you want to do, it will be my share." Hey, I don't know what you're going to do, but if it's really a good thing for future generations, maybe we can still have people erect a monument after we die, and that's it!"
Xiao Peng listened to Yang Meng's words and gave him a roll of his eyes, this is enough to say that people are mournfulγγγγγγ! Hey, don't say it, that makes sense. Thinking of this, Xiao Peng directly took out his satellite phone: "Huang He, there is something you want to do for meγγγγγγ β
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After the boat entered Tokyo Bay for a few hours, the speed of the ship suddenly decreased, Xiao Peng and the others were having lunch, this sudden stop made Xiao Peng puzzled, and asked on the walkie-talkie: "Captain Lu, why did the ship stop?"
Lu Guoqiang responded: "Just now, we contacted the port, and we have to wait for the tugboat and the pilot to board the ship." Their tugboat had just left the port and would soon be over. β
When large ships enter and leave the port, because the space is narrow, it is easy to collide, run aground and other accidents, and frequent reversing and starting considerable loss of the life of the ship's main engine, which is a great harm to the ship.
Before the 80s in our country, this port departure was still an important training subject in the captain's training, and a qualified captain needed to be able to skillfully carry out ship docking and departure, which required a considerable amount of training, especially in the army, which consumed a lot of training resources. I still remember the first time the Huaxia warship visited the Stars and Stripes Country, and when the Stars and Stripes Country came to Huaxia at the dock, they didn't send tugboats, only left a just right berth for the Huaxia warships to dock, waiting to see the Huaxia warships make a fool of themselves, but our captain was good and accurately parked the ship in the berth, and the officers of the Stars and Stripes countries were dumbfounded, so that they couldn't do it themselves!
Now Huaxia is in line with international standards, with tugboats assisting in adjusting the direction, and pilots from tugboats guiding the waterways of the port. For example, Xiao Peng's 'Yanhuang' has a total field of 180 meters! If such a large ship wants to enter the port, at least two tugboats can work together to complete it.
Before Xiao Peng finished eating, the tugboat of the Wa Kingdom had already arrived, and this speed was not said, thinking about it, if you don't come quickly, such a big ship will block the channel. How much delay would that have? The pilot on the tugboat also boarded the ship and guided the harbor's waterways in the captain's room.
Xiao Peng was also curious, and went to the captain's room to watch how the ship entered the port, not to mention, the Japanese side really paid enough attention to it, and sent a total of three tugboats out, one in front to tow, one in the back, and one on the side to adjust the direction of the ship. Xiao Peng saw the tugboat work for the first time, and he was full of interest.
The pilot sent by the dock is called Koji Sakazaki, and he speaks English γγγγγ He said five sentences, and it would be very good if Xiao Peng could understand one sentence! Because there are many words, and the pronunciation in Japanese English is completely different from English. There was a very famous joke in the United Nations, after the representative of the Japanese country spoke, the British representative was upset and said, "Can you speak in English?" The representative of the Japanese country was also stunned: "I am speaking in English!"
To give a simple example, we say that the computer is called "computer", which is called "Hong Kong BIU Da" in Japanese English, "dessert" for sweets, and "Di Satao" in Japanese English, and the pronunciation of best seller is even funnier - "Baisi Ta Sou", so the English of the Japanese country is unique in the world.
It is said that the country has a high school graduation rate of 95% and a bachelor's degree of 45%, but this level of spoken English is really unflattering.
This is because he can't pronounce the Japanese language lightly, and he can't pronounce any 't' and 'd'. He had to add vowels to the end of the words to pronounce them, well, a lot like Italian. There is no pressure for Japanese people to learn Italian or Spanish.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Japanese do not attach importance to English education. They themselves don't care about their conversational English skills. Even a little look down on people who are proficient in foreign languages. They have a strange logic that 'because that person is the same as the translator, they can't arrange important work'. Even if you can speak a foreign language, you will not get benefits such as increased wages or getting ahead earlier, and even in the country, there is a contemptuous name for English-speaking compatriots 'eigo-zukai', which is similar to the 'fake foreign devil' in Chinese.
To take one of the most typical examples, Chinese diplomats have studied foreign languages and can speak them fluently, while most of the Japanese diplomats have graduated from law majors, and there are very few who specialize in foreign languages. In the Wakoku, the job of a diplomat has always been considered to understand the political and social system of a foreign country and sign the jump. As a result, the Japanese people believe that legal knowledge is indispensable compared to foreign languages, and it doesn't matter if they are not good at foreign languages.
In fact, the Japanese education department actually attaches great importance to English, but in this country, there are far more people who can 'understand English' than 'can speak English'. The country with the highest proportion of foreign English teachers in the world is actually the Japanese country.
The reason why the English reading and writing ability is stronger than the English speaking ability is also related to the examination-oriented education. Similar to Huaxia, Waguo, who is also an East Asian country, is also an old driver who respects exam-oriented education. In order to enter a prestigious school, Japanese students have been in the cold for ten years, just to rewrite their lives for the last exam.
However, the English test-taking attributes of the college entrance examination in the Japanese country are better than those in China: the emphasis is on grammar, reading comprehension and translation, and the practical communication such as oral language is rarely touched. Most colleges don't even have this in their entrance exams. Therefore, in the Japanese country, spoken English has become a dispensable embellishment, and getting the test questions is the last word in English learning.
However, it is difficult to rely on the education for exams because of the poor English. You look at Huaxia, you were killed by the exam, but you can still hold back a good English, you look at the Chaoyang aunts, when they open their mouths, they are also 'crooked Kam spit Kyoto', in the final analysis, the Japanese people can't learn English well, or because they don't care!
So why not get distracted? because you don't need to!
There is a strong hermeticism in Japanese society. I really don't use English in general, and some people may say that Chinese people don't usually use English. YOU CAN'T BUY AN APPLE AND SAY, 'THIS APPLE IS GOOD, HO MUCH?' THAT'S NOT FASHION, THAT'S PRETENDING. However, in the field of scientific research and foreign trade, how can the Chinese people not learn English and not be left behind by globalization?
Quite simply, the Wa Kingdom had the best literal translators in the world, and since the Meiji Restoration, the most proficient thing in the Wa Kingdom has been to take the doctrine of borrowing and quickly translating advanced Western culture in batches. Words such as cadres, police, and legal persons that are frequently used in Chinese today are actually words taken from the Kingdom of Wa. It is no exaggeration to say that if all the words imported from the Wa Kingdom are removed from the Chinese language, almost no Chinese people can speak well now------ in modern Chinese, at least tens of thousands of words are from the Wa Kingdom, En, and the word imported is also from Japanese.
How powerful is the translation of the Japanese country? If you publish a scientific journal in the morning, you can find the Japanese version in the afternoon. The rate of studying abroad is also the lowest in developed countries. There are 22 Nobel laureates in physico-chemical biology, 20 of whom are locally produced, and most of them do not speak Englishγγγγγγ
Anyway, the Wa Kingdom is such a country, at the institutional level and scientific and technological products, it is an absolute take-it-or-leave-it, but at the cultural level, their sense of national superiority has never been reduced. This also explains why the Japanese people value English reading and despise spoken language, because the logic behind it is that through translation, I can understand and bring in other people's things. As for the spoken language, we don't have any need to communicate and integrate anymore.
In the final analysis, this is the result of the self-confident and autistic nature of the Japanese people!
Xiao Peng sighed, and simply repeated the genes of Koji Sakazaki, and mastered the Japanese language, otherwise if the Japanese people laughed and scolded themselves, they thought they were praising themselves!
Spit and complain, the work efficiency of the Japanese people is not to say, the three tugboats cooperate perfectly, and there is no superfluous action, and the ship is moored to the berth.
Xiao Peng arranged: "Uncle Lu, you have arranged the staff on duty on the ship, you can go out to play when you are free, pay attention to safety." β
Lu Guoqiang nodded and smiled: "Boss Xiao, I know what to do, you can rest assured if you hand over the boat to me." I'll arrange it in a while, and I'll go to the dock to make a docking record after the border inspection is done. β
Xiao Peng said: "Uncle Lu, it's good if you call me Xiao Xiao, this ship will be handed over to you, you and Shan Zhan will cooperate, you can discuss the small things yourself, if there is anything difficult to solve, call me." Parking fees and tugboat fees will be settled when I get back. β
After arranging the ship with Lu Guoqiang, Xiao Peng came to the deck, and Yang Meng and Bob walked out of the warehouse with two horses: "Where is Fat Cai?"
Xiao Peng said: "The phone has been contacted, Cai Fatzi is on the dock, and he has already rented a carriage to pick us up and go to the racecourse." Cai Junwei did not go with Xiao Peng, but took the plane to the Japanese Kingdom first, and contacted the Japanese Horse Association to arrange the reception. It's been waiting at the dock for a long time.
Yang Meng shouted at Shan Zhan: "Shan Zhan, put the lifting platform, we are going ashore!"
Shan Zhan stretched out his thumb and signaled that it was okay, and everyone led the horse to the electric lifting platform and prepared to go ashore. As soon as he walked on the lifting platform, Yang Meng whistled: "I love these crooked nuts so much, it's rare and weird, I haven't seen the world!"