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Although school is about to start, after the award is over, Yang Guo still stayed in the capital for a week. Among them, there is a reason to participate in Lu Yu's interview program, which was recorded in Shijingshan District, Beijing, and he also needs to strengthen his contact with the education department and professors who are good friends with several universities in Beijing.

There is no need to elaborate on the talk show, after all, it is only Yang Guo's previous experience.

However, the communication between the capital and the education department is more interesting, under the promotion of the state apparatus, Tanzania, Congo and China have established educational cooperation, which is not an exchange of interests Yang Guo does not know, but the speed is very fast, only a few months have passed, and several distance education service points have been established in the Congo.

This is what Yang Guo mentioned at the beginning, according to the local environment and actual situation, a small service station like a highway service area should be established near the gathering area of poor villages, which not only provides free distance education enlightenment services, but also invites medical teams sent by the state and other NGO organizations to be stationed in them.

Security is a major issue, but after intervening with the United Nations and the Congolese Government, the peacekeepers and the Government's military will also assume responsibility for protecting the safety of civilians.

In the next year or two, these similar service points will gradually spread throughout the Congo. It can be very effective in terms of education, medical assistance, and the Congolese government's own efforts to stabilize the situation in the country.

In fact, not only Congo, according to Yang Guo's understanding, Sudan, Cameroon, Kenya, Guinea, Angola, Nigeria, Ethiopia, etc., starting this year, the country is ready to carry out education cooperation with each other. This can be seen from the path of the foreign minister's visit to Africa last month.

Of course, Yang Guo didn't know much about politics at the political level, and he didn't think about anything deeply, after all, Yang Guo was not a diplomat or a government official, so there was no need to worry about it.

Yang Guo was happy for the black brother Mukaru. After the winter vacation, Mukalu flew back to Tanzania with the Chinese support team, and then has been busy between Tanzania and Congo, he plays a bridge role, but Mukalu still does his best to run for the people of his hometown.

After talking to Mukalu through online video, Mukalu regarded Yang Guo as a great benefactor of the Bodhisattva's heart. In order to be grateful to Mukalu, Yang Guo also promised to record a complete Chinese language learning course for Mukalu, who he likes Chinese culture more, using his new theories, but teaching in the local language.

Fortunately, in the past few months since last year, Yang Guo has learned several languages on the African continent, such as Swahili, Lingala, and Hausa. These languages are the most commonly used languages on the African continent, and basically these languages, as well as French, English, and Arabic, can be accessed in various cities in Africa

Of course, with the meager background of Dongshan University, the learning materials of these unpopular languages cannot be found at all. Fortunately, Yang Guo has a very good relationship with the professors of Chinese University outside the capital, and asked them for some, plus some training materials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is enough for Yang Guo to study

In fact, when language learning reaches the level of Yang Guo, it is basically not as painful as when others learn it, after all, the language is basically the same, such as Hausa, which belongs to the Semitic language family and is more similar to Arabic.

Both Lingala and Swahili belong to the Bantu language family, and although there are certainly some differences, once you learn one of them, the other becomes very simple, a bit like learning Sichuan and then learning Cantonese, just walking between different dialects.

Besides, you must know that these small African countries will not have as long a history as China, and naturally their language will not reach any of the vocabulary, and their own inventions only occupy a small part, most of which are occupied by foreign words such as French and English.

In this way, for Yang Guo, the cost of learning is further reduced.

In addition to these omnivorous stays in the capital, Yang Guo mainly wants to celebrate Fang Beibei's birthday in the capital by the way. In the selection of birthday gifts, Yang Guo certainly wouldn't stupidly give Fang Bei Pedang a gift with the trophies that touched the top ten Chinese figures, and that wasn't an NBA championship ring, right

For this gift, Yang Guo has been preparing since the beginning of the year, what exactly was sent, this is a little sweetness between the two people, so I won't say it to make everyone envious and jealous.

However, on the last night in the capital, just as Yang Guo was about to go home, Yang Guo received a call from Professor Mills of the United States. Yang Guo still respects this mentor on the road of his speech, puts down the clothes in his hand, and leaves it to Fang Beibei and Qiqi, who is mischievous, to toss, Yang Guo went to the corridor of the hotel to answer the phone.

In fact, Professor Mills didn't have something to do with Yang Guo by himself, he was just entrusted by someone to send an invitation to Yang Guo.

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The greatest friendship between Yang Guo and Professor Mills stems from the speech, and also develops because of the speech, and Professor Mills once said on the plane that Mr. Anderson, the founder of TED, is his good friend.

Professor Mills was entrusted with the invitation of Mr. Anderson, who invited Yang Guo to attend this year's TED conference.

TED doesn't need to go into too much detail, after all, in recent years, a lot of content in the education channels of several video websites, or open class channels, has been filled with TED's speech videos, and Chinese people no longer know about it as ignorant as they did in previous years.

But many people don't know that although TED videos are updated from time to time, the most wonderful talk videos must be from the TED conference every March, from speakers, thinkers or leaders from all walks of life.

Yang Guo likes to watch TED's speech videos, not only because he needs to learn to speak, but also because there are many very interesting and even valuable ideas in them

Yang Guo was still a little surprised by Mr. Anderson's invitation, but Professor Mills explained a little, and Yang Guo also understood why the other party invited him.

"You are the initiator of the future of education, the model of distance education is really amazing, although we are very much advocating face-to-face exchange education, but there is no doubt that your education model is indeed so that some poor and backward countries can enjoy the gospel of education." Professor Mills said to Yang Guo.

Of course, he knew about Yang Guo's distance education, and Yang Guo had talked about the content of his speech when he was consulting him before. The video of Yang Guo's speech at school has also been translated abroad by some international students, and has attracted a lot of attention. Perhaps Mr. Anderson also learned about himself from Professor Mills.

But Yang Guo didn't know that the title of the initiator of future education was not Professor Mills's reputation, but the general honorific title for Yang Guo in the academic circles of the United States.

"Come on Leon, TED needs your wonderful ideas, let's change the world with ideas together," Professor Mills advised.

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