Chapter 28: Rapid California Dialect
After breakfast, the students brought all their textbooks to the special English classroom. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info English classes must involve specific listening and speaking training, and they must be taught in special classrooms, not in large public classrooms.
As for those professional classes, there are special vocal music classrooms, large body rooms and rehearsal rooms.
Although the English class is not important, the class teacher told me that it is the first day of class, and everyone is very active and will definitely not skip class.
At the very least, you should meet the teacher first to see if he is strict or gentle, so that you can decide what to do in the future.
The first class may have to be called before class, and even more so.
Zhou Yi didn't care much about this course, but he didn't expect the class process to be quite interesting.
English classes in college, especially Yanying's English classes, are very different from high school English.
At least something more special to learn.
Originally, everyone thought that the English teacher would be a female teacher, but in fact, the male teacher, named William Lang, looked about 40 years old, with a little mixed-race characteristics. It is said that he grew up in the United States and can speak fluent American English with a California accent, which is a good fit to teach this subject.
When Mr. Lang introduced to everyone, he mentioned a few points in particular.
Yan Ying teaches English mainly to facilitate cultural exchanges between the East and the West, especially in the film industry. So, if you want to communicate, who exactly are you communicating with? Is it to communicate with the British? Of course not. The main thing is to communicate with the Americans, to communicate with Hollywood. In that case, even if you can speak fluently in Oxford, or London, it just sounds lofty, but it doesn't really mean much.
Yan Ying invited him to teach English, mainly because he grew up in Los Angeles and has a good Californian accent.
Mr. Lang also gave you an example very vividly, like Americans speak English, just like Beijingers speak Mandarin, and the pronunciation is very strong; And the British speak English, just like the southerners speak Mandarin, without any pronunciation. That's the difference.
And his California accent is very simple, without too much embellishment.
Historically, California has a Spanish-speaking influence and a more complex culture. It's like the word Los Angeles, which is Spanish in itself. There are indeed a lot of new immigrants to California: Hispanic, Asian, Euro-American, Eastern immigrants, so the accent consistency is better. Hollywood considers the market and respects the English accent more, so the California accent is more neutral, better than the northern accent, and more compact than the southern accent. However, Los Angeles is more Mexican and Hispanic, and the accent is a bit close to the black American accent. Of course, Mr. Lang mainly teaches American English with a Californian accent.
If you can practice some listening and speaking, and master some basic tones, Mr. Lang's English class is very successful.
He mainly teaches everyone to speak, Yan Ying's group of students don't need to write in English, they don't need to be as formal as other colleges and universities, and there are no grade exams, as long as they can communicate a few words casually, the accent is corrected, as for grammar and French, they have all been learned in high school, and they don't need to learn it again.
No matter how advanced you are, it doesn't make much sense, and formalism is the most important.
Of course, it is not so easy to learn only this tone.
As soon as the class started, the class was lively and very happy.
Everyone is learning to act, and they dare to speak, even if they don't speak well, they dare to say it, and they won't be embarrassed, so those Dongying dialects, Thai dialects, Yanjing dialects, Northeast dialects, Southern dialects, Taiwanese dialects, all kinds of dialects have popped up, but there is no standard California accent.
Everyone's tone is not standard, even very thunderous, although they are quite able to speak, and dare to speak, this is an advantage, but what everyone says, no one can fully understand, and they can't understand each other's communication, as if they are talking in a dream.
Zhou Yi is not much better, he was not a master of English in his previous life, he has not lived in Britain and the United States in this life, and he has not received professional training in this area. Neither the Skull Party nor the military commanders helped him strengthen his English. Does it make sense for the Skull Party to teach him English? The military commander didn't even want to send him out as a spy. Dressed in yellow skin, at first glance East Asian, even if you can speak 20 American accents, what's the use?
In this regard, Zhou Yi is also a layman.
During the class, he noticed that Mr. Lang's forehead was sweating, as if his muscles were jumping.
It is estimated that Mr. Lang William feels that there is a long way to go!
These students are not good in cultural classes, even if there are two champions, but one counts as one, learning the California dialect, it is really difficult, so they can only teach reluctantly. However, Mr. Lang still started from the perspective of performance and told everyone about the meaning of tone imitation. He told everyone that in the future, when you take language classes and practice your lines, you will often imitate the accents and tones of some well-known predecessors, which is a strong ability to perform lines. There are also such actors in Hollywood, USA, who can imitate a variety of dialect accents from all over the United States, which is really powerful.
Listening to what Mr. Lang said, the students felt that it made sense, and they listened more attentively in class.
In particular, Mr. Lang's class is humorous and not boring, and he grew up in the United States, has a Chinese background, and has studied both Chinese and Western, so he is indeed very knowledgeable and insightful, and some of the things he talks about are very popular with everyone, and the students are very interested.
Especially Zhou Yi relies on a cheating brain, is very good at learning, makes rapid progress, and is getting better and better at the California dialect.
Even Mr. Lang William was surprised, feeling that Zhou Yi was worthy of being the top student in the college entrance examination and was indeed a true scholar.
Learn everything so fast!
Tang Yan is very envious, it would be nice if she could be as smart as her brother, she doesn't know when she will be able to pull it over with her Yanjing accent!
However, Shui Yuexun and Ah Fu were even more depressed, in their opinion, it was impossible to change the Dongying dialect and Thai dialect that sounded hard, and it was estimated that no matter how much they practiced, it would be useless. Shui Yuexuan muttered to herself: The teacher won't let me fail!
Of course, the teacher will not let her fail, and the exam is very lenient.
William Lang bluntly told the class that the exam will definitely not be sad, and it will not embarrass everyone, this is not a professional class for actors, why do you make up the exam back and forth? Besides, the country doesn't care about English in the first place, it is not mandatory to learn, this is a communicative language, you will be good, you will not be nothing, you can use it in the future, please translate, otherwise where will those translators find jobs?
Are the students of Yenching Foreign Chinese College all unemployed?
The classmates laughed.
If the exam is really that lenient, of course it would be great.
Even the problem of stilt class, Mr. Lang William has talked about it, he is very frank, saying that many students used to take stilt class and felt that English was useless, he can fully understand, and will not let you pass because you stilt class. Some college teachers are very bad, you don't attend his class once, you don't have a roll call, or you don't do your homework, you can't answer questions, he doesn't care what your test score is, he just doesn't let you pass, I don't know what kind of mentality it is.
Teacher Lang William said that he is not that kind of person, as long as you promise to pass, there is no problem in stilt class.
This is very popular with students, and you can take classes, of course.
Of course, if you don't know at all, don't go to class, and finally fail the exam, you can't pass the interview, and Mr. Lang can't do it, he is very professional and will not cheat on the exam.
The students are happy, no matter how bad the cultural class is, it will not be nothing!
During the college entrance examination, their mathematics and science are not good at all, and it is difficult to get high scores, and it is impossible to get high scores in subjects like Chinese language, so they expect English to pull up some points! And English is relatively easy to learn.
If you think about it this way, how can they not know English, on the contrary, they have a relatively good level of English!
At least the students feel that it is no problem to pass the English test.
In the first class, the teacher was so caring and understanding, and many students were happy to death, shouting long live the teacher.
However, William Lang said that if you skip class and fail the exam, don't come to the teacher to intercede, knowing that your classmates have money, but it's useless to give any gifts. He does not accept gifts, and asks his classmates to respect themselves in advance. This is the ugly thing to say in front. Especially female classmates, it's useless to send a photo album, there have been girls who have sent it before, but he said that he has a wife, and he is not interested at all.
If it's even more excessive, don't do it, the teacher is really afraid that something will happen.
The classmates burst into laughter: Teacher Lang is too funny, how can there be such a thing!
Many girls were speechless, blushing, and rolled their eyes helplessly: The teacher is really disrespectful to the old.
In fact, people are not old! It's just that I came back from the United States, and I speak casually, but I behave very rigorously.
Do you think Yan Ying will lure wolves into the house?
At this time, Shui Yuexun couldn't help but bang her head on the table: Not allowed to send a photo album? Isn't my "Cute Girl Photo" completely useless? Let me go, can I pass the test in my Dongying English? You're giving me a good idea!
How does the teacher know? He didn't take the test.
It's really not good, Mizuzuki Xun plans to ask Sister Kahoko to help the teacher organize a three-day tour of the Dongying Hot Spring Pavilion, and find a few geisha from the Yamada Group to play with him, can't he take it down? The little girl will engage in crooked ways, and she will learn badly.
Fortunately, Teacher Lang didn't know that there was a gang member mixed in the class, and he actually had this kind of thought, otherwise he would definitely be really drunk.
He's really not that kind of person.
And Mr. Lang William also said: If your English level is good enough, you can have a fluent conversation with the teacher, pass the teacher's interview, and it doesn't matter if you take the exam every time, no matter whether you take the exam or not, what kind of test you get, the teacher will let you pass, this is no problem. Even if you miss the exam, you have a 60-point guarantee. Of course, if you don't take the exam, it is impossible to get a high score, and if you pass the interview, you are only guaranteed to pass.
This is a special treatment for top students in the acting department who often have to film.
Zhou Yi is very satisfied, try to pass the test as soon as possible!
If you can save a class time, you can save a class, which is a good thing.
The main energy must be spent on professional classes.
Zhou Yi felt that he could quickly master the Californian accent, win the favor of the teacher, and get the exemption treatment. With a cheating brain, it's like learning Jiuyang Shengong in a martial arts novel, and practicing any martial arts is very fast.
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