Early in the morning, Zhao Anran and Su Fan made an appointment to go out to the classroom. In the past, they used to teach students, but now they have to adapt to being students themselves.

In the morning, the doctoral public class is "Advanced English Reading and Writing", which mainly focuses on sharing the experience and methods of reading English literature among doctoral students. The associate professor in charge of the class was more accommodating and let everyone talk freely. There are 21 Ph.D. students who take public classes together, and each of them has a different research direction, and through sharing and speaking, everyone basically knows what each other's main research is. Some PhD students are working, some PhDs are full-time, so some look like they're in their early 40s, and some look like they're in their 20s. This is a common course for doctoral classes, and no matter how different in age, experience, or major, you must listen to the same teacher in the same class.

Before the afternoon "Advanced English Listening and Speaking" class started, there were already doctoral students discussing, I heard that this course is the most stringent foreign teacher in the school, which is to improve the oral expression skills of doctoral students. Zhao Anran thought to himself, "That's just right, there are foreign teachers to help improve your speaking English, and it won't be so difficult to ask Dr. Rida about academic questions in the future." ”

However, the fact is that Zhao Anran was beaten by this foreign teacher to the fullest.

The foreign teacher stepped on the bell and entered the classroom, burly, with blond hair, a high nose, and a folder in his hand. “I'm Mario from Canada. I'll talk about some of my requirements before we go to the class.” (I'm Mario and I'm from Canada.) Before we start class, I'm going to talk about some of my requirements. ）

No speaking Chinese

No whispering

No smoking

No translation

No use of electronic devices

This foreign teacher has a serious expression on his face, which is not at all as casual as the foreign teacher in common sense, but is even stricter than the domestic teacher. He didn't let everyone speak Chinese because he couldn't understand a word of Chinese, and this reason was too strong. And he also complained that the list given to him by the school was in Chinese, which he couldn't understand at all, and asked each doctoral student to report his or her English name in class, and students without English names were forced by him to make up for the next class, because Chinese names were too difficult for him to pronounce. Half of the doctoral students do not have English names, and Zhao Anran is among them, in fact, she has an English name, and she is afraid of being ridiculed by foreign teachers, so she simply says no, because Mario said before that you should not use names such as food as English names.

For the whole two classes of 90 minutes, Zhao Anran's spirit was highly nervous, not only afraid of not understanding, but also afraid of being asked questions by foreign teachers, he also did not let other students help translate, and some students were already embarrassed for half a class because they couldn't answer the questions. After class, Zhao Anran felt a headache, she hadn't listened to two classes so tightly for a long time, and she only understood six or seven layers of the course content, and there were some important things that Su Fan told her after class, Su Fan's spoken language was much better than hers. This made Zhao Anran feel that he was simply too weak.

In the past, Zhao Anran's English scores have always been good, and she is often praised by teachers, and English classes are like a fish in water for her. However, the English classes taken by foreign teachers now make Zhao Anran feel a lot of pressure, but he didn't expect that the English he was once best at turned out to be a shortcoming in the doctoral study stage, Zhao Anran needs to find a language partner to practice speaking well, and he has to determine a decent English name for himself.

She checked a lot of information, and also referred to the names commonly used by Europeans and Americans, originally wanted to use the name of her favorite singer Avril, but felt that it was too public, and finally Zhao Anran chose a safer name for herself - Linda. As long as the English name is safe, don't be ridiculed by Mario.