Chapter 906 Communication
"Your uncle is amazing. Tongtong, you should learn more from him, you know?" The woman has exquisite makeup and a graceful figure. She is wearing a vest-style top that is very rare in the mainland today. The "Hepburn skirt" and the white high-heeled sandals on her feet made her taller than Zhou Zhi, which was incompatible with the environment of the entire factory dormitory. Zhou Zhi even felt that her arrival had brightened up the old and small community a lot.
"Cousin Jianhua." Zhou Zhi greeted the woman: "You should prepare a pair of flat shoes in the car. It is not safe to wear high heels while driving."
"You brat, you criticize me when we first meet. Me, this is a note Where is the revenge?" The woman laughed and said, "You used to pull my ears and cry when I was a child!"
"I'm so sorry!" The third aunt laughed and scolded: "You were so old back then, and you still bullied your younger brother. ”
"Mom, you are partial!" The third aunt refused: "You gave me all my biscuits! You ate them all and didn't leave any for me! Those were all saved by the eldest and second brothers for me!"
< br>"Your uncle and his brother came all the way to see you, why don't they treat you as a piece of biscuit?" The third aunt continued to lecture.
"Look at it... I'm still partial to it now! Isn't that right?"
"Tongtong, do you have any biscuits for your uncle?" Zhou Zhi ignored her cousin. , in turn amusing Tongtong.
"I have jelly." Tongtong began to look through his schoolbag: "I didn't bring the biscuits, I will bring them to my uncle tomorrow!"
"Hahahaha..." Zhou Zhi was extremely happy: "Sister, Tongtong voted with his jelly."
Cousin Jianhua also laughed, reached out and played with Tongtong's head: "You know how to piss me off. "Hurry up and take out your homework for uncle to check!"
Everyone was sitting in the plastic shed outside. After the chat started, Zhou Zhi actually checked Tongtong's homework: "Why did you start learning "New Concept English"?"
Although he is only nine years old, Tongtong obviously started studying at the age of six or seven. I started to study. This is the educational level of children in later generations. Now it is obvious that it is ahead of its time, and it is more than ten years ahead of its time.
In what year did English courses enter primary school?
"We just suffer the disadvantage of not studying enough!" Cousin Jianhua said: "The conditions now are so good, of course we must let Tongtong study hard."
Think about the heavy academic burden on children in future generations, Tongtong Although this is already very sad, it can only be considered as tapping potential, and it is still far from being a chicken baby.
So I stopped saving him: "There are many universities in Chongqing, should they have foreign teachers? It is best to have a language environment to learn a language. Learning in an environment will get twice the result with half the effort, rather than just following the textbooks." Come quickly."
"Really?" Cousin Jianhua opened his eyes wide: "It's to let Tongtong. "Teaching with foreigners?"
"It's not called learning, it's just playing." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Playing games, making cakes, cutting some fruits, etc., you will know it before you know it." It’s so effective that you can’t even forget it. Ask your brother-in-law to find out, there must be something like this.”
"It would be great if that's true." Cousin Jianhua said: "Tongtong's English always gives people a headache."
"Actually, there is another way."
"What way? ”
“You study with Tongtong”
“Huh?”
"Sister, if you're not busy, I think you can give it a try. Anyway, it won't hurt to master one more skill, right?"
"Uh... I'll give it a try." Cousin Jianhua said: "You just said that learning a foreign language requires an environment, and you How did you learn it? "Is there an English environment in Jiachuan?" "Sister, don't look down on our English environment in Jiachuan," Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "The "Middle School English Extracurricular Literature Development" series recorded by Teacher He in our school has been used. Selected as a provincial key middle school I’m taking a listening and reading course. They are all materials we found from outside Sichuan.”
“In addition to this, I also read the original English books and watched the original video tapes and learned it naturally. ."
" But this doesn’t work. Later, I have to find foreign friends to correct my pronunciation, which requires frequent dialogue with them.” Zhou Zhi said: “If Tongtong has this condition, he can get it right in one step without taking the detour I took. ”
"Elbow is really an adult." Cousin Jianhua smiled charmingly. He put his chin on the back of his hand and looked at Zhou Zhi: "You really are the number one scholar. When it comes to learning methods, you are very reasonable. You mean, you can now have a casual conversation with foreigners. ”
“This... English There should be no problem with the language."
"Wait a minute..." Cousin Jianhua stood up, walked quickly to her car, and took out a stack of information from the trunk: "Follow me, my elbow. I came into the house, I have something to trouble you with.”
Zhou Zhi followed Jianhua. The cousin entered the house, and Jianhua's cousin asked Zhou Zhi to sit on the sofa: "This is an order from your brother-in-law's factory. The other party is an old customer. This year, a revised version was sent, but there are too many professional terms in it. In Yuzhou City, I can’t find anyone who knows how to translate. Please give me a look.”
"Oh." Zhou Zhi took the information and looked at it, and found that there were indeed a lot of professional words on it, but from the grammatical structure and pronunciation, it was not English: "These professional words seem to be in Italian, and the English translation can't be seen There’s nothing wrong with it.”
Wait until you turn to the back: "There is a phone number here. Is it the contact number of the other party? No, this is the number on Hong Kong Island..."
"This is the phone number of Caston's branch on Hong Kong Island. We I usually contact them there.”
“Can Sangu’s phone number be used overseas? Why don’t you call me and ask?” Zhou Zhi asked.
"You can make a call. This is the phone your brother-in-law installed for your third aunt. It has been opened overseas. You are so rich!"
Zhou Zhi picked up the phone and dialed the number directly. The call was connected soon, but the call was in Cantonese.
So Zhou Zhi also used Cantonese: "Hello, we are..." At this point, he remembered that he didn't even know the name of his brother-in-law's factory. He quickly covered the phone and asked cousin Jianhua: "What is the name of my brother-in-law's company?"< br>
“Aihua Clothing.”
Caught off guard, Zhou Zhi didn’t expect that a wave of dog food would be poured into this joint, and he choked immediately: “ Cough cough cough..."
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing..." Zhou Zhi could only wave and said in Cantonese to the phone: "Hello, we are Yuzhou Aihua. Clothing, regarding the previous business contract, we still have some details that we would like to discuss with...er...Mr. Lawrence. Could you please transfer it to us?"
The other person said: "Okay, please wait a moment." There was no sound. After a while, an old male voice came: "Hello, Lawrence Caston."
Zhou Zhi switched to In English: "Hello Mr. Lawrence, we are Yuzhou Aihua Clothing. Regarding the order intention you sent this time, there are a few places. We regret not being able to understand and hope to ask you for advice in person.”
“Please wait while I transfer your order...Okay, where do you have questions?” The other person's English had a European accent. As Zhou Zhi guessed, the person opposite was not British or American.
“You mentioned a type of shoe called Mocassini in the column of brand matching suggestions. This term is unfamiliar to us. Could you please give us a rough description or tell us the corresponding English name? OK.”
(End of this chapter)