Far away in Moscow

Chapter 19

Hu Yi looked in the mirror, and the top of his head looked like a lawn that had just been mowed. His hair stood upright, a little uneven, and looked fluffy, just like Hanamichi Sakuragi who had just shaved in "Slam Dunk". Over the top look.

He had never had such a short hairstyle before, and he felt extremely awkward, but he still nodded with a smile: "Okay, it's pretty good."

Yu Feifei invited Li Baoqing to come and see it. Li Baoqing pressed his pen to his lips and said, "I think it looks good. It's better than hanging a rake under the helmet."

Hu Yi went to the bathroom to wash his hair and came out. Yu Feifei just cleaned the hair on the floor, looked up at him and said to himself: "Fortunately, the short hair looks energetic. But the top of the head is still not straight. If there is an electric clipper, it will Alright. Let’s just make do with it, and I’ll fix it for you later when it’s too long.” After saying that, he picked up his things and turned to leave.

Li Baoqing quickly stopped her: "Hey, Feifei, don't rush away, tell me about Russian verb conjugation, I'm confused in class, and I can't even do my homework."

Yu Feifei agreed, moved a chair to sit next to Li Baoqing, and began to tutor him patiently.Li Baoqing frowned for a while, and scratched his head for a while, obviously studying very hard.

For most Chinese, Russian is a difficult and obscure language. Not only is it difficult to read and write, but the various grammatical rules are complicated and detailed.In contrast, English grammar is extremely loose, and it is closer to the expression logic of Chinese.

The difficulty for Chinese people to learn English is memorizing words, which is why English teaching almost uniformly emphasizes memorizing words-as long as the vocabulary is up to the standard and the tense is correct when speaking, other things are not a problem, and there are not too many complicated and harsh rules.

Russian is quite different. Vocabulary is of course important, but if you don’t follow the rules of grammar and just pile up words randomly, it will not only make people unable to understand, but also easily lead to serious ambiguities.

The first thing to master in learning Russian is the chaotic basic grammar: verb conjugations, noun declensions, combination of different persons, different tenses, plus various strange and special usages, which can be said to be unpredictable, which makes beginners Scholars have no clue.Specific to the three of them, they showed different states.

Yu Feifei has been a good student since she was a child. The good study habits she has developed over the years have given her a strong self-learning ability. Every day after class, she will actively review what she learned that day after finishing her homework, and then try to preview the content that follows.

Although it was a little difficult at the beginning, she studied very hard, and Dam, who shared the same room, was an excellent government-sponsored international student. The two communicated in Russian in the dormitory, studied together and made progress together. Not only did Yu Feifei quickly catch up with the students in the class Teaching progress, and already have a strong classroom communication skills.

Perhaps because of the overdeveloped motor nerves, Li Baoqing's brain language center is obviously weaker than that of ordinary people. In the past, writing essays in primary and secondary schools was like constipation, and it was even more difficult to pass English. Now learning Russian is killing him, and he can't understand it at all. What is the teacher talking about.

As the saying goes, if you can't catch up one step at a time, you can't catch up with every step. Now Li Baoqing can only stare at the teacher in class, and he has learned very little for more than a month.Back in the dormitory, I hang out with Hu Yi and other Chinese compatriots all day long. I seldom have the opportunity to talk in Russian. When I buy things, I just stand in front of the counter and point. I can’t understand the price at the checkout. Numbers pressed on calculator.

And Hu Yi has a little bit of language talent. Although his high school studies are almost neglected, the English foundation he laid in elementary and junior high schools is still so-so. Various hobbies that have nothing to do with learning have also helped him develop a good language logic ability and sense of language. The current situation is relatively poor. Li Baoqing has to be stronger.Even if you don't understand half of what you listen to in class at the beginning, you can at least understand the gist of the grammar rules as much as possible, and you can barely keep up with the teacher's train of thought.

It's a pity that things like language sense can't be explained clearly. It's hard for Hu Yi to use his abstract experience to help Li Baoqing, who is dull in aptitude, so he can only rely on Feifei to force him to memorize the rules in the book.

From that day on, Yu Feifei was often invited to tutor Li Baoqing, and Hu Yi occasionally listened by the side to consolidate his understanding and memory.Yu Feifei is very responsible and has rich experience in helping poor students make up lessons. However, Li Baoqing's talent is too poor, and she always doesn't know what to do, and she is helpless.

Just like this, a month passed, and it was almost the end of the year. Li Baoqing's studies improved slightly, but Hu Yi, who was an observer, digested many difficult points in the class. His Russian level has improved a lot, and he seems quite confident when communicating with others. .When I go out, I carry a pocket Russian-Chinese dictionary in my pocket, and I can chat with others simply by making gestures. At least it is not a problem to go to class and go shopping.

However, Hu Yi was not complacent for too long. The newly opened economics-related courses at the end of the year required a lot of mathematical knowledge. Now it was his turn to stare at the teacher.Although the algebraic geometry in junior high school is quite solid, high school mathematics is a blank for him, and he can't understand it in Chinese, and the Russian teaching is like a bible.

This incident hit Hu Yi very hard. Learning science is a gradual process, and you must have a complete foundation to continue. If a bastard like him wants to complete high school mathematics knowledge through self-study in a short period of time, it is tantamount to nonsense.And Yu Feifei is also tired of the new courses now, it is difficult to free up energy to help him, not to mention that mathematics is not like Russian grammar, which can be understood in a few words.

Hu Yi was at a loss. It was too late to complain that he didn't study hard in high school. He could only blame himself for not thinking clearly before coming to school: "His grandma, I only know that the engineering department needs to learn mathematics, and I deliberately avoided it. The department also has to learn this crap."

"How can the economy be separated from mathematics? You just suffered from lack of education." Li Baoqing said with sincerity.Hu Yi's studies are poor, but he has read all kinds of idle books. He pretends to be full of messy knowledge, and shows it off when he has time, and laughs at Li Baoqing's lack of education by the way.Now that Li Baoqing finally seized the opportunity to retaliate, he naturally wanted to ridicule him a few words.

"Get out." Hu Yi's response was simple and direct.

Li Baoqing grinned: "Hey, I'm actually not much better than you. I can almost recognize those formulas and symbols, but I can't understand what the teacher said."

Hu Yi sat on the table, stepped on the chair, lit a cigarette, and sighed, "You still laugh? It's only the first semester of the preparatory course, and the teacher can't understand the lecture, and the final exam will be in a few days, what should I do?"

Li Baoqing, who said a word, also felt melancholy, stared at the chair under Hu Yi's feet for a long time, and murmured: "Oh, it's not just us, I think most of the Chinese students are studying very hard, even Feifei is not easy. "As he spoke, he stood up from the bed and stretched his body: "By the way, Brother Tao said that he would take us to the big market a few days ago."

Hu Yi waved his hand distractedly: "The big market? It is said that the place is dirty and messy, what's so interesting?"

"Isn't there a lot of domestic specialties in the big market? The dry goods and seasonings we brought by train are almost finished. The New Year is next week, followed by the Spring Festival. I want to buy some things for storage. By the way, I will buy another bottle of Lao Gan mom."

"Old godmother? Then I can have a bottle. You can go with him, and we will share the money half and half after shopping."

"Aren't you going?" Li Baoqing swallowed: "I heard that there are fried dough sticks in the big market in the morning."

"Fried dough sticks?! Really?" Hu Yi's eyes suddenly shone, and he immediately put all the troubles of not understanding the class behind him: "Okay, I'll go too!"

(End of this chapter)