Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 905 Communication
"Your uncle is amazing, Tongtong, do you want to learn more from him?" The woman has exquisite makeup and a graceful figure. She is wearing a vest-style "Hepburn skirt" that is very rare in the mainland nowadays. White high-heeled sandals, taller than Zhou Zhi, are out of tune with the environment of the entire factory dormitory. Zhou Zhi even feels that her presence has brightened the old and small neighborhood a lot.

"Cousin Jianhua." Zhou Zhi greeted the woman, "You should prepare a pair of flat shoes in the car. It's not safe to drive in high heels."

"Stinky boy, you criticize me when we first meet. Is this out of hatred?" The woman said with a smile, "You pulled my ears and cried when I was a child!"

"Sorry!" Sangu laughed and scolded, "How old were you back then, and you still bullied my younger brother."

"It's not that you are biased, mom!" The third aunt said: "Give all my biscuits to Elbow! I ate up all the biscuits and didn't give them to me! That's what my elder brother and second brother saved for me!"

"Your uncle brought his younger brother to see you from such a long distance, how could he be a few biscuits from you?" Third Aunt continued to teach.

"Look at it...it's still biased! Elbow, don't you think so?"

"Tongtong, do you have any biscuits for uncle?" Zhou Zhi ignored his cousin and teased Tongtong instead.

"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 very happy: "Sister, Tongtong voted with his jelly."

Cousin Jianhua also laughed, and poked Tongtong's head with her hand: "You know you're mad at me. Take out your homework and let uncle check it!"

Everyone sat outside under the plastic shed and chatted. 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. This is the education level of children in later generations. Now it is obvious that he is ahead of his time by more than ten years.

In what year did English courses enter elementary schools?

"We just suffer from the lack of reading!" Cousin Jianhua said: "Now the conditions are so good, of course we should let Tongtong study hard."

Thinking about the heavy academic burden of children in future generations, although Tongtong is already very sad, but it can only be regarded as tapping the potential, and it is still some distance away from the chicken baby.

So I stopped saving him: "There are many universities in Yuzhou, so there should be foreign teachers, right? The best way to learn a language is to have a language environment. Learning in an environment can get twice the result with half the effort, far faster than following the textbooks like this."

"Really?" Cousin Jianhua opened her eyes wide: "Do you want Tongtong and foreign teachers to teach?"

"That's not called learning, it's just playing." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "Playing games, making cakes, cutting some fruits, etc., you will get it without knowing it, and the effect is very good, you can't forget it. You ask your brother-in-law to find out, there must be something like this."

"It would be great if this is true." Cousin Jianhua said, "Tongtong's English is always a headache."

"Actually, there is another way."

"any solution?"

"You study with Tongtong."

"what?"

"Sister, if you're not busy, I think you can give it a try. Anyway, it's not bad for me to master one more skill, right?"

"Uh... let me try." Cousin Jianhua said, "Just now you said that learning a foreign language requires an environment. How did you learn it? Jiachuan has an English environment?"

"Sister, don't look down on our English environment in Jiachuan." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "The "Extracurricular Literature Expansion of Middle School English Literature" series tapes recorded by Mr. He in our school have been listed as optional listening and reading courses by key provincial middle schools. It is the information we found from outside Sichuan."

"In addition to this, I also read the original English novel and watch the video tape of the original sound. It will come naturally when the amount is accumulated."

"Of course, this doesn't work. Later, I have to find foreign friends to correct my pronunciation, so I have to talk to them frequently." Zhou Zhi said: "If Tongtong has this condition, he can do it in one step, and he doesn't have to take the detours I have gone through. .”

"Elbow is really an adult." Cousin Jianhua smiled charmingly, and looked at Zhou Zhi with her chin on the back of her hand: "He is really the number one scholar, and he is very sensible when it comes to learning methods. You mean, now you can chat casually with foreigners gone?"

"This...English should be fine."

"Wait..." Cousin Jianhua stood up, walked quickly to her car, and took out a stack of documents from the trunk: "You come into the house with me, Elbow, I have something to trouble you."

Zhou Zhi followed Cousin Jianhua into the house, and Cousin Jianhua asked Zhou Zhi to sit on the sofa: "This is an order from your brother-in-law's factory, and the other party is an old customer. A revised version was sent this year, but there are too many technical terms on it. I can’t find anyone who understands translation in the city, so please show me.”

"Oh." Zhou Zhi retrieved the information and found that there were indeed many professional vocabulary on it, but in terms of grammatical structure and pronunciation, it was not English: "These professional vocabulary seems to be in Italian, and the English translation can't be understood. bug."

After turning to the back: "There is a phone number here, is it the contact number of the other party? No, this is the number of Hong Kong Island..."

"This is the phone number of Caston's branch in Hong Kong Island. We usually contact there."

"Can Sangu's phone call overseas? Why don't you call me and ask?" Zhou Zhi asked.

"You can make a call. This is the phone number your brother-in-law gave to your third aunt. It's opened overseas. If you have money, you'll be in a hurry!"

Zhou Zhi picked up the phone and dialed the number directly, and the person on the other side was connected soon, but he spoke Cantonese.

So Zhou Zhi also used Cantonese: "Hello, we are..." At this point, I remembered that I didn't even know the name of my brother-in-law's factory, so I quickly covered the phone and asked my cousin Jianhua, "What's the name of my brother-in-law's company?"

"Aihua clothing."

Caught off guard, Zhou Zhi didn't expect to pour a wave of dog food on this joint, and suddenly choked: "Ahem, ahem..."

"What's wrong?"

"It's nothing..." Zhou Zhi could only wave his hand, and said in Cantonese to the phone: "Hello, we are Yuzhou Aihua Clothing. Regarding the previous business contract, we still have some details to discuss with...uh...Mr. Lawrence Excuse me, is it convenient for you to transfer it for us?"

He said to the other side: "Okay, please wait a moment." There was no sound, and after a while, an elderly male voice came: "Hi, Lawrence Caston."

Zhou Zhi switched to English: "Hello, Mr. Lawrence, we are Yuzhou Aihua Clothing. Regarding the order intention you sent this time, there are a few points that we regret not being able to understand. I hope to ask you for advice in person."

"Wait a minute, wait until I call out your order...Okay, where is your doubt?" The other party's English has a European accent, and as Zhou Zhi guessed, the person opposite is not Anglo-American.

"You mentioned a kind of shoes called Mocassini in the column of brand matching suggestions. We are relatively unfamiliar with this term. Can you give us a general description, or tell us the corresponding English."

(End of this chapter)