Chapter 143
Yang Yuyan came to find Prof. Dai because she wanted to take advantage of the situation, hoping that Prof. Dai would do a good deed and help her translate the book.
However, she also knew the teacher’s routine.
As expected, Prof. Dai heard that she asked for the translation of this book, took a flip, closed the book and said with a smile: “This one, I remember that someone in the school has translated.”
University of all kinds of talent, the spirit of the Western world has long been eager to get out of the former people raked over two or three decades, the emperor also wanted to change the law, the court is not a generation or two generations of things, and even foreign ministers of the Qing dynasty can be counted out of a basket.
So Yang Yuyan hand of this “Declaration”, but also has long been translated.
Yang Yuyan was overjoyed.
She busily asked, “Who is it? Where is it?”
Prof. Dai smiled and said, “It’s no longer in the school.”
Yang Yuyan was frustrated.
Prof. Dai patted the book and said, “I don’t see many words in this book, why don’t you translate it? I can lend you my notes from when I was learning German, and I’ll give you the dictionary too.”
Oh, doesn’t she get it? That’s what happened to her the last time she learned Russian! She still owed a lot of translations.
But translating a copy of the Manifesto with one’s own hands is different from translating a copy of Anna. The former seems a little greater, a little more enterprising, as if she too had become a …… How can I put it?
In short, it is not ordinary!
When Yang Yuyan hesitated, Prof. Zi turned out his notebooks when he was learning German for her – it was definitely not just one book!
A stack of seven or eight books, all re-bound, a look at the use of many years, the paper is worn rolled.
Prof. Day slapped another brick-thick dictionary on top, sending up a puff of intellectual soot glinting in the air.
“Here, it’s all here. You’ll read these first, they’re the easy ones, German isn’t really hard to learn, it’s very simple, you’ll find it has shorter sentences than Russian, and the numbers are simpler than in French. You’ve learned both Russian and French, surely German won’t be difficult for you.” Professor Dai said so.
Yang Yuyan flipped through it and found that indeed German word letters weren’t as anti-human as Russian, and the number readings weren’t anti-human either, it was more or less the same as English.
“Alright then, I’ll try first.” She said hesitantly.
She had actually guessed this ending before she came to Professor Day. Professor Dai would definitely not be generous enough to translate it for her, and would most likely let her do it.
But besides Prof. Dai, there was no one else around her who knew German.
She asked Su Chunjun, and he said he didn’t know German. He only knew English and Japanese, and had only learned a little bit of French and Russian, which he used up when he said hello. Although she thought he was being modest.
Yang Yuyan went back to her new bedroom with her new homework in her arms.
The new bedroom wasn’t much worse than the one she had in Zhu’s building, it was about the same size, and the furniture was about the same, except for the bed, which wasn’t good for sleeping, and the bookcase and desk were big and nice, better than the ones she used at home.
There is also a piano in the small living room on the first floor, Prof. Dai can also tune it, Zhu Yanshu couldn’t resist the itch to go over and play a song on the second day of her arrival, but she only played half of it and then came down, as a result, Prof. Dai went up and played the second half of the song.
It’s like being at home here, except that Su Chunjun doesn’t live upstairs. But there was Prof. Dai downstairs, and Shi Wuwei.
In the evening, Professor Dai enthusiastically instructed Yang Yuyan to memorize German phonetic symbols after dinner.
When the others heard that they were studying here, they unconsciously lightened their footsteps and lowered their voices.
Zhang Ma whispered to Zhu Yanshu, “See, this is so good. Now that she’s living here with Prof. Dai, Yan Yan has become fond of studying.”
Although Zhu Yanshu also felt good, she was a bit worried about her daughter’s hard work, “Yan Yan will be tired if she studies so much.”
Zhang Ma: “Not afraid, I’ll make her more food, she won’t get tired if she eats more.”
Prof. Dai called Shi Wuwei to be his role model for Yang Yuyan. Having a peer next to you when you’re learning will make it easier to learn.
It also saved Prof. Dai’s own mouth, and the demonstration of the phonetic symbols was done by Shi Wuwei.
Learning the phonetic symbols was quick, because the German phonetic symbols, like the French phonetic symbols, were very similar to the pinyin that Yang Yuyan had learned before.
Of course, if we look at the chronological order of their appearance, it should be Pinyin at the back and the first two at the front.
But the fact that Yang Yuyan had learned pinyin made her appear to be a genius in learning the French and German phonetic symbols.
Professor Dai sighed as he taught, patting Shi Wuwei and saying, “After so many years, I’ve only seen one genius in you, and now I’ve met another.”
Shi Wuwei also sighed, “Yan Yan learns really fast.”
On the other hand, Yang Yucan also told Zhu Yanshu and Zhang Ma that she found Yang Yuyan to be a fast learner when she was teaching her French.
Yang Yuchan: “Yan Yan might really be a genius.”
Zhu Yanshu is surprised: “Oh, I underestimated her.”
Zhang Ma said, “That’s good, that’s good, nowadays women can even become officials. Yan Yan will be an official in the future, no worse than a man.”
Prof. Dai knew how to teach a smart and lazy student like Yang Yuyan. Some teachers see students learn fast, under the great joy will not stop letting students learn, and ultimately the students to get bored, but also lamented the students lazy, but do not know that they are pulling the seedling to grow.
Because for this kind of students, laziness is her nature, smart is just given by God, the world is a lot of waste of their own talent genius, because it is not her sincere prayers for things, born with, can naturally be discarded as a shovel.
Of course, the genius of the gas is that when she wants to learn, it is as easy as unscrewing the faucet to get water, enough to cross the ordinary people half a lifetime of effort.
Therefore, Professor Dai dismissed the class after teaching the phonetic symbols and just kept praising Yang Yuyan for being smart! Awesome! Genius!
For three days in a row, he didn’t teach anything new, just let Shi Wuwei lead Yang Yuyan to speak in German for fun, like teaching a child to learn to speak, saying how to say flower, how to say sky, how to say table, and so on.
Then he started translating directly.
First, I picked out all the words and taught Yang Yuyan to look them up in the dictionary. When the words are familiar and you can understand their meaning in the sentence, you can move on to the next sentence.
They didn’t teach anything about lexical properties or yin and yang.
So after a week, Yang Yuyan dared to say boldly that she had learned German.
Yang Yucan was shocked, even if she believed that Yang Yuyan was a genius, she wasn’t this genius, was she?
Yang Yuyan also said, “I think German is better than English.”
Yang Yuchan was shocked and began to wonder how much water she had in learning German.
Without waiting for her to speak, Shi Wuwei pulled her back and quietly said to her, “This is what Prof. Dai thought, this is the best way to teach Yang Yuyan.”
Yang Yucan taught Yang Yanyan French is really hard work, by now Yang Yanyan has refused to learn, apparently intends to leave the French language just like that, what to a French restaurant to order, she went to a French restaurant with a Chinese waiter is not on the line?
She also wants to see how Professor Dai teaches.
Yang Yuyan, with Professor Dai’s support and encouragement, single-mindedly memorized German words. She could now read German through and through, the only problem was that her vocabulary was not quite enough, so she thought that if she increased her vocabulary enough, German would be easy to take.
She was so crazy about memorizing vocabulary that her whole family created conditions for her, and Professor Dai and Shi Wuwei both switched to using German to greet her when they saw her.
Zhu Yanshu didn’t know German, but she was also excited to learn it with Yang Yuyan, and even dragged Yang Yucan along, recognizing Professor Dai and Shi Wuwei as her husband.
With the three students together, Yang Yuyan couldn’t help but feel ambitious to leave Zhu Yanshu and Yang Yucan behind, and she memorized vocabulary with even more energy!
The following week, Su Chunjun came to see his fiancée again with a big bag, and as soon as he met her, she jumped up and said “my baby” in German with a big smile on her face.
Su Chunjun hugged his fiancée and kissed her tenderly on the cheek to ease the embarrassment of his inability to speak.
He looked at Prof. Dai at the back, knowing that this was the main culprit.
Of course, Yang Yuyan’s German only stayed at the word-popping rank, with a vocabulary similar to that of a three year old, so don’t expect her to be able to speak more than four words in a sentence. In such a situation, she still believed that she had learned German well, thanks to Professor Dai’s bowl of lost soup.
So after saying “my baby”, Yang Yuyan switched back to Chinese, and Su Chunjun, relieved, took his fiancée into the house and sat on the sofa, setting out the gifts and telling her how many times he had missed her in the past few days, one at a time.
Shi Wuwei saw from afar that the sofa again piled up the gift bags immediately turned away.
Yang Yuchan met him and asked, “Why don’t you go talk to him?”
Shi Wuwei shook his head, “No, I’d better go to the back to chop wood.”
Yang Yucchan thought for a moment and didn’t go to be a light bulb, turning around to go with him, “Then I’ll go with you too, see if there’s anything I can do.”