Training is tedious; every day is the same repetitive movements.
After understanding Mei Si's strength, Coach Li felt that Mei Si was capable of winning gold medals in world competitions. He immediately halved Mei Si's training volume and assigned her additional study tasks.
"Teacher Qi, I'm entrusting Mei Si to you." Coach Li led Mei Si into an office.
"Don't worry, I'll definitely make her speak English as fluently as a native speaker." Teacher Qi was full of confidence. Even if someone was a blockhead, she could teach them.
"Meisi, study English diligently here with Teacher Qi."
"English?"
Meis: I can actually learn other languages!
"Okay, study hard. Once you've learned it, I'll take you outside to see the world," Coach Li patted Mei Si on the shoulder and promised.
"..." Mei Si thought Coach Li had lost his mind. Why did she need the coach to lead her out? She could have gone out by herself during her break.
After giving his instructions, Coach Li walked away with his hands behind his back. Teacher Qi smiled and took out a notebook, intending to start by teaching the basics.
Have you studied English before?
Teacher Qi opened the notebook, and the first page contained the 26 uppercase and lowercase letters of the English alphabet.
“I haven’t learned it.”
“You probably don’t recognize these letters either. Come on, let me tell you…” Teacher Qi thought it was a good thing that they hadn’t learned them before. With such blank slates, she could teach them however she wanted.
If they've studied it, many people don't pronounce things correctly, and it takes her a long time each time to correct their pronunciation habits.
"I know him!"
Meiss pointed to the lowercase English letters and said.
"...Then read it once." Teacher Qi couldn't figure out whether the child knew it or not, so she decided to let her read it first.
"Ah, wave, ci, de..."
Meisi: So this is English. I learned it when I was in daycare.
"Stop! That's pinyin, not English letters. What you need to do now is forget everything you've learned before and only remember what I'm teaching you, understand?" Teacher Qi interrupted Mei Si, both amused and exasperated. It seemed this child had no idea what English was.
“I have a good memory, I can’t forget.” Mei Si frowned. Don’t teachers usually like students with good memories? Why is this teacher asking her to forget what she learned before?
How much does she have to forget? All of it? If she really forgets everything, will she still be able to understand what the teacher is saying? It's just learning English, why are there so many requirements?
"...Since you have a good memory, I'll teach you to read it once now. You need to memorize it carefully, because I'm going to test you in a little while."
"Okay." Mei Si nodded seriously, staring intently at Teacher Qi.
Teacher Qi felt that Mei Si was a bit strange. She even felt uneasy under Mei Si's gaze and wanted to leave and stay far away from Mei Si.
“A.” Teacher Qi shook his head and began to teach Mei Si to recognize the 26 letters of the alphabet.
"Eh."
"B."
"force."
"C."
"West."
Meis read a few letters and immediately understood what English was all about. It was practically another way of reading pinyin, a polyphonic pinyin?
"F."
"Aifu?" The pronunciation is so strange, f (fo) is pronounced as two words.
"Did you get it? Or should I teach you again?"
“I’ve got it,” Mays said confidently.
"Then read it once."
"Hey, bitch, si, drip, one, caress, chicken, eh, eat, love, thief, ke..."
"Yes, you learn very quickly, but some of your pronunciations are not standard. For example, your pronunciation of F is too long; it should be shorter..."
When Mei Si first started learning English, she found it quite easy.
Hello = Hello
E-ci-kiu-ko-mi = Excuse me
Big Brother = Big
Four mao (a unit of currency) = small
Then... as her vocabulary increased, Mei couldn't remember things anymore. She started to forget things and her pronunciation was often incomplete.
After being punished to copy words 100 times once again, Mei Si could no longer tolerate this endless copying of words.
Mei Si asked someone in the group for another copy of the "God of Learning" dictionary and started frantically studying English dictionaries.
When Meis's teammates first saw her leave after only half a day of training, they didn't understand what was going on and assumed that Meis had asked for leave because of family matters.
But after Mays continued like this for a month, someone couldn't take it anymore.
"I'm not practicing anymore! Why can some people practice for only a few hours, but we have to practice all day?" Qu Zhenguo plopped down on the ground, wiping the sweat from his brow with his sleeve.
"Get up! If the coach comes back and sees you slacking off, you're doomed!" Lü Feng kicked Qu Zhenguo's butt and then turned to keep watch for him.
"I'm not getting up! I'm tired, I need to rest too!" Lu Feng urged, and Qu Zhenguo simply lay down on the ground, intending to relax properly.
"Little rascal, are you really not afraid of being punished by the coach?" Seeing that the more Lu Feng urged Qu Zhenguo, the less he cared, he was about to just ignore him.
"Why should I be punished? That guy doesn't train every afternoon, why isn't he punished?" Qu Zhenguo felt that he wouldn't be punished. He was just slacking off. There was someone ahead of him who left early every day, so he wouldn't be punished first.
"She probably has something on her mind. Didn't you see that the coach didn't say anything?"
Lu Feng guessed.
“I think she might have some kind of background,” Chen Kunming couldn’t help but interject.
"Background? What background? I don't know anything about it." Qu Zhenguo was a little confused. He had never heard of Mei Si having any background.
"You're not the coach, why should you know?" Chen Kunming rolled his eyes, feeling that he couldn't connect with Qu Zhenguo, so he moved to a more distant place and decided not to talk to Qu Zhenguo anymore.
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