Rebirth of the Entrepreneurship Era

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Early on Monday morning, everyone put on the school-made Western-style school uniforms with school logo embroidery and gathered in the hotel lobby.

Boys wear black suits, white shirts and dark red ties, while girls wear small black suits on the upper body and dark plaid skirts on the lower body.

In fact, China Overseas does not have school uniforms. In the words of Mr. Hu, during the four years of college life, only the camouflage uniform that could barely be regarded as a school uniform was sold to the construction site by Xu Yiyang.

This time the school customized such a suit for everyone, which is also to improve the overall image of the school.

Mr. Hu explained the details of the exchange to everyone last night. This time, it was mainly the English Department of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Hong Kong who communicated with them.

In addition to some exchange activities, 12 students have to be integrated into the four grades from freshman to senior in the English Department of the University of Hong Kong.

Like transfer students, learn their courses and experience their teaching methods in person.

At the same time, it is also necessary to export the teaching methods and concepts of China Overseas to the students and teachers in the class.

For example, for the same course of English and American literature, different teaching materials and different teaching methods lead to different experiences for students.

When Chinese overseas students transfer to the English Department of HKU to attend classes, they can compare the teaching methods of the two schools, and then feed back their real thoughts to the professors at HKU and their own professors at China Overseas.

One of the key points Mr. Hu has been explaining is that the University of Hong Kong has always adopted English teaching.

Not only English majors, but in addition to other language majors, other science and engineering, economics and management, law and medicine are almost all taught in English.

Therefore, not to mention the English Department, the professors in the class give lectures and communicate with students, basically all in English.

This is very different from the country.

Domestic schools naturally teach in Chinese, even for a language subject like English, it is taught in both Chinese and English.

Therefore, Mr. Hu is worried that everyone will not adapt to this kind of class rhythm, and also worried that everyone's English level is not enough to support all English teaching, so he reminds everyone to keep enough attention, otherwise they may not understand what the teacher is saying.

Most of everyone was under a lot of pressure, but Xu Yiyang didn't care at all.

Seeing that he seemed to be absent-minded, Mr. Hu said, "Xu Yiyang, although your spoken English is very good, you must pay more attention. Don't think that English is good because you can enjoy it at the University of Hong Kong. Let me tell you, I am so old and I am so good at learning English. After many years, it is still very difficult to communicate in English with some senior English professors at the University of Hong Kong, do you know why?"

Xu Yiyang shook his head.

The other students were also curious.

Mr. Hu said: "Although they learn English very well, their spoken English is really not flattering. Many people speak Cantonese accent. Then the other party will think that your English level is not good enough, and you can’t understand it.”

Xu Yiyang suddenly realized.

Yes.

Everyone has an accent.

With so many bigwigs worth tens of billions of dollars in Huaxia Internet, most of them can't speak Mandarin very well.

Mr. Lei, the founder of Xiaomi, is the one who is often ridiculed for his accent.

Can he be blamed? Of course not.

As the so-called local accent is hard to change, the problems of language and pronunciation habits cannot be overcome by everyone.

Among other things, when Australians chat with British people, people often cannot understand what the other party is saying.

Although they use the same language, it feels like one speaks Mandarin and the other speaks Zhonghai. The gap is still very large.

If you come to HKU for an exchange, it’s okay if you are a foreign teacher from Europe or the United States. If you are a local professor, it is really possible that the spoken English will be mixed with local accents.

In his previous life, Xu Yiyang did business with businessmen from Guangdong Province or Hong Kong. Although he can't speak Cantonese very well, he can still understand it anyway. However, when he heard what Mr. Hu said, he still nodded repeatedly to express that he would listen carefully.

Later, Mr. Hu said with a smile: "Okay, it's almost time, let's go, everyone must perform well, and while learning from other people's advanced teaching experience, don't embarrass COCEC!"

Although the size of the University of Hong Kong is not that big, it is much larger than the small China Overseas.

Since we had stepped on the spot in advance yesterday, everyone came to the Faculty of Arts of the University of Hong Kong with ease.

A deputy dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts of the University of Hong Kong was in charge of the matchmaking. He waited in the administrative building early, and then enthusiastically introduced himself to everyone.

The deputy dean is named Huang Zongyao. He is about fifty years old and has a serious Mediterranean hairstyle. He looks naive, but he is a passionate person.

Huang Zongyao's Mandarin is not very good, and everyone can't understand Cantonese, so after he explained it, he simply used English.

As soon as he spoke, Xu Yiyang secretly sighed that what Hu Bingwen said couldn't be more correct. This uncle's English, with a distinct local accent, was almost comparable to the accent of Indians speaking English.

However, fortunately, the uncle seems to have self-knowledge, so he speaks slowly, which doesn't sound too difficult.

The uncle said that the English Department of the Faculty of Arts prepared a welcome ceremony for everyone, so he took everyone directly to a small auditorium.

The small auditorium is not big, and it can accommodate several hundred people. It is said that all the people who came were students from the English Department of the Faculty of Arts.

There was no communication between everyone, just standing on the stage, the person in charge of the other party first expressed welcome, and then the person in charge of both sides talked about the meaning and importance of the exchanges between the two places.

Then, let the twelve students from China Overseas come to the stage and introduce themselves.

Xu Yiyang was arranged by Mr. Hu to be the first one.

At the same time, Mr. Hu also whispered in his ear: "Your spoken English is the most standard in our team, please say a few more words later."

Xu Yiyang nodded, it's okay to say a few more words.

But what do you say?

I didn't prepare any manuscripts myself.

Originally, I thought, go up and directly use a set of polite words in English.

For example, hello everyone, my name is Xu Yiyang, and it is a great honor to come to HKU for exchange and study. I hope you will take care of me in the coming days.

However, Mr. Hu obviously wanted to give himself a little more.

After all, he was a forty-year-old uncle. Although Xu Yiyang was unprepared for this kind of time, he was not stage-frightened either.

So he was the first to walk to the center of the auditorium stage, and said seriously: "Hi everyone, my name is Xu Yiyang, and everyone can call me Jeremy."

Just this one sentence made many people look shocked.

The quality of spoken language can be said to be known at a glance.

If you want to know whether a foreigner speaks Chinese well, ask him to say "Ni Hao" in Mandarin, and you can basically tell how much he weighs.

If it is pronounced as "Nihao", it is basically not good.

If the pronunciation is pronounced "Nihao", that's not too bad.

why?

Because these two characters look very simple, but the standard pronunciation is three tones, and there is a turn.

There are four normal Chinese pronunciations and no turning, which means that a quarter of the pronunciation is not standard.

Such spoken language, of course, cannot be considered good.

And vice versa.

For the quality of spoken English, one sentence or even one word is enough.

What Xu Yiyang said is basically the standard British pronunciation. Since Hong Kong has only returned to China for more than two years now, many professors at the University of Hong Kong are British, so the students of the University of Hong Kong are most familiar with English with British pronunciation.

As soon as he opened his mouth, he could hear that Xu Yiyang's pronunciation was exactly the same as those of those professors.

It is indeed difficult for Asians to learn a standard English accent in an Asian environment, and it is the same for Europeans and Americans to learn a standard Chinese accent in a European and American environment.

It is really very rare to be able to speak like a native speaker.

As for Xu Yiyang, he was such a fool.

When the audience was shocked, he deliberately lowered his voice, making his voice a bit magnetic, and continued: "It is a great honor to come to Hong Kong, and to come to the University of Hong Kong to meet face to face with all compatriots and classmates. We came to the campus of the University of Hong Kong yesterday. , I visited it on my own, just a rough experience, and I can feel that the University of Hong Kong is indeed a very beautiful, very open, and at the same time a very historical institution of higher learning..."

This time, some girls in the audience screamed directly.

The boys were also shocked speechless.

What are you doing? Don't you mean college students from mainland China? Are you sure this guy on stage isn't from England?

Xu Yiyang didn't want to develop himself into a voice actor, let alone the British accent that he and Gu Sijia had practiced for more than ten years, but the key was that he didn't know other accents either.

Besides, I still carry Mr. Hu's sustenance on me. This old man just wants to show off his speaking ability, so he can't do it if he doesn't say it.

Besides, the reason why people went to such great lengths to open the back door for themselves and recruit themselves to China Overseas is to be useful in such occasions?

As the so-called raising soldiers for half a year is used in one day, I really want to satisfy the old Hu who is a lot of age, and his desire for acting aggressively.

So, while everyone was stunned, he continued: "Confucius once had a famous saying: three people must have my teacher. My classmates and I all have a humble heart and look forward to the next three weeks. I look forward to learning more knowledge and experience from everyone in this exchange, and looking forward to becoming friends with you.”

During the speech, Xu Yiyang hardly paused or thought, and continued: "At the same time, I also hope that our exchange this time can open the prelude to the long-term exchange between China International Studies University and the University of Hong Kong, a well-known Asian university, so that the two The colleges and universities can have more exchanges and discussions in the future, and the friendship will last forever, thank you everyone!"

He is tall, has a handsome face, has a magnetic voice, and speaks surprisingly well.

As soon as Xu Yiyang appeared on the stage, it caused a commotion in the audience.

Many Hong Kong University students in the audience had never heard of China International Studies University. In addition, Xu Yiyang and the others were college students from the mainland, which made some people feel like distant relatives from the countryside visiting the city.

Therefore, some people instinctively feel that these people must be much worse than themselves, especially English, which is even more incomparable.

As a result, when Xu Yiyang went to this station, there was a series of self-introductions without manuscripts, without pauses, and without stuttering.

The spoken language is impeccable and authentic.

The vocabulary is also large, and many of the grammar and sentence structures are beyond the scope of the first-year college books, but they seem more interesting.

It can be said that as soon as Xu Yiyang came up, he shattered some people's sense of superiority.

The Hong Kong university students who didn't think highly of these exchange students before couldn't help but take it seriously.

Mr. Hu was very satisfied.

This is why I would rather beg for nothing than get Xu Yiyang to China Overseas!

Really give the school a face!