[Comprehensive British and American] Safe Neighborhood

...Sally looked away silently, planning to start tidying her bed.

She first wiped all the places where the bed, tables and chairs could be wiped, and then opened the closet to let the air out to remove the musty smell. During the ventilation gap, she went to the school's supermarket to buy a can of freshener and some daily necessities.

She also went to the management office of the dormitory to ask for a mattress and put the mattress on her bed. She opened the suitcase and spread the sheets and quilt that Berkeley had prepared for her in advance...

Because the bed had not been lived in for a long time, it was covered with dust, and it took her more than 3 hours to finish the work.

After working hard, Sally collapsed on the bed, feeling exhausted.

Squeezing the little fat on her waist that she had accumulated from eating and drinking in the past few months, Sally felt that her exercise in her life had reached the standard.

She squinted lazily, looking at the clear blue sky outside the window, feeling very peaceful, her body relaxed involuntarily, and she felt drowsy.

"Are you Ashley?" Suddenly, a brisk female voice sounded in the dormitory.

Sally woke up instantly, sat up on the bed, turned her head, and saw a slender girl wearing blue and white striped short sleeves and jeans standing at the door. She had waist-length black hair and healthy wheat-colored skin. With big black square eyes.

After meeting Sally's eyes, she narrowed her big grape-like eyes, and the corners of her mouth turned up, revealing two cute dimples.

Suddenly, Sally seemed to see her compatriots.

Sally stood up, walked like a girl, and stretched out her hand with a smile, "Hi, I'm Ashley Naley, are you my roommate?"

The girl shook her hand politely and said, "Flynn Alice...Thank God, you seem to be much easier to get along with."

The two chatted at the door not very well. Sally returned to her bed and saw Flynn put the book in her arms on the desk, pulled out the chair and sat down, "I heard that you lost your memory in a car accident. It's... really don't remember at all?"

"Well, yes... still recovering."

"But you seem to be recovering well now." Flynn said kindly, "I hope you can remember everything soon."

"Thank you."

It seems that this new roommate is not bad.

Sally thought to herself, looking at her shiny and smooth black hair, she couldn't help asking, "...Are you Chinese?"

Flynn shook her head. "No, I'm Latino."

"Ah, that's right," Sally nodded understandingly, and praised from the bottom of her heart, "Your hair is so beautiful!"

"Thank you." Flynn smiled. "Your hair is beautiful too."

"Thank you."

After all, they just met each other. Although the two seem to get along very well, they still feel a little alienated.

After a few awkward chats, the conversation ended. Flynn began to sit at the desk and read a book, while Sally fell asleep on the bed.

The next day, Sally reported to the department.

Since this school is a language school and focuses on Chinese, Sally quickly found the department office of the Chinese Department. She looked at the bulletin board outside the door for a long time and found the freshman's class schedule.

Went to the copy shop in the library to print it out.

After doing this, she felt a little hungry and stepped into the school cafeteria for the first time.

But unexpectedly, she discovered Chinese food!Only chow mein and dumplings though.

This made her so excited, she quickly ordered a portion of each, and couldn't wait to pack it back to the dormitory and taste it.

Although this Chinese food is not so authentic, the chow mein is made of spaghetti, but it basically has a domestic taste of 6 or 7 points, and Sally is not that picky.

She is already very content, in a foreign country, can eat the food of the motherland.

... woo woo woo, it's delicious...

Sally burst into tears instantly, and decided to eat Chinese fried noodles every day.

A few days later, the university officially started, and Sally and Flynn went to the commencement ceremony.

The two sat in the last row of the auditorium. Since it was the first time seeing so many people, Sally looked around curiously.

She found that there are not many Chinese in this school...

Although many people have an Asian face, they are either Latino or Chinese. None of them are pure Chinese.

But think about it, why do the Chinese come to the United States to learn their mother tongue...

Ugh...

She still wants to make a Chinese friend, and she has a lot of questions to ask.

Sally sighed in disappointment, and turned her head, only to meet a white boy.

He sat in the front row of her diagonally, with his arms casually resting on the back of the chair, his blond hair was combed back neatly, it looked as if it had been styled by hair gel, he turned his head sideways, and looked at her with a pair of brown eyes full of playfulness. she.

"..." Sally and him looked at each other for two seconds, then silently looked away and looked at the table in the middle.

At this time, Flynn suddenly elbowed and said softly, "...See that old man in the gray suit?"

Sally looked in the direction she pointed, and saw a gray-haired old man, "I see."

Flynn's face revealed a sense of helplessness, "It's him, Cobb Winston, who failed me in a class last semester."

"...was he strict?" Sally asked.

Flynn nodded, "He's a strange old man. I heard that he has lived in China for 20 years. He takes all the history classes in the department. In his class, no one is allowed to speak languages ​​other than Chinese. "

After finishing speaking, Flynn's expression suddenly became very depressed, "I was arrested three times because I spoke English, so...he hung me up."

Sally couldn't bear it and said, "It's...too perverted."

Flynn nodded silently, and began to count with her fingers. "The first time, I didn't understand the class. I asked him what the word meant, and he asked me to ask it in private. The second time, my friend passed the word to me during class." I took a pornographic picture, and I couldn't help but cursed, "Asshole", he remembered it again, and the third time was the most unlucky. In the last class of his class last semester, I sat by the window Over there, a bee almost flew into my face, and I subconsciously yelled "Oh my god! ", was recorded again..."

"..." Sally gave Flynn a thumbs up slowly, expressing her appreciation.

The ceremony was over quickly, and within a few days, Sally had her first class.

She went to the classroom early and took a seat in the front row, and waited for a long time, but she didn't expect that the first class was the class of the weird old man that Flynn had pointed out to her at the opening ceremony.

The old man has gray hair and a very rigid and serious face. Although he looks old, his back is straight and he walks very calmly, which means he is highly respected.

He was still wearing the same gray suit from that day, with two thick books under his armpits, without squinting, he slowly walked up to the podium.

The students below looked at him quietly, only to see that he took out a pen from the shirt pocket inside his suit, opened the booklet and began to call names.

"Toby Barrett."

"Yes."

"Blau Duda."

"Yes!"

"Marts Hayley."

"...Yes."

"Ashley Naleigh."

After waiting for a long time, I finally clicked on her, and Sally responded, "Yes."

After finishing the roll call, Professor Winston closed the roll, raised his head, and glanced around.

"My name is Cobb Winston," he said. He picked up a blackboard and wrote his name on the blackboard. After finishing writing, he turned around and said, "I will give you an account of Chinese history." class, before class, I would like to make a few requests."

"First, don't desert my class and play with your mobile phone."

"Second, if you arrive 5 minutes late for class, it will be counted as an absence."

"Third, you must not miss more than 3 classes in a semester. If you exceed it, you will be disqualified from the exam."

"Fourth, except for me, no one is allowed to speak a language other than English in my class, except roll call. If it exceeds three times, you will fail the subject directly. If you have any questions, please ask me in private."

After he finished speaking, he lowered his head and began to flip through the book. At this moment, an African-American boy suddenly shouted, "Understood, professor!"

...is shouted in English.

This is simply provocation.

All eyes were on the boy.

Sally also glanced at the boy, looking at the old man.

Professor Winston didn't raise his head, "Martin King, you still have two more chances."

The boy named Martin was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Is that even counted, Professor, we've just started learning now, and we don't know how to speak Chinese."

Only then did Professor Winston turn his attention to Martin, and said in a low voice, "If you still can't say it, then shut up and talk about it later."

After finishing speaking, he added, "Although you said a lot this time, according to the number of times, it is still counted as one time. You still have one last chance."

Martin opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something more, but after hearing what the old man said, he closed his mouth wisely and chose to remain silent.

"..." Looking at the situation, Sha Li felt that she should not speak anymore.

Although she really wanted to speak a few words of Chinese with the professor.

She was a little confused, because since she came to this world, whenever she spoke or heard someone speak, she would be transformed into English by an invisible force. She wanted to test whether anyone could understand her Chinese.

Before that, she had tried to say a few words to Flynn, but Flynn still seemed to listen to her English...

Oh, let's find Professor Cooper after class.

thought Sally.

She sat up straight and began to listen to the class.

Professor Cooper began to give a lecture on the podium, "Before starting the real teaching of your language, I will briefly describe the language category of Chinese. Chinese is an inflectional language, also known as Chinese, Tanghua, and Mandarin, which is different from Japanese and Arabic There are also English and Chinese words that change a lot.”

"And zigzag language, also known as composite language, often expresses multiple meanings at the same time with one affix..."

"The history of Chinese is very long, it can be traced back to..."

...The Chinese language and culture are profound and profound. This class lasted less than 10 minutes, and Sally, a pure-bred Chinese, was already confused.

Finally, Professor Cooper finished speaking the language and began to teach some simple letters.

Supporting her chin with her palm, Sally remembered that she was in kindergarten, and the teacher taught, "a (ah) b (boo) c (呲) d (嘱)..."

That's how it should be taught abroad...

Sally guessed out of boredom, and was teasing in her heart when she suddenly heard...

"First of all, Chinese has 26 letters, which are A, B, C, D, E..."

...? ? ?

Sally looked at the English letters written by the old man on the blackboard with a dazed expression, while reading out the English pronunciation.

"...WTF?" She stared at the blackboard and couldn't help but read the words of a black meme.

Then, Professor Cooper, who was writing on the blackboard, turned around for a second when he heard her voice, staring at Sally sharply.

His staring eyes stared at Sally so that her heart trembled. Under the gaze of the whole class, Sally swallowed subconsciously.

Mr. Cowper looked at her for a long time before finally speaking and breaking the deadlock.

"Add a new requirement. From now on in my class, please use Chinese politely."

"..."

...Chinese? ? ?

...Chinese! ! !

Sally reacted in a second.

...Could it be that!In this world, the so-called Chinese is English, and "English" is Chinese?

... No wonder, she could understand exactly what they were saying!

...she actually speaks "English" all the time...

This thing is so frustrating...

Sally twitched the corners of her mouth, faced Professor Cooper, and confirmed in her poor English that she had learned for more than ten years, "Areusure...ucanhearme?"

Professor Cooper was imposing, with a serious face and a bit of warning, he said word by word, "IAMNOTADEAF." (I am not deaf)

"..."

Sally curled her lips sadly, raised her slender hand to support her forehead sadly.

...ah, she just knew...

...she should have known!

What kind of gold finger,...this TM is a super invincible pit!

Professor Cooper frowned and looked at Sally. After seeing her lower her head in a "sorry" look, she sighed indistinctly and continued with the class.

Sally watched the professor's eloquent "Chinese" speech without tears, feeling as if her body had been hollowed out... Leaning weakly on the back of the seat behind her, Sally recalled her history of blood and tears in learning English.

She was poor in English since she was a child, and she could barely pass the elementary school. After entering junior high school, English became a major weapon for dragging down the total score and ranking. For English, she tried countless methods, but the effect was minimal. The college entrance examination even failed. Because I got more than 40 points in the English test, I didn't get into the university of my first choice.

...In order to learn English, she turned on the light to read every day, and her hearing was almost deaf due to ear infection... After going to college, in order to avoid English, she chose management major...

But even so...she actually...

...She still couldn't escape...the tragic fate of learning English.

Sally's eyes were tearful, her lips were trembling uncontrollably.

...She is really skeptical now that she can come to this world. All the English teachers in her elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university gathered Balala energy to send her here...

The author has something to say:

To popularize science, Chinese is an analytic language, also known as an independent language, and English is an inflectional language. Don’t be confused by my article.