Dong Qiangqiang's Story of Leaving Germany

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The morning class is "Macroeconomics 2". "Macroeconomics 1" has ended in the 2002 summer semester. It will not be offered this semester, and it will be re-opened in the 2003 summer semester.

Students with different skin colors are full of holes in the auditorium with hundreds of seats.The professor's self-introduction only lasted for 1 minute, without name-calling (as others have said), without any unnecessary greetings or politeness, straight to the point, with rich pictures and texts (a lot of pictures are usually used in economics classes), two super When I grew up, the blackboard was full of writing, leaving no blank space.

Two hours passed quickly. There was no familiar bell and no procrastination. The professor dismissed get out of class on time.

The students put away their schoolbags, walked out of the classroom in twos and threes, talking and laughing.

Dong Qiangqiang sat on his seat, looking at the densely packed notes spread out in front of him, lost in thought.

He thought that with his listening skills and the background he had studied in China, he would definitely be able to understand what the other party was saying, not to mention easy.Unexpectedly, after one class, the listeners were at a loss, and the part he understood was 40% more, not 80% or more as he imagined.

40%!

He knew in his heart: 40% means that most of them did not understand, and this 40% can be swallowed mainly because of the aid of diagrams.

He tried to analyze the reasons for this embarrassing situation: First of all, the incomprehension must be because his professional knowledge and professional German reserves are too small.Don't think it's okay to talk to Germans in normal times, that's because it doesn't involve professional fields.The difference between professional courses and spoken English is bigger than he imagined.Secondly, the lecturers are from Austria, not from Germany.Although the official language of Austria is also German, the two are distinctly different.Dong Qiangqiang himself learns and speaks standard German, but the German of the other party is quite strong in local accents. Many of the words that Dong Qiangqiang knows are due to the dialect pronunciation of the other party. The delay time, that feeling is similar to listening to Lu Shan speak Mandarin.In the end, he didn't do any preview, and came to the class with straight eyebrows. To put it bluntly, he was looking for abuse.

Although many problems were exposed in the first class, Dong Qiangqiang was not too discouraged. After all, when he was studying in China, he still could not understand the lectures in Chinese. It is normal for foreign languages ​​to be incomprehensible.Besides, this semester he is just an auditor, there is no exam pressure, it is a good thing to expose the problem, solve the problem when it arises, just don't break the can.

The huge lecture theater became empty in the blink of an eye, and a few students who were communicating with the professor at the podium seemed to be leaving.

The gray-haired professor pressed the button to raise and lower the blackboard, waited for the blackboard to fall, and at the same time put the slide courseware on the slide projector into the leather bag one by one, then rolled up his sleeves, picked up the eraser, and skillfully began to wipe the writing on the blackboard.

"Hello, professor," Dong Qiangqiang wanted to stand beside the podium and ask questions directly like other students, but when he saw the chalk dust on the teacher's shirt and face, he suddenly couldn't bear it, so he simply picked up another eraser and wiped it for the professor. Picking up the other end of the extra-long blackboard, "I want to know how I can better understand what you're talking about in class."

The professor seemed a little surprised by Dong Qiangqiang's actions, but he didn't reject Dong Qiangqiang's kindness, he just kept rubbing his hands and asked, "This is the first time listening?"

"Yes."

"Have you previewed (before class)?"

Dong Qiangqiang shook his head embarrassingly.

The professor smiled knowingly, and said with no surprise: "Have you written down the list of books I just made?"

There are nearly [-] books listed on the book list, and Dong Qiangqiang just copied them and was deeply impressed.

He nodded: "I remember everything."

At this time, the professor just finished wiping one piece of writing on the blackboard, walked to another writing on the blackboard while doing chest expansion, looked at the writing on the blackboard and said to himself: "Preview before class, think actively in class, and review what was said in class after class." content and read the recommended books on the list, and attend each practice session. If you have done all of these and still have problems, you can come to my office. But I hope you will try to solve it yourself before you come to me."

Dong Qiangqiang kept the other party's words in mind, and continued to ask: "Then if I want to read the past test papers, where can I find them? Is it the library or your official website?"

Every professor in the Department of Economics has his own independent channel on the university website. Many professors will disclose their latest developments, lecture content, industry exchanges, etc. on the website. Of course, most of the content published by professors is related to teaching. Individual professors will also post some life essays on the website, but the proportion is very small.

"I don't provide past test papers, you can give up the idea." The professor denied with a smile, "Why don't you find the answer in the book?"

This answer somewhat exceeded Dong Qiangqiang's expectations, but he knew that now is not the time to struggle, and the most urgent thing is to read books first according to the other party's suggestion.

After bidding farewell to the professor, Dong Qiangqiang plunged into the library with the professor's book list in hand, planning to borrow all the books recommended by the professor home.

His idea is beautiful, but the reality has poured cold water on him.

Only two-thirds of the books on the book list can be found in the university library, about 20 books, and the rest of the books are not provided by the library, in other words, the library has never collected them.What made him even more depressed was that more than half of the 20 books had already been lent out.

Libraries usually store different versions of the same book. On average, there are 10 different versions of each book. Now all the new and old versions are borrowed, which means that Dong Qiangqiang can only wait for others to return the book before he can borrow it again. lend it out.

Among the 20 books that can still be borrowed from the library, the German version is gone, and only English books in different versions are left.

Dong Qiangqiang couldn't help but smile wryly: One of the reasons he learned German before was that he found English difficult, so he found another way to learn German from scratch.I didn't know that I went around, but I still didn't escape the mountain of English.

life too!

He called Zheng Chunhua and wanted to consult how to prepare for the exam.Unexpectedly, the other party turned off the phone, so he could only leave a message in the other party's voice mailbox, explaining the problem he encountered in a few words.

After making the phone call, he felt hungry, but the blandness of German dishes made him have no appetite. It was just a process to satisfy his hunger. After a quick bite in the cafeteria, he wandered to the lawn behind the cafeteria alone.

The lawn area is about the size of a football field, and there is a pond the size of a badminton court in the middle, with lonely wild ducks wandering on the water.The pond is surrounded by lush undergrowth, and the leaves dancing with the wind on the branches are healthy, dark green and glossy leaves that Dong Qiangqiang has never seen.

The weather is just right, and Germans have the habit of basking in the sun, so groups of people can be seen everywhere on the lawn at this time.They are lying or sitting, reading, chatting, listening to music, having a picnic, and playing. Dong Qiangqiang is very envious of their leisurely state.

He found a shady place and lay down, with his hands under his head and grass in his mouth, he took out the phone from his pocket and dialed it.

On the first call, he called the broadband installation service provider, and made an appointment with the other party for the next day's on-site inspection.If you can avoid drilling holes, maybe you can install the net directly.

The second call was made to Anderson again, but Anderson still didn't answer, Dong Qiangqiang had to leave a message in his voice mailbox.

The third call was to Du Lan, but Du Lan didn't answer it for some reason. Dong Qiangqiang really didn't want to leave a message, so he could only give up resentfully.

The big sun made his cheeks a little hot, and the small wind blowing from a distance brought the fragrance of the soil, smelling it, his eyelids sank unknowingly.He was thinking about how to talk to Anderson, but he gradually fell asleep.

It was already two o'clock when he woke up again, and he fumbled for his trouser pocket immediately, luckily the phone was still there.He took out his mobile phone and sat up, but there was no call from the mobile phone.He had to cheer up and go into the library to start from those English books.

Dong Qiangqiang used to read mainly German textbooks. He didn’t like English textbooks for two reasons. First, he felt that his English was not good. Second, English textbooks were usually very thick, with hundreds of pages common, and thousands of pages is not surprising. .

But at this moment, there was no phone call, and he couldn't get in touch with anyone he was looking for. Instead, he calmed down and focused all his attention on the book.

He put all the pictures that the teacher had talked about in the morning class on the table, and then found the corresponding English explanations for the pictures.When I first started reading, I felt awkward everywhere, and there were too many English words I didn’t know, and the more I searched, the more I searched.In the end, he was too lazy to look it up (tired), so he just bit the bullet and read all the way.Just reading it like this, he suddenly felt that the English financial book in front of him was like some kind of manual: first, he made a rigorous and lengthy derivation of the formulas involved in the concept, and then elaborated on the effects of changes in various parameters on the results. Finally, summarize the exceptions involved in the formula.And many new words can roughly guess the meaning after reading too much.

This was really beyond his expectation. He didn't know if it was an "epiphany" or what others said "read the book a hundred times and you will see its meaning". In short, after reading it, the time passed quickly, except for two simple activities in the middle Physically, he spends most of his time reading and looking for books.

When it was completely dark and it was nearly 8 o'clock in the evening, he had already figured out most of the concepts the professor talked about during the day and took notes.

For the first time in his life, he felt the joy of learning and the sense of fulfillment after learning.

Still no call back.

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