Chapter 544 Difficult Chinese

In the early morning, Zhang Zian opened his eyes and scanned the bedroom for a week as usual. The elves were sleeping peacefully, so he turned over again and planned to sleep for a while. It was too early, and it was too dark and cold outside. windy.

However, after lying down for a while, he didn't feel sleepy at all. He always felt that something was wrong. After thinking about it carefully, he didn't seem to see π?

He propped up his upper body from the bed, and carefully looked at it with the night light of Phimas, the chair that temporarily used π as a bed was empty, and π was nowhere to be found.

Did you go to the toilet?

Zhang Zian turned his head and saw that there was no light from under the toilet door, so it shouldn't be in the toilet... He patted his forehead, π is a fantasy spirit, what toilet are we going to? Really sleepy!

Tap!

There was a slight sound of typing on the keyboard from the living room, Zhang Zian put on his coat, walked around Fei Masi who was kicking his legs in his sleep, and walked quietly, and saw π's back.

It sat on the ground in front of the coffee table, and the light from the laptop screen outlined its furry outline. The untitled book is next to the computer.

π is relatively short, and it would be uncomfortable to sit on the sofa and use the computer for a long time, so he simply sat cross-legged on the ground. Fortunately, there is a carpet around the coffee table, so it is not too cold.

A new Word document was opened on the computer, and the rows were filled with dense numbers, no need to ask, it was still the ratio of pi, mixed with some meaningless English letters, maybe it was practicing typing and fingering.

A pince-nez rests on the bridge of its nose, and the thin lenses reflect the light from the screen. Viewed from the side, the spectacle lenses seem to have no prescription, and the circles of myopia lenses cannot be seen.

π typed very slowly, and sometimes I forgot the position of a certain key, and my fingers hung on the keyboard for a long time, but even so, I didn't use the two-finger Zen for the convenience of the moment.

In order to avoid disturbing the sleep of other elves, it deliberately made its movements very light.

Hearing Zhang Zian's footsteps, it turned back to grin at him, and smiled silently.

Zhang Zian pointed to the desk, picked up the laptop, put it on the desk, adjusted the height of the swivel chair to the highest level, and put a cushion on it, let π sit in the swivel chair, and then moved a chair to sit beside him.

This height is just right, and π sits comfortably.

It pointed to the screen for Zhang Zian to watch,

Typed in English: I want to learn Chinese.

This line of English is still mixed in a series of numbers, but compared to the time in the library, the numbers are much less. Although it is still awkward to read, at least it is not too eye-catching.

learn Chinese?

Zhang Zian was taken aback, stretched his arms, and typed in English to respond: Why?

The meaning of π is obviously to learn Chinese typing, which is not the same as the difficulty of speaking and listening. For foreigners, it is too difficult to change from the Indo-European alphabet to the Sino-Tibetan hieroglyphs.

π typed on the screen: Because the surroundings are all Chinese.

It pointed to the various function buttons on Word, and pointed to the various books placed on the desk. Whether it was the text on the buttons or the spine of the books, they were all in Chinese, with only a small amount of English.

If π wants to live in a pet shop for a long time, if he wants to live in China for a long time, if he doesn't know Chinese at all, he will face many difficulties and inconveniences.

Zhang Zian nodded and typed: I understand, so how do you plan to learn? Can your book teach you?

π shook his head and typed: There is no Chinese in the book.

Zhang Zian thought that the book was all-encompassing, and there should be everything in it, so he was quite surprised to hear the news.

Seeing that Zhang Zian was puzzled, π said again: The book is knowledge.

Oh, he finally knows something about this book, it's a book about life, the universe and everything, but it's probably written in English, there's no Chinese in it, and of course you can't use this book to learn Chinese.

Zhang Zian thought for a while and typed: You don't know Chinese, but you can understand me?

π replied: I can pinyin and understand.

What the hell? This book has Pinyin but no Chinese square characters?

Zhang Zian encouraged: If you know Pinyin, you will learn Chinese quickly, and I will help you.

π smiled, and said again: Thank you. The book teaches how to learn Chinese faster.

Next, Zhang Zian found a lot of free tutorial courses on Chinese teaching from the Internet, and let π learn by following the videos.

π is very focused on studying, staring at the screen intently, sitting in front of the computer for hours, often flipping through unnamed books in front of the video, and Zhang Zian has to urge it to stand up and move around before it can stand up.

Zhang Zian finished his work in the store, played hide-and-seek with Xinghai, took Zhan Tian and Fei Masi to the green field to complete the day's training, and allocated the rest of the time to π as much as possible to provide some help within his ability, such as Choose a convenient and easy-to-use Chinese input method for it.

It may be because it already knows pinyin, it may be that the learning method in the unknown book is very effective, it may be that the current Chinese input method is too smart, and it can accurately type a sentence by typing the first letter of each word, or it may be because It itself is an elf born of the power of faith, and it cannot be deduced by common sense...In short, π learns Chinese very quickly, and it can be said that it has made rapid progress. It only takes one day to type some simple Chinese sentences. On the second day, it I can express my thoughts in Chinese. Although there are many numbers and typos mixed in, and some grammatical errors make people laugh, its progress is real.

Grammatical problems are difficult to solve. Chinese grammar is too complicated. If the position of the same word in a sentence changes, the meaning of the sentence may be completely different, and the same sentence may have different meanings depending on the context.

Zhang Zian found an old newspaper for π and asked him to type the news on it. The words in newspapers are written in a very standardized manner, with fluent sentences and clear meanings. It is not too late to learn spoken language after mastering the written language.

π never tires of learning, but it can't go out in the pet shop, and the only person it can get in touch with is Zhang Zian, and Zhang Zian often needs to meet customers halfway, so he can't be by his side all the time.

To learn a language, the most important thing is to communicate, through daily conversations and interactions, immerse yourself in the atmosphere of language learning. π can't talk like other elves. No one can communicate with it except Zhang Zian. Its Chinese learning soon hit a bottleneck. For the same reason, π is very lonely and often appears unhappy.

Zhang Zian is also aware of this, but he has no skills at all, he has to deal with customers and take care of other elves, so it is impossible for him to spend too much time with π.

He wanted to find a way to make π less lonely.