Chapter 83 Class

Time flew by quickly. After lunch, Luo Quan just checked his phone for a while, and it was already time for class.

Luo Quan didn't plan to be late for the first class of the new semester, so he entered the classroom early and took his seat.

Because the major of linguistics is relatively unpopular and there are relatively few students choosing this major, most of the classrooms arranged are small classrooms of dozens of square meters.

Teachers of large courses usually teach in stepped classrooms, which are very college-like. Classes in small classrooms like this give Luo Quan a sense of déjà vu as if he is still in junior high school.

The classmates in the classroom were also from all over the world. Luo Quan looked around and saw only two yellow-skinned Asians. She was not sure which country they were from, so she didn't go up to talk to them.

But the advantage of this is that no one in the class knows her, and the relationship between classmates will become more normal.

Of course, girls with good looks are usually more likely to gain the attention and favor of boys. It just so happens that Luo Quan is the only girl in this class, so there is simply more wolf than meat.

Fortunately, the teacher arrived in time, otherwise there would have been several eager white boys ready to strike up a conversation with Luo Quan.

This old German professor from the United States has an unusually strong build, estimated to be about 1.9 meters tall, with a red face and a thick neck. A few strands of curled white chest hair can be seen from the collar of a slightly open T-shirt. He is a standard Anglo- Saxon white look.

As a professor at the University of Tokyo, he had no intention of considering local students at all. Or maybe he saw that there were few Asians in the class, so he spoke in a rapid-fire manner in American English, waving his hairy big hands.

In the past, her English level was barely enough for simple daily communication with ordinary Americans, and she could basically write and speak common vocabulary, but it was a bit difficult to keep up with the professor.

Fortunately, Luo Quan redeemed her English proficiency talent in the mall in advance, and the cost was even cheaper than improving her singing skills.

Seeing that each of such practical skills had less than 500 popularity points, Luo Quan exchanged them for all five of the world's mainstream languages, including English, Russian, French, German and Italian.

The result was that Luo Quan suddenly had four more languages ​​in her head. In an instant, it was as if four chatty people were arguing in her mind. Countless words and sentences impacted her brain, causing her to be mentally disturbed for several days. Somewhat lethargic.

However, after these few days, Luo Quan found that he had mastered these languages ​​without realizing it, and had reached the level of simultaneous interpretation. He could switch between languages ​​at will without any pressure.

Although the old German professor speaks very fast and some of the words are quite unfamiliar, few students who use English as a second language can fully understand him.

Fortunately, the language expertise that Luo Quan exchanged from the system was not mixed with water at all. What the professor said to her didn't sound much different from speaking Chinese directly.

In the first class of the semester, the professor named Forster briefly introduced the meaning of this course to the students, that is, the meaning of learning the history of German, and then extended it further to introduce the meaning of linguistics. location.

In his words, linguistics has nothing to do with how many foreign languages ​​a person masters. If you really master more than a dozen foreign languages, at most you can only be called a linguist, not a linguist.

A true linguist takes human language as the research object and explores the nature, function, structure, application and other related issues of language.

Learning the history of language development is the only way for every newcomer to linguistics. The four years of university study are basically just to get you started. If you want to truly study linguistics in depth, you must first take the master's degree exam. They are graduate students from China.

All in all, linguistics is a complex and boring subject that requires long-term hard work, and the employment prospects are very poor. If you really graduate in four years, you will probably be a foreign language teacher at that level, unless you continue to study. You may work in a specialized research institute after completing your studies.

Many students felt chilled after hearing these words. When they came here last semester, no teacher had ever mentioned these things to them. They had always thought that linguistics was about learning multiple foreign languages, and then they would learn more about the language itself after they learned it in depth. Research.

In their opinion, if they could learn so many foreign languages, they would be able to work as a translator no matter how bad they were when they went out. Unexpectedly, the old professor told them that linguistics had nothing to do with learning foreign languages ​​at all, but only the study of languages.

At this time, more than half of the twenty-odd people in the class had considered changing their majors.

However, the conditions for changing majors at the University of Tokyo are very strict. First, you must study for more than one semester, and then your grades must be in the top 10% of your major in the same grade, and you must have no disciplinary records and be in good health.

The first few are easy to say, but there is a condition that "there is a real need to change majors due to special reasons." As for whether your reasons are special or not, and whether you need to change, it is completely up to the school itself to consider.

Just this one rule can basically keep most people stuck in their original major.

Of course, there are also many students who are very calm. They are students who are really interested in linguistics. They have fully understood the information about this major before coming here, and they plan to study this major in the future. So when the old professor told the truth I didn't feel any surprise, but seemed calm.

Luo Quan, on the other hand, belongs to the third type of person. She has already achieved quite good results outside of school, and her employment prospects are not bad at all, as long as she can graduate steadily and get a diploma from the University of Tokyo.

After all, in today's society, academic qualifications are considered first, and majors are second. Regardless of whether you study linguistics or study languages, as long as you take out a diploma from the University of Tokyo, many companies will want you.

Faced with the students' faces with different expressions, Professor Frost was not surprised. The students he had taught class after class had this expression almost every time he talked about it.

Of course, every time there are students who remain unmoved and continue to study linguistics wholeheartedly.

For now, the blond girl with her head buried in a book is a good example.

Frost felt that he needed to use her to establish an image, at least not to make people think that studying linguistics was really hopeless.

"What's your name?" Frost asked Luo Quan.

"Classmate, the professor is asking you." An Indian boy next to Luo Quan lightly knocked on her desk.

"Ah...me?" Luo Quan suddenly raised his head and looked at the professor.

"Yes, it's you." Frost smiled.

"My name is Luo Quan." Luo Quan stood up and said.

"Rachel (Rachel)?" Forster wondered if his ears were hard to use because of his age. Otherwise, why would he think this word sounded so weird?

Luo Quan shook his head: "It's not Rachel, it's Luo Quan. I'm a Chinese, and my surname is Luo Mingquan."

"Chinese..." Forster stared at Luo Quan with suspicious eyes, "Did your parents become Chinese citizens?"

Luo Quan was helpless: "Actually, I am a mixed race. My mother is a pure Chinese and my father is a mixed race of English and Japanese."

Frost whispered to himself: "It's really rare for a person of mixed race from the Three Kingdoms to have a completely white face."

"So, Professor, why did you wake me up?" Luo Quan asked curiously.

Hearing this, Frost immediately puffed up his chest: "I want to ask you, why did you choose language?"

This question really confused Luo Quan.

Her original preference was the Department of Literature, but when filling in her major, she mistakenly filled in a code and ended up in the Department of Languages. This was not her intention to come here.

But it would be too hurtful to say such a thing, so Luo Quan still lied: "I just thought that this major can learn a lot of languages, which is very interesting, so I chose it. I didn't expect that it has nothing to do with how many languages ​​​​you learn." .”

The students all laughed. Many of them chose linguistics for this reason.

"This..." Professor Frost frowned slightly, "Anyway, you are here because of linguistics, so what are your plans for the future after graduation?"

Luo Quan looked up at the ceiling and thought: "Nothing". I'm going to debut as a singer now, as long as I can get my diploma. "

"Okay, you can sit down." Professor Frost sighed helplessly. As expected, linguistics is not a popular major, so he shouldn't have such an idea.

A German history class lasted for half an hour in such a non-awkward atmosphere. At the end of the get out of class, both the professor and the students felt a little relieved.

The same was true for Luo Quan. Linguistics was indeed boring. She originally wanted to look through the books to find out if there was any content that would interest her in this subject, but she was disappointed to find that there was none.

I'm afraid I'm going to suffer for four years in college. It's not easy to pass such a boring subject that I don't even have any interest in.

Fortunately, she has a system and can just improvise and cope with each exam.

Fortunately, there was originally a festival oral English class in the afternoon, but the teacher was temporarily unavailable, so it was canceled immediately. All the students got out of school early, packed their things and prepared to go back to the dormitory amidst cheers.

The boys who had been holding back all afternoon finally plucked up the courage to talk to Luo Quan, only to find that she had already disappeared.

As the saying goes, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. Although Luo Quan is no longer a gentleman, he cannot just wait for the "wall" to fall on its own.

As soon as get out of class was over, she carried her schoolbag and ran away from school, so as not to have to face the waves of chatting up and requests to be friends.

The first day of study ended like this. The teacher did not assign any homework. The two classmates she had just met gave her a task - to win the championship in the singer competition of the Komaba Campus Festival two months later.

For her, this task should be easy to accomplish.