Chapter 67: Shocking Exam Results (1/2)
Chapter 67: Shocking Exam Results
Yang Ming and Chen Mengyan came out of the police station. By this point, they were pretty familiar with Xiao Qing.
“Both of you, thank you so much!” Xiao Qing said it sincerely this time. “There was a passport that I had just obtained in my bag. It would have been really troublesome if it had been stolen!”
“Passport?” Yang Ming remembered seeing her pick up a few books on the Korean language in the bookstore before and he asked, “Are you going to Korea?”
“Yeah, in a few days, I will be attending the International Korean Chinese University Student Networking Event. Hehe, so I thought about sharpening up my Korean language.” Xiao Qing smiled.
“University student networking event? Elder sister, are you a university student? Oh, you must be a PhD student!” Chen Mengyan asked curiously. However, considering Xiao Qing’s age, she should be a PhD student!
“Me? PhD student? Hehe, do I look that young? I am the teacher who’s leading the team!” Xiao Qing gave Yang Ming a glare, obviously still annoyed at being called a “big mama”.
Yang Ming decided to pretend that he didn’t hear it and didn’t bother her about it. Instead, Chen Mengyan chatted a little longer with her and then they parted ways.
Xiao Qing dared not take the bus anymore, therefore, she hailed a taxi and departed. However, Yang Ming and Chen Mengyan went back to the bus stop and waited for the next bus.
At night, Yang Ming took out the books he bought during the day. The books about sign language were temporarily placed on the bookshelf. He took out one of the books about lip-reading and started reading it.
Since the learning materials were at a beginner’s level, all the content inside was about the shape of the mouth. It didn’t take long for Yang Ming to read through all of them. Those that he couldn’t understand at the start, he could understand it easily just by looking at the mirror and shaping his mouth.
Actually, the toughest part about lip-reading was eyesight. If his eyes were not able to capture the image quick enough, regardless of how prevalent the knowledge of lip shape he possessed, it wouldn’t be practical at all! However, for Yang Ming, it was nice that he had really good eyesight. Regardless of how far away the speaker was, as long as he wanted to look at the mouth, he could see it clearly.
The learning materials weren’t thick and there wasn’t anything too deep inside. It was just basically a few mouth shapes about different pronunciations! Even though the Chinese language is broad and profound, the pronunciation is formed with twenty-six phonetic alphabets which combined into about four hundred pronunciations!
Therefore, as long as that was memorized, all that was left was just the practical experience.
Memorization wasn’t a challenge for Yang Ming. He naturally had a good memory, moreover, now it was something that he was interested in. How could he not learn it quickly?
In about an hour, Yang Ming had finished reading the first chapter. He found out that the learning materials also had practice questions, so he went to get the DVD immediately.
However, once he took it in his hand and looked at it in detail, he was disheartened. Damn! It’s a computer CD! On the top of the CD, there was fine print: For Windows XP/Vista!
Yang Ming’s living condition at home wasn’t that good so he never bought a computer. It looks like he encountered a bottleneck! Actually, Yang Ming had wanted to buy a computer for a while. It was just that previously he had poor exam results. His parents were afraid that if he bought a computer and got indulged in playing games then he wouldn’t study much! This time, since he had pretty good exam results, his parents most likely would agree to it.