In this era, listening and speaking were not tested so few students paid attention to it. It was fine as long as they could read and write.
Su Mian obviously knew what Sun Ying’s intentions were, so she definitely could not allow her to show off! Su Mian brushed off Wei Min’s hand and stood up, saying crisply, “Okay, count me in!”
All the male classmates gave Su Mian a thumbs up. It did not matter what the result was, her courage was commendable!
However, they already knew the result and it was a no brainer.
A standard pronunciation, followed by a strong northeast accent in the following sentence.
After experiencing this several times in the past three years, no one dared to read with Sun Ying anymore.
Su Mian, good luck!
Su Mian, take care!
Su Mian, you will still be a hero 18 years later!
The male students grieved silently for Su Mian.
For the last participant, Zhang Hai Ying called on Li Ya Jun. Out of the whole class, only Li Ya Jun’s somewhat accented spoken language could sound a little harmonious with Sun Ying’s.
The three of them discussed the roles. They called it a discussion, but basically Sun Ying allocated the parts.
Sun Ying obviously chose the shortest section for herself, and the longest section for Su Mian. Li Ya Jun’s was neither long nor short.
Sun Ying was going to embarrass Su Mian today so had specially chosen the longest section for Su Mian. Not to mention reading it completely, with Su Mian’s level of English, it would be good if she could recognise even half the words in it.
Sun Ying looked at Su Mian provokingly. Su Mian looked back at her, then smiled and nodded at her.
Sun Ying was taken aback. This Su Mian, was she crazy? Did Su Mian not know her own strength?
She was setting her up, yet she was still laughing!
Just wait and see, she would make her cry in a moment!
The first few short sentences were read by Sun Ying and Li Ya Jun and were basically unrelated to Su Mian. Su Mian’s long section was at the end.
Sun Ying’s spoken language was fluent and was indeed pleasing to hear. Li Ya Jun’s was also quite satisfactory and there was nothing to fault him with.
Finally, it was Su Mian’s turn. Su Mian cleared her throat before starting.
Sun Ying sneered coldly. How shameful. In what manner could she read anyway, clearing her throat like that. She would just sound like the rural northeast.
As a result, when Su Mian spoke, the whole class was shocked!
Their eyes bulged. Oh my god, Su Mian’s English was heavenly!
It seemed to be even more standard than the tape recordings that they had heard from the Xinhua Bookstore.
This was authentic American English!
In her previous life, when Su Mian went to study at the Second Military Medical University, Zhao Bo had had an international research project that he happened to be cooperating with the M Empire. Su Mian had interacted with the foreigners in M Country for a year. At first, she was too embarrassed to speak and could not really understand what they were saying.
There were translations, but it was too troublesome to communicate like that and all the exchanges were about confidential information. Su Mian studied secretly by herself and adding to her daily real life practice with the foreigners, she was able to talk to them fluently after three months.
Although her pronunciation was not as great as back then, the basics were still there and she was reading directly from the book. That year of demonic training was not in vain at all and really came in handy today.
Su Mian finished reading and turned to look at Sun Ying, “I’m finished. I wonder if Student Sun Ying is satisfied?”
Satisfied, too satisfied. Zhang Hai Ying was stunned. She had always thought her daughter’s spoken English was the best in the school. Now, it seemed like this classmate’s spoken English was like that of a foreigner’s!
If it were not for her Chinese face, she would have thought that the person who read just now was someone from the M Empire!
Not to mention the other classmates, even Wei Min’s eyes had popped out of her head and her mouth was hanging wide open. When had Su Mian’s spoken English become so good?
