Lost and Spy

Chapter 82 Japanese Learning
Meng Shaoyuan saw his Japanese teacher for the first time.

Actually, it's a Japanese woman in a kimono!
At the age of 25, with delicate features, when he saw Meng Shaoyuan, he immediately bowed slightly: "Hello, I am Yuri Ai Yamashita. From now on, I will be your Japanese teacher."

Yamashita Yuri Ai?
Japanese woman?

Meng Shaoyuan was a little confused.

"Miss Yamashita graduated from Tokyo Imperial University, majoring in language. She has lived in China for a while and is fluent in Chinese." He Ruyi said with a smile: "Xiao Meng, let's learn Japanese with Miss Yamashita. I have given With the special rights of Miss Yamashita, she has the right to subject you to any form of corporal punishment when you fail to study."

Uh.

Meng Shaoyuan suddenly had an evil thought in his heart.

Corporal punishment of any kind?What is included?
"Then, Miss Yamashita, please."

He Ruyi said and left.

"Mr. Meng, let's start too. In the three hours from now, I hope you can learn as much Japanese as possible."

Yamashita Yuri Ai did not delay for a moment.

She first had some long-arranged conversations with Meng Shaoyuan in Japanese.

Meng Shaoyuan knew Japanese, but he was by no means as proficient in English as he was, especially when Yuri Ai Yamashita asked some difficult questions, he seemed somewhat stumped.

Yamashita Yuri Ai seems to be quite satisfied with this test: "Mr. Meng, your Japanese skills are far beyond my imagination. So, do you know the difference between accents in different places in Japanese? For example, Osaka dialect and Difference in Tokyo dialect?"

the difference?

Is it similar to the local dialect in Chinese?

Yamashita Yuri Ai didn't need the other person to answer: "In Japan, accents vary greatly from place to place. Even if you are proficient in Japanese, if you can't tell the accents in these places, then you will meet a real Japanese and have a conversation. People will immediately find out that you are a foreigner."

Um?And this statement?

Meng Shaoyuan remembered seeing it in movies and TV, as long as the Chinese put on makeup and said two words "Yo Xi", the Japanese would believe it as their own, right?

"Why does this happen? Because there are so many dialects in Japan, and there are differences in the syntax of the invoking words, but it is not difficult to understand. Except for those who are professionally engaged in performances, everyone else mainly speaks dialects."

Yamashita explained very carefully by Riyai:

"The dialects of Japan can be roughly divided into Kanto dialect and Kansai dialect. Kansai has always been a political and cultural center in ancient Japan and has a long history, so they have a strong sense of pride. The so-called Kansai dialect in Japan almost exclusively refers to the Kinki dialect centered on Osaka.

So, I mainly want to teach you Kansai dialect.

In the Kansai dialect, Osaka people are rude, speak loudly with an accent, love to complain, and are uneducated.The Kyoto accent, which is also a Kansai accent, is arrogant, conservative, and narrow-minded. He feels that he is a country outside of himself, but in Kansai, he looks down on other parts of Kansai, and some even look down on Tokyo, and his speech is very sour.

Mr. Meng, from now on, you will focus on learning the Kyoto accent. "

What Meng Shaoyuan heard was an eye-opener.

I didn't expect that there are so many details in Japanese.

Not only that.

Japanese people like to fight each other.

Osaka against Tokyo, Kanto against Kansai, which is obviously very hot, and even the discrimination between the various districts of Tokyo is already in a state of dire straits, and each district is vying to be the boss of Tokyo. , the self-deprecating mode between districts and districts, it can be said that no district is a fuel-efficient lamp.

Yamashita Yuri Ai is really a very competent teacher.

She told Meng Shaoyuan the key points of the pronunciation in the Kyoto accent bit by bit in detail, some little secrets that were not known to outsiders, and even the gestures and movements when speaking were very careful.

Meng Shaoyuan also studied very hard.

Mastering the knack of speaking pronunciation will definitely come in handy in the future.

Fortunately, Meng Shao had the basics of Japanese and did not have to learn it from scratch.

He also understood very quickly. In the words of his own era, Tokyo dialect in Japan was actually equivalent to Mandarin in Chinese.

But most of the Japanese prefer to speak in their own dialect.

After more than two hours of teaching, Meng Shaoyuan's progress is still very fast, especially in some details, Yamashita Yuri Ai patiently told him what was wrong, and what was wrong when he heard it.

Yamashita Yuri Ai looked at the time: "Mr. Meng, there is still an hour. Let's have a simple conversation again, can you think?"

"of course can."

Meng Shaoyuan, who had mastered some fur, was eager to try it.

"Then, treat it as if we were classmates in the past, and we met on the road by chance."

Yamashita Yuri Ai asked Meng Shaoyuan to stand up:
"Then, let's start now. Ah, isn't this Shaoyuan-kun?"

"It's Yamashita Yuri Ai, I haven't seen you for a long time."

"What are you doing now?"

"I'm doing some business."

"No, Mr. Meng, you shouldn't answer like this." Yamashita Yuri Ai stopped: "In Japan, you can't simply say that you are in business, but you should say the specific company you work for, and your tone is too calm. And, as I said, the biggest characteristic of the Kyoto accent is the arrogance when speaking.

Imagine that I am a housewife, and you have a successful career and have not seen each other for so many years. You should try your best to show your superiority, especially in front of me, a housewife.Your voice can be a little louder, but not too loud like the Osaka accent. You have to show that you have a sense of superiority, but you have to pretend to be very low-key. "

Meng Shaoyuan understood immediately.

Wasn't that the case in my own era, when old classmates got together?
In short, it can be summed up in two words:
Install X!

Is that what you mean?

Therefore, in the new rehearsal, although Meng Shaoyuan's Japanese is far from being proficient, the arrogance in his voice has already been learned.

Yamashita Yuri Ai was obviously very satisfied with her student. Three hours passed by, she said with a smile:

"Mr. Meng, you learn very fast, and you have a good grasp of some basic grammar, especially your pronunciation and facial expressions. If you can master Japanese a little more, I will think you are really a Kyoto native. of."

Well, it is not something that can be done in a day or two to be able to conduct conversations skillfully without any flaws.

In three months, I hope to be able to do this.

"Then, that's it for today."

"Thank you, teacher."

"Mr. Meng, you forgot to bow. This is the most basic etiquette between Japanese and people."

Uh.

Ok.

Meng Shaoyuan still bowed respectfully.

Isn't there an old saying in China that a teacher for one day is a father for life?

No, is it a mother?

Such a beautiful girl, don't be a "mother".

(End of this chapter)