Chapter 77 New York Accent

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After a period of dripping sound, Lin Hong saw a few lines of green English appear on the black background screen in the middle of the display. The top first row shows "APPLE][", which is the model of this computer, and the second row is "DOS_VERSION_3.3" _SYSTTEM_MASTER". The third row shows a time, which means January 1983.

At the bottom of

, there is a separate "]" symbol constantly beating. This is the command line prompt, and you can enter the command from here, but now Lin Hong does not know the meaning of this symbol.

He is just based on watching what it looks like after the computer is turned on. After all, this is the scene he has been looking forward to for a long time.

Is this the computer?

Looking at what was displayed on the monitor, Lin Hong felt a little lost, which was too different from what he thought. In the imagination, the computer should be a very powerful machine that can complete very complex functions. But now, it seems that there is nothing.

But he is just lost, just like a long-awaited scenery. At first glance, it doesn't look as good as the legend.

Lin Hong knew that this was because he didn't know how to operate this thing, so he couldn't see its power. After all, LUS talked in detail about how he used computers to do something shocking to him. Although he did not see it in person, he can also imagine the wonders of those things from the description of LUS.

In addition, Lin Hong has also seen the power of arcade games. Those games are extremely exquisite. Isn't it also a function of computers?

Lin Hong realized that if he wants to learn computers well, he must improve his English reading and writing skills. Whether it is the thick manual or the content in the computer, it is all in English. Now he feels a little blind.

Lin Hong went to the bookshelf, took the previous Chinese book back in his hand, and quickly looked through it.

This is a textbook that mainly introduces a programming language called BASIC. The author focuses on how to use the language to write programs on Apple computers, but does not involve the specific operation part of Apple computers. The author has made it clear in the preface that he assumes that the people who read this book have Mastered the basic operation of the Apple computer.

Although Lin Hong now wants to use this computer quickly, there is nothing he can do. He has to improve his English reading and writing ability before he can understand the computer manual.

Past experience tells him that if you want to save time in learning anything, it is best to ask an experienced person for advice, which is often much more than groping alone.

So, Lin Hong found his mother who was cleaning up the room for him and asked directly, "Mom, I want to improve my English reading ability quickly. Can you give me some advice?"

Feng Wan was stunned first, and then asked strangely, "Isn't your English already very good?"

Lin Hong shook his head: "My spoken English is fine, but my reading ability is very poor. I only know some simple English words, and I don't know most words at all."

Feng Wan suddenly realised that her son's spoken English is learned through the radio, just like a child learning to speak in life. Although he can speak, he may not necessarily read and write.

In this way, this is a matter of my son's English vocabulary.

According to the current education system, the school will only teach English after junior high school, but since her son offered to give his own advice, Feng Wan was also very happy.

Feng Wan gave him several suggestions. On the one hand, it is to read and memorize words, and on the other hand, it is to read relevant textbooks to learn English grammar and sentence structure. After all, English grammar is quite different from Chinese. Sometimes just knowing words can't fully understand the meaning of the whole sentence.

Feng Wan immediately found English textbooks from the first to third year of junior high school from the bookshelf, and there was also a thick English-Chinese dictionary.

"There is no problem with your spoken English now. You should get twice the result with half the effort. But one thing, I want to correct you. Feng Wan said to Lin Hong, "Your accent is now more about the New York accent, which is similar to Cook's. But in the United States, the New York accent is not very popular, which is often called the 'country' accent.

Due to work, Feng Wan often contacts foreign guests, and many colleagues and friends around her go abroad, so she knows about this matter.

In fact, the New York accent is not standard American English, just like Mandarin with a Shanghai accent is not standard Mandarin.

In New York, there are immigrants from all over the world. The New York accent is a hodgepodge of Southern and Northern Tune, Irish, German, Idi, Latin, and some Caribbean accents. According to a survey by two professors majoring in language at New York University, the New York accent is the least popular English in the United States.

In the United States, because the south was poorer than the north in the past, the southern accent is considered to be more rustic and does not sound "grade". The most standard is the accent in the northern Chicago area, which is recognized as the "Mandarin" in American English. The announcers on TV use this accent.

The accent of New York sounds reckless and literated, and many Americans in other regions don't like it. However, there are also some people who work on Wall Street who specialize in learning New York accents in order to give people the impression that they are tough and difficult to deal with.

So, in everyone's ears, Roy Cook and Lin Hong's accents are very strange, as if their pronunciation is very non-standard.

Feng Wan said this to Lin Hong because she was worried about what problems he would encounter in this regard in the future. He reminded him that if he was willing, he would correct the accent. But if it can't be corrected, it basically doesn't matter. Anyway, the language is used for communication, as long as you can understand it.

Next, Feng Wan carefully told Lin Hong the basic pronunciation rules of English according to the textbook, such as how to divide a word into several syllables, how to pronounce stress at the end of the vowel, and so on.

This pronunciation rule is the most basic thing, just like the pinyin in Chinese. As long as you master it, you can learn words according to the dictionary in the future.

As a result, Feng Wan was shocked by Lin Hong's super memory. She just said it once, and there was basically no problem with Lin Hong's pronunciation of the words, and she could draw inferences from it. She originally wanted to tell her son more, but there was nothing to say later.

In desperation, she had to explain a few words and continue to help Lin Hong clean up the room.

Lin Hong returned to the study. First of all, he quickly turned over the English textbooks from the first to the third year of junior high school, turned over and read them, and matched his previous spoken words with the actual words one by one, and then focused on the relevant grammar. And this process only took about half an hour.

After half an hour, he picked up the English-Chinese dictionary and began to read it quickly. This was what he really wanted to see. He planned to read the computer manual after reading the dictionary.

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