Miss Nana speaks English/He Jiong.
My friend Nana is a well-known program host with a lively and bold style, especially the one who is not afraid of making a fool of herself.
Because she majored in art, Nana didn't receive much English education, but as a proud host who often went abroad (it seems that she had been to Korea, Thailand and Singapore once), Nana spoke English very well. She is also studying English very seriously. I remember calling her once and hearing a strange voice on the other end of the phone: "thank you, no, I miss you!" Good morning, good morning! " I asked Nana who was speaking, and she said that she was listening to the English study tapes in Mandarin and Cantonese that she had just bought, and she was also dissatisfied that I interrupted her study. When I was surprised where Nana bought such a monster tape, I also paid tribute to her curiosity.
Unfortunately, this kind of study is not systematic and professional enough, and Miss Nana's English level has not been greatly improved. However, the enthusiasm for speaking English has always been high.
Once we were lucky enough to go to Thailand for a holiday with Nana. When I was flying, I found that I met the flight with the worst service attitude in history and didn't offer any service on my own initiative. Miss Nana, on the other hand, took everything she wanted from the stewardess through skipping words and gestures. For example, she hugged her shoulders, huddled up and shouted "cold, cold!" " "I asked for a blanket, patted my stomach, said' rice, rice' and asked for a plane meal. As for refilling water, it is more important to have coffee or something. People really admire Nana's ability to survive.
In a hotel in Thailand, Nana once again demonstrated her special functions. We needed a wiring board that day, but everyone scratched their heads and couldn't remember how to say it in English. Nana looked at me and said, then rushed to the front desk. After a while, the waiter brought the wiring board. We asked Nana curiously how to express the wiring board, and she said simply, "Oh, it's very simple. I rushed into their office, rummaged through the cabinets, found a wiring board and told people to give me this! "
Later, when we went in and out of the front desk with Nana, we were completely ashamed. We always feel that there is a strange look in that office.
There was no toilet paper in our room, and Nana just came to open the door. Without saying anything, she took the initiative to pick up the phone and asked the waiter for medicine. After saying "give me some", Nana found that she couldn't speak toilet paper, so she unhurriedly reached over the phone and asked me what to say. I told her that it could be expressed by the combination of "toilet paper". Nana pondered several times, picked up the phone and said loudly, "Hi! Please give me some toilet people! " Toilet man? Toilet man? Baba people? I shouted no! When I grabbed the phone to remedy it, I heard an innocent voice asking, "What? What?
There are more exciting things. During her stay in Thailand, Miss Xie likes to wear a swimsuit and then a thin miniskirt. In the hot street, the skirt swayed and became a landscape. That afternoon, Nana was walking in front of him, and suddenly he blushed and ran happily to show off to us: "The men on the roadside are really annoying! Yell sexy at me! Sexy! I have never seen a beautiful woman like me! " I can't believe grandma's story at all. Looking in the direction she pointed, I saw a group of taxi drivers squatting on the side of the road, yelling at everyone passing by. Of course, it's not sexy, but:
"Taxi? Taxi? "
I didn't show any goodwill to awaken Nana's dream, pointing to the big "taxi" on the drivers' uniforms to show Nana the truth: "You really think too much!"
Miss Nana married a very distinctive shop to do a spa. The waiter greeted the guests very gently, and Nana's masseur asked sweetly, "How are you today?" I saw Miss Xie blushing with anxiety and hesitated for a long time before answering: "I'm tweenyfour!" " Later, the embarrassed masseur never said a word to Nana again, but kept using gestures and body language. Sometimes we carefully explain "How are you?" (How are you today? ) and "How old are you" (How old are you today? ), and Nana said with relief: "No wonder! I'm still thinking, why do I have to ask how old I am for a massage? I thought there were different ways for different ages! "
I heard that in Korea, Miss Nana played a little joke when changing money. It was just when she was about to leave Korea that she took a fancy to a cosmetic in a duty-free shop. Nana wants to spend half of her HK$ 1000 and take the remaining 500 back to China in RMB. So Nana went to the money exchange team. When it was her turn, she handed over 1,000 Hong Kong dollars and said smartly, "Excuse me, five Ren Min' Bi' s and five you' Bi'!" The bank wine was suspicious of his ears and insisted, "What?" Nana explained impatiently: "Five people's Bi, five yours Bi!" The bank lady looked at Nana for a long time, but she didn't understand this one. She painfully handed back the thousand Hong Kong dollars with both hands and said painfully, "I'm sorry!" "
Miss Nana took back the money, turned around, shrugged helplessly at the impatient tourists from all over the world waiting in line behind her, and said to everyone, "No money!" "
One of Nana's jokes recently was that we met an interesting foreigner in a bar. A nosy person maliciously urged Nana to ask where he came from. As a result, Miss Nana forgot to say the important word "cong" and patted the foreigner on the shoulder. When the world turned around, Nana asked loudly, "Where are you?" Foreigners also pretty poor, especially happy to answer:
"I'm here!"
2008 is coming, and I'm worried that Xie Na will keep using it. But I also think that Miss Nana's style of loving and daring to speak is actually the best way to learn English. Maybe on that day, in front of friends all over the world, Miss Nana will speak English best! Let's learn from her.
Zhou Zhou