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Memories of a retired officer who has been in the army for 17 years
(91) Not being able to speak Mandarin became my advantage
I was transferred to the Political Department, where I live Entering the compound that used to be a division-level institution, I came into contact with many people, and my inability to speak Mandarin became an obstacle for me to communicate with people. Especially when broadcasting, sometimes announcements have to be made. The hometown dialect is so thick that it takes listeners to listen to the broadcast several times to understand. Some fellow villagers ridiculed me: The announcement was like the captain of the production team, and he was serious.
So I decided to learn to speak Mandarin. I learned it every day in front of TV news broadcasts and radio announcers. However, after learning for a while, I found that my language expression ability was worse than before. I paid more attention to what I said with my mouth than what I thought in my head. He is clumsy when speaking, and his tone of voice feels strange.
The author is from the military uniform photo
The reason I found myself is that the hometown dialect has been deeply ingrained, because from elementary school to middle school, the teachers did not teach us to speak Mandarin, especially in our school days when the teachers were "stinky old nine", substitute teachers , there are too many unqualified teachers, there are more than 20 teachers who have taught me in the first to fifth grade alone, and the pinyin pronunciation of each teacher is also different. Even if the regular class is taught, most of the teachers teach in their native dialect, and the teachers basically Nor can I speak Mandarin. At that time, I never thought that one day I would go out of the mountains. As long as I could speak, I would be able to mingle with the villagers.
I can’t speak Mandarin well, so I don’t try to avoid it, I just let it take its course.
Unexpectedly, it actually deepens the impression that others know me. As soon as I start talking, others will know where I am from, which reduces the need to introduce where I am from. Because I have a lot of contact with leading cadres serving in the army in Henan. If I occasionally speak with a Henan accent, many people will say: You are from Henan, or else, you are from Hunan. Whenever I go to a large office to do business, as soon as I speak a Hunan accent, someone will hear, Hey! My fellow countrymen, my face changed immediately and my hands moved immediately, because it was a fellow countryman who hurriedly did it~~
That year, I went to the Shanghai Political Yuan for further study, and everyone had to take a political class. And I spoke Hunan dialect, which made the students frown, and I said: I come from the hometown of great men. Great men didn’t speak Mandarin, and I don’t speak Mandarin either. The whole class burst into laughter on the spot, and all of a sudden the students’ energy was focused on me. I came up with the content of the lecture and achieved success in the lecture. When I graduated, I was rated as an outstanding student.
If you can't speak Mandarin, you can't be said to be uneducated. People who can speak Mandarin can't agree that you are literate. If you can't speak Mandarin, you can't deny that you can't do things. If you can speak Mandarin, you can't be sure that you can do things. There is only one result: getting things done successfully is the most important thing.
As a journalist, not speaking Mandarin is indeed a flaw, but it is indeed an advantage for me.
The author's summer uniform and military uniform photo
I chose my own career and returned to my hometown to work in a municipal newspaper. The folks and farmers in my hometown are very disgusted with reporters and people who talk about officialdom. Some reporters only ask questions and answers in interviews, but do not go into depth. The articles they write have "bones" but no flesh, and are empty. And I spoke an authentic local accent, immersed myself in rural tourist attractions, and ate and worked together with the villagers. In a few days, I wrote "Why is the tourism industry in X City so low?" ", "The real estate in X City cannot become a bubble! 》The investigation report was published prominently in the municipal newspaper, which aroused the praise of the then municipal Party committee secretary and personally called the newspaper office to learn about my situation. The president held an editorial meeting and said: You have been working in the newspaper for decades and you can't even write a decent article. Look at the municipal party secretary who has remembered his name just a few months after Tang came...
So, now I I often think that great people do not speak Mandarin and I do not speak Mandarin~~
(serial)
The author uses the historical facts of his 17-year military career as the main line, and a large number of vivid life stories of how he served in the military camp and how he grew up. As a basis, they are connected into stories using documentary literary techniques, and are presented to readers in the form of serialization. Due to other reasons, I have not written for more than ten years and my sentences are slow. I apologize to the readers. This is the first draft. Comments are welcome, and criticisms and corrections from comrades are more welcome. ➖Author’s words
