Quick Transmigration: The Love Rescue Plan

[Welcome to the Examination Hall, Zhou Yu of the Three Kingdoms at Red Cliffs! Given the active participation of the Zhou Yu of the Three Kingdoms at Red Cliffs group in the Examination Hall, a bonus of 20 points will be awarded for successful completion of the final exam, and an additional 30 points for being the first to complete the exam, for a total bonus of 50 points.]

Dong Yinmiao was quite delighted. Wow, I didn't expect to earn extra points!

[Was Zhou Yu's Battle of Red Cliffs in the Three Kingdoms period included in the English exam?]

Dong Yinmiao chose "yes" without hesitation.

Dong Yinmiao found herself in a very simple room with 12 bunk beds, clearly a dormitory. She glanced around casually, finding almost no useful information. This was an English exam, not a detective story or an escape room game, so Dong Yinmiao felt there was no need to waste time searching the room.

However, Dong Yinmiao did not leave immediately. Instead, while activating the idiom skill with Luo Yuheng to establish a tacit understanding, he went to the locker and looked it over.

Although this is an English exam, the names of the people in the exam room are set in a simple Chinese style. For example, Dong Yinmiao found what should be her locker in the locker room: Maid Dong. It is simple and clear that Dong Yinmiao's identity in this exam room is a maid.

"Luo Shen, hello, I am a maid. I am still in the dormitory and have not left." As soon as the two were "in sync", Dong Yinmiao directly gave her information.

“Kitchen helper, kitchen, Qiao.” Luo Yuheng’s words remained concise.

However, Dong Yinmiao did understand what Luo Yuheng meant. Luo Yuheng was a kitchen helper and was currently in the kitchen. Because this was the examination room for an English exam, Luo Yuheng hoped to find a way to establish a communication channel with Qiao Zishan.

Why Qiao Zishan?

Dong Yinmiao sighed helplessly. It could be said that when he told all the group members that the next class would be an English test, only Qiao Zishan's expression cracked.

Qiao Zishan made it very clear to everyone that he couldn't do it; he had standard Chinese phonetic transcription and English pronunciation.

Um, what is Chinese phonetic symbols in English?

Dong Yinmiao could only admit that he was truly ignorant, thinking that English words were either learned or memorized through phonetics or by rote memorization. This was truly the first time he had ever heard of such a poor student's approach.

Most people, when faced with an unfamiliar English word, will rely on the 48 phonetic symbols to guess how to pronounce it. But for struggling students, it's different. They either memorize it or they don't. If they memorize it, they can say it; if they don't, they simply don't know it.

Take "delicious" for example. Based on the rules of the 48 phonetic symbols, the initial "D" can be inferred to be pronounced as "D". The pronunciation of "E" is divided into "i" and "e", such as "me" and "bed". In "cious", "i" is usually pronounced as "i" and "ous" is usually pronounced as "s". Then, by considering the whole word, we can infer that the pronunciation of this word should be "[dɪˈlɪˈs]".

The reasoning may seem complicated, but if you just master the rules of the International Phonetic Alphabet, you can almost read the pronunciation of a word at a glance.

Of course, a poor student won't be able to learn this, nor will they understand its usefulness. Relying on rote memorization of Chinese phonetic symbols for an English oral exam doesn't guarantee a pass, but it also doesn't guarantee a zero score.

If a method can be devised, it must have some merit, since this is what struggling students rely on to improve their English. Whether it's for memorizing vocabulary for teachers or for passing oral exams, it... has some use, I suppose.

However, learning English phonetics not only allows you to pronounce words you don't know, but it also helps you spell words by pronunciation during listening comprehension tests, although it may not be 100% accurate.

After all, Chinese has distinctions between "he," "she," and "it." However, the chances of it being identified are still quite high.

Of course, these are not the main points. The main point is what Chinese phonetic symbols are in English.

Faced with the word "delicious," Qiao Zishan couldn't understand it at all [dɪˈlɪˈs], but that's okay, the teacher would explain the word. It didn't matter if he didn't understand, as long as he could hear it. Hearing the teacher's pronunciation, Qiao Zishan would get the appropriate Chinese phonetic transcription: "地理学死" (ge li xué sǐ). Doesn't that sound completely wrong, but vaguely, it seems to make sense?

Anyway, when Dong Yinmiao heard Qiao Zishan mention it, he felt his worldview was completely shattered.

A simple "How are you? I'm fine. Thank you!" becomes "好啊哟，爱嗯快三口油" in Qiao Zishan's voice, and the "快" is pronounced in Cantonese.

In short, if you put those Chinese phonetic symbols in front of Dong Yinmiao, he would dare say that he couldn't understand them at all, nor could he pronounce them! The phonetic symbols, which combine Mandarin, dialects, and pinyin, are really not something he couldn't understand at all!

It's safe to say that the most worrying person in this exam room is Qiao Zishan, who is terrible at English. He can't just be mute anymore; he might be illiterate... no, it feels like even illiterate people are better than him!

At least an illiterate person can communicate with others; even a mute illiterate person can glean information from conversations among passersby. But Qiao Zishan…

When Dong Yinmiao used "three hearts and two minds" to establish contact with Qiao Zishan, he received news that Qiao Zishan was being chased all over the palace by palace guards.

Good news! Important information has been received from the palace.

You're saying Qiao Zishan doesn't understand because how does she know this is a palace? Whether it's the East or the West, ancient or modern, it's hard not to recognize a place like a palace at a glance, right? Can an ordinary house be that big and so magnificent? If she can't even recognize a palace when she's being chased around on this map, then Da Qiao is truly useless.

Of course, Luo Yuheng in the "Imperial Kitchen" should also have received this news, but it wasn't important enough for Luo Yuheng to mention it separately. After all, Dong Yinmiao would find out after leaving the room.

Dong Yinmiao was helpless to help Qiao Zishan in his predicament. After all, the palace was so vast, and Qiao Zishan was constantly moving, so Dong Yinmiao had no way to find him. He had already used two idiom skills, leaving only one, so it wasn't worth using it on searching for Qiao Zishan.

Dong Yinmiao wasn't in a hurry to meet up with Luo Yuheng; instead, she planned to leave the room and wander around. As a maid, Dong Yinmiao should have relatively free movement within the palace.

Although Dong Yinmiao didn't know the way, as long as he kept walking in one direction, he wouldn't get lost.

Fortunately, there were no ridiculous or melodramatic scenes of getting lost.