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Chapter 489 - 489 Who Was He Scolding?
Chapter 489 - 489 Who Was He Scolding?
489 Who Was He Scolding?
“According to the new changes, she learned Japanese later, so we don’t expect you to be fluent in Japanese. Even if you are not fluent, it is still in line with the character setting. However, you have to be fluent in English and French. According to the script, Luo Niannian was supposed to be overseas in Europe, so her English has an English accent. I hope you can practice this well. I also made the same request to Su Youlan. At the audition, apart from acting skills, the language barrier can also be used as a reference.”
“You don’t have to wait for the audition. I can make you feel at ease now. I have no problems in terms of the language barrier,” Jiang Xun said in English.
Moreover, it was in a very pure English accent.
Mingguan was taken aback. English pronunciation was difficult. Even if he had studied abroad for several years, his accent and pronunciation might not be so accurate.
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Some people would be slightly deliberate in order to achieve the standard pronunciation.
Some spoke the language fluently and naturally, enough to make people not care about the accent and pronunciation.
However, not only did Jiang Xun speak smoothly and naturally, but her tone and pronunciation were also extremely standard and natural. There was no deliberate effort at all.
Mingguan closed his eyes and listened without looking at Jiang Xun’s face. He only listened to Jiang Xun’s voice and found that it was as if he was watching an English movie. There was no sense of disharmony.
At this moment, Jiang Xun changed her tone again.
“As for French, I don’t have a problem with it either.” After Jiang Xun finished speaking in French, she randomly picked a line from Niannian’s script and said it in French.
The third sentence was in Japanese.
Although Mingguan didn’t understand French or Japanese, he studied films from various countries.
Therefore, even if they couldn’t understand it, he could roughly tell the quality of the pronunciation and tone.
He was sure that Jiang Xun didn’t know about the change in Niannian’s character setting.
This was the result of his discussion with the screenwriter.
Even Youlan, who had supposedly secured the role, only found out tonight.
“You’ve mastered three foreign languages?!” Mingguan said in surprise.
It was no longer a matter of whether or not she could master it.
He knew that Jiang Xun was a top student, but he did not expect her to be so good at language!
Acting with such a standard was really a little… It was an utter waste of talent!
During the apocalypse, many records and civilizations of the past had been lost due to unforeseen circumstances.
But there was no language.
In the early days of the apocalypse, each country still fought against zombies separately.
However, as the number of people in each country decreased, the survival instinct of human beings, which was based on social evolution, kept converging.
A few major countries decided to gather all the humans from various countries, and the higher-ups of each country joined forces to form the federal government.
It was because of the gathering of humans from all over the world that languages also converged.
The languages of the various countries were not lost.
However, the language of small countries slowly disappeared.
This was because the population of the small countries was getting smaller and smaller, and in the end, it was as if the countries had been destroyed.
Since the people who spoke that language had disappeared, the language naturally disappeared as well.
But to Jiang Xun’s surprise, those languages were exactly the same as the national languages of this world.
Some of these people were the higher-ups of the federation.
They naturally did not want their own language to disappear.
These people even had the idea that when they found the source of the zombie virus, they would produce a vaccine that could be used once and for all. They would no longer have to worry about being infected by the zombie virus and completely eliminate the zombies.
After the world was restored to its original state, they would rebuild their original country.
The upper echelons of the original federal government would become the king of their own country or have a position that was only one step below.
The temptation of power. There were too many doubts. No one was willing to be under someone else in the temporary federal government. They were always worried about being pushed out.
They could only feel at ease when they truly had enough power.
Therefore, the remaining languages didn’t disappear, but were added to the compulsory courses.
The children who had gone to school during the apocalypse had basically mastered two to three foreign languages, especially a soldier like Jiang Xun.
Although there was a unified language within teams, they would often encounter teams that spoke other languages during missions.
Or perhaps, they would complete a mission with a team that spoke another language.
As such, the soldiers were required to master two main languages and two optional languages.
During the apocalypse, the two main languages were Chinese and English.
As language electives, Jiang Xun chose French and Japanese.
Jiang Xun was glad that her mother tongue was Chinese, so she could learn one less subject.
Moreover, she had been able to speak it since she was young, so she didn’t find it difficult at first.
However, when she saw her classmates suffering while learning Chinese, hating that they only had one brain, and some even hated that they had a mouth, Jiang Xun was very glad that her mother tongue was Chinese.
She did not expect that the language she had mastered would come in handy at this time.
Nothing was wasted.
“Director, at the very least, there shouldn’t be any problems with the language barrier, right?” Jiang Xun looked at Mingguan with a faint smile.
Mingguan finally recovered from his shock. “Yes… yes, there’s definitely no problem with the language barrier.”
No one in the entire entertainment industry could master so many foreign languages at the same time like Jiang Xun. Moreover, she was so proficient in them that it was as if she was speaking her mother tongue.
“The day after tomorrow, there’s an audition at 10 am,” Mingguan said. “As long as your performance level is similar to Su Youlan’s, even if it’s just a little worse, I’ll still choose you. Your foreign language is so good that you’ll be able to bring more immersion to the character.”
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Youlan couldn’t speak anything but English, and her spoken English was just average.
Even though Youlan had been studying at Jixia Elementary School since she was young, most of her experience had been spent on acting.
She had started acting in the entertainment industry since she was young and had never studied seriously for a few days.
Even though the language environment at Jixia Academy was good, and the students from Jixia Academy were all fluent in English as if they had lived abroad for a long time, Youlan was an exception because of her acting.
Mufeng suddenly scoffed. “Similar to Youlan? Even if it’s just a little worse?”
Who was Mingguan scolding?
Mufeng’s expression was extremely dangerous. His pair of black eyes were icy and penetrating with darkness as he looked at Mingguan coldly.
He began to doubt Mingguan’s directing skills.
As a director, his judgment of actors was so poor.
The tip of Mufeng’s thumb was casually rubbing the side of the first joint of his index finger.
Maybe it would be better to cultivate a director with good vision.
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Chen Zilong, Deng Xu, and Guo Haolun were good.
Mingguan’s heart suddenly turned cold, and the hair on the back of his neck stood up. He hurriedly said, “No… no, Jiang Xun’s acting skills are undoubtedly very good.”