"This class ends here. Copy the forty-eight phonetic symbols on the blackboard onto the first page of your English book and memorize them. Dismissed!" The bell signaling the end of class rang as Xu Qingfan tossed the chalk back onto the podium and said to everyone after dusting the chalk off his hands.
He didn't care whether his classmates listened to him or not; he just thought phonetics were quite important. Back in his previous life, Xu Qingfan had never been taught English by a teacher. His elementary school teacher said the middle school teacher would teach it, but when he got to middle school, the middle school teacher claimed they should have learned it in elementary school.
As a result, whenever he encountered a word he couldn't pronounce, he could only write the Chinese phonetic notation next to it. For instance, for the word 'voluntarily', he could only write "wo lun che er V" next to it.
