Without a tape recorder, how to learn English pronunciation, and what did Zeng Guofan s son invent?

Now in China, learning English has long become a compulsory course for every student, and there are various ways to learn, and there is never a need to worry about how to learn pronunciation, after all, in addition to the classroom, you can also get access to authentic English pronunciation through various ** and social platforms. But in the Qing Dynasty a hundred years ago, there was no such wayIn order to learn English pronunciation, Zeng Guofan's son Zeng Jize invented a method that now seems very unreliable to learn English pronunciation, and he also named this method "Western character tuning and merging method".

It seems complicated to look at this name, but in fact, it is the same as when we were children, we didn't know phonetic transcription, and we marked pinyin or Chinese characters after words, this method is actually to use Chinese characters to mark English pronunciation. It's just that Zeng's son's method is a little more "high-minded": when he uses Chinese characters to mark the English pronunciation, he connects it with the original meaning of English.

For example, deception is cheat, and the pronunciation is "deception"; Death is die, and the pronunciation is "evil"; Hot is hot, and the phonetic is "Huote". In this way, when you memorize the pronunciation, you can also strengthen the memory of multiple meanings.

It was only at the end of the 19th century that people in China began to learn English, when many missionaries from England had already begun to come to China, and people began to understand this "barbarian bird language". Language, of course, is learned for use, with the beginning of foreign **, gradually businessmen began to learn English, at that time English was called "red hairy language". At that time, English learning was more like word of mouth, and there was no systematic way to learn English.

Later, the development of English learning was relatively widespread and vigorous because of the war. The Western powers began the process of eroding the Qing Dynasty through war, forcing the patriotic young people at that time to find a way to understand the West, and in order to learn Western technology faster, many people, including the emperor, began to learn English, including Zeng Guofan's son Zeng Jize.

Zeng Guofan's son, Zeng Jize, invented the use of Chinese characters to pronounce English pronunciation, and wrote the book "Annotated English Words", such as annotating "to do" as "todu".

Zeng Guofan's son was called Zeng Jize, and when many people couldn't pronounce English correctly, he invented "Zhutu Yin", which is to use Chinese characters to phonetize English words.

In fact, this is a very common way to learn English, called "Zhutu Yin", that is, to replace the English pronunciation with a similar Chinese pronunciation, although this seems simple and useful, it is actually not a quick and good way.

Invented: The method of mixing and merging Western characters is to express the English pronunciation in Chinese characters. Just like many of us who are learning English for the first time, we will continue to use this method.

Invented a way to take a foreigner with him and teach him at all times. He paid a lot of money to keep some foreigners around.