Chapter 167 Learning

Chapter 167 Learning

"Dishya!"

"Desia?"

After Dixia leaned against the wall and observed silently for a while, someone finally noticed the female mercenary who had not returned for a long time.

"Hisham, Harun, you are not focused enough." Dishia pointed out the two mercenaries who called out her name and gave this evaluation bluntly.

Hisham and Harun looked at each other, both showing a slightly embarrassed look.

At this time, the others also put down their books temporarily because of this little episode, and turned their eyes to the only female mercenary in their mercenary group, greeting her enthusiastically.

"Dixia, long time no see, you seem to be getting more and more energetic - do you know this word?"

"Dixia, come and help us figure out what this symbol should be pronounced like. We've been discussing this for two days and still can't agree on the answer."

...

Dixia raised her eyebrows. If it were a month ago, her companions would definitely ask questions like "How much did you make from this order?" and "What kind of wine did you buy?"

We have really changed a lot. Was Dolly's speech in the pub that day really that inspiring? It's a pity that I missed it.

Many thoughts flashed through Dixia's mind, including sighs and regrets, but on the surface she still showed her usual bright and confident smile and took the textbooks handed over by her companions.

She used her finger to hold the book as a bookmark, then closed the book and looked at the title, and her eyes were quickly drawn to the editor's column.

Lei Feng, Ma Yuan? Never heard of them, they sound like Liyue people's names.

But since he dared to publish a textbook in the Xumi Rain Forest, this is probably not his real name.

Thinking of this, Dixia turned the book to the marked page again, coughed lightly and asked, "Which word did you just say?"

"This." A mercenary with brown curly hair nearby stepped forward and rubbed hard on some words with his fingers, fearing that Dixia might have read it wrongly.

"Dixia, you are the most familiar with Xumi's common language among us. You should know how to read this word, right?"

"Let me see - this word is pronounced..., and it means medicine." Dixia said.

As soon as she finished speaking, a young mercenary shouted excitedly:

"So this symbol is pronounced /w/, right? I was right before!"

"It's just a guess." The short mercenary beside him snorted in dissatisfaction.

"It has to be Dixia. She solved a big problem for us as soon as she came back. We were thinking of asking the mercenaries from other mercenary groups."

"Dixia, please take a look at the other symbols. Although we have interpreted them, we are not sure if they are correct."

"There are so many matching pronunciations later. Have you figured out all of them?" Dixia said in surprise.

"It took a lot of effort. You don't know how much we argued in the first few days. Almost every word in the comparison table was pronounced in two or three different ways, and everyone interpreted the symbols differently."

"Later, the group leader organized us to first determine the pronunciations of the most familiar characters, and then determine as many of the symbols as possible."

"The halaf in our group can write some of our tribal characters. The group leader said that we should use the ones he is sure of as the standard. If he is not sure, he will refer to other people's opinions. If the pronunciation of a character is agreed by more than ten people, then it will be confirmed."

Dixia sighed in her heart. This wouldn't work. Mistakes would still occur. This was too big a step. It would be impossible to teach oneself based on the current level of education.

Although she was disappointed, she still pretended to be curious and asked, "So can you really understand the article written in Xumi Common Language through these symbols?"

When she asked this question, all the mercenaries present lowered their heads slightly.

...Sure enough, I still can't trust the merchant too much. Dixia has made up her mind.

“We’re not progressing that fast.”

"We have only determined the pronunciation of some of the Xumi common characters, and are now comparing them with the illustrations to understand the meaning of those characters."

"We all read the first two texts of the introductory textbook, only the desert text part, because at the beginning, the pronunciation and meaning of some words were also guessed. We found that putting these words in the text was also a kind of correction.

Dixia, you don't know that Harun remembered 'cloud' as 'rice' and swore that he was absolutely right. It was because of his words that we misinterpreted the pronunciation of the five symbols. Fortunately, the team leader found that some symbols were really hard to interpret and asked us to read the text first. "

Harlan's face turned red and he shouted, "I didn't mean to remember it wrong! I really thought that the word was pronounced that way and meant that way!"

"Now that the pronunciation of the last controversial symbol has been determined, if we are given another month, we should be able to read the first lesson included in the introductory textbook using Xumi Common Language."

This is a little different from what I thought. Dixia opened her eyes slightly in surprise. It turns out that there are not only some common words to confirm the pronunciation of symbols, but also so many ways to self-check.

"Dixia, take another look. Is our interpretation correct? You are very familiar with our tribe's writing and the Xumi common language. You must be very fast at interpreting these symbols." Hisham, who had a good relationship with Dixia, held the book and carried a stool and moved a few steps towards Dixia.

"Oh, if we had known that Dixia would come back so soon, we wouldn't have to work so hard. In the first few days, we argued for several hours over the pronunciation of a symbol, and no one could convince anyone else. Obviously, we were all half-baked..." Harun scratched his head.

"Don't be so depressed. You will definitely remember the ones you deciphered by yourself more clearly," Dixia said, smiling and picking up the book. "Otherwise, even if I help you decipher all these symbols, can you remember them?"

"That makes sense."

"Now that you mention it...it's true. I actually memorized the pronunciation of more than 20 symbols. I thought my memory had improved."

Harun's eyes flashed with surprise: "Dixia, now you speak just like our tribal elders, which makes sense to me and I can't refute it at all!"

"I learned this from my employer. At first, he was very patient in teaching me whatever I asked him. But after I learned something from him, he suddenly refused to tell me the meaning of some words directly.

He always asks me to read it first and guess the answer the next day," Dixia curled her lips.

"What he did did help me remember the things I needed to remember, but it was annoying not being able to know the answers directly... Well, I know he was doing it for my own good, he was training me."

After hearing this explanation, the other mercenaries nodded thoughtfully.

Dixia held the book in her hands, concentrating on interpreting the pronunciation of the symbols. Because she was familiar with both languages, she interpreted very quickly, and soon she had interpreted the pronunciation of all 26 symbols.

Dixia: "I will read all these symbols, please listen."

The other mercenaries couldn't help but move closer to Dixia and surrounded her. They only knew how to memorize the pronunciation of these symbols by rote.

If they remembered it wrong, they would have to argue over the pronunciation again after Dixia left, so they were all extremely focused, fearing that they would miss anything.