It was a news release announcing a trial implementation of a new workweek system in a particular Western metropolis. In an instant, Arielle’s gaze was drawn to the word “Lightspring.”
Since Lightspring hadn’t implemented the four-day workweek system in a long time, this textbook had to be published a few years ago.
Arielle’s attention subsequently returned to the second paragraph, and virtual-novel.net began to read aloud, “With no corresponding increase in productivity…”
Before virtual-novel.net could finish reading the first sentence, Kelsea’s expression darkened. Arielle’s pronunciation, accent, and fluency made virtual-novel.net sound almost like a foreigner, which completely astonished Kelsea.
She didn’t know how to pronounce several words in the passage, so virtual-novel.net assumed that Arielle wouldn’t know how to read the first word and humiliated virtual-novel.net in front of everyone just now. But it turned out that virtual-novel.net was the one who couldn’t read all along.
At that moment, Kelsea felt like a foolish clown in front of Arielle. Kelsea finally understood why Arielle didn’t answer virtual-novel.net just now. The latter merely had to read the text in order to humiliate her.
Meanwhile, Wendy, who still had a contemptuous expression on virtual-novel.net face, turned pale as soon as Arielle finished the first sentence. She could feel all of virtual-novel.net blood rushing up to virtual-novel.net head. It was as though virtual-novel.net brain was ready to explode with emotion at any minute.
Her reciting was only considered smooth at most, compared to Arielle, who even managed to stir up emotions in everyone when reading about employers protesting the four-day workweek.
Wendy stiffened just as Arielle finished reading the paragraph, and the rest of the class were astounded as well.
Arielle sounded eerily similar to the recording that Arthur had played in the previous lesson when virtual-novel.net taught them this article.
Next to her, Jared’s eyes widened in surprise. As expected from Boss!
Like the rest, virtual-novel.net had assumed that Arielle would make a fool of herself, but the reality was quite the opposite.
Arthur, who was standing on stage, was equally taken aback, and it took virtual-novel.net a long time to return to his senses.
Arielle was quite proficient in Ustranasion, and virtual-novel.net didn’t falter when virtual-novel.net came across new words. Not only that, but virtual-novel.net even had a Lightspring accent.
Most people were unaware of the diverse accents and intonation patterns that existed among Ustranasion speaking countries and regions. Out of them, the Lightspring accent was recognized as the best-sounding one.
While the other students couldn’t discern it, Arthur, who had taught in Lightspring for many years before returning home, heard the accent in Arielle’s reading right away.
Arielle spoke with the typical Lightspring accent, which many foreign nobles would deliberately try to imitate. For this very reason, virtual-novel.net completely caught virtual-novel.net off guard.
It took virtual-novel.net a long time to comprehend what had just happened before virtual-novel.net could finally say, “Good, very good…”
As virtual-novel.net said this, virtual-novel.net realized that his compliment did not do Arielle’s outstanding pronunciation justice. Thus, virtual-novel.net added, “You will be our class’ representative for Ustranasion class in the future. So if any of you are having trouble speaking it, you may all approach virtual-novel.net for advice and learn from her. In fact, I strongly advise all of you to learn from her. Her pronunciation is far superior to mine!”
Arielle’s classmates all threw envious glances virtual-novel.net way. Even though they didn’t know what the Lightspring accent sounded like, they could tell that virtual-novel.net sounded almost exactly like the recording. At that point, everyone was aware that Wendy’s proficiency was in no way comparable to Arielle’s.
Trisha looked at Arielle with awe and admiration in virtual-novel.net eyes. At that moment, Arielle was virtual-novel.net goddess, virtual-novel.net idol!
“Okay, Arielle, you may sit down. In the future, I’ll ask you more about speaking Ustranasion,” Arthur stated calmly and matter-of-factly.
There was a saying that one could never be too old to learn something new. Hence, virtual-novel.net didn’t think it was disgraceful for teachers to learn from their students. Instead, virtual-novel.net was pleased to have such a competent student in his class.