In fact, although I know that the accent is important, it is currently in the Beihai country that it is very noisy about which pronunciation to use in "Standard German".
It’s easy to talk about in English, just use the “London sound” mentioned by Teacher Zhao, but no one has any objections. Even if the Frisian pronunciation of Frisians and English has changed, the Frisians also know that they are “countrymen” and adopting “London sound” is more in line with the trend and accept the “London sound”. As for England, there is no problem. After all, it is the capital pronunciation, which is definitely correct.
But German is very troublesome. In theory, Marin is from Ruhr, so it is better to promote Ruhr German pronunciation. However, his capital is based in the East Friesland region. Therefore, local officials, led by Prime Minister Geoffrey, opposed the use of Ruhr German pronunciation, but suggested using the local Lowland German pronunciation in East Friesland. For a period of time, Marin did use Lowland German as the standard pronunciation.
However, when the North Sea Kingdom annexed the Ruhr area and the eight vassal states, including the Duchy of Lüneburg, the situation changed again. Because the officials of the Ruhr area and the newly annexed eight vassal states opposed the use of Lowland German, because this was quite different from inland German.
Moreover, with the expansion of the North Sea Kingdom, the proportion of the population using Lowland German is also declining. If Lowland German continues to be used as the standard German, it is easy to cause dissatisfaction among the inland Germans.
Therefore, Marin, who was in a hurry, later adopted the original historical practice of the Germans - using the German pronunciation of Hannover in central Germany as the standard pronunciation.
In fact, Hannover, a city in the southeast of the Lower Saxony region, is located in the intersecting area of ​​the Lower German-speaking region and the Inland German-speaking region. The local German pronunciation can be understood by those who use Lower German, and those who use Higher German can also accept it.
Then, as in history, Marin defined the dialect of the Hannover region as the standard German pronunciation and re-promoted it in schools.
Moreover, in order to correct the pronunciation problems of students in other regions, Marin also mobilized a large number of church members from the Hannover area to help students learn Hannover pronunciation.
But the natives of Hanover were confused because at this time, Hanover was just an ordinary small town, and had not yet become the capital of Brunswick, and it was a small countryside place. They had never expected that their dialect would become the standard German pronunciation.
Marin was too lazy to care about what others thought. In order to take the lead, he had to learn the standard Hannover pronunciation with Caesar every day. Before, he was used to speaking Low German. Fortunately, his memory became stronger after traveling through time, so it was not difficult to learn new German pronunciations. Caesar was in his youth that was most suitable for learning, so it was even more difficult to change his pronunciation.
But it is difficult for most adult officials to change their pronunciations. After all, it is difficult for adults to change their accents. Even if Marin made a standard German phonetic symbol, it is still difficult for adult officials to change their accents. Especially for old men like Jeffrey, it is difficult for them to change their accents at all.
Marin was not in a hurry to do this. If it really doesn't work, he just waited for the children in the school to grow up and then seek a unified accent. You should know that the later generations of New China were established in 49 years, and the "Xinhua Dictionary" was created in a few days. But it was not until the 21st century that Mandarin was promoted among the younger generation.
Therefore, promoting standard German is a very long process. If you want to teach children to learn standard German pronunciation, first of all, you need a teacher with standard pronunciation. To this end, Marin ordered that when enrolling students in normal schools, pronunciation standards will be used as the entry threshold.
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"Ten years of trees, a hundred years of trees" will probably take dozens or hundreds of years to unify the accent of the whole country. Anyway, Marin felt that it would be difficult for him to see that day come. However, what made him happy was that the practice of adopting the Hannover dialect was widely recognized in the country. Even other vassal states began to adopt the standard pronunciation scheme customized by the Beihai Kingdom and introduced the teaching materials of Beihai Kingdom.
In this regard, Marin naturally agreed with both hands and feet, and enthusiastically provided the textbooks. But the problem is that others don’t buy it. Why? Because the basic textbooks of Beihai Kingdom are full of praise and deification of Marin. Other countries are naturally unwilling to accept it.
Therefore, Marin had to ask someone to delete the textbooks and change the praise of Marin himself to the greatness of the Germans and Germany. Although the children of other vassal states could not be allowed to worship themselves, a seed of "Germany Unification" was sown in their hearts. When the Beihai Kingdom sent troops to unify the small Germany, these children who had accepted the idea of ​​"Germany Unification" grew up and were more likely to accept the rule of the Beihai Kingdom.
Marin has been busy with education for a while, but the report of the Chancellor of the Chancellor of the Constitution gave Marin a headache...
The report of the rabbi shows that because Marin secretly transferred 10,000 Hungarian men from the silver mine in Goslar to train them into cavalry, this also caused the Goslar silver mine to lose 10,000 miners, seriously affecting the silver mine production. According to statistics, in the past two months, the mine silver output has fallen by 20%, which has made the financial department very uneasy. After all, with so much money, many things cannot be done.
In addition, the Rabbi also mentioned another problem - not only the silver mines in Goslar lack miners, but also the departments that build the roads in Beihai Kingdom also have a serious lack of labor.
Although Malin formed a engineering team of 7,000 to 8,000 people, specifically used for road construction, which greatly facilitated the road construction in Beihai Country. However, six,700 laborers are really a drop in the bucket for road construction.
Marin can recruit farmers to participate in road construction or even dig rivers during the slack farming period. But the problem is that the main business of the serfs is still farming, so it is difficult to concentrate on building roads. Once the farming period is time, the serfs must return to the manor. Then, many projects have to stop. Moreover, waiting is a long time. After all, in this era without agricultural machinery, it takes a long time to farming. Once you encounter busy farming, it will be a lot of delays.
"Unless...unless there are special migrant workers?" Ma Lin suddenly remembered the important group in building China in the future - migrant workers.
Migrant workers are inconspicuous and generally have low educational levels. However, these people are also very important. Why can Shanghai and Beijing be built into super metropolises? Isn’t it because too many migrant workers have flocked to them?
Since the full promotion of agricultural machinery in the 21st century, rural areas no longer need so many laborers to farm. With agricultural machinery, only the elderly and women need to stay behind in the countryside to manage the fields. In spring and autumn harvest, you can just pay to hire agricultural machinery to work. The male laborers at home have poured into big cities and become migrant workers who work hard and make money.
There is a population of 18 million in Shanghai alone, but there are millions of migrant workers who live. And the workers who work on construction sites are basically those migrant workers. It can be said that without those migrant workers, the infrastructure in cities is basically unstoppable...
Chapter completed!