Teacher Ye had had something to attend to on Tuesday night, so she had swapped periods with the biology teacher. That made tonight, Friday's evening study session, the English Weekly Test.
Chen Shi'an was progressing faster and faster in English. After this week's studying, he had already reached the first semester's English textbook for Senior Year Two in his memorization.
They were currently in the first semester of Senior Year Two, but the class was actually already more than halfway through the second semester's textbook.
Chen Shi'an reckoned he would catch up with the class's English progress next week.
Another week after that... well, the class would probably be trying to catch up with him.
Since he had been memorizing every textbook from cover to cover, including the vocabulary from the middle school textbooks, Chen Shi'an's vocabulary had now reached 4,516 words.
Memorizing the texts had also greatly improved his grammar, writing, and reading skills. But grammar was ultimately just a pattern of language, and there was a limit to how advanced it could get. Vocabulary was different. According to Wen Zhixia, English had several hundred thousand words in total.
There was certainly no need to memorize them all. A solid command of eight thousand common words would be enough for exams and communication in a foreign language.
For that reason, Wen Zhixia had specifically borrowed a dictionary for Chen Shi'an a couple of days ago. Once he finished memorizing all the high school English texts, he could memorize unfamiliar words straight from the dictionary, greatly improving his efficiency. He wasn't doing that now because he still wanted to familiarize himself with grammar, writing, and reading, and memorizing the texts directly was the most effective approach for those.
Chen Shi'an had plenty of complaints about this foreign language the foreigners