Akira was waiting for Nara at the canteen, for dinner, still worried about her. She sighted her coming so she raised her hand, waving at her so she could see where she was seating.
Nara sat down smiling which gave Akira a little relief. "What did he say Unnie, did he scold you," Akira asked worriedly. "No, he did not, but I thought he would, he just said he saw how hardworking I was, but I was having problems with my pronunciations in...." Before Nara could finish Akira cut her off. "Oh no unnie what are we going to do, but you have improved a lot it is not that noticeable, oh no does that mean they want to disqualify you....." Nara cut Akira off. "Aigoo hey calm down, I didn't finish what I was about to say and you cut me off, listen, he said I was having problems with my pronunciation in mandarin, but he saw my determination and is willing to help me with personal lessons after practice," Nara said.
Akira was surprised, " Well that is better, but I did not expect him to want to give you personal classes, Unnie you are so lucky" Then she came closer and whispered to Nara. "Your bias from exo is going to be teaching you," she said teasing, Nara. Nara just smiled and started eating her food.
A few weeks later
Jing was disqualified, from group D, and five girls were disqualified in total, They were now thirty, six in each group Nara was now the assistant leader so she woke up early now before everyone like yang min, and goes to every room to wake them to practice. She and yang min were now close friends, they were working together now to make all groups work together as one.
"Wake up sleepy head," Nara said. "Wae (why) we are not performing next week," Akira said. "That does not mean we won't practice, I want us to practice more on our dancing, everyone is up now get up you always act like a baby," Nara said. "Ok ok, Unnie I'm up, and yes I am your baby".Akira said going to the bathroom. Nara looked at her smiling.
Practice room Nara group. Everyone was sitting on the floor breathing heavily, they just finished dancing to a song. " you did a great job guys, that was amazing, I can see our improvements and that choreography was hard but we nailed it, we can use this song for our next performance".Nara said then her phone beeped.
Tao😶 Remember, your lesson today, I change our meeting from 4:00 to 5:00, I need to be somewhere by 4:00.
Nara Ok 👌
Nara replied to his message, Nara always reply to his message simply because she doesn't want to make a mistake. Her phone beeped again.
Management Your next performance, should be in English, choose an English song.
The management always chooses the language of the song they want them to perform, to see how much they have improved.
"Guys just got a message from the management, our next performance we are asked to perform in English, I know everyone here is now good in English, so what we have to do now is to choose a song, so everyone gives your suggestions," Nara said.
They later decided to perform Hwaa by g-idle the English version, "so does everybody agree on that" Nara asked. "Yes," everyone said. "Okay, we will start practice tomorrow, and remember my advice, starting from today only listen to that song until we've performed it and you will not have much difficulty, okay everyone it is time for lunch let's go" They all went to the canteen.
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Yang min, Nara and Akira were sitting together in the canteen, eating. "How is Amelia leg now" Nara asked. "She is better now, she even practiced with us today" yang min said. "Okay, that is good" Nara said. " Did you get the message from the management?" Yang min asked "Yes we were asked to perform in English, what song did your group choose," Nara asked. "We chose Ive love dive English version, what did your group choose, "yang min asked. " We also chose to do the English version of a Korean song, "Nara said" "Oh, I know that song it is amazing". yang min said. " I know right, they sang the Korean version, Thailand version and English version" Akira s, said. "That song is so uplifting," Nara said, then her phone beeped.
Tao😶 Waiting
Oh I'm so sorry will be there soon
Nara replied to his message. She didn't know it was five already. "Guys I have to go now, see you during dinner" "Oh ok bye Unnie, "Akira said. "Bye, waiting," yang min said, she also knew Nara was learning from Tao. Most of the trainees already knew how to speak mandarin because they grew up in china, Nara knows how to speak it although she didn't grow up there her pronunciation is sometimes incorrect, but she is improving with tao teaching.
She walked into the lesson room and saw Tao was already seated waiting for her, she was anxious, but she went and sat down on a seat facing him.
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"I'm sorry I didn't mean to come late it won't happen again," Nara said looking down. Tao smiled and replied. "It is okay, you haven't come late before, so I will spare you this time". Nara looked at him and immediately looked down shyly. "Ok can I see the assignment I gave you" Nara handed him her notebook. "You have improved a lot, Nara, I'm proud of you" Nara smiled happily. "I have also noticed the change in groups, they now work together now, and you have been a good assistant leader." "Thank you" "Is there any word you still find difficult to pronounce? "Tao asked.
"mmmm I think I'm having a problem with 'he shui it means to drink water, ah sorry I think you already know that," Nara said giggling.
"Of course I do," tao said smiling. "I think you are having a problem with the 'shiu' part right? " Tao asked. "Yes, I find it hard to pronounce that part". Nara said. "It's not that hard to pronounce, look at my mouth and say after me," Tao said. Nara nodded. " 'He shiu' " he said expressing more with his mouth. " 'He shui," Nara said. "Correct you see not that hard now right, you just have to know how to move your mouth when pronouncing hard words, and then it will come out right," Tao said. "You are right I didn't know I could get it right that fast, Thank you," Nara said. "Are there any other words, you are finding hard to pronounce?" Tao asked.
He taught her how to pronounce other hard words in Mandarin and then gave her an assignment again.
A/N: see you in the next chapter soon 😘
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