Zhang, who knew not one word of Russian before he started college, was admitted to college without foreign-language skills because he had been a soldier. His classmates, on the other hand, had all had three years of Russian in high school.
進大學前一個俄文字也不認識的他，因為軍職身分得以免試外語才考入大學，但其他同學都有高中三年的俄語基礎。