Makes for a really nice newbie lesson.

Also like the listening and writing part of the exercises!

In another lesson I understood that this agreement is slightly different from 好的

With the first one you agree but your agreement is somewhat forceful, not so spontaneous; 好的 is instead more neutral.

Is it right or did I misunderstood?

Thanks,
Gilberto

Could I say:

我不喜欢吃红肉。Wo bu xihuan chi hong rou. I don't like to eat 'red meat' (a category that includes beef and pork, but not chicken or fish)

Thanks!

in 好吧 it also should be somewhat of resignation (un po' di rassegnazione), at least, according to the dialogues of some previous lessons.

nǐ mėn kàn 。。。nà tiáo yú hǎo xiàng zài xiào。

Look...that fish (in the pix) looks like it's smiling.

wo3 bu4 chi1 rou4， ye3 bu4 chi1 yu2。 wo3 chi1 su4。

I don't eat meat or fish. I'm vegetarian.

- Andrew / 阿度

Good point. Actually, 鱼 (yu2, fish) is regarded auspicious in China because its pronunciation “yu2” is the same as that of 余 (yu2, leeway). So you can often see a poster like this in China, which is called “年年有余” (nian2 nian2 you3 yu2, every year you have leeway).

http://image.baidu.com/i?ct=503316480&z=0&tn=baiduimagedetail&word=%C4%EA%C4%EA%D3%D0%D3%E0&in=8935&cl=2&cm=1&sc=0&lm=-1&pn=36&rn=1&di=2276689100&ln=2000

Acknowledgement to Beezy and My Little Rascal on Flickr for these lovely pictures.

It is my understanding that '肉' rou4 by itself generally refers to pork (in contrast to the U.S., for example, where the most common meat is beef). If you want to talk about beef, it's '牛肉' niu2rou4, for example, and lamb would be '羊肉' yang2rou4, but if you just say '肉' it would usually be understood to mean pork unless context specified otherwise. Chicken would be '鸡肉' ji1rou4, duck '鸭肉' ya1rou4.

As wrcooper84 noted, '红肉' hong2rou4 would mean red meat, but I don't know if this includes poultry meat.

When I was first learning Chinese almost 30 years ago...remember, this was just after the Cultural Revolution, so economic conditions were very different from today, I was told that duck was more common than chicken, and chicken generally more expensive than duck. 

Corrections welcome.

Actually, 鱼 (yu2, fish) is regarded auspicious in China because its pronunciation “yu2” is the same as that of 余 (yu2, leeway).

I am puzzled by this: The dictionary gives meanings for  '余' "extra, surplus" and similar meanings, which makes sense (as in a person having plenty), but "leeway" (room for maneuver)? I don't understand.

The dictionary gives '余地' for "leeway"

Note that '' also rhymes with '玉', yu4, "jade" (although with a different tone). I don't know if there is any connection.