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bok choi (白菜) is Cantonese, not Vietnamese The Mandarin version is b Normal 0 false false false EN-US ZH-CN X-NONE... Read more

Hi desluo949 I had always thought of 乖 as showing a fly-by-night watch salesman, opening his coat to show off his wares. But maybe machine guns l... Read more

rclinton ： “他一直比我好”，可以！ Read more

To me it seems that the character for 'well-behaved' shows a man opening out his trench-coat to expose a pair of machine-guns. It's just occured to me... Read more

@bodawei, "The crops are growing quickly", "庄稼长得快", you can not say "庄稼种得快", “种" means to "sow", 播种，bōzhòng Read more

Is it only me who sees double when looking at the Dialog, Vocabulary and Expansion sections of this lesson? Every line is repeated. I have seen this i... Read more

Thanks, shenyajin, that's great! In Australia we call that stuff 'bok choy' which is probably a Vietnamese name or maybe Cantonese? Pete, your pict... Read more

@orangina, most people from Hunan, Hubei and Guangdong provinces can not pronounce "L" and "N" clearly, eg, they'll say "nan qiu", which should be "la... Read more

Thanks Pete . That reminds me of the other verb to grow, 种 zhong4 - can 种 be substituted for 长 in the above sentence?  庄稼种得快和庄稼长得快，都可以说吗？&nbs... Read more

@threecats33, these are "青菜", from different angle of views Read more