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Bring Fruit, Not Nothing
A learner is invited to a Chinese friend's family home for dinner and asks a classmate what to bring. The answer: never show up with nothing, fruit is always right, and be ready for the mother to say…
This reading is part of the course. Inside, it comes with pinyin you can toggle a character at a time, a native recording that highlights each word as it is spoken, and the comprehension check as a real graded quiz — alongside every other passage, the lessons that build up to them, and the flashcards that keep them.
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