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liuzhou

liuzhou

While on the subject of fruit, allow me to suggest not ordering bananas in restaurants. That is dumb in any language. Bananas are 香蕉🍌xiāng jiāo in Mandarin. Two flat high tones.

 

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Use a falling tone on the first part, and you ordered a rubber, 橡胶 (xiàng jiāo).

 

Fortunately.this doesn't mean a prophylactic device but still sounds weird. It's just the material. 

 

liuzhou

liuzhou

While on the subject of fruit, allow me to suggest not ordering bananas in restaurants. That is dumb in any language. Bananas are 香蕉🍌xiāng jiāo in Mandarin. Two flat high tones.

 

 

 

Use a falling tone on the first part,

and you ordered a rubber, 橡胶 (xiàng jiāo). Fortunately.this doesn't mean a prophylactic device but still sounds weird. It's just the material. 

 

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