"Those animals are the slaves of the pigs."
Translation:Những động vật đó là nô lệ của những con heo.
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Is lợn another word for pig? I've never seen it before, certainly not in this course.
These sentence selection exercises wouldn't be so bad if it stuck to only using words I'd been taught already.
This course is meant to be Northern Vietnamese, so I wonder why "heo" was initially taught instead of "lợn"
The pronuntiation is nothern, but they use many southern words. (cái, quyen, etc.)
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EXACTLY. These lessons are hard enough without the things thrown at you randomly, not so much to teach you, but seemingly just to trip you up.
Yep.
Northern region uses "lợn", Southern region uses "heo". Of course, both people are aware of the other word being used in the other region
I was wondering the same thing. Is there a reason why "Các động vật đó là nô lệ của các con lợn/heo" is not accepted ? Is it wrong ?
Because they are not saying specific slaves, like for examples if you want to distinguish the slaves of someone from the slaves of another. The important thing is that they are slaves of the pigs.
A better translation maybe would be "these animals are slaves of the pigs", although I'm not sure since I am not a native English speaker.
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I guess I understand, but in specific cases it does not seem to this English speaker a rule is which always followed.
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What in blazes is the purpose of throwing 'con lợn' at us, which is not in the vocabulary listing??