"Those animals are the slaves of the pigs."

Translation: Những động vật đó là nô lệ của những con heo.

[KirynSilverwing]

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.

[tomleeaus]

It is. Lợn in the north, heo in the south.

[Asraelite]

This course is meant to be Northern Vietnamese, so I wonder why "heo" was initially taught instead of "lợn"

[Mu6OVm]

The pronuntiation is nothern, but they use many southern words. (cái, quyen, etc.)

[CBlondie]

That threw me out too

[StewartMM]

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.

[chuaoi]

Tôi cũng từng đọc "Trại súc vật". :)

[Julestheman]

Heo=lợn?

[ComradeH]

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

[Rob676803]

Finally a great sentence. Straight from Animal Farm.

[Michael775713]

Yes I used the nhung with slaves

[Julestheman]

❤❤❤❤ duo says haha

[jshem91]

Nông trại động vật?

[StewartMM]

Why is 'những' not also required for 'nô lệ'?

[Mu6OVm]

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.

[StewartMM]

I guess I understand, but in specific cases it does not seem to this English speaker a rule is which always followed.

[JohnWood124469]

What's wrong with 'các' instead of 'những'?