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"你们想吃中国菜还是英国菜？"
Translation:Would you like to eat Chinese food or British food?
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Note to Duolingo developers. I really like that you included 还 and 海 in the same lesson. This allows us to focus more on the tones when doing Match the Pairs.
I agree! I think I speak for a lot of learners when I say I find the tones very tricky, so it's useful to have them deliberately reinforced like this.
Or Steak and Kidney pie, lancashire hotpot, shepherd's pie, salmon, Welsh lamb, roast beef and yorkshire puddings, spotted dick, apple crumble, eton mess. There's a pretty extensive choice of British food beyond fish and chips (which are also excellent.)
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It's good point isn't it. 中国菜 for me any day when real 英国菜 is so bland. Boiled (to death) cabbage or stir fried cabbage with a nice oyster sauce?
I won't argue that there are folks here that wouldn't know seasoning if it kicked them in the face. And it can be a little tricky to find truly good British food at a restaurant, perhaps because it's really expensive to run a restaurant here and ingredients are a large part of that, and also since many traditional recipes take a long cooking time and don't translate well to restaurants. Believe me, I cooked in an old people's home for a living a while back and yeah, overboiled veg, and even pasta considered 'exotic' (as in, 'do you want pasta for dinner, Doris?' 'oh no dear, I don't like exotic food - give me the corned beef and boiled cabbage') But there are some fantastic traditional recipes if you look. No-one can say the traditional British recipe I like to cook of beef and cider stew with parsley and lemon dumplings isn't packed with flavour! And I say that as someone whose palate is only usually satisfied with a lot of aromatic spices :)
"You want to eat Chinese food or English food?" This sentence should also be accepted as an answer because if said with an inflection at the end, it allows the listener to identify it as a question.
But because we are still learning the language, we shouldn't use informal language. If you have people at your house for church and you were going out to eat, it would be "DO you want to eat...or English food."
Isn't British and English food the same thing? Got marked wrong for putting English instead of British
like and want are different . You can't say "Do you like to eat Chinese food or British food to night?"
I agree - report it if it gets rejected! (Though my sentence, "would you like...", got approved, so perhaps it's been updated.)
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It can be, especially as in 蔬菜. It can also mean dish or, as here, cuisine. No one would interpret 中国菜 as Chinese vegetables.
I'm British and I think this is silly question. We have many things going for us on our rainy island... Our food is not one of them.
Well, your user name is an Italian foodstuff, you're clearly a traitor, heh :)
Compared to America food in the EU is waaayyyy better. I just went to France and maybe food there is abnormally good but "Standard American food" is not good
I know that textbook sentences don't really need to be realistic, but c'mon...
Shouldn't this be 或者？ I learned that you use 或者 to show a choice between two options.
English food is still marked wrong. Reported. Please fix it, Duo.
the second "food" is implied in english. "do you want to eat chinese food or english" should be accepted.
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It gets to be used to mean both in Chinese. But, if you were being pedantic, strictly speaking 英國 is England/English and Britain/British is 不列顛, but this is used very rarely. I guess Chinese does not care that you need not be English to be British and that the two are not interchangable.
