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ID: 2855 Upper Intermediate
If you wanna get fresh and tasty produce there is no better place than a traditional market. However, buying things from a traditional market usually comes with a linguistic price. Listen to a newbie shopper barter with a theatrical veg seller! You'll learn plenty of terms and phrases that you'll need to survive in a traditional market as well as some very creative ways to talk about vegetables. Photo by changyisheng
Fri Mar 11 2016 | Fiona Tian, Constance Fang
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
摘 zhāi to pluck
娇艳欲滴 jiāoyànyùdī plump and tender
斤 jīn catty (roughly half a kilogram)
产地 chǎndì place of production
来看看喔，今天菜很新鲜喔！清晨刚摘，六点送到，现在八点就卖给你。
lái kàn kan ō ，jīntiān cài hěn xīnxiān ō ！qīngchén gāng zhāi ，liùdiǎn sòng lái ，xiànzài bā diǎn jiù màigěi nǐ 。
Come and look, today's vegetables are really fresh! Plucked this morning and delivered at six and now at eight I'm selling them to you.
这么有效率啊，老板，你们空心菜怎么卖？
zhème yǒu xiàolǜ ā ，lǎobǎn ，nǐmen kòngxīncài zěnmemài ？
How efficient, Mister, in what quantity do you sell the water spinach?
这位客人你眼光好，你看今天空心菜娇艳欲滴，一斤五块。
zhè wèi kèrén nǐ yǎnguāng hǎo ，nǐ kàn jīntiān kòngxīncài jiāoyànyùdī ，yī jīn wǔ kuài 。
You've got some eye there buddy, you can see how plump and tender today's water spinach is. It's RMB5 for half a kilogram.
娇艳欲滴可以拿来形容菜吗？但也太贵了，我上次买一斤才三块半。
jiāoyànyùdī kěyǐ nálái xíngróng cài ma ？dàn yě tài guì le ，wǒ shàngcì mǎi yī jīn cái sān kuài bàn 。
Plump and tender can be used to describe vegetables? But it's really too expensive, last time I just paid RMB3.50 for half a kilogram.
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