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This week’s topics:

Different Chinese verbs for the English word “make”

Using 一下 (yī xià) to soften your requests

Near and far

Choosing translation software

Colleagues

Sentence structure

Organic

Adding that final “a”

How important is stroke order when writing Chinese characters by hand?

Clients

Delivery

Quotation Marks (“”) and Angle Quotation Marks (《》)

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