PART 1 · LESSON 5 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES
Colder than Bangkok
Seven in the morning in the old city of Chiang Mai, fourteen degrees, hot soy milk and rice porridge at a stall: cold, colder than Bangkok; much colder, fourteen degrees; hot soy milk, warmer than coffee; colder than Seattle? no, but colder than I thought; your hands are colder than mine; the porridge is hotter, eat it first; quieter than Bangkok here, too: comparing with than, and much more so.
Audio instruction: English
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THE STORY
A stall in the old city of Chiang Mai at seven in the morning, fourteen degrees, in December: Nam and Jack speak as friends; the vendor and her customers keep the polite word.
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