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The Importance of Jiang in Written Chinese
In English, in print forms, you can use all the capital letters to emphasize that this is the word. We don't have that in Chinese. So then this Jiang is helpful in written Chinese, but in speaking, we don't necessarily need it. For example, if you're looking for some cakes in the office, and I told you, what Jiang dang gao do chu an laf, don't bother looking for it, I've eaten all the cakes. And what does bao mean? Bao is the same with Jiang here. It's just different alternatives. Okay, I think I kind of understand, but yeah, there's no English equivalent. Yeah,.
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