Open F2F Class Notes April 19th (Ben)

Original

My brother and sister in law arrived sunday. They love shanghai but my brother is difficult about food. He loves almost nothing so for find food he loves it’s complicate. He complain all the time. I’m afraid to kill him before he leaves. He loves only potatos and meat but chinese food it’s without potatos and big steak. I want he try chinese food so i need to push him. Sometimes he prefer don’t eat rather than taste.
I think he have preconception/prejudice about chinese food like they eat cats, dogs, insects and the visual of food are different too. He’s not adventurer.

Edited version

My brother and sister-in-law arrived on Sunday. They love Shanghai but my brother is picky with food.

He loves almost nothing, it’s complicated to find food he loves.

He complains all the time. I’m afraid to kill him before he leaves. He loves only potatoes and meat but Chinese food is without potatoes and big steak.

I want him to try Chinese food so I need to push him. Sometimes he even prefers to eat nothing rather than taste.

(= He doesn’t even want to taste and just eats nothing)
I think he has preconceptions/prejudice about Chinese food, like about how they eat cats, dogs, insects. And the looks of food are different here too.

He’s not an adventurer = He’s not adventurous.

(an adventurer is someone adventurous)

picky = pointilleux, who is not very open to new things/food

tell to someone –> tell someone. I told him to stop complaining.

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I want you to do

I want you to come tomorrow.

My girlfriend’s boss wants her to work overtime tonight.

When I was a kid, my parents wanted me to be a doctor.

take account of = tenir compte de

You should take account of your wife’s wishes.

I told him he should take account of his wife’s wishes.