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He is thoroughly at home in the language—intelligible, fluent, and speaks without a particle of Chinese accent, he is quite proficient. Then, besides, he has such a stock of words and phrases. Now, that is what one may call a good scholar, if you please

. How does he compare with you?

. Me! I should never venture to compare myself with him; I am as far from being his match


 * getuken
 * intelligible


 * bime
 * Ger. (3) of bimbi to be


 * dacun
 * quick, fluent


 * majige
 * little


 * nikan
 * Chinese


 * mudan
 * pronunciation


 * akū
 * not


 * umesi
 * very


 * urehebi
 * Indef. Past (10) of urembi to be ripe, proficient


 * tuttu
 * thus


 * bime
 * Ger. (3) of bimbi to be


 * šan
 * ear


 * geli
 * further


 * fe
 * old, the meaning is: he has heard much old language


 * tere
 * he


 * teni
 * high, with adverbial affix i


 * mangga
 * difficult, qualified


 * seci
 * Cond. (6) of sembi to say, to call


 * ombi
 * to be


 * tere
 * he


 * sinci
 * from si thou and ci from, to express the comparative


 * antaka
 * how?


 * bi
 * I


 * adarame
 * how?


 * inde
 * dat. of i he: to him


 * duibuleci
 * Cond. (6) of duilembi to compare


 * ombini
 * to be, with interrogative ni: would that do?


 * fuhali
 * altogether


 * tede
 * dat. of tere he


 * bakcin
 * rival, match


 * waka
 * not