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Right away; soon. Learn the phrase inside a real situation, then log it for recall instead of letting it die in a vocabulary list.

Right away; soon.
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Sayable phrase

Right away; soon.

A phrase only matters if you can imagine saying it this week. Otherwise it is just decorative storage.

01 Play the phrase Listen once before reading too hard. Your brain loves pretending it knows tones.
02 Attach a scene Use the context and examples below so the phrase has a place to live.
03 Recall later Log it for Practice, then use the phrase recall quiz to prove the phrase survives without this page open.

Reading supports

Use these after the first listen. Pinyin is scaffolding; English is context; neither should become a sofa.

Usage

Can mean immediately or soon, depending on context. In apologizing for being late, it helps the sentence sound like real spoken Mandarin instead of a stiff translation.

Best context: apologizing for being late

Examples

，。 Right away; soon. We can talk about it later. ：。 In this moment, you can say: Right away; soon. ，。 When apologizing for being late, Right away; soon. sounds natural.