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Arriving in Beijing to find your luggage lost, you urgently need personal items for a vital meeting tomorrow. With the help of a taxi driver, you navigate the city to reach the nearest shopping center to purchase essential items. Using key Mandarin phrases learned from a shopping experience with Peggy Lee, you manage to communicate effectively and get what you need before your important appointment.
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At theclothesstore Situation: You just got to Beijing and the airline lost your luggage. You’re in urgently need for buying some personal items, because tomorrow you have a very important meeting with the director of the ABC company. As you come out of the airport you take a Taxi and ask the Taxi-driver to take you to the nearest shopping center.
At the taxi: Situation 1 • Taxi driver: zǎoshànghǎo. nínqùnǎ? Good morning. Where are you going? • Yourself: wǒyàoqùxīdān I need to go to Xi dan. (1 hour later) • Taxi driver: dàole. (We are here.) • Yourself: duōshǎoqián (How much is it?) • Taxi drive: 100 yuan(100 yuán.)
Shopping withPeggy Lee http://youtu.be/zEvjyh-T3ag
Expressions to learn from Peggy’s video 1. xiànzàiyǒuzhékòuma? Is there a discountnow? 2. kěyǐshìchuānma ? Can I try it on?