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Adding Credit to a Cell Phone
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ID: 0189 Elementary
A few things you can’t live without upon arriving:
1. Toilet paper (oh – you laugh now, but trust us)
2. ChinesePod
3. A mobile phone
…now, we hope the first two are self-explanatory, and about the 3rd – it’s all pay-as-you-go, so in this podcast we tender a lesson in Mandarin Chinese on “topping up” that phone.
Wed Jul 26 2006 | Jenny, Ken
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SIMPLIFIED | PINYIN | ENGLISH | |
---|---|---|---|
有 | yǒu | to have | |
手机 | shǒujī | cell phone | |
充值卡 | chōngzhíkǎ | prepaid card | |
多少 | duōshǎo | how much |
这里有手机充值卡吗?
zhèlǐ yǒu shǒujī chōngzhíkǎ ma ?
Do you sell cell phone prepaid cards?
有。你要多少钱的?
yǒu 。nǐ yào duōshǎo qián de ?
Yes. How much would you like?
我只用一个星期。一百的够吗?
wǒ zhǐ yòng yī ge xīngqī 。yībǎi de gòu ma ?
I only need it for a week. Is 100 enough?
够了。
gòu le 。
Yes, it's enough.
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