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Going to the Doctor

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ID: 0170 Elementary
A big house full of needles, beds with restraints and gloves that are lubed for a reason and you still think “winging it” at the hospital will get you by? For those less confident, it’s Dr. Ken and Nurse Jenny to the rescue, in a Mandarin Chinese lesson on visiting the man who didn’t attend eight years of medical school to be called “xiansheng”.
Mon Jul 03 2006 | Jenny, Ken
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
不舒服 bù shūfu uncomfortable
喉咙 hóulóng throat
痛 tòng to ache
还 hái still
你哪里不舒服？
nǐ nǎli bù shūfu ？
What is your problem?
我喉咙痛。
wǒ hóulóng tòng 。
My throat is sore.
还有什么不舒服？发烧吗？
hái yǒu shénme bù shūfu ？fāshāo ma ？
Is there anything else? Do you have a fever?
没有。不发烧。
méiyǒu 。bù fāshāo 。
No. No fever.
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