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Learning to Drive a Car

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ID: 2929 Upper Intermediate
In this lesson, you'll learn lots of useful instructional language for learning to drive a car. In the dialogue, the student is rather down because they opted to learn to drive stick (manual transmission) and is finding it difficult to multitask. Photo by Gwilym James
Thu Jul 28 2016 | Constance Fang, Fiona Tian
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
愁眉苦脸 chóuméikǔliǎn glum; miserable
下定决心 xiàdìng juéxīn to make a decision
自排 zìpái automatic shift
手排 shǒupái manual shift; stick shift
你怎么一脸愁眉苦脸的样子？
nǐ zěnme yī liǎn chóuméikǔliǎn de yàngzi ？
Why are you looking so glum?
我上个月下定决心学开车，已经学了两个星期了，觉得开车好难。
wǒ shàng ge yuè xiàdìng juéxīn xué kāichē ，yǐjīng xué le liǎng gè xīngqī le ，juéde kāichē hǎo nán 。
Last month I resolved to learn how to drive, I've already studied for two weeks but I think that driving is very difficult.
学自排还是手排？
xué zìpái háishì shǒupái ？
Are you learning automatic or manual?
朋友都建议我学手排比较实用，一开始我选了手排，但手排换挡真是一场恶梦。
péngyou dōu jiànyì wǒ xué shǒupái bǐjiào shíyòng ，yīkāishǐ wǒ xuǎn le shǒupái ，dàn shǒupái huàndǎng zhēn shì yī chǎng èmèng 。
My friends all suggest that it's more practical to learn manual, so I started with manual, but shifting gears manually is a nightmare.
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