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Taxi Conversations: Arriving at your Destination

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ID: 0065 Newbie
More “Traveler’s Audio Phrase Book” phrases in Mandarin Chinese for you. In this podcast, we tackle arrivals. When your loyal taxi man gets you where you want to go, safe and sound, what’s left to do? Think you can ignore this lesson and get by with a simple point and “okay”? Nǎo zi huài le! (See: 初级1 Mild Swearing)
Mon Dec 19 2005 | Jenny, Ken
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
先生 xiānsheng sir
到了 dào le arrived
用 yòng to use
卡 kǎ card
先生，我们到了。您用卡还是用现金？
xiānsheng ，wǒmen dào le 。nín yòng kǎ hái shì yòng xiànjīn ？
Sir, we’ve arrived. Are you going to use a card or cash?
我用现金，好吗？多少钱？
wǒ yòng xiànjīn ，hǎo ma ？duōshǎo qián ？
I will use cash. Is that ok? How much is it?
八十五块。
bāshíwǔ kuài 。
Eighty-five RMB.
八十五块。正好。谢谢。
bāshíwǔ kuài 。zhènghǎo 。xièxie 。
Here is exactly eighty-five RMB. Thank you.
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