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Conversation 2

John cannot find his hotel and asks two passers-by who he thinks are 'locals', and he is surprised those people are not real locals, but immigrants from other parts of China.


  • John Smith
    您好!请问,去北京饭店怎么走? Nín hǎo!Qǐng wèn Běijīng fàndiàn zěnme zǒu? Translate
  • Person 1
    北京饭店?我不知道,北京的路我不太熟悉。 Běijīng fàndiàn?Wǒ bù zhī dào. Běijīng de lù wǒ bú tài shúxī. Translate
  • John Smith
    您不是北京人吗? Nín bú shì Běijīng rén ma? Translate
  • Person 1
    我不是北京人,我是外地人。 Wǒ bú shì Běijīng rén. Wǒ shì wài dì rén. Translate
  • one minute later
  • John Smith
    您好,请问,去北京饭店怎么走? Nín hǎo. Qǐng wèn Běijīng fàndiàn zěnme zǒu? Translate
  • Person 2
    对不起,我不知道北京饭店怎么走。 Duì bu qǐ,wǒ bù zhī dào Běijīng fàndiàn zěnme zǒu. Translate
  • John Smith
    您是外地人吗? Nín shì wài dì rén ma? Translate
  • Person 2
    对,我是从云南来的,我来北京找工作的。 Shì,wǒ shì cóng Yúnnán lái de,wǒ shì lái Běijīng zhǎo gōngzuò de. Translate
  • John Smith
    找到了吗? Zhǎo dào le ma? Translate
  • Person 2
    很难,现在北京没有以前那么好找工作了。 Hěn nán,xiàn zài Běijīng méi yǒu yǐ qián nàme hǎo zhǎo gōngzuò le. Translate
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