CH04
Interview and spot the difference
C = Interviewer
T = L2 Learner (Code 04: L1 Chinese, L2 English)
Lexical Size: no data
Course: Master in Interpreting & Translation
1 C so can you please tell me your student number?
2 T yeah a student number is XX58
3 C cool . thank you so we're gonna start with part one .
4 T yeah
5 C you have a um..different pictures and we need to find out information about those pictures we have the same one
6 T yeap we have the same one
7 C OK let's go
8 T um so what's your name?
9 C my name is Cecilia? what's your name?
10 T my name is X
11 C OK
12 T and where are you from?
13 C I'm from Argentina and you?
14 T I'm from China
15 C where abouts in China?
16 T ah in north part of china from the capital of Beijing
17 C oh OK
18 T yeah
19 C OK
20 T so what king of language do you spo speak
21 C I speak um..Spanish its my native tongue and I speak English as my se..be language and Portuguese
22 T OK
23 C what are your languages? what languages do you speak?
24 T ah..I speak Chinese as native speaker
25 C mandarin or Cantonese
26 T mandarin mandarin . and also we studied English while we're in (log pause) ahm.. in the junior
27 C OK
28 T well actually from elementary school . (laughs) so it's long time
29 C so you've been studying . how long have you been studying?
30 T at least sixteen or seventeen years I'd say
31 C OK
32 T so what's your occupation?
33 C um .. well I'm doing a masters of conference interpreting
34 T right
35 C and I work as a translator and a research assistant for university . what do you do for living?
36 T ah..currently I'm just a student I'm studying master of interpreting and translation in UWS
37 C OK
38 T yeap
39 C OK
40 T um..do you have any pets. do you like pets?
41 C pets? oh I love animals I have a cat
42 T yeah
43 C in Australia she's called princess and I have a dog
44 T mhm
45 C in Argentina
46 T ah
47 C how about you? do you have pets?
48 T I'm actually I'm kind of pets person cuz I love them
49 C really?
50 T but unfortunately due to where I'm living right now it's just an apartment so.
51 C where do you live?
52 T I live in the .ah. student residence?
53 C here at . ?
54 T no not here from my.. previous first degree university
55 C oh OK
56 T so I don't think I'm supposed to . you know have pets there so..I don't have one
57 C OK too bad
58 T OK so what's your hobbies?
59 C oh well I like going out with friends and listening to music and working and studying I really enjoy what I do . ah . what do you do in your free time?
60 T ah I like travelling
61 C travelling? yeah I love
62 T travelling definitely and actually I also enjoy jogging on the beach
63 C yeah
64 T since Australia has such wonderful beaches
65 C yeah . so have you travelled um. around Australia?
66 T ah around Australia not too much actually
67 C where have you been?
68 T cuz I'm so busy with study here
69 C yeah
70 T but I . back to China I do a lot of travellings
71 C nice that's nice
72 T mhm so what is your favourite food?
73 C well I love past . pizza but I also like vegetables salad .
74 T mm
75 C what's your favourite food?
76 T oh . I love pasta as well
77 C yeah
78 T and I also like spaghetti also I like Chinese noodles as well
79 C yeah what's your favourite
80 T cuz you eat with soup you know
81 C oh OK yeah so what's your favourite Chinese
82 T oh favourite Chinese food . ah . did you . er..have you ever heard Peking Duck? (haha)
83 C yeah
84 T that's the first . my first list
85 C ah..yeah I know I've tried it
86 T oh really? here ?
87 C no no no in Argentina
88 T oh really? does it actually have the XXX
89 C yeah yeah there's a huge ah..um Chinese community
90 T oh really?
91 C with nice restaurants
92 T oh. so you actually think the Peking duck the taste is good?
93 C yeah I like it
94 T so you can XXX
95 C it's different to western food
96 T yeah I heard many people from western they also like
97 C yeah it's nice . so thank you very much for that um . so when's your birthday?
98 T birthday (laughs) is February twenty-three nineteen eighty-three
99 C OK so what did you do for your last birthday? did you celebrate?
100 T ah . last birthday ... let me think yeah .a a. I think I was on the tripped in a trip in to the island
101 C Thailand
102 T island
103 C island
104 T south island of china?
105 C OK
106 T we also got island there
107 C yeah
108 T you know I love island beaches and stuff like that
109 C nice
110 T I spent it with my family
111 C OK
112 T last birthday
113 C cool
114 T at island
115 C how about last weekend? what did you do last weekend?
116 T last weekend...let me think about it . oh yes last weekend I actually went to see um. some beautiful housings in northern Sydney
117 C nice yeah
118 T yes actually
119 C big houses
120 T yes actually through last weekend my visiting . I suddenly realised there're actually more fantastic views at Sydney you know you don't actually find them on the maps
121 C mm
122 T cuz they don't normally show them but there was actually a lot of very nice
123 C like nice suburbs?
124 T and natural things and..
125 C like nice suburbs?
126 T nice suburbs
127 C yeah
128 T yes definitely . I think there may be reserved . by the ..neighboured or something so they don't normally have the icons on the maps
129 C on the maps like the tourist maps?
130 T yes you know
131 C yeah probably
132 T no you can't find them .. I just found them accidentally
133 C yeah yeah I had a look around last months . and it pretty nice houses, hey?
134 T yeah yes
135 C so
136 T with the views
137 C yeah very nice . um . so let's try to remember last summer
138 T mhm
139 C do you remember what you did?
140 T last summer I went back to Beijing
141 C OK
142 T yes . um.
143 C what did you do there?
144 T um . actually every time cuz an . I I visit back normally
145 C yeah
146 T every year you know at least twice every year
147 C oh that's oh
148 T do you think a lot?
149 C it is cool cuz not not many
150 T really?
151 C people have the opportunity to go back twice to their home country
152 T really XX my friends say..XX
153 C yeah at least the people I know of . maybe china is closer but with south Americans..its a long..
154 T long flight? how many hours?
155 C its like . a direct flight would be fourteen hours?
156 T fourteen hours? oh not too bad we actually also cause twelve hours or something
157 C oh OK
158 T it's only for the direct flight otherwise
159 C OK
160 T you spent more time
161 C OK
162 T do the do the flight thing . so ah . last summer . ..ah...since you know . you . oh sorry I have to like . clarify .cuz you know the Australian summer is actually totally opposite of the
163 C I know I know
164 T from the Chinese summer .as well .you're asking..
165 C yeah what you did when you went back to china
166 T oh OK sure ah cuz actually there was a time when I went back and it was really really hot
167 C yeah
168 T really really hot sometime so it was kind of difficult for me to . you know go out side too much and too often
169 C yeah
170 T so I rather than spending time outside so I prefer to spend time inside shopping mall shopping centre
171 C yeah
172 T I did a lot of shoppings back then . cuz I love shopping
173 C yeah
174 T yeah and also as I said I went to island of southern part of china which called Hainan
175 C yeah
176 T yes and there is beautiful beautiful little city down there and also its a south . southern part of china
177 C yeah
178 T and it's called sanya
179 C yeah
180 T and I went there with my family and we did our trips and I saw many beautiful natural phenomenons
181 C mhm
182 T and I also ate a lot of seafoods
183 C nice nice . interesting so how many people are there in your family?
184 T oh we are just me and my parents
185 C OK so can you tell me about . your . mum?
186 T um .sure . my mum working at . is working at the university . as well as my father
187 C where?
188 T ah . Beijing university
189 C ahm. Beijing University
190 T yeah they are working full-time
191 C OK
192 T so they are actually very very busy professional people
193 C yeah
194 T yeah but since I'm back
195 C yeah
196 T I ask them to have a little holiday
197 C yeah
198 T during the summer time you know we do there at university
199 C so can you tell me the routine the routine of your father would be? for example what he does when . a typical day?
200 T well since he's a professor of the university so he has very very large amount of work to do
201 C like well but for example from the beginning of the day till the end of day their routine
202 T oh OK yeah
203 C can you describe that for me please?
204 T so normally during the week days
205 C yeah
206 T he wake up early
207 C mhm
208 T and ah actually he eats breakfast and he drive to the school and he needs to a lot of preparation for teaching?
209 C yeah
210 T cuz he's got a lots of students cuz he has lots of students and he is also a leader of a research group
211 C OK
212 T so I think Im assume Im assuming to that cuz I didn't actually see . I assume he has many meetings
213 C yeah
214 T with other from other from other
215 C yeah
216 T group of the university or from outside.
217 C mhm
218 T and after that he come back for lunch
219 C yeah
220 T and..a
221 C to your house?
222 T yeah and spend a little bit time resting a little bit and go back to school and doing more ah lab works..
223 C OK
224 T with with his team work
225 C mhm
226 T with his team groups . and after that um.. he might spent some time to visit other universities
227 C OK
228 T to have some..ah . maybe attend forums there
229 C OK
230 T or maybe attend meetings or appointments with other professionals
231 C OK
232 T and that's pretty much . the during day time
233 C OK
234 T and after day time he come back home for the dinners
235 C who cooks dinner at your home
236 T oh..my mother but sometimes he does it as well ..and sometimes I do hahaha
237 C are you a good cook?
238 T ah..not too bad (laughs)
239 C (laughs)
240 T XX and zen after we eating after we finish dinner sometime if we got more times and we would like to spend time on shopping
241 C OK
242 T . shopping a little bit
243 C OK
244 T for the upcoming weeks
245 C OK
246 T or weekend jogging
247 C OK
248 T or g g jogging or working
249 C mhm . cool OK . so do you have a best friend?
250 T oh you mean back to china? or
251 C yeah wherever
252 T ah OK sure yeah I do have some quite nice friends
253 C mhm
254 T and I find them very helpful
255 C so what do you do...ah . is your friend here or is she in china?
256 T I have friends here
257 C OK
258 T ah actually I met them all from my university
259 C and they are Chinese also?
260 T ah...they are Australian Chinese probably
261 C OK
262 T I should say
263 C so they were born here
264 T they were born here
265 C from Chinese parents
266 T aha yes
267 C so what do you do with them?
268 T actually I met through schools
269 C yeah
270 T we study together
271 C yeah
272 T we spend time together when we go out have fun
273 C yeah
274 T and also ..ah.. we are kind of like you know group study thing
275 C OK that's good
276 T yeah I find it very very helpful for my study
277 C yeah
278 T cuz if we have any questions in related to our school we can always exchange ideas with each others
279 C definitely
280 T I find it very very beneficial from my friendship and also um..they could show me very very nice thingy and they can ah show me around they can tell me some ..maybe little tips
281 C yeah
282 T .that local people knows
283 C yeah so how long have you been living here in Sydney
284 T around five years
285 C five years? oh that's a long
286 T I did my first degree at the university of Sydney and then I come to I came to the you dablryu es for my masters degree
287 C that's cool OK that would be part one and now we would work on this. so I would like you to ask me yes no questions first
288 T oh OK
289 C and I will ask you back and then dablyu eich questions are just questions starting with what where who when how
290 T oh OK
291 C so let's start with
292 T so first I ask yes no questions
293 C yes no questions
294 T so
295 C OK so this this pictures have similarities and differences
296 T mhm
297 C so that's why we're gonna ask each other to see what they are
298 T mhm
299 C OK
300 T are there any gray tall building at the back of your picture?
301 C yes there are heaps of them . in my pictures how about yours?
302 T yes the same here .ah. are there many cars driving between the buildings?
303 C no there's there're no cars in my picture
304 T oh really?
305 C is there a car in your picture?
306 T yes there are only two small cars here
307 C OK what colour are they?
308 T one is blue and one is yellow
309 C OK
310 T ah and actually there is one more . one more a blue truck trucks here
311 C a truck?
312 T yeah
313 C OK
314 T yes truck do you have many green trees in your picture?
315 C yes there are five green trees in my picture how many are there in your picture?
316 T only three . actually
317 C OK
318 T um..so is there a beautiful garden on your picture?
319 C yes . it seems to be a park
320 T mhm
321 C so the grass is really green and nice
322 T mm same here .
323 C OK
324 T um..are there kids playing in the park?
325 C playing with what?
326 T playing maybe with..playing with the water
327 C yeah there's a one . young kid playing in the water .with some ducks in the water how many ducks are there in your picture?
328 T um . there are five.. are there five ducks?
329 C no no no there are four ducks in my picture
330 T am also are there many . are there many teenagers hanging out there?
331 C there are ...f....well there are four teenagers and two young ladies riding bicycles
332 T mm
333 C so tell me about your picture?
334 T well actually I have got many teenagers in my picture
335 C what are they doing?
336 T am...at least one two three..there are six of them and the two girls one with purple shirt and one with red shirt
337 C mhm
338 T . they are they're riding a bike
339 C mhm
340 T and another girl with a red skirt she is working the dog..bes.bes. beside the pool ..ah
341 C so how many how many dogs are there in your picture?
342 T ah . (long pause).four
343 C four dogs?
344 T yes ..are there ...any dogs in your picture?
345 C just one
346 T OK
347 C in my picture . what colour are those dogs?
348 T there are one big black dog with one. but looks small and another one small black dog also there is one brown big dog
349 C mhm
350 T and one white and brown small dog
351 C OK . OK so can you ask me um . dablyu eich questions now? please?
352 T sure . ah so what is the ..boy with wear a hat is doing in the park?
353 C can you say that again please?
354 T ah what is the man who wears that hat . is doing in the park?
355 C um . he's sitting on the bench reading a newspaper probably..
356 T mm
357 C do you have the same man?
358 T yes I got the same man . so what is this guy wearing?
359 C the man?
360 T yes
361 C he's wearing apparently a blue suit
362 T mhm
363 C and a black and blue hat
364 T OK
365 C OK
366 T so its the same . we have I have the same picture here
367 C OK
368 T ah..yeah .s. what is the girl next to him doing there?
369 C she..in my picture she's having a drink
370 T mhm
371 C there are two bottles next to her so probably she's having a drink
372 T oh actually I have a girl here eating an ice-cream
373 C oh really that's a difference
374 T and she's wearing a yellow shirt
375 C OK
376 T and a red skirt
377 C mhm
378 T . what are the..what are the ...ahm...colours of the flowers do you have there in your picture?
379 C ah ..all my flowers are pink and yellow
380 T oh OK
381 C how about your flowers?
382 T ah
383 C what colour are there
384 T I also got small little
385 C mhm
386 T red flowers on the back of the tree
387 C OK oh I have orange you're right I have some orange flowers there
388 T orange yeah . and ah..
389 C so what are the two teenagers doing on the right..
390 T on the right side of
391 C yeah...ah..the right the middle right
392 T corner
393 C yeah corner
394 T yes there boy and a girl here they think playing with the ball here
395 C what colour is the ball
396 T the ball is very colourful (laughs) with yellow red and blue
397 C OK
398 T um..so
399 C please..tell me tell me tell me
400 T do you think . what is the boy on the right corner with the yellow hair is doing there?
401 C I think they are playing with the ball . maybe they are playing volley ball or
402 T oh OK I see
403 C I think they are just playing with the ball
404 T mhm
405 C so are there any old ladies in your pictures?
406 T yes ah ..
407 C what are they doing?
408 T here there are two middle age ladies they seems chatting here
409 C OK
410 T and one with a small hand bag and another one have two little dogs
411 C OK
412 T and they they both of them wearing hats
413 C both dogs?
414 T mm..both of the ladies
415 C both ladies .
416 T wear hats
417 C OK so can you ask me questions starting with could you tell me...dadada
418 T ah...could you tell me....ah...are there anybody . in the park are feeding the birds? haha
419 C ah ..well I don't know maybe the young boy is feeding the ducks or .. but not really there's
420 T oh sorry I mean the real birds
421 C the real birds yeah
422 T the flying ones
423 C yeah I don't think they are feeding the birds are just there but no one is feeding them
424 T oh OK ...um ..could you tell me how many dogs do the girl wear red shi..wear wear wear the red skirt is working?
425 C um...she's walking just one dog in my picture and it's a white dog
426 T oh so it will be different here she's working with two dogs in my picture
427 C OK OK OK
428 T could you tell me ..how many um..boys on the picture?
429 C there are three young boys in my picture . how about your picture?
430 T yeah same here .
431 C OK
432 T and another man looks mm.more... looks adult
433 C adult ..OK
434 T no not not the teenager adult..
435 C OK OK well that's all for today thanks for coming.
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