CH11
Interview and spot the difference
C = Interviewer
T = L2 Learner (Code 11: L1 Chinese, L2 English)
Lexical Size: 12,400
Course: Master in Interpreting & Translation
1 C so first can you tell my your student number?
2 T student number is XX79
3 C cool OK we're gonnal start with part one then
4 T OK Good afternoon my name is Sylvia I'd just like to I'd like to ask you a couple questions please
5 C OK
6 T first of all what is your name?
7 C my name's C nice to meet you S
8 T nice to meet you and where are you from originally?
9 C I'm from Argentina
10 T OK so you were born there?
11 C I was born in Argentina wh how about you? Where were you from
12 T I was born in Shanghai in China
13 C OK
14 T and do you s....well I already understand you speak English but do you speak any other languages?
15 C yeah my native tongue is Spanish
16 T OK
17 C and I speak Portuguese also . how about you?
18 T I speak English and I also speak mandarin which is the official language of china and also I speak a dialect from Shanghai
19 C OK
20 T yes
21 C what's it called?
22 T there's no official name for it usually we say shanghais dialect
23 C OK
24 T yeah
25 C OK
26 T and um . I understand you are a research assistant is it or?
27 C yeaah yeah yeah
28 T and a do you have any other occupation?
29 C um...well. um a ...I'm a conference interpreter and a translator and I work here
30 T you must be very smart
31 C ah?
32 T you must be very smart
33 C oh..thank you how about you? maybe not maybe you're just studying
34 T um well..Ive. I'm Im a student studying full time here at the master of translating and interpreting but also I'm a pharmacist
35 C oh cool
36 T yeah so I work in community pharmacist . part time
37 C oh that's nice OK
38 T and um . have you got any have you got any pets at home? do you live alone?
39 C oh yeah . I have a cat
40 T yeah
41 C and she's called princess and she's very cute and in Argentina I have a black poodle a ca..a dog
42 T mhm
43 C and I miss him . now how about you? do you have any pets? do you like animals?
44 T I do like animals I am a cat person myself I used to had a cat by the name of Garfield
45 C yeah
46 T unfortunately he passed away early in the year
47 C oh
48 T but I still have two kakatoos
49 C ah nice nice
50 T and what do you usually like to do in your spare time?
51 C um...well I like hanging out with my friends and listening to music I also like studying a lot so whenever I have a chance
52 T oh OK
53 C like working how about you?
54 T yeah I like hanging out with friends as well especially going out to restaurants I'm a bit of a foodie
55 C oh yeah me too
56 T yeah
57 C whenever I get a chance
58 T other times whenever I can't get hold of my friends I sit at home and I read
59 C yeah
60 T yeah
61 C that's nice
62 T what's your favourite food then?
63 C oh well I like pasta a lot um but I also like eating beef with vegies .
64 T oh OK
65 C I'm always on a diet so I have to go for vegies so how about you?
66 T you don't need diet
67 C haha.
68 T well for me, strange to say but I love noodles
69 C OK
70 T any kind of noodles whether it's made from um wheat or mXX or whatever..
71 C so how long have you been in Australia?
72 T in Australia I've been here since nineteen ninety-five so
73 C you're English is really good
74 T thank you so I've been here longer than I lived in China . fourteen years
75 C that's a long time so why did you come?
76 T well my Chinese isn't too bad for my generation and I thought it will be an interesting career
77 C yeah
78 T I'll be I'll be able to meet a lot of people and I'll be able to go back and forth from China and Australia
79 C yeah
80 T and I think it's a useful job because it help people communicate and reduce a lot of
81 C yeah
82 T misunderstand
83 C yeah
84 T ..misunderstandings
85 C so when's your birthday?
86 T birthday? um thirteen of June
87 C OK
88 T yeah
89 C I'm the twenty-second of June so you're a Gemini
90 T ah yes so you're a cancer?
91 C I'm a cancer so what did you do for your last birthday?
92 T for..my last birthday...ah oh that was during the middle of my graduate years..pharmacy graduate so i was busy working at the pharmacy
93 C you didn't get a chance to celebrate?
94 T unfortunately not
95 C oh OK well next year maybe
96 T fingers crossed
97 C OK so can you tell me what you did last weekend?
98 T last weekend? you mean yesterday?
99 C yes (laughs) last Saturday and Sunday
100 T very boring to say ..but I worked both days.
101 C oh really? so you work during the weekends
102 T yes part time
103 C OK
104 T so I worked half a day on Saturday and then Sunday was a twelve hour shift so couldn't do anything
105 C oh that's a long one . that's a long shift . how about last summer?
106 T last summer?
107 C what did you do?
108 T (laugh) I'm afraid I'm going to be boring and say working again
109 C no (laugh) hahaha
110 T I would like to go to places but
111 C so how about when was the last time you went to china?
112 T last time I went to China was when I finished year twelve so..two thousand and three
113 C OK so what did you do when you ..
114 T I went there
115 C when you were there
116 T I visited friends..friends and family in Shanghai
117 C yeah
118 T and I also went to country o....country side and also cities near by, Hancho and Shucho which are very well known very well known for its views and scenes
119 C nice nice so have you travelled a bit around China?
120 T um . no not around China I've been to Beijing I climbed the great wall so that's one thing checked off from my list
121 C yeah
122 T but apart from that no just just Beijing Shanghai and Shucho Hancho yeah that's it
123 C OK OK
124 T um I went to Tasmania once with my parents
125 C nice that 's really nice
126 T yes yes very nice area
127 C so if I ask you about your family how many people are there. in your family?
128 T family? very simple just me my dad and my mum
129 C OK so can you tell me anything about your dad?
130 T my dad he works in a roller shuttle company
131 C OK
132 T and he works part time
133 C mhm
134 T and his hobby is to fiddle around with things whether being the garden or computers
135 C oh OK
136 T apparently the computer is his hobby
137 C OK so if I ask you to describe your mum's routine how would it be?
138 T mum's routine? um she's
139 C from the beginning of the day
140 T OK well she's self-employed so she lives in the. w all live in the corner store
141 C OK
142 T so in the morning she wake up open up the shop
143 C yeah
144 T and sits at the back of the shop whenever there's a customer she'll go out and serve them otherwise she'll go online and plays mah-jong
145 C hahaha
146 T yeah she likes playing mah-jong
147 C OK how about the rest of the day?
148 T rest of the day . um..its a convenient shop so it's open from early morning to late at night
149 C mhm
150 T so all the family chores is interspersed when there's no customers
151 C yeah
152 T sometimes when she has to go to cook dinner then me or my dad will fill in for her..for a bit
153 C OK so who cooks dinner in your house?
154 T um..she does . well we all prefer that she does
155 C oh really? so your dad's not a good cook?
156 T no he's not . (laughs)
157 C OK s..do you have a best friend?
158 T best friend yes I do have one
159 C is it is she ...is she or he in China or in Australia
160 T she's here I met her in high school
161 C OK so what can you tell me about her?
162 T she's from the same city as I do her name is Victoria
163 C mhm
164 T and she's currently studying law I believe she is finishing soon
165 C mhm
166 T and she's going off on a tour of Europe
167 C oh really? after she graduates?
168 T ahh...I think she's she's about to go soon
169 C oh nice
170 T so in one or two weeks time
171 C nice
172 T she's going to go to Spain
173 C nice
174 T and she's going to go to Italy and
175 C nice
176 T and you know you now all the European countries.
177 C that's nice
178 T .it makes me a little bit jealous
179 C I know you should join her if you can . OK so we're gonna start with part two
180 T yeah
181 C I'm gonna give you this pictures they have similarities and differences so basically I want you to ask me first yes no questions
182 T OK
183 C and then dablyu eich questions to find out what the similarities and the differences are OK
184 T OK on the top left hand corner of the picture do you see three buildings?
185 C yes there are three buildings one of them is ah..covered by the one of the trees
186 T OK
187 C what about your picture?
188 T um.yes yes there is three buildings and it's the same one of them is covered by a a tree .
189 C OK
190 T is is there a blue truck in front of the one of the buildings?
191 C .no there's no truck in my ..in my picture
192 T and if you look towards more of the centre top middle part of the picture do you see two birds nesting on the top of the tree?
193 C no there are no birds nesting in my picture
194 T OK um and just to the right of that tree do you see any blue cars coming along?
195 C no sorry but there are no cars in my picture
196 T OK
197 C so how many cars are there in your picture?
198 T there is one car that is coming towards me from the top part from the top middle part of the picture
199 C OK
200 T and you see any yellow taxis on the top right hand corner of the picture?
201 C no there are no cars at all in my picture
202 T OK um OK if you look at the middle part of the picture on the left hand side do you see two people sitting on the bench?
203 C yes I do
204 T OK and the one on the left is that a man reading a newspaper?
205 C yeah it seems to be an old man
206 T OK
207 C so what is he waring in your picture?
208 T he's wearing a bowler hat and blue suits I think . and the one on the right is it a young lady eating an ice-cream?
209 C it is a young lady but it it . she is not eating ice-cream in my picture
210 T OK
211 C she's having a drink apparently cuz there are two bottles
212 T OK
213 C next to her
214 T OK on mine she's eating a chocolate cone
215 C oh
216 T yes
217 C that's yum
218 T are there any birds on the ...near the foot side of the gentleman?
219 C yes there are three birds how about you?
220 T yes mine too
221 C oh OK
222 T and on the middle of the picture in the middle part is there two ladies coming towards us with um bicycles on bicycles?
223 C yeah there are two ladies one of them is wearing red and the other one is wearing pink how about your picture?
224 T yes that's right that's what I have here too
225 C OK
226 T and if you move to the middle part on the right side
227 C mhm
228 T do you see two elderly ladies well....ladies in long skirts sitting on the bench?
229 C yeah I see two old ladies wearing dresses in my picture
230 T yeah what colour are the dresses?
231 C um..they are pink and blue
232 T yes that's what I've got as well and are there any cats near them?
233 C there's one gray cat in my picture how about you?
234 T um for me there's two black cats one is next to the lady in blue and the other one is further away next to a tree on the right side middle part of the picture
235 C OK so can you ask me dablyu eich questions now please?
236 T OK . ah what do you see on the bottom left hand side of the picture
237 C I see a pond or a lake with four ducks in it
238 T so there's four
239 C are there four ducks in your picture?
240 T ah there's five ducks in my picture
241 C OK
242 T yeah and what do you see next to the pond?
243 C there's a young boy playing with the ducks .
244 T yeah what colour shirt what colour clothing is he wearing?
245 C he's wearing a yellow shirt with blue pants
246 T OK that's what I have as well
247 C same as you?
248 T yes
249 C so what else can you see next to the lake?
250 T oh next to the boy I see three flowers .
251 C mhm
252 T pink yellow pink and next to the flowers I see a red fire hydrant
253 C mhm
254 T and on the right side of the boy I see a young lady with two dogs and the lady is wearing a red dress
255 C OK OK so in my picture there's only one dog
256 T OK . and what do you see on the right hand side of the picture on the bottom part?
257 C oh.. I see two young.. girl a young girl and a young boy playing with a ball .
258 T yes
259 C what is the young girl wearing in your picture?
260 T the young girl is wearing a blue t-shirt with a yellow star and she's also wearing a darker blue . I think a navy skirt.
261 C OK
262 T and what do you see what do you see on the ..on the middle part of the picture on the bottom
263 C ..oh well..um.. I see a spider
264 T that's what I see as well
265 C ahahaha
266 T and what about um on the further right hand side in the bottom?
267 C well there are two trees in my picture
268 T yes
269 C and I would like you to ask me questions starting by could you tell me
270 T OK . um can you describe for me oh can you tell me what is on .um. if there is anything on these trees at all?
271 C there's nothing in my picture how about you?
272 T for me there is a white bird of some sort on one of the trees
273 C mhm
274 T and that's the bottom right hand corner
275 C OK
276 T um . can you tell me how many building there are on the top right hand side please?
277 C well apparently there are some fire buildings in my picture
278 T mhm . that's what I have as well
279 C OK
280 T and..
281 C could you tell me if there are any flowers ..um on the top right hand side corner?
282 T top right hand side . um...I can see some flowers next to the tree which is um which is to the right of the two ladies and they're red and there's a black cat next to them283 C OK OK thank you very much for your time
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