CH14
Interview and spot the difference
C = Interviewer
T = L2 Learner (Code 14: L1 Chinese, L2 English)
Lexical Size: no data
Course: MA in Interpreting & Translation
1 C so can you please tell me your student number?
2 T my student number is XX91
3 C OK . so we're gonna start with part one . whenever you want
4 T OK . can you please tell me your name please?
5 C my name is C . what's your name?
6 T ah my name is Y . so ..did you born in Australia?
7 C no..I'm from Argentina . I was born in Argentina . where were you born?
8 T I was born in Shanghai China
9 C ah OK
10 T so ...despite English what language do you speak?
11 C oh my mother tongue is Spanish what's your mother tongue?
12 T my mother tongue is mandarin but I can also speak Shanghai local dialect
13 C OK
14 T mm
15 C do you speak Cantonese?
16 T I can understand Cantonese but I can't speak very well
17 C OK
18 T so what's your occup..occupation?
19 C I'm a conference interpreter .
20 T ah
21 C what do you do for a living?
22 T ah...at present I don't have a part time job . so I'm a full time student at present
23 C OK . did you have ..a job in the past?
24 T yes I used to be a causal in the newsagent um in the Bondi Junc...ah sorry . in a Westfield located at Bondi Junction
25 C ah OK OK
26 T ..so do you have any pets at home?
27 C yes I have a cat at home. do you like animals?
28 T yes I have a domestic shop here. a cat home
29 C a cat?
30 T yes .
31 C OK
32 T actually a kitten
33 C OK
34 T cuz she's she's only ten months
35 C oh nice
36 T so what's your favourite food?
37 C ah I like all sorts of food but I like pasta a lot .?
38 T pasta OK
39 C what's your favourite food? do you have a favourite meal?
40 T Chinese food? I guess so
41 C do you eat any western food or just Chinese food
42 T yes I do cuz I stayed in the.. I stayed with a Australia local family for two years so um I get used to Australian food
43 C Oh OK . cool
44 T do you have any hobbies?
45 C oh yes I play the guitar and
46 T oh
47 C I like going to the beach reading watching movies . what do you do in your spare time?
48 T I love I love chatting with my friends . watching film going shopping
49 C oh OK . so when's your birthday?
50 T July twenty eighth nineteen eighty-seven
51 C do you remember what you did for your last birthday?
52 T where did I..s..
53 C oh what you did
54 T oh what I what I did ..oh sorry . I think I just had meal with my friends and some relatives?
55 C mhm . were you here?
56 T I think so yes
57 C so you have family here?
58 T no I don't have family members here but I have some family friends
59 C OK so do you remember what you did last weekend?
60 T I went to...oh what was it.. look since last week I was a uni break so I just slept twelve hours per per day
61 C oh really?
62 T yeah
63 C nothing much?
64 T no I stick my self to you tube and other websites
65 C oh
66 T and just did a little bit of homework so I had to done . do a bit rush
67 C OK so what else did you do during stuvac?
68 T stuvac I went to the refugee review tribunal many times to hear the cases for my journals
69 C oh OK
70 T a worse kokoro
71 C so where were you um Chinese summer were you in China?
72 T la..cuz the season is different from Australia its the opposite one so
73 C yeah yeah yeah
74 T so when you mention the Chinese summer
75 C in July were you here or were you in China?
76 T I was in Shanghai last summer
77 C so what did you do in Shanghai?
78 T I . I was with my family obviously and
79 C yeah
80 T I went I also went to my car with my mum just for a few days..and I ..I went to some famous resort? in Macao with my mum and I also met her boss in Macao
81 C OK .
82 T mm
83 C so do you have a best friend there?
84 T no I have a best friend in Hong Kong .
85 C oh OK
86 T I went to visit her in last Christmas
87 C OK so what did you do together?
88 T mm...we were shopping in Hong Kong
89 C oh really?
90 T cuz the duty free is so good in Hong Kong you can you can get really really cheap price with good quality
91 C oh OK nice OK . so what can you tell me about your family? how many people are there in your family?
92 T I'm the only child in my family . um at present my parents live with my mum's parents near Shanghai
93 C mhm
94 T because they bought a house..um...together so previously my mum sold her apartment and my grandparents sold sold their apartments and they decided to move move together because my grandpa he'is pretty old .
95 C oh
96 T ..and he and my mum wants to care for him and they moved together
97 C so what does your father do for a living?
98 T oh my father is a doctor
99 C OK . how about your mum?
100 T my mum is she's a manager
101 C mm
102 T she deals with salindy oppression machine
103 C OK
104 T for medical use
105 C OK . so if I ask you to describe your mum's rout routine from the very moment she wakes up till the moment she goes to bed . can you do that?
106 T sorry . sorry excuse me but I cannot because because of my mum she is a very special person
107 C why
108 T because um she got um she gets up very early um every morning she gets up at six and she went to .she she...s sorry . she goes to her office at seven cuz she and normally she prefers to starting..um.starting..like .she prefers to start work earlier
109 C mhm
110 T but she ah everyday she..if she does not have any meetings
111 C mhm
112 T or appointment with other customers
113 C mm
114 T so she normally finish at five but traffic is horrible at five so when she returns home is almost seven and ..she has . then she has dinner by herself because my parents sorry my grandparents normally finish you know before six
115 C oh OK
116 T so that's my mother always eats alone
117 C how about your dad?
118 T my dad my dad he.. doesn't um come home until half past seven
119 C OK
120 T because his um. his hos..his working place is so far from our house
121 C mm
122 T and then after meal my mum . um .at in a week my mum at least plays four time ah plays mah-jong four times with my dad and some neighbours or her sisters sister-in-law in our in our house . you know mah-jong?
123 C yeah yeah
124 T yeah so they normally they um if they play mah-jong they would finish playing that at midnight because they have to get up
125 C mm
126 T early the other day
127 C nice
128 T if um not . if in Shanghai normally they just play whole day
129 C hahahaha
130 T like on Saturday or Sunday
131 C yeah
132 T because they don't like shopping
133 C yeah
134 T and they don't watch TV a lot
135 C yeah
136 T so they have nothing else to do
137 C so they do that OK cool . so um I'm gonna give you this picture and I'm gonna keep these. they have differences and similarities and you need to ask me about them
138 T mm
139 C so I will ask you to ask me yes no questions first please .
140 T mm
141 C anything you want to ask me about it
142 T OK .are there two old ladies in the picture?
143 C two old ladies?
144 T yes
145 C there are two old ladies sitting on the right hand side hand side bench . are they..what are they doing in your picture?
146 T they are chatting with each other with big smile on their face
147 C what do you think they are talking about?
148 T they might just talk about the weather
149 C OK OK
150 T um...are there two girls on the bikes in your picture?
151 C yes . there are two girls riding bicycles one is wearing red and the other one is wearing pink . do you have the same girls?
152 T yes I do have them in my picture um.. . is there a brown dog in your picture?
153 C no there's a white dog in my picture . how many dogs are there in your picture?
154 T there are two dogs in my picture . w..um and they all belong to one girl in red
155 C OK . so what can you see on the left hand side of the picture? sitting on the bench
156 T two people are sitting on the bench the left one is .a gentleman with oh sorry gentleman who's reading his newspaper and on the right hand side there's a boy um eating his ice-cream
157 C OK . OK so in my picture he's having a drink . he's not eating an ice-cream . so can you ask me now dablryu eich questions?
158 T OK what (pause) ah..what's oh ..what's ah..what's in your picture.. oh sorry . under ah right corner ah sorry at the right corner?
159 C the bottom one?
160 T yes
161 C I have two teenagers playing with the ball ? what do you have in your picture?
162 T yes . are they all boys in your picture?
163 C there's a boy and there's a girl .
164 T OK
165 C what 's the girl wearing?
166 T she's wearing a blue shirt with a star . ah symbol on it . um . what can you see from the left bot..bottom of the picture? is there boy who's who's playing with the ducks?
167 C yes there there's a young boy playing . there are four ducks in the lake . how many ducks are there in your picture?
168 T mm...there are five in total
169 C OK
170 T in my picture
171 C OK . so can you ask me now questions starting by could you please tell me dah dah dah
172 T could you please tell me um ..is there a taxi in your picture?
173 C no there are no taxis in my picture at all . there there are no cars . how many are there in your picture?
174 T there's only one yellow taxi in my picture .
175 C well in my picture there are only three birds um.. I think they are pigeons and they are close to the old gentleman? reading the newspaper?
176 T could you please tell me ah.. how many dogs in total do you have in your picture?
177 C I only have one dog in my picture how many do you have?
178 T I think I have..is it a cat or dog? OK I have two dogs in my picture
179 C OK
180 T but I have two . so do you have any black cats in your pict..sorry
181 C I have only one one
182 T OK
183 C black cat . is there any spider in your picture?
184 T no I don't see..an...ah yes I do
185 C where is it?
186 T its ..its on its on the bottom? its in the middle parts but the like on the bottom of the picture?
187 C OK OK thank you for your time that's it
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