CH18
Interview and spot the difference
C = Interviewer
T = L2 Learner (Code 18: L1 Chinese, L2 English)
Lexical Size: no data
Course: BA in Interpreting & Translation
1 C so can you please tell me your student number?
2 T yeah my student number is XXX71
3 C OK cool so we're gonna start with part one
4 T yeah
5 C whenever you want
6 T OK so I ask you first?
7 C yeah
8 T OK ..so what's your name?
9 C .my name is C what's your name?
10 T my name is James
11 C James. is that your English?
12 T yeah English name
13 C what's your Chinese name?
14 T Chinese name is J C W
15 C ah OK
16 T so . what is your nationality?
17 C I'm from Argentina
18 T Argentina?
19 C yeah
20 T its a good place good country
21 C do you like foot ball?
22 T yeah
23 C yeah?
24 T quite frankly quite frankly I'm a soccer fans
25 C really? do you have any good football in China?
26 T ah not really
27 C not really?
28 T yeah
29 C OK so you're from China where abouts in China?
30 T I was born in Shanghai
31 C Shanghai
32 T so I was grown up there and I came to Australia in eighteen years old
33 C when you were eighteen?
34 T yeah when I was eighteen years old
35 C OK OK
36 T so what is your first language?
37 C my first language is Spanish
38 T Spanish?
39 C yeah
40 T what's your second one?
41 C English English is my second language
42 T so you're bilingual
43 C not bilingual but I've been studying English for long years for a long time .
44 T oh
45 C how about you?
46 T yeah me too . the first language is mandarin
47 C aha
48 T and my second one is English and I have been studying English for nine years
49 C oh OK
50 T or ten years
51 C that's a long time
52 T yeah
53 C cool
54 T I guess your occupation is Sandra Hill's research assistant (laughs)
55 C apart from the ..yeah
56 T um..yeah
57 C I'm I'm also a translator and an interpreter .
58 T oh translator that's good
59 C yeah . what do you do for living? or are you just a student?
60 T oh...um
61 C do you have a job?
62 T right now I don't have any part time job
63 C mhm
64 T I am doing a Bachelor of Arts interpreting and translation final year final semester
65 C cool
66 T so I hope that once I graduate I can get a decent job
67 C yeah that would be nice
68 T so do you . what's your favourite animal?
69 C oh my favourite animal ah is the dogs
70 T me too
71 C really?
72 T yeah
73 C do you have any?
74 T no not now no cuz I live with myself in in an apartment so
75 C you live alone?
76 T yeah I live alone
77 C do you have any pets in china?
78 T I used to have lovely dog
79 C mhm
80 T but it just passed away few years ago
81 C oh too bad
82 T it was so sad ...so ..what's your what's your favourite food?
83 C my favourite food.um...its difficult to say but I like pasta I like pasta
84 T ah OK
85 C I like vegetables also . what is your favourite food?
86 T ..um..its ...what ....it's omelette
87 C omelette? mm yummy .
88 T yeah
89 C they are very yum
90 T yeah so
91 C what what ham and cheese omelette or.what
92 T just a.. cheese on the top
93 C yeah
94 T it smells really good
95 C nice
96 T yeah . but . are you a vegetarian?
97 C no I'm not . are you?
98 T no
99 C no?
100 T ah yeah I love eating meat
101 C yeah yeah me to
102 T red .red meat
103 C red ..nice
104 T beef
105 C nice yeah me too
106 T what do you do in your past time I mean what's your hobby?
107 C my hobby . well I like hanging out with my friends playing the guitar
108 T oh playing the guitar
109 C um...reading or listening to the music I love going to the beach
110 T oh that's good
111 C what do you do in your spare time?
112 T I like swimming
113 C mhm
114 T so I like swimming in the Sydney Olympic park
115 C nice
116 T and singing
117 C singing? nice
118 T yeah . go to the karaoke
119 C I go to the karaoke on Wednesday night too...sometimes are you any good?
120 T yeah
121 C are you a good singer?
122 T ah..yeah I think so
123 C you you sing in English or in mandarin?
124 T both
125 C nice
126 T because you know . I saw the tv show you know Australian idol
127 C yeah
128 T and its pretty awesome
129 C yeah its fun
130 T yeah
131 C nice ah when is your birthday James?
132 T I was born in seventeenth of October nineteen seven
133 C OK
134 T twenty one now
135 C you're twenty one. so do you remember what you did for your last birthday?
136 T last birthday . actually I was working . yeah
137 C oh too bad
138 T I was working on a pharmacy in Burwood it was terrible you know I have to I have to work you know on my birthday
139 C yeah
140 T so yeah . it just start from nine o'clock until five o'clock
141 C so you didn't celebrate at all?
142 T just I bought a cake so.
143 C mhm
144 T .yeah
145 C oh cool
146 T yeah
147 C cool when was the last time you went to china?
148 T I think ...in in July in.. this two thousand and nine
149 C ah this July
150 T yeah
151 C so what did you do when you were there
152 T I just visiting my relatives
153 C mhm
154 T and..you know went to actually I went to Korea for ...holiday
155 C nice so?
156 T so yeah
157 C yeah
158 T Korea is very developed and sophisticated country
159 C so what did you do in Korea
160 T um . just go go out sightseeing and you know eating the good stuff
161 C who did you go with?
162 T just with my my dad
163 C ah OK cool . so um when did you start uni? Three years ago you told me
164 T yeah in two thousand and seven
165 C mmmm
166 T so after I graduate from the ..how to say.. university of Wollongong college
167 C yeah
168 T I was doing foundation there
169 C what did do last Australian summer in January February
170 T I just ..a you know go to Canberra
171 C oh OK
172 T yeah . actually not go to Canberra I went to Canberra
173 C you went to Canberra
174 T yeah I went to Canberra so it's for a short trip
175 C did you like it?
176 T yeah I mean Canberra's got a very small population it's about thirty.. not thirty its about thre threee hundred million oh sorry it's about three hundred thousand people it's just a totally different from from Sydney
177 C mhm nice well
178 T anyway kept of Australia
179 C the capital
180 T the capital
181 C so how many people are there in your family?
182 T ah..unfortunately my dad my ah mum and I so it's a typically a nuclear family
183 C yeah
184 T so you know in china they the Chinese government imposed like one child policy
185 C yeah
186 T you can't you can't have more than one child
187 C yeah
188 T that is terrible
189 C that is too bad . what can you tell me about your dad?
190 T dad..my dad was is a doctor
191 C mhm
192 T in China
193 C physician?
194 T ah..its not he is not a general practitioner
195 C OK OK
196 T he's a specialist in bone and fracture
197 C OK
198 T so I was pretty interested in the medical stuff
199 C yeah
200 T right now I'm doing in
201 C yeah
202 T translation and interpreting I guess the medical one is pretty interesting for me
203 C yeah . if I ask you to describe your mum's routine
204 T yeah
205 C from the very moment she wakes up
206 T yeah
207 C throughout the day can you tell me about it?
208 T so my mum's routine
209 C yeah
210 T first she she like woke up around nine o'clock
211 C mhm
212 T and after wash up everything have the have her breakfast she go to she goes to work . she's a shop assistant in China
213 C mhm
214 T and until two o'clock she went to lunch
215 C mhm
216 T so and she have to do another like another seven or eight hours until nine o'clock she finish work and take a bus to get home and just
217 C so she cooks dinner?
218 T cooks dinner . no not really
219 C no
220 R she only cooks dinner when she is day off so yeah
221 C so who cooks dinner?
222 T I can cook so and my mum unfortunately my dad can't cook at all
223 C hahaha he's not a good cook
224 T yeah so sometimes we take
225 C deli
226 T take away
227 C take away easy
228 T yeah pizzas stuff
229 C nice yummy so do you have a best friend?
230 T in Australia?
231 C or in China
232 T um..currently I have got lots of friends they all come from China . in terms of my best friend I I think maybe it was my girlfriend hehe
233 C do you have a girl friend?
234 T I had a girlfriend but we just broke up
235 C oh too bad...OK well I think we're gonna start with part two
236 T oh OK yeah
237 C so I'm gonna give you a picture and I'm gonna keep another one and they have some things in common
238 T yeah
239 C and they have some differences so I want you to ask you me yes or no questions please to find out
240 T so..my turn right?
241 C yeah
242 T do you . do you have a fire hydrant at left ..at left bottom corner?
243 C no I don't have any fire hydrant
244 T oh OK
245 C ym
246 T do you have any do you have two girls riding the bicycles at the middle of the picture?
247 C yes I do
248 T oh OK
249 C they are wearing red and pink
250 T red and pink
251 C how about your . girls?
252 T yeah they are the same?
253 C cool
254 T shall I ask what questions
255 C yeah yeah you can
256 T so what's the colour of those bicycles?
257 C they are.ah.black
258 T both black or one is black one is green
259 C one both are black how about your picture?
260 T me too
261 C OK
262 T and do you have do you have two lovely ladies sitting at the bench at the right up corner of the picture
263 C yes . I can see two old ladies
264 T yeah
265 C having an interesting conversation apparantly　(apparently) sitting on a bench
266 T yeah so ah...what's the colour of the clothes of left lady
267 C ah the left lady is wearing a pink dress
268 T ah..does she carry ah handbag?
269 C she doesn't in my picture
270 T oh OK I've got a I've got a handbag . in her hand . so what's the colour of the right one
271 C the right hand side lady is wearing a dark blue dress
272 T dark blue dress me too and is there any cats is there any cats around the bench?
273 C there's only one little cat..get gray one
274 T the gray one OK
275 C bu...kind of behind the bench close to the tree
276 T close to the tree
277 C do you have any cats?
278 T yeah actually I've got two cats one is next to the blue lady ..I'm sorry not blue lady blue dressed lady and one is next to . close to the ree (tree?)
279 C OK
280 T um do you have a small a do you have a tiny spider at the bottom bottom right corner of the picture?
281 C yes I have a tiny spider on the grass
282 T oh OK
283 C do you have the same spider?
284 T yeah its a black one
285 C so what what can you see on the left hand side bench?
286 T left hand side bench .. we .g ..a young kid was actually eating a a chocolate ice cream I reckon and person next to him was a...it looks like a old man reading a newspaper
287 C OK
288 T and ah also there are some pigeons . one two three there pigeons under the bench
289 C oh OK I have the same one but the young boy is not eating ice-cream apparently he's having some drinks
290 T some drinks OK what do you have in the ..what do you have in the left left side bottom corner of the pond
291 C wel..there's a pond with four ducks in it and there's a boy playing with the ducks
292 T oh OK in my picture I got five ducks and ah. is there is there any ladies walking for a dog?
293 C yeah there's a lady in a red dress walking a dog
294 T yeah OK me too . and
295 C so can you ask me question starting with could you please tell me blah blah blah?
296 T ah so OK start with could you please
297 C yeah
298 T could you tell me ah...be be behind the park what's the what's picture of...oh sorry could you tell me ah what is behind the fence?
299 C behind the fence..actually I have nothing just grass
300 T grass OK
301 C what do you have?
302 T ah I mean behind the grass I have some high buildings and I have . could you tell me do you have any taxi on the road?
303 C no I have . I I don't . I have the buildings
304 T you just got the building
305 C but but there's no cars or taxi
306 T oh no cars.. OK . I in my picture I got one taxi one private car one trucks and one road sign I reckon
307 C OK
308 T so could you please tell me .um..what was the boy doing ..ah..in the right hand corner?
309 C well the boy in the right hand corner is playing with the ball . what is he doing in your picture?
310 T yeah he...he is playing ball with...not his girlfriend his no..just playing with the other girl
311 C OK
312 T so313 C OK James thank you for your time thanks for coming
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