CH19
Interview and spot the difference
C = Interviewer
T = L2 Learner (Code 19: L1 Chinese, L2 English)
Lexical Size: 7,100
Course: Master in Interpreting & Translation
1 C can you please tell can you tell me your student number?
2 T my student number is XXX09
3 C cool so we're gonna start with part one
4 T yes
5 C OK
6 T so I'm going to ask you some questions about yourself
7 C OK
8 T may I have your name please?
9 C ah..my name is C . what's your name?
10 T my name is C . my English name is C
11 C C OK
12 T and ah can I ask you your country of birth?
13 C um...I'm from Argentina where are you from?
14 T yeah China from China
15 C where abouts in China?
16 T um the Shinxan you know Shinxan
17 C yeah yeah yeah I've heard of it
18 T western north of china
19 C yeah I've heard of it
20 T how about you? which part of your Argentina?
21 C I'm from ...the north
22 T north
23 C but I have been living in the capital city for the last ten years
24 T OK
25 C which is Buenos Aires
26 T how about the temperature of that place?
27 C oh it's really nice it's just like Sydney we're at the same latitude the weather is very similar to Sydney
28 T however my home town is very cold in the winter its quite different from Sydney
29 C really ? does it snow?
30 T yes and we can ski in a winter
31 C ah
32 T its very interesting
33 C that's nice
34 T yeah if you have chance you can go there
35 C aha XXX
36 T so can I ask your official language?
37 C ah ..my mother tongue is Spanish
38 T Spanish OK . so
39 C what is your mother tongue?
40 T Chinese
41 C mandarin or Cantonese
42 T mandarin mandarin
43 C OK
44 T so um you have learnt English in your own country?
45 C yes I've learnt English in my country and I was living in England
46 T OK
47 C and
48 T oh
49 C here in Australia
50 T oh OK good good you have been to London you sa?
51 C have you been to Europe?
52 T no never . this is my first foreign country here
53 C OK
54 T especially the English English speaking country
55 C OK
56 T can I ask what you do? I mean your job?
57 C um well... um . I'm a translator interpreter and yeah and a..I also work for UWS as a research assistant .
58 T oh OK
59 C what do you do for a living? or are you just a student?
60 T a now I'm just a student but in the past I was a teacher in China
61 C English teacher?
62 T yeah yeah I taught English there . so do you think the interpretist's job is very hard?
63 C oh well I..I think it ..practice makes perfect in a way
64 T oh yeah
65 C the more you practice the better you get
66 T OK
67 C and I think it is hard it needs a lot of concentration and lot of studying
68 T yeah true
69 C what do you think?
70 T yeah I think its very difficult . is it any a lot of similarities between your own Spanish language and English?
71 C it is kind of similar in a way
72 T yeah
73 C so yeah . syntax and somethings are similar
74 T oh..that's good but Chinese is
75 C but I guess it is difficult
76 T yeah Chinese is quite different from that one . sometimes we want to um interpreting some things into English but according to Chinese
77 C yeah
78 T that is very bad because people think differently
79 C I also did mandarin last year
80 T oh really?
81 C so I kind of understand what you're talking about but I quit.. it was too hard
82 T yeah that's good um and I want to say something about my students in China
83 C ah yeah
84 T because I taught them English in the past
85 C yeah
86 T and a I found that sometimes I can understand them from the aspect of Chinese understanding they just a translate the Chinese words literally into English
87 C oh OK
88 T and then they thought yeah what they want to say
89 C yeah
90 T but its not true sometimes only me can understand that
91 C yeah
92 T cuz I understand
93 C mandarin
94 T Chinese yeah I have to translate their English back into Chinese
95 C yeah
96 T and then I know all they're talking about this
97 C yeah
98 T but for the foreigners they cannot understand
99 C it would be wouldn't
100 T it would be strange weird
101 C it would be I think so
102 T do you have any pets?
103 C yes I have a cat and a dog
104 T oh that's great
105 C yeah they are very cute. do you have any?
106 T no I don't
107 C do you like animals?
108 T yeah I like dogs . but um I was forbided by my father because my father don't want me to risk any pets because he thought they are not so clean and
109 C OK
110 T they got some disease to
111 C OK
112 T infectious you know
113 C yeah
114 T I was forbided but I still like dogs very much
115 C maybe in the future
116 T yeah . can I ask what is your favourite food?
117 C yes well I like lots of food . I like pasta I like vegetables pizza
118 T yeah
119 C how about yours? what's your favourite food?
120 T I still like the Chinese traditional Chinese food
121 C like noodles or...?
122 T yeah noodles rice and some vegetables or something
123 C yeah and I also very like some spicy ones?
124 C you like spicy?
125 T yeah because um then tasty ones its very
126 C nice
127 T yummy for me
128 C do you like western food? like the food you can find in Australia?
129 T no not really
130 C not
131 T not really . because I guess its just because of my background I'm not used to that kind of . I guess that's the reason . do you have any hobbies?
132 C yes in my free time I like seeing my friends playing the guitar
133 T oh
134 C or
135 T that's cool
136 C reading going to the beach . what do you do in your free time?
137 T um if I have the time and I have enough money I would like to go swimming
138 C yeah what do you go swimming?
139 T um ..in china actually
140 C oh OK
141 T and a ..just for exercise
142 C yeah
143 T and sometimes I would hangout with my friends and stay something new and interesting and
144 C yeah
145 T shopping
146 C yeah
147 T listening to music
148 C nice
149 T and reading at the same time
150 C what kind of music do you listen to?
151 T wist..western one
152 C western one?
153 T yeah
154 C wow . what's your favourite singer?
155 T um...I don't know the name but I know the song's name
156 C yeah
157 T that is hero?
158 C hero? it's like Mariah Carey?
159 T very old one...
160 C Mariah?
161 T maybe maybe
162 C yeah
163 T its very good
164 C yeah its nice
165 C so when's your birthday XX?
166 T um birthday . um..twentieth of June nineteen twe...nineteen eighty two
167 C OK do you remember what you did for your last birthday? how you celebrated it
168 T um...a friend of mine just invited a group of friend and me
169 C yeah
170 T to the fish market
171 C yes
172 T and then we celebrate there we ate a lot
173 C mhm
174 T and hit treat
175 C ah haha nice
176 T it was very good
177 C nice
178 T how about you?
179 C ah..this birthday we went to the pub with some friends
180 T OK
181 C we had some pizza and then we stayed there dancing
182 T oh good good
183 C it was nice a nice one . a different one cuz I'm away from my home town
184 T OK
185 C so do you remember what you did last summer?
186 T last summer China or Australia?
187 C oh ...which ever one you like
188 T OK I guess...um last summer...oh yeah um I went to Xi'an
189 C yeah
190 T ..another city
191 C I know chian ...one of the soldiers are ..what's the name?
192 T Xi'an...
193 C its one of the terracotta...oh I don't know how to say it in English don't worry
194 T OK and I go I went there with my friends and ah we went to a lot of scenic spots
195 C yeah
196 T and its ah very interesting because its a historic city and we have learnt a lot about its history
197 C what can you what can you see there?
198 T I don't know how to say it in English
199 C ah yeah . I think we're talking about the same thing . with all the statue..
200 T the tube of that empire
201 C yeah
202 T yeah and a...I don't know how to say that but it is very interesting
203 C nice
204 T we spent about a month or more or less?
205 C who did you go with?
206 T a friend just a friend . we go there and hang out . there were a lot of delicious food in the street
207 C nice
208 T and then we eat and then we travel
209 C yeah
210 T we have already. we have also climbed the mountain you know why whoey whoey mountain
211 C yeah mhm
212 T its very interesting . very high and dangerous
213 C yeah
214 T we just ah started at twelve o'clock in the morning
215 C yeah
216 T and we arrived at nine o'clock in the afternoon
217 C at night?
218 T yeah .
219 C wow
220 T so we almost spent nine to ten hours
221 C yeah
222 T to climb
223 C wow
224 T all the time
225 C that must be exhausting
226 T yeah
227 C so what did you do in your last Australian summer?
228 T Australian I just arrived on the first day of the January
229 C yeah
230 T and um . I attended a language school
231 C yeah
232 T learning English there
233 C yeah
234 T for one and a half months
235 C yeah
236 T and then have a break for one or two weeks
237 C yeah
238 T and we just go to the university of
239 C yeah
240 T west Sydney
241 C OK
242 T and begin studying
243 C OK OK
244 T so almost did not stay not so interesting that summer
245 C yeah . so how long have you been in here then? less than a year?
246 T less than a year
247 C OK OK what can you tell me about your family? how many people are there in your family?
248 T only three. I'm an only child
249 C OK so what can you tell me about your dad?
250 T my father?
251 C yeah
252 T he.. he's working at a university in china
253 C mhm
254 T um..when he was very young he was a teacher but now he's not and he's doing some administrative job there
255 C mhm
256 T he allocated me most of the cases so I admired him very much
257 C that's nice
258 T and I learnt a lot from him all the time
259 C that's nice .and if I ask you to describe your mum's routine from the very moment when she wakes up
260 T OK
261 C can you
262 T that's hard . sure .
263 C haha
264 T um my mum um she's also working
265 C yeah
266 T so she's quite busy because as a house wife she has to work
267 C yes
268 T clean the house she has to take care of all of us
269 C mhm
270 T he started maybe from eight o'clock
271 C mhm
272 T to wake up in the morning then cook us the breakfast and just a went out at nine thirty also
273 C yeah
274 T and work all day and in and in noon she would have to be back because it's quite far away from home to her work place so she usually don't came back
275 C mhm
276 T and then ..at about eight or seven pm
277 C mhm
278 T he would be back home and cook our dinners
279 C so your mum does the cooking in your house
280 T yeah
281 C OK
282 T but um that's just in the past because when I grown up and ah I got a job I can go home and cook for them sometimes
283 C yeah
284 T and I can share some job of her
285 C yeah
286 T and its good for her
287 C that's good to relieve a bit..
288 T if she cook the dinner for us and then I will wash all the dishes
289 C yeah
290 T and clean that for my family
291 C yeah
292 T and after that three of us will enjoy watching TV together
293 C yeah
294 T or just ah head out to go for a walk
295 C yeah
296 T especially in summer the weather is very good
297 C yeah
298 T its not so hot in the evening
299 C yeah
300 T and we'd just go out and walk for a while talk
301 C yeah
302 T and then we'll go back and sleep
303 C nice nice so do you have a best friend?
304 T yeah sure
305 C she's in china?
306 T she's in china. Yeah . she's really good at literature
307 C nice . interesting . so now we're gonna um . start with part two now we have two pictures they have some differences and similarities and you need to find them out
308 T OK
309 C so I will ask you to please ask me yes no questions first
310 T yes
311 C OK?
312 T OK so can you tell me how many people are there in this picture?
313 C yes I can ..there are.. ten people in my picture . how many people are there in your picture?
314 T yeah the same ten people . you see in the left corner of this picture there are five birds are there?
315 C yes there are a birds but I have four ducks not five . how many ducks are there in your picture?
316 T five five ducks
317 C OK
318 T that is ducks
319 C yeah
320 T sorry
321 C don't worry
322 T and then I see on the left side of the road you see there is a cross
323 C yes
324 T on the left side . there are two dogs . um how many are you pictures .ah how many are there in your pictures?
325 C there's one dog only and it's a white dog
326 T oh OK so
327 C you have two dogs? what colour are they?
328 T yeah I have two dogs there is a brown one...and so in that woman's hands?
329 C yeah
330 T yeah and then let's have a look at the...right corner of the picture down side and while see I see another people there
331 C yeah
332 T so all together I have.... eleven people
333 C ah OK
334 T so that's a difference . do you have a boy there?
335 C yes . I have a boy playing with the ball
336 T how many boy?
337 C a..boy and a girl and they are playing with the ball
338 T OK good but I have three
339 C OK
340 T yeah
341 C what are they doing?
342 T um...I guess three of them are playing with the ball together
343 C mhm
344 T and in this picture and just beside that boy holding the ball
345 C mhm
346 T and beside him on the right side of him
347 C mhm
348 T there is a bird . do you have that bird in your picture?
349 C no I don't have that bird there are only the birds that I told you about?
350 T OK
351 C but there are three more other bird next to the bench where there's a man reading a newspaper .
352 T OK
353 C are there any birds around him in your picture?
354 T yes three of them . two are brown and one is gray
355 C OK
356 T yeah and then ah just as you said that men reading the newspaper . there was a there is a girl beside him
357 C mhm
358 T eating an ice-cream . do you have that girl
359 C no
360 T in the picture?
361 C yes I have a girl but she's not eating an ice-cream apparently she's having some drinks
362 T oh OK
363 C cuz there's two bottles right next to her
364 T oh no in my picture she's eating an ice-cream
365 C ah cool . so can you ask me dablryu eich questions please? like what whenre how
366 T so can you tell me the ...the ..at the upside of the right ..of the picture? what are they doing um..the two women what are they doing? yeah
367 C the.. old women are having a conversation probably
368 T yes
369 C maybe about the weather
370 T yeah um
371 C ...um...grandchildren
372 T can you say what are what are there in her hand?
373 C ah
374 T ..the pink lady?
375 C she has nothing in her hands in my picture. what does she have in your picture?
376 T she has a bag
377 C oh OK
378 T in her hand . and a...say in the middle of the picture
379 C yeah
380 T a ...maybe a little bit up on the side . there are two girls
381 C yeah
382 T and what are they doing?
383 C um . they are riding their bicycles?
384 T and can you tell me where they are heading maybe?
385 C sorry?
386 T where are they heading?
387 C heading? um...maybe they just um...arrived um to the park to ..
388 T to play?
389 C yeah to play with the rest of the guys with the teenagers maybe with their friends?
390 C what are they wearing in your picture?
391 T um..the first one the front one is wearing a red clothes
392 C mhm
393 T and the other one is wearing a pink clothes
394 C mhm
395 T how about you?
396 C they are wearing the same
397 T yeah good
398 C red I think
399 T so for the for the girl wearing red clothes does she have a hat?
400 C no she doesn't have a hat in my picture
401 T OK but um in my picture she has a hat a red hat
402 C OK OK do you see any spiders in your picture?
403 T yes I have
404 C where is it?
405 T um...it is a...a probably at the bottom in the middle of the bottom
406 C mhm
407 T of that picture on that ground?
408 C on the ground on the grass?
409 T yeah on the grass
410 C OK thank you very much for coming today
411 T thank you
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