CH25
Interview and spot the difference
C = Interviewer
T = L2 Learner (Code 25: 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...ah XXX27
3 C OK...so we're gonna start with part one .
4 T yeah
5 C whenever you want
6 T Ic Ic..I ask you first?
7 C yeah
8 T so could you tell me your name?
9 C my name's C . what's your name?
10 T Vicki my English name and my Chinese name D N
11 C OK
12 T yeah and um . what is what is your language?
13 C oh...my native tongue is Spanish
14 T oh . Spanish
15 C so what's your mother tongue?
16 T um . chine . a china
17 C mandarin or Cantonese?
18 T mandarin
19 C so do you speak any other languages?
20 T no
21 C OK
22 T yeah
23 C OK
24 T and what's your opucation? (occupation?)
25 C I work as a research assistant for the university
26 T yeah
27 C and I'm a conference interpreter
28 T ahm
29 C what do you do for living? or you're maybe you're just a student
30 T I'm a student but I have a part time job
31 C what what are you doing?
32 T in bread top shop assistance
33 C oh OK OK
34 T and um... what is your birth country?
35 C I'm from Argentina
36 T ahm
37 C so you're from China?
38 T yeah
39 C ..where about in china?
40 T A ..balian ...a city near sea
41 C OK .
42 T yeah
43 C nice
44 T and do you like pets?
45 C yeah love animals I have a dog and a cat
46 T yeah
47 C do you have any?
48 T yeah I have cats in here
49 C in here?
50 T yeah
51 C nice
52 T ginger cat
53 C ah..nice very beautiful
54 T so what's your hobbies?
55 C oh . I like going to the beach with my friends and reading playing the guitar
56 T aha .
57 C what .d..
58 T so you like music?
59 C I love music . yeah
60 T yeah
61 C what do you do in your spare time
62 T oh . just watching tv
63 C yeah
64 T and play wiz cats
65 C Oh . yeah (laughs) do you like movies?
66 T ahm . yeah a little
67 C OK OK
68 T and a . what is your favourite food?
69 C ah . my favourite food is um salads
70 T yeah
71 C and I like pasta also
72 T yeah
73 C . what's your favourite food?
74 T just a traditional food . rice on noodles
75 C OK
76 T yeah . something like that
77 C do you eat any western food?
78 T oh . just a little
79 C oh OK
80 T . like a few salad
81 C OK . when's your birthday?
82 T um...sixth. ah march nineteen eighty four
83 C so do you remember what you did for your birthday?
84 T um..just separate .separate ways with my friends and I had birthday cake . yeah at home
85 C oh OK. did you go out or did you stay home
86 T no just stay home
87 C so what did you do last weekend?
88 T I think I spent my time um...in bread top . you know . work there
89 C ah . so you work during the weekends?
90 T yeah
91 C OK . so do you remember what you did last summer in China?
92 T last time um. Stay stay wiz my family ..um just always in my parents and my grandparents
93 C but what activities did you go shopping what did you do?
94 T yeah sh sh shopping before I go back Australia
95 C what else did you do?
96 T mm...ah . spent some time in learning swimming
97 C oh OK
98 T yeah . in a swimming pool
99 C like a club?
100 T um . no like this car..because .um in you know inside swimming pool
101 C oh OK
102 T yeah
103 C so what can you tell me about your family?
104 T um.
105 C how many people are there in your family?
106 T only three . and a dog
107 C so what does your father do?
108 T my father and my mother all working in the government
109 C in the government? OK . if I ask you to describe your mum's routine from the moment she wakes up till the moment she goes to bed . can you do that?
110 T yeah . she a..after she wake up she a prepares a breakfast for my father and a and she and then drive to the work place
111 C mhm
112 T un .to ..to some ah to something to some work things and have lunch and after that I think a meeting
113 C mhm
114 T yeah and then reading the newspapers the newspapers?
115 C mhm
116 T and talk friends
117 C mhm
118 T and after that I think buy some food and go back home and prepare the dinner
119 C mhm
120 T and after that play with dog and watch TV
121 C mm
122 T and . I think so go back go to bed
123 C do you have a best friend?
124 T yeah in china
125 C when was the last time you saw her?
126 T a year I think
127 C do you remember what you did the last time you saw her?
128 T yeah we spent our time in campsie have a lunch
129 C ah nice
130 T yeah talk with each other
131 C nice . OK so I'm gonna give you this picture
132 T yeah
133 C and I'll keep the other one and they have differences and similarities
134 T yeah
135 C so I want you to ask me yes no questions first to find the . to find them out
136 T OK um. are ...are the . ..ar...I think ..are the dog . the cat corous (colour?) is brawn (brown?) or . is it is the colour of the dog brown?
137 C oh no the colour of the dog in my picture is um white and there's only one dog how many dogs are there in your picture?
138 T ah two dogses
139 C OK
140 T and um . um . are there two bicycles in your picture?
141 C two what?
142 T a...bike?
143 C yeah yeah yeah yeah there are two girls riding their bikes
144 T yeah are they riding . one in red and one in pink?
145 C yeah one's wearing red and the other pink
146 T OK ah is any b..is one girl have um the ice-cream?
147 C no um there is a girl sitting on the left hand side bench
148 T yeah
149 C but she's having a drink
150 T OK
151 C who is sitting next to her?
152 T oh . a man . and a reading a newspaper I think
153 C what is he wearing?
154 T a blue clothes
155 C OK OK
156 T mhm . um . are there some birds near the bench?
157 C yes there are three gray birds
158 T yeah in my picture one gray and two yellows
159 C OK
160 T um . are there ducks in the swimming pool?
161 C yes there are four ducks in the sw...in the in the pond?
162 T in the pond
163 C so how many ducks do you have?
164 T five . five . five duckses
165 C can you ask me yes no questi . um dablryu eich questions please? dablryu eich
166 T so . arg . so who arh . who play wiz za girl wearing red in red closes
167 C um . who plays with her?
168 T yeah
169 C well in my picture she's not playing she's just walking . having a walk with the dog
170 T Oh OK . so how many cats are there in your picture?
171 C in my picture there's only one cat . how many cats in your picture?
172 T ah . two catses in my picture
173 C OK
174 T and um . um..where is za . . where is za . . the ball?
175 C um . there is a ball and there are two teenagers playing
176 T yeah
177 C with it do you have any spider in the picture?
178 T no I don't think so
179 C no?
180 T no . . oh its here
181 C where is the spider?
182 T um . its on the grass. um in the middle of.. in the middle of this picture
183 C OK can you ask me questions starting with could you please tell me?
184 T um OK could you ah could you please tell me ...are there some flowers in your picture?
185 C yes there are pink and yellow and orange flowers
186 T yeah OK . could you please tell me . are there ..some cars or taxi in your picture?
187 C no there's no cars in my picture .
188 T oh OK
189 C what do you think the old ladies are talking about?
190 T um..I think . maybe a . one men and a one. something about a one men and another another girl
191 C gossiping
192 T yeah (laughs)
193 C thank you very much for your time
194 T that's all?
195 C that's it
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