CH24
Interview and spot the difference
C = Interviewer
T = L2 Learner (Code 24: 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 yes. XXX67
3 C OK . so we're gonna start with part one
4 T OK and a ..can you tell me what's your name is?
5 C my name is Ce . what's your name?
6 T I'm L W
7 C OK OK .
8 T so could you tell me where are you from?
9 C I'm from Argentina
10 T Argentina ? OK yeah
11 C where are you from?
12 T I'm from China
13 C where abouts in China?
14 T in a in a central parts
15 C OK OK
16 T so um which languages do you spoke?
17 C ah.. I speak Spanish English and Portuguese . which ones do you speak?
18 T I mainly speak mandarin but sometimes Cantonese as well .
19 C OK
20 T yeah
21 C OK
22 T and um are you a student at the UWS?
23 C I'm doing my master
24 T master degree?
25 C yeah
26 T so which . the same degree as me? master of translating and interpreting?
27 C I'm doing a master of conference interpreting
28 T oh conference interpreting
29 C yeah
30 T so do you have any pets?
31 C yes I have a cat and dog . do you have any?
32 T um..no yeah I don't have any
33 C you don't like animals?
34 T no I'm going back to . after I finishing the degree
35 C you
36 T I'm going back to China so...
37 C OK I get it
38 T so what's your favourite food?
39 C oh I like eating um..beef and salad
40 T salads
41 C vegetables . what's your favourite food?
42 T mainly Chinese food sometimes Japanese food as well
43 C OK
44 T and I like not spicy
45 C OK
46 T mainly just a very ..mainly on vegetable
47 C OK
48 T and rice
49 C OK
50 T so what do you like to do in your spare time?
51 C oh....I like going to the beach with my friends and going out with my friends or playing the guitar
52 T OK
53 C what do you like to do in your spare time?
54 T um...listening to the music and sometimes watch DVD and
55 C OK
56 T you're from Argentina so I remember like Madonna's concert in Argentina
57 C really ? I went there yeah
58 T you mean deXX tour
59 C yeah I went there this year in January
60 T yes yeah cuz I got the DVD
61 C oh yeah it was recorded the night that I was there
62 T yes yeah I really love it
63 C wow OK so do you have any part time job? or are you just a student?
64 T just a student
65 C OK so when's your birthday?
66 T tenth of October
67 C oh its coming soon . so do you remember what you did on your last birthday?
68 T last birthday I think it's quite..it was quite normal just friends we hang out together and we had banquet very traditional birthday party
69 C OK . so what did you do last weekend?
70 T I went my friend's house in Chatswood
71 C mhm
72 T and because she bought a new house so we just went there to visit her and we had a barbeque in her back yard
73 C ah nice . how about last summer? do you remember what you did last summer?
74 T last summer...ah... yeah...it's quite difficult like its.
75 C Australian summer
76 T quite complicated yeah OK so last summer I went back to China it was winter so
77 C so what did you do in China?
78 T I went to ski in the northern part and I went to shopping with my mum in Hong Kong so I travelled a lot of places last summer
79 C nice. so what can you tell me about your family? how many people are there in your family?
80 T um..just my my parents and m..myself
81 C OK
82 T just three members
83 C OK so what does your father do?
84 T ah...he is a worker working in a um stay at home factory and my mother um had a .had a..run a big company
85 C so 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?
86 T ah...yes I I can but because I'm not very sure what he does every day
87 C well just
88 T what she does every day cuz she gets up at six am in the morning and she usually goes to work at seven am
89 C mhm
90 T and then spend the whole day in the company
91 C mhm
92 T sometime she had a meeting outside and usually ...I remember I usually I have have the dinner at nine pm because
93 C you have to cook dinner?
94 T ah no no my father .
95 C oh
96 T so she always came back very late and cuz I rarely see her in the in the year
97 C yeah
98 T so we're usually usually talk on the phone
99 C yeah
100 T but she still kept herself busy so
101 C OK OK cool do you have a best friend?
102 T yes I lived with him..cuz we're having...I lived with my best friend for seven years
103 C oh OK cool . what does he do?
104 T ah . he's studying at uts
105 C cool
106 T right now for a master degree
107 C OK cool . so I'm gonna give you a picture now and I'm gonna keep another one and these pictures have similarities and differences
108 T mhm
109 C so I want you to ask me questions to find them out.
110 T OK
111 C first yes no questions .
112 T OK
113 C OK you can start whenever you want
114 T ah as you can see ah at the left bottom of the picture are there five ducks in the lake?
115 C no in my picture there are four ducks .
116 T four ducks
117 C are there five ducks in your picture?
118 T yes . also in the middle part of the tree as you can see . ah are in the... are there two birds in the tree?
119 C no I don't I can't see any birds in the on the trees . how many birds do you have?
120 T yeah I got I got two birds in the front of the tre ...in the middle of the tree . and a can you see the yellow cab ah..at the road near the building?
121 C no I have no cars in my picture . how many cars do you have in your picture?
122 T I I got three but I saw a yellow cab
123 C OK
124 T um..also can ..can you see the..in the front in the right hand side i in the bottom part of the picture . can you see a girl wearing a blue sh. t-shirt with a yellow star?
125 C yes ah yes . I can see a girl wearing a blue t-shirt with no star she's wearing a yellow shirt . skirt sorry what is she doing with the other boy?
126 T I think she's playing ball with the boy I think
127 C OK
128 T and then so...is the ball has...does the ball have three colours? which is yellow red and blue?
129 C no in my picture the ball is red only .
130 T oh OK
131 C so can you ask me dablryu eich questions now?
132 T OK . um..(long pause) what what can you see in . in front of the man reading newspaper?
133 C well in front of the man reading the newspaper I can see a little boy playing with the ducks that are in the lake . what can you see?
134 T um...I can see some some birds
135 C oh OK
136 T yeah work working on around man reading the newspaper?
137 C so who's sitting next to the man?
138 T I I think is a she's a girl
139 C mhm
140 T who eats the ice-cream
141 C OK
142 T mm . ah . so where can you see the two cats?
143 C ..um...I only have one cat and he is in the right hand side of the picture close to the old ladies
144 T oh OK so so
145 C are there two cats in your picture?
146 T yes yes there are two cats in my picture so let's call the cats that . which colour does the lady wear
147 C ah..one is wearing dark blue and the other one is wearing plain pink
148 T ah yes
149 C OK so can you ask me now questions starting by could you tell me blah blah blah
150 T OK . could you please tell...ah..could you please tell me..um...um..are there any two...what what the children wearing the red clothes and the pink clothes doing?
151 C they're riding their bicycles
152 T ah yeah yes so . are they two are they're...ah what about the could you please tell me what the boy in the right bottom in the right bottom of the picture doing?
153 C ah apparently he's playing um...volleyball...he's playing with a ball with the other girl? what do you think he's doing?
154 T um...ah yes yeah..it seems that they are going to take a picture or not
155 C oh OK
156 T cuz I'm not sure yeah
157 C maybe
158 T so could you tell me where the spider is? can you see a spider?
159 C yeah the spider is close to the girl playing with the ball on the grass
160 T ah..yeah yes
161 C what do you think the old ladies are talking about?
162 T um...well I think they're just talking about the daily gossips?
163 C oh you think so?
164 T yeah yeah
165 C well probably . OK thank you for your time
166 T thank you for your time
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