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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Beginner Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 9 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Exit-Entry Office

Your sixty days are up and you go to the exit-entry office: ask for an extension, say when you came, hear the date, and be told a form and two photographs.

Audio instruction: English

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THE STORY

A grey morning in the city. Owen has taken the bus to the exit-entry office, a quiet hall with numbered counters, and the officer at window three looks up.

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延期。yánqīto extend, to get an extension, word for word stretch the date
您好。 我 想 延期。nín hǎo, wǒ xiǎng yánqīHello. I'd like an extension. Politely.
是 什么 时候 来 的？shì shénme shíhou lái dewhen did you come, word for word is what time come of
您 是 什么 时候 来 的？nín shì shénme shíhou lái deWhen did you come? Politely.
我 是 去年 来 的。wǒ shì qùnián lái deI came last year.
三 月 二十五 号sān yuè èrshíwǔ hàothe twenty-fifth of March
三 月 二十五 号 来 的。sān yuè èrshíwǔ hào lái deI came on the twenty-fifth of March.
填 这 张 表。tián zhè zhāng biǎofill in this form
六十 天 了。liùshí tiān lesixty days now
六十 天 了。 请 填 这 张 表。liùshí tiān le, qǐng tián zhè zhāng biǎoSixty days. Please fill in this form.

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