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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Fluency Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 22 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

One Ticket, Hard to Find

Get a ticket home in the busiest travel season on earth: be asked if you got the ticket, say tickets are impossible to find, hear that in the Spring Festival rush you have to grab them, ask how, hear Lan will put you on the waiting list, say second class is fine, hear the waiting list came through, and say you are going home.

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THE STORY

Owen's small room behind the stall in Beijing's tea market, his phone propped against a tea tin, Lan on the screen from Hangzhou with the ticket app open.

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票 买 到 了 吗？piào mǎi dào le maDid you get the ticket?
一 票 难 求！yí piào nán qiútickets are impossible to find, word for word one ticket hard to seek
没有。 一 票 难 求！méiyǒu. yí piào nán qiúNo. Tickets are impossible to find!
别 急， 再 试试。bié jí, zài shìshiDon't rush, try again.
春运。chūnyùnthe Spring Festival rush, word for word spring transport
抢 票。qiǎng piàograb tickets
春运 嘛， 要 抢 票。chūnyùn ma, yào qiǎng piàoIt's the Spring Festival rush; you have to grab tickets.
怎么 抢？zěnme qiǎngHow do you grab one?
几 点 的 车？jǐ diǎn de chēWhat time is the train?
候补。hòubǔthe waiting list, word for word wait and fill in

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