Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language University of Oxford

Basic Spoken Mandarin

3. Taking a taxi

You click on the Chinese characters, Chinese sentences or the headphone icons to hear the pronunciation. Place the cursor on the English words to view Pinyin for the pronunciation and the Chinese word order.
New words Additional phrases and words New phrases
Go 去 Hotel, restaurant 饭店 Where are (you) going? (你)去哪儿?
Where 哪儿 Give me a receipt 开张 收据 (I'm) going to ... (我)去...
Here 这儿 You 你 (I'm) getting off here. (我)这儿下车.
To get off 下车 He, she, it 他，她，它    

Exercises

How do you say

I'm going to the hotel. Where are you getting off?  I'm getting off here.

Give me a receipt. Thank you. This is the hotel.

Click here to listen to the following dialogues.