Text n°4
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- Before reading the text in Chinese characters and the translation, first listen to the audio recording several times, trying to gather as much information as possible.
- Then read the text in Chinese characters several times without looking at the English translation. Try to find the meaning of unfamiliar words and expressions from what you know about the Chinese characters.
- Finally, compare the translation with the Chinese text. Some expressions must still seem difficult or even incomprehensible to you. You must then go to the next step: "Analysis of text".
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An old friend
Xie Fei is an old friend I met in China. He is Pekingese. He's a doctor from a Beijing hospital. He studied traditional Chinese medicine. He is currently working as a western medicine physician. He is 30 years old. He's a good person. He is tall and likes to talk a lot. He can speak English and Japanese and has a lot of friends. In China, he drives us to shop, eat and watch movies together.
He has a Japanese partner. This pretty young lady is called Wang Yue. She is 27 years old. Four years ago she was learning Chinese here and now she works as a teacher in a school. She likes reading. When she's not talking, she's a bit distant. They have a cat named Xiaomei who likes to sleep on tables and chairs.