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Changing Subway Lines

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ID: 1929 Elementary
In recent years, both Shanghai and Beijing have been zealously extending their subway lines, making transport by subway a convenient, realistic options for most city dwellers. The only caveat is that you need to know where to change subway lines, and you need to learn how to talk about it in Mandarin Chinese!
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
请问 qǐngwèn ‘may I ask’
cóng from
dào to
新天地 Xīntiāndì Xintiandi
你好请问从新天地到浦东机场怎么走
nǐhǎo 你好qǐngwèn 请问cóng 从Xīntiāndì 新天地dào 到Pǔdōng 浦东jīchǎng 机场zěnme 怎么zǒu 走
Hello. May I ask how I get from Xintiandi to the Pudong airport?
可以坐地铁很方便
kěyǐ 可以zuò 坐dìtiě 地铁hěn 很fāngbiàn 方便
You can take the subway. It's very convenient.
哦坐几号线
ò 哦zuò 坐jǐ 几hào 号xiàn 线
Ah. Which line do I take?
一号线转二号线你看前面是一号线
yī hào xiàn 一号线zhuǎn 转èr hào xiàn 二号线nǐ 你kàn 看qiánmian 前面shì 是yī hào xiàn 一号线
Take line one and then switch to line two. See, line one is up ahead.
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